[ghostbrainalpha]

I get what you are saying about Story Based games, but even for those types of games certain stream scenarios have huge value for the publisher.

For example, someone who is very young may not have the technical ability to beat a game they own and finish the story. Do publishers really want to prevent this 5yr. old super fan from seeing how the story ends on Youtube?

Or what if a major game like Fallout 3. I might be interested in picking up this game for the first time. But the story that this game continues would be from a console generation it is very unlikely for me to have, and even if I did, I am not interested in playing a game from more than 10 years ago. Should I be able to watch the story elements of that game, to help facilitate a new purchase that helps that publisher? Some may argue that it is their right to force me to purchase the first games in order to get those stories, and it is their right, but it definitely isn't in their economic interest.

[dogma1138]

Well the first thing is that there are different difficulty levels and the "story" difficulty level is very common these days for the vast majority of story based games.

And yes the publisher doesn't care for a 5yr old, and we both know it's an emotional argument. I don't have a problem with various snippets being put online, I also don't have a moral objection to the whole game being made into a movie and put on YouTube but I can fully understand why a publisher wouldn't want people doing that and I don't see any arguments for it within the confines of current western ideology, as in one that does not abolish all or nearly all intellectual rights.

As for your second argument, well yes, but that isn't that common Fallout 3 is not related to any other Fallout game in other than setting, effectively every Fallout provides it's own confined story. Sure you might appreciate the easter eggs if you have played other games but the overall high level plot and story points of previous games are utterly irrelevant.

[ghostbrainalpha]

I wish they had advertised that more about Fallout 3. I had no idea.

I always assume when something has a serialized number, it is a continuation of a single story, but when they call it "Fallout: Russian March of Death" or something like that, it is part of a brand but the actual story will be self contained.

[dogma1138]

Fallout 2 came out in 1998 it was a turn based rpg with (almost) no VO and no cut scenes I understand what you are saying in principle but it’s a pretty bad example since you can really make a movie out of it even if you wanted too.

Fallout 3 came out 10 years later if it was a sequel it would contain some sort of “previously on CSI: Wasteland” part to catch people up as it’s pretty common in serialized story based games.