From GamesReviews:
"One of the biggest topics in gaming over the past few years is the evolution of how video games are becoming more like movies. Some see this as a positive because it shows the evolution and progression of gaming, while others see it as a negative, saying that it represents a culture that is trying to change itself into something it isn’t. I think this is wrong. Games aren’t becoming more like movies, they’re just adapting elements from a successful medium to improve themselves, and there’s nothing wrong with that."
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."
They are working on something new. Not to be rude but it is impossibility stupid to think ND next major announcement is going to be a remaster or their next Last of Us entry is going to be another remaster.
I think this is in response to them releasing a remaster for the sequel, a game that didn't need a remaster.
Basically a "why did you put out a remaster no one asked for when you have all there options available"
They remaster is to put out something quick while they are deving new stuff. I don't get how people can be so static.
That was a Remake. I guess they could do that to 2, but man…. They should wait a couple generations so it can look like a major upgrade.
Only with the developers willing to tell a story, from indie games to the big ones, there are plenty of hardcore story tellers that will only get better with hardware enchancements.
I already prefer the way video-games tell stories than how movies do, I get much more personally invested when I take the role of the characters in the story, and The Last of Us showed us that people are interested in the story telling aspect of games, and I'd happily support a healthy future of story based games.
Games aren't evolving by adapting elements from the movie medium if adopting those elements also ends up in gameplay being dumbed down and reduced, assuming the product is marketed as a proper game and not a cinematic experience. They are called "games" for a reason. Gameplay comes first and foremost, the rest follows depending on the depth, passion and talent of the developer.
That's the problem, and this is why the term "becoming like movies" exists. When gameplay is treated as just a lazy addition or a secondary focus that might as well not exist in a game when it is a linear movie by majority, then you call that "a game becoming a movie".
There is a difference between a game adopting elements from a medium, and movies adopting gameplay elements.
THat's highly subjective. There are some rather brilliant Videogame stories out there already. But i think Graham Lineham said it best. Things won't improve untill gams writers start basing their stories on literature instead of films.
Some of the best games of the last few years were based on books.
The last of us answers the question which is : Yes
Some of the video games I've played have way better stories than all the blow ups I see from hollywood. There's def still more great stories to come from games