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Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

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Re: Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

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Post by mercer »

wishinghand wrote: post #108
RangerScience wrote: post #67

This is amazing. There are other games of this quality and artistry, but IMO no other games with the kind of impact TWOM has. There's something special that happens when you play TWOM that isn't possible in other mediums. It manages to actually create circumstances where you feel like you're making hard choices. IMO, only two other games accomplish something comparable. Portal (as a masterpiece of gaming in every res…

I haven't played "Papers, Please" but I believe it has players consider equally hard problems in the vein of "This War of Mine" as well. If I recall correctly, you're given different criteria of things to look for every day, and something there's forgeries coming through and sometimes there's just honest mistakes. I think you're also timed and how many correctly documented people are let through ties to how much mone…

I haven't played This War of Mine, but "Papers, Please" is probably second only to "A Dark Room" in making me 'feel' something that could only have been achieved by masterfully combining gameplay with a clever theme/storytelling.

There are plenty of games that do a decent job combining gameplay with a particular theme or feeling or experience (Bioshock, Planescape: Torment, Thief, and a whole bunch more), but there's always some 'gap' between the two. But with these two games (and I'm sure there are others) both aspects elevate each other.

Re: Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

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Post by ivanhoe »

msclrhd wrote: post #112
ivanhoe wrote: post #58

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I hated Shakespeare when I was forced to read it in my language, translation tried to keep the spirit of the language, but really made it just sound archaic and complete incomprehensible to us (high-school kids not really interested in the whole deal). Only many years later, almost by accident, I've discovered how Shakespeare's work was really meant to sound, making the story itself so much more approachable.

Is that from the work by David Crystal reconstructing the sound of Shakespeare? It's very interesting to listen to passages read out in that Original Pronunciation. There are several videos of it on YouTube. NativLang also did a video on Shakespeare pronunciation. It's also interesting how the pronunciation is reconstructed. Looking at rhyming pairs that don't currently rhyme (e.g. loved/proved), looking at different…

No, it's a case of much less profound details, for instance I literally had no idea that Shakespeare's works were even meant to rhyme in the original, because the translation that we've read in school didn't rhyme at all. Also the rhythm was completely different and the language was over-complicated by using archaic expressions to try to match Shakespeare's use of English, and so on. Of course, translations are an art form on their own, so perhaps it's a matter of taste also.

Re: Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

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Post by Krasnol »

ceceron wrote: post #116
Krasnol wrote: post #78

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Ah man, I've just been to Krakow too last week. Too bad but I was still able to snatch a few books here and there.

Next time you visit, check those places: - https://austeria.pl/en/ - for Jewish literature/culture - https://derevolutionibus.pl/en/front-page/ - more general place, has also nice choice of popular science/physics/evolution/math books. Also very nice coffee place! PS they have good Polish books in nice editions translated in English. - https://goo.gl/maps/eJ6KJHxCiTNkfes6A - best music cd/book shop in Poland IMHO. Al…

Thank you.

I hope it won't be 20 years again. I plan to go there for that light show on the river next time it'll happen with my gf.

Re: Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

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Post by ramblerman »

lacker wrote: post #79
RangerScience wrote: post #67

This is amazing. There are other games of this quality and artistry, but IMO no other games with the kind of impact TWOM has. There's something special that happens when you play TWOM that isn't possible in other mediums. It manages to actually create circumstances where you feel like you're making hard choices. IMO, only two other games accomplish something comparable. Portal (as a masterpiece of gaming in every res…

I found Detroit: Become Human to be quite thought-provoking.

I found it too black and white as it went on.

A good story has shades of gray, and Detroit fell short there for me. There were clear "good" guys and "bad" guys (or gals).

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