Gameplay vs Story+

[forest-spirit]

happydolphin said:

forest-spirit said:

I know it's possible to flip it all around and start with the story, I'm just of the opinion that you can create even better stories and worlds if you start out with the gameplay and use that as a framework when you later write lore, story and characters. It's a matter of reaching the full potential of your game, and I'm of the belief that starting out with the gameplay, the core, is necessary to reach that potential.

You could really take any story and turn it into an RPG. I'm not sure how much we know of games that started out with a story and turned into great games, we just don't have enough exposure to game designs to be able to tell which approach is better or yields better results, imho.

Of course, this is just my stance on the matter. I have no proof and I frankly don't care about proof either as it's just my view and I'm not trying to convince people to think the same way as I. It's just that I've seen several games where the gameplay seemed to be an afterthought and ultimately held the whole game back. On the other hand I can't think of many cases where I felt that the gameplay was in the way for the story.