• Deceptichum
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      6 months ago

      Disagree. They use the medium of video-games, but they lack the rules based play that makes a game a game.

      If you went outside for a hike, you wouldn’t tell people you were playing a game.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        They use the medium of video-games

        So it’s a video game, full stop. Just say you only like mechanically focused games, a valid opinion, instead of this absurd gatekeeping where games you don’t like aren’t actually games.

        • Deceptichum
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          6 months ago

          Do you think the phone book was a story?

          Putting words on paper doesn’t make a story, nor does putting pixels on a screen make a game.

          There’s nothing wrong with these “interactive” stories, but they’re not games because they lack gameplay.

      • all-knight-party
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        Totally, dude. A hike that requires light bouldering or traversal becomes a game of ideal foot placement and clambering. If you bring a camera on a hike you end up internally rating your own pictures or hunting for opportunities. You can gamify a lot of things.

        Playing Firewatch by choosing the dialogue responses that paint Henry as a certain kind of person is a game. Role-playing, if you will.