Am I the only one who enjoys games that have engaging stories. Sometimes I even turn the difficulty down, so that I enjoy the story and not struggle so much.
I mean challenging games can be fun sometimes, but nowadays I just feel that my life offers me enough struggles not to want another one while playing. For me games offer an escape of reality and I like them chill and casual but still with an engaging story.
Sounds like you need to play more adventure games! Point & click had it’s heyday in the 90s with outstanding story-based game series like Monkey Island, Broken Sword, and Gabriel Knight, but there’s been a resurgence in recent years through games like Gemini Rue, Machinarium, and Deponia.
If you’re enjoying Syberia, definitely start looking at more point & click games - there’s a ton of variety!
Internet pro tip, if it begins with “am I the only one…” the answer is always no.
Yes, true
I do that quite often - turn down the difficulty and simply enjoy the story. Sometimes, when a game is very long for example, but I still love the characters and the story, I watch one of those “game movies” of people who made different choices or followed different paths.
This is why I avoid Souls style games. I’ve tried a couple and don’t find it rewarding to fail so much.
This has definitely been the case with me as well. Especially as I got older and had less time to play anything.
I’ve always been partial to story over mechanics though. I just think the preference has tilted much further in favor of story games now.
I always enjoy a good story in my games. I particularly enjoyed the walking dead games. I’ve also just done a few runs of slay the princess which is a visual novel game with amazing voice acting and a romance/ existential horror plot. Quite short unless you do multiple runs but I’d definitely recommend it on sale.
Wishlisted it
I had the same thought lately that I just want a story based game to play, relax, maybe strategise a bit, like Baldurs Gate.
Yeah, my GPU is crap and I can’t play it. I tried to play it on the Deck but decided not to ruin my experience and play it when I buy a proper GPU, hopefully soon.
Can you just connect it to a screen and a kb/m?
i did the same just got my new build done and it was worth it. I’m excited for you to play it.
Yeah dude, you’re the only one that enjoys a good story.
No one else has ever liked a good story before. Ever. Mutant.
True. I really only play chess these days to avoid even having characters in my game.
I like falling asleep listening to Chess lore recap videos
Secretly plays Shotgun King
I feel that way about sad games. There’s plenty reasons to be sad, I don‘t wanna be sad playing games. I need more A Hat In Time-s.
If action games are story heavy, I almost always start on lowest difficulty. If there are many Quick Time Events that don’t change the story, just some do-over if you fail, I check if I can make them easier. If they DO change the story if I fail, I play QTE’s on normal difficulty and live with the consequenses.
Favourite story game is Detroid:become human.
Are choices important to you or are you okay with linear adventure games?
I am fine with both, as long as the stories are good. What are your recommendations?
Have you tried the Mass Effect trilogy? Generally considered to have a pretty good story, and it has choices so there’s some replay value too.
danganronpa got me into visual novels. there’s also narrative games like telltale or life is strange
I have both telltale and life is strange.
I liked Plague Tales but by the end those pesky rats were too much for my liking and a bit annoying. I am currently playing the last Syberia and enjoying it so far.
Unless a game somehow really sucks me in these days, I tend not to engage much with the stories anymore. It’s not at the point where I’m skipping cutscenes regularly, yet. I tend to play games in slow, broken up sessions, so there’s a very good chance that I won’t remember what happened in the story the next time I hop back in. At that point, I just hope I can remember how to play the game.
Play visual novels, I am having a blast with both Hotel Dusk and The Last Window.
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