Are video games better without stories? (Gaming)

by EffortlessFury , Friday, April 28, 2017, 15:36 (2547 days ago) @ Claude Errera

The game is questioning this rule. Why do you want to play a game about war? Why are you willing to do whatever is necessary to keep the linear story moving? If you saw a large crowd of unarmed people, why did you do it? You should have turned the game off.

Well, there's the obvious answer of "I'm not a psychopath, but I've been told all my life that war is hell, and games about war are as close as I can come to seeing what that really means without actually participating."

It's sort of like sniffing the carton of milk someone has just handed you and told you is sour. You KNOW you're not going to like what's coming next, but you sort of want to see how bad it really is.

Then on the flip, you are now experiencing the hell of having to make amoral decisions in a war zone, decisions real military personnel face all the time.