Anyway it's given me the opportunity to play tens of triple A production standard games. Far Cry 2, Mafia II, Portal 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, both Modern Warfares, Bioshock, Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood.
What has this made me realise?
Quite how infatuated I am with story. And how absolutely natural and acceptable that is. It's also given me the opportunity to experience the games that are getting most proficient at moulding the mechanic side, to the suit the characters, events and setting of the experience.
I am incredibly optimistic regarding the state of videogames. It's a difficult time, regarding the best way to reach the audience, but it's a booming industry in terms of creativity. When I play through the cross section of games I mentioned in addition to less stellar creations, there is admittedly more homogeny than 8 or 9 years ago but the experiences are also consistently more honed.
I feel the next big step for developers is finding an original story to tell, while we get the odd one; the original Portal being a superb example, the slice I mentioned is populated with mimmicks of popular cinematic or novel narratives.
This is hardly insightful I know, but I can't keep posting those things so irregularly. Have a laptop now, lets see if this blog will be easier to sustain if I have my means of notation with me as I play.
