InD_ImaginE
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Let's discuss about your counter examples, your bar of good video game writing.
KOTOR2: Definitely good. Does it set the bar very high that TW3 is not comparable to it? No. While the story has some pretty good idea regarding the setting and how ambiguous Force should be, the characters are just some sort of okayish. There is really nothing shining in execution either besides trying to subvert the usual black vs white of SW settings.
Bloodlines: No. Bloodlines has interesting setting and good presentation. It is good but it no ways set a bar that high.
MotB: Never finished it, can't comment.
The only one I think set the bar high is PST and a lot of people would perhaps agree that PST is the game with good writing.
Playing a lot of games between PST and TW3, TW3 execution of its narrative is top notch that it deserves at least top 10 or even 5 in my books. The Bloody Baron questlines and Bloody Baron himself is one example of how good TW3 could be at its best. Of course being an open world games with dozens of quest makes the overall quality more average than it should be, but even then it is still a feat that TW3, narrative wise, trumps over most games in managing things interesting.
KOTOR2: Definitely good. Does it set the bar very high that TW3 is not comparable to it? No. While the story has some pretty good idea regarding the setting and how ambiguous Force should be, the characters are just some sort of okayish. There is really nothing shining in execution either besides trying to subvert the usual black vs white of SW settings.
Bloodlines: No. Bloodlines has interesting setting and good presentation. It is good but it no ways set a bar that high.
MotB: Never finished it, can't comment.
The only one I think set the bar high is PST and a lot of people would perhaps agree that PST is the game with good writing.
Playing a lot of games between PST and TW3, TW3 execution of its narrative is top notch that it deserves at least top 10 or even 5 in my books. The Bloody Baron questlines and Bloody Baron himself is one example of how good TW3 could be at its best. Of course being an open world games with dozens of quest makes the overall quality more average than it should be, but even then it is still a feat that TW3, narrative wise, trumps over most games in managing things interesting.