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What is your thoughts on this?

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this thread now belongs in #gayming

It's not directly about video games, it's about study materials that happens to be video games tho

Quote from: Cerulean on September 15, 2015, 12:15:45 PM

Quote from: LC on September 15, 2015, 12:11:37 PM

Quote from: Cerulean on September 15, 2015, 11:58:38 AM

Quote from: LC on September 15, 2015, 11:52:28 AM

Your teacher sounds like a Valve fanboy.

He actually mentioned Bungie games several times, how the computer addressed the protagonists in Marathon for example. He also mentioned Myth briefly, but I don't remember the context.

All of Marathons "good narrative" is in the form of terminals you can access to find out more about the story and universe. I wouldn't exactly call that good narrative in video games since that's like forcing the player to play a game to find bits and pieces of [insert good book of choice here] and then proclaiming your game good narrative. The story of the actual game itself is nothing special.

He didn't use that game in particular as an example of good narrative, he just said that it was kind of unique for it's time in the way it presented the story to the player, where in most shooters the player just had a lot of enemies to kill and then proceed to the next level.

Also, it's not about the story, it's bout the narrative techniques.

I'll grant him Marathon, because that way of presenting a story was unique at the time. However saying Half-Life has a good or unique narrative is just wrong. They only thing different it did from a lot of other games was not use cutscenes and use a lot of scripted sequences, but even then that wasn't a first to do either of those and it didn't do anything special to differentiate it from those that came before.

Well, I don't think that he thinks it's the be-all, end-all example of storytelling in video games. It' simply study material, an example, and it's good if everyone in the class has the same example to study.

Nearly every single organism has a place in the food chain. Killing of several or even one species would have far reaching consequences for entire ecosystems, maybe even for ourselves.

>Narrative in games
>ever good

lol

Games definitely aren't the medium for linear storytelling, but there's other ways that narrative can have a place in games. Narrative isn't so much about the stories themselves as how they are told (or, at last according to the definitions that our teacher uses). Half-Life is apparently a good example of how you can tell a story where the protagonist isn't defined by the game designers, a "blank slate" is you may. 

At flying height you don't see much except streetlights anyway.

Obviously you can't just play through it mindlessly, you gotta learn from it.

Quote from: Cerulean on September 15, 2015, 11:09:45 AM

Quote from: True Turquoise on September 15, 2015, 11:02:27 AM

Stuck in traffic, big jam

Sister is singing out the window

read that as "stuck in sister"

You have terrible eyes

well

I glanced over it quickly, and saw the words "stuck in" and "sister"

and knowing it was written by you, you know

Stuck in traffic, big jam

Sister is singing out the window

read that as "stuck in sister"

I can't see anything, so no.

Seeing as how it is over and all.