Title: As I get older I find myself becoming less interested in story heavy games.
Reason: User Warned: 'Lazy dev' rhetoric.
same. my standards for what's actual good story telling have gone way higher than when i was a teenager. i don't connect with "cinematic experiences" for the most part. i think it's a lazy move by devs to focus on that, creating boring and meaningless gameplay that has to be tolerated until the player gets to the "good part", the cutscenes and the actual story. if the shitty story you want to tell isn't actually enhanced by being in an interactive medium and can have the same effect if it was a movie, don't bother imo.
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