all depends on the game really. If its an RPG for instance story should be number one priority over gameplay b/c thats the reason ppl want to play the game and how it gets its memorabilia reaver-x
I agree with this. Sometimes a game doesn't really lend itself to needing a good story, and other times, a good story is what holds a game together.
For me it's a bit of both a game may have a fantastic story but if it's boring to play, well it can be painful. Likewise wwith out a good story everything you do is essentially for nothing (although it works for Sim City and to a lesser extent the Sims).
[QUOTE="reaver-x"]all depends on the game really. If its an RPG for instance story should be number one priority over gameplay b/c thats the reason ppl want to play the game and how it gets its memorabilia TheXboxgamer73
I agree with this. Sometimes a game doesn't really lend itself to needing a good story, and other times, a good story is what holds a game together. but graphics holds everything together no matter how bad story and gameplay is.
[QUOTE="TheXboxgamer73"][QUOTE="reaver-x"]all depends on the game really. If its an RPG for instance story should be number one priority over gameplay b/c thats the reason ppl want to play the game and how it gets its memorabilia jerkface96
I agree with this. Sometimes a game doesn't really lend itself to needing a good story, and other times, a good story is what holds a game together. but graphics holds everything together no matter how bad story and gameplay is. Not really. They are just the icing on the cake.
[QUOTE="Duckman5"][QUOTE="jerkface96"][QUOTE="TheXboxgamer73"] I agree with this. Sometimes a game doesn't really lend itself to needing a good story, and other times, a good story is what holds a game together. but graphics holds everything together no matter how bad story and gameplay is. Not really. They are just the icing on the cake. i dont think so , i think a game with great graphics and with a bad story and mediocre gameplay is ten times better than say FF7 and MGS1.
They're of equal importance to me. I can handle bad story if the gameplay is great, and I can handle bad gameplay if the story is great. Visuals are important aswell, but they don't make or break a game for me.
hmmm Gameplay wins. I can't make it through a game if the gameplay is horrible, If i want a good story i can always watch a good movie or something. Don't get me wrong i love a good story in a game. The best games will have both.
Gameplay.. no good having a great story if the gameplay is that bad its unplayable. You can still enjoy a game with awesome gameplay and a crap story.. look at what made Pong so awesome.
i'm currently playing Red Faction Guerrilla, and while the gameplay of tearing buildings down is really sweet. it isn't enough to carry the game for me. i'm gonna be finishing up singleplayer story, and i'd probably forget about it.
games like GTA4, Fallout 3, MGS4, Resistance (yeah it's got enough of an immersive story/setting for me to keep playing it), inFamous, Mass Effect, Ace Combat 6 that i can play them over adn over again and not get bored.
Has to be story. I can't be playing a game and it doesn't make sense or have me wanting to find out what happens next. I would lose interest pretty fast.
I prefer gameplay. Story is important, but I'd rather have a kick-ass battle system than an amazing story. As long as the story is passable then it's ok by me. I'd probably still enjoy a game with an amazing story and mediocre gameplay, but I'd just rather have them flipped. Case and point: Eternal Sonata. Awesome gameplay, pretty cliche and mediocre story.
For games I think gameplay is more important. Crappy gameplay will put me off a game far moreso than a crappy story. I think I said the same thing in your last poll.
Floppy_Jim
This is true, I just don't like it when developers use that as an excuse to half ass a game.
It differs from person to person. Like many people here, I'd like to have both be at my standards, but if they can't then I'd want the story to supercede the gameplay.
For games I think gameplay is more important. Crappy gameplay will put me off a game far moreso than a crappy story. I think I said the same thing in your last poll.
Scianix-Black
This is true, I just don't like it when developers use that as an excuse to half ass a game.
It differs from person to person. Like many people here, I'd like to have both be at my standards, but if they can't then I'd want the story to supercede the gameplay.
it's about the only thing that keeps me interested in Dragon Age: Origins. it's Bioware (and i'll pretty much buy anything from them), and gameplay looks really meh (like ok not amazing or anything like Mass Effect), but everytime they show a snippit of story, i'm really interested.
for me its 70% story and 30% gameplay because nowadays all shooters gameplay are becoming the same no matter what featur they try to include in the gameplay (v.a.t.s) but games like final fantasy i think are worth getting for just story
While a good story would be nice, good gameplay is what makes a game good. For example, tetris has no story whatsoever, but people still play it today. Why? Because of its addictive and great gameplay. That's just my opinion anyways.
Gameplay is much more important to me than the story. Case in point: all multiplayer games! I can play CoD over and over without ANY story at all. Once I know the story of a game, I quit playing it soon after I beat it.
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