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new video games are spectacular and you can argue that they're more fun to play than ever but the stories told by video games pretty wack here are a few examples of storytelling you can go on a ride these games don't have the worst stories in fact some of them are pretty good but they all show some of the traps that video games can fall into horizon zero dawn is one of the best games I've played in years but the story was a weak link the post-apocalyptic world was fascinating and full of mystery but the characters within the world not so flash halo was cool as an action hero but fairly bland outside of that her story was an unexceptional one about the outsider that becomes the hero the side characters are at best just there and some feel like empty tropes like the morally ambiguous Cylons who the game tries way too hard to make feel mysterious but I never told you the full extent of my culpability 2013's Devil May Cry reboot was awesome and the story was good right until the end the original game saw protagonist Dante and his brother Virgil as deadly enemies but in this game they're good buds and worked together to defeat Mundus a demon king their new buddy-buddy relationship was a fresh take and totally believable which made the plot twist at the end all the more grown inducing yes free from the demons the path is clear for us to rule it really wasn't worth it just for an actual boss fight what did you say okay unpopular opinion out of the way first I love the story in Kingdom Hearts or at least I did it got super freaky when it came to Kingdom Hearts dream Drop Distance previous games in the series had complicated stories but you could follow them if you tried Kingdom Hearts 3 TS is almost incomprehensible as it introduces the always risky plot element of time travel my future self gave me a task to visit the splintered versions of myself in many worlds a lot of Japanese games get accused of being too convoluted became the past 3d asset is among the worst examples I've found of a game that doesn't really even try to make sense the Mass Effect games are often touted as having some of the best stories in the genre but I call foul on that Mass Effect 2 was one of the many games I picked up but couldn't really get into in this case it wasn't necessarily about the story but more the storytelling the game uses conversation wheels to tell much of its story where you choose what to ask characters in the game you're encouraged to ask as much as you can but since the dialogue isn't written to be performed in any specific order answers come out unnaturally long and feel really tedious it's not just Mass Effect that's guilty here as The Witcher games and horizon zero dawn do the same want to let me know how bad my opinions are hit me up on Twitter or check out the full boom with a view article on cnn.com