Games Stories

In this week's reading task, I actually learned quite a good few things about storytelling in video games and agree with a lot of points made about it, but again, everyone has their own opinion on it. You have dynamic storytelling games, which are games that progress the story as you go along, and you can decide what outcome to have as a player and what you want to do in the game, and then you have author storytelling games, which have a specifically designed and mostly fixed story and generally lead to the same ending by the time you finish the game no matter how many different choices you made. I sometimes prefer dynamic storytelling as they are fun and flow by themselves and give the player more freedom in the story. But then again, there are many amazing author storytelling games out there too, so it’s all preference at the end of the day, but overall, to sum up storytelling in video games, there are many ways you can go about it, but as long as the players enjoy it, then that’s all that matters in my opinion.

This article showed me a lot of different story structures and ways to go about story lines in video games and where some have gone wrong.

I always enjoy the weekly videos and this one was great as the person in the video explains things very well and also displays games and shows us examples of things that he explains, which was very helpful.

This article was very in-depth and went into detail about the narrative of Mass Effect 2.

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