I’ve been seeing a lot of people online saying games are very bad at storytelling because your playing it while learning the lore, I think that’s BS but I wanted to see if gamers such as yourselves agree or disagree
I’ve been seeing a lot of people online saying games are very bad at storytelling because your playing it while learning the lore, I think that’s BS but I wanted to see if gamers such as yourselves agree or disagree
Games aren’t inherently bad at storytelling, it just has to be handled differently than a movie or show. You couldn’t make a movie like Outer Wilds or a TV show like The Stanley Parable.
Even something like The Last of Us which has sometimes been derided as a “movie game” takes advantage of the medium by letting you naturally build a relationship with Ellie and explore the setting. You can see that it the show; as good as it is, Ellie and Joel’s relationship progression is a little more abrupt simply because it can’t be done as slowly and thoroughly as the game can.
What? Bullshit. What garbage shows are you watching where plot and characterization can’t be slowly developed? Maybe stop watching bad movies and TV.
Meanwhile, what are you doing in the game? Pointless busywork to connect one part of the story to another. That’s it. You’re not doing anything but unlocking the next cutscene by a bunch of poorly done gameplay.
I cannot understand how we have gotten to this point. I guess the whole forced change in gaming in the late 90s with trash like Metal Gear Solid has screwed over the entire industry so bad we can’t even understand what a real game is supposed to be any more.
“Or a TV show like Stanley Parable”
there is a “Stanley Parable” show on apple TV. It’s called Severance
Having watched Severance, I’d say the two have just about nothing in common until maybe the last two episodes.
I would not recommend Severance based on someone’s like for Stanley Parable.