Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The story is "the last frontier of video games"

This is what I think of Digital Extremes Sheldon Carter, project director for The Darkness 2, believes that the ultimate evolution of video games is narrative. Examining the major products in recent years, sees some flattening in the gameplay and technical features, because we always work around the same "issues".

Only the narrative is able to evolve more than the others, as evidenced by titles like Uncharted 2 and LA Noire. In short, it seems that some developers want to concentrate on telling stories through video games. It is a challenge, no doubt about the issue and deserves further investigation.

For example, one wonders if some games have not sacrificed on the altar of the gameplay narrative to tell stories that often have proved to be far from exciting or challenging. But this, as they say, is another story. Source: CVG

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