awful. Made it almost to end of first episode and then stopped. Its all over the place. like watching a new story every 15 minutes. Oh well, it was good for the first 30 min, then epic fail.
Son loves fallout so will watch it with him maybe. Last one I played, or seriously played, was Fallout 2. I fucked around in 3 for about 6 hours, never played 4 or the online one (76?).
SP story based RPG/action games aren't my bag.
But looking at the comments here, might be worth watching this.
“I’d rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question.“ Richard Feynman.
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Thats the thing, story in video games isn't something I do (I'm the person slapping every key trying to skip cutscenes or dialog). Its just fluff in the way to 'deal with' while playing the game mechanics. And 3's mechanics didnt grab me, so just sort of stopped playing it.
For better or worse, I think we can expect 100000x movie videogame adaptions now given this was a success and significantly boosted the sales of the game.
@Yuri Just how I am, I play games for the game, I watch movies/read books for a story.
Video Game story to me, is like a movie I have to do work to make play. I'd just watch a movie instead
My favorite games are the one you start: You are standing there (or just looking at the game starting area). No dialog, not starting narration or scenes. No NPC's or story arc you must interact with to get moving in the world. Just me, game mechanics, and free reign on how to approach them.
Oh yea. I do that too
I will 100% fast forward through monologuing exposition fluff in a movie. Or like Stephen kings IT book, Skipped over the 4 looong chapters thats was narrative fluff about how much they loved doing, and what they did playing, in the river/creek.
Why also my favorite TV shows are episodic. Like Venture Bros. LOVED it for many seasons when it wasnt fully ongoing story you needed to watch in order. Once it started having references and timelines in the A plot that needed to be watched in specific order, stopped watching it.
Oh yea. I do that too
I will 100% fast forward through monologuing exposition fluff in a movie. Or like Stephen kings IT book, Skipped over the 4 looong chapters thats was narrative fluff about how much they loved doing, and what they did playing, in the river/creek.
Why also my favorite TV shows are episodic. Like Venture Bros. LOVED it for many seasons when it wasnt fully ongoing story you needed to watch in order. Once it started having references and timelines in the A plot that needed to be watched in specific order, stopped watching it.
Figured as much Anyway, if you skip it how can you know it's 100% irrelevant? For sure some series lean too much into pointless exposition, but sometimes there is important stuff mixed into it.
Figured as much Anyway, if you skip it how can you know it's 100% irrelevant? For sure some series lean too much into pointless exposition, but sometimes there is important stuff mixed into it.
Because 99% of movies and tv shows use the same small basket of Hollywood: formulas, investment base (viewer focused investment) used for plot hooks, call backs, fore shadows, and plot device drops. So can extrapolate what you miss pretty easy by either seeing what was before it, or when something comes up knowing what its canned 'callback' clearly was you skipped over.
1/2 the time fast-forwarding thru the time sink/fluff scene just by: camera angles, lighting type, and facial expressions and so on, you see zipping past you can narrow down which typical type of exposition dump, or reveal or tension moment/whatever it was setting up, or about to call to.
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