Now this is a story all about how I made a video on video games and I'd like to take 18min just sit right there, I'll you all about how video storytelling has evolved. Damn, that doesn't sound as good when you say it.... but hey bonus points for memes, amirite?!
PONG One day, left rectangle, or most knowed as "storm", was in his last game in the pong tournament, until the square monster trapped, and send him to the black dimension, now, storm have to scape defeating every rectangle in the black planet.
the story of pong: An alternate history to the Cold War. you see, Pong is actually a game all bout the struggles of these two super giants struggling against one another. the ball is, in fact, a nuclear explosive, and each nation uses their special defense screen to rebound it back and forth. and so goes the cold war, a never ending struggle to deliver a 30MT payload.
I see it as a metaphor for a divorce settlement. The mom and the dad are fighting endlessly for custody of their child. It's only a matter of time before one of them wins. But after such a long battle, it's likely that the child would rather have new parents, instead. No longer seeing his biological parents as worth their time
Okay, I've got one. Pong is an abstracted representation of the zero sum power game that was the Cold War, pitting the left line (USA) vs the right line (USSR). The dot moving back and forth is clearly the balance of power and scoring a point is securing a major victory on the national stage. US scores a point? That's the US-Japan Mutual Defense Pact. USSR gets one up? Berlin Blockade. It's really elementary guys, come on. I mean it was made in the early 70s.
Halo 2's story is good and probably the best in the Halo series but 'moving'. I wouldn't agree it's moving or in depth. I mean, again, it may be in depth for the Halo series but when compared to other games like Witcher and Bioshock it really isn't in depth at all.
ehh not really, halo 2 had a lot of plot holes and presentation errors. it misportrayed the chief terribly and never bothered to characterise him and give him an arc. in fact he does nothing throughout the story besides kill regret who truth was going to assassinate anyway. he literally has less than 10 lines of dialogue throughout the entire game. sure thels side of the story was done pretty well but it suffered from poor level design save for the first arbiter mission and the last 2, and the brutes/flood weren't fun to fight at all, they never really reacted to damage, they had very singular movements, e.g once a brute starts beserking it wll repeat the same animation without any change until it dies. if anything, it felt like it was more of an 80s action movie than something derived from the halo universe, just compare it to nylunds work and see how very few similarities there is. even hce which has an excuse for being barebones still has some relatable qualities with the books.
+Danny using the Witcher and Bioshock as the bar for what is moving is like using Breath of the Wild's world size as the bar for a 'big' open world. Whether or not a game made literally *13* years ago compares to the latest masterpieces made today means next to nothing.
trey1014 What? Bioshock came out in 2007 which is only 3 years after halo 2. Not much difference at all. Another example is half life 2 which came out the same year as Halo 2. Trust me, I really enjoy halo 2 as much as the next guy but the story is really nothing special.
Pretty solid overview of game adaptation, I think a video on more specific changes in the video game industry would do really well. You could mention the development of RPG, FPS, MMO, MOBA, real-time + turn-based strategy, skill sets in RPG, character customization, etc. Almost to 50k hype!
That's a good idea! Though judging by how this video did, I'll prob get back to stuff I know will do well. We getting close to 50k, Eddy! Thanks for watching the vids
I just wish there were more games like Half Life and Bioshock, for instance. Brilliant games like that made sure to take FULL advantage of using the gameplay, the setting, and the characters to tell the story, not through annoying cutscenes but through you having complete control of your character, so that immersion is never broken and you actually feel like you're involved in the story. The story is never forced in your face, and you it never holds your hand, so you're left to THINK for yourself about what happened. Like in Half Life 2, you're in a room and there is a body and a shotgun with a dead headcrab...there is a story there, but you're left to figure out what happened. Not every videogame is required to do that, but too often are cutscenes shoved into a game to the point where it wants to be a wannabe movie, and I don't want to sit down watching five million cutscenes - I want to play the game. That's what the medium is for...the gameplay can be used to accomadate that, so you're not compromising anything or compensating for anything. Everything flows well. You're playing the game but you're getting the story too. That's one reason why Half Life and Bioshock (excluding Bioshock Infinite) works so well for me for instance.
Toby Triggerson There's not enough brilliance like Half Life around here these days, and that's really a shame, to be honest. When will videogames (preferably First Person Shooters) stop trying to be like blockbuster films and actually take their notes from the innovators like Half Life? Valve made a lot of wise design choices with it the franchise, most notably not taking control from the player so they can actually be involved with the world, the story, the characters, the gunplay, even with the player character yourself. Half of the dramatic stuff that happens in Half Life wouldn't have nearly as much impact if we were passive observers of it all from cutscenes. I believe that's why so many fans felt so connected to the franchise - you _were_ there. You _were_ Gordon. Cutscenes minimize that involvement, and too many games over rely on cutscenes.
erbebo03 I've never played System Shock 2 (only ever looked up gameplay) but that is also a good game that utilizes the gameplay to its fullest to tell the story. It has audio logs, and there's exploring the ship on your own time, and then there's Shodan - she's not just legitimately scary, but she reveals some pretty heavy shit. It has maybe one cutscene, but that's at the end. It's virtually just you and the controller.
Final Fantasy VII just in my opinion was the absolute best story in video game history. But there have been some tremendously well done stories since then. Nostalgia definitely plays a part in why I love FF7 so dearly. But it’s also just a flat out amazing story that pulls you in quickly and continues to stay interesting, intense and heartbreaking from start to finish.
The Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is by far my favorite storyline. Like you said Act Man, it's not about how the game holds your hands and tells you the entire lore, it is up to you, thew player, figure out the purpose of completing the mission at hand. The mystery behind Dark Samus on your first steps on the planet Aether, using various power-ups to figure out puzzles, and the scan visor to tell you the story about the dark and light side of the planet.
One line said to the other 'go fuck yourself' and threw a ball at the other. They then embarked on a thousand year war throwing the ball back and forth. Little do they know that this was king linington the third wanted so he could achieve immortality. He also knew that line 1 is line 2s father.
Act Man, I've been playing through Halo 2 anniversary recently. One of the things that keeps getting to me are the remastered cutscenes. They look absolutely incredible, but the pacing is all off. They used the same recorded lines, of course, but everything feels incredibly rushed. Little but important pauses between lines are gone, and so are moments of silence. Plus there are a lot of extra sound effects, almost feeling excessive. Maybe I notice because of how I played this game enough to have the cutscenes memorized. It feels like they rushed the scenes, either to cut down on animation costs or short attention spans, maybe.
I've heard people say RPGs have the best stories in games, but I feel that's only because of all the extra side quests and things to do in them. You could add that stuff to any other genre and it would help the storytelling aspect tremendously. I myself am an aspiring game developer and one of the many ideas I've had was a hack-and-slash with a pseudo-open world (a hub area that took you to multiple missions (the majority of which being optional) and each level feeling like an open area). Hack-and-slash games are typically short, and thus I feel don't give you as much of an opportunity to be immersed in the world they create, so we'll just have to see after I go through all the stages necessary to start developing games for a living if expanding the amount of content would improve it.
A game that encapsulates all of innovation is a game that is still being copied to this very day. SYSTEM SHOCK. From its table top RPG-esq stat system, to its diverse gameplay, and detailed story, I can say that this is a game that deserves all the accolades it receives.
Great video. Your channel is quick becoming one of my favorites. I think Final Fantasy is were story telling really took off. Theres so much that went into those games.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos! Yeah Final Fantasy was def one of the big games to start really pushing great stories out there. Part of why it's such a reknown series
I wish I could find it again but there was a great video discussing how the introduction of the save file and checkpoints was a huge jump start to creating a story, since before that it was about paying for lives and replays with quarters.
METROID FUSION! Besides pokemon, best game on the GBA. You wouldn't think you would be so scared to see your super powered clone walking around, but they did a phenomenal job at that.
Chrono trigger/ chrono cross are most revolutionary I think between the stories and crazy good cutscenes for the ps1 also it was the first game I remember being multiple discs because the story was so long.
I didn't think so on my first playthough, but after my second, I believe The Last of Us Part 2 to be the best written game of all time. The theme work, the character work, the way the game makes you complicit in the theme of hate, only to switch things around on you to show how pointless that hate is. It's subtle and nuanced, and the story isn't beating you over the head with it. It just makes you feel certain things, then makes you question those things, and that's the way they deliver the story's themes. It's just massively creative and I'd never seen anything like it in any medium save for perhaps the first season of Westworld.
My favorite story is Final Fantasy VII. I had my own save slot but I would never play it because my older brother was further in the game and I would just watch him play. He would even tell me to play my save but I was like " Nope. You play."
Pong: A Story A massive war results in stalemate between two sides trying to fight, losing most of their forces. Eventually one side launches a massive bombardment on the other side. The other side however develops shields after some destruction, and the other side steals their technology. They had one last bomb, bigger than all the rest, only to be deflected across both sides. Soon both sides are using their best commanders trying to survive against the bomb. Nevertheless, they both refuse to co-operate and try to kill each other. Who will survive. That's up to you.
Spec Ops: The Line has my favorite story of all time. It uses your expectations to twist everything around and mess with you the player. If you haven't tried it before I definitely recommend it
Greatest vidja story I have to give to Halo 3 but that's because of divine law. Nah I'll have to say Witcher III tbh. Great content as usual Act Man. PEACE!
Hmm the classic Halo trilogy was always my favorite but I think one of my new favorites became Dead Rising. I loved the open world and multiple endings and what not. However Super Mario RPG Legend of the 7 Stars with its story, gameplay and everything is my forever game and vote for video game with the best story.
I don't know what my favourite Video Game story is there so many good ones and I love all of them very much its so hard just to pick one thats my favourite!
Of many devs who changed the industry such as Nintendo and Sony, Rockstar was one of them why, when a single Rockstar game comes out it changes everything. Talking to you GTA 6
Amusingly enough, one of my favorite gaming stories is of Hyper Light Drifter, a game with absolutely no dialogue and maybe 10 incredibly short cut scenes.
I think my most favorite story in video games was the Metroid series, I've actually almost never seen the new games, but I can already tell from comments, from me watching a full playthrough of the first metroid game. and part of the second and third, I can already tell the game has a story. Something you can always see is ridley, just surviving everything, first of all, you can't let the main antagonist die. But my god they put detail into making it so ridley is alive. Like, hey guys, we can't let my precious theme song go away, so I'm uh, Meta Ridley now. then there's Super Metroid, Samus talking about the first and second games. Her detroying, mother brain I think? Which was what you did in the first game. Then she talks about the secoond game, her eradicating the metroids which is what I remember saying. *looks at when this video was made* OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH no one is going to see this Like I said, this comment would've probably been bigger if I watched a full playthrough of every metroid game.
Now this is a story all about how I made a video on video games and I'd like to take 18min just sit right there, I'll you all about how video storytelling has evolved.
Damn, that doesn't sound as good when you say it.... but hey bonus points for memes, amirite?!
The Act Man I think you made a spelling mistake
The Act Man at 7:22 you got the images of the PlayStation and the N64 mixed up
The Act Man true
Ryan Johnson that was on purpose lol
The Act Man ???
Man this is one of the most underrated channels on youtube...
Agreed, even though he's almost at 1 million now
Look at him now
PONG
One day, left rectangle, or most knowed as "storm", was in his last game in the pong tournament, until the square monster trapped, and send him to the black dimension, now, storm have to scape defeating every rectangle in the black planet.
Thats deep
the story of pong: An alternate history to the Cold War. you see, Pong is actually a game all bout the struggles of these two super giants struggling against one another. the ball is, in fact, a nuclear explosive, and each nation uses their special defense screen to rebound it back and forth. and so goes the cold war, a never ending struggle to deliver a 30MT payload.
Lantern 501 hmmm interesting
I see it as a metaphor for a divorce settlement. The mom and the dad are fighting endlessly for custody of their child. It's only a matter of time before one of them wins. But after such a long battle, it's likely that the child would rather have new parents, instead. No longer seeing his biological parents as worth their time
You ever read something you posted years ago and think, "what a weird guy."
+@@MoonLight-zj8iu Usually, I look at stuff I posted and think "wow; what a stupid asshole"
I'm a simple man, The Act Man uploads, it makes me happy.
Oh Act Man not blockbuster, the memories. Having to rent movies, those were a great time.
"Dad, I think this movie is going to be shit."
"That's the point, my son."
The Act Man To be fair, there's still some pretty shitty movies on Redbox.
what a great concept for a video and I agree 100%
Okay, I've got one. Pong is an abstracted representation of the zero sum power game that was the Cold War, pitting the left line (USA) vs the right line (USSR). The dot moving back and forth is clearly the balance of power and scoring a point is securing a major victory on the national stage. US scores a point? That's the US-Japan Mutual Defense Pact. USSR gets one up? Berlin Blockade. It's really elementary guys, come on. I mean it was made in the early 70s.
Underrated.
I love how halo2 tells its story...so in depth and moving, just like your videos 😊
Halo 2's story is good and probably the best in the Halo series but 'moving'. I wouldn't agree it's moving or in depth. I mean, again, it may be in depth for the Halo series but when compared to other games like Witcher and Bioshock it really isn't in depth at all.
ehh not really, halo 2 had a lot of plot holes and presentation errors. it misportrayed the chief terribly and never bothered to characterise him and give him an arc. in fact he does nothing throughout the story besides kill regret who truth was going to assassinate anyway.
he literally has less than 10 lines of dialogue throughout the entire game.
sure thels side of the story was done pretty well but it suffered from poor level design save for the first arbiter mission and the last 2, and the brutes/flood weren't fun to fight at all, they never really reacted to damage, they had very singular movements, e.g once a brute starts beserking it wll repeat the same animation without any change until it dies.
if anything, it felt like it was more of an 80s action movie than something derived from the halo universe,
just compare it to nylunds work and see how very few similarities there is.
even hce which has an excuse for being barebones still has some relatable qualities with the books.
Halo 2 sold well for a rushed game...Battlefield on the other hand...lol
+Danny using the Witcher and Bioshock as the bar for what is moving is like using Breath of the Wild's world size as the bar for a 'big' open world. Whether or not a game made literally *13* years ago compares to the latest masterpieces made today means next to nothing.
trey1014 What? Bioshock came out in 2007 which is only 3 years after halo 2. Not much difference at all. Another example is half life 2 which came out the same year as Halo 2. Trust me, I really enjoy halo 2 as much as the next guy but the story is really nothing special.
You truly make very wholesome and honest content Act Man. I always enjoy these kinds of insightful game discussions and inquiries.
Glad you enjoy them! Comments like these are what give me motivation! :)
It's the start of June, it's Friday, and there's a new ActMan video... Can this day get any better?
The Wonder Woman film came out today.
evolution of gears of halo theft auto 5?
RangerClose911 yeas!!!
RangerClose911 I think there should be lol
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He loves Halo
rip me
The Act Man You just got exposed, boy!
rekt
I kinda like Halo, didn't really care for the human characters, I found the Covenant more interesting.
also why do you keep making the same joke? you exposed star wars hq too. kinda lame man
I see a new Act Man video, I like it.
Because Act Man.
your really good at making these kind of videos and i love them. the longer the better. keep it up man.
Pretty solid overview of game adaptation, I think a video on more specific changes in the video game industry would do really well. You could mention the development of RPG, FPS, MMO, MOBA, real-time + turn-based strategy, skill sets in RPG, character customization, etc.
Almost to 50k hype!
That's a good idea! Though judging by how this video did, I'll prob get back to stuff I know will do well. We getting close to 50k, Eddy! Thanks for watching the vids
whats up act man, this is the everybodyyyyy here
Favorite game and story- Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
Favorite Video Game Story?
The Mass Effect Trilogy!
Another one! Love these Act Man. This could be just as big as your last one.
Hahaha I knew this one wouldn't do as well, though the people that do watch it will def enjoy it I think!
I love that damn Rayman Legends music in the intro!
The Actman has the best video game story
That 9:47 Fable Soundtrack goosebumps
Some of your videos are far too underrated! I really enjoyed your thoughts and I hope others do too :)!
This video just reminded me of why I love the Dark Souls series so much
I just wish there were more games like Half Life and Bioshock, for instance. Brilliant games like that made sure to take FULL advantage of using the gameplay, the setting, and the characters to tell the story, not through annoying cutscenes but through you having complete control of your character, so that immersion is never broken and you actually feel like you're involved in the story. The story is never forced in your face, and you it never holds your hand, so you're left to THINK for yourself about what happened. Like in Half Life 2, you're in a room and there is a body and a shotgun with a dead headcrab...there is a story there, but you're left to figure out what happened.
Not every videogame is required to do that, but too often are cutscenes shoved into a game to the point where it wants to be a wannabe movie, and I don't want to sit down watching five million cutscenes - I want to play the game. That's what the medium is for...the gameplay can be used to accomadate that, so you're not compromising anything or compensating for anything. Everything flows well. You're playing the game but you're getting the story too. That's one reason why Half Life and Bioshock (excluding Bioshock Infinite) works so well for me for instance.
Toby Triggerson There's not enough brilliance like Half Life around here these days, and that's really a shame, to be honest. When will videogames (preferably First Person Shooters) stop trying to be like blockbuster films and actually take their notes from the innovators like Half Life? Valve made a lot of wise design choices with it the franchise, most notably not taking control from the player so they can actually be involved with the world, the story, the characters, the gunplay, even with the player character yourself.
Half of the dramatic stuff that happens in Half Life wouldn't have nearly as much impact if we were passive observers of it all from cutscenes. I believe that's why so many fans felt so connected to the franchise - you _were_ there. You _were_ Gordon. Cutscenes minimize that involvement, and too many games over rely on cutscenes.
Then you would love Dishonored (The 1st and 2nd) and Prey
Maybe add System Shock 2?
erbebo03 I've never played System Shock 2 (only ever looked up gameplay) but that is also a good game that utilizes the gameplay to its fullest to tell the story. It has audio logs, and there's exploring the ship on your own time, and then there's Shodan - she's not just legitimately scary, but she reveals some pretty heavy shit.
It has maybe one cutscene, but that's at the end. It's virtually just you and the controller.
This could be a 3 hour video, there is so much to cover.
12:40 What's this background music?
Punch Out Wii Theme
Thanks! It was the only theme I didn't recognize from this video. Great work!
Love that music. Punch out Wii is a classic for me
Thanks for allowing me to be your personal medic in bf1 lol #ActClan
Can you make a video explaining why we have to download video games even though we have the disc
good vid man!
Final Fantasy VII just in my opinion was the absolute best story in video game history. But there have been some tremendously well done stories since then. Nostalgia definitely plays a part in why I love FF7 so dearly. But it’s also just a flat out amazing story that pulls you in quickly and continues to stay interesting, intense and heartbreaking from start to finish.
Act Man, Just out of curiosity, have you played breath of the wild?
yup! Got a Switch for The Act Bro for his birthday, we're both loving that game!
I love that game
The Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is by far my favorite storyline. Like you said Act Man, it's not about how the game holds your hands and tells you the entire lore, it is up to you, thew player, figure out the purpose of completing the mission at hand. The mystery behind Dark Samus on your first steps on the planet Aether, using various power-ups to figure out puzzles, and the scan visor to tell you the story about the dark and light side of the planet.
Makes me feel old remembering most of this as it happened.
No joke, the first 28 seconds of this video is probably the best opening to a CZcams video I've personally seen.
8:23 "... Opened up doors for new genres..."
Shows Sam Fisher forcing somebody to open a door. Clever
You are really good at making these kind of videos they are really entertaining keep them up dude!
I'm new to this channel, just subbed yesterday and I already love it dude good shit!
Thank you! Enjoy the channel and the vids! Gotta a lot of good ones on here, if I say so myself XD
1:27 XD I like these little challenges you throw at us, and how the comment section tackles them even more so.
Is that the classic Castlevania theme I hear in the beginning? 😉
Dude, You do a great job talking about what I want to hear lol B)
One line said to the other 'go fuck yourself' and threw a ball at the other. They then embarked on a thousand year war throwing the ball back and forth. Little do they know that this was king linington the third wanted so he could achieve immortality. He also knew that line 1 is line 2s father.
Act Man can you talk about heavy aim and the fix
Act Man, I've been playing through Halo 2 anniversary
recently. One of the things that keeps getting to me are the remastered
cutscenes. They look absolutely incredible, but the pacing is all off. They
used the same recorded lines, of course, but everything feels incredibly
rushed. Little but important pauses between lines are gone, and so are moments
of silence. Plus there are a lot of extra sound effects, almost feeling
excessive. Maybe I notice because of how I played this game enough to have the
cutscenes memorized. It feels like they rushed the scenes, either to cut down
on animation costs or short attention spans, maybe.
how is the pacing off?
how are the lines rushed? where
where is the lack of pauses?
its a more realistic version of the 2004 version.
Watch them side by side. You can even see the remastered dialogue doesn't line up with the subtitles anymore
I love most of the games you talked about. One more I liked was LISA the Painful RPG. Really engaging and heart-wrenching.
Great research and a well spoken video!
I loved the super smash music near the end. GREAT way to end!
Thank you! Def a great song to end the vid with
Just love the fact that you use glorious Rayman Legends music.
Great video btw
I've heard people say RPGs have the best stories in games, but I feel that's only because of all the extra side quests and things to do in them. You could add that stuff to any other genre and it would help the storytelling aspect tremendously. I myself am an aspiring game developer and one of the many ideas I've had was a hack-and-slash with a pseudo-open world (a hub area that took you to multiple missions (the majority of which being optional) and each level feeling like an open area). Hack-and-slash games are typically short, and thus I feel don't give you as much of an opportunity to be immersed in the world they create, so we'll just have to see after I go through all the stages necessary to start developing games for a living if expanding the amount of content would improve it.
7:22 "Like the PLAYSTATION"
*Total legit*
My favorite video game story is The Last of Us, as it's so far the only video game that made me cry.
A game that encapsulates all of innovation is a game that is still being copied to this very day. SYSTEM SHOCK. From its table top RPG-esq stat system, to its diverse gameplay, and detailed story, I can say that this is a game that deserves all the accolades it receives.
At 7:21 I dont know if its on purpose that the consoles are mixed up.
Great video. Your channel is quick becoming one of my favorites. I think Final Fantasy is were story telling really took off. Theres so much that went into those games.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the videos! Yeah Final Fantasy was def one of the big games to start really pushing great stories out there. Part of why it's such a reknown series
As soon as I heard the Brawl theme I started tearing up
I wish I could find it again but there was a great video discussing how the introduction of the save file and checkpoints was a huge jump start to creating a story, since before that it was about paying for lives and replays with quarters.
These kind of videos on the examinations of video games are great. (:
Crazy underrated act man video
Lego Island was my childhood
Could this be the most underrated Act Man video?
METROID FUSION! Besides pokemon, best game on the GBA. You wouldn't think you would be so scared to see your super powered clone walking around, but they did a phenomenal job at that.
Chrono trigger/ chrono cross are most revolutionary I think between the stories and crazy good cutscenes for the ps1 also it was the first game I remember being multiple discs because the story was so long.
13:20 The heck? Was that dino giving the other dino a lap dance?
act man videos that need a sequal: games that need sequals,
ahahahahahaha true dat! I'll get back on that series in a few weeks
Act Man!.... you didn't abandon us! haha
actman do a vid of your personal experiences with video games and how they affected you starting with your first game
Dammit, Act Man. Say something about Marathon. Best FPS(or maybe all-time) story in gaming. Still being debated and interpreted 20+ years later.
My favorite video game story is MegaMan zero 4 from the MegaMan zero series, it's the first game I've finished way back GBA time and it blown me away.
I agree I think ocarina of time is probably one of the best games ever made
4:49 I HAVE THAT CAT ON A SHIRT
I didn't think so on my first playthough, but after my second, I believe The Last of Us Part 2 to be the best written game of all time. The theme work, the character work, the way the game makes you complicit in the theme of hate, only to switch things around on you to show how pointless that hate is. It's subtle and nuanced, and the story isn't beating you over the head with it. It just makes you feel certain things, then makes you question those things, and that's the way they deliver the story's themes. It's just massively creative and I'd never seen anything like it in any medium save for perhaps the first season of Westworld.
These history of video games are pretty great. Are you ever gonna get interviews with game devs and interview them about the history of video games?
My favorite story is Final Fantasy VII. I had my own save slot but I would never play it because my older brother was further in the game and I would just watch him play. He would even tell me to play my save but I was like " Nope. You play."
BioShock definitely the detail in the story, the hidden meaning in it is just superb
I like how you said Nintendo 64 when showing a picture of a Playstation, and vice-versa.
Pong: A Story
A massive war results in stalemate between two sides trying to fight, losing most of their forces. Eventually one side launches a massive bombardment on the other side. The other side however develops shields after some destruction, and the other side steals their technology. They had one last bomb, bigger than all the rest, only to be deflected across both sides. Soon both sides are using their best commanders trying to survive against the bomb. Nevertheless, they both refuse to co-operate and try to kill each other. Who will survive. That's up to you.
Hey mate, I love your content. Cheers for all your effort.
Thanks, bro! Cheers!
I’m getting HEAVY avgn vibes
Yes ma dude, another documentary!
"Lead many to think gaming would die out for good." Now it's the most profitable entertainment medium.
Spec Ops: The Line has my favorite story of all time. It uses your expectations to twist everything around and mess with you the player. If you haven't tried it before I definitely recommend it
Man fable the lost chapters and kotor both had incredible stories for sure
Great video act man
I think the most influential story games ever were Chrono trigger, ff7, metal Gear solid, kotor and tlou
god I want to play fable 1 now
see that act man loved this comment for some odd reason I laugh at it
Greatest vidja story I have to give to Halo 3 but that's because of divine law. Nah I'll have to say Witcher III tbh. Great content as usual Act Man. PEACE!
Ahh the good old manual 2:17
the dot is a bomb. the pattal is a shield. behind the shield is a town. protect your town.
Hmm the classic Halo trilogy was always my favorite but I think one of my new favorites became Dead Rising. I loved the open world and multiple endings and what not.
However Super Mario RPG Legend of the 7 Stars with its story, gameplay and everything is my forever game and vote for video game with the best story.
the act man is my history teacher for gaming
I don't know what my favourite Video Game story is there so many good ones and I love all of them very much its so hard just to pick one thats my favourite!
Of many devs who changed the industry such as Nintendo and Sony, Rockstar was one of them why, when a single Rockstar game comes out it changes everything. Talking to you GTA 6
I really enjoyed this video.
I see you mention thousand year door a lot but have you ever played Mario RPG, it is by far the best in the series.
Amusingly enough, one of my favorite gaming stories is of Hyper Light Drifter, a game with absolutely no dialogue and maybe 10 incredibly short cut scenes.
When thinking about good stories, KotOR 2 comes to my mind. This game has some of the best writing in gaming (Including the restore cut content mod).
We use this video in our narrative design unit at my uni
That Demon's Souls BGM drop got me excited.
hahaha glad someone recognized it!
I miss this level of positivity in the ActMan.
I was blown away as a kid that the nes had a pause button.
I think my most favorite story in video games was the Metroid series, I've actually almost never seen the new games, but I can already tell from comments, from me watching a full playthrough of the first metroid game. and part of the second and third, I can already tell the game has a story.
Something you can always see is ridley, just surviving everything, first of all, you can't let the main antagonist die. But my god they put detail into making it so ridley is alive. Like, hey guys, we can't let my precious theme song go away, so I'm uh, Meta Ridley now. then there's Super Metroid, Samus talking about the first and second games. Her detroying, mother brain I think? Which was what you did in the first game. Then she talks about the secoond game, her eradicating the metroids which is what I remember saying.
*looks at when this video was made* OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH no one is going to see this
Like I said, this comment would've probably been bigger if I watched a full playthrough of every metroid game.