Naughty Dog wants to change the industry by rising above the 'idiot plot'

[Metrium]

betacon said:

Metrium said:

Edit: Just to be clear, I enjoyed the UC series alot. But those kind of arrogant comments rly grind my gears. The industry is not stucked wit ''idiotic plots''. They are ALOT of games with great story, such as Mass Effect and Arkham City, but I don't hear Bioware or Rocksteady making comments making them sound like they are claiming to be the messiahs of game story telling and atleast these guys don't forget that they are making games despite the fact that they still manage to have storys just as strong. Calling the industry on ''idiot plots'' is so exaggerated that I feel like also exaggerating with my comment.

A few exceptions doesn't make a statement for the rest of the industry, games with decent plots is a minority, so not it's not exaggerated .

 

Not on AAA games. Some have better stories than others, but the vast majority of today's AAA games have some focus on story. I think nowadays it is easier to name a AAA game that has at the very least a ''good'' story than it is for those that have bad stories. Unless they are a racing or fighting games, if a AAA game has a bad story it's usualy getting destroyed by reviews and by fans. Most can't launch a game with a bad story anymore and be successfull.

+ The uncharted games are FAR from having the best stories. I would say UC1and2 had good stories, nothing to complain about but nothing spectacular, the cutscenes and quicktime events were spectacular, the stories were not.

And UC3 had a lame Bmovie story, why did the entire city at the end of the game collapsed like in the movie ''2012'' only because drake shot a rocket at a single pulley? Could'nt they find a better way to explain why that old hag was immortal? And could'nt they find a way that would have been less random for her to die? When the soldiers transforms into teleporting monsters, why is drake not worried? I understand it was because of the drugged water, but at the time I did'nt know that and seeing drake act like everything normal did'nt make any sense, made me think I accidently skipped a cutscene.

So yeah, I'll give Naughty Dog the fact that their games have good stories, but they are far from being the best. All the worshiped they received from Sony fanboys that were blinded by the cutscenes into thinking they were gods at story telling rly got into their heads.