Paul Cantrell
But with all the best forms of ephemeral entertainment, the goal isn't fulfillment or enlightenment; the goal is simply to keep you coming back for more.
Gee, I can't think of a better word than "addictive" for that!
Continuing with the theme of pleasurable addictiveness that I brought up last week, my review of Bejeweled 2 is now up at PopMatters.
And because I’m too lazy to go look in a thesaurus at the moment: is there a word for “addictive” that doesn’t carry so many negative connotations? I don’t really think that seeking little morsels of happy fun from a video game (or a TV show, or a book, or whatever) is necessarily a bad thing, but words like “addictive” or “compulsive” really make it seem like I’m describing pathology rather than pleasure. I wonder if I could get away with using the word “crackalicious” in a review.
But with all the best forms of ephemeral entertainment, the goal isn't fulfillment or enlightenment; the goal is simply to keep you coming back for more.
Gee, I can't think of a better word than "addictive" for that!
Man, just when I though Bejeweled couldn't get more habit-forming....
Speaking of addiction, I like how the voice effects were done by someone who sounds like the Mortal Kombat "Finish Him!" guy on Quaaludes.
Irresistable? Although, I get the feeling you are dealing with pathology here.