One other option (Gaming)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, March 19, 2018, 11:38 (2238 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

One of the things I thing (hope?) we’re slowly moving towards is being able to tell stories across different films and even across mediums and have those different works enhance each other. Marvel is kinda already doing this with years worth of very different movies all funneling into an Avengers movie every several years. Games already do this to, to an extent. Most games have their main, in your face plot and deeper stories and lore there if someone wants to find them.

I think the key is each piece of a property (a game, a film, a book, etc) needs to be good on its own. But with a little planning they can be good on their own and support each other. Avengers was a fun movie, but it was even more fun if you’d watched Iron Man, Captain America, Iron Man 2, Thor, etc. Halo was a great game. The Fall of Reach was a good book. Either one could be enjoyed without the other but put them together and you understood much more about what the stakes were and what was happening.

Sure, you can sometimes end up with something that is not well understood by your audience if they didn’t watch or find each segment... but on the other end, you can’t tell a story at all without some engagement from your audience. If they change the channel or see a different movie then your story does not reach them.

One of the big things right now from Marvel to Star Wars to the various super high quality streaming miniseries is that audiences will really engage with complex, multilayered stories if you have good production quality and writing and so on.

At the end of the day, if you demand that your audience pays attention, you’ll be able to weave better stories for them.