Nick_Ch2_Aarseth_Q

Aarseth states in his essay, "games are games, a rich and extremely diverse family of practices, and share qualities with performance arts, material arts, and verbal arts" (p. 47). So then, I think it's important to ask why we feel the need to group video games into a different category. Why do we study video games as narrative? I understand (Mark) that video games do have strong narrative components, some more than others, but I think they are clearly their own thing.

Anyway my questions is simply why does academia lump video games into narrative? Or is it just because everything is narrative in this postmodern world of ours?