it simply wants to destroy the Giant's imagination. The Rook, the native enemy of the Glitchen, does not laugh or mock the players. They show up, mess up everything, and leave. Real villains, those who truly scare us, do not smile. Soon they spill the beans about their secret plan while those of us in the audience think ' Just shoot the hero - he's right there!' Villains are a gimmick these days, or they're simply rehashed versions of tropes we've seen before. You know the type: They giggle evily as the hero is tied up and gagged. I'm so tired of smart-alec, smirking Hollywood villains. Even a video game that features cartoony characters and outrageous surroundings can fire off those all too familiar feelings. The act of remembering is itself an exercise in melancholy because we will never get those times back. These all operate on the same principle that memories of high school or that wonderful night at the beach do.

Players are literally taken to zones that explore the past of Ur, to blank apartments that exist for who-knows-what reason, and to recent quests that walk players through a summer's day. Glitch is not filled entirely with these moments it's also filled with odd bits of surrealistic wonder that poke at the nostalgia nerve, just enough to bring up feelings for a time long past. So many MMOs feature lore that mentions sad events or catastrophes, but rarely does any of them allow a player to experience one.

If a game can freeze me for a moment and make me feel a bit sad or can make me think 'Oh.' then it's done a wonderful thing. Death is a joke in most MMOs it's not scary at all. I see combat in MMOs as a job - an unrealistic one. These are virtual worlds, not just virtual combat arenas. I love it when a game makes me feel something other than the rush of combat. The more creative tools are added to the world, the more players want to connect with each other. In some ways, this has happened, but players are still inviting each other into their spaces, making trades, and exploring the world as much as before. The great housing revamp scared me at first I thought players would stay inside their homes, rarely venturing outside into the greater world of Ur. With almost every patch, there is some new way to share a part of yourself with other players. Glitch is becoming more social over time. There's almost no social aspect to many MMO players' gaming lives, unless you count their very limited guild or friends list. In my opinion, it's ironic that those same MMO players have fallen into the category of 'repetitive activity consumers.' They raid, they grind for rep, and they grind out levels.

Strangely, though, that social connection or even referring to it as 'social' tends to provoke disdain from many core MMO players. In fact, the social ties you find in the game almost completely define it. There is a social aspect to the game, true. Only someone who hasn't experienced the game would think so. Second, I know that players mean any 'ville' game when they use the term 'Facebook gaming,' but Glitch is nothing like that.

First of all, there is no such thing as a 'Facebook game.' There are games that use Facebook's massive audience - wisely so - and games that are accessible only through Facebook, but to refer to any game that has any type of 'energy' system or mechanic as a 'Facebook game' denies all of the wonderful games, MMOs, and entertaining activities on Facebook.

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