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The plot of a game.
Over the years I have seen some really great, involving, tragic and tense plots, one prime example being Half-Life. If I remember correctly, Half-Life didn't have any cut-sequences and for me, thats the main "easy" way of telling us, the players, whats going on.
So how are plots explained through cut-sequences? You can see whats going on without actually being there. Secret meetings, transportations of guns, drugs, shipments of chemical equipment suitable for making zombies and so forth.
This is how the plot is easily explained and you can follow it without much rocket science brain cells and because the plot is explained this way, you can carefully examine how good the plot actually is. If the plot is easily explained, doesn't that sort of ruin the game?
Well, there is another sort of plot explaining method, which is used by the fine Half-Life, the plot was explained without cut-sequences. How is this possible? Well, information was gathered by you talking to people and somehow, the plot was really quite easy, when you knew. But it was always carefully hidden until the very last moment, which is how it should be, it should keep you guessing all the way, and then when you think you've worked it all out, example: Dr-X killed your wife and he's planning to kill your family. Well, you'd be wrong, it was actually Dr-Y and your wife was shot randomly and your family is already dead.
Shocked? Hell yeah!
But, how would we like the plot explained? I like cut-sequences, they can explain the plot easily and they can easily mislead you. And if done well they can look amazing, but thats not the point!
Also you then have the problem of developers spending all their time making cut-scene's and not enough on the actual "game" or you could get developers who get a bit carried away and make the plot so complex that you have to have huge cut-scenes. Anyone for Metal Gear Solid 2? There was one about 45mins long wasn't there?
Ok, a minute is long, but 45?! That is taking the mick.
How about a new way to "describe" the plot, by either just not having one, or. Making a new way. I have explained the only 2 I know, but im sure that developers could make a new way. I AM SURE.
I want new things. The things we have are not, boring, but I think they are just old methods with pretty pink frills over them. Why not think up some new idea's? Hm? HM?! HM?!?!
I also have a little rap thanking SR for GAD. I ain't no Snoop Dogg so say nice things!
G-G-G Game A Day cru
SR give games away just for you
We always win and get the games that rule
Oh SR we love you!
This is Jigalig on the mic
Making a rap thats quite hip
Im sure that whole SR cru
Will join me in this rap thanking you
SR SR SR
You are the best
You have got stores in the north, south, east and west
Maybe one day you'll take over the world?
Or most probably just south end street :o)
How can you give us games for free?
Cuz you rock, c'mon rap with me!
We are the Game A Day cru
On behalf of the SR forums I would like to thank you
I wonder how all the SR people get around
I suppose they have it worked out on good grounds
They all have Ford Cortina's :o)
Whats it like to work for SR?
"Its cool, we all get DR Martins to wear" - Snuggly
Right I can't think of anything else now. But I would just like to big it up for SR who provide a safe clean forum system and we can have fun and win games. For real.
"Keep it real"
Now I have come the end of my rant/rap/topic.
Hope you had fun and thanks for reading my first ever topic!
Jigalig thanks you!
Over the years I have seen some really great, involving, tragic and tense plots, one prime example being Half-Life. If I remember correctly, Half-Life didn't have any cut-sequences and for me, thats the main "easy" way of telling us, the players, whats going on.
So how are plots explained through cut-sequences? You can see whats going on without actually being there. Secret meetings, transportations of guns, drugs, shipments of chemical equipment suitable for making zombies and so forth.
This is how the plot is easily explained and you can follow it without much rocket science brain cells and because the plot is explained this way, you can carefully examine how good the plot actually is. If the plot is easily explained, doesn't that sort of ruin the game?
Well, there is another sort of plot explaining method, which is used by the fine Half-Life, the plot was explained without cut-sequences. How is this possible? Well, information was gathered by you talking to people and somehow, the plot was really quite easy, when you knew. But it was always carefully hidden until the very last moment, which is how it should be, it should keep you guessing all the way, and then when you think you've worked it all out, example: Dr-X killed your wife and he's planning to kill your family. Well, you'd be wrong, it was actually Dr-Y and your wife was shot randomly and your family is already dead.
Shocked? Hell yeah!
But, how would we like the plot explained? I like cut-sequences, they can explain the plot easily and they can easily mislead you. And if done well they can look amazing, but thats not the point!
Also you then have the problem of developers spending all their time making cut-scene's and not enough on the actual "game" or you could get developers who get a bit carried away and make the plot so complex that you have to have huge cut-scenes. Anyone for Metal Gear Solid 2? There was one about 45mins long wasn't there?
Ok, a minute is long, but 45?! That is taking the mick.
How about a new way to "describe" the plot, by either just not having one, or. Making a new way. I have explained the only 2 I know, but im sure that developers could make a new way. I AM SURE.
I want new things. The things we have are not, boring, but I think they are just old methods with pretty pink frills over them. Why not think up some new idea's? Hm? HM?! HM?!?!
I also have a little rap thanking SR for GAD. I ain't no Snoop Dogg so say nice things!
G-G-G Game A Day cru
SR give games away just for you
We always win and get the games that rule
Oh SR we love you!
This is Jigalig on the mic
Making a rap thats quite hip
Im sure that whole SR cru
Will join me in this rap thanking you
SR SR SR
You are the best
You have got stores in the north, south, east and west
Maybe one day you'll take over the world?
Or most probably just south end street :o)
How can you give us games for free?
Cuz you rock, c'mon rap with me!
We are the Game A Day cru
On behalf of the SR forums I would like to thank you
I wonder how all the SR people get around
I suppose they have it worked out on good grounds
They all have Ford Cortina's :o)
Whats it like to work for SR?
"Its cool, we all get DR Martins to wear" - Snuggly
Right I can't think of anything else now. But I would just like to big it up for SR who provide a safe clean forum system and we can have fun and win games. For real.
"Keep it real"
Now I have come the end of my rant/rap/topic.
Hope you had fun and thanks for reading my first ever topic!
Jigalig thanks you!
My friend wanted to write a topic and he called himself "Jigalig" lol. Ah well..
/me makes him set up his own account
/me makes him set up his own account
The plot of a game.
Over the years I have seen some really great, involving, tragic and tense plots, one prime example being Half-Life. If I remember correctly, Half-Life didn't have any cut-sequences and for me, thats the main "easy" way of telling us, the players, whats going on.
So how are plots explained through cut-sequences? You can see whats going on without actually being there. Secret meetings, transportations of guns, drugs, shipments of chemical equipment suitable for making zombies and so forth.
This is how the plot is easily explained and you can follow it without much rocket science brain cells and because the plot is explained this way, you can carefully examine how good the plot actually is. If the plot is easily explained, doesn't that sort of ruin the game?
Well, there is another sort of plot explaining method, which is used by the fine Half-Life, the plot was explained without cut-sequences. How is this possible? Well, information was gathered by you talking to people and somehow, the plot was really quite easy, when you knew. But it was always carefully hidden until the very last moment, which is how it should be, it should keep you guessing all the way, and then when you think you've worked it all out, example: Dr-X killed your wife and he's planning to kill your family. Well, you'd be wrong, it was actually Dr-Y and your wife was shot randomly and your family is already dead.
Shocked? Hell yeah!
But, how would we like the plot explained? I like cut-sequences, they can explain the plot easily and they can easily mislead you. And if done well they can look amazing, but thats not the point!
Also you then have the problem of developers spending all their time making cut-scene's and not enough on the actual "game" or you could get developers who get a bit carried away and make the plot so complex that you have to have huge cut-scenes. Anyone for Metal Gear Solid 2? There was one about 45mins long wasn't there?
Ok, a minute is long, but 45?! That is taking the mick.
How about a new way to "describe" the plot, by either just not having one, or. Making a new way. I have explained the only 2 I know, but im sure that developers could make a new way. I AM SURE.
I want new things. The things we have are not, boring, but I think they are just old methods with pretty pink frills over them. Why not think up some new idea's? Hm? HM?! HM?!?!
I also have a little rap thanking SR for GAD. I ain't no Snoop Dogg so say nice things!
G-G-G Game A Day cru
SR give games away just for you
We always win and get the games that rule
Oh SR we love you!
This is Jigalig on the mic
Making a rap thats quite hip
Im sure that whole SR cru
Will join me in this rap thanking you
SR SR SR
You are the best
You have got stores in the north, south, east and west
Maybe one day you'll take over the world?
Or most probably just south end street :o)
How can you give us games for free?
Cuz you rock, c'mon rap with me!
We are the Game A Day cru
On behalf of the SR forums I would like to thank you
I wonder how all the SR people get around
I suppose they have it worked out on good grounds
They all have Ford Cortina's :o)
Whats it like to work for SR?
"Its cool, we all get DR Martins to wear" - Snuggly
Right I can't think of anything else now. But I would just like to big it up for SR who provide a safe clean forum system and we can have fun and win games. For real.
"Keep it real"
Now I have come the end of my rant/rap/topic.
Hope you had fun and thanks for reading my first ever topic!
Jigalig thanks you!
Over the years I have seen some really great, involving, tragic and tense plots, one prime example being Half-Life. If I remember correctly, Half-Life didn't have any cut-sequences and for me, thats the main "easy" way of telling us, the players, whats going on.
So how are plots explained through cut-sequences? You can see whats going on without actually being there. Secret meetings, transportations of guns, drugs, shipments of chemical equipment suitable for making zombies and so forth.
This is how the plot is easily explained and you can follow it without much rocket science brain cells and because the plot is explained this way, you can carefully examine how good the plot actually is. If the plot is easily explained, doesn't that sort of ruin the game?
Well, there is another sort of plot explaining method, which is used by the fine Half-Life, the plot was explained without cut-sequences. How is this possible? Well, information was gathered by you talking to people and somehow, the plot was really quite easy, when you knew. But it was always carefully hidden until the very last moment, which is how it should be, it should keep you guessing all the way, and then when you think you've worked it all out, example: Dr-X killed your wife and he's planning to kill your family. Well, you'd be wrong, it was actually Dr-Y and your wife was shot randomly and your family is already dead.
Shocked? Hell yeah!
But, how would we like the plot explained? I like cut-sequences, they can explain the plot easily and they can easily mislead you. And if done well they can look amazing, but thats not the point!
Also you then have the problem of developers spending all their time making cut-scene's and not enough on the actual "game" or you could get developers who get a bit carried away and make the plot so complex that you have to have huge cut-scenes. Anyone for Metal Gear Solid 2? There was one about 45mins long wasn't there?
Ok, a minute is long, but 45?! That is taking the mick.
How about a new way to "describe" the plot, by either just not having one, or. Making a new way. I have explained the only 2 I know, but im sure that developers could make a new way. I AM SURE.
I want new things. The things we have are not, boring, but I think they are just old methods with pretty pink frills over them. Why not think up some new idea's? Hm? HM?! HM?!?!
I also have a little rap thanking SR for GAD. I ain't no Snoop Dogg so say nice things!
G-G-G Game A Day cru
SR give games away just for you
We always win and get the games that rule
Oh SR we love you!
This is Jigalig on the mic
Making a rap thats quite hip
Im sure that whole SR cru
Will join me in this rap thanking you
SR SR SR
You are the best
You have got stores in the north, south, east and west
Maybe one day you'll take over the world?
Or most probably just south end street :o)
How can you give us games for free?
Cuz you rock, c'mon rap with me!
We are the Game A Day cru
On behalf of the SR forums I would like to thank you
I wonder how all the SR people get around
I suppose they have it worked out on good grounds
They all have Ford Cortina's :o)
Whats it like to work for SR?
"Its cool, we all get DR Martins to wear" - Snuggly
Right I can't think of anything else now. But I would just like to big it up for SR who provide a safe clean forum system and we can have fun and win games. For real.
"Keep it real"
Now I have come the end of my rant/rap/topic.
Hope you had fun and thanks for reading my first ever topic!
Jigalig thanks you!