Story over gameplay, what was the last game that you were addicted to because of its story/writing?
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My favourite game ever. Soooo many stories in it all of them gripping. The fighting system was pretty standard and boring. But i never got to finish the main quest on account of the game freezing later on.Naeo said:
Games that i did finish due to story were dead space, Halo wars, mass effect and Turok.
Jindrak said:
Wait what? Someone besides me who loves that game?
I love all Geneforge games <3
And I have played the Exile game with school of magery (other games of spiderweb software dont really appeal to me)
I feel your pain, playing MGS for the story is very hard to do. I can't stand the gameplay, the controls are bad, the stealth is horrible, I just can't replay those games.Jumplion said:
But conversely: The story is bollocks. Whilst playing the game the story stands up fairly well, it's well presented and monumentally gripping. But as soon as you step away from the controller and think...the whole thing falls apart. Spectacularly. And don't get me started on the MGS4 ending. Screw you Kojima. Is a little emotional payoff too much to ask for?
Mass Effect, as far as the game itself goes I bought it all of 2 weeks ago so visually it's a little behind, it's repetative and the non storyline internal locations follow 3 or 4 rigid templates with the differences being where objects are placed and there are little niggles like the lack of many hubs, the abundance of credits making them not especially valuable etc etc.
All that said the story and the characters kept me involved and I lost some 20 odd hours just exploring the galaxy and exploring the story.
All that said the story and the characters kept me involved and I lost some 20 odd hours just exploring the galaxy and exploring the story.
THe .Hack G.U series everytime I wanted to stop playing Ovan would show up and make me want to find that fucker even more so he could explain whats going on. Same thinhg with Kingdom Heats, It dropped a key scene at just the right moment to keep me going.
I second all but oblivion. because wow was that a generic story line.....honestly i played oblivion for the wacky side quests.Glademaster said:
One game i played for the "story" was The Darkness. I mean i was pretty bored up until a certain someone gets their brains sprayed all over a certain window you're looking through. After that I was all, "Your F@&!<ing dead PAULY!" I thinks thats the first game that I actually played simply to get revenge on the bad guy.
well, for history, i have to go with Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 and 4
i loved those histories, and i played several times to get all the endings
wich is something to say because i never play a game more than once, also, the history of ocarina of time was of my liking.
i loved those histories, and i played several times to get all the endings
wich is something to say because i never play a game more than once, also, the history of ocarina of time was of my liking.
I think most recent was probably Ar Tonelico (finished last week) it wasn't the greatest story in the world but it pulled me in and I just had to know what was going to happen. I think the biggest one has to be valkyria Chronicles I went through and read all the back stories and such on all the characters and just could not get enough of the history of the world.
Something interesting about the first couple of Exile games: Jeff Vogel hand drew the graphics for it. If Spiderweb Software were to be given the same development staff as, say, Halo, I'm convinced they could create a game that ends wars.headshotcatcher said:
What's with all the Mass Effect praising? I get that people have different taste, but exactly what was it that made the story and the characters of ME interesting? I found the characters boring and cliched, and the story was pretty much a "textbook" RPG story. Let's look at it...
Now, I'm not saying that the story in ME is bad, but it's nothing new. It's one of the standard plots, just like "Destroy the One... eh... Bracelet", or "Collect all the parts of this thing that was broken into pieces long ago". I mean, after the first planet, you know pretty much how the story is going to play out, because it's been done so many times before.
The last game with better story than gameplay I played was Baldur's Gate. When I played the original, I had a pretty poor understanding of the AD&D rules, so didn't really enjoy the gameplay that much. The story kept me interested all the way through though.
PC discovers Mysterious Ancient Threat(TM), learns that Purely Evil Bad Guy(TM) wants to use this to conquer the world (or galaxy in this case), goes after Bad Guy, learning more about the Ancient Threat every time (s-)he clears a dungeon (planet) of Bad Guys' Mindless Servants (TM) (because, as we all know, Bad Guys love leaving clues in heavily populated dungeons). Along the way the PC will become romantically involved with one of his/her companions, because, let's face it, the romance plot is so easy that you can't possibly fail. PC eventually destroys both the Bad Guy and the Ancient Threat just as the world is about to come to an end.
Now, I'm not saying that the story in ME is bad, but it's nothing new. It's one of the standard plots, just like "Destroy the One... eh... Bracelet", or "Collect all the parts of this thing that was broken into pieces long ago". I mean, after the first planet, you know pretty much how the story is going to play out, because it's been done so many times before.
The last game with better story than gameplay I played was Baldur's Gate. When I played the original, I had a pretty poor understanding of the AD&D rules, so didn't really enjoy the gameplay that much. The story kept me interested all the way through though.