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by reactordev 139 days ago
Yup, town plagued by supernatural, everyone depressed, just another Ubisoft title they could have had but didn’t.

By Act 2 the story was already falling apart. The game just leaves you feeling depressed. I guess since you felt something that makes it GOTY.
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gambiting 138 days ago
>Yup, town plagued by supernatural, everyone depressed, just another Ubisoft title they could have had but didn’t.

Ok, so you haven't played it then. I mean just say so, instead of making things up?

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reactordev 138 days ago
You can’t make up The Paintress. Awful writing.
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gambiting 138 days ago
>>Yup, town plagued by supernatural, everyone depressed,

But that's literally not what the game is, which is why I'm asking why are you making up the fact about playing it? It sounds like a quick judgement based on a trailer or watching a 30 minute analysis video on YouTube.

What other games have awful writing according to you? Out of curiosity. Or is it just anything written after 2018?

Maybe a better question is - what do you mean when you say "good" or "bad" writing in games?

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reactordev 138 days ago
I’m not making anything up. I don’t fabricate. I gave you my point of view and you refuse to accept it.

It’s just not a good game.

You can have a good game and a shit story (see Gears of War, Halo). You can have a good game and an epic story (see Witcher 3, Guild Wars 2, Red Dead Redemptions). You can even have a bad game with a good story (L.A. Noire, Batman Arkham series).

What makes a game good: Are the controls intuitive? Is the world believable? Interactivity? Grounded in realism but doesn’t need to be. If there’s a story, does the story unfold or am I just playing the “living action” version of the book? If it unfolds, does it do so linearly from level to level or does it do it naturally, filling in gaps of a bigger picture?

There’s nuance in each. I generally agree with consensus on what’s good vs bad but where I differ is in the storytelling. As a long time DM, it pains me to walk through a story from chapter 1 till end in a linear fashion. This is why I dislike Diablo style games even though it’s super fun and we all love a loot piñata. It’s just such a shitty story and so linear. “Stay a while and listen…” “I’ve heard you say this 1000x grandpa!”

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12_throw_away 138 days ago
Ok, this was a pretty well-done troll, you totally had me until this.
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reactordev 138 days ago
No troll, I paid full price. Expedition 33 wasn’t well written.
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