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# Let me tell you about midichlorians
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/let-me-tell-you-about-midichlorians/
- Published: 2011-11-11T18:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:50:56.000Z
- Description: Nobody asked how the Force works. Yet George Lucas told us anyway. Knowing it came from organisms called midi-chlorians living in the bloodstream kind of ruined it. This is just another case of too much information––something videogames are constantly giving us. In a recent blog post, game critic Sc
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Nobody asked how the Force works. Yet George Lucas told us anyway. Knowing it came from organisms called midi-chlorians living in the bloodstream kind of ruined it.

This is just another case of too much information––something videogames are constantly giving us. In a recent blog post, game critic Scott Jones called out games like Gears of War 3 and Uncharted 3 for their compulsion to spill the beans, and explains why the stories in these games always bore him.

> *They explain away whatever mystery they might have had. Nothing is ever subtle, or left to the imagination anymore.*

He argues that game developers’ desire to emulate Hollywood movies often means games leave little to the imagination, which robs games of their

> *tangible sense of discovery and wonder.*

You can read his post [here](http://reportthejones.blogspot.com/2011/11/stories-games-other-random-thoughts.html?ref=killscreen.com).

*– Jason Johnson*