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Zekkyou on 20 June 2017
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Mar1217 said:
Zekkyou said:

It's interesting reading comments like this because i'm effectively the opposite. My interest in consoles waned considerably during the 7th gen, eventually leading me to PC gaming. I've always felt that gaming as a medium for story telling is heavily underutilised, and Sony's push towards that kind of game has slowly pulled my interest back. I don't think they always succeed (e.g. i enjoyed Horizon's gameplay immensely, but the story felt poorly presented), but i appreciate their efforts. For the first time since 2009, my gaming time (as limited as it was) was slightly in favour of consoles in the latter half of 2016. It'll almost certainly swing back to PC this year because of Stormblood, but it was still surprising.

That all said, i can understand why some would dislike it. I do think Sony's 1st parties offer a large enough variety of games to keep most people happy, but those uninterested in story driven games will likley be better served with Nintendo (at least as far as exclusives are concerned). 

It doesn't mean that you can't get into story driven games which excels in the gameplay departement too. Ex : Xenoblade, Bravely series, Shin Megami Tensei mainline games, etc ... But they're mostly JRPG, lol.

Of course, but structural changes are necessary to implement a story. Plenty of Sony's own story driven games have fantastic gameplay, but those games also spend a good chunk of their time presenting you the narrative. Some people would rather those portions weren't there, and that the resources for games like Detroit (where plot is the gameplay) were spent elsewhere. A common reason for disliking JRPGs is how much story they throw at you. Remove the plot and many would be half as long :p

To clarify, i'm not saying those uninterested in story driven games can't enjoy them. There are likewise plenty of people like me that value both parts. I'm just saying that those that aren't interested as much in storytelling will likley be better served by Nintendo than Sony right now.

Funnily enough i'm getting to see both sides at once right now in the same game. FF14 just released its new expansion Stormblood, and it's about evenly split between people that enjoy working through the plot, and those that skip every cutescene and dialogue box than can. If the latter group could remove the plot entirely, they probably would