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I personally view video games as the penultimate story telling medium humanity has devised. Sure, gameplay and mechanics and all this other stuff is cool, but
by asynchronous 2y ago
I personally view video games as the penultimate story telling medium humanity has devised.
Sure, gameplay and mechanics and all this other stuff is cool, but the ability to tell a story where you ARE the main character, you have control over their actions and you are in a sequence as it unfolds is breathtaking.
VR games in some instances doubly so. Playing Half Life Alyx was almost a spiritual experience, I can close my eyes and remember the alleyways of the city.
- echelon 2y ago> I personally view video games as the penultimate story telling medium humanity has devised. Improv is the penultimate storytelling form. You and one or more partners share a communication and world building protocol and write directly into a shared narrative in real time. You establish rules and explore mini microcosms together, almost without limit. The cool thing is that with LLMs, improv is now starting to include AI agents in this exercise. See CodeMiko for a VTuber that improvs against LLMs regularly. That's hardly the only or even best example of this. The future is going to be wild - multiple people writing into a shared persistent narrative world together. Visually and spatially, too.
- mandmandam 2y agoGuys, penultimate means second last; not 'super ultimate'. On topic though, I think improv and video games are going to come together over the next decade. The old standard of solid linear storytelling has been getting more and more liquid, and will soon get 'gaseous', imo.
- calgoo 2y agoThey already do, check out the roleplay twitch streams! It’s all improv 24h drama in GTA and other games.
- asimovfan 2y agoHow did you move? With the controller or actual walking?