Originally Posted by Abits
Originally Posted by WumpusRat
Originally Posted by Abits
Just saw the trailer for the game and wonder how good the story is. The bits the trailer provides give the impression of the most generic story I have ever seen in a video game


From what I've seen so far (I played through the EA story) is your adventurers are tasked with going to check out a keep, you find out some things are going on there, and start looking into it. You find some Big Thing(tm) is going on, and are sucked into being the ones to go and deal with it. Pretty much every party-based fantasy story in a nutshell. What I like the most about it is that it FEELS like a tabletop D&D game, just played on the pc. And that appeals to me a lot. You can call it "generic", I'd call it "classic". It's done by a lot of books, movies, shows, etc for a reason. It's a tried and true storytelling trope.

Yeah generic is a bad word. I suppose even "generic" story done right could be great.

Well we're seeing this in movies and TV shows too, right? It's becoming extremely difficult to come up with a storyline that is original while not being ridiculous and/or cheesy. So I think we have to expect and accept that not all RPGs are going to have some amazing story nobody else had ever done previously. But the standard instead should be has it been done right.