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Emergent: The True Form of Narration in Games

Video-games have often been derided by experts of other mediums for suffering from a “younger brother” complex where the elements of the medium have evolved primarily through the tools of other well-established artistic mediums.

Defending our beloved passion might be the first thought that comes into our mind, but if you look at such criticism strictly from a narrative point of view – something which has often been the chief driving force of so many video games, then the medium in general has always been reliant on tools from other mediums – either through walls of text from literature or perhaps the most popular device for narration – cutscenes from films. It perhaps does speak volumes for our medium on exactly how reliant we have been on elements that had been “inspired” from older mediums and appropriately adapted for our own purpose.

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rezzah4478d ago

What game is that picture from? Looks like El Shadai.

Donnieboi4478d ago

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. SMT games and Persona are the new kings of JRpg's. To hell with Squeenix.

Whitefox7894478d ago

Wouldn't say their now kings; they were kings alongside Squaresoft's Final Fantasy and Enix's Dragon Quest; the only thing that's changed is Squaresoft and Enix became one and now they have both fallen off their respective thrones.

It's funny how a lot of people said the SMT series and the Persona series has Pokemon elements in it; when they did it first back in 1992!

Donnieboi4478d ago

@whitefox: yeah Atlus was always king, but Square always had the high budgets. But no amount of money can make up for stale, cliche stories and characters (square).

Ginn4478d ago

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne/Lucifer's Call

Kratoscar20084478d ago (Edited 4478d ago )

Demi-Fiend is just plain badass, SMT 3 is the greatest RPG ever along Digital Devil Saga.

Great Opinion piece, kudos to the autor.

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Interview: EVE Online Veterans Give Advice to New Players

Game Rant recently spoke with some long-time EVE Online players who all shared some key advice for any players jumping into EVE for the first time.

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Eve Online Is A Challenging Game With A Strong Community Willing To Teach You The Ropes

Whether they teach you the easy way or the space death hard way remains to be seen.

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LordoftheCritics42d ago

Eve Online Is A 9 to 5 unpaid job With A Strongly Biased Community Willing To Trap You Into Their Sunk Cost Fallacy.

/fixed

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EVE Online/Frontier/Vanguard Fanfest 2025 Q&A with CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson

Wccftech interviewed CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson at EVE Fanfest to talk about Online, Frontier, Vanguard, and more.

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