I've never heard anyone say Elden Ring is the best story of any game they've ever played?

[Gizmo_Duck]

Gotcha, yeah i don't know if its possible to have a "great story" with the silent protagonist trope

Chrono Trigger

Spoiler

 

[Luke Cage]

Chrono Trigger

IIRC I think Chrono still had a party of companions that talked.
Groot worked because he had talkative friends too.
But you can't just be solo adventuring by yourself 99% of the time not saying shyt, and have a good story.
Even Cast Away gave Tom Hanks a volley ball to talk to

 

[CM_Burns]

It has some great characters and locations, and backstory for those characters and locations. But overall it's far from one of the best videogame stories when most people play it and barely care about the story or even understand the story. And I played through it twice with 200 hrs in it.

 

[Neuromancer]

Chrono Trigger

Spoiler

Breath of Fire had some good stories.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I do think its harder to mask the silent protagonist as graphics gets better though. Its harder to suspend your belief when people are talking at a protagonist that just kind of looks like a puppet

But npc’s in Fromsoft games just sort of talk at you and then giggle to themselves so its not that big of a problem

 

[FlyRy]

Lol you know this is a bullshyt award

The Kobe first team defense of game awards