hi, i'm patrick klepek.

i used to be a reporter for 1up, mtv news, g4. at one point i was (am?) obsessed with LOST. now, i report about video games for giant bomb.

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"Using a book analogy, if a book starts awesome, and then abruptly ends, the response isn’t “I only spent 4 hours reading it!”. It would be “the story wasn’t fully developed, and I felt it ended abruptly.” Similarly, if a book drags on, people don’t say “it was kind of boring, but at least it has a lot of pages in it, so it’s great value.” They say “it dragged on, and I got the message in the first half of the book.” Time spent reading just isn’t mentioned, and indeed, isn’t the point."

Great quote from Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, a book anyone who cares for furthering videogame criticism should read.

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Monday, January 3rd 2011 4:34pm

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    Seriously. I don’t care that Final Fantasy gives me 80 hours of gameplay and 30 hours of cutscenes, if 100 hours of that...
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