I understand your anger, you’re clearly passionate about games, I’m not so fussed. The Last of Us was a great game, I really enjoyed it, but to imply it’s anything other than an interactive copy of George A Romero’s best work is to be wilfully blind.
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But you’re not really that character are you, in the same way you’re not really the character when you read a 1st person book. It’s the writing or the characters that make you empathise, not the button pressing. Otherwise you’d care when Crash Bandicoot dies 100 times!
Depends on the game. Interactivity absolutely deepens your connection with a character - you are leading them on a 20+ hour journey. And in many games you are explicitly the character and make narrative and mechanical choices for them. You're immersed as them in a world
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Additionally using Crash Bandicoot as a repeated example is a little silly. It'd be like me arguing films aren't meaningful because I felt no connection to the talking cars in the latest Transformers - they serve different purposes, simple entertainment versus deeper narrative
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In that case I was using it to point out that just because you’re controlling a character that doesn’t mean you care about them, it’s silly to say that. Clearly characters & good writing are what makes you care about the decisions made in game or about characters on film.
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As I said to the original tweeter, you need to be pulling the joystick to engage or be immersed in a character.
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