Combined with a taste for bizarrely complicated, recursive plots, and long sequences of wordy explicatory dialogue, this turns the games into a bit of a drag.
Television comedy had developed from radio comedy which was a very wordy tradition, and we had to give him a name in order to give the television show a name.
I think this sentence here is a good example of a long sentence that's more wordy and academic than it really needs to be to get the basic point across.