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citadelspires · 4 months
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So I've started playing Telltale Walking Dead with a friend and I just watched the last scene with Clementine and Lee in season 1 and I need to talk about it because it's so good both from a storytelling perspective and a game design perspective and both and I just need to talk about it though I'm sure everyone has already heard it before.
There's a million things about that scene that I love so I'll prolly rant about it again later but right now I'm goin with the bit where it intertwines the gameplay with the narrative really well in that way you can only get with the medium of video games, where the gameplay provides a unique vehicle for the story that you can't get in other forms of media.
Cause the way Lee progressively gets further and further towards the progression of becoming a walker ultimately passing out and waking up somewhere new with Clementine having dragged him in there and called that shot is the first hint of it being someone other than Lee making the big choices, and from that moment the focus of gameplay begins to shift, not a lot at first but just enough, when you get up and walk to the other side of the room it's not just Lee you're moving along as you walk it's Clementine with him, as the gameplay begins to slowly pass the torch, until Lee gives out and can no longer move and from then it gets really good.
Cause oh my god the way the rest of that scene (and therefore the game) plays out being Lee calling out to Clementine, telling her what to do, and her taking all the action, makes it so that while you are still Lee, fundamentally, you're playing as Clementine, making the transition between the two, both as the player characters and as the in universe transfer of the responsibility of survival, the weight of the world that Lee can no longer protect her from, feel much more real and impactful as it's literally changing the way you as the player are engaging with the world itself. It's that sort of thing that makes me love the narrative potential of video games so much, the way you can wrap the player up in how the game and the characters work and use that interactivity as a means to incite feelings and impact the experience. The narrative potential of video games as a medium is so incredible and that scene did so good with it I love it for that.
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citadelspires · 4 months
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citadelspires · 4 months
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Hey remember when I showed up for one post and then vanished for a month exactly one month ago wasn't that fun? So fun in fact i may even do it again
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citadelspires · 5 months
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cant believe i nearly missed november 5th entirely, only 3 minutes out from it being gone, imma go have a crisis about it having been 3 whole years now thanks and bye
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citadelspires · 5 months
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Happy anniversary to those who celebrate
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Three years?????? THREE YEARS????!!!!
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citadelspires · 5 months
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reblog to give the person you reblogged from one piece of Halloween candy
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citadelspires · 5 months
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Hello I'm a bit late but happy Halloween everyone hope y'all doin well!
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citadelspires · 5 months
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gonna do some more chipposting when my head is back in the game but for now I feel compelled to say abandoning his 39 stealth roll just to pet the hypervicuous cat man is maybe the worst move anyone has ever made chip why
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citadelspires · 5 months
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gonna do some more chipposting when my head is back in the game but for now I feel compelled to say abandoning his 39 stealth roll just to pet the hypervicuous cat man is maybe the worst move anyone has ever made chip why
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citadelspires · 5 months
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unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice
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citadelspires · 5 months
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shame and cringe are dead, my boss asked me today to fill out a little form for a "learn more about our coworkers" thing and when I got to "What's your favorite book genre" I looked my coworkers in the eye and wrote Yuri Manga and full sent it, I'm taking whatever joys I can get in life and I refuse to be shy about them
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citadelspires · 5 months
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So I knew that Gillion was gonna lose his sword at some point cause I saw it in a tumblr post. So this whole time I've been wondering what big and dramatic moment would result in the loss of Gill's sword.
Never in a million years would I have guessed he would lose it in Jay's dad's tits
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citadelspires · 5 months
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I'm usually an audio listener with jrwi cause I put it on at work, but I think I gotta go back and watch episode 53 of riptide with full visuals cause ohhhhh man
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citadelspires · 5 months
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citadelspires · 5 months
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I love this thread so much not just for the story it tells but for the way the story evolves in that it goes through person to person with each sharing a bit more of their own thoughts and creative expressions.
The "not trying to hijack" to the "your post now" to the person to person progression as the idea grows and flourishes not just by dancing through the passing hands of the inspired but by never being held alone by any of them in the first place.
i was gonna write it acutally but thought about writing the first sentence and the tiredlseepy got me so here's the concept
a conversation between cinderella and the prince after they're married. when she discovers he does not love her. he saw and recognised she needed rescuing, then played up the false 'love' angle to get the king to agree to it. cinderella does not love the prince either. but it would be an interesting convo. ending with them understanding one another rather more tyhan before. yearning for that which cannot be. &c. does anyone want to read it or
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citadelspires · 5 months
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Wake up babe, new Philip K Dick story just dropped
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citadelspires · 5 months
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Let’s
GET
DANGEROUS.
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