I present to you the next big thing in gaming: film.
Yes, after half a century of reaching for the stars, our little electronic amusements are “breaking new ground” with Hollywood-grade writing, presentation and performances. They’re “not just games any more” but singular works of art, and they’re ready to embrace their destiny as “the future of storytelling”.
If these quotes feel like they’re a little narrow or missing the point, it’s because I’m paraphrasing statements about the state of video games from mainstream media coverage of Beyond: Two Souls.
It’s hard not to notice that the further away a media outlet is from a dedicated games site (and so the closer it is to a ‘general interest’ or straight news outlet), the more a video game has to look, feel, sound or behave like traditional entertainment media to warrant coverage. What’s more, these games — most recently Beyond but there’ve been others including Skyrim, L.A. Noire and Heavy Rain — are generally represented as the height of the video game form, the ground-breaking or the ‘new’.
via IGN All http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ign/all/~3/7fuudWwJVtQ/opinion-games-arent-film-colonisation-and-media-blindness
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