NihilCredo comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NihilCredo 28 August 2010 06:56:45AM *  1 point [-]

I agree that it's a very cool idea, though it may be because I still have fond memories of KotOR myself (on a side note, it was the first instance where I realised that interactive games have certain artistic potentials unmatched by other media - that moment would not have been nearly as effective had I not walked in Revan's shoes for dozens of hours).

It does, however, sound like the kind of idea other fanfiction works might have explored before. Does anyone remember something like that?

Comment author: thomblake 30 August 2010 01:03:03PM 0 points [-]

it was the first instance where I realised that interactive games have certain artistic potentials unmatched by other media - that moment would not have been nearly as effective had I not walked in Revan's shoes for dozens of hours

Yes, that is one of the fairly unique properties of video games. If you've read anything by Heidegger about how Greek tragedy was the highest form of art due to the participatory nature of the autidence, his comments make a lot more sense if he was talking about video games instead.