Audience and Industry

 12/02/24

• Lots of gamers watch ‘walk-throughs’ or read official guides to complete video games and win all the trophies.
• Twitch – This is a website when games play against top gamers/can watch them speed through it 

Only 2.4% of people who’ve played on the PlayStation have achieved all the trophies! 

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• The trophies have no real gain to the game, it’s just for ‘bragging rights’. Once you achieve all the trophies, you unlock the platinum achieve trophy and “platinum a game”

Successful

• it allows people who are creative and imaginative people to flow and enjoy 
• classic game play can entertain, surprise and is capable of many things 
• keeps the classic way of building and smashing bricks 
• matched visual aesthetic of the film as everything is made out of lego
• unique details

Unsuccessful

• very repetitive 
• no reward for completing and boring after tasks have been done
• some of the tasks are too easy 
• lousy job of delivering a storyline 

How can you apply the Uses & Gratifications Theory to the Lego Movie video game? (10)

 The sense of actual identity and aspirational identity can be seen in the use of a first-person protagonist (to associate directly with the gamer) and the ‘quest’ to explore new worlds in The Lego Movie Video game. The theme of good versus evil is often a key social value in video games and is at the heart of this game too. 

The lego movie video games has a sense of personal identity as it includes characters from the film. This way people can play as their favourite characters that they identify with the most, as a result this will allow the player to have a sense of escapism as they can pretend they are their favourite character and imagine they are apart of the lego world. for example girls who are alternative and don't fit in with the beauty standards such as wlydstyle might buy the game so they can pretend they are as fearless as her.

Furthermore the lego movie video game  applies entertainment for the audience.They get the opportunity to complete levels and challenges and have the rewarding feeling of winning trophies. The audience can play  the game when bored for fun.