meauxdal
militant atheist
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Location: georgia, usa
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 Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:12 pm |
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| Ethoscapade wrote: |
| haze wrote: |
| curious: is anyone else getting tired of hearing the cop-out argument "if you want a story then read a book instead" or, in another form that's getting popular here lately, "it's a pretty good story.... FOR A GAME. GO READ THE GREAT GATSBY INSTEAD" |
uh. not really. i think that's "the point" more often than not.
although it's easy to get sidetracked onto something of a broader topic when you bring up stuff like that; games are a new medium, etc., and artistically they have yet to really justify themselves apart from cinema the way that cinema had a hard time justifying itself apart from theater until griffith and his editing techniques came along - logically the turning point with games will be when the narrative is no longer at odds with it being fun to play (end of mgs3, responsibility for actions in colossus, etc.), and in my experience with every "adventure" game ever apart from phoenix wright (for whatever reason), i would rather go read a book because otherwise it's a matter of dealing with the wrong abstractions in the wrong medium.
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..seriously, though! |
yes, mm mm mm....
Not that it hasn't all been said before, but I guess each time intelligent things get said they have an additional chance to sink in. |
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