Storylines

[Telecaster]

Anyone else struggle with getting into the stories of most games? I'm just not interested in the endless cut scenes and story telling, I don't find them at all believable or interesting, to the point where I've switched off quite a few games because of the endless break up in the game play, games like Metro etc.

The only games I seem to find myself putting up with it are the more open world games where you can choose to ignore the storyline and play for extended periods doing whatever you like rather than following a rigid path through the game.

Maybe I'm just getting too old for it all or have less time for it but it's getting more and more common.

Can anyone recommend some games that are less rigid and full of cut scenes? I liked the original Hitman games but I tried Absolution recently and just couldn't get into it, too much sitting and watching and not enough playing.

 

[kinger8938]

Dark souls has a great take on story, no cutscenes except boss intros. The story is found in item descriptions and npc chatter, i loved it for that!

Not a pc game but the last of us has to be the best game story imo and it was delivered in cutscenes yes, but also in the enviroment and talking npcs as you explore etc

 

[Telecaster]

Yes I played through The Last Of Us on the PS3 a while back and really enjoyed it.

 

[molinari]

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[Smokey Deza]

I'm the same. Haven't enjoyed a good story since Deus Ex (the original not the sucky console remake) with the possible exception of KOTOR.

I like to create my own story through game play, like being able to shoot my boss in the face. Or log onto a UNATCO terminal and blow up my co-worker. That is why Fallout and the Elder Scrolls franchise appeal to me because I can bugger off and make my own adventure.

I have no patience to sit through some tedious cinematic complemented with a 1000 lines of history and lore telling me a a load of jargon I can't be arsed to hear. I just want to go out there and do things my way.

 

[Klunt Bumskrint]

Totally! I used to love the story part of games but I feel so impatient. I just sit there saying (out loud!) COME ON!!

I think it is age.......and curmudgeonlyness

 

[TheVoice]

Nope, in fact quite the opposite; without a compelling narrative I tend to find most games get dull and repetitive quite quickly. MGS V is a prime example, to the point that despite me being a huge MGS fan I'm not bothering with Chapter 2.

 

[Westie]

Just finished Witcher 3... amazing story which took me around 100 hours to complete on hardest difficulty...

 

[arc@css]

Heck of an old title, but F.E.A.R. has a great story and although it has cut-scenes, it doesn't take you out of the experience (imo).

 

[chroniclard]

Not that fussed with story, all about the gameplay for me.

 

[almoststew1990]

For me it's as I got older I realised that most game stories are a bit crap and the voice acting a bit crap, compared to a film. To be fair, games generally have many more hours of cutscenes than films' running times, and some developers seem to think that game narrative takes place in un-interactive cutscenes and gameplay takes place everywhere else, so the story comes in five minute lumps every half an hour. So I think it is harder to make a good story in a game.

 

[bledd]

I'm the same. Haven't enjoyed a good story since Deus Ex (the original not the sucky console remake) with the possible exception of KOTOR.

I like to create my own story through game play, like being able to shoot my boss in the face. Or log onto a UNATCO terminal and blow up my co-worker. That is why Fallout and the Elder Scrolls franchise appeal to me because I can bugger off and make my own adventure.

I have no patience to sit through some tedious cinematic complemented with a 1000 lines of history and lore telling me a a load of jargon I can't be arsed to hear. I just want to go out there and do things my way.

I was about to post that Deus Ex had a great story.

Couldn't care less about anything in Doom 3.

 

[ossieclap]

The Stanley Parable has an interesting take on story telling if you feel fatigued on the usual gamng narrative

 

[arc@css]

I was about to post that Deus Ex had a great story.

+1

 

[Columbo]

I quit the last Tomb Raider after an hour. Got utterly sick of the cutscenes and QTE, seemed like every 3 steps delivered a cutscene.

 

[Klunt Bumskrint]

I quit the last Tomb Raider after an hour. Got utterly sick of the cutscenes and QTE, seemed like every 3 steps delivered a cutscene.

QTE should be made illegal an punishable by death!
I hate it so much, kill it with fire!

 

[Telecaster]

I quit the last Tomb Raider after an hour. Got utterly sick of the cutscenes and QTE, seemed like every 3 steps delivered a cutscene.

Oh that doesn't bode well, I have it in my steam library but haven't got around to it yet.

I don't know what is with game storylines, they just seem naff and laughable, acting is crap, voice acting is usually a joke, I just can't take them serious at all.

 

[krooton]

I love me a good story. Mass Effect, Bioshock Infinite, The Witcher series, all had me gripped.

 

[Poodmund]

I know its old and not on PC but Red Dead Redemption had a tremendous storyline to it.

 

[Telecaster]

I love me a good story. Mass Effect, Bioshock Infinite, The Witcher series, all had me gripped.

Bioshock, really? I Was bored after about 10 minutes, yet another repetitive FPS with a childish story. IMO etc...