Gameplay and Story Segregation/Quotes

""What I'm saying is that I like games where the story and gameplay go hand in hand, while in most JRPGs story and gameplay are kept either side of a wrought iron fence made of tigers." "

- Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, Zero Punctuation

""I've always said the best stories are the ones that merge seamlessly with the gameplay. And in Braid they're kept in separate rooms with you in the gameplay room looking into the story room through a tiny room in the dividing wall.""

- Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, Zero Punctuation

""It feels pointless as hell to try and role play as a scrappy outlaw on the run when you have a thousand dollars from doing a couple of story missions. In Old West times, that was, like, three billion dollars. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a cowboy named Arthur Morgan? I thought I was the CEO of Apple, aka Bill Gates.""

- NakeyJakey on Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar's Game Design is Outdated