Media Shifters » Game Design http://www.mediashifters.com Moving Social Media into a Higher Gear Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Why Game Narrative is an Oxymoron http://www.mediashifters.com/definitions/why-game-narrative-is-an-oxymoron/ http://www.mediashifters.com/definitions/why-game-narrative-is-an-oxymoron/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:29:08 +0000 Andrew http://www.mediashifters.com/?p=147 If you haven’t been watching Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe you’re missing out on some great meta-media commentary on the pitiful state of television “news”.

Last year he created a special focused on Video Games called “GamesWipe”. It has the same snarky attitude as his regular show, and featured this bit of commentary on game content by British comedian Dara O’Brien.

The first few minutes are as cogent an argument as I could ever make about why the idea of “Great Game Narrative” is most often a fool’s errand. That’s not to say it isn’t possible, but it also isn’t what, at the core, makes a game “good”.

The relevant content begins at 2:15
(and contains some NSFW words)

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