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Post: 98250245_1 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:13:14 +0000
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Why do I do this? xd

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Post: 98250245_2 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:15:41 +0000
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You should probably switch to something else. I imagine only older shooters ever had a somewhat decent story. Now they're all about nothing but being a shooter and playing against and with others.

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Post: 98250245_3 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 03:28:22 +0000
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I honestly don't really like FPS stories. They never seem as interesting as what they could be.

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Post: 98250245_4 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:08:38 +0000
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You should probably switch to something else. I imagine only older shooters ever had a somewhat decent story. Now they're all about nothing but being a shooter and playing against and with others.

Ditto on this. Even Pokemon Snap had a better story than almost any FPS released in the last 5 years, and that's technically just a simplistic rail shooter.

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Post: 98250245_5 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:31:35 +0000
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I don't see a problem with it. The genre of the game doesn't necessarily detract from its ability to tell a story.

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Post: 98250245_6 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:46:20 +0000
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because games like wolfenstein and bioshock exist (:

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Post: 98250245_7 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:59:27 +0000
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Wouldn't it be better to stick with RPG for stories?

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Post: 98250245_8 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:24:02 +0000
Posted: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:24:02 +0000

The Darkness, Jedi Knight 2, Spec Ops the line (even though its third person pewpewpew), and hell even CoD 4 were some of my fave FPS stories

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Post: 98250245_10 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:07:01 +0000
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because games like wolfenstein and bioshock exist (:

Wolfenstein sure but not Bioshiock

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Post: 98250245_11 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:07:25 +0000
Posted: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:07:25 +0000

snow on tha bluff

why would you play any game for the story? a large majority of them suck.

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Post: 98250245_12 created on Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:25:37 +0000
Posted: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:25:37 +0000

Maybe you should consider more visual novels or dating sims?
You know, story types that more easily lend themselves to story, if that's what you're after.

In shooters there's only so many ways you can turn 'shooting' into a story element. And, unsurprisingly, it all involves something or someone being shot. Some games manage to do well, like the Last of Us, though in most cases I think it's more in spite of the genre rather than because of it. Last of Us, for example, might have done better if it played more like Until Dawn. It's not impossible, though. Portal would be the large exception to the rule. I think it's really hard to make shooting consistently compelling because it's so often "just killing stuff". Until shooters move away from killing and more towards other things like Portal did with puzzles or other sub-genres, I'm not sure shooting is a very good storytelling medium right now. There's so much oversaturation in the kill-shooter department.