very nice! (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, August 18, 2014, 10:32 (3750 days ago) @ Miguel Chavez

I'm actually in the thick of playing Walking Dead Season 2 game (just waiting for the last Ep to release) and even there I have to say it's great to see how a good compelling story can just grab you. It's not at all about the slick graphics, which of course doesn't hurt either.

But then again I'm talking to folks that were captivated way back with Marathon/Myth, so it's a foregone conclusion.

Different kinds of stories I think, and grab you in different ways. Not a lot physically happens in terms of events in Last of Us. Almost all the plot points and major changes are changes in character's emotional states, or relationships. Bungie's stories are very much about events, and mystery.

Tim Rogers said something very interesting in this Last of Us review:

…part of what I like about videogame design as a dramatic instrument is their ability to put us a hundred percent into the moments editors would leave out of a film.

Lots of good moments are going to be left out of the Last of Us film.