Sentences with phrase «best narrative driven»

The game is not only one of the best narrative driven games it is just so different then anything else on the market today.

The game is not only one of the best narrative driven games it is just so different then anything else on the market today.

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If well - crafted, a company narrative can result in a word - of - mouth effect that turns customers into advocates and drives awareness minus a big marketing budget.

And the thing about narratives is that they drive behavior in ways that are more powerful and profound than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.

The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long - gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest - dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back - to - nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology - driven picture.

We also need to remember that there are many more «good schools» than our rankings - driven cultural narrative suggests.

Earnestly presented and well acted, particularly by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the central role, the film shares with many other such agenda - driven dramas a complete lack of narrative surprise, merely connecting the dots.

While well intentioned, the human - and - dog interest story lacks narrative drive and star Kate Mara is a limp noodle.

The single player campaign is better crafted and this time the character - driven narrative takes a backseat to high - action gun fights, and fast - paced interdictions.

You can tell that it's a game that comes from a studio that has had minimal need to develop narratives previously, and on the Nintendo Switch, the game's mobile roots hurt it, but then the Nintendo Switch is also a portable console, and as a game that's best played in short bursts, it's a good one to have sitting on the hard drive or memory card.

A Hard Day — Somewhere the dominant strain of the crime movie genre morphed from Woovian tales of moral codes in unjust societies (ala A Better Tomorrow) to Rube Goldberg narratives driven by slapstick escalations of violence.

But a lot of weight is given to whether a game's creative director came from a writing background, as many of the best narrative - driven franchises, like BioShock, feature creative directors in that vein.

It isn't that Best Picture hasn't always been mostly dominated by male narratives — it's that the strong female - driven movies started to fail to catch fire at the box - office around the mid-90s and once that happened, there has never been much of an economic incentive to get those films made.

This time he's considerably more focused, letting McDormand's ferocious mother - bear of a performance, her best since Fargo, drive the narrative.

11 - 11: Memories Retold will sport a story - driven narrative adventure experience as well as a unique painted style that plans to deliver a uniquely entertaining experience.

It will be yet another year where most of the films in the Best Picture race are driven by the male narrative — give or take a Gravity.

Bradford Young, «Arrival» (nominated for Best Cinematography) «[Cinematographers are] there to serve the narrative, and the narrative is always driven by the actors.

Offering the chance to experience events from another perspective, both of these narrative driven DLC's are well worth a look and easily rival the level of enjoyment to be found in the main game.

Well, it comes close, but the narrative loses some of its drive in the third act.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy chBetter Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy chbetter engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy changes.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Brackston's spellbinding language is the driving force along with endearing characters and a well balanced narrative with the perfect amounts of witchcraft, mystery, suspense and thrills, even a little romance appears.

If social responsibility isn't the driving narrative to your investment practices, Swell Investing may not be the best choice if you're in the market for a robo - advisor.

Mind Zero is a narrative driven dungeon - crawler RPG which draws a little inspiration from the Persona series as well as Danganronpa, amongst other games.

Battleborn is set in the distant future of an imaginative science - fantasy universe where players experience both a narrative - driven co-operative campaign, as well as competitive multiplayer matches.

A narrative - driven game, the is another major game that can best be described as a «walking simulator.»

But for years now, the conventional narrative has been that The Sims became the best - selling PC game of all time in 2002 after dethroning Myst, the graphical adventure game that sold more CD - ROM drives than every other piece of «multimedia» software combined.

Fitting Conclusion The Walking Dead Series created by Telltale Games will be remembered for providing one of the best emotionally driven narratives, the world of gaming has ever seen.

It is, in fact, the same problem as designing Extreme Pong: that in handing over drama management to an invisible algorithm, the player has no way to know his actions are driving the story and the dynamic narrative becomes indistinguishable from an authored one - and likely not as good.

Narrative - driven horror experience coming to Ouya on may 27 and PC on June 17 Whispering Willows, a horror puzzle game from Night Light Interactive that features beautiful 2D visuals and a haunting, well - spun narrativeNarrative - driven horror experience coming to Ouya on may 27 and PC on June 17 Whispering Willows, a horror puzzle game from Night Light Interactive that features beautiful 2D visuals and a haunting, well - spun narrativenarrative, will...

It's a narrative - driven puzzle extravaganza featuring eclectic characters and off - the - wall puzzles that combine the best of both games.

When I reviewed Wolfenstein: The New Order back in May of 2014, I stated that the single - player story campaign was easily the best narrative - driven first - person shooter game currently on the market.

While the moody synth pop driving the action forward is exceptionally good, the graphics and the narrative design are modest to say the least.

Winner of the indieDB Editor's Choice 2015 award for «Best Visuals» and Game Connection Paris 2014 award for «Best Narrative,» The Town of Light is a first - person, story - driven adventure game set in the Volterra Psychiatric Asylum.

In Chris Pranger's review (here), he stated that while some of the characters aren't as well developed as others and the controls get tiresome, the power to drive the narrative through the course of four different perspectives is quite compelling.

Once I got into the games industry, and started to have fun with the possibilities of narrative driven games like Hector: Badge of Carnage and Schrödinger's Cat, it seemed like as good a place as any to unleash Mona Lisa.»

Rebecca Harwick, Lead Writer, Wooga: Best Practices for Narrative Collaboration Across Disciplines in Story - Driven Games

Players assume the role of Mae in this 90s - inspired 2D platformer, but perhaps what Alec Holowka, Scott Benson, and Bethany Hockenberry have made could be best described as a narrative - driven experience.

Batman and Telltale Games is certainly an interesting combination for a new series from the narrative - driven developer, and they have now revealed a summer release window as well as more details as to what to expect from the five episode series.

Combat in BioShock to me is somewhat of «A means to an end» in this narrative driven game and that is why I forgave some less enjoyable sections like fighting the same boss three times or a not well checkpointed battle towards the end of the game.

I've always thought that people who made good Dungeon Masters also often made really good level designers for immersive sims, in particular, because it's this really magical blend of representing the game rules, the RPG system, but also being responsive to the fact that the players around the table are part of the narrative and driving the narrative.

Since then their other game, The Walking Dead, has proved to be one of the best narrative - driven games released in a long...

In narrative driven games we still have a long way to go in how we pose choices to our players, as well as how they interact with the characters that inhabit the world.

Though multiplayer mode was as fast - paced and fun as ever, it's certainly a good thing that the more narrative - driven War has been added.

I'd rather play a shooter game with really good shooting, or a narrative game with a really good story, or a driving game with really good controls, than an «open world game» where I have the option to engage in shitty versions of all of those gameplay experiences.

But what if you're craving some more of that juicy story - focused, narrative - driven adventure game goodness that the guys at Telltale Games has been so good at as of late?

The Last of Us totally deserves the fantastic sales it is getting, I've been playing it for the last 2 weeks continuously (still not completed it), and it is quite possibly the best game ever made, and like a good movie, you actually care about the character driven narrative in the game... I would recommend to any PS3 owner to buy this game.

It's a different, more pastoral approach to the catastrophe narratives with which we are so familiar, one perhaps driven by the fact that games are now able to render moss and trees just as well as bricks and rubble.

STEIR: Well, it drives the narrative in Agnes Martin too and in John Cage and in Philip Guston.

Well, nobody is against clean energy, but it has not been a sufficiently compelling narrative to drive this agenda through Congress.