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Weekend Confirmed 143 - Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, Tera
by Jeff Mattas, Dec 14, 2012 11:00am PSTOn today's episode of Weekend Confirmed, Garnett, Jeff, and Jeff are joined by Shacknews' John Keefer to spread some pre-holiday cheer. The crew spends some time chatting about Far Cry 3's multiplayer modes, opines about the success of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead adventure series, and there's also some MMO talk focusing on Tera and Guild Wars 2. Naturally, Finishing Moves--complete with a new holiday-themed, fan-made intro--closes the show out properly, followed by a quick, post-show NFL TailGate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 143: 12/14/2012
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It began with the comparisons to Watchmen especially because it was Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons who created the sophistication of that work and people often overly highlight the writing as the place in which the advancements came from and forget the contributions of the artist. Also comparing it to literature which I think is also a flawed comparison because the reason Watchmen works is because it utilizes everything at hand in the comic language to improve the story and doesn't rely on the tropes of other mediums to do it.
That ties into my problems with The Walking Dead, it doesn't tell a video game story it tells a choose your own adventure story that many people I have talked to said would be better if you remove the game parts. I am sick and tired of people who claim to love video games but want nothing more than video games to achieve what other mediums have. Video games have an entire grammar and language of storytelling that is unique to them and it is emotional, moving and every emotion I can get of out any other piece of entertainment.
The terror and abandon of going through the Asylum in Demon Souls or the Tomb of the Giants in Dark Souls
The joy and exhilaration of an amazing run through a Mario level
The hold your breath edge of the seat tension of the Sniper Duel with The End in MGS3
The emotional climax, chills, and exultation that come with the final boss fight in MGS4 and MGS3
And many others that are not coming to mind right now.
You don't have to abandon the language of video games to get great moments and great stories (the thread about MGS3 down in this forum is perfect) and Kojima has been doing that for 2 whole decades.
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But let me say this instead.
It's of no consequence to me whether or not The Walking Dead wins every award in existence. I don't hate the game, I don't even see it as a "nongame" as some here would assume I do.
My problem isn't that people like the Walking Dead, or that people dislike Angry Birds, or whatever. My problem is that TWD is indicative or at least emblematic of a change in the way mainstream games are trending that, if we continue down this path, leaves people like me behind.
You can say all you want that gamey games aren't going away, but they are. Not completely, of course, but they are increasingly being marginalized to either the ghetto of mobile phones or the work of hobby developers making games that they probably won't ever see a dime for.
Lastly, think about the perspective we're losing in the race to move forward. Think about how close we came to getting "X-Com the first person shooter" instead of "X-Com the strategy game" because the prevailing attitude was that no one plays turn-based strategy games anymore.
Hell, if it weren't for people digging up mechanically antiquated gameplay ideas, point and click adventure games wouldn't have even come back in the first place, and The Walking Dead video game as we know it simply wouldn't exist... or more likely, there'd be an entirely mediocre TWD first person shooter.
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