50K SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL: How I Found Storytelling in Video Games
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- 50,000 Subscribers means another Patreon poll for a more personal video! This time, my supporters wanted to know about the games that played an important role in my journey to loving video games as a storytelling art form.
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SOMA is the first game I played with a story that so thouroughly moved me to tears and is still a game/story I still think about everyday, and cannot shut up about if you get me started on it.
I will always cherish your Final Fantasy 7 video. Thank you for making videos.
Ghost Trick taught me to pay close attention to building a story-structure on how to tell a captivating story, that reveals its mysteries step by step and organically introduce new rules of the world, to make everything in the end make sense. After this game I was obsessed in good storytelling in games.
Sly Cooper 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 was the games that made me fall in love what storytelling could be in a video game
For me it was Trails in the Sky. It was the first video game I played whose primary purpose was to tell a good story. The final twist and ending blew my 14 yr old mind.
What a series! The Legend of Heroes.
What a game! I played it for the first time this year and I've been blown away with how good it is
Wow! when did you play it! I love that game too, fantastic story and gameplay
I got Putt-Putt Enters the Race as a free handout on a 7th grade fieldtrip to the Indianapolis Speedway. I was a bit old for it, but I still managed to get a decent bit of fun out of it and look back on it fondly. I was pretty excited when I realized Humongous had almost all their kids adventure games available as a pack on Steam so I could introduce them to my daughter at a more age appropriate time.
This channel is one of my favourites on this platform. I love the idea of analysing games as literature and actually recognising the impact they have on people. A lot of people still dont seem to actually take games seriously (i still get weird looks when i tell people i want to be a game dev), so its great to see someone recognising their value.
That brief clip of The Majesty of Colours just sent me way back. Wow.
The death of flash was an absolute travesty.
For me it was bioshock that got me enjoying stories in games, then I found Telltale's walking dead just phenomenal and then Wandersong which truly is my favourite story in a game.
Fable was probably the first game I ever actually realized there is a story to a game. What a great experience that was!
Love that you included that Phantom Menace game. Growing up in a controlled, one console only household, it was all my brother and I used to play when we were kids! We adored it 😂
I think FFX and its sequel X-2 were the big games to show me that games could have just as much of a narrative as any of the books I adored. Sure I played lots of games with narratives from the bare bones Sonic games to Pokémon to even Kingdom Hearts. But FFX showed me that the stories could be deep and complex and have a lot to say along the fun stuff. And sure KH gets there too, but FFX was the blueprint for me. It also helped lay a foundation for the ways in which I interact with my religion and religiosity in general now, to basically very lightly touch on that chestnut. It was my FFVII for all I tend to gravitate toward VII fanfic more than X/X-2. But then, I have a difficult time finding things in X I want to challenge or explore that the games doesn’t already except like, maybe a few side pairings I like, but it’s rarely enough to drag me in completely, haha. Ah well. Don’t need to be deep in a fandom for a thing for it to affect you deeply so. :3
It's good to hear from you!
when the world needed him the most..
Windwaker was the first game I can really remember the plot being a major draw. Tetra, the Hyrule reveal, the king of red lions, the epic final battle, and all the little stories between people. I’d definitely played more complex rpgs and games that had more interesting plots, but this one really pulled me in and made a major impression. Games were different after windwaker.
Also, Freddie fish 2 was cool, but Cluefinders 4th and 5th grade were formative for me, as were a few of the Jumpstart games. And definitely math blaster. Also I had to look up Jumpstart and remembered the Super Solvers games for the first time in at least a decade. Goodness, the nostalgia.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was my first. Before, I'd play CoD and other multiplayer games exclusively.
For me it was Super Paper Mario espwcting a simple mario game and getting an epic narritive experiance that delt with sadness and loss but knowing good is still possible moves me to tears
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Chrono Trigger were the two major stories in my childhood before I even knew English (being born and raised in Brazil).
And it wasn't even needed, the story itself was visually immersive to the point I was able to finish the second and only get stuck in Jonathan "Johnny" Jones ship's puzzle which depended on inserting a inferred password. Still, playing those two games with a dictionary by my side were the things that taught me English better than most in my life ❤❤❤
Cheers on the milestone! This was a fantastic celebration, very happy to get some of that Games as Literature lore! (Games as Lore-ature, even?)
I'm really glad you mentioned Shadow of the Colossus, because that was the first game to really challenge my ideas of what video games could be. I was rather late to being part of that conversation, but as you said, we all have our own journeys. There were definitely other games where I was drawn to the story, but Shadow of the Colossus was the one that got me to think more critically about what I had just finished playing. What it all meant, if what Wander did was "right", why it wasn't like most games with a happy ending, and so on.
Nier Automata is my fav. Ive never cried so much and thought more about what it means to be human.
Lemme tell you, if I played either of the Nier games when I was younger (though Automata came out when I was almost 30 lol), they would have absolutely been formative enough to be on this list.
I don't think i have any games that really changed my views on games' stories, to me it was always natural that games would have stories like a movie or a book
Hope you're keeping well buddy, you have some of my favourite videos on the platform. This video felt quite final... I hope it isn't however. One game I'd love you to review as literature should you ever return are the red dead redemption games. I've never been fond of westerns but they do stick with me as marvels of story telling (red dead revolver not so much... But the later games definitely do.
PoP The Sands of Time was mine for sure. I played it at a young age after seeing my brother play it and it just blew my mind. It was crazy to see what games could be. Prior to that I had mostly been playing - or at least been seeing - sonic or crash or Spyro. Tomb raider a bit too but I was too young to really understand what was happening.
I don't remember when I first thought videogames could have great storytelling. I mostly played SNES platformers, but I really enjoyed Super Mario RPG for everything it did. That being said, I'd have to say Eternal Darkness was what really opened my eyes to what games could do as a medium, and how wide-ranging a story within one could do. I've been enjoying story games ever since, though they're rarely so dark.
Was just thinking about you. Congrats on 50k!
The game that affected me storytelling wise was Metal Gear Solid. It was my first real experience with genre mixing. It was a espionage game that used horror tropes while being weirdly comedic and self-aware.
I didn't play it at the time- my cousin did. He was older and rented all the games I'm still into now (Resident Evil, Metal Gear, Tekken etc.)
I wonder if I'd still be into horror as much if I didn't have an older cousin playing those games when I was under ten years old lol
Oh man I LOVE your videos, it’s been years since I saw them for the first time and I’ve always wanted to follow on your footsteps. Thank you for your amazing content, I anxiously await each and every one of your uploads
A while back I came across a prompt on tumblr to list the most important games of your childhood. It got my wheels turning and I ended up writing a top 5 for myself.
Speaking solely in terms of story telling tho, the 2 games from that important list which fit the bill are Shadow the hedgehog (played when I was around 8) and Virtue's last reward (Played when I was around 16). We truly do go on our own personal journeys 😂
It's been a few years since I last saw a video of yours and damn you've gotten a glow up. You look like a classy lawyer that bakes cakes in his free time that is going to help me get all the money in a divorce case.
This comment is absolute perfection XD
Great to hear from you again! 😊
For me, it was The walking dead season 1....
I remember playing it, and was actually expecting a zombie shooter lmao, but the story was engaging and it got me hooked. And well, it broke 12 year old me for a month after finishing it.
So glad to see you posting anything at all. Looking great, man. Keep it up.
Having only followed after recently binging someone of your consecutive videos, I appreciate seeing this perspective. I can’t think of when exactly I started loving games for their stories, but each time I come across one with a narrative that speaks to me, I can’t help but obsess over it for a while.
Congrats on 50k subscribers ! ✌
Congrats on 50K+ sir! Well deserved and overdue
Also, congrats on 50K. You deserve it more than anything🎉🎉
Nice to get a new video from you!
I really want you to cover GTA: SA. Its such a great story about the plight of the working class and no one has covered it from a narrative angle on YT yet
Good to see a new upload from you in quite a while! I was worried that the series and channel were discontinued for a moment there!
Although I have to say, I will eschew your advice to skip all major sporting events! I will try to watch the Super Bowl every year if I can!
Thank you for telling us about the games that sparked your regard for games as literature.
what an amazing gift for the last day of august!
Thanks for the vid
I think mine was probably the Legend of Spyro trilogy. Cheesy edgy reboot, but I played what I THINK was the third game in the original trilogy with my first best friend, and when I moved away I wanted to find the same game to relive the good memories with her. Somehow the first spyro game I found was A New Beginning, but despite being a different iteration entirely I fell in love with the series and it lived rent-free in my brain for years. In fact, my first online community was on a forum of Spyro fans.
I'd also like to give Paper Mario The Thoudand Year Door and Super Paper Mario a mention, as they were probably the next thing that I rotated in the microwave of my mind constantly. My middle schooler brain couldn't believe some of the things Nintendo was doing in their MARIO games, and I was living for the edge. You know how it is. But super paper mario in particular is a game that i seem to revisit every few years, and every time I have a different view of it. It's interesting to see yourself grow and change even in the way you consume a familiar piece of media, the ones you're so familiar with they can feel like home even if you havent picked them up in a decade.
In order , Resident Evil 1, Shenmue, Sky's Of Arcadia
aw hell yeah, Humongous Entertainment kids represent! but also a lot of this is relatable, even though my first conscious "game as a storytelling device" was Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, which taught me that capitalism is a beast that is ready to kill the workers, slaves to the regime, for profit. no wonder I grew up to be anarcho communist.
really cool video, and congratulations on now 55k!! wishing for you to continue to grow as a channel 💛
Probably would be painstakingly long to create, but would love to hear your analysis on Xenogears one of these days
Before I finish watching this video, I just want to say... well earned sir. 50k is awesome - my brother and I have watched your FF7 video at least 3-4 times each. It's like a bible for us.
I atually remember being in a school play directed by your mom back in High School, seems like so long ago now
I think most who grew up with Halo are going to have great positive moments of it.
Great video Game Professor. What is the name of the soundtrack that plays during your shoutouts?
Your outfit looks perfect. It all looks like pixels.
thanks for the reminder of why I like your channel.
Edit: what is the song at 15:07
Song of the Ancients, from Nier Replicant. Nier soundtracks are legit the most uniquely beautiful music I've ever heard in my life.
Where are you? Are you okay? 7 months without a video I hope all is well.
Oh my goshhh this thumbnail looks just like you!!
Can you or have you done Omori?!
Hope you doing good
Brother how are you doing
5:11 is it a review of what it's like to have a boyfriend who plays The Phantom Menace on PS1?
YOURE BACK🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 You were so very missed!! Congratulations on 50k!!
The game that immediately comes to mind is Persona 5/R. As a survivor of childhood & adulthood abuse by many “trusted” adult figures, just like Ann, Shiho, and others, losing my maternal grandmother to suicide and then being driven to attempt it myself from the guilt like Futaba, but especially after becoming an influencer, that made me deeply relate to the parasocial relationship between influencers and fans, just like the PTheives and their fans.
Never has a game made me cry harder than the final battle with “god”; you completely forget about the Poll and it’s percentage. I never stopped to think what would happen when you hit 100% but it’s one of the most beautiful moments in gaming history:
You’re facing an impossible enemy, you’re exhausted and close to the end, and then outta nowhere, everyone in the world is cheering for you. Believing in you.
People who aren’t influencers think: “Oh it’s just social media. Who cares about your ten likes and five followers?”
I once heard getting only ten likes reframed as “Imagine ten people walking up to you and yelling you how wonderful you are.
Persona 5 taught me to take my trauma and turn it into something beautiful
Hope you're keeping well buddy, you have some of my favourite videos on the platform. This video felt quite final... I hope it isn't however. One game I'd love you to review as literature should you ever return are the red dead redemption games. I've never been fond of westerns but they do stick with me as marvels of story telling (red dead revolver not so much... But the later games definitely do.