David Cage Quotes

If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game.

There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

'Heavy Rain' is a cousin of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

With 'Heavy Rain,' we're creating something that changes many traditional game paradigms.

The technology for radiant stories in 'Skyrim' is phenomenal. We tried and pared it back.

The right way to enjoy 'Heavy Rain' is really to make one thing because it's going to be your story. It's going to be unique to you. It's really the story you decided to write.

We called 'Heavy Rain' an interactive drama, for whatever that's worth.

In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that you could be the main protagonist: you could be in the shoes of the hero and make the decisions.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.