What Is Game? | Only Speaking Professionally
OnlySP writes – "Is Beyond: Two Souls game?
Beyond: Two Souls released this week, and, as pretty much every single time a piece of interactive entertainment that doesn’t involve angry men with guns releases the question of “is this A Game?” raised its head. Is Beyond: Two Souls a video game? Sure, it has a main character, and a story (well, a “story”), and it has interactivity. But does pressing X to Jason count as “playing”? If you believe a decent slice of those ever insightful users on Metacritic, no, it’s not a game. And because it is not A Game, how can it get full points out of ten (as if that were some gold standard of Official Gamedom™) and be the paragon of the format?"
