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It's disappointing when game companies place it at the bottom of the priority list (lemmy.world)
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[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 16 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I'm all for good stories. Do you all know any story-focused games?

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Disco Elysium has been described as "the best game I've ever read" by someone I read online once. It is very heavy story focused.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 8 points 3 months ago

The Yakuza games, but to be fair it's maybe more of a case of good writing rather than good story...

[–] teft@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Baldur's Gate 3. But the learning curve even on the easiest difficulty is pretty high. You're going to die or save scum a lot if you don't know DnD that well. Worth it though 100%.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Though bg3 contrary to a lot of good story games has excellent gameplay

[–] li10@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m willing to accept the downvotes, but I found BG3 bland and corny.

Maybe I didn’t get far enough in the game, but the stories were kinda boring and the characters were annoying. Every time they spoke I wanted them to stop, especially Astarion.

I know different people like different things, but I gave that game far more time than I usually would’ve because of the critical acclaim and it just fell flat at every point.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Upvote for relevant discussion/opinion. Remember it's not an agree/disagree button.

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'll up vote this. I can't pick it up any further because I'm sick of hearing about all the companions "troubled pasts".

It's also so over the top for each of them, it would be more refreshing if one of them just had a normal cliche backstory. Instead everyone is extremely damaged and fucked up it's like playing D&D with a PTSD Support group.

"Oh yeah so sorry you had to watch your mother shoot up heroin and pass out every night with a different stranger. That's pretty sad. Well um hate to interrupt, but uh just want to um keep the game going... So let's roll to kick this goblin off a cliff."

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Disco elysium

[–] li10@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love what Remedy entertainment is doing with Alan Wake/Control/Quantum Break.

It’s a bit all over the place and an acquired taste, but since Control/Alan Wake 2 they’re really bringing it all together.

It’s kinda world building focused and spans across different games, rather than a concise “beginning and end” story. Quite difficult to describe tbh, but it’s probably the only video game story I’m really invested in.

I’d recommend starting with Control or Alan Wake 2, but I believe proper order would be Alan Wake 1>Quantum Break>Control>Alan Wake 2.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i wanted to play aw1 again and i think i had finished it before but Jesus Christ it feels janky.

i kinda miss the times when i could only buy a game or two at a time and that forced me to play them for a while.

now if I'm playing a game with jank i can just switch to one of the other 2000 games i already have waiting.

and i loved control but it has the worst save points. i just don't want to go back several rooms every time i make a mistake. that alone stops me from playing it again.

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Series: MGS, Yakuza/LAD, Nier, Mass Effect trilogy

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dishonored is my favorite, and one of few single player games I've actually finished

Unless you haven't heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG, FFXIV, in which case, that's my favorite

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

A Plague Tale: Innocence and the sequel Requiem are both amazing. The games are both very linear, which to me helps with narrative urgency feeling authentic. I highly recommend the games.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'm highly recommending Oxenfree for the conversation system. Characters talk to you and each other in real-time and you have to choose an answer or silence in time. It's might be more on the atmospheric side than story, but I recommend it anyway.