Tom Bissell, Extra Lives
I found Tom Bissell’s idea that story telling in videogames feeling counterfeit is a legitimate gripe with games as a whole. While most games story telling is indeed secondary and is treated as such, often times merely a guide point for quests or to give some semblance of reason for actually playing the game. Yes in his analyze of Fallout 3 of just how bad the characterization and narrative is compared to the rest of the game, it is totally fine and reasonable for him to believe such. What I have a problem with is his belief that story telling should stay away from videogames in general. I find Fallout 3 and the company that makes games like Fallout to have the same problems with story telling, as in the characters are just plain awful but several games have very unique characters and stories to back them up,
I’m link some games that should satisfy any story hungry gamer.
The Last of Us for the more serious and sad story
And South Park the stick of truth for we the less mature audience
Eat it Tom Bissell.
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