Poll of the Day > Month of the Ogre 6: Storytelling in strategy games

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Ogre Battle is kinda neat in how there's very few scripted scenes - almost all the story is delivered in tiny bits every time you liberate a town.

Ogre Battle 64 needed a bigger story, so instead there's much longer scripted scenes during the mission briefing, post mission and even a few in certain towns - however,there's less interesting tidbits from the random towns.

Starcraft just had briefings and rarely some scripted scenes

Warcraft 1 and 2 just had briefings

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Anyways, I rather like Ogre Battle's system of storytelling since typically I don't care about the story, but the small-bits delivery of the story really helps with that AND you get a lot of interesting clues on what to do (like if the boss is a Werewolf), which is helpful since the 100% Perfect ending has some hella-convoluted requirements.

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I want to love Ogre Battle as FFT and FFTA are two of my my favourite ever games, but i just hate how often my people get permanently killed

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Oof, this weather recently really has me down.

Not in a depressed way, but air pressure changes make me really sleepy

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