Good storyline anyone?

[Riachu]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

DTG said:

Riachu said:

DTG said:
Can you explain to me how exactly TP and Uncharted had a good storyline?

Are you one of those people who think that a story must be complex/deep to be good?

 

Not necessarily complex but a good storyline must have some deeper meaning to raise it above the average action flicks dominating hollywood right now. A good storyline must also have developed characters, must be original and non predictable and have an overall storyarch that is engaging.

If you took away the gameplay from Zelda TP or Uncharted and simply released them as movies they would fail, miserably. And that says quite a lot considering that you're average holywood storyline is quite shallow as it is. Purely as story's TP and Uncharted are quite bad.

I dunno, if you condensed TP or Uncharted into 30 minute dramas, I think their stories would stand up pretty well. Particularly the ending of TP, which is definately emotionally gripping, imo.

 

I'm not saying TP has a great story or anything, but I'm just saying, don't diss it, cause it's not bad.

 

Odin Sphere

Persona 3

MGS1

Phoenix Wright

Final Fantasy

Bioshock

GTAIV

The World Ends With You

 

...and many more games, like the Resident Evil and Silent Hill combined mythos, the Halo mythology, and even laughers like Dead Rising, Paper Mario, and Stubbs the Zombie, or horror/fear like The Darkness, Max Payne, and F.E.A.R. all have suprisingly great, funny, or original storylines.

 

Yes, most of the games I play have at least semi-interesting storylines, however, one isn't required. Storylines are only important to games in which they play a central role.

 

More importantly, character development is much more important than storyline.

@ZenfoldorVGI
I agree with you.  Even if the story is more or less predictable, interesting characters make up for it. i.e. Lost Odyssey