philosophy in video games
By flamez3r0
@flamez3r0 (319)
Puerto Rico
June 3, 2012 1:17am CST
Lately I have been playing games that are simple and with a storyline that is shallow and mostly comedy, but yesterday I played binary domain, expecting one of those "kill the baddies because they are bad" stories. However, after finishing it I saw that it was deeper than that and, surprisingly, this made me enjoy it a lot. I don't want to spoil it for those who might play it later, but I began to wonder if you enjoy philosophy on your games, things like moral ambiguity and/or games that question reasoning, and if you do maybe you can recommend me some others :D.
3 responses
@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
4 Jun 12
I think this is where video games should go or they will only be bad. 
There are endless possiblities certainly. Storyline is extremely important along with quality graphics. Not everyone likes it but I feel in love with the sims 1,2,3 games and do see potential coming out of them. Although I've not played a lot of games I might be inclined to try others if they have good content. Thanks for the heads up.
There are endless possiblities certainly. Storyline is extremely important along with quality graphics. Not everyone likes it but I feel in love with the sims 1,2,3 games and do see potential coming out of them. Although I've not played a lot of games I might be inclined to try others if they have good content. Thanks for the heads up. 1 person likes this
@flamez3r0 (319)
• Puerto Rico
4 Jun 12
Yep, I like the sims too, but I have noticed that for games to have a better storyline, they have to be more restrictive in order to make you see that storyline in an order. On the other hand, the more freedom they have (like the sims or skyrim to give some examples) the storyline suffers. An example of this is the sandbox games in which the storyline is compressed into little missions that you do, and the freedom is given in between missions. That means that you aren't really free during missions (since they have specific parameters) and there isn't really a storyline when you are free :p. However, since lately freedom is the rule, there are less and less games with space to put some philosophy in them.
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
30 Dec 12
yes normally i enjoy about the game pholosophy or story in itself when i play with videogames...so modern game stories in many cases are really complex and characters can develop different actions or personalities depending from the game or choice you made and in amny cases there are surprises so these can give to a game an interesting view too!!
@zeedo666 (150)
• Poland
2 Nov 12
Planescape Torment - a game in which you don't save the world but instead you have to find a way to kill yourself. Exellent storyline and you will find phylosophic chunks there too.
The Witcher 1 and 2- I couldn't play them because of too high requirements but people say that all quests are based on moral ambiguity and your desicions will have consequences later. Btw. it's my compatriots' product :)
