Why does game storytelling have such low standards? [MGS4, HL2, etc.]

[thelifatree]

valen200 said:

thelifatree said:

valen200 said:
you can get away with no story, like mario, but if you are attempting to have a story it needs to be passable. thought there are times when a well told story makes the game less fun to play. Fallout 3 has a well done story with subtle foreshadowing and growth as a character. If you play good, at least, you grow from an innocent thrust into the harsh world and gradually become it's savior. and then you frickin have no choice to be a good character and survive the story you die a hero, despite have the good guy exclusive mutant who is immune to radiation is with you. they were so excited to tell their story that they robbed you of a logical course of action to shoehorn you into it. If i were watching a movie with the orginal pre-dlc hero ending of Fallout 3 it would be a touching moment. When playing it , i feel cheated.

I mean, Fallout 3 didn't have a good story. It had liam neeson who is awesome. It had a great world. With interesting characters in it. Much like MGS4

actuall6, i enjopyed the story up until the end. it utterly ruined the game for me, and i still really dislike it. it was a poor choice to force that move.

 

 

Well I agree, you like the story a notch more than I did... but that I think has to do with just taste yes?

But yeah the move where you have a mutant who could not die. But instead to be dramatic they made you commit suicide for no reason notched the game lower on the story for me.

But it was still one of my favorite games this gen... anyways

I completely agree the story needs to be passable. But, there's also storys like MGS4 (though this is a bad story) that are convuluted and a Japanese way of telling stories and don't always make complete sense and then people say that they are aweful from the american point of view. But some of those stories have certain meanings and stuff that makes more sense or have meaning make to me (hence my heavily populated favorites of FF)... because I'm heavily japanese influenced as I am Japanese. Sorry if this didn't make sense

I'm just saying games like crysis, gears, killzone don't cut it story wise