*Sound Of Rain on 20 October 2014
| mZuzek said: I disagree to some extent. Games that only have a good story and lacking gameplaymight as well be movies or tv shows. Games with good gameplay and no story, well... they definitely still work as games, but no ideal. People talk a lot about Nintendo's games not having good stories, but that's not true. The story is obviously second thought in games like Mario, but it is handled in a way that works and does the job without becoming annoying. Other games like Zelda, Pokémon and Star Fox have great stories that do a great job of making the player involved and invested in the characters - they're usually all fairly simple stories with little depth, but still pretty good. I haven't played The Last of Us and as a total outsider to that game it almost feels like people are talking about a movie when I hear them talking about it - that happens because the story is the obvious focal point of the game, and its deep and complex I'm sure. However, I'm also sure the gameplay is good enough to keep everything going. |
That's what I'm saying though. Certain Nintendo fans say that if the game appears to be story driven, the gameplay must suck. It might as well be a movie. That's simply not the case most of the time. Plus, not all non-Nintendo games are like that. Many Sony / 3rd party IP's are gameplay focused as well.
Multiple Nintendo IP's appear to lack a story which is also untrue. It isn't the focus but it's still there, just in a different way.
I was hesitant about TLOU too but it has tons of great gameplay to go along with the story. It took me like 20Hrs to beat it & maybe 3Hrs were cut-scenes. It sounded like a lot to me too but it's spread out throughout the game nicely 
