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A Learning Journey

Quote: "If there is one thing I admire about gaming as an entertainment and escapism medium, except for pretty much everything else I adore to the very bone marrow, (not including Duke Nukem Forever; believe me I tried to like it) is the way it can teach you without teaching you.

I appreciate that is like saying a calculator without numbers on its buttons is much more effective at aiding you in the fiery pits of calculus, but what I’m trying to get at is the way a game can teach you its ways and tell you where to go without placing you in a tutorial-only environment or the use of an objective marker."

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ltachiUchiha4735d ago

Good article. Journey was a great experience. Need more games like it.

NBT914735d ago

I literally only JUST today figured out what Journey actually was.
Journey is "The Hero's Journey" Monomyth represented as a videogame, making the player the protagonist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://www.amazon.com/Journ...

Notice the soundtrack is literally named after the stages of The Hero's Journey.
It was a clever idea but really when you think about it, anyone who knew about The Hero's Journey and was a videogame designer could just have easily come up with the idea to present it as a game.

There will be other unique games yeah, but there will never be another like Journey and frankly, there really shouldn't be. The idea of The Hero's Journey as a videogame has been done. IF anyone tries to do it again, it will be wayyyyy too similar to Journey and as a result will be written off as a clone and lose the very thing which made Journey great.

It is up to the industry to keep innovating, but Journey CAN be used as a guideline for decent storytelling.

DigitalRaptor4734d ago (Edited 4734d ago )

Wow, thanks for those links.

It makes me look at Journey in a different light :)

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Hideo Kojima put Low Roar in Death Stranding because gamers need more culture in their lives

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

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Mojang partners with Merlin Entertainments for the Minecraft theme park, Minecraft World

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

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Yakuza Live-Action Miniseries Debuts March 17 Exclusively on IGN

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.

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CrimsonWing6957d ago (Edited 57d ago )

I hope it’s better than that Prime series… woof.

shinXseijuro57d ago

Haven’t watched it . Is it not good ?

Seth_hun57d ago

Looks like everyone is a miscast :)