Why Storytelling Still Matters in Every Kind of Game

Games have certainly changed a lot over the years. Graphics are getting better all the time, the mechanics are improving, and online play has become an important element of nearly all games. Games have also become far more social, rather than feeling like they are isolating. 

 

When looking at all the updates, expansion packs, and patches, there is still one main element that pulls people into a game time and time again. And that is the storyline. 

 

Whether you are playing with hundreds of people online or you are sitting around a table with your friends with a dice, character sheets, storytelling is one of the most important things. 

Photo by Alexander Kovalev: https://www.pexels.com/photo/flat-screen-computer-monitor-3977908/

 

Let’s explore this.

 

Building Worlds Together

When it comes to tabletop role-playing games, this is something that has been around for a long time. The players have the complete power to shape the story as they play by making different choices. There is never going to be a game that turns out the same as the last one, so this makes it really exciting and interesting.

 

It’s one of the main reasons that games like Dungeons and Dragons are extremely popular, even competing against popular online gaming. Someone sets the scenes, usually the Dungeon Master, while others roll dice to determine what happens next by making different choices.

 

This is an unpredictable storyline, but it is shaped by the storyteller, and this can make gaming unique. Each group will never tell the same story in the same way, which makes it something that makes people want to play this game again and again.

Storytelling in Digital Worlds

 

Video games tell stories in a different way, but they have exactly the same purpose: to build a connection. Even in open-world games, the goal is to feel part of something bigger. Minecraft is a great example of this. 

 

On the surface, Minecraft may just seem like blocks and pixels, and if you haven’t played it before, you may question whether it really does have a storyline at all. 

 

But players use it to tell storylines together in ways that can rival some of the best RPG games, and this is one of the reasons Minecraft became popular and has stayed popular. 

 

When you join Minecraft servers, you are stepping into a completely new world that is shaped by thousands of individual ideas put together in one place. 

 

Unlike most games, Minecraft gives players more control over the narrative they are creating, which means this is always going to be a world that you make. The freedom turns gameplay into a storytelling situation without anybody needing to have a plan in place first.

 

Why It Still Matters

 

Story telling him games is something that goes past just the game itself it is the element that actually connects players to each other rather than feeding that they are constantly just playing the same game over and over again people don’t want to be playing games on a loop they want to be able to make connections with the characters with the storyline and to also make connections with each other.

 

When a player cares about the story that is in a game, they are much more likely to want to play it and also share it with other people. This is why games that have great story lines are ones that people stick to for years and years and years

.

Even the smallest shared story, whether it’s through a dungeon crawl or through a blocky fortress in the sky, can remind you of exactly why you started gaming in the first place and why it is something that is an 

 important part of your life. Do you enjoy stories in games? Let us know some of your favorites below.