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Vidya vs. anime: which is the better storytelling medium? Which has the greater artistic potential (taking culture and context into account)? Which do you expect to achieve greater things in the future?

>> No.12808817

Video games will probably engage more people over their whole lifetime, anime is a subset of animation anyways it’s like asking if sci-fi literature will triumph all music artistically.

>> No.12808831

>>12808751
name me five video games with better stories than the following:
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
Only Yesterday
Whisper of the Heart
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika
Your Name
A Silent Voice
In This Corner of the World
Wolf Children
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Death Note
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Cowboy Bebop
Ergo Proxy
Violet Evergarden
Devilman Crybaby

>> No.12808844

>>12808831
Mother 2
Gta San andreas
Red Dead Redemption 2
Final Fantasy 7
Ratchet and Clank

>> No.12808854

>>12808751
Anime as a medium is built on an intentional avoidance of challenging the viewer. Peak anime converges with ultimate decadence and pure entertainment. Any interactive medium of art is going to have a higher ceiling of storytelling potential than a passive one.

>> No.12808856

anime but the list posted above makes me suicidal

>> No.12808861

>>12808844
shadow of colossus
gregory horror show
telltale's the walking dead

>> No.12808868

>>12808831
Though I doubt any of the following surpass the best of the Ghibli movies on your list, some notables:
Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 (especially the latter)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Undertale
Fallout 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Arcanum

>> No.12808893

>>12808831
>>12808844
Throwing Final Fantasy 9, Final Fantasy Tactics, System Shock 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Beyond Good and Evil, and Planescape Torment to that list too

Gotta say that asking for direct narrative comparisons is not giving video games their full service because even with simpler plots and characters they can evoke more from the audience by how well they can immerse you not just how well they spin a yarn not to say that anime has deeper plots and characters. The story on paper may not evoke a powerful emotion or moral onto the player but in motion the player gets something deeper.

>> No.12808910

>>12808751
video games and AR are obviously the greatest from of media and storytelling ever invented thus far, by far. And i dont even play video games. Anime is just childish bullshit 99 percent of the time, and the other 1 percent its brilliant animated film. but animated film the audience cannot interact with <<<<<<dynamic animated film the audience is a main character in

>> No.12808914

this isn’t literature you fucking niggers

>> No.12808918

>>12808844
Based and redpilled
>>12808861
Not based and not pilled
>>12808893
Elderly man

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>>12808918
>elderly man
>tfw I can’t even play vidya anymore
>I fall asleep at 7pm every night
>I’m only 22

>> No.12808937

>>12808914
It's do with art and storytelling. Go bother philosophy threads.

>> No.12808952

>>12808751
Animé is nonsense to me desu. I don't get the appeal.
video games have appeal but a lot of the good shit is indie and never see the light of day outside of niche online communities