Comments on: Crashing the Metaphor http://numberless.net/blog/2006/06/30/crashing-the-metaphor/ a place to think! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:59:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bonnie http://numberless.net/blog/2006/06/30/crashing-the-metaphor/#comment-16 Bonnie Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:07:16 +0000 http://www.numberless.net/blog/2006/06/30/crashing-the-metaphor/#comment-16 " Because it doesn’t look like you’re playing a game about flying a plane — it looks like you’re playing a game about playing a game about flying a plane." I agree with you on everything else, but there I think you give Sony too much credit. Over-doing it doesn't necessarily equal over-thinking it. Somehow I don't believe this could really be intentionally meta. Also, remember that the controls on a real plane are also just a form of metaphor. Who's to say, by abandoning the pilot's set up, Sony isn't simply going back to a more intuitive, pre-flight-controls idea of what it would be like to steer a plane... or more literally, to fly. For some of us not raised with RC cars, flying with analog sticks has never been intuitive. ” Because it doesn’t look like you’re playing a game about flying a plane — it looks like you’re playing a game about playing a game about flying a plane.”

I agree with you on everything else, but there I think you give Sony too much credit. Over-doing it doesn’t necessarily equal over-thinking it. Somehow I don’t believe this could really be intentionally meta.

Also, remember that the controls on a real plane are also just a form of metaphor. Who’s to say, by abandoning the pilot’s set up, Sony isn’t simply going back to a more intuitive, pre-flight-controls idea of what it would be like to steer a plane… or more literally, to fly. For some of us not raised with RC cars, flying with analog sticks has never been intuitive.

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