Writer Austin Grossman has lent his talents to over a dozen games, including System Shock, Deus Ex and Tomb Raider: Legend. He's recently published his first novel Soon I Will Be Invincible — a humorously bittersweet look at the emotional goings-on of comic book characters. Hollywood is calling, and there's already talk of a film adaptation. But what does Grossman think of game writing?

Video games have their own emotional vocabulary, their own language. Maybe they just don't do character.

Pretty much saying that while hitting emotional chords is possible, it's hard to do good characterization in games. Agree? Disagree? Discuss. Brian Ashcraft

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