IllegalPaladin on 06 January 2008
| Played_Out said: No, the story isn't very good. It's a darn sight better than most games though. It's just that games generally have weak, undeveloped stories intended only to progress the action. Bioshock supposedly had a great story even though the only actual plot development involved a really predictable "twist". Other than that, it was just a series of loosely connected fetch missions. And the physics puzzles may not exactly be ingenious, but at least they break up the monotony of endless shooting. The gravity gun is probably the most innovative weapon in any FPS... or at least it was until the Portal gun came along. |
I really like the story compared to most games. I agree that other games the story isn't that great and it's main thing is just to push the action along. While they might be okay for those types of gamers, I want story as a driving factor and not just to take out enemies. Like somebody said, Half-Life was one of the first to do storytelling and despite the fact that your character never speaks (one of the few games where the "you're the character" approach is actually good) and there aren't any real kinds of cut-scenes, it's doing pretty damn well in my opinion.
Perhaps there will be lots of portal stuff in Episode 3 with the Borealis.
