Crispy™ There has never been a walking simulator with a good story

[Zed Duke of Banville]

if i find this Story guy who is driving all these bad games i'm gonna make him pay. By making him play every walking simulator.

Walking simulators might be easier to play than Arcanum, though.

 

[AfterVirtue]

if i find this Story guy who is driving all these bad games i'm gonna make him pay. By making him play every walking simulator.

Walking simulators might be easier to play than Arcanum, though.

Please, you're too merciful; would you prefer the jaws of wolves with the jaws of tediousness for the people in the age of internet?

 

[JC'sBarber]

Silent Hill Shattered Memories is one of the best IMO.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Death Stranding is a walking simulator.

 

[ColossusCimmerian]

Death Stranding is a walking simulator.

I have not yet played it, and I doubt that I will ever do so. If I'm not mistaken, it's more like an interactive movie with 8 hours of cutscenes, and yes, the rest of the game is just running around.

 

[Hell Swarm]

I agree with this notion. RPGs are the best genre to deliver good stories in games, but even if you look outside the genre the best stories are usually not delivered in walking simulators. Look at Metal Gear, many people call the saga movie games, and it certainly is very movie-like, but you can't deny the gameplay and the mechanics are there always supporting the story being told.

RPGs are one of the worst ways to tell an interactive story. Games as a medium have issues with stories but JRPGs do 5 minutes of dialog then an hour of gameplay before 5 minutes more dialog. It's not built into the game at all.

CRPGs can be even worse where I spend 2 weeks collecting wolf pelts before I find the next main story mission.

A good story in a walking sim is a oxymoron. Games as a medium are defined by the fact that the player gets to be an active participant in the story. Meaning that in some way the player is essential for the story to even occur and procced. However when all the player does is walk from A to B and then C then what kind of relevance can the player even have? The player has to be by definition essentially irrelevant because the only interaction they can perform is barely interactive to begin with.

Walking sims do make the player an active participant. Still Wakes the Deep as about as walking sim as they come but I did control Caz and I did use inputs to fix problems that manifested story content. I had to fix the jennies and I did and that made something else go to shit. But I got more dialog from characters and I progressed the story.

 

[kangaxx]

Recently played the first and only walking simulator I've ever "enjoyed"... Pools. Creepy in its own way, but not even a modicum of gameplay or story.

People always talk about Firewatch as having a good story... no idea why, it's shite.