Originality: Not Dead, Just Forgotten
1,137 views · Published 7 January 2010 · 4:17 · Indexed 25 October 2026
Channel: bloodrunsclear · 2010 · Entertainment
A showcase of adventure games from all eras and their imaginative plots. This will hopefully put to rest once and for all the people who claim that nothing is, was, or can be original. Tell me with a straight face while reading these descriptions (paused if they go by too quickly) 'I've heard THAT one a million times!' - The music is This Is The New Shit by Marilyn Manson. Seemed appropriate. - Originality isn't just coming up with something no one's ever seen. It's also looking at what exists in a new way, combining ideas that have never been combined before. In the times before advanced graphics all that could distinguish games or make them stand out was innovative stories that could be found no where besides experiencing the game. For those of you who don't know or remember, adventure games were based around solving puzzles, talking to people, and figuring out mysteries, rather then just killing everything. These had the most complex and interesting plots in many cases since the plot would be the main selling point of the game. You can see this trend of toying with old ideas and cobbling together new ones with way-out concepts and feats of imagination extended all the way through the inception of adventure games to just shy of the present. Even in the past people knew that the only way to remain original and fresh was to take risks, mix genres, dream big. - So the next person who tells you Avatar or any other film or game gets a free pass because nothing can be, has been, or will be original...kindly escort them to this video. This is only a few of the ideas they slander with that statement. - Nothing will be original...unless we try to make it so. Take a tip from the classic madness of early adventure games. - The quotes at the end are from Herman Melville and Benjamin Franklin.
