Hack away around/under his left wing area and he may grumble a bit, but that’s it. Keep away from his buddies and his mouth…or he’ll give you a preview of a dragon spell you can buy later. It'll take a while this way but bleed weapons will speed it up a bit.
Because of the wall there, it's buddies(I think they're her kids) can't find their way around to you if you keep near the back leg. They'll stomp around and scream but at least when I did it they couldn't seem to figure out how to get back to me and since big mommy dragon can't move, you can wail away at her as long as you like.
I think the thing I appreciate the most about this type of storytelling is there is very little that gets in the way of actually playing the games. There’s probably a total of about ten minutes of cutscenes in any of these (maybe a bit more for ER), including intro, ending and boss sequences which disappear after the first try anyways. This is fine by me because I usually don’t recall what’s what even in traditional narratives by the time a 30-40+ hour game is done. It’s even worse when there’s cutscenes for every character interaction in big RPGs. Forbidden West I’m mostly just tapping a button to skip through all the dialog choices because fuck if I’ll remember all that shit by the end anyways lol.
You shouldn't be surprised by this. I don't know why you are. It's a story that doesn't interfere with the gameplay, and leave things ambiguous enough for the players to figure out on their own. That's why so many people like diving into the lore or world of each of these games. I'm not into this franchise, but it's not hard to see why people enjoy the story in each of these games.
Yeah that's fine. I mean I like both kinds personally if they're done well. That part that blows my mind is that folks are gonna watch a 40 minute lore-explainer video for the lore for a game they like not having to watch a 2 minute cut scene for. I'm just saying I think it's kind of funny/ironic, that's all.
How does that blow your mind? Its a giant mysterious game world with strange enemies, of course people are interested in what its all about.
I thought I was in the hot take thread. Anyway, I think the issue isn't that players can't understand a complex story, but that many players don't care for the story as much as for the gameplay, and see cutscenes as the interruption of it. Hence skip buttons. Stories in games are optional to the experience. So it's not worth investing too much effort in cutscene literature, and it's risky to place too crucial information in them as the skipping players would complain about it.
Hard disagree, there are some kinds of games that can get away with no story, but those are exceedingly rare and tend to be games like tetris. Most other types of games at least need some back story for the context of the player. This also isn't even mentioning the RPG genera which is entirely propelled by story.
That depends on what it is. Most people are going to want to skip cutscenes on a second or third playthrough. Otherwise, most people are there for a story or some type of motivation their first time through.
You're stating your personal tastes. But you cannot infer from it how people play in general. Including in RPGs, where the "plot" is most often as generic as possible, already known from the start to the end (mguffin hunt cause monsters everywhere cause evil wizard yadda), and a pretext to hack and also slash. A lot of people go through it on "shut up and point me to the baddies" mode. Sometimes it's unfair to the carefully crafted story and lore, sometimes it's absolutely deserved. Most of times it's neither.
Relax.
I get where both of you are coming from. Now @Worgen. You should know that there are people who literally played 40 hour to 100 hour plus games, and not give a crap about the story. Do you know how many kids, teens, or adults play the GTA games, and not give a rat ass about the story or character motivations at all? Billions at this point. I know that is not an RPG example, but it still applies. I have met my fair share people who literally played long hour rpgs (usually of the action variety) and didn't give a rat's ass about the story of characters. We also got it taken to account that most people don't finish a game they bought. They either stop halfway or stop early on because a loss of interests or something happening in real life.
Not sure what RPGs you've been playing, but I can't think of many cases where that's true. Certainly not any RPG made since, well, the 90s, really.
Absolutely every diablo-like ever (Dungeon Quest, Sacred, etc). RPGs like Neverwinter Nights, the Elder Scrolls, Icewind Dale, Dragon Age, Kotor, Fable, etc... Most of them are formulaic as hell, and it doesn't matter (let's call it "classic"). Oh noes my mentor Beardaf is dead, oh noes evil is descending on the world, must find the Sword of Jewels of The Ring Of Staffs before Warlockor the Warlock, if I do it with a party let's hope Maidena won't be captured or turned to the dark side because that twist would unexpectedly raise the stakes.
