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Post by dehotherguy on Jun 17, 2015 4:51:48 GMT -5
With the Fallout 4 hype train rolling, I jumped on, excited to play it when it came out. But around the same time, I've been reading some articles that discuss the legitimacy of emergent narratives.
For those of you who don't know, emergent narrative is when a story is created not by a developer of the work, but by players who experience the workings of the systems in the game. For example, you're running around in a town in Skyrim. A dragon swoops in and attacks the town. After an epic battle, you barely manage to win, and the townsfolk gather round and talk in awe as you suck up the dragon's soul.
That sounds like an intense story, right? However, what I've recently been thinking about is this: How legitimate is this form of storytelling? Does a story need actual authorship to be a legitimate story? Is emergent storytelling just a lazy way for people to put meaning into essentially storyless games? Is emergent storytelling legitimate, at least for now, because for a developer to create enough branches in a story to make it feel real is extremely difficult, and maybe impossible?
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Post by blackpapermoon on Jun 22, 2015 11:49:08 GMT -5
Skyrim does not have the best writing I think we can all agree but the thing about that world and fallout you can lose yourself in the environment. It allows the player to tell their own story, with minecraft there is not story or plot really it is just what the player makes. I just it all comes down to if the experience has meaning to the player; but then again when I sit down to play a game I just want to have fun, sometimes I don't want to answer what the measure of a man is or what it means to be a hero. Sometimes I just want to kill lots of dudes then go punch a Nazi in the face or turn a dragon into a pin cushion.
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