platformmaster918 on 26 March 2013
| kain_kusanagi said: If you feel that watching someone else play a video game is just as good as playing it yourself then you may want to reevaluate gaming as your hobby. The story is many games is important, but it's not the most important part of real games. That's why I don't consider The Walking Dead a real game. It has a great story and it's an amazing experience, but like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Beyond it's not really a video game. Anyone that prefers them to games like Halo, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc. may not even be gamers. Watching a Youtube video play-through of Bioshock Infinite should make you want to play it yourself not satisfy your gamer half. |
they're all interactive and defined by player's choices and actions. If you've played Heavy Rain and Walking Dead you should know this. Heavy Rain has action sequences that, while they don't have death as a consequence, you do suffer if you don't pass them and yet the story continues and later events are effected by your failure. Just because it's not all twitch and tradition doesn't make it a game. It's just a new type of game. Compeletly different from watching.
