Love it or hate it, Alan Wake's story could not have worked as a book, tv show or movie.
What other games are like this?
Stories that can only be told in the form of a video game
Leo Long
Jaxon Sanchez
This one can't even be told on any gaming system that doesn't have two screens
Carter Adams
dark souls
Christian Powell
MGS2 and to a lesser extent MGS1
Oliver Reyes
The OG?
Angel Murphy
it's literally simulates tv show.
what story?
it's literally simulates movies. cool game mechanics are not connected to the story in any way.
Henry Bailey
>It literally simulates tv show
Sure they're called "episodes" instead of chapters and there's a lot of cut scenes. The story of finding pages from a manuscript hidden in the world that tell the future have more punch in the video game than in a real tv show because you're the one finding the pages.
Jeremiah Baker
If House of Leaves can be written as a book, so can you faggot car commercial achievement game.
Elijah Taylor
>could not have worked as a book
There is a book, i've read it and it is good enough.
>glorified cyoa
Considering how 999 is intended to be played it would make for a good fit for a light novel series tbqh.
Leo Torres
what remains of edith finch and pretty much any other walking simulator
Jackson Richardson
The obvious choice.
Matthew Murphy
REmake
Wyatt Sanchez
>what story?
Exactly
Josiah King
The same could be said about any game where you find story-related stuff lying around. That does not mean that the core of the story can't be translated into a book.
Joseph Young
This but unironically
Brayden Reed
It was literally a TV show in the form of videogame
A parody of itself in itself parodying Stephen King and Sam Lake writing himself into existence
Benjamin Martin
It had a novelization I haven't read it though.
Both of these also had novelizations.
Logan Hughes
>it's literally simulates movies. cool game mechanics are not connected to the story in any way.
Confirmed for not playing the games. Both stories center around a metanarrative based on The player's relationship with the first game in 2 and the player committing murder with reckless abandon in a video game they're playing for fun in 1
Michael Bailey
Sure any game can be forced into a tv show or book but it might miss the entire effect
Josiah Stewart
Nobody would have done this in any other format. Maybe it can be done, but it wouldn't be funded.
Christian Bailey
Theres not a single story that wouldn't be better told as a book or movie. Kusoge baiting with deep story to encourage pushing through shit gameplay is what I thank story fags for.
Chase Lewis
Based
Christopher White
This is objectively true since the story relies on the player's personal decisions
Samuel Mitchell
the game uses the medium it's played on to support the impact of it's story than any other game I've ever seen.
Sure you could tell the story in another way but it would lose a lot of it's impact
Lucas Miller
Most actual RPGs only work in vidya, although there are those really bad CYOA books but they rarely are able to react properly to the player's actions. Video games are pretty much the only proper media where the consumer has a say in the narrative. However it could be argued that pen and paper campaigns are "books" but you can't play such games alone.
Brayden Jenkins
Didn't this have a manga though?, or was that like a different story same setting type deal?