I’ve been watching the trailer obsessively:
Fairy tales and storytelling and lore not only influence the world of gaming, but, I wager, the opposite effect is also taking place. Five hundred years from now, our lore, what makes it to the ghostly future generations, would have been impacted by Xbox.
Honestly, all those people who say that gaming is for losers who don’t have “real lives” (whatever a “real life” may be), are not seeing the bigger picture.
Fairy tales wedded to gaming create all sorts of discussions: the idea of self-determination, of free will and its limitations (games, like lives, have distinct rules), of the nature of time and how it becomes muddled once you’re sitting on your couch in the 21st century, battling an electronic ghost of a 14th century highwayman (and are you not also, then, a ghost? At least for a moment or two?).
The stories that will follow the first gaming generation will be interesting.
Natalia A. 
Personally I think the most interesting story five hundred years from now will be the Tale of a Serbian soldier coming to America to avenge the deaths of his friends… and, you know, steal a lot of cars.
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The one, the only, Niko Bellic.
You know, the Russian gangsters in the game are hilarious. The insults they shout at him are great.
Niko is the philosopher king of our time. I love the Russian characters, the soft spoken Dmitri and the loud and abrasive Mikhail. They were perfect together, you could tell right away there was a tragedy coming. I’m dealing with the Irish right now… they’re very funny in a weird manic and depressive way.