MediaMagazine, The Great(est) Escape: Why Audiences Really Play Video Games

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1: "Role-playing games such as the recent Elder Scroll V: Skyrim and the Dragon Age series allow the audience to recreate an alternate persona or avatar of themselves within some form of science-fiction or fantasy setting."

2: "...As the player progresses through the game's large and non-linear narrative they are rewarded with experience and treasure that will raise the level and capabilities of his ideal self. Within a conventional role-playing game, their characters' decisions and moral choices determine the path through this non-linear narrative."

3: "Gamers play these games because unlike other games, the character that they create has real consequences for the narrative journey. The gamer is fully actualising in a world abundant in magic or technology, this is in contrast to their own lives where they can effect little change."