to be honest a large chunk of games are just people's ideas that wanted to be movies and became games or "games" instead :V

you're never going to get a Fyodor Dostoevsky story in a game.

Are you sure that's not just your negative perception of it?

yeah. but at least in games you have interactivity ... instead of just sitting there and watching the movie

most games dont even utilize their greatest strength, which is interactivity. games want to shove a B movie story down my throat when i just want to play

@[chase dreams] it's not negative perception
it's just he has outgrown it ...

thats why games like the elder scrolls are so popular despite their bugs. because its an experience

It has nothing to do with outgrowing anything

that combines player storytelling with narrative storytelling

imagine fucking 1984 as a game where you're playing as a prole

Now you're speaking my language

misery simulator

that game wouldn't sell well

resident evil 2 remake was fantastic because it used the interactive nature of its medium to create tension. the game had like 3 or 4 cutscenes

Get laid fagtows, ha!

no u

No Jew?

Misogynist!

no u :^)

i hate the current state of gaming, just like the current state of movies and literature. everyone is buying garbage and becoming personally invested in it so any criticism comes off as a criticism against the person themselves

agree

Is that how you percieve my argument?

what was your argument

woot

that was mean XD

i scrolled up and it was something about cod and jrpgs being the new philosophers

That games can still dive into the same topics or themes as books and still have the same layers of depth as the novels.

sure, i agree, but they have to approach it using the strengths of their medium

if games try to copy movies they will fail. they need to be games first

But you just said they couldn't

because they dont

There's a difference between "couldn't" and "don't"

@Happy Humble Hermit what’s your favorite game type btw

@Nawalter Jizney i enjoy everything except rts games and even then ive played a few rts games

Gotcha

So it depends on the game

Ultimately

There are games that have themes about the human desire for violence through action heavy combat, if that's what you're saying.

very few games have incorporated serious themes into gameplay. im trying to think of a few

telltale's walking dead was great but thats barely a game

I ask cause I didn’t expect a dungeon crawler game