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.

Graphics vs Story

The discussion of graphics vs story is one that has been going on for a while, both sides have a rather large amount of people supporting the two and it has been a discussion on the even more so rise with better graphics coming in with better game engines and even more epic and all inspiring story’s to top last year’s epic tale.

Graphics today have been getting better and better with advances in computer technology and how far you can actually push a game system graphic wise, with games coming out that are as big as a continent and look amazing graphics seem to be going stringer than even in the game industry and showing no signs of stopping especially with new and better game engines coming out and the latest consoles both being more affordable than ever, graphics are on the up and up and it doesn’t look like they’re going to stop anytime soon.

Everyone loves an epic story that gets your heart racing and the emotions going off, epic stories are everywhere in the world but in the games industry you can’t just use any old story you heard or read about, it’s got to be even more epic than last year’s amazing tale of hero’s and monsters and plot twists, it needs to always be more than its predecessor, more epic, more amazing just more in every way, it’s this very drive for more is what makes new game story’s always better and it’s rather clear that this is going to continue as long as there are games to play and people to gawk in amazement.

Both sides have their good and are rather equal in ways as well but what is better? That friendly reader is up to you.

3D VS 2D

The battle between the greatest of the great is a battle that has been raged since video games infant days, the pros and cons of these two legendary graphics has been as level as that the hate people have for white chocolate to dark, there are equal amounts of good and bad two these two and the war doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon in fact it looks more along the lines of speeding up.

3D made its first major daube in the early 90s with the release of games like tank wars and maze wars, both had very early 3D graphics but back then they were pretty damn impressive and still are in their own way even today, these day 3D graphics are used primarily in triple A games, this is mainly because games of this stature are more so meant to immerse the player more than anything and with today’s 3D graphics the best way to do this is with 3D graphics.

2D, a graphic option that almost all games are built off or evolved from, one that even today is heavily used, some of the top games use 2D graphic and still have the ability to look amazing, Minecraft is a damn good example of this, on top of that, 2D games have the ability to not only look amazing but be massive, due to their lack of graphics the games can be as big as the developer wants, again Minecraft is a good example of this.

So which is better? That’s not up to me that’s up to you.

ID Soft wear

ID soft wear started out rather small but with a big idea, no one had claimed the PC platform as a gaming platform so a couple of 20 something year olds came along and decided to make some games for it.

They made a massive impact when they released, the at the time controversial, Wolfenstein 3D, it made a massive impact and today is considered one of the god fathers of first person shooters, at the time though it was shunned due to the excessive violence, use of Nazi symbolism as well as Hitler being the final boss, it was all later changed to a more “appropriate” zombie shooter unfortunately.

Today ID is one of the big gaming kings but releasing games and a slow rate but make up for that with amazing quality.

Valve

Valve started as a bit of a dream for a few Microsoft employees after they had become rather wealthy. Unlike other game studios at the time, valve started off making massive games with a large team and a big budget, their leader Gabe newel had big dreams for the gaming industry and had the money, knowhow and assistance to make these dreams come true.

The only issue they had was that in the end they were a couple of guys wanting to make a lifelong dream real, most publishers saw this as a negative so it took valve a while to finally have someone take a risk on them but someone did, and the result is what we see today.

Bethesda

Bethesda started out as a small game company dedicated to racing games, but would later on become legendary for its open world epics, whether your exploring elfish forests or a nuclear wasteland Bethesda made it and made it dam well.

The main reason they are such a powerful force in the gaming industry is simple, they have some of the best story writers assembled in a game studio, so unsurprisingly most gamers who play Bethesda games play them for the riveting and expansive story each games will and always does tell.