story telling-week 8

After looking at different links for story telling, i have my own opinion and personally i think its important to have a great story line and plot. It makes the audience want to play more kept on there seat.

Ive played a variety of games some with no storyline really what so ever like red faction, this is a downfall, playing COD however is awesome it tells you the history where and why you are going to fight, explains the missions accurately, clearly as if you are playing the character you are controlling.

Most games recently have fairly good story lines and they usually express this with cut scenes in between chapters or a following voice as your playing through the game, reading subtitles as well.

However having a gaming experience myself i think that some story lines tend to drag on and chat a load of crap! which makes me skip them and pay no interest into the storyline and to just play the game.
I prefer story lines that are true or based on true stories, or that are reality based not just made up, i think those type of story lines make the player want to play more and gives them interest in the game more.

If I'm playing a game i like to think I'm the character playing through the story and its all happening to me, which is great! However you can get games that have multi story lines and you choose what will happen, like fallout for instance, personally i hate this game, its long, drags a lot and not enough fighting action for me, but this game has a great multi storyline as said by a few of my friends, but i have no patience to play the game to find out what happens! Its similar to mass effect, which also has different endings but the storyline is fantasised and made up which for me is pointless to play a long dragging game to find out the ending that isn't true!

I personally think a stronger storyline that is true or based on true story's works well for a game, i like playing games taken from movies that Ive watched like wolverine one that realised two months ago, i loved it having watched the movie and then playing the game after was truly an awesome experience, i also love hit man one of my favourite films, however i didn't really like how the game was and how it played as in shooting wise and slower movement plus the graphics were terrible, arcade quality!

Jake Fowell