Something I’d be interested in knowing is whether they were written before they were created.Ĭreating a brilliant game takes more than being able to create a nice gimmick. If John Walker ever tried to tell the world anything, it was that adventure games were brilliant for their stories and thus they were better games. Think back to when the dinosaurs ruled, and Point and Click adventure games were everywhere. Oh I’m sure it makes perfect sense, since you needed something like that to throw an extra enemy type at you, but dear mother of hell, think of your poor consumers. I nearly threw up when the Koreans appeared and had gotten hold of the suit technology. Yes, that’s the bit that people tend to remember but we are there for the journey and tacking on a cheap pathetic clichéd filled pile of nonsense just makes me feel kind of sick.Ĭrysis? Even worse. The whole part and parcel of the gaming experience isn’t just the shooting of mindless clones. Do that, and we have the same game don’t we? Meaning it’s more than obvious that the plot was written after the gameplay mechanics were created. Let’s imagine we took the plot out of both of the Modern Warfares. Sequels are the best example, especially if they happen to be written in the same engine: It tends to limit people into the same genre. Let’s take a game that I honestly love to pieces (cough): CoD. I’m unable to comment on the plot of Lugaru seeing as I haven’t played it, but the plot is detailed in the post * and I wonder how many other games had this sort of idea. That later question is a whole side topic, but the idea that plot is an afterthought is one that scares me. So, why has this happened? Aren’t we all supposed to love gaming for their story? It seems plot is written to justify a game, not the other way around. It highlighted something that most people suspect, but never actually found out for real. The Wolfire Games blog is one that I’ve been reading since preordering Overgrowth, and one of the staff wrote a post on the plot in their previous game (Lugaru), and how they’re generated.
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