Friday, April 23, 2010

How is our Media Changing?

Recently I rented a game called Heavy Rain, and the more I played it, the more I realized that this is not a game, this is an interactive movie.

After realizing this it got me think, how long will movies that you just watch be around? Would more people rather play the movie rather than watch it? Also how will it change the entertanment industry.

This game acctually changes the story depending on your actions while playing the game, the game has over 50 endings. So who will want to watch a movie with the same ending every single time, would they rather play this game and get a different story and a different ending every single time?

Heavy Rain (the game)

4 comments:

  1. That is a very good point. I guess it adds some extra excitement when you play the game, instead of the same story over and over again.

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  2. True, once a movie has been filmed, it never gets changed. But I don't think that games will completely take over. They don't have the same acting abilities as real people. And when watching a movie, you know that the actors are real, making the stunts they do seem that much cooler.

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  3. ya, but they might change movies like that to, theres an episode of futurerama that makes fun of this, but you never know

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  4. I think I saw a show on the discovery channel, and they had a little segment of some new technology. It takes the pictures of the people entering the theater, then it takes the faces and digitally makes them the faces of the actors in the movie. The potential of movies is fr from reached, who knows what will be the new movie trends.

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