Author: Zachery Oliver
Zachery Oliver, MTS, is the lead writer for Theology Gaming, a blog focused on the integration of games and theological issues. He can be reached at viewtifulzfo at gmail dot com or on Theology Gaming’s Facebook Page.
Sequels get the short end of the proverbial critic stick. That stick has a pointy end, and it hurts. Mostly, this comes down to expectations for what a sequel means.
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Do video games need to be “fun”? That the current directors of the Assassin’s Creed franchise ask this question, and then answer in the negative, says a great deal of how we think of “meaning”. Meaning must be serious, must come in a form that is slightly offensive, shocking, or otherwise. I don’t tend to believe that.