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Educated Gamer: Mass Effects and Nonlinear Narrative

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"Video games free people from the shackles of linear storyline, storyline can be moulded by the actions of the player. Thus the experience is customised to the player creating more involvement and hence more emotional attachment. The player feels a part of the story he or she created and the characters in it. Older games had no progressive stories other than movements like up down, left right, shoot. Modern games are different, story can unfold all around you."

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Godmars2904881d ago

My anti-virus program wont let me onto the site.

Blacktric4880d ago (Edited 4880d ago )

"Sequels are black holes of creativity: they should only be created if there is an entirely new experience to add, not because there’s more t-shirts to be sold. You see the way Mass Effect was designed differently – it was envisioned as a trilogy, so they had already planned for two sequels and built their games around a fluid story."

Too bad they slowly sold their souls after the first one for the sake of getting 250-300k more sales and dumbed the story down to unimaginable levels with the third one then...

All this pandering to lowest common denominator to sell a couple thousand more copies crap has to stop.

ziggurcat4880d ago

funny how they should sort of use mass effect as an example of nonlinear narrative (and how you should still be upset about it).

the reality is that the narrative in ME was just as linear as any other game. they only disguised it with the illusion of "choice." i liken it to a mathmatical magic trick where no matter what number you start with at the beginning, after all of the additions, subtractions, divisions, and multiplications, you all end up with the exact same result.

no matter how you varied your decisions, you all saw the exact same variety of cutscenes, you all saw the exact same endings. that's pretty linear.

it's pretty hilarious that people thought that their choices had some kind of butterfly effect on the ending of the game.

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo87d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14987d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused87d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos99d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee99d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0999d ago (Edited 99d ago )

🤣🤣🤣

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon133d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage133d ago (Edited 133d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein133d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator133d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1133d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw133d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.