4th August 2004, 10:47 AM
Quote:If you like books, why do you have a problem with a game that primarially tells its story in words?
Yes, it's true I do like books [fantasy mostly]but I'm still a very visual person. I can always visualize things in my head 100 times easier than I can write them down. I'd be a better director than I would an author, although that hasn't stopped me so far. It just comes down to personality I guess.
Anyway, as I said that story itself is interesting but there are better ways to present the story and possibly even to make a more compelling story. There need to be a balance between substance of story and presentation. Just scattering random text around for players to find isn't the best way to do it and neither is solely relying on cinematic scenes. A combination of the two could be better.
Another problem is that finding the backstory doesn't affect the game, the storyline is still the same. If they could set something up where you find things that affect the storyline of the game that would be cool.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.