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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Immersive gaming is immersive. Fallout 4 helped me deal with depression.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

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Click here to see the summaryThe futuristic video game by the makers of The Witcher depicts a world full of neon lights and cybernetic enhancements, and it had recently received a big content update.

Controller in hand, Park vividly recalls directing a digital Keanu Reeves to try and stop a murder, all while medical tubes protruded from his body.

His work at The Post has helped usher in a more humanistic approach to gaming journalism, one that’s accessible to mainstream audiences while retaining his encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation for the medium.

But since surviving cancer, Park has inadvertently made a much more poignant argument about the medium and its power: Games can be a lifeline that make the senseless cruelties of existing more bearable.

Friends would bring back games like Super Mario Bros. from the States, and while these titles were purchased in mundane places like supermarkets, for Park, the novelty made it akin to finding buried treasure.

While there are still things Park wants to accomplish, like interviewing the creator of Metal Gear Solid about his fixation with death, the sentiment depicted in Like A Dragon is familiar to him.


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