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The goal or purpose of a game is crucial to its overall playability and popularity.\u00a0 But there are games that treat play\u2019s purpose in an interesting way \u2013 one that leaves it open to shifts in understanding and direction.\u00a0 And this is an area in which a game may create divisions in its player-base.<\/p>\n

Take Pokemon Blue<\/em>, for example.\u00a0 The game sends players out on a quest given by a character named Professor Oak, who enlists the protagonist as a researcher.\u00a0 So, from the game\u2019s start, the player is told that their mission is to fill the Pokedex (a Pokemon database) with every Pokemon in the region.\u00a0 However, as the player sets out on this quest, there are other goals that become the purpose of playing the game: eliminating Team Rocket and besting the Elite Four.\u00a0 And these goals become just as focal purposes of the game as completing the Pokedex \u2013 perhaps more so.<\/p>\n

This creates a dilemma at the game\u2019s end, wherever it may be.\u00a0 Because if beating a game means fulfilling its purpose, which of the three tasks must be accomplished in order to officially beat Pokemon Blue<\/em>?\u00a0 Different players argue for all different answers to this question, which ultimately leads to the varying play-styles practiced (and degrees of effort exerted) by players of Pokemon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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