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outlawauron on 26 January 2009
Khuutra said:
outlawauron said:
What? I do not understand how people can think the writing was any kind of deep or interesting.

Bleh.

"Depth" is not nearly as important to writing as honesty is.

I need to play this damn game just so I can make an informed opinion, I suppose.

I don't know. I just think the GTA series is just kinda shallow in that aspect.



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theRepublic on 26 January 2009
amp316 said:
Everyone's entitled to their opinions but when the author compared GTA IV to the twelve labors of Hercules I had to roll my eyes. Also, as much as cinema has hugely disappointed me since the beginning of this century, saying that GTA 4 is better written than any movie since 2000 is just a horrible statement. Sadly, it is better written than several of them though.

Same here.

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I think that some day we will get to the point where video games are great interactive storytellers, but at this point they almost all rely on cutscenes.  I get that in TV and movies.  Give me something different!  Hopefully I will see videogames mature into something more unique in terms of storytelling.  At this point the medium is still very young.



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noname2200 on 26 January 2009
outlawauron said:
Khuutra said:
outlawauron said:
What? I do not understand how people can think the writing was any kind of deep or interesting.

Bleh.

"Depth" is not nearly as important to writing as honesty is.

I need to play this damn game just so I can make an informed opinion, I suppose.

I don't know. I just think the GTA series is just kinda shallow in that aspect.

In fairness, GTA IV starts strong (writing wise), but it fizzles pretty quickly. Perhaps this writer, like dozens of game reviewers before her, simply didn't bother playing past the first hour?

 



Words Of Wisdom on 26 January 2009

Pretty inane, but more good publicity for video games is good for gamers in general.



griffinA on 26 January 2009

When will games stop pretending to be movies or books and start becoming what they were supposed to be?



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Words Of Wisdom on 26 January 2009
griffinA said:
When will games stop pretending to be movies or books and start becoming what they were supposed to be?

I'm sure movie theater owners said similar things about TV when movies started airing.

Media evolves as time passes.



broo on 26 January 2009
griffinA said:
When will games stop pretending to be movies or books and start becoming what they were supposed to be?

 

Games may be interactive but that does not necessarily mean that there is no room for cutsenes or massive amounts of dialogue. Gamers seem to have a very cynical mindset of the idea that a movie with interactive components can be just as much of a game as Mario Bros. Just like Wiifit is making people rethink the concept of what a game can truly be, one must not shun the idea that an interactive film or fiction is just as much game as anything else.



broo on 26 January 2009
Khuutra said:
outlawauron said:
What? I do not understand how people can think the writing was any kind of deep or interesting.

Bleh.

"Depth" is not nearly as important to writing as honesty is.

I need to play this damn game just so I can make an informed opinion, I suppose.

 

I disagree. Depth IMO is the most important aspect of writing.



ph4nt on 26 January 2009

i only have one thing to say about this.

lol.



darthdevidem01 on 26 January 2009

oh dear god I hope not!



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