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Old 03-31-2005, 02:09 PM   #220
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Originally Posted by fov
Newer games tend to have more complicated storylines than older ones, simply because in old games the technology and disk space limited what could be done. I haven't played Maniac Mansion or DOTT, but I think I understand what Ninth is getting at -- that the stories are more primitive than what you see in some of today's adventures. But even a simple story can be well told (which is, I think, what happened with MM and DOTT) and as we've seen many times, complex stories can be told very badly.

EDIT: What Trep said, about the arc.

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