Game, movie, feature film? Why so some differentiation is outdated

Last week, unfortunately, it did not stress with a new column, sorry to the billion people who desperately sat in front of their screens and smartphones and bitterly cried. In fact, away from holiday breaks, so far my only column failure since the beginning of the year. Damn, Combo Breaker!

But enough of the review, my topic today: Media forms, and I had to think about it because I currently have great Ace Attorney Games (for weeks, damn, the thing is long!).

No matter who asks, everyone will say: is a video game. Sure, runs on PC and console, you press buttons, so must be a game.

Table of contents

1. 1See fun
2. 2 game movie
3. 3 on the ears
4. 4What may come

But what do you do most of the time? Read. Yes, there are interactive elements, because then a 3D proof of evidence is turned, and you also solve simple puzzles, if you like the presentation of an item at the right moment. But in the core it s a visual novel, not anymore.

To what extent, I ask myself, is that far from the book in the hand? And especially of the e-reader?

Reading fun

Game, movie, feature film? Why so some distinction is outdated (1) Source: PC Games and also there: Meanwhile, there are e-reader that own gaming elements. And you do not even need that, you re just back a bit back in time and meet there on Choose Your Own Adventure Books. Then you decide at certain pages as the story should continue and then experiences different courses and ends.

Is that really as different as a Visual Novel? Already there you can ask yourself if that is not a kind of video game.

Sure, I realize, of course, that also refers to the electronic aspect if the functions are similar to each other, but in my opinion, but only obsolete terminology.

Motion pictures

Game, movie, feature film? Why so some distinction is outdated (5) Source: Netflix and also I do not take out of this merger. I m not the biggest fan of it, but projects like Bandersnatch or Erica also deviate the boundaries. And they have significantly older predecessors: Already in the 1980s, Dirk The Daring knew about Dragon s Lair to save the princess. In the 1990s then FMV games were extremely popular, in which also interactively real actors were swapped. On the other hand, AAA titles like Uncharted now look more like playable films than anything else.

Do not misunderstand, many of these experiments are bad, others badly aged. But the idea behind it is that she makes for me so attractive.

On the ears

Game, movie, feature film? Why so some distinction is outdated (2) Source: Sony and music? Well, that is so intrinsically linked to all other media genres anyway, that it is not indispensable. Radio plays, on and down sounds Depending on the situation in a game, the bombastic accompaniment of cinema blockbustern - music is always just as important as the visual aspect, and influences the gameplay directly at a game. Sometimes in the truest sense of the word, because music and rhythm matches are not only popular since yesterday.

What may come there

What does I want to go out? I believe that this strict subdivision is overtaken in media genres. A book can be a game can be a movie whatever can be, and that goes in all other directions as well.

Which expanded, modern classification would be useful, I do not dare to assess. But I think that we are here on a threshold, which will ensure that we will not have so far different names for the media, which we will consume. Finally, these stuck patterns are also a barrier, which in the worst case retains innovative developments.

The future is scary enough, but that s a development that I m looking forward to seeing.

About the author

Game, movie, feature film? Why some differentiation is outdated (6) Source: Lukas Schmid Lukas Schmid has been working since 2010 in different features at Computec Media and thus with PC Games, first as a trainee, then as a free employee, then as a volunteer, editor and now as a guiding editor for pcgames.de, videogameszone.de, video game and Gamezone.de. He loves action, adventure, action adventures, shooter, Jump & Runs, horror and roleplaying, with strategy titles, most rogue likes and military simulations can be hunted. Every Saturday at about 09:00 clock he shares you in his column, which annoys him or happy again. Hass comments and love letters like to the comments under the Column, [Email Protected] or on Twitter on @schmid luki.

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