Stories are making a strong come back these days. The Walking Dead, Double FIne\u2019s projects, Dreamfall, Kentucky Route Zero, Twine games, Valve and JJ there\u2019s a lot going on.<\/p>\n
I think it reinsures the industry. It\u2019s been a good business in the past, stories are as old as humans and if we can dig more games around them, it should stick on the wall, right? In some extent, yes.<\/p>\n
But I have a hard time believing it simply because stories demand you to be passive. That\u2019s when they strike the strongest, your entire self is absorbing it, situations characters what\u2019s going on and what is going to happen. Maybe it\u2019s just me but I feel like the best delivery possible is through a passive mode. Interactivity doesn\u2019t bring anything but breaks the flow.<\/p>\n
On the game side, games are about decisions, interactions. Stories never really add anything. I\u2019m always a bit sad at all the work I skipped in games because honestly, fuck your stupid story I\u2019m playing Angry Birds there\u2019s no story come on now<\/em>.<\/p>\n The most complex game stories are all diminished by power fantasy phantasms that I can\u2019t connect to: there\u2019s nothing captivating for people who saw\/read a lot of classics, except with games like Dys4ia, personal, talking about an unspoken side of human life. Coen brothers just kill me with their movies, all their stories hooked me up in seconds, all so simple and dumb on the paper. But the delivery, man. The sound design. The depth.<\/p>\n