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Weekend Confirmed 99 - Double Fine, Reckoning, Cell HD: emergence
by Jeff Mattas, Feb 10, 2012 11:00am PSTRegular hosts Garnett Lee and Jeff Cannata are away attending to other business, but producer DelRio steps in to shepherd Xav from Joystiq, Christian Spicer, and "Indie" Jeff Mattas through a number of topics. The insanely successful start to indie developer Double Fine's attempt at crowd-funding is discussed, a multitude of listener comments and feedback are addressed, and there's even some time left over to talk about games like Reckoning and Skyrim, and indies like Cell HD: emergence, and Gunpoint.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 99: 02/10/2012
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Whatcha Been Playing Part 1 00:26:14 – 00:52:11
Whatcha Been Playing Part 2 00:53:10 – 01:19:26
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Comments
Look, let's get this straight, no games have mastered "high art" storytelling to match classic mediums of literature, drama, or film. Even television has a notable lead(*cough* The Wire). But it's totally unfair to look at the best game stories and act like they are letting everyone down somehow.
Bottom Line:
People love these game stories because they want pulpy fan-service too. I want to live Game of Thrones, so I play Elder Scrolls. I want be Indiana Jones, so I play Uncharted. I want be James Bond with a dash of Tarantino, I play MGS.
These games aren't trying to be Lord of the Rings or Citizen Kane; they are trying to make our FAVORITE stories interactive, not our BEST stories
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That may be true in some sense, but I much prefer the 1st person experience of a good video game story to just watching a story unfold on screen. The story may be great, but without that personal involvement I get from games (and books, books rely on your own imagination which makes them personal), it doesn't mean nearly as much to me. Those stories are also generally very short and simple compared to a good video game adventure. And there is just a limit to how meaningful even the best film or TV show can be. You take that same story and put it in a great video game and it becomes much more personally meaningful and lasts much longer.
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