Sentences with phrase «video game narratives»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated with video game narratives.

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

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.

The bog - standard video game narrative has you play as Alyssa L'Salle, a super spy for the galactic «peacekeeping» government known as the API.

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.

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.

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.

Prior to playing FFVII, all the games I had played kept their plots and characters relatively simple, with gameplay entirely as the focus, so playing FFVII for the first time provided me with my first real experience with a video game narrative, and I really found myself growing attached to the game's world and especially its characters (Tifa is still my favourite video game character to this day).

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

His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video - game videos to make them «like a movie.»

His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video games to make them «like a movie.»

But, more than anything, GamerGate highlights two competing narratives: journalistic integrity when writing about video games and the struggles women face in a male - dominated industry.

When it comes to storytelling, video games have never been a patch on novels or films, usually emphasising action at the expense of narrative.

«Importantly, this effect was specific to the condition in which participants actively engaged in the games narration, while the mere exposure to the narrative video game did not affect theory of mind, in comparison to playing a neutral video game.»

As published today in Social Psychological and Personality Science, the researchers found that narrative game elements contributed to a more immersive video game experience.

«The earliest video games really had very little in common with other forms of narrative entertainment,» said Bowman.

It can be a narrative, while being a video game.

Visual novels are a medium using the narrative style of Literature, but in a digital format that could technically be considered a Video Game.

As with its predecessors, it's a rare game that earns its difficulty through the weight of its decisions rather than its gameplay, and it sets an increasingly high bar for narrative excellence in video games.

The current rash of movies based on toys, or comic books, or video games, or fairy tales, exists to canonize the narrative building blocks of childhood, to provide frameworks for all your stories about Spider - Man or Megatron or Snow White, and then to sell you specially licensed toys so you can keep playing those stories out.

The Quantic Dream games have always been divisive, some finding them epic narratives telling complex tales, others complaining that they would like some gameplay in their video games.

As video game tools have evolved, creators have been able to concentrate more on creating robust worlds with compelling narratives and... Read More

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.

Tilton demonstrates in this video game score that he has all the hallmarks of someone who would be a great film composer — not just the composition itself (which is beyond reproach — the orchestration in particular is so impressive) but also his dramatic sense, which is honed to provide a gripping narrative here.

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.

I'd say its cobbled - together story, brutal violence, and stylistic excess are comparable to a video game, but that would be an insult to some games (and I'm not being sarcastic, as there are definitely games that are the result of coming to grips with narrative and learning to channel the medium into something relatively fulfilling).

It is as much a colossal void as the vacuum that serves as its backdrop, so relentlessly plot - driven that it resembles a video game not only in its near - total animation but in its stage - oriented narrative movement.

That said, I do think this game is fantastic and that anybody interested in mobile games with depth, SRPGs, or video games with great narratives should buy The Banner Saga.

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.

Hammered by the idiocy of formula television and video games, a generation is forming that has no feeling for narrative and character.

The second and third games and The Room built off their worlds, delivering some of the most memorable narratives in video game history (anyone who has played Silent Hill 2 to completion and claims not to remember it is lying).

Disney Interactive And Harmonix Announce October 21 Release And Unveil New Content For The Award - winning Music And Motion Video Game «Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved» At The 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) Experience All - New City Realm and the Game's Narrative Plus Playable Songs from Drake, The Who, and others in Disney Interactive & Microsoft Booths at E3

Best Narrative is a hard category to tackle, because it seems like almost every modern video game has an emphasis on story these days.

Apparently, Ken Levine isn't leaving video games but will be taking on narrative - driven stories for Take - Two Interactive and will focus on digital distribution for future titles.

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.

Just be prepared for a narrative that seeks to meld the modern worlds of thrill - seeking kinetic action (as our private video game - happy living room lives are like) and of shoegazey possibly - overly emotive vulnerability (as my and probably your outdoor life is).

The plot of Battle Los Angeles is only a few dialogue scenes removed from the objective - based narratives of countless video games concerning warfare in modern times.

Video Game of the Year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Mobile Game of the Year Her Story - Sam Barlow Table Top Game of the Year Pandemic Legacy - Z - Man Games Excellence in Gameplay Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - Konami Excellence in Art Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in Animation Rise of the Tomb Raider - Square Enix / Crystal Dynamics Excellence in Technical Achievement The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Visual Achievement The Order: 1886 - Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready at Dawn Excellence in Narrative The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Design Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in SFX Star Wars Battlefront - Electronic Arts / EA DICE Excellence in Musical Score Ori and the Blind Forest - Microsoft Studios / Moon Studios Excellence in Multiplayer Rocket League - Psyonix Excellence in Convergence Batman: Arkham Knight - Warner Bros..

(What's interesting to note, however, is that Trachtenberg's career really began to build traction after he released a short film based on the video game Portal; that game's narrative has more than a few things in common with 10 Cloverfield Lane «s, which I found intriguing.)

«Genital Jousting's story mode is the greatest narrative ever created for the medium of video games.

Unlike videos and a lot of other forms of media, games are usually non-linear narratives.

That's why we love stories so much and it's why video games love a rich narrative.