| .jayderyu said: 11 pages of this. Game = competive activity with a set of rules to determine a winner and loser. VG can be games because Mario competers against Goombas, turtles, bowsers with a set rules to determine a winner. All VG are games. since they all have a set of rules where players compete either against other players or AI. There is no story in that definition. Thus games do not need story. If people aren't touching games because of lack of story. Then it's not the game they are interested in as it is the story. 11 pages? good lord. |
Several reasons why this is going on:
1. There are people who play videogames as a form of fiction they engage in. It is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck for people. In that case, a story is important.
2. There is debate and discussion regarding the use of games as a tool for telling a story. The fact that people consider this possible has resulted in about every major movie and TV studio getting involved in the game production business to some degree. This is particularly true with videogames pushing currently to be the largest entertainment format on the planet, in regards to revenues.
If you look beyond the simple defintion, you do get into an interest discussion on why people play videogames, and the extent videogames can serve as an art form for telling a story. And that, to me, is interesting. Well, at least it is better than reading another Pachter prediction thread that is likely to contain yet another prediction by Pachter that will be wrong, or some fanboy rambling on about their videogame system of choice (in this you are told to get out, unless you agree to worship the game system of choice).
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