When is a video game NOT a video game?
When it’s made by women and or leftists
Kot
>>740406043when it has more cinematics than actual gameplay like Life is Strange, I liked it but it is not a game in my eyes
>>740406043What even is a video game?
>>740406085This is mostly right. They sometimes can muster an actual game together
>>740406614Why does he look like that
In my opinion, anything where player interaction is meaningful to the experience qualifies as a video game. This includes interaction as simple as dialogue choices. So I would argue the line between a video game and not a video game is the line between a Visual Novel with dialogue choices (which I would consider a video game) and a Visual Novel that does not have dialogue choices (not a video game). Though even that theoretically COULD be a video game if the timing of your inputs when progressing to the next screen had some sort of meaningful effect on your experience (more visual/sound effects if you progress with timing?). Regardless of the ambiguity, I would argue "some level of meaningful interactivity" is enough to qualify something as a video game.
>>740407416Why wouldn't dialogue choices be "meaningful to the experience"?
>>740407187because he's giga angry!
>>740407535I said they are.>a Visual Novel with dialogue choices (which I would consider a video game)
>>740407740Oh my bad, I misread your post.
>>740407416A VN with dialogue choices A/B is semantically identical to a VN with no choice where you run through story events "A" and "B". It's mathematically not a video game.
