{"id":177,"date":"2024-01-25T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:55:41","slug":"i-hated-going-back-to-games-until-the-last-of-us-part-ii-remastered-came-along-keith-stuart-pushing-buttons-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/i-hated-going-back-to-games-until-the-last-of-us-part-ii-remastered-came-along-keith-stuart-pushing-buttons-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI hated going back to games \u2013 until The Last of Us Part II Remastered came along\u201d &#8211; Keith Stuart (Pushing Buttons, Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cReplaying a linear narrative game is like rereading a favourite novel: nothing changes apart from you. The way you feel, the age you are, the experiences you\u2019ve had \u2013 these all contribute to your new experiences with the text. Vladimir Nabokov once said, \u201cOne cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.\u201d Perhaps we should think about linear narrative games in the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I\u2019ve opened this experiential door, I will definitely keep it ajar. I guess movies and short novels are easier to re-experience thanks to their comparative brevity, but if we look at story games as an escape, a vacation from the new, they\u2019re always worth revisiting. And they have things to tell us about ourselves\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/jan\/24\/pushing-buttons-last-of-us-2-remastered-replaying\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/jan\/24\/pushing-buttons-last-of-us-2-remastered-replaying<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReplaying a linear narrative game is like rereading a favourite novel: nothing changes apart from you. The way you feel, the age you are, the experiences you\u2019ve had \u2013 these all contribute to your new experiences with the text. Vladimir Nabokov once said, \u201cOne cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}