Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
by LMYahooTFY on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:19PM
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So you're pointing out that Tetris, Asteroids, and Angry Birds don't have plot and narration?
Taking a complete list of every interactive program that qualifies as a video game and saying 99% of them don't have a plot seems similar to saying 99% of books don't have a narrative or plot.
Perhaps I should have been more specific, but I thought the parameter of -games that were intended to actually narrate a story- was heavily implied in this thread.
Yes, it's not merely "mostly", it's nearly all.
Except if we talk about some old-style adventure games (and even those aren't any narrative masterpieces either, they barely make it into "adult fiction" level), video games are just some very basic plot skeleton -- as opposed to a plot.
If they have nuance and atmosphere, that's in their visual, audio and interactive elements (as opposed to the plot and narration).