Why did video games as a story telling medium fail?
For many of us, games were especially fascinating for them being among the best and most impactful mediums for stories. The plots could be extemely simple but the interactive medium and the fact that YOU are doing it made them emotionally impactful experiences we talked about and remembered. Many people initially joined the industry because they saw video games a new medium for storytelling, not too dissimilar of an innovation as film was in the early 20tj century.
But it failed. No kid who plays video games in 2019 actually is experiencing some kind of narrative. They all play either multiplayer games online or simple mobile games. The idea that video games convey stories is actually completely dying and the games still coming out are all catered to an older audience who actually grew up with them. Children will never play anything other than stuff like Fortnite and Apex Legends.
Why? Why couldn't games be the new Netflix? Is interactive narration too complex? Are there simply no good writers in the industry? Is it a marketing problem wherein people just don't expect video games to be able to do that anymore? Is it simply less profitable?
>Why did video games as a story telling medium fail?
Time.
Society.
Charles Sanders
because people like games for the gameplay, and movie games are often common denominator horseshit hacked together by third rate morons who couldn't make it in the direct-to-video industry. Shocker, right?
video games are adequate for storytelling, it's just decent writing will blow it the fuck out every time. but only for the pure concept of a narrative, which a game already wasn't setting out to do
Noah Adams
Nier:Automata was successful
Ian Gomez
Movie games are exactly the wrong way to convey stories through video games and do not exploit the interactive nature of the game at all. Those are not what I am taking about. I'm talking about games like Bioshock.
Zachary Ortiz
Nier: Automata is stereotypical nonsensical anime bull. Stop pretending stupid nipshit is 'deep' becaue they mention a book term or two.
the best way to convey lore and writing is through text. Hence why people adore ancient sruff like Planetscape -- reading is immersive.
Grayson Hill
Because kids are stupid empty vessels. Dumb doesnt like things that remind them how dumb they are so they choose dumb media. And we got plenty of that. They'll probably grow up into actual retards.
