Were it not for the incredibly high standards of its competition this year, Horizon Zero Dawn might well have edged out Twinfinite's
best video game narrative 2017.
Not exact matches
Storytelling in
video games can be a hit or miss endeavor, with the
best games nailing the basic tenets of
good narrative, and the subpar
games dying under the strain of too much exposition.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is still one of the
best video game stories of all time, and although the quality of COD single - player
narratives have tended to fluctuate in recent years, there's still that sense of drama and action that I crave.
Although its overwhelming logic is hence from
video games — «I've never made it this far,» Cage tells his followers at one point, when asked what comes next — Edge of Tomorrow works
best as a gleeful riff on the
narrative tricks endemic to the cinema, an art defined more by editing than by images.
Best Narrative is a hard category to tackle, because it seems like almost every modern
video game has an emphasis on story these days.
He is currently researching how students read and engage with non-traditional texts like
video game narratives, manga, horror, fantasy, etc. as
well as the effects of inquiry teaching on teachers, students, and learning.
Alongside that is Dylan Holmes» A Mind Forever Voyaging, a super
well - written romp through classic moments in
video game narrative history.
It deserves it as
well, because The Walking Dead is a great
game, one that truly pushes what can be done with a
video game narrative that can not be done in film or TV.
We're at a point where graphical technology is almost as
good as it can get already, which means
games for new consoles will have to focus more and more on their own aesthetics, themes,
narratives, and
game mechanics, and I just don't want to see a whole new
video game generation stagnate and bomb because
games start looking all the same.
It has a deep lore and history for those who look for it, a diverse roster of characters without belonging into most of the awful tropes they usually fall prey to, a simple yet really customizable combat system, and one of the
better narratives I've seen in a
video game.
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Storytelling in
video games will only be enhanced as time marches on, so while we wait for the next great
video game narrative, let's break down five of the
best video game studios that have successfully become storytellers.
Video Games, at their
best, are a kind of
narrative that takes place between the
gamer and the
game makers, and when people give as much back as the fans of the Sonic series have, it can lead to some pretty incredible results.
Quantic Dream's promising
narrative based
game Detroit: Become Human has been shown off in a new
video, and it involves android Kara as
well as a girl... [Read full story]
Ubisoft Montreal took one of the
best franchises around and polished it, cut the fat, and created one of the
best and most compelling
narratives in
video games today.