Cast 3: Discussing Story in Games

Vernacular Games' third podcast, a discussion of storytelling in games. (Spoilers, Beware!)

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Timestamps Follow Below
00:48 Colony Wars
04:20 The Tales Series
05:25 Tales of Symphonia
07:38 Tales of Vesparia
10:00 Mass Effect and Decision Making
12:47 Mass Effect, being COMMANDER Sheperd
17:35 Star Ocean and Character Selection
21:16 Final Fantasy 7 and Character Death
23:19 Tales of Symphonia and Character Replacement
24:30 Final Fantasy and Storytelling
25:10 Final Fantasy X-2
25:44 Final Fantasy and Setting Exposition
27:17 Metroid Prime and Mechanical Setting Exposition
29:38 Highway to the Moon and Story Conveyance
31:24 Mechanical Story Conveyance
32:47 Restating the Question.
34:27 Procedurally Generated Games and Story
36:25 Intelligently Seeded Procedurally Generated Game
37:22 Emergent Storytelling
38:32 Traditional Storytelling
40:11 Nearness to the Story
41:34 Alien Isolation
43:00 Games and Cinematic Storytelling
44:00 Storytelling Terminology
44:54 Uncharted and Traditional Storytelling
47:35 Cost of Voice Acting
48:27 Restatement of Storytelling Types
48:51 Fully Interactive Traditional Storytelling
50:15 Recap
52:23 Final Statement
53:17 Signing Off