Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 17 days agoWhy so unnecessary?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down141
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minus-squareoptional@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoOk, maybe I just play the wrong games. I haven’t payed any of those.
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoIt’s definitely a genre thing. Sim games, platformers, management games, multiplayer shooters etc very rarely bring it into the equation because in those games then either: A) There’s no named protagonist at all B) The protagonist is ‘You’ so as little as possible is depicted about them to be unobtrusive C) The protagonist notionally exists and has a name and depiction, yet they are so irrelevant to the story that no details about them are provided. Narrative-driven games are a totally different beast.
minus-squareiegod@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoThere’s never a wrong game! Play what you want.
Ok, maybe I just play the wrong games. I haven’t payed any of those.
It’s definitely a genre thing.
Sim games, platformers, management games, multiplayer shooters etc very rarely bring it into the equation because in those games then either:
A) There’s no named protagonist at all
B) The protagonist is ‘You’ so as little as possible is depicted about them to be unobtrusive
C) The protagonist notionally exists and has a name and depiction, yet they are so irrelevant to the story that no details about them are provided.
Narrative-driven games are a totally different beast.
There’s never a wrong game! Play what you want.