When I first started this course, I doubted the value of it on my degree, and if it would actually change how I looked at narratives. However, over the course of the summer, more then once I have said to Dave, "You’ve ruined another piece of enjoyment for me". Of course this was meant in jest, but it lies in truth. On more than one occasion during this paper, I have stopped and contemplated how digital narratives and more ‘modern’ (i.e. Television and film) narratives, disrupt the typical (if I may say, simpler) form of narratives that the average person would be use to. Yet, at the same time it must be accepted that people are slowly coming to terms with these changes (just see the massive popularity of Lost, 24 and MMORPG games).

So often in modern times people complain that a story has a weak finish, or an un-resolved ending. As if to say we as the reader/viewer deserve closure, and that any artistic merit the author/artist/director put into their narrative, and the way it was produced doesn’t really matter. Yet in this day and age of updates, modifications and patches, should we not be used to the un-finished, the un-resolved? In the field of software often we accept that what we receive may not be the finished product. Yes we may whinge a little, but we still go out and buy the latest product, and then sit at home, and whinge to customer support about how the product doesn’t work and when the patch will be released (for an example see news on the release of Civilization 4 or visit www.civfanatics.com).

Digital narratives have made me question what I deem to be a narrative, and what is presented to us as narratives. Because of this, no longer do I simply accept an ending to a story, I question and query as to why the story was resolved in the style presented to us. To me it seems that in the 21st century the word narrative and its meaning of telling a story, does not seem big enough to encompass all of what I can now see and question to be a narrative.