
11 – Galloway – Gaming
Game Studies Study Buddies
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Grand Theft Auto, Vice City
When you die in a game, he calls this a disabling act as opposed to what would be something like an enabling act. He specifically points out that when you die in Grand Theft Auto, Vice City, you just sort of reappear outside of the hospital where you died. So that's kind of ... it is a weird diegetic cover for a non-digetic function,. That's the way you use it, right? It's like a sort of like story pretense for some weird absurd McGain mechanic.
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