Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[TSTR]

despite stories having no place in video games

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despite stories having no place in video games

Oh sheeeeeeeittttt. That's quite the claim, sir.

Surely though it depends on the type of game and depends on the limitations you personally are setting on what constitutes what a game is or is not? Otherwise I could make a similar blanket statement like "music has no place in video games" and leave it at that.

I personally feel that though a lot of games have pretty weak traditional story telling, far too often resorting to cliche and melodrama, they can convey certain aspects of story telling much better than other media. They can even be profound and moving at times.

I thought, for example, that Spec Ops: The Line had a good "story". It's based roughly on Heart of Darkness and while it obviously doesn't reach those literary highs, it did achieve something Conrad's book didn't which was to make me feel implicit in the deaths of hundreds of people. Quite the achievement of its own. Without that authorial intent the game would have just been another stop and pop shooter and a slightly distasteful one at that. So, yes I do believe story has a large part in gaming.

[Reprise]

Personally, I feel stories have no place in movies. Or novels.

[3DSStrider]

If anyone was wondering, the reason I'm opposed to stories in video games is because they waste time that could be better spent, you know, playing the actual game.

[3DSStrider]

If anyone was wondering, the reason I'm opposed to stories in video games is because they waste time that could be better spent, you know, playing the actual game.

[emwearz]

I hate when a story keeps me interested and engaged in a game.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I guess I should explain my opinions on JRPGs. In my last post I simply called them boring and left it at that. When I wrote that post I was kind of tired and didn't feel like typing very much.

First of all, the gameplay. JRPG gameplay requires neither skill nor strategy. Attack, attack, fire spell, attack. Next turn: attack, attack, fire spell, healing spell. Rinse and repeat until you realize how stupid this is and shut the game off.

Many turn-based JRPGs require skill and strategy. Good luck trying to simply hack 'n heal your way through The 7th Saga or Etrian Odyssey.

Also, when you say dislike JRPGs are you speaking simply of the traditional Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy styled games? What about other RPGs from Japan that aren't in the traditional turn-based style: action-RPGs, strategy RPGs, rouguelikes, etc.....?

[Reprise]

I think stories are unnecessary in many games and shoehorned in often for no reason at all. Like with games like Sonic the Hedgehog for example. But all games? Nah...

[3DSStrider]

Also, when you say dislike JRPGs are you speaking simply of the traditional Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy styled games? What about other RPGs from Japan that aren't in the traditional turn-based style: action-RPGs, strategy RPGs, rouguelikes, etc.....?

I really only mean traditional ones. All the others I don't hate.

[3DSStrider]

I think stories are unnecessary in many games and shoehorned in often for no reason at all. Like with games like Sonic the Hedgehog for example. But all games? Nah...

I actually love the story in Sonic games because of how laughably bad the cutscenes are.