I am halfway through this now and so far I find myself agreeing with the premise. The fact that it is the cognitive processes that are being worked out regardless of the content is what is interesting in this thesis.

I do still feel the urge to play games from my old Commodore 64 days, where things felt more abstract and I felt more immersive but then maybe that was because I could afford to spend hours at a game (Zoids, Shadowfire and The Sentinal) whereas today I have less time to spend playing increasingly complex games.

Also I feel that 24 as a series has become simpler and more linear as each season has progressed. The last one (season 4) has felt rather flat, especially thinking back too season 1, what is interesting is that now we have Dr. Who which is taking on board some of the more complex story stuctures (grander story arcs across a season, with hints etc in indivdual stories).