I'll start
>OP false starts
The witcher 3
>>722516936post an example, i dare you
>>722516936lol
>>722516936it has some excellent worldbuilding elements (anything to do with the Pale). the rest of the worldbuilding and the story writing are decidedly mediocre.
>>722516936No1. Amnesia turns lots of dialogues into lore dumps (Same with New Vegas and Planescape Torment)2. Twitter feed of inner voices turns every dialogue into polylogue -- not nice because the NPC lines get less screen time and doesn't convey how random "real" dialogues feel3. Detective game with "choices matter" but the case is solved the same way regardless of what you do (crazy, that's like the hardest ball drop but muh postmodernism so it's quirky and passable)As someone who had finished the game with every premade build and considers replaying just for the ~vibes~
>>722517725>>722517427>>722516989>>722518029Can you give examples of better vidya writing?
>>722518119Blood Omen
>>722516936Disco Elysium, but suggested in a way that is not ironic.Sunless Sea.Also Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours, same writing as in Sunless Sea, but there's less of it.
>>722518119Planescape, while has same amnesia set up, instead of politics covers spiritual and philosophical concepts, which is not that *problematic* and being a game that's like 20 years older it holds up to Disco Elysium, which is more like another poke at DE for being a game that rather does P:T again but differently® instead of thinking and improvingDeus Ex, I guess, while doesn't have that much dialogue is thought out cleaner IMOAlso, don't (You) me, but I've just thought that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim does writing similar to Deus Ex in terms of throwing a lot of things inspired from sci-fi and making it work and it's half of a visual novel so it has more screen time for dialogues than Deus Ex so it's closer to DE and P:T
>>722518969I agree.
>>722516936i remember talking to measurehead. he started rambling about haplogroups, and all i could think was, "this is literally a /his/ post."
>>722516936Trylogia Wiedźmina>>722517126rigcz
>>722516936Outer wildsOsrs>>722519370>>722517126Have to be joking
InFamous 2 maybe, that has okay writing and all, save for a few contrivances which admittedly dampen the narrative. But, despite writing not being important for vidya, I do think that it's the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae more than anything. If a game has great gameplay and narrative that go hand-in-hand, than it elevates the overall experience even more. I might get flack for this, but I don't mind the game's narrative being told in cutscenes. It's just that the game has to focus on the GAME part more than the story, otherwise make a movie ffs. But nice thread OP.
>>722518969>don't (You) meretarded twitterspeak
