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I have been thinking of games that had great stories but still gave the player a wonderful sense of freedom to make meaningful choices.
Two that I have come up with are 'Homeworld' (still one of my favorite games EVER!!), and Planescape Torment. Both had brilliant evocative stories and were still massively rewarding to the player. Games with great stories are rare but they are out there.
But I get what Wright is getting at here. A game like X-Com has a simplistic and cliched alien invasion motif from the '50's, but it is a game full of story potential, like "I was down to my last soldier, he was bleeding out, had no medkit, and I just hail-married a baster-bomb in the direction I thought the remaining Sectoids might be and killed them with blind luck, and I won the mission!!!"
That's a personal story that came out of the great emmergent design of the game but wasn't coded into the game itself. Great games are often full of these types of personal stories.
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