Eskelinen“The Gaming Situation” & debate prep

As I am going through this reading, I keep the idea that I have to be in the first debate of our class. The more and more I read the more I get nervous about the position I chose in this debate. I even exchanged with someone after I was originally supposed to go against the argument. I am on the side that is for the idea that video games are narratives now.

While I read Eskelinen’s, “The Gaming Situation.” I start getting the understanding that I actually on the wrong side of this debate as I learned that video games are not narratives. As very much as I believe that it is, I have to agree that I am wrong. My next approach was to figure out how to support an argument knowing you are wrong but perceiving as if you were right.

I had to consider what lawyers do when defending someone they know are guilty of their crimes, but still have to defend them and seek victory. I have a fear that I or someone in my group will accidentally say something that will support the other groups argument without necessarily intending to. Luckily the other articles such as Noriega & Chandler, “Do Games Tell Stories or Do Stories Play Games?” and Simons, “Narrative, Games, and Theory” helped me create a foundation to support my argument that video games are indeed narratives.