Steer-So you're saying your "standards" are better then others?
Steer-So you're saying your "standards" are better then others?
Steer-So you're saying your "standards" are better then others?
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Steer- Wow, your post is completely illogical. So you're saying it's an absolute FACT that video game's CANNOT have better stories then any other medium? That is by the most asinine thing you've ever said on this forum.
Games like the Mass Effect series have a FAR better story then most Hollywood films or any other medium, if you ask me most books and films story quality is average compared to the stories of some games, so I WILL continue to praise video games like Fallout 3 to the high heavens for their stories, you don't agree that's fine, but don't pretend like your opinion is the only one that's correct.
Saying nonsense like "the story is always the same" is exactly why people on here don't take you seriously. It is NOT always the same.
I'm oh so tired of you speaking opinions like they're cold hard facts.
if you ask me most books and films story quality is average compared to the stories of some games
[/QUOTE]if you ask me most books and films story quality is average compared to the stories of some games
[/QUOTE] I agree with much of what you said, but come on now. Most books stories are average compared to some games? I'm not even sure how that could mean anything. Most books compared to SOME games? Yeah, Goosebumps isn't that great compared to Mass Effect. Compared to a small handful of the best game stories, maybe some average books compare about even. Now, let's compare most games to SOME books. Macbeth. Books for the win. Over every game ever made. About one minute in. Don't believe me? Do yourself a favour and go re-read Macbeth (a good copy with notes on the opposite pages is a good idea). When it comes to story telling there are books then there is everything else. Everything else < books. By far. [/QUOTE]I meant the stories of some games made all the novels that I myself have read seem average, though to be fair I generally don't read that many novels, I mostly read nonfiction books like autobiographies and the like, i've never read Macbeth and I don't have any desire to do so whatsoever, classic literature just isn't really my thing.
Steer may say it's only his opinion, but he worded his post in a passive-aggresive and condescending way that basically said "my opinion is the only one that matters", or at least that's the impression I got.
Mozart- Thank you for understanding my point, i'm not saying movies and books can't have great stories, but with the level of interactivity present in some games like Mass Effect where YOU decide the outcome gives the story a bigger impact then any other form of medium has.