Quote Originally Posted by Renmiri View Post
Huh.. got me, it's not like you can chain then

I do believe you can chain wolves to get a Claymore though
Um, you can, and that's what he said. You don't *have* to click the big shiny blue thing on your screen.

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IMO this is a terrible approach to have to a video game. Gameplay is an end in itself. A fun game with an awful story is always better than a bad game with a great story. And storytelling in games is not as strong as it is in books or movies yet, so if a story is all you play for, why are you playing at all?

The only thing in this game I power levelled for is the first Demon Wall in Raithwall's Tomb that you're expected to run from. No way was I running from that.
While I don't think leveling to 40 in this game in Rabnastre is good for your sanity, I'd say a large part of video games is the story. Single player games especially. What's the point of a game if there's no story? I certainly wouldn't play this game if i was just killing monsters as some nameless nobodies in order to kill monsters with more HP.

And yes, I'd agree that books can have better storytelling, but movies? You watch a movie for 2 hours, maybe 3 if it's some massive book adaption, and you have to meet the characters, get to know them, enter the conflict, save the day, and resolution, all in those 2 hours. How long do you play a video game? A story playthrough (someone's first playthrough, so not expecting lightning speed progression) of this game might last what, 50 hours? 70?

I'd also argue that stuff like Anime and TV Shows can have a lot more story than either. Simply by virtue of their length, they have much more time than a movie to tell their story. Not as much as a book, obviously, but still a quality anime/tv show can get you very involved with the characters.

There gets to be a point where you can't find any books/movies/etc that are up to your standard of enjoyment in a genre that's interesting to you (well, that you know about anyway). I'd definitely say a good video game is greater than a bad movie or book, even in terms of storytelling.

Not that FF12 is the greatest in the story department, but still.