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Games that have an excellent story or world stuck with crap gameplay?

posted 8 years ago by RockinRickyRialto
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This is all I could think about while playing Mafia III. The plot is interesting, the characters memorable, the motion capture acting rivals The Last of Us in some parts, and it's the best I've ever seen historical period details implemented in a game. But experiencing that story requires trudging through a million completely shallow and copy and paste turf-taking missions. It's needless padding in a game where you already can't use fast travel!

Any other games where the gap between story quality and gameplay quality is so pronounced?

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[–] binaryvegeta 8 years ago

Witcher 3

[–] Klop_Gob 8 years ago

I agree.

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[–] sitesucksballsnow 8 years ago

Yeah, I'd second Deadly Premonition here.

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[–] Snusk-Hummer 8 years ago

Silent Hill 4: The Room
Rule of Rose
The Silver Case

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[–] SolarisTheOne 8 years ago

The Last of Us is a perfect example.

Same with Bioshock.

Even the lovers of those games rarely mention the game play, it's all about the story and world's of those games.

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[–] Zuko_Reborn 8 years ago

I wouldn't like The Last of Us as much as I do if it just had a great story. There are plenty of reviews that praise its combat too. Klop and I have talked about why it is so good in the past.

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[–] Klop_Gob 8 years ago

Gameplay (and level design) is in-fact what I've talked about the most [my Grounded and Survivor difficulty posts for example) but whatever can't be bothered going through all this again. I wouldn't have completed it 8 times if I thought the gameplay wasn't great.

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[–] KthulhuX 8 years ago

The Last of Us has gameplay?