By Dave James
Give me stories, not vapid CoDs and teabagged
When was the last time you finished a game? Not as in ‘I’ve got what I wanted from this game and now I’m done,’ but actually completed at least the main story mode?
I’m willing to bet it was a while ago and even then I’d bet my cat it was a rarity.
That’s got to be a huge source of frustration for a games developer who’s spent thousands of (hu)man-hours and millions of monies putting together the latest AAA title.
In a speech at last year’s Games Developer Conference (GDC), titled ‘Death to the Three-Act Structure,’ some statistics were produced by Valve from the Steam achievements of a selection of games.
Only a third…
At best only two-thirds of players completed a given game. And that was the super-short first episode of Telltale Games Walking Dead series. Generally speaking it is held that only around a third of gamers actually bother with completion.
So how do you make sure that as many people as possible actually get to the end of your game and experience the full fruits of your labours?
In recent times the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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