{"id":419,"date":"2005-09-12T06:04:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=419"},"modified":"2005-09-12T06:04:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T11:04:30","slug":"novel-games-game-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Novel Games, Game Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,68821,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2\">The Video-Game Novel Also Rises<\/a> discusses the increasing media cross-pollination of computer game worlds.  Nothing all that new, since the Halo novels don&#8217;t make the shelves groan nearly so much as the Wizards of the Coast novels (of the D+D sort, for the non-geek).  I just wonder &#8211; are any of these new novels really any good?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you&#8217;re in the territory of Jane Austen and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, you&#8217;re expected to go deeper. You&#8217;re supposed to probe the internal lives of your characters. And this is where these books become really fascinating: They&#8217;re like the Us Weekly of the gaming universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking no.<\/p>\n<p>But the article&#8217;s writer does point out a conflict that I think is already inherent in the game proper, but that is laid even more bare by the novelization of the character:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you play a lot of games, these books can provoke a weird sort of first-person identity confusion. After all, when I play Halo, I play as the Master Chief himself. So it&#8217;s passingly strange to have an author suddenly grab the emotional joystick and explain what the Chief feels &#8212; what I feel? &#8212; while wandering around slaughtering enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/things.wordherders.net\/\">cross-sited media<\/a> types&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}