Something like Role Playing Games (RPGs), such as Fire Emblem Three Houses or Final Fantasy. Fire Emblem is a turn-based strategy RPG where you play as a teacher teaching students different weapons.
I like it because I can meticulously keep track of every student and what they learn. Same thing with Final Fantasy; I get to keep track of every little thing the characters do and come up with strategies with different armour and spells.
I’ve recently been on a journey to play all the Final Fantasy games. I beat the first one. While it wasn’t great, it was still interesting to see what started the series. While I wanted to play them in order, I heard the second one is not that good, so I will be going to the next one I have, which is Final Fantasy. I’ve heard it IS a really good game, not the best but a solid game.
When choosing a game to play, I mostly go for story, like with Red Dead Redemption 2, which to me has one of the best stories in a game, but sometimes the lack of storytelling intrigues me.
With Hollow Knight, a game released in 2017, it doesn’t have a traditional way of telling a story. It uses its environment to tell stories of what happened throughout its world, which I appreciate.
It’s an interesting idea to show the story through external sources rather than a character telling the story, which is why I really enjoyed the game. Along with the combat, Hollow Knight was such a fun experience, and I’m happily awaiting the sequel.
Singleplayer games are more my speed. It’s more enjoyable because there’s usually more to experience, and lots of content in them too. I just really like how story games like Death Stranding use the medium of gaming.
The TV show The Last of Us is based on the video game series of the same name. The first one is one of my favourite games ever, and the first season is really good too. That game lends itself well to becoming a TV show because it’s basically already one.
Unlike The Last of Us, Death Strandingcannot be a TV show or a movie in my opinion. To me a video game story is at its best when it cannot be adapted to other mediums like a book or movie.
There’s so much creativity involved. Going back to The Last of Us, I didn’t enjoy the TV series as much as the game because it took away the urgency that Joel, the protagonist, has.
The player is Joel; we are him. You play as him, so he is you. It was just weird to see him separated, and I prefer the game.
I really love video games and the stories they have to tell. Which is why I’m saddened to see a lot of big developers are choosing to make online multiplayer games. I’ve found video games have begun to be treated as a business and not an art form.
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There’s so much a game can say that a movie or a book cannot in the same way, which is interesting to me. Not to say I don’t like books or movies.
Overall, I love video games and what they can present, through storytelling or through gameplay. It is truly one of my favourite mediums.
