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Many of you people are gaming fanatics, you love games and play them all the time. I bet that everyone has at least one decent game in there big or little collection. You probably love the game and are always on it. Sometimes you might think why this is a good game, or people might ask you why!
So what do you say? Do you say it’s because of the graphics, or is it the game play, or maybe you like the visuals! Well do you ever take in the fact the two littlest things, the two most important facts that every gamer should consider. You may laugh, but the characters and storyline are one of the most important things that make a game good.
For example. The game Shenmue. All the games tell you about the main character Ryo is that his Dad died and he wants to find his murderer. You have to find out what this player is like, and what his personality is like. The same is with the less important characters, you have to decide for yourself if you can trust these people, or if they’re bad to the bone!
Also, with the game Soul Calibur, it wouldn’t have so much depth without the story. Many beat’em ups don’t bother with stories, but SC does. It makes you come back for more saying “Why does the next character want this massive sword???” You feel like you know the game and the characters better when there’s a story to it. And with Street Fighter, it wouldn’t be the same without knowing that the characters have come from the 4 corners of the world to be the ultimate martial arts fighter.
The stories haven’t been the best with the gaming world. But they are getting better with the likes of Shenmue and the Final Fantasy series. In fact with the Final Fantasy series one of the games apparently made people cry with one of the main characters dying, yes, I know. It sounds sad, but it’s true.
One of the things that annoy me with bad story lines are clichés, like when the bad guy is always the good guy’s Dad. Or when the son or daughter always gets kidnapped, or the worst one, has to be… Aliens trying to take over the planet. I mean it’s so original. There’s Half Life, Perfect Dark, Armorines all with this story… The list goes on and on and on and on and on (well so do I, so that’s why I’m getting to the end)!
The reason that I’ve wrote this topic is I want the people of FOG to answers to these questions, What do you think of the quality of Stories in gaming to day? What are some of the biggest clichés? What game has impressed you with stories and characters and have you ever cared for any characters???
Spider
So what do you say? Do you say it’s because of the graphics, or is it the game play, or maybe you like the visuals! Well do you ever take in the fact the two littlest things, the two most important facts that every gamer should consider. You may laugh, but the characters and storyline are one of the most important things that make a game good.
For example. The game Shenmue. All the games tell you about the main character Ryo is that his Dad died and he wants to find his murderer. You have to find out what this player is like, and what his personality is like. The same is with the less important characters, you have to decide for yourself if you can trust these people, or if they’re bad to the bone!
Also, with the game Soul Calibur, it wouldn’t have so much depth without the story. Many beat’em ups don’t bother with stories, but SC does. It makes you come back for more saying “Why does the next character want this massive sword???” You feel like you know the game and the characters better when there’s a story to it. And with Street Fighter, it wouldn’t be the same without knowing that the characters have come from the 4 corners of the world to be the ultimate martial arts fighter.
The stories haven’t been the best with the gaming world. But they are getting better with the likes of Shenmue and the Final Fantasy series. In fact with the Final Fantasy series one of the games apparently made people cry with one of the main characters dying, yes, I know. It sounds sad, but it’s true.
One of the things that annoy me with bad story lines are clichés, like when the bad guy is always the good guy’s Dad. Or when the son or daughter always gets kidnapped, or the worst one, has to be… Aliens trying to take over the planet. I mean it’s so original. There’s Half Life, Perfect Dark, Armorines all with this story… The list goes on and on and on and on and on (well so do I, so that’s why I’m getting to the end)!
The reason that I’ve wrote this topic is I want the people of FOG to answers to these questions, What do you think of the quality of Stories in gaming to day? What are some of the biggest clichés? What game has impressed you with stories and characters and have you ever cared for any characters???
Spider
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Has anyone noticed the amount of JAT's and new newbies on today, theres tons!
Yeah thats true AS, the chracters on Crazty Taxi are brilliant and they each have there own and different personallity. Would you rather just plain stick men that look like a balck cab driver... I think not!
Bonus wrote:
> That is utter crap, characters and storyline will make a good
> RPG/adventure game, but wouldn't make games like Crazi Taxi any
> better, would it??
Still... a few memerable/entertaining/funny characters wouldnt hinder the game... ???
> That is utter crap, characters and storyline will make a good
> RPG/adventure game, but wouldn't make games like Crazi Taxi any
> better, would it??
Still... a few memerable/entertaining/funny characters wouldnt hinder the game... ???
Bonus wrote:
> That is utter crap, characters and storyline will make a good
> RPG/adventure game, but wouldn't make games like Crazi Taxi any
> better, would it??
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Tut tut Bonus. Swearing will not get your views heard quicker. This is always the case you little f**......
> That is utter crap, characters and storyline will make a good
> RPG/adventure game, but wouldn't make games like Crazi Taxi any
> better, would it??
*********
Tut tut Bonus. Swearing will not get your views heard quicker. This is always the case you little f**......
That is utter crap, characters and storyline will make a good RPG/adventure game, but wouldn't make games like Crazi Taxi any better, would it??
VenomByte wrote:
> I wonder what the FOG stories would be like as a game?.....
Hmmmm...
> I wonder what the FOG stories would be like as a game?.....
Hmmmm...
From what I've read of them they would be great as a game. Very good story which would blow FF out of the water with plenty of twists in te plot.
Is Swish still here as I need his help (see <----)
Is Swish still here as I need his help (see <----)
I wonder what the FOG stories would be like as a game?.....
yeah it is, but it's not really based on cars though.
Driver is a car game with a story isn't it?
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