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@sun this divides the games-as-literature vs games-as-porn people

@lain @sun was he right?

@cell @lain @sun Play the original Doom or Quake and then the first Half Life. You've got your answer.

@phnt @lain @cell @sun Half-life still adheres to this principle, which is why we don't have any sequels past HL2 -- gameplay innovation is quite difficult.

@iamtakingiteasy @lain @cell @sun Half Life without the story is boring and quite mediocre. Just like Doom without the fast paced gameplay.

@phnt @iamtakingiteasy @lain @cell there is a place for games with or without story in gods green earth but we’re being dictated to by people that just want games to be stories with a sprinkling of interactivity and that is so pathetically bleak and limiting for the medium

@sun @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell i don't even think that is true, as the story of most of these games is not worth the name. it's 'stuff happening'.

@lain @iamtakingiteasy @phnt @cell incidentally have you noticed how many actual movies now are just "stuff happening" lol

the southpark guys used to talk about filmmaking 101 where every scene has to be "this and because this just happened this now happens" but instead people do "and then this happens"