Video Game Designer

Just like a movie, the last survivor uses narrative methods to minimize the player's uncontrollable time.

Usually in the narrative process of the game, most game manufacturers will use CG or real-time calculation animation to express, and during this period of time, players can only watch movies, and cannot manipulate characters to make actions.

Even in some online games, many game manufacturers use this method, and they call it a 3A-style game expression method.

In fact, they did show enough sincerity, because those CG productions are indeed very exciting, even top-notch.

But this is a game, not a movie, not an anime.

What players want is to play the game and experience the plot of the game through the process of playing, instead of sitting there stupidly and watching him play automatically.

This is a method that is very difficult for players to accept, but there are still many manufacturers who are willing to use this method. As for the reason, it is because it is the simplest method and everyone is doing it.

If this method is not used to force players to watch, it is very likely that players will ignore the plot content in the game, resulting in no way to experience the real plot core of the game.

However, this kind of compulsion allows players to experience the plot, Chuhe has always refused, including the previous Red Dead Redemption to minimize the occurrence of this situation, although it is inevitable that there will still be such uncontrollable plots, but the production team We will try to reduce this possibility as much as possible, but let players participate.

This is also due to the rapid development of today's game technology. In the previous game, the protagonist defeated an enemy in the narration of the plot. Fight somewhere, and then play a CG animation that has been recorded.

But now, the fighting process can be omitted, allowing players to play freely. After the enemy's blood volume is reduced to the trigger point of the plot, a short uncontrollable plot is triggered, which is the plot narrative demonstration after the enemy is defeated.

This is an improvement in the game's narrative. In addition to the details of the game, today's game technology can do more.

For example, in The Last Survivor, the interaction between people, the interaction between people and the scene, just like in the game, the player manipulates Joel to various locations or sees different props, which will trigger Joel's small lines.

And in the game, Ellie saw a giraffe for the first time, and reached out to touch it, as well as the subtle movements of the face and body parts during the conversation, all of which can already be done through the technology of the game itself.

And these details are all efforts to allow players to better immerse themselves in the game world, but the previous technologies can only be made up by CG animation.

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With The Last of Us released for half a month, most players have already cleared the main storyline of the game. Of course, just like Red Dead Redemption, the end of the main storyline of the game does not mean that there is nothing to play in the game.

Although the map area in The Last Survivor is not as large as Red Dead Redemption, it is definitely not small. Even because of post-apocalyptic cities, wilderness, and maze-like places, the content that can be explored in The Last Survivor is much larger than that of Red Dead Redemption. More than Red Dead Redemption.

If you have to say that it is different from Red Dead Redemption, it is that the last survivor in the narrative is a linear mode. Of course, the game itself has an exploration mode in addition to the story mode.

In this mode, players will be able to freely experience the entire game world, which is the so-called sandbox mode.

Similar to the famine mode, players can build their own camps in it, and even recruit team members to build bases together.

And this has also allowed many players to find some very interesting ways to play.

For example, on youtube and a domestic barrage video website, there are a large number of live videos about players in the exploration mode.

And both have a very high click volume.

"It's so boring. It's not as fun as Red Dead Redemption in the sandbox mode. There are no side story missions. When will we be able to open the multiplayer mode?"

Tariq sat on the sofa and watched the game screen on the TV, put down the controller dully and returned to his room.

After his father spent three days clearing the level, he finally regained the ownership of the console, and followed him through the level.

But after passing the level, he found it a bit boring.

Indeed, judging from the plot, this is a masterpiece, but after the plot ended, he felt a little bored in the sandbox mode of free exploration.

Although there are many ways to play in the sandbox mode, he has basically never delved into it. It is just ordinary shopping and fighting zombies, and then accepting tasks in the city and watching the scenery.

As for building a base, gaining favor with NPCs, and operating a base, he didn't do it, because he didn't think it was fun.

"What is this? The game video of Huaxia players?"

Sitting in front of the computer, Tariq, who was looking for interesting videos in youtube, suddenly saw a video with a high number of clicks. Judging from the title and cover of the video, it was a game video of the last survivor, and it seemed to be The video made by Huaxia players, after all, the square words on the cover, Tarek, who went to Huaxia Shanghai before, still has a little impression.

"Fortunately, there is an interpreter."

Entering the video, Tariq looked at the English subtitles below and put down the mouse to read the content of the video, but the translated content made him not understand what it meant.

The beginning of the video is a picture, a group of farmers carrying hoes, and soldiers wearing green uniforms and green hats mixed in the crowd, and then pulled a banner.

Fortunately, the video has a simultaneous English alphabet translation, so that Tariq can understand what it means.

‘There has never been a savior, neither God nor fate, the people’s happiness depends on themselves! '

‘Stay united to promote development, focus on a certain construction, bravely climb new heights in science and technology, and work hard to create a better tomorrow for doomsday civilization! '

"What the hell is this?" Tariq looked at the video playing in front of him in a daze.

Obviously it is also the content of the last survivor, why do I always feel that this video is not the same game as I am playing?

Why is it accompanied by such a joyful background song?

Tarek stared at the computer screen with wide eyes.

If it is in the two-dimensional world of comics, you must be able to see three black question marks hanging above Tarek's head.