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No. The best videogame story's are at best roughly equal with a B movie at best. Never mind the best film has to offer.

As the answer is no then clearly there is no videogame to list.



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Reasonable said:
No. The best videogame story's are at best roughly equal with a B movie at best. Never mind the best film has to offer.

As the answer is no then clearly there is no videogame to list.

The topic isn't asking for a comparison to cinema's best, I don't think.



Khuutra said:
Reasonable said:
No. The best videogame story's are at best roughly equal with a B movie at best. Never mind the best film has to offer.

As the answer is no then clearly there is no videogame to list.

The topic isn't asking for a comparison to cinema's best, I don't think.

Actually that's exactly what it's asking.  Look at the OP:

 

Can video games tell a more compelling story then films nowadays?  

If so, which video game? 

 

The only logical way for video games to tell a more compelling story than films is for videogames to tell more compelling stories than cinema's best, otherwise the logical proposition falls apart.  Now if the OP said 'as good' or maybe even 'as some films' then fine.  But the OP said 'more' which means better.

 

 

 



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Reasonable said:
Khuutra said:
Reasonable said:
No. The best videogame story's are at best roughly equal with a B movie at best. Never mind the best film has to offer.

As the answer is no then clearly there is no videogame to list.

The topic isn't asking for a comparison to cinema's best, I don't think.

Actually that's exactly what it's asking.  Look at the OP:

 

Can video games tell a more compelling story then films nowadays?  

If so, which video game? 

 

The only logical way for video games to tell a more compelling story than films is for videogames to tell more compelling stories than cinema's best, otherwise the logical proposition falls apart.  Now if the OP said 'as good' or maybe even 'as some films' then fine.  But the OP said 'more' which means better.

That's still unnecessarily reductive in terms of what could have been meant: the OP may still be referring to any, any level of cinema, rather than its cream, and I stand by that.

If you want to get semantic about it, then the "Can video games" as opposed to "Do video games" doesn't actually imply that the video game we name has to actually exist - just that we have to be able to imagine that such a game could exist.



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Sure. The Mario games have a much more compelling storyline than any of those Matrix movies.



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Khuutra said:
Reasonable said:
Khuutra said:
Reasonable said:
No. The best videogame story's are at best roughly equal with a B movie at best. Never mind the best film has to offer.

As the answer is no then clearly there is no videogame to list.

The topic isn't asking for a comparison to cinema's best, I don't think.

Actually that's exactly what it's asking.  Look at the OP:

 

Can video games tell a more compelling story then films nowadays?  

If so, which video game? 

 

The only logical way for video games to tell a more compelling story than films is for videogames to tell more compelling stories than cinema's best, otherwise the logical proposition falls apart.  Now if the OP said 'as good' or maybe even 'as some films' then fine.  But the OP said 'more' which means better.

That's still unnecessarily reductive in terms of what could have been meant: the OP may still be referring to any, any level of cinema, rather than its cream, and I stand by that.

If you want to get semantic about it, then the "Can video games" as opposed to "Do video games" doesn't actually imply that the video game we name has to actually exist - just that we have to be able to imagine that such a game could exist.

Sure, but is there any point asking if videogames can tell more compelling stories than really shit films?

Given the OP you have to make some level of assumption and it seems odd to imagine he meant crap vs cream.

Sure, maybe Uncharted 2 told a more compelling story than Plan 9 from Outer Space - but on the other hand a film of Uncharted 2 with real actors emoting would tell the same story in a more compelling way than Uncharted 2 the videogame.

Unless you want to spin it to a silly comparison the point is moot - or maybe the OP could post something like "do the best videogame narratives excell those of the worst movies?".

In the end the vast majority of films - even fairly poor ones - are more compelling than almost all videogame narratives so the majority comparison is clearly no.

 



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Reasonable said:
Khuutra said:

That's still unnecessarily reductive in terms of what could have been meant: the OP may still be referring to any, any level of cinema, rather than its cream, and I stand by that.

If you want to get semantic about it, then the "Can video games" as opposed to "Do video games" doesn't actually imply that the video game we name has to actually exist - just that we have to be able to imagine that such a game could exist.

Sure, but is there any point asking if videogames can tell more compelling stories than really shit films?

Given the OP you have to make some level of assumption and it seems odd to imagine he meant crap vs cream.

Sure, maybe Uncharted 2 told a more compelling story than Plan 9 from Outer Space - but on the other hand a film of Uncharted 2 with real actors emoting would tell the same story in a more compelling way than Uncharted 2 the videogame.

Unless you want to spin it to a silly comparison the point is moot - or maybe the OP could post something like "do the best videogame narratives excell those of the worst movies?".

In the end the vast majority of films - even fairly poor ones - are more compelling than almost all videogame narratives so the majority comparison is clearly no.

All I'm saying is that the last time we had a comparison topic like this, a guy placed Scary Movie 4 above.... I can't remember, but it was Scary Movie 4.

There is precedent for that particular breed of discourse.



So far no, not for me personally, but I wholeheartedly agree with Khuutra that games have the potential to do so.