31st March 2005, 6:02 PM
DJ you have no idea what you're talking about, you didn't even understand what I said.
OB1 I agree with you completely, but I think ytou misunderstood me, video games cannot be movies and should not try to be (we agree with that), story telling in video games will always be krap if they try to emulate actual story telling (using the traditional guidelines), video games call for a new breed of story telling and the only people doing that in my opinion are the devs who design gameplay mechanics that are fun and then throw a story over it as long as it doesn't get in the way of the game. Mario 64 is the most pure example of it.
Dark Vader has a son who must carry the burden of freeing his people and bring about the end of suffering by trusting in the force.
I see context of Moses and/or Jesus and faith in God. Dark Vader is an immaculate conception, the only time this has ever happened in any lore or any type of mythos is when that child is the son of a God and since George is Christian I can only assume he was thinking of the Christian ideal of God and created a Star Wars counterpart of it. To say that Star Wars has no religous overtones or that Vader has no context of God or Jesus (at the very least, in a mild sense) is a false statement.
OB1 I agree with you completely, but I think ytou misunderstood me, video games cannot be movies and should not try to be (we agree with that), story telling in video games will always be krap if they try to emulate actual story telling (using the traditional guidelines), video games call for a new breed of story telling and the only people doing that in my opinion are the devs who design gameplay mechanics that are fun and then throw a story over it as long as it doesn't get in the way of the game. Mario 64 is the most pure example of it.
Dark Vader has a son who must carry the burden of freeing his people and bring about the end of suffering by trusting in the force.
I see context of Moses and/or Jesus and faith in God. Dark Vader is an immaculate conception, the only time this has ever happened in any lore or any type of mythos is when that child is the son of a God and since George is Christian I can only assume he was thinking of the Christian ideal of God and created a Star Wars counterpart of it. To say that Star Wars has no religous overtones or that Vader has no context of God or Jesus (at the very least, in a mild sense) is a false statement.