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Quantic Dream's CEO David Cage is a bit of an opinionated fellow, isn't he?
He recently claimed that game stories are "light years away" from movie plots, and that "movie(s) like UP made me feel something very strong ... what games make you feel that?"
Many gamers are becoming more and more accustomed to stories in games being increasingly involved. Unfortunately for all the hollywood budgets games seem to get, Quantic Dream’s (Heavy Rain) CEO David Cage thinks we are no where near the quality of storytelling the movie industry has to offer.
“No, we are light years away from movies. I played a very popular game at the moment. I won’t name it, but it’s very good. I went and watched UP from Pixar ... I compared the experience watching this movie to playing the game I just finished. When I thought of the game there was a vacuum. The game left nothing in me. It didn’t change the way I feel or see things.
Where a movie like UP made me feel something very strong ... what games make you feel that?
Where are the creators able to generate this kind of emotion? Where are they? They’re nowhere just because video games at the moment is a very conservative industry.”
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I think we can stop that now. Please?
In Braid, there is an overwhelming air of desperation; loneliness even. On the stage where you create a shadow image of your past self, there is a part where you must trap yourself to get a key. Normally, you would only have to rewind time and go about your ways. But here, I rewound time and my shadow self redid my actions, grabbing the key so I could pass through the door, and then looked back in desperation trying to get out of the trap he was in.
That is an incredibly unique experience which can only be done on a video game. If writers developed things that worked more on that level, story through experience, I think games would make leaps and strives as a respectable medium.
He's right. Game stories are "light years away" from movies. I have never cared much for what happened in any video game ever, apart from Portal. They're just not very interesting. A lot of them seem to take the same cookie-cutter template and repeat continually. Now that doesn't mean games can't be immersive. As Smoke mentioned above with Braid, games are very capable of producing memorable, immersive experiences. However, very few games currently achieve that through the use of narrative.
I find this statement quite ironic, because I found Fahrenheit quite cheesy and lacklustre in execution.
If you approach the game for the purpose of blowing stuff up, shooting stuff up, beating stuff up, and just . . . playing the game, then chances are you won't have much of a good experience with the story. However, if you approach the game with focus on how the story goes, then chances are you'll get drawn into the story and can have a good emotional experience just like a movie would give you.
The only way he's even half-right is if you compare something like The Watchmen movie, or LOTR to a game like....idk, Madden 09, which isn't even supposed to have a storyline, or Gears of War, which isn't even supposed to have a good storyline(or so it would seem).
Otherwise, they definitely are not "light-years" away from each other...
Imagine being trapped in a pitch black maze, using the only the drugs you can find on the floor to survive, so you can be chases around by blobs of nothingness even longer.
And when they catch you, the only thing that brings you back is money being put through a machine so some greasy arcade owner can collect it later.
I need to save *insert girl name and relationship here* by blowing shit up!!movie
Most horror movies are just shit with jump scares, most action movies are just explosions riddled with explosive explosions on top of a sex scene and a kiss at the end.
Granted there are terrible Video game stories out there but theres also a large amount of good ones.
Beyond Good & evil
Mass Effect
Final Fantasy
Kingdom Hearts
MGS
Batman: AA
CoD
So many games out there with good stories that easily out due most movies.
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