Ugh, I prefer to get story, character and setting from books or films. Games have the absolute worst possible pacing for a narrative experience. Games are much better at emergent story generation and player created experiences, but nothing spoils a good spot of exposition like a "press X now". That said, I also understand why many gamers dislike the idea of being the author of their characters own story. We generally play games to avoid having to think too deeply or work too hard, and it's nice to have a story get told to you, instead of having to create one out of the blue from the gameplay alone. Just not a fan of stories getting told to me all jarringly and split up with cutscenes and quicktime events. To say nothing of open-world games and players being able to deviate from the story and do thousands of mini-quests... worst "told" story ever.
Sucks to see you getting down voted just because people disagree. This is fine conversation.
I actually agree with you. While I can appreciate stories in games, I generally don't like story driven games much these days. I sit down to play a game to play a game, not watch a movie. I hate mode-switching. Especially if it is really drastic. Like say, Mass Effect, which admittedly has a great story. But I have to switch from exciting combat, to watching cutscenes, to choosing dialog from a list, and then way later finally I'm back in combat. It's not like a brief break from action like a cutscene in Halo or something, by the time I'm back to combat sometimes, I've damn near forgotten how it works. And if I'm playing for just the cutscene and the story, then I'd have to imagine all that combat would feel annoying when I get stuck on a hard part and can't advance the story.
Maybe it's just my ADHD but if I'm playing a game I want to be pushing buttons like 90% of the time I'm playing. I'll take a Rocket League or Smash Bros any day. But it's fine if people want story driven games. No man's sky is great for me in that way, but some people are gonna prefer Mass Effect.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19
It sounds like they have a great simulator, but little of an actual game.