My Favourite Video Game Featuring: Stonebrother

My Favourite Video Game is a guest feature from bands and artists where we set them a simple task… tell us about your favourite video game. In this feature, Ethan Smith (drummer) of hard rock band, Stonebrother, took up the mantle and you can read all about his choices below.

If I had to pick a favourite video game, I think I would honestly have to say Life Is Strange would be my pick.

From a gameplay perspective, it’s incredibly simple. From a dialogue perspective, it’s absolutely atrocious. Almost none of the dialogue in the game actually sounds like a real person would say it. So what makes it good? The story.

Plenty of games have some plot elements wrapped around the gameplay, most first person shooter games I’ve seen are like this, but Life Is Strange does the opposite; the gameplay is simple, and is used to move the story along. The story itself is amazing too; before this game, I had never seen a plot like time travel explored in quite this way, especially with the heavy emphasis on the butterfly effect and chaos theory. One small change to the space-time continuum and the universe essentially spirals out of control.

There are plenty of games like this, Detroit: Become Human being one of the most popular examples, and there are certainly games that have done it better. Better stories, better graphics, better gameplay, definitely better dialogue. But even with all of that in mind, Life Is Strange is the first game that I ever experienced that played out like it did, if you’ll excuse the pun.

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