What Xenos said. (Gaming)

by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Thursday, May 12, 2016, 15:13 (3120 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Games with 'interactive' stories will never have stories as good as a single well crafted tale, but they will be more fun to play assuming the game encourages the story to change through your action.

I good story in my mind is dependent on both the writer and the person interacting with it. It's easy to say that a "single well crafted tale" will always be better. But that is because a person who has been writing for a career crafted it. If you compare that against a joe shmoe who is given basically the same story in pieces and asked to make a BETTER story, that's hard to do. If a player is given more options to make a story, they have a better chance of screwing it up (which is bad for the game developer) but it also gives players a better chance of making it even better than a single crafted tale.

We have witnessed what happens when people/communities are given reins to the resources of a game and make something that far surpasses that of the original creators. It's just that rarely do game makers give the player those kind of resources when it comes to story line options.