I agree with your point about linear stories and stock characters.

Also, while there is a linear story to the game, the first four levels may be played in any order.

They changed the movie to a linear story, and cut an hour and a half.

I am going to attempt a kind of linear story about two brothers who go different ways.

As a writer of a linear story, "all they do is to write the script," he said.

No linear story, as the song illustrates the author's final descent into dementia.

It's best not too try to compare it to any traditional ways of telling a linear story.

These stories are vastly different from his previous works, in that they focus on humans, and tell a more linear story.

Prey 2 tells a linear story, but its structure is purportedly open world.

It's one of those videos that creates an atmosphere more than a linear story.