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How do you personally judge a plot line?
By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
Or by reading a two line synopsis that someone has wrote?
Plots can be simply, they can be complicated, but as long as it's fun to reach B by starting from A, I don't care.
And neither should you.
By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
Or by reading a two line synopsis that someone has wrote?
Plots can be simply, they can be complicated, but as long as it's fun to reach B by starting from A, I don't care.
And neither should you.
I find it much more interesting to hear about a plot line than a characters habits or past say. Unless of course the characters past is interesting, but then again isn't that part of the plot line.
Anyway they work together for better effect but that goes without saying but I still find a deep story more thrilling. A character like the guy from Shenmue wouldn't be half as interesting without a good storyline to develop him more. No?
Anyway they work together for better effect but that goes without saying but I still find a deep story more thrilling. A character like the guy from Shenmue wouldn't be half as interesting without a good storyline to develop him more. No?
Everything has a plot-line. But the poorest of plot lines can have the best games, as long as the characters are brilliant.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Plot line is nothing.
>
> Character is everything.
>
> Skies of Arcadia. Play the game.
Ahh, but without a plot line characters can not always be developed.
Well, something like that anyway.
> Plot line is nothing.
>
> Character is everything.
>
> Skies of Arcadia. Play the game.
Ahh, but without a plot line characters can not always be developed.
Well, something like that anyway.
Sailor: "Captain, we've spotted a kid stranded on an island just below!"
Gilder: "Not again Clarise... let me sleep a little more..."
Sailor: "Captain?"
Gilder: "...Hmmm... sorry, what's wrong?"
Gilder: "Not again Clarise... let me sleep a little more..."
Sailor: "Captain?"
Gilder: "...Hmmm... sorry, what's wrong?"
A story for a game is everything for me.
Story, story, jackanory.
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Story, story, jackanory.
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Plot line is nothing.
Character is everything.
Skies of Arcadia. Play the game.
Character is everything.
Skies of Arcadia. Play the game.
The first one. Yeah.
I usually read the review to give me an idea obviously but I prefer to let plots unravel themselves in front of me as I play, that's why if I'm pretty excitied about a certain game I tend not to read reviews so the whole experience is all the more better.
I did that with Zelda OOT and I bought Final Fantasy 7 on the fact that it was praised so much I didn't know much about it at all it was just a "Oh look, there's FF7 for a tenner" and I bought it. That was fantastic to play through.
I'm now on the lookout for Skies of Arcadia.
Oh and I need a sub plot to give me some distraction from the plot every now and again. Banjo Tooie was good but there wasn't much else to do apart from slug though each level, the whole Kazzoie becoming a Dragon wasn't enough.
I usually read the review to give me an idea obviously but I prefer to let plots unravel themselves in front of me as I play, that's why if I'm pretty excitied about a certain game I tend not to read reviews so the whole experience is all the more better.
I did that with Zelda OOT and I bought Final Fantasy 7 on the fact that it was praised so much I didn't know much about it at all it was just a "Oh look, there's FF7 for a tenner" and I bought it. That was fantastic to play through.
I'm now on the lookout for Skies of Arcadia.
Oh and I need a sub plot to give me some distraction from the plot every now and again. Banjo Tooie was good but there wasn't much else to do apart from slug though each level, the whole Kazzoie becoming a Dragon wasn't enough.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> How do you personally judge a plot line?
>
> By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters
> develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
>
Yup, that one. I don't bother reading the synopsiseseses. I read reviews, if it sounds good, I buy it and let the plot unfold in front of me...
> How do you personally judge a plot line?
>
> By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters
> develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
>
Yup, that one. I don't bother reading the synopsiseseses. I read reviews, if it sounds good, I buy it and let the plot unfold in front of me...
Yep, a plot line needs to convey a thought, visualising the event.
How do you personally judge a plot line?
By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
Or by reading a two line synopsis that someone has wrote?
Plots can be simply, they can be complicated, but as long as it's fun to reach B by starting from A, I don't care.
And neither should you.
By playing the game, and watching the plot develop, the characters develop, with little sub-plots to divert your attention...
Or by reading a two line synopsis that someone has wrote?
Plots can be simply, they can be complicated, but as long as it's fun to reach B by starting from A, I don't care.
And neither should you.