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Schadenfreude  | Nickname: | Schadenfreude | | E-Mail Address: |  | | Contribution Rating: | 578 (ranked 337th; 23 in last year) |
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| Member Since | Dec 21, 2002 | | # Messages Posted: | 1142 | | Location: | Montevideo, Uruguay  |
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| About myself: | For as long as I can remember I've been a gigantic sucker for storytelling as an artform. I'm of the thought that a well-told bad story is better than a poorly-told good story. At time of writing this, I've been playing games for almost a quarter of a century, and I have a special interest in videogames as a narrative form. In this regard, I will always hold the likes of, say, Half-Life over a critic's darling like Planescape: Torment, because the former manages to seamlessly blend narrative and gameplay, while the latter simply shoehorns an entire novel inside a game.
I think this medium has a tremendous potential for a completely new form of storytelling, but only in recent years has slowly started to be properly exploited, with titles like Bioshock being prime examples of very interesting ways to go.
I like clever, challenging stories that force me to put the pieces together and/or leave some room for free interpretation and blank-filling; and in turn I loathe pre-chewed, over-explained Hollywood-style stories. I'm a lover of mysteries, and I'm convinced that, as a wise man once said, mysteries lose all their appeal the moment you explain them.
I'm also a fan of horror stories in general and horror games in particular. I love that mind-fucking, nerve-wrecking feeling of being trapped in an immersive grim atmosphere and I love the hearbeat-skipping sensation of a well-placed scare. Unfortunately, gaming has offered me precious few rare examples of this, as the immense majority of the so-called horror games out there are nothing but shooters with dim lights and the occasional zombie dog that breaks through a window every now and again.
Adding up all of the above, it's pretty easy to see why I hold games like Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Bioshock and recent russian gaming jewel Cryostasis as my all-time favorites. | |
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