Thursday 23 July 2015

Ludonarrative Dissonance

Ludonarrative Dissonance is basically when somehting in a game doesn't quite add up or make sense and just plain makes you go "huh?".

This is an issue of which has exsisted in the gaming industry since its early arcade days, these days it mainly effects holes in storys or glitches that mess with the game but at first seem as if they were meant to be there. alot of these are fixed with bug patches or when it comes to the issues with the story, fixed in a sequal.

In some casses these bugs and story holes have actually worked out to make the game better and more popular and are sometimes even purposefully put in games, these are sometimes called "easter eggs" and are something that is to be expected in tripple A titles and are seeked out early after the games realease.

To sum up there really isnt a good or bad side to this whole thing, the mistakes that are made in this are either made apart of the game or simply vanish in a games patch shortly after they are spotted.

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