/v/ - Video Games

Videogames are interactive, movies aren't. That's why walking sims are trash, they're just movies where you have to press W to keep watching.

interactive media > passive linear media

I played Super Mario 64 a hundred times, but no two playthroughs are exactly the same. Sometimes I may choose to complete the ice world first and then the sunken ship level next. Then, on a new playthough, I may do vice versa. They're always slightly different experiences because the player's inputs and choices are always different. With movies, things will play out exact the same. Over and over and over again, with zero changes.

To be fair, when you rewatch a movie, you may find something else you never noticed the first time. Your subjective opinion on the movie also changes with age. But ultimately, the content itself is static and always plays out exactly the same.

>>16558072

>>16558041

I like it when Some developers take it a step further and add different endings and multiple versions of the story (what if ex character died here, what if X didn't take item X).

It makes the world feel alive and makes me more engaged

>>16558020

film, literature, etc, generally communicate ideas and often try to make the experience compelling. vidya is the next step, it's placing the player into the setting and narrative, this adds significant authenticity and believability to a setting and the ideas expressed because the player actually experiences it by interacting with it. Deus Ex might be poorly written, looks unrealstic, have bad voice acting, but the total experience makes it very compelling and genuinely authentic.

The interactive part. It's more work than turning a page and just sitting down. If done right, more engaging too.

>>16558161

But then what's the next step beyond video games?

Vr? Ar? Entire digital worlds?

Bump

>>16558259

>all of that good goy propaganda just waiting to rape a young, fertile mind

Disgusting tbh

>>16558259

Honestly when books and movies make a story about a farmer I roll my eyes and sleep.

Yet when a video game does it I actually focus on the game and play it till the end.

The only pro books have is that programming a game is hard and movies require a big buget while anyone can make a book.

>>16558278

>Budget

Video games are the one medium where I enjoy myself to the point of involuntary smiling while playing.

I can never get that with movies, I very rarely got it with books.

Speaking of books, I'm looking for something new to read and /lit/ is dead. Any recommendations?

>>16558020

Anime is better than video games. You think video games is the superior media?? Pretty much all video games suck and are boring as shit. Anime is fun,interactive,immersive,joyful,sad,exciting and much more. Video games cant compare to anime at all. Voice acting in video games? Shit. Unless its voice acted by japanese. Have you ever enjoyed a video game? Have you ever felt fun,interactive,immersive,joyful,sad,exciting when playing it? I highly doubt it. Video games and anime compared to eachother would be like comparing something with a soul (anime) to something with out a soul (video games). Im sick of little shits like you who thinks that video games are good. They rarely are,but overall video games are shit!

>>16558294

>video games are better than anime

FTFY

>>16558041

Simply this, for the most part.

But to be fair, half of the stuff I'm interacting with sucks. It's only the theory of games that I like more than other media. Rarely does it actually live up.

>>16558343

>256x144

>>16558435

>anime is like capeshit for recluses

In your imagination maybe. You should watch more anime. Its understandable that you dont understand anime when you only watch bad anime. You should not comment on things you do not have an understanding over. Watch more anime

>>16558483

I feel like I exhausted it for the time being. How many days have you watched?

>>16558516

>I feel like I exhausted it for the time being. How many days have you watched?

2-3 years

>>16558435

It looks like you just lack self control. I've never put 100 hours into any single game.

>>16558519

iidesuyo

>>16558294

Anime is fucking shit.

>>16558020

I love movies as much as I love video games. I also really like music but slightly less.

I've thought about it, and I think I like things that have that hand made, DIY kind of appeal. Games as an industry used to be like that. Even a big game like Doom was basically a handful of guys expressing themselves creatively. The more that goes away, and the games industry becomes Hollywood, the less I care. I read more manga these days.

>>16558587

>i dont care about games

>japshit comics is better

Why are you even here then? Are you one of these shitposters that shitpost about games they've never played?

>>16558601

Sometimes I talk about old games, or games from smaller studios, or have fun getting mad at AAA,

>>16558606

Then I'm just gonna report you for purposefully shitposting and not talking about games. Bye.

>>16558610

But I was just talking about Doom, retard.

The freedom some games offer is really great, like making different classes or playing with different styles. Then there is the challenge aspect. Pushing my reflexes and timing in rhythm games while also getting to enjoy the music, or that rush of taking down a tough enemy. There is also simple joy from just fucking around with things and seeing the results on screen. It can be fun just moving characters around if the game is well made and offers a lot of control to the player. I've always enjoyed reading too, but books just can't offer such an entertaining experience with as much variety as games. I will say that books are much better strictly for expressing stories. Maybe it's just me, or the quality of writers that go into vidya, but I've never gotten that invested in vidya characters or stories like I have with books. It's a bit unfair to try and compare such different media since they all excel and fail in different areas. That's what makes all the focus on narrative and cinematics so fucking stupid, these retards are trying to force vidya to be more like a totally different type of media, which completely neglects the strong points of games.

>>16558175

Realistically, AR followed by full-immersion VR that works directly off brainwaves.

Current VR has a giant weakness in that it's either just a monitor really close to your eyes, which isn't good enough to justify the pricetag, or it requires an entire room set aside just for VR, which is interesting, but not something most people are willing or able to do.

AR will come first as a mass-market thing, until we can get VR that runs directly off the brain so you can just lie in bed while playing Skyrim 3's horserape mod and feel everything your character experiences as he's forced to suck that horsecock.

Movies aren't really engaging and there isn't many that can hold my interest for very long, honestly. It probably helps that i had a console when i was 3, so the need for interactivity has probably been etched in my brain.

>>16558435

No i never had this problem. I think my account has, at most, 5k hours on it, and more than half of that is because i have a bad habit of idling(mainly idling for hats in TF2 almost a decade ago now.) or generally just forgetting to quit the game when i'm done. Further more, steam is one thing, but who in the fuck even considered buying shit on origin. I remember back when that shit came out everyone on /v/ was shitting on it.

>>16558524

I have for a very few games, though that's just because certain multiplayer/co-op games hold a ton of replay value.

>>16558278

>The only pro books have is that programming a game is hard and movies require a big buget

>while anyone can make a book.

Besides that both movies and games have massive budgets (if you try to go the /agdg/ route and do all animation, artwork, programming and music solo, you might just make the equivalent of some indie film youtube video),

I used to have this mindset because I had a story idea. Until I actually started writing something myself, things became harder than I initially thought even though I was writing entirely in my native language.

I mean I guess anyone can spend the time to follow a tutorial and make their first platformer in Unity, but that doesn't mean it's going to be good. But there's inarguably going to be different tiers in quality between a high school student's web app game and a game on a highly optimized custom 3D engine with state of the art rendering effects, like there being a difference between a teenage girl's Harry Potter fanfiction and actually good novels.

But entirely from a cost:entertained ratio, then obviously games win out since there's plenty of free games to play for hundreds of hours. But to assess media and content entirely based on the money spent and the time investment is shallow since it has no consideration of quality.

I like challenges. A better question is "Why do you like video games over other kinds of games?"

>>16558259

god damn am I a sucker for used bookstores like this. everytime I see one I can't help but go in and can't help but walking out with something. the fuller and more cramped the better

post more pics like this. I need it

I don't prefer any media to any other media, and I wouldn't give up any of them. I watch movies, anime, and cartoons. I read books, light novels, manga, comics, and visual novels. I play video games for PC and many different consoles. I also occasionally listen to old time radio. Some media have higher percentage of trash than others, but all I care about is if the individual work is good or not. And for all of these media, I almost never pay. :^)

>>16559130

what are some recommended non-pozzed graphic novels? /co/'s taste is shit and I hate trying to look for new comics to read on there

>>16558020

>why you like vidya

i dont.

where the fuck do you think you are faggot

>>16559291

>looking for good shit at /co/

That's the problem nut head. You should find the novels you like yourself.

Also dont bother trying to go to a library. Most of the stuff they sell is either sjw shit or useless female fantasy books