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Video Game Creators Seek Out Hollywood for Robust Narratives
Video games are facing a fight for attention. So game studios are turning to film and television writers to help craft narratives for their titles.
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Why in the world do we want to turn to TV and Movie writers for games? TV ratings are in the crapper, Movies are posting record numbers but they are mostly remakes, so what's the appeal to turn to these people if they aren't propping up their own industry?
Of course with all the information and the number of people making entertainment we've reached a point where stories have maybe been covered from most angles and everything feels like a remake. Kind of like music, there are only so many chords and so many ways to play them before it gets repetitive.