14 DAY TRIAL // Video games are playing a bigger and bigger role in our everyday dose of entertainment, as a lot of people prefer them to other types of media, like movies or TV. We've already heard Star Ocean 4 designer Yoshinori Yamagishi from Square Enix praise video games for their high-quality content as opposed to a lot of movies.
Now it's time for someone from Hollywood to praise the gaming industry, as the director of post-apocalyptic movie series Mad Max, George Miller, talked about the future Mad Max video game title that he was co-developing with God of War II director Cory Balrog. He went on to say that the tide was shifting with games and movies, and that interactive media would become very important in the next few years.
“Games were the poor cousin to feature films when it came to storytelling but I think it’s flipping. Games allow you [to] be much more like a novelist,” said Miller. He then talked about the future game, which he hoped would take shape as soon as possible, despite the fact that it was still in the early planning stage. “It’s a hybrid game. I’m really interested in both the game-play [and] the actual emotional engagement. I’m curious how much you can engage with the characters through the game-play. It’s an opportunity to make a novel.”
It's really nice to see that people are beginning to notice games and prefer them over other entertainment branches, and, hopefully, they will get the attention they deserve from everyone. Perhaps we will see some bigger and more important projects in the future, where a game also has a movie, a comic book line or other types of story telling means, planned from the beginning, similar to what the EA Redwood Shores team did with Dead Space, which saw a comic book and an animated movie appear at the same time to tell the background story of the game.