I really don't know who these stories actually appeal to? Who likes this?
I like the story. It's not as good as Edgerunners but I think it's one of the major strengths of the game, considering all the other flaws. The story is very much tied to the character personalities though. If you don't like any of the characters, you won't like the story. Jackie is probably the most likeable so I can understand why people were pissed off they threw his story away for Keanu.
Personal opinion, but I didn't like Jackie that much. Felt too much like that cliche'd "your bro, your bro-y bro who is your bro" character that always exists in a game to get killed to make you "feel" things. If they hadn't fucking montage'd over all your exploits and relationship building, I might have had the time to like him more, but they jump you straight from strangers to a single short mission and then the big one.
Keanu was at least interesting because you spent the time with him, got to know him, and see him change in real time to be less of a shithead.
Its funny, because CoD can manage it. Shepherd killing a bunch of your guys at the end of that one game genuinely worked and made people feel emotion enough to still reference it like 10 games later. The original MW trilogy had actually pretty good writing overall.
They just fell for the yearly release, multiplayer focus meme and the single players became an afterthought or marketing bullet point.
I like the story. It's not as good as Edgerunners but I think it's one of the major strengths of the game, considering all the other flaws. The story is very much tied to the character personalities though. If you don't like any of the characters, you won't like the story. Jackie is probably the most likeable so I can understand why people were pissed off they threw his story away for Keanu.
Personal opinion, but I didn't like Jackie that much. Felt too much like that cliche'd "your bro, your bro-y bro who is your bro" character that always exists in a game to get killed to make you "feel" things. If they hadn't fucking montage'd over all your exploits and relationship building, I might have had the time to like him more, but they jump you straight from strangers to a single short mission and then the big one.
Keanu was at least interesting because you spent the time with him, got to know him, and see him change in real time to be less of a shithead.
Its funny, because CoD can manage it. Shepherd killing a bunch of your guys at the end of that one game genuinely worked and made people feel emotion enough to still reference it like 10 games later. The original MW trilogy had actually pretty good writing overall.
They just fell for the yearly release, multiplayer focus meme and the single players became an afterthought or marketing bullet point.