Storytelling Through Gameplay – The Bit
Episode 419 of my daily vlog My Twitter: Outro song:
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Using Older bros strength/controls to pull that lever fucking ended me.
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Welcome to Australia
Legitimately the most underrated YouTube Channel as of now.
Once again very fun! Some good analysis and examples. I like the discussion of rule of threes.
Some small critiques: It was good of you to spoiler-warning Shovel Knight, but it may have been good to highlight the spoilers for other games, especially Sons: A Tale of 3 Brothers, at the beginning, maybe doing them all at once. Someone 8 feet away from their TV's pause button could still end up hearing that key word after your warning. I also think you might have lost sight of the point when talking about style meters, and MGS' control schemes – your prior examples were a bit more on-point.
A very lesser-known example of storytelling through gameplay comes from the indie game Ninja Pizza Girl – it spends a lot of story missions just building up your routine, being a very Sonic-like platformer with a constant flow to it. This flow eventually gets interrupted as the game shifts towards its target topic – bullying. The protagonist gets wrapped up in proving herself to a bunch of cool kids (who are not very cool), and it's around then the pace of levels suffers from the constant placement of bully-ninjas either stopping you or taking time to dodge. It's frustrating and it wears on you, even though it doesn't stop you – exactly how bullies often do feel.
That subtle segway into The Last of Us tho
terrible
Spoiler alert but that ma'am is not a lady.
After watching this I must say, this oatmeal I’m eating is pretty darn good.
Ah, Persona music. Nice.
Episode 420 lacks the subtlety of ep 419, but I'll take what I can get
You gotta few nasal exhumations outta me, boi.
I'm not the only person confused by the incest bump! Thank you!
I fuckin' love Tom O'Regan. Good shit, good shit.
Incest is Wincest next time on Dragon ball Z
When you mentionned the Two Brothers gameplay, it strangely reminded me of Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters. In that game you also control two characters with each analog stick, and each one needs the other to perform certain moves and abilities.
I'm not saying it's as deep, Bugs never dies in the game (Except in Transylvania because I suck at video games), but it does push the fact one cannot progress without the other, despite being enemies forced to be allies. There is also no friendly fire, so you can kill one with the other, pushing that even more.
It also shows when you leave Taz idle next to Bugs: He will attack and try to eat him in his idle animation. I dunno, might be looking too deep but it just brought me back to that game. ^^ Great video as alaays! You come up with awesome ideas for your topics ^^
You spoiled three games I've never played before and I'm not even mad. Tragic video, man!
Wait…
Tom you are a gem my guy
Your videos are excellently put together. True masterpieces sir!
The video was alright and all, although I feel like some of the later examples were stretching out the concept a little bit too much, however your Brothers A Tale of Two Sons segment was wholly unoriginal. Quite practically a less nuanced reframing of SolePorpoise's video on Ludonarrative Dissonance/Harmony.
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY NEW TOM VID
Now upload three videos in a row you coward
Things feel better in sets of three after all :>
You inspire my videos
It’s a pleasure to tune in and see how long Tom can resist referencing MGS
I predict at least a 100k subs till the end of the year
As much as I'd love to watch this, I haven't finished shovel knight yet SO I GUESS IM JUST FUCKED THEN
Yeah, this latest one had me laughing at all your damn quips. I'm loving it up my man. Stay krunk
Final Fantasy 4 does this with Cecil. Once he renounces his dark edgyness he becomes a Paladin with an all new skill set. This plot development screwed my playthrough due to not having anything paladin related at the time. But at least he became a better person through the power of friendship. A smaller take would be the Mass Effect series. At the end of Mass Effect 3 you find out that an old man is telling Shepard's story to a child as a legend. With legends details can always vary so in a sense every player's Shepard can be validated no matter what story choices you may have done. Your gameplay choices make the end story.
Never clicked so fast in my life.
Man I hate that step sibling aswell like it's super hard for me to pretend they're related when they won't stop bringing up the step sibling thing
You better include god of war in this video. Remember when you have quickly press o to take daughter away from him and when you press o on his family not to kill them but to give them health.
-god of war ghost of olympius
-god of war 1
You ain't fooling me I hear that Persona 5 music in the background. Amazing game lol I still haven't completed it yet either but I'm over 135 hours into my play thru.
4:10 great bit
OH MY GOD! I can’t believe you uploaded on my birthday! But I guess I can’t win everything cuz my car broke down while I was going to get my birthday cake… DOUBLE SUBSCRIBE!
Meteor B Dragon intensifies
Drinking two cans at once is tricky, you'd better add a funnel.
Making a big deal about the rule of three… and you stopped at 2 cans of beer…. *subverting expectations has levelled up*
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaah i love bits