General gaming discussion

110% agree with this. any good game mechanic is enough to wield a story around. The important thing is making the game actually fun. Gravity Rush always felt like a good example of this, loved zooming all around the place in that game, but couldn't tell you at all what the story was because it never stuck with me, but I still think it was one of my favourite games on the Vita

Ultimately a game can have a rubbish story, or no story at all, and still be great.

A game with a brilliant story that’s a a complete chore just means I’ll never finish it.

It’s great when it can have both, but I can’t think of a single instance of a game I didn’t enjoy that I finished just to see what happens in the story.

Every game is the sum total of its parts, and the balance of the game will often determine how important the story is to the game.

Even the walking sims like the Telltale games such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us etc, the story is arguably more important than gameplay because the gameplay of those games is to facilitate the story. Whereas obviously games like Zelda and Mario, the story barely registers because those games are purely about the gameplay.

I've played through games which weren't great but I was enjoying the story and wanted to see it through. I've played games where I spent half the story cutscenes checking my phone because I couldn't care about it and just wanted to get back to the gameplay.

Story is just one part of a whole. It's become a bigger and bigger part as performance capture has improved, better writing and direction and basically just how gaming has evolved, but it can still add so much to a game when implemented correctly and for the right reasons.

The main types of games Nintendo do... it's not really required.

Been playing Dave the Diver over the last few days. Nice little game, very well done and really like the graphic style.

Been enjoying a few indie ‘rogue like’ games recently, Brings me back to playing games as a kid where there was no save feature. Vampire Survivors is a great little game to fill half an hour here and there. Like crack.

Anyone played Streets of Rogue? Heard a lot of great things about it. Looks good fun with a lot of variety

Portable Dragon Quest is the best Dragon Quest, comfiest way to play the comfiest game.

Got the MGS collection. I started MGS1 on normal and realised that I'm basically just looking at the radar to play the game and it's too easy. Can't remember if I was doing that when I was young too!

Restarted it on hard and now I have to actually scout my surroundings and play a stealth game.

Well "bombed" is probably harsh, but I think even though Ubisoft's "expectations" tend to be too high anyway, it still failed to meet reasonable expectations. It received very mixed reviews and there was little interest in it shortly after release. Let's face it, if Ubisoft had been even moderately pleased with how it did, there'd be another 3 WD games in development, whereas it was being reported last year that the franchise is on pause.