Sentences with phrase «narrative game where»

Event [0] is a sci - fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

The latest game that uses this technology is Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, an upcoming Telltale - like narrative game where players can vote on the choices using their smartphones.

All - in - all, this is another fine example of how to deliver a great story - based narrative game where your choices matter and shapes the events that proceed them.

When getting bogged down in a world of battle royal games and multiplayer experiences, it is nice to take the time to enjoy a purely narrative game where you can lose yourself for a few ours in the wilderness.

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The blame - shifting, gas - lighting, minimizing, and narrative - control «game» is sickening but VERY typical in situations where adultery is involved.

The Novelist is a narrative adventure game that has a few flaws, but offers a unique and interesting story, where you can decide to help a father, his whife or his kid, depending the situations, to eventually help them all.

Kona is a first person game focused on exploration and survival where the narrative is very relevant.

There's still potential for an expansion of narrative scope as the game progresses, however, so I'm keen to see where exactly that goes.

3D World feels even more random then most Mario games — they should have made a full snow world, one world with the japanese style levels (the ones where you can open doors with the touchscreen), revisit Sarasa Land and so on, each with its own narrative.

Half Life first released for PC in 1998 and was a revolution for FPS games; For the first time we had a deep plot with a good narrative, making us feel like we were inside a game where everything looked so believable.

There are some familiar faces in there from old Final Fantasy games (more on those later), but this is a spinoff where the emphasis is very much on action, rather than characters or narrative.

In an era where people are constantly feeling vaguely screwed over by big - budget video games, it's a narrative a lot of us can get behind.

There's also a through - line to 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain — narratively we are shown Big Boss going openly rogue and actively opposing the world order, and while the game's mechanical focus is on freedom, this falls within the constraints of a larger economic system where the narrative freedom to do what you want, is a smokescreen for another system of exploitation.

There was some situation about the review with Double Fine saying no early reviews during the backer release period, but later changed their minds after quite a lot of disagreement with that stance.We reviewed Broken Age Act 1 two weeks ago and awarded it an 8/10, stating that the game contained an excellent pair of narratives, but was a bit let down by how simple many of the puzzles where.

I use a variety of games in my classes, but it recently occurred to me that I've never explicitly taught a novel where a game is central to the narrative.

Where this game truly succeeds is with the narrative as it is well thought - out, well - explained and properly executed over the course of the story.

This game is designed as a narrative investigation where you must piece together elements from the different applications, messages and pictures to progress.

Created at the USC Game Innovation Lab (where Fullerton is a professor and director), the game has a subtle narrative arc that doesn't try and get the player's attention through puzzles or challenGame Innovation Lab (where Fullerton is a professor and director), the game has a subtle narrative arc that doesn't try and get the player's attention through puzzles or challengame has a subtle narrative arc that doesn't try and get the player's attention through puzzles or challenges.

This gameplay feature is absent from most narrative - driven games like Telltale games where choices are mostly permanent and you can't change them.

So, more modern games like the Mass Effect series and the Elder Scrolls games are examples of narratology at work, where the game's narrative is prided and sometimes deemed more important than the mechanics.

This is where I have to laugh, we praise the clever storytelling of these games and admire the sheer sophistication of their narrative, but we can not do the same for gameplay.

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Baker has also taken on extended duties as the game's Performance Capture Director, where his first - hand experience as an actor is now being utilized with other characters, helping to ensure that each performance fits cohesively within the original narrative in Middle - earth: Shadow of War.

The Order appears to have a deep narrative set in an alternative historical setting (a bit like the Resistance games on the PlayStation 3) where humans are battling it out with half - breeds of animals and men.

The cutscenes make the game a standout in its genre and are definitely where the narrative and graphics shine.

But if you want to understand game narrative, you have to understand narrative, and that is a task best approached in media where it is far easier to construct.

A narrative - driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home — preparing the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones» stories, and running the business.

Perhaps, as this genre continues to evolve, we will see a shift in the design process, where the narrative more directly revolves around the player, incorporating others in the same space — but it's vital that the connection between game and player, built so steadfastly on loneliness, isn't compromised.

Quiet of the Leaves is a 2D side - scrolling narrative adventure game where you play as a young woman named Mars...

What it is: NetherWorld is a horizontal side - scrolling action game, where character development, dialogues and narrative have a special role.

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Midgard is the main hub where you'll be spending most of your time, but there's more than just the game's main narrative to enjoy.

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.

Being a narrative driven game, Hidden Agenda requires you to dedicate a few hours in order to complete it, and as such having to gather together the same friends again before picking up where you left off is a bit of a logistical nightmare in today's rather busy lifestyle.

While the narrative is incredibly strong, it's in the dialog where the Witcher 2 really shines, an area in which most other RPGs, or any other games, for that matter, tend to be rather disappointing, especially in comparison to their two to other main media rivals: books and films.

The Stanley Parable's changing narrative is a demonstration of what could be done with good writing and solid vision, and a fine example of where I hope to see games go in the future.

I'd still much rather be able to venture where I want at any time in Skyrim, but for the likes of Tomb Raider, a character and narrative driven game, the concept of ludonarrative dissonance is an important one.

Interactivity is a narrative device that only games can employ, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it can take us.

Another big game is the hostess game where you must woo and eventually date all six of the hostesses — this is much easier than previous games as you have many narrative options and all the girls are in one club.

A lock for strongest studio debut of 2016, Campo Santo's Firewatch is infamously a hard game to pin down, so here I'll simply say that it's a narrative adventure where you're uncovering intriguing morsels of plot simply by moving forward through the world, and that it's one of the best true «mystery» games we've had in ages.

Along with interactive spellcasting, the game features an encounter system where narrative choices impact parts of the story.

Obviously we work in a professional climate where most people simply do not give a shit about «elevating the medium» or about «making games that are more socially responsible» or more specifically about integrating moral or ethical decisions into gameplay or game narrative in order to offer deeper messages to our audiences.

Three thematic elements consistently drive the narratives of Silent Hill games: the theme of a main protagonist who is depicted as an «everyman» (with the exception of Homecoming, where the protagonist is thought to be a soldier and the game's mechanics operate as such), [41] and the everyman's quest, either a search for a missing loved one [42] or a situation where the protagonist wanders into the town apparently by accident but is in fact being «summoned» by a spiritual force in the town.

The trailer made it very clear that a branching narrative, where choices have real consequences, is at the heart of this game.

The Story mode does do one weird thing, where some narrative portions are rendered with in - game graphics but then suddenly switch to a slideshow of the anime with voice - over, going so far as to even include a side quest that is literally just watching a slideshow.

Part 9 of a continuing series, where I interview members of the now - defunct but highly influential Looking Glass Studios (1990 - 2000), which wrote the book on 3D first - person narrative game design throughout the 90s, in such games as Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief.

For composer Austin Wintory, though, the idea of performing Journey's music alongside live gameplay came during the game's early stages of development: «While I was writing the score, it became clear that the game was going to be like a silent film, where the music would have a strong narrative function.

In the latest Mirro's Edge Catalyst dev diary DICE people talk a little bit about the narrative, where you will need to read a prequel comic to understand what happened just before the game starts, and the city.

That said, even with its faults, Yakuza 5 is really one of those games where everything comes together both in a narrative and a gameplay sense to provide an experience that can't really be matched by anything else out there.

In a time where video game narratives like Nier Automata take a look at the video game medium and use it to say powerful things about life itself or how my last reviewed game the Last Guardian showing big budget games can still have heart.