Poll: What do you think when people don't care about the plot?
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I can understand that, but cutscenes have never bothered me much. The alternative is aptly demonstrated by Half-Life 2 - you get long, unskippable periods of standing in a room while some douchebag drones on at you about what you're supposed to do next, or has conversations with his friends while you resort to running around and smacking stuff with your crowbar until something happens. And to add insult to injury, you can't skip them if you want to. Yes, it is possible to tell a story without cutscenes in a better way, but nobody seems to realise that (though I heard some of the CoD games have no cutscenes, and I've never heard them called boring, though I've heard them called plenty of other things...). Also, how did you manage to skip Mass Effect's cutscenes? I thought you couldn't, and had to select options from the dialogue tree to progress (which I always found one of the most interesting parts of the game).TheKasp said:Scrolling textboxes of doom (or also known as the beginning of Star Wars). Not only is it just reading a book, I have bad eyes and they start to hurt when I try to read something moving on the screen. This is the reason why those are worse than cutscenes.OhJohnNo said:Out of interest, what's the absolute worst way to tell a story?
Also, screw you Captcha. I will find revenge one day.
My problem (the eye problem aside) with both: When I use an interactinve medium like games it is always a step backwards to deliver a story solely or majorly in cutscenes. Actually, Mass Effect 2 is one example how you can deliver a story without cutscenes and use those only for a little more information. I only watched two cutscenes. The start of the final mission and the end of it. Everything in between was soooo boring. When I did not skip them I went into the kitchen to make me some sandwiches or coffee. But when I finished the game I still remembered every charakter, their motivations, the plot, many sidequests etc. And I still do up until today. So am I someone who is not interested in story because I skip cutscenes? No, I am someone who is not interested in watching a movie while I play a game. Interactive dialogue, backstory provided by things you see while playing, background dialogue. This are the things I love in games.
tl.dr: Cutscenes => I prefer a movie. Textboxes => I prefer a book.
It depends. If it's just some random people on the internet, I don't really care. If it's people I know, it's kinda unnerving.
I remember lending Shadow of the Colossus to a friend of mine and after a few days he says the game sucks, he doesn't know what to do, he's been riding around and the game doesn't tell him anything. I reply, umm, you have to hold up your sword and follow the light? You know, like Dormin tells you? And he's like, nope, never heard of it, I skipped the cutscene.
I remember lending Shadow of the Colossus to a friend of mine and after a few days he says the game sucks, he doesn't know what to do, he's been riding around and the game doesn't tell him anything. I reply, umm, you have to hold up your sword and follow the light? You know, like Dormin tells you? And he's like, nope, never heard of it, I skipped the cutscene.
It's more like "no-bother" than "don't care" and that's because the grate majority of mainstream game plots will probably be average for my tastes. If a game looks like it tries something interesting (for my highly conceptualised cloud of stories buried into the deepest parts of my brain) then I will pay attention to the story as I play the game. But one slip in the immersion factor and it's an instant burn in the deepest fires of mount Doom.
That said, you should try playing Okami and Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4. If you haven't already.
That said, you should try playing Okami and Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4. If you haven't already.
Depends on the game. If it's something like WoW, then meh, I'll retreat into the Society of Lore-Whores (at least when I was playing it). If it's something like a Bioware game, then I get annoyed. But only if it's someone I know. If it's someone from the internet, I don't care.
It doesn't bother me, they bought the game and can do what they want with and we on the forums can argue over the plot why they have some fun. Ignoring the plot can help your experience as well, if the plot makes no sense and you sit there going over every detail then you'll realise how terrible it is. However if you ignore it and 'go with the flow' then you can just have fun. My final point is that YouTube is personality based, you don't watch people because of their knowledge for things like lets play. That's my opinions now go ignore them otherwise I start a thread about how people must ignore my opinions because I put them there to be ignored.
There have definitely been times when I honestly couldn't have cared less about the overarching plot of a game, or cared more about some tiny segment of it than the rest of it. For example, I honestly would have enjoyed L.A. Noire just as much if each case or desk had been their own self-contained story and they hadn't bothered with an overarching plot.
And it doesn't really bother me when others don't care about story. Plenty of games don't have them (or, at least, don't have one that matters). I have friends who actually skipped nearly all the dialogue in Fallout 3 and New Vegas because, to them, the fun was in the fighting and exploring, not listening to plot.
And it doesn't really bother me when others don't care about story. Plenty of games don't have them (or, at least, don't have one that matters). I have friends who actually skipped nearly all the dialogue in Fallout 3 and New Vegas because, to them, the fun was in the fighting and exploring, not listening to plot.
I feel very sorry for the developers and i think those people are ignorants and dont deserve a good product
Depends on the game and the situation. I have to agree with the sentiment that you're probably doing an LP wrong if you're skipping over the story. But some games are the plot equivalent to porn, thinly stitched together to justify the action, and I usually won't bother with them. And I can't blame people for not bothering.
Other times, I love the game, but the story's just BAD.
Other times, I love the game, but the story's just BAD.
As long as gaming compagnies don't decide that " hey no one wants plot anymore lets no make any more games with plot to save monies " i don't really care . That being said , everytime , someone disregards plot in a well written video game story , i die a little inside .
