[QUOTE="Mrmccormo"]inb4 "But teh Crysis!" and "But teh Gears 3!" and "but teh gameplay is more important den graphix!" The Uncharted series is at the top of its genre and one of the best examples of art direction, camera angles, and believable characters in the entire videogame industry, not to mention it's fun. Get over it, y'all.Espada12
Preemptive DC is always the funniest. Yet alot of this is opinion, except the camera angles, which are factually good.
What damage is being controlled here? And this "preemptive DC" of which you speak is actually a rhetorical technique that is taught in most high school and college composition courses. Anticipate the arguments that people will make against your claim and "preemptively" counter them. It's a sign of good writing and progression of thought.
Hi Call of Duty. I'm quality. I don't think we've met before? We have? Oh no, you got me confused for my brother Hype!
The quality of the game is irrelevant. It sold a bunch of copies. As long as consumers are still giving them money, production companies will still make the games. This PS3 piracy thing is hugely overblown. 95% of PS3 owners will likely never even know that such a thing can be done. In this case, what separates console gamers from PC gamers is the thing that will likely protect consoles from the problems with piracy seen on the PC. Console gamers are, by and large, more "casual," as it were, and won't know about or go to the bother of pirating games. That's my feeling, at least.
[QUOTE="iammason"] Haha I knew someone would say this, I didn't think it would be the first reply. RDR is the defentive experience this gen!iammason
the definite experience this gen is MGS4, the definite experience this year is RDR ;) Sorry, I like to play --- not watch. You have to do both. That's why it's called a video game.
After I got to MexicoIstopped playing. The whole game was a chore to play, and truth be told I can't even find the game anymore. Which is a good thing cause even viewing the case could put me to sleep.
Safe to say it wouldnt chart in my top 50 games of the gen.
-Snooze-
This coming from somebody who calls himself "Snooze."
Never before has a game so brilliantly captured its setting. Setting is, by far, the most overlooked and under-appreciated element of any storytelling medium. The settings of all the games you mentioned have been done before and done better by other games. The Old West, however, has never, ever been done better. For that, Rockstar deserves this recognition. Maybe more development companies will start paying attention to setting as a device for telling a good story. My opinion.
Red Dead Redemption is brilliant. Extremely rare for a game to to so accurately nail its own setting. The gunplay is great. The physics are superb. The writing and voice acting are a few levels above almost anything else that has come out this generation. For an open-world, sandbox game, the graphics are stellar. John Marston is a likable, sympathetic and flawed (that's a good thing) character. Was it perfect? No. But it was the most fun I've had in a long time. I didn't want it to end. Incredible game.
You say stories won't(can't) be good than you go and list two recent games that have had awesome stories?
Only played the first one but what Mass Effect came down to was another generic save the planet against aliens story with TERRIBLY awkward dialogue. Could barely finish that game. MGS4 was good. Can't really hate on it but it still would never compare to a great story in a book or movie. This argument just doesn't make any sense to me. Just because it's printed on a page or shot with a camera doesn't improve the story. The medium isn't the variable here--it's the quality of writing.
Once the stigma attached to video games is gone, more and more writers will make it their medium of choice. Besides, for every great book or movie (of which, by the way, you've provided no examples--examples you can definitively prove could not have been adapted into a game), there are a dozen bad ones.
This is just trolling with no evidence or logical progression of thought to support the claim. Move along, folks.
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