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Video Games Where You Choose Your Own Danger
As a kid, deciding my favorite type of game was not only fun but hard to do. So as all kids do, we try to find that game that is right for us and after years of looking, I think that I found not only the game for me but the best genre of game that has been out for a long long time coming. This genre is called Interactive Drama Video Games and if you have never heard of those types of games then you have to be crazy. Until Dawn, The Devil In Me, The Quarry, Little Hope, and many more games like the ones I just named are Interactive Drama Videogames and I will say that now in today’s times, I will say that games with interactive drama are way better than any other genre in this generation. Not just for the play style, but for the money that it brought in for companies, for the feedback that YouTubers, people that I know personally that have played these types of games, and why I think they are the best point blank period.

The Rise of Gaming Companies

In the gaming world, there are companies that specialize in interactive games that I list at the beginning of the blog and a couple I am going to name are Telltale, Quantic Dream, and Dark Pictures. They are the most popular so far in the genre of gaming and people including me; are the ones that love these companies because of the work they put into these games. Between Telltale giving us The Batman series, The Walking Dead TellTale series, and Quantic Dream giving us Heavy Rain and Detriot: Become Human, the years before 2020 were stacked with bangers and bangers of games that supported our love for story and exciting thriller-based games. Then when The Dark Pictures Anthology started to come out with their games two being Until Dawn and Men of Medan which was one of their most popular games to come out, Youtubers which was all over that because it was different and that is what makes games like these the best. From Berleezy, Dashiegames, and RdcWorld1, popular YouTubers on youtube playing these types of games and companies sponsoring them to support their games and giving great reviews on those games that make their fan run and grab interactive drama games are enough to grab them.

The Features in Interactive Drama Games

These types of games have this function that really puts you on your toes while playing. I’m not talking about jumpscares o no no no, jumpscares are the least of your worries while playing these types of games o no. The function that I am talking about is OTE which stands for Quick Time Event. Now if you don’t know, OTE is basically when games go into like a cutscene but when these cutscenes start in these types of games, you need to start pushing some buttons and paying attention more because of the fact that these cutscenes are interactive. Meaning that if you are not paying attention, you could possibly get your character killed in this game or even lose that part of the game and have to start over which is a bummer for most people. In a game talk Detroit: Become Human, a blog states that ‘’Detroit: Become Human delivers an engaging moment comprised entirely of successive QTE events as Markus is found trying to repair himself using defunct android parts, escaping the very same fate of becoming decommissioned scrap.’’ This makes the consumers of the game not only want the game but want to play this game in order not to get the feeling of trying to survive in a good story-driven game.

The Games with Amazing Stories

Interactive games that have come out not only had the best story, and the best control system but also moments that had you thinking,’’ is this a movie, this game is so good they need to make one’’. Games like The Walking Dead, Until Dawn, Wolf Among Us, and The Devil In Me allow you to create your own story in the game and see the outcome of what you decided from the beginning to the end. For example, An iconic execution of this premise is the visceral saw scene in Until Dawn (2015), which takes a well-known torture porn concept but presents you with the intensely difficult choice of deciding who will live or die based entirely upon your emotional resonance with Josh or Ashley. Or in The Walking Dead where the famous Clementine at a young age with the player choice had to pick to kill a loved one or leave him to turn into a zombie which is heartbreaking. But to have that type of moment in games is one of the reasons why Interactive Drama games are always on top.

Why Interactive Games are the Best

Throughout the years that games have come out from 1983 to now, games that produce a live-action feel to it like Until Dawn, The Walking Dead and etc have not only become way better than the current games that have come out throughout the years. You can see that the more popular games are interactive games like the ones I named that have been talked about by others in the gaming communities instead of the others. For example, when Telltale The Walking Dead came out it sold ‘’over 8.5 million individual units sold by the end of 2012, The game has earned TellTale an estimated $40 million’’ till this day. That was just one game from one company, imagine if popular games like Detroit: Become Human sold over,’’ eight million copies worldwide as of January 2023, surpassing its previous sales volume of 6.5 million units from March 2022 by 1.5 million.” Not to mention, different sites that review interactive games such as the ones I named talk about it saying,’’ When I first heard a game was being made with the title 'The Walking Dead' I jumped for joy,’’ or ‘’ I played this so many times and do not regret I did. This is not for everyone of course ... you have to love story game-telling with little to no action.’’ That was a comment from an Until Dawn video game fan imagine the other comments you get from all games like Until Dawn or The Walking Dead Series, endless fun and probabilities just from one to many games if played by you.

Now you see it, the Stats, the fan review, the features that come with Interactive Drama Video games, the thrill, the danger, and most important the storytelling where you can choose your fate. That is what makes games like Until Dawn, The Walking Dead, and Detroit: Become Human the best genre of games out there by far. If I don’t tell enough about how great they are, click the links in this blog that are in blue, the YouTubers or the reviews of other people will let you confirm why Interactive Drama Video games are the best genre type of game to play out here in this generation.