Penumbra's Plot

[eliasfrost]

He means that some (Agrippa for example) of the characters are based more or less on real life people.
But then again, Tuurngait is also based on a real life...

No, no... That's not what I mean.
Of course, Penumbra has also an intellectual story where the Tuurngait will test our collective mind. But the story will not reflect real world problems as much as AMFP does.

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While that is an interesting analysis of the story and may or may not be the intended interpretation, I don't think the story needs to be overly complex or bring up world-sized problems to be considered good. It's not what the story is about that fully matters, but how it is executed, and I can with 100% confident say that the execution of the story in AMFP was a disaster compared to most adventure games in the past and recent time.

I think we sometimes look at it way too black and white instead of looking at the big picture of what a story really is. If you sit by a campfire and a dude telling you a story by only telling it without enthusiasm or empathy, then you'd probably think the story is pretty bad. But if he tells you the story with enthusiasm, with good pacing and invite you to get immersed in the story, you'd probably say it was a pretty good story.

Why should we treat the story in pop culture any different? How come we only look at story as some kind of plot summary on a wiki instead of the interplay of colors, the music, sound and silence? The character design, the personality of the characters involved and how they respond to the world they participate in, why is that not as important as a plot summary?

When talking about a story, or criticize it, I'm not criticizing the plot summary, but the whole picture with everything combined and I think it's important to take all this into account when dissecting the story, because the written text is only a wee small part of the bigger picture, and most people seem to get stuck at that tiny fragment of what a story really is and don't want to look around.