...did you really go there with that dumbass comment at the beginning. It voids your opinion entirely because of how inhumanly moronic and ignorant it truly is. It is a comment that deserves to die and for people to be banned over in video game websites. It is 100% ignorant and I will and shall not respect a human being who uses such a terrible statement it is.
Yes. That statement is that moronic and you should feel ashamed for proving your horrible untrue opinion that insults video games as a whole. Get out of this site. You sicken me.
Also only three... oh... so the past 20 years of amazing games with amazing stories=nothing then? Get out of my sight.
Planetscape torment is still better than 99% of games made today though.
Well, I've read a lot of novels, and I've played a lot of video games, and the best story-based video game stories I've played only begin to approach a mediocre novel that's made for an adult.
And for the record, I've been playing story based games all my life. I played pretty much every Square and Enix game, Black Isle, Obsidian, Bioware(only played the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age though).
And Torment is one of the most boring games I've ever played. I started that game up 6 times, and I can only get up to about the Catacombs under Pharod's little shanty town before I quit out of sheer boredom. And this was back when I was in the same "ZOMG videogames with stories r da best" phase that you are in. I don't understand how a developer who had so much experience with the AD&D rules could make a game that went so far against what made AD&D fun.
Why have fun with something mindless when you can have fun with something that is actually stimulating? Oh yeah... gamers are morons. Much like you yourself proved with that terrible statement. YOU CAN HAVE FUN WITH A STORY BASED GAME! Oh wait... I forgot, gamers are to much of morons to get this fact as well as the one which gameplay only games are just a waste of time. Why play tetris when I can play Bioshock? Seriously? Why play a timewasting piece of junk when I can play a modern classic?
No one has been able to go against this argument. At all.
You can have fun with a story-based game. I don't think anyone said otherwise. The problem is, most story-based games are so focused on their stories, that they neglect making their game as fun as they can be. See my Torment example. Everyone praises it's story, but have you ever heard anyone praise it's gameplay relative to Baldur's Gate 2 or the Icewind Dale games?
Also, games without stories can be very stimulating. It's funny that you mention Tetris, because that specific game was focused on a study of that very subject:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/09/01/is.tetris.good.brain
And really, Bioshock is just as much of a waste of time as Tetris. It's all a matter of how much you enjoy it. No need to insult Tetris fans who are thickening their cortex :P
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