Story and Games

[Great Rumbler]

I haven't played much of Planetscape: Torment yet, though I do have it on my computer and have started a game on it, but I do know from my experience with MGS2 that it has an excellent story. Yeah, it's not interactive, but neither is 2001: A Space Odyssey and it still has a amazing story, among other things, but anyway. Just as a game doesn't not to be completely non-linear to tell a good story, it doesn't have to be completely linear to be a great experience.

MGS2 combines of multitude of people all of whom have their own stories, which you will learn throughout the course of the game, you have all of this coming at while you're fighting against terrorists in a world that become increasingly bizarre the longer you play, until the end which is possibly the craziest thing in a game ever. That's great storytelling right there, no question.

As for Torment, like I said I can't really comment on it since I haven't played it much, but I will say that I believe that it isn't possible for Torment to have the emotion that MGS2 has in its story, something which I think helped in some degree to make it more "real" or whatever, it's just not possible with text only. Maybe that's just me, though, I am more of a visual person I think.

Anyway, if I have time I'll put some more time into Torment and see what it has to offer.