This studio perfected the art
of video game narratives in its The Walking Dead Season 1 title, which went on to win a plethora of awards the year it was released.
Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated
with video game narratives.
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.
Over the last generation, Sony seems to have taken it upon itself to drive the cause of truly
adult video game narrative and, as this crusade has continued, certain key tropes have begun to crystalise.
Alongside that is Dylan Holmes» A Mind Forever Voyaging, a super well - written romp through classic moments
in video game narrative history.
The democratisation of game development is high on Chet Faliszek's agenda, especially when it comes to experimenting with new ways to
create video games narrative via artificial intelligence
Though this is not a new idea
for video game narratives, what stands out in Cave Story is that these choices may not be apparent to the player, who may just go along with a specific choice because it is expected from them based on previous years of experience playing other games.
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.
But now, not satisfied with Tekken and his recent XBLA game Way of the Dogg (in which, by the way, you play a character unironically named America Jones who learns how to reverse time and punch dudes at Snoop's magical Dojo,
setting video game narrative back another five years), Snoop Hedgehog is lending his vocal cords to a Multiplayer Announcer voice package for Call of Duty: Ghosts.
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.
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.
Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated
with video game narratives.
Mass Effect was an undeniable milestone in the pantheon of role playing games and was one of the first to truly demonstrate the power of choice
in video game narratives.
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.
At one end of
the video game narrative spectrum, there are the games that have an idea of how they should play and elements are deducted from the story in order to facilitate the gameplay elements.
Naughty Dog really didn't break out as a storytelling studio until its Uncharted franchise released on the PS3, but it perfected
its video game narrative excellence with The Last of Us.