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.

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Clint Hocking's original argument: http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html