Science of Delusion

[nemo_incognito]

I absolutely despise the question 'can a game make you cry?'  It's not only profoundly ignorant and disrespectful to every game creator who has developed storytelling in games over the last two decades, it's completely symptomatic of gaming's bipolar relationship with film: mocking it's low budget afterthought film-to-game tie-ins and then

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[skuldnoshinpu]

To be fair to Spielberg, it's not hard to think that way when the American gaming market is filled mostly with vapid, shallow (but fun) games; shooters, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero/Rock Band, etc. etc. etc. I'm pretty sure no movie director in Japan (where RPGs and other story-driven games are much more popular) would think the same.

[nemo_incognito]

That's a good point. Video games are extremely diverse but most of this diversity is invisible to the general public. In the West only a very narrow range of games - typically either the 'casual' products or the ones pretending (badly) to be films - get the lion's share of publicity and misrepresent the whole.