Comment on Making peace with liking very few games?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoI wonder what separates games from movies as disposable media, especially with games that are meant to be cinematic/telling a story. Like Spec Ops is loosely based on Heart of Darkness and has a strong narrative, but without that is just a sort of middling shooter. So once you know the story it doesn’t have a ton of replayability, but it’s still impactful in the way a good movie is.
mohab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Hmm… I think it's definitely a spectrum. Even arcade games have stories. It's not what drives them, but they still do.
When you start considering something like Bandersnatch, the spectrum gets even wider.