Games That Changed Our Perspective on Storytelling

[ABAH MARMUT]

Hey everyone! I’d like to invite you all to discuss games that you believe have changed the way we view and understand storytelling in video games. Are there any specific games that made you feel emotionally connected? Or perhaps there are narratives that were so innovative they made you think deeper?

Do you believe that games can be a medium on par with films or books in terms of storytelling? Why or why not?

I think 'The Last of Us' is one of those games that truly changed my perspective on storytelling in video games. The relationship between Joel and Ellie is incredibly deep and made me feel emotionally invested. Certain moments, like when they face tough choices, really made me reflect on morality and sacrifice

[Mountain Months]

nope video games are not art and never will be, they are basically just kids toys

[datCookie]

Originalmente postado por Mountain Months:

nope video games are not art and never will be, they are basically just kids toys

Video games are art, you can deny this all you want.

[Amaterasu]

Originalmente postado por Mountain Months:

nope video games are not art and never will be, they are basically just kids toys

No wonder why DEID is trying to change games into what they want, they see them as something that isn't artistic!

[superblake_]

Originalmente postado por Mountain Months:

nope video games are not art and never will be, they are basically just kids toys

Everything you mentioned in that reply is art. You basically said art is not art.

[Walach]

There's only one thing that makes something art, and that's if anyone say it is. :D

And I have seen much better stories in a game than any book or movie I've seen, which might not say a lot. :P
And just to make you curious, maybe, The Last of Us is not even on the top 100 list of my Best Story games. >:)

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

the newest Star Was Jedi Fallen Order have better writing and story telling than the main stream movies/tv shows. I guess they can cater to the hardcore fanbase with games and make the "mass appeal" slop for the movie theaters.

[rawWwRrr]

Originalmente postado por Punished Rusty Shackleford:

the newest Star Was Jedi Fallen Order have better writing and story telling than the main stream movies/tv shows. I guess they can cater to the fanbase with games and make the "mass appeal" slop for the movie theaters.

You know that game hasn't been updated in over two years. Maybe it should get removed for being vaporware.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Originalmente postado por Walach:

The Last of Us is not even on the top 100 list of my Best Story games. >:)

yeah it bewilders me that people think that was a good story.

[superblake_]

Originalmente postado por rawWwRrr:

Originalmente postado por Punished Rusty Shackleford:

the newest Star Was Jedi Fallen Order have better writing and story telling than the main stream movies/tv shows. I guess they can cater to the fanbase with games and make the "mass appeal" slop for the movie theaters.

You know that game hasn't been updated in over two years. Maybe it should get removed for being vaporware.

That is not vaporware.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

Originalmente postado por superblake_:

Originalmente postado por rawWwRrr:

You know that game hasn't been updated in over two years. Maybe it should get removed for being vaporware.

That is not vaporware.

this user got upset over a post I made in another thread and this is their cope. you can disregard anything they say.

[Slender]

garfield kart probably

[Ben Lubar]

Originalmente postado por ABAH MARMUT:

Do you believe that games can be a medium on par with films or books in terms of storytelling? Why or why not?

No, because in a video game, I am doing those things. I'm not reading about someone who made some decision or watching a character do things on a screen. I am the one who is making decisions and doing things and I get to see the results of those decisions.

Imagine a book version of any of Undertale's routes. Or a movie version of Spec Ops: The Line. The closest a movie or book has gotten to that feeling is Choose Your Own Adventure, and that's miles off.

A book cannot make me regret decisions I made. A movie cannot customize itself to me.

Video games can contain movies and books. But not the other way around.

[matt]

Originalmente postado por ABAH MARMUT:

Are there any specific games that made you feel emotionally connected?

Some game worlds feel immersive, which I think is a more realistic goal.

Originalmente postado por ABAH MARMUT:

Or perhaps there are narratives that were so innovative they made you think deeper?

The Ultima series were early RPGs that pioneered the concept of an immersive open world. Despite many gameplay innovations, they were pretty generic RPGs until the fourth game. Up until then, pretty much every RPG had the same plot: go kill an evil wizard. Ultima 4 instead asked you to become the embodiment of virtue.

This was presented as a series of moral quandaries. For example, you're attacked by animals. You can't retreat from combat without being penalized as a coward. You can't kill non-evil creatures without being penalized as a psychopath. So, you have to find a way to either avoid the battle or win it without killing any animals.

This extended to other aspects of the game, too. Characters would ask you trick questions, such as if you're humble. If you say yes, you're a braggart and obviously not humble. But what does saying no mean? Does that mean that you're admitting to being a braggart? What answer does the game want you to give?

For an 8 bit game that had to fit in 64KB of RAM, it could mess with your head and make you think twice about both your in-game actions and answers to questions. Everyone said it was great game design, and then we went right back to "kill the evil wizard" plot lines in RPGs for years and years.

Originalmente postado por ABAH MARMUT:

I think 'The Last of Us' is one of those games that truly changed my perspective on storytelling in video games.

Today, Ultima 4 wouldn't be considered particularly deep, but that's a good thing. It means we have much deeper games. Luckily, they don't have to fit in 64KB RAM.

[superblake_]

For me it is some of the Call Of Duty games, the infamous games,the prototype games,and some of the Batman Arkham games.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Originalmente postado por ABAH MARMUT:

Hey everyone! I’d like to invite you all to discuss games that you believe have changed the way we view and understand storytelling in video games. Are there any specific games that made you feel emotionally connected? Or perhaps there are narratives that were so innovative they made you think deeper?

Do you believe that games can be a medium on par with films or books in terms of storytelling? Why or why not?

I think 'The Last of Us' is one of those games that truly changed my perspective on storytelling in video games. The relationship between Joel and Ellie is incredibly deep and made me feel emotionally invested. Certain moments, like when they face tough choices, really made me reflect on morality and sacrifice

Final Fantasy X/X-2. The love story & plot twist of FFX and the lost love/emotional journey of FFX-2 (plus the song Yuna sings) really threw me for a loop when I was younger. To this day, all of these many years later, I'll still listen to that song Yuna sings in X-2 from time to time and it still gets me a little emotional.