Ken Levine is the only man pushing the story telling element in our medium forward. Games like MGS are just taking their cues from films and using cutscenes to tell the story. Ken is actually progressing the medium by working story into his games in a seemless way, creating the highest sense of immersion.

Put simply MGS tells a story in a way that any film could. Bioshock tells a story in a way only a videogame could.

While I believe the guys at Valve are doing the same thing with the Half-Life games there isn't that 1 man above all running the show on the creation side like Ken is.

Hats off to Ken and I hope you push it even more in Bioshock 2.

I agree somewhat. Ken Levine certainly isn't the most important man in video games but he does play a substantially big role in the industry. He does deliver a breath-taking story without the use of 20 minute cut scenes, and I do give him a tremendous amount of respect for that. Ken deserves credit for most of Bioshock's success; however, I don't feel he is the most important man in the video game industry.

"Ken Levine is the only man pushing the story telling element in our medium forward. Games like MGS are just taking their cues from films and using cutscenes to tell the story. Ken is actually progressing the medium by working story into his games in a seemless way, creating the highest sense of immersion.

Put simply MGS tells a story in a way that any film could. Bioshock tells a story in a way only a videogame could.

While I believe the guys at Valve are doing the same thing with the Half-Life games there isn't that 1 man above all running the show on the creation side like Ken is.

Hats off to Ken and I hope you push it even more in Bioshock 2.
"

"Ken Levine is the only man pushing the story telling element in our medium forward. Games like MGS are just taking their cues from films and using cutscenes to tell the story. Ken is actually progressing the medium by working story into his games in a seemless way, creating the highest sense of immersion.

Put simply MGS tells a story in a way that any film could. Bioshock tells a story in a way only a videogame could.

While I believe the guys at Valve are doing the same thing with the Half-Life games there isn't that 1 man above all running the show on the creation side like Ken is.

Hats off to Ken and I hope you push it even more in Bioshock 2.
"

"Hilit said:

"Ken Levine is the only man pushing the story telling element in our medium forward. Games like MGS are just taking their cues from films and using cutscenes to tell the story. Ken is actually progressing the medium by working story into his games in a seemless way, creating the highest sense of immersion.

Put simply MGS tells a story in a way that any film could. Bioshock tells a story in a way only a videogame could.

While I believe the guys at Valve are doing the same thing with the Half-Life games there isn't that 1 man above all running the show on the creation side like Ken is.

Hats off to Ken and I hope you push it even more in Bioshock 2.
"

I really couldn't disagree more with your statement about MGS. A MGS movie wouldn't work and would be very difficult to make not suck. Much of Snake's character development is through his experiences during the gameplay. MGS4's story feeds off its gameplay and vice-versa. They could go ahead and have the story play out completely before Snake's eyes in a first-person perspective and it'd be much like Bioshock (but with, in my opinion, a far better storyline and gameplay)."

I have a gay friend who is attracted to him.

I think he is one of the most important men/women in the business right now out of a small group of "elite" designers/programmers etc. I can't bring myself to say he is the "the most" important even though Bioshock may be my favorite game of all time.

No.

The most important man in the gaming industry is Miyamoto. Ken Levine is one of the big guys, though.

Half-Life storytelling > Bioshock storytelling.

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dude's initials are M.A.

Dude why the fuck is this thread back!?