At 6/22/09 06:59 AM, The-Great-One wrote:
Video Games with great storylines tend to fair better, since you can continue telling a story and thus having a series like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, heck you could even vouche that Pokemon has a great story to tell.
What this boy labeled as great games were all the overrated, yet still good, First-Person Shooters and he obviously didn't pay much attention to the stories that were going on in all of those games.
A story is important to a video game, it's what gives you the motivation to keep playing a game and beating it.
I beg to differ. The story really does nothing for me, only if the game play is fun and it's my style then I am motivated. Hell even if the instruction manual has a story that says "Once there was this guy, and you are him. You do this because he f***ing said so." I would stick to playing through the end if it was fun. Well come to think of it, story is kind of important, since it structures everything and puts you in place. Otherwise you might just go ape shit and be bored the whole time. It really depends on the type of game. The types I play (platformers, fighting, shooters) don't really need a story. All you basically do is keep going and detroy everything in your path. Story, to me, is an added bonus, granted is any good
please let me know if I made sense and you guys could understand me.