Stories you can only learn in video games

The modern game industry has reached enormous proportions. Projects with excellent graphics and mechanics, an excellent thought-out storyline, and a deep narrative are being created. Even the most inveterate skeptics, who consider games a form of entertainment with well-defined boundaries, have given up. They recognize modern game projects as a vibrant platform for telling new stories with an extraordinary storyline. Many such games have come out in recent years with a firm emphasis on an unconventional special storytelling format.

Unusual storyline can deeply touch the soul of the player and long remember it. Both AAA projects and good indie games draw pictures in front of us, which we can't see in our real life. That is why game creators reveal to us amazing and touching stories with masterful, deep meaning. These stories can only be told in this format. The narration in another form will look false and unconvincing. We have tried to collect games with such stories that grab your heart. Typical and unusual interesting projects prove their right to be called a separate kind of art.

This project has very successfully combined several genres in its storyline. It is a beautifully intriguing detective story, a frightening horror, and a drama of teenagers' interaction with the world around them and with each other. A company of several teenagers goes to Edwards Island with a very vital desire, to throw a party and have a good time in a glorious circle of friends. But all their plans fall apart when they find themselves cut off from civilization on the island. their misadventures do not end there. they are hunted by mystical ghost soldiers, who many years ago sunk in these waters along with a submarine. The company of teenagers is forced to confront them in order to save their lives.

A peculiarity of the game is that the game mechanics is tightly connected with the dialogues of the main characters and their actions. The gamer can change the plot of the story depending on his actions and behavior. The story can change beyond recognition. mystical action on the island occurs without interruption, going in parallel with the development of gameplay. In any other format, it would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to recreate something like this project.

The game Mass Effect, is the largest AAA project. It reveals the theme of interesting adventures in outer space and combat battles with aliens. Throughout the game, players explore the universe in the person of Commander Shepard. He personally recruits fighters for his team to lead the fight against a race of Collectors. Team commander himself decides who to take to the team exploring the character and skills of new recruits. He must intuitively determine with whom, and what relationships to maintain. All of these decisions and actions affect the course of the game. The squad leader has a huge responsibility for each recruited team member. In the end, the entire team comes together in a decisive battle against a race of Collectors. It is in this battle that much depends on the choices made by each team member and contact with the enemy. All actions and decisions play into the positive outcome of the game.

This is a classic of an interesting walking simulator that emphasizes the narrative component of the project. The storyline is about a girl, Katie, who has returned home from a long journey. She has not been here for many years. So wandering around her native home, touching painfully familiar walls, objects, the protagonist is immersed in memories, remembering what happened here a while ago. We learn about the tragic fate of her sister, who confessed her non-traditional orientation to her parents, and they pushed her away and turned her away. No one reached out to the girl, branded her and cut her out of their hearts. The girl left home and never returned to its walls. It is a story that, because it is told in this format, touches people's hearts and minds deeply. This drama can be presented in such a way only in the format of video games, neither books nor movies will convey the full range of feelings of the main character.

This is one of the projects that can safely be called a masterpiece in this kind of art. Anyone who was able to pass this game and get to the final, will not be able to call this project an ordinary entertainment. And if that happens, the player is just being cunning and hiding the truth, or just being stubborn and not going to compromise. The storyline tells us an interesting story of the Edith French family, with a deepening into the distant past.

The game begins with the fact that we read a letter addressed to us by the main character. And then, in her character, we begin to explore her ancestral home. We walk through the entire house where her ancestors lived. Each family member had his own room, which can tell a lot about its owner. The gameplay of the game is designed in such a way that the player, by visiting the room, can see a lot, the death of a relative, the reason for it. And slowly the player, in the form of the main character, learns all the secrets of the Finch estate, their family curse. The finale of the game brings us surprises. It turns out that we have our own way of perceiving what is happening, and made the wrong conclusions.

At the end of the game it turns out that Edith Finch died, a long time ago, and the player was reading a letter on her behalf, Edith's son. The peculiarity of the game is that we are like a mosaic, step by step, put together from the individual elements of the overall picture of what happened. We get acquainted with the family members, learn their characters, who loved what, and who was into what, their fears and habits from which it is so difficult to get rid of. The player's exploration turns into an adventure filled with bright, colorful colors. The story is moving in its own way, evoking many different emotions, from sadness and regret, to the joy of discovering a mystery.

By the end of the game, we know all the subtleties of character and temperament of the characters, without words and explanations, we understand what pushed a person to this or that action. The picture is gradually evolving into a common canvas, motives for action become clear. Such a project, in which the player can participate in the game on behalf of the main character and feel the full range of his emotions, can only be embodied in this format of video games.