I think around here you’re more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I’m missing out, so I’m planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don’t really know where to begin, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting.
Triple AAA games are pretty mediocre, imo, but if you liked the Atari ST/Amiga era, there’s plenty of stuff like that that’s amazing coming out. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are a couple of highlights I’ve played recently. Also, a Steamdeck is a great thing for limited time gaming. Just turn it off mid-session, and it’ll be right there at the same place in the game when you turn it back on.
I’m interested in how gaming has become immersive to the extent that the narrative is so deep they make decent TV shows after them.
I’m aware of the like of The Last of Us, purely from watching the show. It’s fascinating to me that you can have an interactive experience of that quality, so I’m told, so that’s something to look forward to.
I should add that I have played a handful of PC games over the last 30 years, such as Alien Vs Predator, Duke Nuke 'em and Portal. But that’s where my experience ends.
There are a fair few games out there with world building that is on par or even exceeds most films and novels. With films and TV shows you only get a limited time to experience the world in which they reside and so many details about the world or context don’t make the cut. With novels you get more capacity for background information but often fewer descriptions of the smaller things in the world. With games you get the best of both where everything down to the smaller details are displayed visually but with a runtime that can sometimes go into hundreds of hours allowing for plenty of time for backstory/lore.
It’s been a fucking meme for the last decade at this point but the Witcher 3 is one of the more memorable ones. I’ve played the game, read the books and watched the Netflix series, and the game is the best of the three.
Another example is Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s set in the wild west so you get all the iconic visuals and action of the best cowboy movies but the amount of detail included also beats many novels. The story of the game goes into a level of gritty detail and complexity that could easily be a book, but you can also bunk off and go hunting, fishing and camping and just live in the world in a way that you can’t experience in any other medium aside from actually being in 1800’s America yourself.
Hell, if you just wanted a video game version of a Tarantino film then GTA 5 (and upcoming GTA 6)has you covered.
I think around here you’re more likely to find folk who play video games rather than watch TV or movies, but I might be wrong.
I personally never play video games. I have nothing against them, just never got into it beyond old Atari ST games in my early teens.
From what I hear from friends and colleagues at work I know I’m missing out, so I’m planning to make an effort to get into some sort of game when I have the time, probably when the sprogs are older. It is sort of intimidating and I don’t really know where to begin, but I’m sure it’ll be interesting.
Triple AAA games are pretty mediocre, imo, but if you liked the Atari ST/Amiga era, there’s plenty of stuff like that that’s amazing coming out. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance are a couple of highlights I’ve played recently. Also, a Steamdeck is a great thing for limited time gaming. Just turn it off mid-session, and it’ll be right there at the same place in the game when you turn it back on.
I’m interested in how gaming has become immersive to the extent that the narrative is so deep they make decent TV shows after them.
I’m aware of the like of The Last of Us, purely from watching the show. It’s fascinating to me that you can have an interactive experience of that quality, so I’m told, so that’s something to look forward to.
I should add that I have played a handful of PC games over the last 30 years, such as Alien Vs Predator, Duke Nuke 'em and Portal. But that’s where my experience ends.
There are a fair few games out there with world building that is on par or even exceeds most films and novels. With films and TV shows you only get a limited time to experience the world in which they reside and so many details about the world or context don’t make the cut. With novels you get more capacity for background information but often fewer descriptions of the smaller things in the world. With games you get the best of both where everything down to the smaller details are displayed visually but with a runtime that can sometimes go into hundreds of hours allowing for plenty of time for backstory/lore.
It’s been a fucking meme for the last decade at this point but the Witcher 3 is one of the more memorable ones. I’ve played the game, read the books and watched the Netflix series, and the game is the best of the three.
Another example is Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s set in the wild west so you get all the iconic visuals and action of the best cowboy movies but the amount of detail included also beats many novels. The story of the game goes into a level of gritty detail and complexity that could easily be a book, but you can also bunk off and go hunting, fishing and camping and just live in the world in a way that you can’t experience in any other medium aside from actually being in 1800’s America yourself.
Hell, if you just wanted a video game version of a Tarantino film then GTA 5 (and upcoming GTA 6)has you covered.