It's an actual story Beginning, middle and end The story of superheroes in this world has an arc, it happened a certain way for specific reasons It's not a world where "anything is possible", in fact in hindsight only one series of events ever could happen and did happen
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Like come on Super Mario Bros. is a game, isn't it It doesn't have branching paths Unless getting pissed after Mario dies and never playing it again is an "alternate ending"
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It's a story with one ending, Mario saves the Princess Playing the game is just you, as the actor portraying Mario, getting in character and experiencing his painful struggle over time But the struggle only has one possible outcome And people kinda liked that game
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It's funny because as a geek into text adventures/"interactive fiction" we had all these debates a full generation before the mainstream gaming world exploded over Gone Home and "walking simulators" and shit
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And it's like no, obviously you don't have to be in control of anything or be able to change the outcome of anything for something to be a "real game" or for it to matter that it's a game and not a movie
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It's like saying that if I can't actually touch a sculpture and break pieces off of it that there's no difference between having a physical sculpture or looking at a photo of it on a screen
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Or, more directly, that it's "not really acting" to play a character by reading a script That there's no emotional experience to be had from embodying this character if I didn't actually write the story and if I know the ending of the play can't change
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(As someone who did improv for a long time, I am, in the long run, a fan of scripts Scripts are good and useful and powerful things In the end I have never had emotional experiences quite as powerful doing improv as I have when reciting memorized lines from a script)
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The problem here is that games that deliberately ape other forms of storytelling tend to be overwrought trash
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Is a game simply telling a linear story that the player interacts with “aping other forms of storytelling?”
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Oh boy, you do not want me to get on a rant about “player agency”! (Bitter DA2 fan here)
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grrrrr Leliana
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