Comments on: Long Live Play PSN Community Spotlight

By: madhukrishna9999

madhukrishna9999 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:49:49 +0000

good

By: Morgan Haro

Morgan Haro — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:00:25 +0000

That’s the beauty in gaming is that the experience in story telling can differ from one game to the next. It’s all a matter of what people prefer.

By: Morgan Haro

Morgan Haro — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:57:31 +0000

It’s important to note that this series isn’t just about praising Sony. It’s about gaming discussions framed in a PlayStation world. I would say it’s less a rant and more about just optimistically asking what other new ways storytelling might go through the power of videogames.

By: JillyDad

JillyDad — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:23:13 +0000

I think somewhere in the editing of this, a few of you may have lost my point. This isn’t about good, or bad storytelling in games. (That is up to the game designers.)
It is about games becoming it”s own form of entertainment media. Games like the Uncharted series, or the Metal Gear series are great games with great stories because they are like movies. What I am talking about is games that tell a story by using the tools that only games have. Gameplay.
Games that use movie-style story devices can be great, and I don’t nessesarily want them to stop being made. What I am talking about are games that separate the media, that won’t be compared to movies, games that are truly their own form of media.

P.S. Thank you everyone for your comments, and feedback.

By: Mattsta001

Mattsta001 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:01:08 +0000

There are a lot more games with bad storytelling than good. As in the ratio is 100:1.

Most of the stories in games are incredibly puerile. They are also poorly written and acted. It contributes to the poor reputation games have as a medium compared to the other arts. Really wish developers would lift their game.

I agree Journey is a good example of conveying a compelling story through simple imagery and demonstrates what games are capable of.

I also wish Sony’s studios would focus on producing games of a consistently high calibre regarding story. Uncharted 2 had a good story for an adventure yarn but they kind of went off the rails with Uncharted 3, it seemed directionless and they repeated chunks from the previous games. Killzone 3 was a great wasted opportunity. They could have made an epic war story with great emotional impact and thought provoking scenes but they made a terrible, cliched, B grade, poor CoD imitation action flick with hammy acting and cringe worthy dialogue instead. Hopefully The Last of Us will be a benchmark for storytelling.

By: Permafry_42

Permafry_42 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:06:12 +0000

I read the original forum post and it looks like you changed the article quite a bit, such as removing the part that tells the truth about Metal Gear solid’s storytelling methods (as in how they rely too much on non-gaming sections to tell story and not enough of storytelling through the game itself).

By: PainOfSarrow

PainOfSarrow — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:07:10 +0000

congrats, i just paid full price for a 50 PSN card. you got it free from earning it. i never ever won anything in my life lol.

By: boomstickbhg

boomstickbhg — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:10:28 +0000

Hmm.. Interesting post I guess. I do agree games can be as good/better these days for narrative/story telling compared to movies.

However I personally dislike every game that Jill person listed. I don’t have anything against people liking them, for some reason they’re popular, but all of them to me are very very boring/bad story telling. I’m a gamer that enjoys story/words/dialogue/character/etc… The only part that doesn’t matter for me is graphics/appearance.

Probably why I focus on RPGs for my gaming, I like to feel as though I’m playing a novel/epic story.

Still there are many other games that actually do prove Jill’s point to me, so it’s a valid post over all.

So psn is giving away store credit for random posts saying we like certain games? Nifty I’ll have to check that out.

By: WeHugPandas

WeHugPandas — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:00:03 +0000

i’m quite interested in this I want to try my hands on being on the PSN Community spotlight( ・ω・`)

By: Logan22

Logan22 — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:19:13 +0000

A great game can use ALL forms of great story-telling together in one cohesive experience, rather than just relying on one over the other. That’s where the term “experience” comes from. You can only get it from games because they can deliver a fusion of several things (great book, poem, movie, game, literature, comic, etc. all together)