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GAME PROFILES - EPISODIC?
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pyrodoom
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CloseWhat does episodic mean in this case, and how should it be used? Just curious, because I may need the information soon.
Say you have a game that is broken up into chapters - think Final Fantasy 4: The After years or The Walking Dead. Games that are only complete when all the parts are there. Not sequels.
If the game doesn't cliff-hang you at the end (and I'm not talking FF13-2 cliff-hang, either) then it doesn't count. Think of it like you'd see a trilogy of books. The first book isn't complete by itself. It needs the other two to make sense of the unresolved storyline. There's a small conflict passed, but it's not the major one and there are a lot of questions left unanswered, keeping you hanging until the next book comes out.
That is, in essence, what makes an Episodic game vs a Sequel.
If the game doesn't cliff-hang you at the end (and I'm not talking FF13-2 cliff-hang, either) then it doesn't count. Think of it like you'd see a trilogy of books. The first book isn't complete by itself. It needs the other two to make sense of the unresolved storyline. There's a small conflict passed, but it's not the major one and there are a lot of questions left unanswered, keeping you hanging until the next book comes out.
That is, in essence, what makes an Episodic game vs a Sequel.
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Say you have a game that is broken up into chapters - think Final Fantasy 4: The After years or The Walking Dead. Games that are only complete when all the parts are there. Not sequels.
If the game doesn't cliff-hang you at the end (and I'm not talking FF13-2 cliff-hang, either) then it doesn't count. Think of it like you'd see a trilogy of books. The first book isn't complete by itself. It needs the other two to make sense of the unresolved storyline. There's a small conflict passed, but it's not the major one and there are a lot of questions left unanswered, keeping you hanging until the next book comes out.
That is, in essence, what makes an Episodic game vs a Sequel.
In other words, episodic can be used in situations like if the game has a cliffhanger, or has chapters to be completed to finish the game.
A cliffhanger as in, the story isn't complete, I'm gonna halt it here for a moment and the next chapter will pick up from here.
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