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@sun this divides the games-as-literature vs games-as-porn people
@iamtakingiteasy @lain @cell @sun Half Life without the story is boring and quite mediocre. Just like Doom without the fast paced gameplay.
@phnt @iamtakingiteasy @lain @cell there is a place for games with or without story in gods green earth but we’re being dictated to by people that just want games to be stories with a sprinkling of interactivity and that is so pathetically bleak and limiting for the medium
@sun @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell i don't even think that is true, as the story of most of these games is not worth the name. it's 'stuff happening'.
@lain @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell incidentally have you noticed how many actual movies now are just "stuff happening" lol
the southpark guys used to talk about filmmaking 101 where every scene has to be "this and because this just happened this now happens" but instead people do "and then this happens"
the southpark guys used to talk about filmmaking 101 where every scene has to be "this and because this just happened this now happens" but instead people do "and then this happens"
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@sun @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell yeah, it's just one thing after the other. not even really plot holes, just 'and then this happened'
@lain @sun @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell
How did the ancient dagger have an outline of the recent wreckage forged into its crossbar?
Oh, because you see, the script required it to get to the next plot point.