9/17/2023 0 Comments Amnesiac movie bad![]() ![]() Fallout: New Vegas did some cool things by giving us a character with history, but for someone with decades spent in the harsh wastelands, and it is a case where amnesia might actually have helped the story a bit in regards to your character and how he acts in this world.īut I do agree that amnesia is a lazy crutch and that there are far better ways of making the main character "new" to the world, like players are. ![]() If your main character is already an established person within the world, it feels weird having them constantly ask questions about things they should know. I think it's a way to have the character's actions make more sense. Its an overused concept in all media really (quite a few movies and books involving an amnesiac main characters), but in gaming it does make more sense, along with main characters that don't know anything about the city/country/world they are in (like with Fallout and the GTA games). Well not all games use amnesia, especially some of the examples you listed with Fallout and other RPG games where the main character knows as much as the player. What we do know directly relates to the events that happen during the drama. We get just the right amount of backstory for each character, but most of their lives are a mystery to us. I don't need to know every little thing that shaped a person into who they are. I don't see this as lazy if, like Skyrim, that backstory has no bearing on the drama being told. I desperately want more games to be set in the real world.Īs for deliberately ignoring a character's backstory, narrative amnesia. The epic adventure and the fantastic settings are played out. I see a trend, though, in people getting increasingly bored of those tropes. I guess in this way, games should be afforded more leeway in having the same tropes employed time and time again. To answer your question though, games should be criticized as heavily, but I think all media should be judged in context as well. My question is really should games be criticised as heavily as other media forms for using amnesia, seeing as it fits with the way games are experienced pretty much perfectly? I know that some of my favourite games (Planescape and Kotor) embrace their amnesia and they're no worse because of it.Īmnesia's not bad, it's just a very rote plot device. I can't decide if this is as lazy as having an amnesiac protagonist or a valid way of sidestepping the issue of new player knowledge. Some games start with a character who simply has the options to be highly inquisitive about their surroundings, allowing the player to care or not care about the world, such as Mass Effect.Īnd then there are games that use "narrative amensia" such as Skyrim, where your character's past is deliberately ignored because it has no bearing on what's going to happen. In a game like Bioshock or Planescape, the amnesia is written in to the story heavily, and the plot is partially designed around it.Ī lot of the time a game will start off with the main character being almost wholely ignorant of the wider world, such as in the Fallout series. In games, amnesia is a convenient starting point as it places the main character in the same shoes as the player, knowing very little about their surroundings and having to be introduced to things. I think that for films and books and TV shows, it is pretty lazy, but for games it has a slightly different position. I just finished watching the latest commercial for Thief, and a lot of the criticism towards the story in the comments were about how the use of amnesia was lazy writing. r/CoOpGaming - A community for co-op gaming r/xboxone - Xbox-specific subreddit for general Xbox news and discussion r/playstation, /r/PS4 & /r/PS5 - PlayStation-specific subreddits for general PlayStation news and discussion r/pcgaming - PC gaming-specific subreddit for general PC gaming news, discussion and gaming tech support r/nintendo - Nintendo-specific subreddit for general Nintendo news and discussion r/shouldibuythisgame - Find out what's worth getting. r/gamingsuggestions - Go here to help you find your next game to play r/gaming4gamers - Discussion, bar the Hivemind Top-level comments must be at least 100 characters in length.Accounts must be at least one month old.External Links must follow these guidelines No topics that belong in other subreddits This subreddit shouldn't be used for advice of any kind. Use sufficient detail and examples from multiple sources.Clearly define the purpose of your post.Engage in good faith with the points the person you're replying to is making.No discrimination or “isms” of any kind (racism, sexism, etc).Discuss GamingĪll discussion must be about gaming 2. ![]()
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