Jaffe: Game makers need to stop trying to tell stories. Agree? Disagree?

**Spitzos** · 10th February '12, 02:54 PM

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/gamesp...sion20120 209

Watch the video and offer your thoughts!

I agree with him for the most part. Though I can say comfortably that a some of my favorite games tell a great story, I can also say that too many fail at doing so...and they fail while losing sight of the gameplay.

To be sure, it's hard to tell a good story in a video game.

I agree. Most of the time It's really lame. See: Gears of War. Other times it's overrated. See: Halo series. Game developers need to worry about presentation. all game stories are just the excuse for you to kill things. Atmosphere is all that matters in a game to me. Look at Mass Effect. It's atmosphere and art style is very very good, and the story is so generic and unoriginal. But people think it's great just because of the atmosphere.

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**Tight and Bright** · 10th February '12, 03:03 PM

fuck that of course they do.

resistance fall of man had the best storyline that I've ever played and a lot of people love the Metal gear solid storyline.

**50 Cedis** · 10th February '12, 04:18 PM

didn't read article but tbh when i play games i just want to shoot shit and blow shit up, if i wanna hear a story i'll watch a film.

Some game stories are good though, Heavy rain springs to mind

**Diss04** · 10th February '12, 06:47 PM

Video games are a very under-utilised medium when it comes to storytelling and writing. With so many talented TV writers out of work, I don't know why more companies aren't hiring a room to come up with the story.

**kilik** · 10th February '12, 07:16 PM

i like games with stories. games like assassins creed, batman arkham, gears of war etc.

they all do have great gameplay aswell though

**kyro** · 10th February '12, 07:24 PM

I disagree but I hate them games where they force some kind of story into a game that don't need it. Fight night, NFS, tony hawk etc.

**Jack 1017** · 10th February '12, 11:58 PM

The storylines in WWF games bitd<<<<<<<<

MGS is the only game I can think of that has a good storyline tbh

**GimmeSpaceGimmeRoom** · 11th February '12, 01:07 AM

Me and my mates playing san andreas the day it came out, passing the pad. Then one of my boys starts skipping all the cut-scenes i was like [Big H]cuz[/Big H].

Most games have shit stories/cut-scenes, the ones with dead cut-scenes that they won't let you skip<<<<<

Alan Wake was good, imo.

**chris89** · 11th February '12, 10:24 AM

uncharted >>>>>>

**W.C** · 11th February '12, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by 50 Cedis

didn't read article but tbh when i play games i just want to shoot shit and blow shit up, if i wanna hear a story i'll watch a film.

Some game stories are good though, Heavy rain springs to mind

. Heavy Rain was a madness