[sub](I ran a search, but the forum search wouldn't process it. So, I'm starting a new topic, reguardless of there probably have been one some time in the past. Don't blame me. Blame a search function that, for whatever reason, wouldn't work when I wanted to investigate this topic. ^_^)[/sub]
I'm a story writer, and a novice comic book artist/illustrator. Story telling is my strongest art form, and favorite aspect of video gaming (or entertainment, for that matter). "A game without a story is pointless," I've often said. A great story will let me forgive other parts of a game I maybe don't like. Or even let me play a game I wouldn't normally try. There's been a lot of greats out there, too. Great-greats! So many, we're bound to skip over more than a few of them in this thread.
If you could, lets discuss some of your choice video game told stories. But I want to hear more than the game name. Talk about what it is about the games story that appeals to you. And game arcs are more than fine. If a game takes three installments to tell the whole thing, that's okay.
I've just gotten done watching all the cut scenes for FF7 Crisis Core on Youtube. I don't own a psp, and finally accepted the fact that it may never be ported to the ps2/psn like I had hoped. So in place of getting to play the game, I banked on what I knew of JRPGs and Square-Enix in paticular, and hoped that the entirety of the story would be communicated through animated-movie-like cut scenes-- and I was mostly right.
I felt like the creators did the (FF7) franchise a great service by weaving the story the way they did. In contrast to Cloud, Zach was such a warm character, and instantly likeable. (Perhaps that contrast is why I liked him, since most characters like in in jrpgs I find irritating. Still love Cloud too.) Knowing the end of the game made liking the character that much harder. And watching the familiar cut scenes from flash back moments in the original FF7 made me squee. :3
Final Fantasy 7, and the arcing story that is connected to the game often lingers in my head when I think of great stories in games. Maybe not the greatest story telling elements were used (even people playing the game find things hard to follow at times), but the story shone through anyway as something really unique.
So how about your fave?
I'm a story writer, and a novice comic book artist/illustrator. Story telling is my strongest art form, and favorite aspect of video gaming (or entertainment, for that matter). "A game without a story is pointless," I've often said. A great story will let me forgive other parts of a game I maybe don't like. Or even let me play a game I wouldn't normally try. There's been a lot of greats out there, too. Great-greats! So many, we're bound to skip over more than a few of them in this thread.
If you could, lets discuss some of your choice video game told stories. But I want to hear more than the game name. Talk about what it is about the games story that appeals to you. And game arcs are more than fine. If a game takes three installments to tell the whole thing, that's okay.
I've just gotten done watching all the cut scenes for FF7 Crisis Core on Youtube. I don't own a psp, and finally accepted the fact that it may never be ported to the ps2/psn like I had hoped. So in place of getting to play the game, I banked on what I knew of JRPGs and Square-Enix in paticular, and hoped that the entirety of the story would be communicated through animated-movie-like cut scenes-- and I was mostly right.
I felt like the creators did the (FF7) franchise a great service by weaving the story the way they did. In contrast to Cloud, Zach was such a warm character, and instantly likeable. (Perhaps that contrast is why I liked him, since most characters like in in jrpgs I find irritating. Still love Cloud too.) Knowing the end of the game made liking the character that much harder. And watching the familiar cut scenes from flash back moments in the original FF7 made me squee. :3
Final Fantasy 7, and the arcing story that is connected to the game often lingers in my head when I think of great stories in games. Maybe not the greatest story telling elements were used (even people playing the game find things hard to follow at times), but the story shone through anyway as something really unique.
So how about your fave?
