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 Send to email | Why Game Endings Suck... I Think [Day Note] in day note Note |  By Brian Crecente
el 13-Jun-2008 | To: Luke
From: Brian
Re: Games Have Endings Too, You Know You're totally right, GTA IV's ending did sort of fizzle on some level, though I don't know if I'd agree that the last third was bad. I'd say more like the last hour was flat. Here's the problem as I see it. I think game designers and developers are following the tradition story-telling model set by books. There's a beginning, a middle and an end, or to be a little more specific an intro, rising climax, the climax, falling climax and then the denouement. The problem is that while video game storytellers totally knock the first four out of the ball park, often delivering amazing hooks in their stories that get your wrapped up in the rising action and climax of the story, the stories fall apart after the climax. It's as if the idea of providing some sort of gradual step down from the over-the-top, thrilling story of a typical action game is wrong and the concept of wrapping things up in a neat little package of resolved issues is almost blasphemous. I can see two reasons this happens. Among some developers I'm sure their is a desire to pad a story and make the game longer. This gives many games, like GTA IV, what I'm going to call a false climax. You have a point in the story where you feel like it should be over, but instead you're hit with more rising action and another, much less powerful climax and absolutely no resolution. Other developers, I think want to leave the door open for a sequel and, like in Bioshock, feel like they need to walk readers down that path before the story ends, even though they've already accomplished everything they need to to deliver a powerful story. The end result, of course, just waters down the entire experience. My two cents at least. What you missed:
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| Why Game Endings Suck... I Think [Day Note] | | To: Luke From: Brian Re: Games Have Endings Too, You Know You're totally right, GTA IV's ending did sort of fizzle on some level, though I don't know if I'd agree that the last third was bad. I'd say more like the last hour was flat. Here's the problem as I see it. I think game designers and developers are following the tradition story-telling model set by books. There's a be [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Jun-2008 by Brian Crecente in day note Note
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| Games Have Endings Too, You Know [Night Note] | | To: Crecente From: Luke RE: Dad Buys PS3, MGS4 His first PS3 game is Metal Gear Solid 4? Yeah. Good luck with that. So I finished GTA IV today! Was really, really disappointed with it. "It" being the last 1/3 of the game, in particular the last mission. Whole thing just kinda petered out, fell flat, [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Jun-2008 by Luke Plunkett in night note Note
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| Ken Levine's Role In the Bioshock Movie Is... [Hollywood] | | Yes, yes, game movies suck. Everybody knows that! So whenever a big time video game is turned into a big time movie, all we can do is grit our teeth and hope that it doesn't suck too much. When it was announced that Bioshock was going to be a movie, many thought, hey, this might have a chance to make the cinematic leap in a positive way. The story and the universe do seem very ami [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Sep-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Hollywood Bioshock Gore Verbinski ken levine News
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| Street Fighter IV in Arcades? You Suck! [Day Note] | | To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Breaktime Means Line Up For SFIV Oh man, Street Fighter IV at an arcade? I am so bitter. I wish we had an arcade here in the U.S. with the forethought or buying power to get the machine imported. As it stands the only places you're going to be able to play the game outside of a console are at specialty stores that just pay cash to import the thing t [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jul-2008 by Brian Crecente in day note Note
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| Secondhand sales solution? Sell the endings! |  Filed under: BusinessIf the headline of this post were the title of a book, the subhead would be: "And Other Awful Things Epic Chief Mike Capps Has Said Out Loud." Just so we don't bias you further, here's his quote to Game Informer [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Nov-2008 by Justin McElroy in epicmike-capps
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| 'The World's Hardest Game' -- But Is It Really? [Hot Flashes] | | Now, just because I am teh fail at this flash game does not mean I accept that it is the World's Hardest. Because when I suck at something I call in reinforcements and in that case it's Kotakopolis.
But here is the self-styled "World's Hardest Game" and I've only [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Apr-2008 by Owen Good in hot flashesworld's hardest gameyup, slow news day
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| More On "Faking Quality" And Metacritic [Quality Control] | | Whenever we hear about the travails of a video game company, snark abounds, and ultimately, the chorus cries, "Why don't you just make some games that don't suck?"
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| The Weekends Are Made for GTA [Day Note] | | To: Bash
From: Crecente
Re: Food Cravings, So Crazy
So this is it, the last Day Note before our GTA IV coverage hits. The embargo lifts at 10 a.m. Kotaku time on Sunday and we've got quite a line-up for everyone. We were (Mike and I) fortunate enough to play through the game on both an Xbox 360 and PS3. The experience, and comparisons, are interesting, to say the least. Mike [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Apr-2008 by Brian Crecente in Cultureday noteNote
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| Pokemon? More Like Sucky-mon [Pokemon] | | Not all Pokémon are created equally. Some are very powerful. Some look badass. Some are adorable. And some simple suck. Game site 1up has put together a list of the five worst Pocket Monsters. Here's a quick rundown: 5. Unown - The "Gimmick" Pokémon [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Aug-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Pokemon Culture Nintendo
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| It's A Shooter Shoot-off Thursday [Day Note] | | To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Michael Crichton: 1942-2008 Crecente and I are racing to beat both Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2, respectively, today. That's why you're going to see a short day note. Funny enough, my review of Insomniac Games' sequel is due tomorrow, meaning I have less time, but guess who got day note duties? Hmph! Don't mind me, just a bit c [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Nov-2008 by Michael McWhertor in day note Note
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