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What have been the games whose writing really got into you?
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?
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Life is Strange Spiritfarer Titanfall 2 Hellblade Red Dead 2 Hades Oxenfree Many more, but these stood out on actually caring about the characters and what happened to them.Life is Strange 1 was good, a bit silly at points but I enjoyed the cringe. The other games were kinda bad. Bloom and Rage is HILARIOUSLY bad. In every way. It’s amazing.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Hell blade: Senua's Sacrifice. The game itself helped me understand people, who are no longer with us, in a better way. The manner in which psychosis is presented is powerfully accurate, at least from an outsider perspective. It made me cry as it portrayed struggles in a manner truthful to the symptoms beyond the effects - the story and execution of it really gripped me.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Bioshock infinite, really pulled me in.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Life is Strange Telltale walking dead Final Fantasy X (or VII, or basically insert most any) Gone Home Mass Effect 1&2 (never finished 3 lol) Outer Wilda Undertale Descent Freespace 2 Silent Hill 2 Heavy Rain Disco Elysium I have no mouth and I must scream Limbo Braid
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With the praise this game regularly gets, I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the story was inelegantly delivered by info dump.I would say that the story of DE kind of plays a back seat to the inner dialogue stuff imo... It's not the kind of game that you just rush through so you can see what the plot is.
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I would say that the story of DE kind of plays a back seat to the inner dialogue stuff imo... It's not the kind of game that you just rush through so you can see what the plot is.I wasn't rushing and info dumps weren't my only criticism. There were some things that I could chalk up to just personal preference like my distaste for almost every character I encountered in the first 5 hours, but when it did decide to start filling me in on how its world works, I found that to be well below the standards of the praise the game gets for its writing. That's not to say that it's easy to do it better, but I can point to a number of other works of fiction that show how it can be done. The inner dialogue could have been a great vehicle to do it more elegantly.
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Life is Strange Telltale walking dead Final Fantasy X (or VII, or basically insert most any) Gone Home Mass Effect 1&2 (never finished 3 lol) Outer Wilda Undertale Descent Freespace 2 Silent Hill 2 Heavy Rain Disco Elysium I have no mouth and I must scream Limbo Braid
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Yakuza 0 got me very hard in the feels... Such a shame that the next ones (1-4) weren't as good. But Zero... what a ride.
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CrossCode. I won't spoil anything, but Lea very quickly cemented herself as my favorite protagonist of all time.CrossCode was gifted to me and I went in knowing nothing about it. I don't know if I would say it is the best written game story but the way it unfolds is emotionally gripping and managed to make a crusty jaded gamer like myself feel the full range of emotions. Highly recommended.
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Life is Strange 1 was good, a bit silly at points but I enjoyed the cringe. The other games were kinda bad. Bloom and Rage is HILARIOUSLY bad. In every way. It’s amazing.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?New Vegas, the writing of the dialoges are brilliant. Some of the funniest or straight up saddest stuff are both there.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Gone Home - when I finished the game I was legitimately sad that I couldn't spend more time with the people whose lives I got to know so intimately from their environments. And yes, they didn't feel like characters anymore, they felt like actual people. That's one of the highest praises I can give to a game's storytelling.
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Life is Strange Spiritfarer Titanfall 2 Hellblade Red Dead 2 Hades Oxenfree Many more, but these stood out on actually caring about the characters and what happened to them.Oh I forgot about Oxenfree. Yeah, the story and voice acting were quite good, but the game had so many [annoying design/UI decisions](https://steamcommunity.com/id/kazerniel/recommended/388880) that it left me frustrated more than anything else :c
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Life is Strange Telltale walking dead Final Fantasy X (or VII, or basically insert most any) Gone Home Mass Effect 1&2 (never finished 3 lol) Outer Wilda Undertale Descent Freespace 2 Silent Hill 2 Heavy Rain Disco Elysium I have no mouth and I must scream Limbo Braid
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Life is Strange Spiritfarer Titanfall 2 Hellblade Red Dead 2 Hades Oxenfree Many more, but these stood out on actually caring about the characters and what happened to them.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?Blue Prince sure feels like it counts, our whole family is hooked, and has been playing it every day for about 2 weeks now. Even well after rolling credits. In a similar vein, I'd have to say Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds. Together with Blue Prince, they all have a storytelling strategy of "you have to put some effort into getting the story out of it", but the effort makes every new discovery or revelation feel super rewarding. Celeste is the one that comes to mind for a more traditional story that REALLY hit. Persona 5 comes to mind, too. I was ENGROSSED in that story for months. Even if it went off the rails a couple times. I'm also gonna shout-out Tales of Symphonia. That game was formative for me.
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I just finished playing Triangle strategy and sometimes that games writing gets so good but feel what the very characters are feeling. What about you? What have been those games that have gripped your hand and made you feel every turn of the page?
