The Most Abused Term in Videogame Criticism

Ludonarrative dissonance is a term that’s frequently thrown around, but is it really as useful—or useless—as critics are making it out to be? An exploration of the term has had me going into a blogpost on the topic where I argued it’s useless, to discovering it’s excruciatingly specific in its usage, and damn useful as well. Find out how we’ve all been using it wrong since its invention. Be the water beneath my fins on Patreon: Watch me say stuff I quickly regret on Twitter!: See how terrible I am at talking and walking (in games) on Twitch: Hang out with us on Discord: Clint Hocking’s original argument: