r505Matt on 08 December 2009
| FaRmLaNd said: This wesetern vs Eastern debate is meaningless. Both sides have great games. Its as if some people have rejected western games or Japanese games because they think it makes them cool, or a member of the elite or some shit. Rediculous. Furthermore fighting about narrative in games is worthless because the main streangth of the medium in interractivity not narrative. Go read a book or watch a movie if you want a well executed narrative, games very rarely reach that level of narrative effectiveness. No the games that are remembered are the packmans, pokemons, marios and half-lifes of the world. They focus on gameplay first. Theres a reason half-life isn't burdened by overly long pretentious cinematics and thats because it tells the narrative during the gameplay. Something many games could learn from. |
Amen, though a blend is nice.
But first and foremost is the gameplay.
