By playing only half of season one I can honestly say The Walking Dead video game is almost the definition of the term”emergent narrative”. It’s a choose your own adventure type game that some what follows ideas from the comic. Just by playing the first half of season one for free, it left me in great suspense many times and had some very emotional tying story moments. Because of this I made it my choice for my favorite game that uses emergent narrative for a strong story.

There are so many games out there that have beautiful stories and narratives that will have a great impact on your experience of the games. Out of the plethora of games out there with great stories, I still have at least a dozen that I’ve wanted to play. To name a few; Mass Effect, Bioshock, Fallout, among a hand full of others. Because I haven’t played The Walking Dead I won’t use it as my example. Because it was the game that impacted my childhood like crazy and at the time made me realize what people could beautifully create potentially through video games. The Halo series. When I was younger and first started playing the campaign, it was the first time I had played through the story of a first person shooter.

The first thing I truly remember was the music that I instantly fell in love with. The theme music of Halo is a masterpiece that helped make the game famous. Besides the music, at the time, the game was a gorgeous experience that took it’s aesthetics to it’s own level, in my opinion. This in turn gave the game an opportunity to create an experience that was able to give me chills. The most vivid experience that came about me was when you first encounter the flood. The screeching sounds make for a high anxiety moment in surviving a force created to destroy entire populations of planets. Because I have played through all but one of the Halo games of the series (Halo 4), I chose it for my best story narrative experience.