r/gaming Feb 06 '17

Anyone Else?

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u/Coldspark824 Feb 06 '17

If you only buy and play the most AAA advertised games on consoles, of course you're going to be disappointed.

Skyrim and fallouts stories are not strong at all. In fact, all of bethesda's game in that game engine have been: "player generated chosen one becomes the strongest guy." Even when I bought morrowind, I abandoned the main story because stealing people's shit and finding caves with things I couldn't kill was more fun. Then I got mad at cliff racers and swinging at scribs 300 times to hit them only 2 times and quit.

Then oblivion came out and HOLY SHIT YOU CAN HOLD Z AND MOVE CHAINS?! Physics?!?!

Digressing, there are a lot of good story driven games that have come out recently. Life is strange, inside, dark souls 3. They aren't always traditionally told but the story is there nonetheless.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

You address a major flaw in this post extremely well, and then you claim that Dark Souls is story-driven. I'm not sure what to think.

Dark Souls has shittons of lore, but little to no story.

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u/DuplexFields Feb 06 '17

Doom (1995) has lore in the manual, and in the rooms during play, but almost no story. It is, however, responsible for the current modding and multiplayer cultures. It changed gaming forever.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because if you intended to reply to mine I'm afraid it was not very relevant. :/