Why do games often fall short in delivering compelling stories?

I have yet to come across a game that has truly impressed me with its narrative, even in story-driven titles like Alan Wake 2 and Soma, which pale in comparison to the impactful storytelling seen in shows like Breaking Bad.

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you like weebshit, this is some nice stuff.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dare da! Dare Da! Dare da!

      >If you like weebshit, this is some nice stuff.
      No it's not. In fact that story fundamentally does not work.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      My first and only tales game. Had a blast playing through it

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    most western shit fails at telling a compelling story
    can't do anything well since all you know is movie shit

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shut up Rajesh

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        katie you aren't a innovative genius for watching a popular movie and reading a preteen novel

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      > most western shit fails at telling a compelling story
      can't do anything well since all you know is movie shit
      >majority of jrpg’s are literal movie games
      Lol

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        okay name 1 good western story game
        >inb4 a game with 0 story

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Black person, Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 shit all over your anime slop movies.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >literally jrpg slop but western
            burger burger wahoo

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              > literally jrpg slop but western

              You’ve never played it obviously. For starters it has gameplay and its actually fun lmao. None of this turn based or garbage anime combat either. Wild to me that weebs are this moronic even with big name games.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >it has gameplay
                trolling outside of /b/

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well its definitely more gameplay than the standard jrpg which is:
                >Press “Confirm” 90% of the game
                >Menu diving for hours
                >Menu: the game

                Yes gameplay, compared to your movies lmao.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                How many black guys have you sucked off today?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >M-MUH BBC

                ok, listen, you cuck homosexual, I don’t care that you love fat black wieners but hsve the dignity to admit you love you shit movie slop and keep your shit opinions about other regions (namely your own western region) to yourself. Tour tastes are shit, nobody needs to listen to your outrage about anything.

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    most stories just dont work in video games then youve got pacing issues on top of that.
    for example in game you are a mass murdering psycho who shot 50 guys to travel 2 blocks.
    something that could have been a whole book leading up to your murderspree is condensed in 3 minutes. then youve got 20 more killing sprees to go just to make up the next hour of gameplay.

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because games are toys.

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the impactful storytelling seen in shows like Breaking Bad
    Troll thread.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      feels like there was more impactful storytelling in malcolm in the middle

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >even in story-driven titles like WESTOID TRASH and WESTOID TRASH
    GEE I WONDER WHY

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bitch, I played Yakuza 0, an eastern game praised for its supposedly compelling story, yet I found the writing to be one of the crappiest I've experienced in all of jap media. The characters were complete anime tropes and the plot was riddled asspulls, with seemingly deceased characters conveniently coming back when the plot requires. There's also an abundance of forced drama, and certain scenes don't make sense at all (e.g: Nishitani's goons mysteriously disappearing from his jail cell when he was getting shot). Additionally, the game contains lots of shoehorned not so subtle geopolitical messages, portraying white foreigners, Korean and Chinese characters with no redeeming qualities.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        play Noctuary

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Are you tricking me into playing tranime slop

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ok If you're so allergic to anime art then keep playing your westoid trash and keep wondering why everything you read is garbage.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Japs can't write good stories. Japanese media is stupid and cheap with very immature storytelling. You can shit on westoid shows all you want, but even trash like The Vampire Diaries have better writing than 99.9% of anime

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Westerners can't write good stories. Western media is stupid and cheap with very immature storytelling. You can shit on Japoid shows all you want, but even trash like "my little sister is a vampire princess and sucks my dick" have better writing than 99.9% of television

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >gets btfoed
                >resorts to no-Uing

                Pathetic

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're the one wondering why everything you consume (exclusively western shit) is trash

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The entire Yakuza series is a literal joke. Just one big pile of soap opera drama that only japs can come up with and its all pointless.

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Palworld

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the impactful storytelling seen in shows like Breaking Bad
    lol

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unironically Kingdom Hearts has a fantastic, intricate story that only clicks more and becomes more expansive the more you pay attention to it. Midwits will mock and screech, but it's true.

    Unravelling the Ansem reports as the games go on is SOUL. Ultimate ADHD filter.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Kingdom hearts
      Disneyslop for 14 year old tumblrites

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      > The absolute state of weebs. Coping so hard that they forget that the homosexual Nomura has no story structure and wings it every game. That’s discounting how shit the “story” gets with each game. Word of god doesn’t give a shit and neither should you, “midwit”.

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gamers honestly wouldn't recognize a good story if it bit them.

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because you're old, bitter, and don't know how to enjoy anything anymore. Breaking Bad aired 15 years ago, let it go.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Perhaps if anything that was worth enjoying was being made, we'd be less bitter

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      BB still stands. BCS is an infinitely better show though

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >shows like Breaking Bad.
    Video games are toys for kids so the protagonist must be a role model. They can't be villainous in any way, they can't have flaws, they can't make mistakes.

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    saus

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man just play GTA games if you like Breaking Bad.

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ace Attorney?

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    if you read the posts above in reverse logic they make sense

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's not easy to write a compelling story for an interactive medium.
    and good writers who are capable of pulling it off have no incentive to do so because the pay sucks, they get no character IP ownership, no fame or recognition etc.
    so you end up voice actors, youtube clowns, femcels, and other bottom of the barrel hacks writing vidya

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Not sure how you couldnt enjoy Soma thats shits a masterpiece. Anyways games are trash at storytelling and it should never be the one true focus in a game, the focus should be on making good gameplay good characters

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stories are hard to write, add the complexity of making a video game and you got yourself a recipe for going gray before your 60s.

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    what is OP image from

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      gatchaman

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