Video Game storytelling and narrative has progressed immensely, games nowadays can rival movies with their cutscenes, characters, plots, cinematics. Games like Witcher 3, God of War Ragnarock, Last Of Us, Red Dead Redemption 2 are masterpieces of narrative in games. Though, at times it feels that game award, critics, fans tend to only focus on these games style of storytelling and see it as the only way for a video game to tell a narrative. This came to my attention when I noticed Elden Ring was getting criticism and hate for getting the best narrative nomination. Which doesn't make sense Elden Ring and dark souls and all the Fromsoft games have great narrative they just approach storytelling differently. So today I wanted to give some examples as to how video games can tell stories in unique ways. and hopefully by spotlighting these methods and techniques I can show that there's more to video game storytelling than just trying to be like a movie in its approach. We should Praise Both these styles of storytelling in gaming because they both have a place.



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Soundtrack of the video:    • Video Game Storytelling video soundtrack  



Timestamps:
00:00 - Blue Curtains
0:46 - Teacher Was Right
2:35 - Video Game Stories Currently
5:30 - Player Choice
9:59 - Environmental Storytelling
11:15 - Detective IP
11:55 - Back to Environments
15:38 - MID BUMP
16:05 - Mechanical Storytelling
18:16 - Dorkfest Continues
18:58 - Mechanical Storytelling Continues
22:13 - Evil Brother Intermission
22:26 - Obligatory Ending IP Video With Souls
25:18 - More Than Just One Way To Tell A Story
27:13 - Thank You





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