Storytelling is at a tipping point. It has to change. Adapt. Everyone is too smart now, too bored, we want the story to adapt to our wants and needs, and that demand is continuing to grow. The days where the writer takes us on their journey are nearly at an end. It sounds impossible, a story to satisfy everyone's need, but that was the impetus for open world gaming. We need that choice. We crave that freedom. We want to decide the characters fate, decide which character to follow, and how much time we spend with him or her, and how deep we go. But crisis is the time of invention, and re-imagination. We are almost there. I can't wait to see what comes out the other end. But when it does, watching movies, playing games, and reading books will never be the same.
I mean a bunch of lesbian video game characters never stole real nba championship trophies from houston and moved them to florida they need to make a rainbow six game where you and special ops group break into a florida mansion and go take them back you don't harm the main enemy, you just deport him to china
I don't think I'm gonna play this, but I do see myself watching a playthrough probably. They most likely will successfully get you to sympathize with whoever you're playing as, based on their history with previous game protagonists. Readers of the A song of ice and fire books may know where the books will end now, 10+ years before the final book comes out, but they still trust the author to get them there in a well woven story. BUT to use the show Game of Thrones as an example, the Red Wedding sucked, Ned dying sucked, but you knew the story was not done. With what could happen here, it's possible this is a TLOU trilogy, and I'm not interested in waiting another 5+ years for a resolution if this TLOU2 were to end in a cliffhanger. I'm already doing this with books and it sucks and that's without factoring the time consuming stuff videogame stuff like visuals and voice acting. TLOU should have stayed as a standalone; expecting a Godfather 2 is a tough ask.
