Videogames have been around for only 50 years but stories have been around since the start of man. Videogames are just a interactive story. Many people feel that videogames are just a mindless addiction however I feel that videogames are just stories or books of today.
In the Gutenberg elegies, Birkerts says “The major media shifts from orality to print and from print to electronic”(Birkerts 154). And this is very true but he would says that videogames are hurting books and won’t feel that books are dying out. He questions “are we dealing with a change of degree, or a change of kind?”(Birkerts, 154) and this is a good question.
This question is tough and may not have a real answer but it true that both a correct. Books might be changing in to videogames as a new form. A great example of a videogame is Final Fantasy Tactics Grimoire Rift. This game is based around the idea of a book that takes a character inside of it to create there own story in this new world. Here is a videogame still incorporates books and the media of the old in this new from of media today.
In the game inself. The main character is given a journal and as he progresses and matures as a person his journal is magically imprinted with different major events the main character has. This journal is recording his story, his life. As a player, you can decided what to make the main character do. You can control different events and decided your own way of completing the story. The game is directly relating to books and stories told from them. The game still has the same basic concepts of a book. It still has a conflict that escalates in to a climax and then has a resolution afterword’s.
When the game starts, the main character is in a library and finds a book that turns blank in the middle of the book. The last thing the book writes is “who should tell the story of the book” and the main character writes his name(you can write what ever name you want in the book, thus giving the main character his name).
