An Explanation of ‘Video Games are Better without Stories’

Monday, I took my normal jaunt over to MassivelyOverpowered in the morning and picked up The Daily Grind, which is a daily a prompt about something in the news or video games or just something that came up in discussion elsewhere on the website. Monday’s prompt was about whether games, MMOs in specific, need story.

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GameCareerGuide: A Common Framework for Storytelling in Games

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2Over on GameCareerGuide.com, there’s a rather lengthy (and somewhat dense, truth be told) article about Storytelling  games.  The author, Gian Mancuso, makes some interesting points about how storytelling occurs within games.  It’s more cerebral that what you find in most articles, so its a pretty interesting read.

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