And the whole tragedy of it is that there are people who *wanted* it to be a traditional superhero universe - colorful good guys foiling the plans of bad guys, forever, with no one ever permanently winning or changing anything - and they find out that that's fucking stupid
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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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Having alternate endings and branches is FINE if you're going for that from the start, but sometimes a single narrative is what you need to Tell The Story you want to Actually Tell. Like TTRPGs have 'branching paths' because the Players are telling the story with you, but
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That's not always the goal or should be always the goal. I mean I'm FINE with people who write their own version of fiction where Things Went Differently and 'canon' can be overrated especially with how broken copyright laws are, but that's not the original author's job.
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