His attempt to create a Sim version of the deceased rock star Kurt Cobain – comprised of a deliberately unbalanced guitar-playing character complete with a Cobain skin downloaded from the internet, a dissolute lifestyle, a superficial marriage and no social life – was resisted by the game, which took control of the character against the player’s will, making him want to have friends, a job and to be nice to his wife.
ZA “The Zone of ‘Becoming’: Game, Text and Technicity in Videogame Narratives” Souvik Mukherjee