Cory Barlog Quotes

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.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

The goal for us to do with Squanchtendo is to approach all of our projects with a goal of adding interesting characters, personality, and a story to interact with in-game. Every game we make will be built from the ground up for whatever hardware it will launch on.

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.

Inside the world of 'Devil May Cry,' we're not changing gameplay very much. We're making it more beautiful, more action-packed, and giving you a few more features, but the gameplay itself is the pretty much the same.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

I've only ever played 'God of War' while we were shooting it. I've seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting 'God of War,' they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we'd sit there playing 'God of War' to get us into the mood.

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

I would love to make video games.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

There have been a lot of amazing action games that, perhaps, the focus is on cinematics or story or even how the camera works so that they've created this amazing immersive experience.

I think you have to serve a lot of masters when you're doing a video game: you're not just telling a linear story or doing something that's all action.

Particularly with our games, people get involved with the characters and the world. They're going to take their time with it pretty seriously, so we need to take it even more seriously to make it good.