What is the Key to Good Storytelling in Gaming?

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What is the Key to Good Storytelling in Gaming?

Added: 18.12.2014 5:11 | 1 views | 0 comments

The rate at which videogames have technologically progressed is astonishing. In the span of forty years we have gone from the simplistic block worlds of Pong and Tetris to full-on Hollywood-grade blockbusters like Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Gameplay, meanwhile, has also evolved in ways that have allowed more and more games to achieve that rare balance of being easy to pick up but difficult to master. The standards across the board have become more even, and today it is rare to find a game that reaches the levels of awfulness as, say, E.T. or even Big Rigs Over the Road Racing. Yet theres one department in gaming that hasnt quite transcended in the same ways its technological aspects have: storytelling.