Current Events > How did video games change from an arcade style to a movie like thing?

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Verdekal 10/10/18 8:22:33 PM #1:	Video games in the 70s and 80s had little or no plot. It was more like an exercise than something like an interactive movie like today. Games had levels, and stages. You had lives and earned points. You kept doing the same thing over and over again until you won or lost. But by about 2000, games had changed. There was a story and a plot. Instead of controlling a paddle like in Pong or Breakout, you controlled a character, a person. There was dialogue and games became more like stories from books or like movies. Games like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. How did this happen? --- Don't tease the octopus, kids! <cite>Verdekal posted [p:910317591] in How did vi... [t:77086480]...</cite> <quote>Video games in the 70s and 80s had little or no plot. It was more like an exercise than something like an interactive movie like today. Games had levels, and stages. You had lives and earned points. You kept doing the same thing over and over again until you won or lost. But by about 2000, games had changed. There was a story and a plot. Instead of controlling a paddle like in Pong or Breakout, you controlled a character, a person. There was dialogue and games became more like stories from books or like movies. Games like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. How did this happen?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DarthAragorn 10/10/18 8:23:31 PM #2:	Technology improved --- Posted with GameRaven 3.5.1 <cite>DarthAragorn posted [p:910317638] in How did vi... [t:77086480]...</cite> <quote>Technology improved</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SoundNetwork 10/10/18 8:24:26 PM #3:	Isnt it obvious? Tech got better and you no longer had to repeat basically the same levels over and over again with high scores being the main reason to replay a game --- https://imgur.com/HcKBWZ6 <cite>SoundNetwork posted [p:910317688] in How did vi... [t:77086480]...</cite> <quote>Isnt it obvious? Tech got better and you no longer had to repeat basically the same levels over and over again with high scores being the main reason to replay a game</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Antifar 10/10/18 8:24:36 PM #4:	Gradually. --- kin to all that throbs <cite>Antifar posted [p:910317693] in How did vi... [t:77086480]...</cite> <quote>Gradually.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Tyranthraxus 10/10/18 8:24:41 PM #5:	Short answer: PS1 jrpgs did it with their hours of movie ish cutscenes that other people wanted to copy. Eventually, they decided to just make the cutscenes playable. --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://imgur.com/dQgC4kv <cite>Tyranthraxus posted [p:910317697] in How did vi... [t:77086480]...</cite> <quote>Short answer: PS1 jrpgs did it with their hours of movie ish cutscenes that other people wanted to copy. Eventually, they decided to just make the cutscenes playable.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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