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Originally posted by Hyu
And RPGs (for the most part) do the same in a far more effective manner. The way in which you can simply enter a town and walk up to any inhabitant of your choosing and proceed to "interact" with them, in turn finding out general information about the setting and mood of the townspeople -- that isn't at all necessarily entirely relevant or fundamentally important to the underlying plot of the game -- creates a far greater level of interactive storyline that's entirely unique to the video game medium than simply seeing absolutely everything from the first person perspective of a mute character. Not only do you have the full motion videos and mandatory text based dialogue sequences to present you with the full scope and underlying path and direction of the storyline, but you have this level of interaction that really gives you insight into the general atmosphere of the setting. The sheer emphasis on the storyline and how dialogue heavy these games actually are also add to an unparalleled level of exploration of the characters and setting in comparison to other genres (this is especially true for Japanese RPGs).

Games such as Bioshock and Half Life 2 really don't present the player with that much of an interactive storyline in comparison.

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Originally posted by First_Tsurugi06
What Mr. Yahtzee Croshaw calls convoluted is simply what I call a lack of actual comrehension of the full series;

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You're comment pretty much sums it all up.

But why are you banned?

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Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
Being able to interact with characters on the level you described does absolutely nothing for me if the story/setting/characters aren't interesting or intriguing in the first place. Actually, it only adds to the tedium.

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Originally posted by MooCowofJustice

I haven't kept up with recent story lines in Spyro and Crash. I mostly meant the original games.

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Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx

Shenmue