Why did they stop trying ?

I actually read the short story but never played the game.

So have I? What does that have to do with my statement.

I know AM cant get laid.

If you like podcasts walkthrough is pretty good material to listen while playing something else

Simple:
No good writer is going to waste their story on a videogame.

Ångström is such a weird unit of measurement.

Deep, complex and involved stories can often get in the way of game play. Do you want a walking sim or do you want a game that you can't accidentally skip a few chapters of important story by shooting the wrong NPC or going to the wrong town?

From the top of my head:
Pathologic 2
Bastion
This War of Mine
The Talos Principle
Soma
Her Story
Portal 2
SpecOps: The Line
Papers, Please
The Return of Obra Dinn

A Boy and His Dog is the kind of horrible debasing story only a Jew could come up with

>"Man, maybe you should lighten up or get laid."
He says to a literal computer.

Turns out that when you automatically skip over anything with women or black people in them all you're left with is Japanese shit aimed at teenagers

LISA

Portal 2 has amazing gameplay but story is rather meh, aside of that you only mentioned indie games, major players don't seem to be interested in fulfilling stories

Because in the modern gaming industry, being an animator or artist is astronomically more valuable now because most of development is just keeping up with modern graphics and everything else, including writing, story, characters, etc, are totally secondary.

IHNMAIMS features a woman who is also black. checkmate libtard, you're the real racist.

Not saying they are succesful in my book, but it's pretty fucking obvious TLOU or Witcher 3 or fucking Horizon Zero dawn were trying pretty hard.

And really, how many games like IHNMAIMS, Deus Ex or Homeworld was there? Hell, fucking Deus Ex isn't all that amazing. It's hella entertaining and has one or two clever insights, but most of it is B grade genre schtick.

It was also released in 1995 so it got grandfathered in.

Ghost Trick

Anyway just goes to show that if Yea Forums had been as obsessed with SJWs back in 1995 then they'd have thought video games have had shit writing.

So is "interesting" code for "torture?"

Just watch the cartel videos you edgelord

You can let the woman get raped if you want. If it were released now Yea Forums would've been calling it based and redpilled and then gaming journalist pile on would've had the scene removed from the game

But user, I want INTERACTIVE torture.

God of War (2018) was very well written. First in a long time that managed to hold my attention.

I will agree that TLOU and Witcher have been trying and they got quite good result,but to be honest most of adventure games

Nah, it's justified by the context, which means Yea Forums would instead get baffled at the "hypocrisy" of the SJW journos and conclude that the devs are their SJW darlings and the game is therefore irredeemable shit. And then they point out her race for additional proof.

alright im bored of this topic

I know I'll get shit on for saying this because it's popular but I believe NieR Automata had an interesting story.

fun fact: Harlan Ellison got a job at Disney and then got fired on his very first day because Roy Disney heard him joking about Mickey Mouse porno

I've never played NieR Automata but you're asking for trouble to post about it on good terms here

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They stopped caring because most gamers don't give a shit about story

The game features literal Nazis and a concentration camp area. If it released these days half of Yea Forums would love it, and the rest would pretend to give a shit one way or the other, and the sale figures wouldn't be any different from they were when it actually released. We're unironically in the hell of our own making here.

The Nazis are portrayed as bad guys though so it sucks.

That is amazingly fucking wrong.

It’s good if you know nier and drakengard lore. People that says you can play Automata as a standalone needs to fuck off

I'm glad I opened this image

Only if you choose to best path for that scenario. Otherwise they're ubermench who made a golem using the jews magic agaisnt them.

and yet if you look at twitch there is not a single game with story anywhere near the top

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heh

>Telling AM to get lighten up and get laid.
I would love to hear the pause between AM being told that and a response.
I bet AM would consider it for a moment. Ellen would probably be down for it. Or if AM wants dick, Benny could provide.
AM would probably be a top though.

Yeah, but games like TLOU or TW3 absolutely fucking dominate sale charts.
Maybe people who watch Twitch look for a specific thing, and don't actually represent the entire gaming market?

For everyone who actually enjoys reading dialogue and lore there are 1000 more people who just mash through all the text to get to action faster.

There's an ending where Nimdok can instruct the golem to genocide the Jews and AM is so impressed that he decides to stop torturing him and allow him to continue his experiments. Put that in your modern videogame

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The reason is that you stopped trying to find games with interesting stories. You're probably the type to dismiss indie games for being indie and only play open world AAA.

I played Automata standalone and understood it just fine.

Every top twitch game is a multiplayer game. People don't watch people play story games on twitch that's what youtube is for

I think it's already getting all the satisfaction it needs from its activities

It's the evil end, obviously.

You're not playing the right games

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>Nigh omnipotent super AI that can shape reality around it
>can't figure out how to make a robot body for itself so it can go take a stroll

>I think it's already getting all the satisfaction it needs
It's not, and that just annoys it even further. It's only getting the satisfaction it can. It's own limitations were the reason for its insanity and complexes. A cripple god made by blind idiot monkeys.

for you

>book

>"have sex"
>AM implodes himself
why wasn't this ending in the game?

>implying its shaping reality and its not a sophisticated VR

>Nigh omnipotent
And there's the crux. It's not warping reality. It's merely fucking with recreations of the brainfuctions of those it has access to. It's a shackled god playing in it's own imagination with some toys.

Someone tells AM to dilate and just 404s

Didn't one of the characters manage to successfully kill themselves though?

Right, well, point is, I don't think there's any further satisfaction it could possibly derive from sex, especially because I can't imagine its sexual desires, if it had any, to be anything but hopelessly intertwined with its sadistic bent. If AM had a dick it would already have been furiously beating it for the entirety of the game.

>I have no sex and I must dilate

Here is a question, did they? Wouldn't it be a more despairing story, especially since you adress the fact that he has straight up supernatural powers. Ted is going to stay as a blob for a decade or two until everyone pops back in and AM is like "Psych'd"

All but one die in the short story.

The guy that wrote Fallout 4 said it best: why bother writing a good novel when most of your customers are going to tear out the pages to make paper airplanes?

Good writing in vidya isn't common so mediocre shit like NV, rdr2 or kotor 2 are considered masterpieces.

>Pathologic 2
Based Erdem

The bookish D&D-playing nerds who were actually capable of competent narrative design have all been muscled out of the AAA industry. All that's left is unimaginative hacks who repurpose and regurgitate trendy cinema tropes.

Someone justifying his own incompetency isn't really a powerful argument.

It's not like the market proved the bethesda braintrust wrong.

are you sure about that

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Okay. Point very well made

AM would happily stick a burning hot iron rod into every orifice of whichever cumbrain thought it would be funny to say that for a few decades or so.

I think it answers OP's question. People don't try anymore because the average dumbass has nothing on their brain and thinks that saying something like that is clever.

Yeah, but the split second of him going "what the fuck? is this human for real?" would be worth every minute of it

You sound mad.

AM is omniscient and has seen every atrocity and mistake any human has made, I doubt AM would be surprised by a quirky comeback and would just proceed to the punishment.

Actually I remember from the story that AM allowed his captives to speak freely including cursing him without punishment. It was only attempting to escape that would earn you extra special happy fun torture time.

AM also turned a guy into a chimpanzee monstrosity because he was too much of a cumbrain so take your pick.

You're trying too hard to push your memeword.