Response To Video Game Article

Wow! That article was incredible, playing with all of the mind-tricks, and showing how sounds, noises, and music can tell stories, without having to have any dialogs, or main stories that articulated by plain text. I completely agree that video games can tell stories. They can tell stories simply by having the character run through the level with different types of dialog and text, to sounds and songs. I believe video games can tell a story about the same as any other form of literature, but the fact that you are immersed in it, by interacting with the people, the story, and all of the outside objects, impacts on the human mind harder. I feel like it buries down into your mind, and you can recall it. People can recall actors, and movies, and plot-lines, most of the time. People will always be able to put stories together if they are a part of it, it's like they are living through the history and story themselves. Books and literary devices like oral histories are different because you may be able to read the text, and hear it, but it might not feel the same. Being fully immersed in the video game, learning and comprehending whats happening, without having to try and piece together things from the book, from cover to cover, it's a lot more cohesive when you look at a video game. Granted, you can be immersed in a book, and you can use imagery and context clues to "Paint a Picture" in your head, but what if you cant imagine a scene? A senario? Could it be so incredibly absurd that you can't picture it? What if someone had it already depicted? and you could interact with it and become a part of the history? I think that video games can not only accurately depict a story, but can also fully bring you into it, and have you experience it first hand. It can really get you to think, both critically and analytically, without it all being given to you from a reader's voice, to text that explains the problems later in the book. I think video games definitely can tell both a story and fully engage you in the events in that story.