Ah! The standard internet spastic-autistic reply. Throwing around big words without a clue what they mean, nor any desire to devote some time towards trying to find out. An approach that would have worked beautifully in any other place on the internet -- except this one!
Oh, well. I'll take it very very slowly for you kid, so pay attention:
azukipanda wrote:There's no reason why a video game couldn't have the intellectual and emotional sophistication of a great film.
A videogame is a set of rules. Nothing more and nothing less. The only sophistication appropriate to a videogame is therefore that of
rule design. As for
intellectual sophistication... well, you see, computer programs are products of the human intellect, so obviously complicated computer programs will by definition have what you would call a great amount of "intellectual sophistication".
But you need to realize that the intellectual sophistication of a movie is a completely different beast from the intellectual sophistication of a game. The first refers to
narrative design, the second to
rule design.
Therefore, saying that "There's no reason why a video game couldn't have the intellectual sophistication of a great film" does not even make any sense, since you are comparing two completely different things. The sentence is logically inconsistent -- it's basically gibberish.
As for
emotional sophistication... what the fuck is that supposed to even be? Which films would you call "emotionally sophisticated"? The ones that make you cry? If so, I would advise you to stop reading this website and start reading this one:
http://gaygamer.net/
More seriously, let me tell you something: making people cry in movies is a completely different thing than making people cry in games. In a movie, you cry when you see someone hit someone else with a sledgehammer in the face. You empathize with the fate of the person that got hit: this is where the tears come from. In a game, HOWEVER, you cry when someone hits YOU with a sledgehammer in the face. The tears come because IT HURTS, not because of empathy.
Are you catching my drift, son, or is all this still far too subtle for you?
If you are still not catching it, that's too bad. You'll either have to read my upcoming book, once it is published, or, if you don't want to do that for whatever reason, you will never understand what the fuck it is I am talking about here.
(You might still not understand after reading the book, but if you are still perplexed about all this it'll be the best chance you'll ever get.)