> SAVE at decision screen (Overwrite "Sip (Part 2)") > LILLY GOOD ENDING LOAD "Sip (Part 2)" (DELETE "Out and About" save) > SAVE at decision screen (overwrite "Mind Your Step") > SAVE at decision screen (Create a new save state) Maybe in the future as game theory develops there will be more games which truly are unified creative works, but I doubt they’ll be similar to much of anything we have now.> I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I don’t think it’s possible for an action RPG to be a great creative work. I think the first time I heard that criticism I just wrote it off as older generation who just couldn’t ever grok games, but now I’m sold.
Ico is to some extent a counterexample, as the gameplay is the workhorse of the narrative: the game is, up until the end, exploring a strange, desolate place, protecting the only other person there, and trying to figure out how to get her somewhere only you can reach. While a player is experiencing the story of Mass Effect, they’re also playing at short-range tactical combat and stat-maximizing, and both of those by their irrelevance are alienating. Mulling over that I returned to an old criticism of games as art: that gameplay seriously detracts from them because it can’t be made into a holistic experience with the narrative.
Ico was brought up as the sole example of a professional game with more than rudimentary gameplay which works on this level. I guess I missed the normal commenting window–had some trouble setting aside three hours to listen to it.Īnyway, the reason I registered a wordpress commenting account: something startled me when listening to the discussion about why more games don’t/whether they can have much of an emotional punch. I’m an unwashed foreigner brought here by a link in reddit’s katawa shoujo subreddit.
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