Game and Narrative Design

How big is your pile of shame? You know, the games you mean to play, but just don't have time for? You'll play them eventually, of course. Just, after you finish this other pile... One game I recently finished was Batman: Arkham Knight, but I have trouble explaining why, of all the games on my pile of shame, this was the game that took priority. It made me wonder about the motivations players have in deciding to play one game instead of another. Why do we play the games w