Let me get the good gameplay/good story games. Graphics are nice but they’re just the icing on the cake.
I want to hear some recommendations too !
I’m all for good stories. Do you all know any story-focused games?
The Yakuza games, but to be fair it’s maybe more of a case of good writing rather than good story…
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%.
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.
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.”
Though bg3 contrary to a lot of good story games has excellent gameplay
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.
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.
Good story when?
The story is in your head
It takes time, effort and manpower to get good gameplay right.
A game that has no story but excellent gameplay has zero interest for me.
So… not a Tetris fan, are you?
