5 Lessons Video Games Can Teach Us About Storytelling

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@smorsnbread1002 3 ай бұрын

I love the effort put into these videos!

@Writing-Theory 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for that!

@smorsnbread1002 3 ай бұрын

@@Writing-Theory I’ve been in the process of writing my first novel, your videos have been very inspirational and informative! Thank you for that!

@smorsnbread1002 3 ай бұрын

@@Writing-TheoryOh! And God of war has to be my absolute favorite story told through a video game! Both 2018 and Ragnarok made me cry in the best way possible!

@lisaverse 3 ай бұрын

The Uncharted Series, The Last of Us, Planescape Torment, Knights of the Old Republic all have great stories.

@MarkGearRex 3 ай бұрын

A story I really enjoy that I think is pretty unique to the video game medium is Outer Wilds. You're a little alien astronaut who has a brand new translator for the language of a species that disappeared from your solar system. The game is flying to the different planets (and crashing into everything, damn you Newton!) and reading the messages left behind by this other race, and piecing together everything you learn to figure out what happened to them and what's happening now. The DLC has a different language which you can't translate so the whole story is told through slideshows and no words, and some of the reels are quite haunting. I don't want to give too much away, since the game is all about exploring and learning, and once you learn you can't unlearn, which is why pretty much everyone says to go in blind. I don't want to take away or lessen any "Ah-ha!" moments. The story isn't about your character, but rather the race that disappeared, the actual gameplay of exploring the different planets, and the order you solve the mysteries before you, is your story. Which is why I see it as unique to video games. The ending theme still brings a tear to my eye just thinking about the adventure I had.

@johnross6122 3 ай бұрын

Your content is constantly improving in so many ways, and the advice within is always potent and applicable, great work! Please keep going!

@evilgenius97 3 ай бұрын

Fallout New Vegas. Or Detroit become Human

@BigToody 3 ай бұрын

Yes please do a deep dive onthe unique, powerful, and/or emotional stories found in video games

@Momo_Minomo 2 ай бұрын

8:43 "Someone else might have gotten it wrong" 😭 My favorite video game is definitely Alien Isolation. It's a canon entry to the Alien movies storyline set between the first and second movies. It's been 15 years since the loss of the Nostromo and Amanda Ripley (Ellen Ripley's daughter we learned about in the second movie) is working in the area of space that her mother went missing, always trying to find answers on what happened to her. They get word that the black box for the Nostromo was found and delivered to a space station and she's invited to come along when they go retrieve it. The black box isn't the only thing they found, though, and Amanda arrives to Sevastapol station in full crisis with a Xenomorph running around, malfunctioning AI systems, and no way to leave or contact help. It has a tight cast of named characters and a lot more unnamed you encounter but the story telling is amazing and both Amanda's grief for her mother and everyone's terror are so well acted. Along the way you run into audio logs and physical signs in the environment that show you the stories of various survivors both before you came and during the game and their actions impact your story. Third act twist was spine chilling lol. It's the scariest horror game I've ever played and I love it.

@nawfalmisconi1287 3 ай бұрын

A game to shout out is Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology. (This can double as a great example of how to do time bending well in a story, since the game is all about time travel and seeing different results of the same action). As with most JRPGs, the story starts off simple enough and the characters do too, but the more you play, the more it unfolds and becomes much grander and more interesting in a good way. Obviously the focus here is on time traveling and it's done brilliantly. Most media tend to exaggerate time travel, even creating multiple universes for each change. This game does it much simpler and it pays off so much. It makes the story more interesting without the extra complications. And the 2 timeline is creates aren't necessarily one being good and the other bad, just different kinds. And this divergence obviously starts from a specific point in the 'main' timeline, which in this game wasn't a big moment when you first encountered it since it seemed like a traditional and unimpressive choice to make, but it ended up changing so much when you explore the timelines. It also helps build up your characters, since you can explore different aspects of them depending on the timeline, and can even play around with them dying or not. Even the side quests in the game were great and touch on the other themes the game explores like classism, racial discrimination, war, acceptance....etc.

@Writing-Theory 3 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard of this game! I spend more time in CRPGs than JRPGs. I’ll have to look more into this. Thank you so much for sharing!

@jerricabennett4662 3 ай бұрын

Lol getting stuck on the long back story dialogue with a character I have no reason to care for is the worst. Loved that intro! 😂 Also I second Outer Wilds as an amazing story. And Karlach is a queen.

@bluejayblaze1180 Ай бұрын

People can get me to cut my "Fun and Games" moments when I stop using them to introduce Chekhov's Guns. XD

@Writing-Theory Ай бұрын

Preach it!!

@lisaverse 3 ай бұрын

Coral is hard, but my father's heart was harder? 🤣

@Writing-Theory 3 ай бұрын

Oh you saw that? 😂😂

@XX-sp3tt 2 ай бұрын

How about Golden Box Pool of Radiance? Or Dungeon Master? Or Nightshade for the NES?

@BigToody 3 ай бұрын

They should make a dwarf fortress game but instead of controlling a colony of dwarves, you control a story. Like it teaches you how to write and stuff. It will be so complex that every author uses it as a resource to ensure their story is really solid and “grammatical” before publishing it. It could be a free for all and you could simulate everything in your imagination like in Minecraft. Or it could be like an mmo where you max out the stats of your story idea: your race is your medium or genre, your weapons could be plot, armor as prose, skills as worldbuilding or set ups and pay offs, your spells as narrative devices, your party as characters. Idk. Or maybe a super advanced story calculator and you have to “complete the circuit” with the perfect combo of narrative decisions. Or maybe a scribblenauts game where you have to be a script doctor for the various people who need your help and you use a notepad to conjure up an emotionally satisfying solution.