Can gacha games have good stories?

>>714778016 (OP)
No. Everything has been done.

>>714778016 (OP)
Yeah definitely, but I haven't seen one where the "main quest" was consistently good over the course of several years. Not even pic related.

Then again hardly any ongoing non-gacha game has ever managed that, so whatever.

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>>714778016 (OP)
Eh?

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>>714778016 (OP)
depends on your definition of good.
Heaven Burns Red's story is very entertaining.

>>714779204
I'm all that

>>714778016 (OP)
Sure but where do you draw the line between a gacha game and a game that includes some form of gacha system but would otherwise be referred to as another genre?

>>714779595
It's missing funny.

BA's isnt some mind bending story filled with twists but it does what it needs to do in a way that's satisfying.

>Can they?
Yes.

>Should you expect it?
Absolutely not.

>>714778016 (OP)
Yes, but Chinese ones don't.

>>714779478
HBR is just despair porn with a side of teheperinko

>>714778016 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-bVFv73t4

Housamo has a decent story imo
but is made for gay people

>>714778016 (OP)
The story of Girls' Frontline is 100% pure unfiltered kino

>>714791662
*the % where Klukai is on the screen is pure unfiltered kino

>>714792174
This but it's Erma
(Or any of Hume's dolls)

>>714778016 (OP)
if they have good writers yes

>>714778016 (OP)
Do gachas even have story?

>>714778016 (OP)
The gachafags don't like it when their self insert doesn't get sucked off for 3 whole lines.
So while not impossible, it isn't well received.

>>714778016 (OP)
yes, however the quality of the story is irrelevant to their success, and wasting resources to make it good can prove detrimental as the other selling points suffer

>>714792776
What about gachas that dont have self insert mcs?

>>714792531
>it must be about The Cancer
>yup, lets move out girls

Truly the shakespeare of videogames

>>714778016 (OP)
is this the thread?

>>714778016 (OP)
Wait a minute, is that...?

>>714793062
but what if I self insert as Vertin?

>>714778016 (OP)
Azurlane can whenever Marco Polo is on screen!

>>714793409
It's not.

>>714794048
wtf

>>714792531
for a yuri game there is a concerning lack of yuri fanservice.
Other than this and one of yukki's memories there's barely any yukki X ruka and they're the main couple in the game.

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>>714778016 (OP)
Where's the new richie l2d? Where's the Liz UR?

>>714794614
let her out!

>>714793550
what did you see?

>>714795016
Sex

>>714795769

SAVING the essex thread

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>>714778016 (OP)
I liked Limbus until Canto 7, writing went to absolute shit at that point. And the upcoming Arknights collab confirms that Kimchi Troon has lost any and all creative vision.

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>>714778016 (OP)
in theory yes but often times no, dumb essex poster

>>714801290
screw your theory I have the power of sex

>>714793803
Is that Mia Taylor?

Every time I play chinky game its always brain numbingly boring to sit through the story. Are there any chink games (even outside of gacha) that have a good story/characters?

>>714802073
but did you remember to invest into ehcoin

>>714778016 (OP)
Limbus.
Though Azur Lane's story now compared to what it was on launch is like day and night too.

>>714804530
ehpenny was clearly the better investment

>>714804573
>Azur Lane's story
i have skipped every piece of story and will continue to do so

What's the best gun girl gacha?

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>>714778016 (OP)
limbus?

>>714778016 (OP)
fgo lb6?

Eh?

>sex
Blue board.

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>>714812889
dangerous posting

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>>714778016 (OP)
The grandpa served on the Essex, he was inside Essex

>>714804573
yeah, it went from forgettable to giga shit

>>714813407
any stories he told about serving on eh sex

>>714813407
>genuine ehsex seamen

>>714778016 (OP)
Yes, the same way a man born with a missing hand "can" become boxing champion of the world. As in, hypothetically conceivable, but also drastically unlikely due to their inherently, obviously crippled nature.

>>714814117
What do you dislike about it?

>>714778016 (OP)
Pinned eer

WuWa's main quest has been consistently good and entertaining.

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>>714814303
No cause he died when I was young but we do have telegrams he sent around the war talking about how when a kamikaze plane hit the essex

>>714778016 (OP)
No, live service games in general can't. Either the writers get changed, or the writers themselves change as people too much between the start and (if it even ever gets to) the end of the stories that you're left with a very hollow experience. Story in gacha always comes secondary to the products it's trying to sell you every month.

>>714815326
because it decided to introduce multiverse shit, the new enemy is beyond boring that gets hyped up to hell and back only to then go full jobber the moment its ever encountered, any time they try to add stakes to the story they almost instantly revert it just like how in one moment they killed off kaga instantly followed by then pretty much reviving her with no strings attached, all of this made worse by the fact they really like adding pointless scenes/extending what should be short explanations into entire paragraphs of pointless fluff, especially when half the mcguffins they introduce get instantly forgotten about, there are some neat ideas that could have worked but ultimately but as it stands now the story is essentially just your average marvel slop but with more T&A which while an improvement its still a drag to actually read

no

>>714816927
I play wuwa and you need to shut the fuck up, dumb tripfag. The launch story was an absolutely horrendous mess, and everything after that has been highly predictable pandering carried by good presentation.

>>714819108
rip, but at the same time neat

They CAN have good stories but like every service based game they need to keep the player engaged which means you should expect the story to go on and on until EoS. The question is how good of a job they can do at keeping the story going for years and years and then come up with an ending at EoS.

>>714821272
Umamusume solves this by being self-contained stories.

>>714778016 (OP)
GF(L)1 was from singularity - polarizing light. For the entire run? No and another anon said exactly why. Due to the nature of it being live service writers will eventually either be replaced or be forced to draw out conflicts/make stupid writing decisions. Like when a TV show goes on way too long. As such we should RETURN to real games funded by gacha paypigs.

>>714821385
Uma also sucks writing wise and not having a real story certainly doesn't help

>>714821626
Every girl I did a career of was written masterfully. True, there is no story, but the characters more than make up for it.