ninetailschris said:
curl-6 said:
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Some are but definitely not all or even most. And even films and books that are considered today to be child friendly were considered edgy and adult in their day eg. Universal's Classic Horror Movies used to make grown women flee the theater in terror when Bela Lugosi first appeared on the screen or the atheistic books of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, or H. G. Welles. On the other hand in their entire library of games Nintendo dosn't have anything that they promote heavily that wouldn't be considered child friendly.
No. They're really not. The stories and themes in Half-Life, Fallout 3 and The works of Suda 51 and Hideo Kojima can hold their ground with edgy and adult graphic novels like Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" and Alan Moore's "Watchmen". The "Tomb Raider" and "Uncharted" games can hold their ground as adult and edgy works with the greatest adventure novels of Michael Crichton and Talbot Mundy, "Alan Wake," "The Last of Us", and "Bioshock" can hold their own with the edgiest and more adult horror novels like those of Stephen King and Clive Barker, and the stories in Grand Theft Auto games are certainly comparable to those in the most adult and edgiest crime fiction ie. the tale of Nico Bellic is certainly comparable to that in the film "Eastern Promises."
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Films like Wizard of Oz, Toy Story, Spirited Away, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King are no less brilliant for being family friendly.
And with the exception of Bioshock, those games would be laughed at if they were films or literature.
But the bottom line is, gaming isn't film or literature. Nor should it be. Its strength is its differences, not its similarities, to those mediums. When developers try to be like movies, they diminish what makes gaming unique and great.
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Not going to lie him trying to compare great movies to those game in the story department really hurt his point.
last of us is only considered good because on average all video game stories are sub-par. Last of Us wouldn't get a 70 on metacritic in the movie department.
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Of course. Because you say so. As usual. ¬_¬
The story in The Last of Us isn't the most original of all time. Not unlike most stories in the movie industry in recent years. Its storytelling on the other hand, holds its own very well against even the best from the movie industry.
