Gameplay or story? What is more important?

Video game stories suck so I voted gameplay.

Oh and Bayonetta 2 is AAAAE.

60 frames. One effects gameplay and everything that has to do with interacting in ..oh right an interactive medium, the other effects what visual quality, so superficial shit.

people play half life for the story?? half life had a story? lol wut?

I'm imagining you playing a JRPG at 60fps and.. well.. It makes me laugh. Sifting through menus at a high framerate is muy importante.

I don't see why not. Tales of Symphonia ran at 60 fps and it looked great. And that was back on the Gamecube.

I've enjoyed games with great stories and minimal gameplay, and games with great gameplay and minimal story, and some with strengths in both departments. Making good games isn't as simple as focusing on one or the other.

No doubt gameplay. There's too much emphasis on story. With good gameplay and art direction the player becomes more engulfed with whats on screen. I can remember playing Super Mario Bros as a child. The game had the most basic of stories but at the same time allowed for the imagination to take part in. That's a reason I'm not too big on dialog for games like Zelda. While a story is still their, the series still allows for the player to fill the role of the protagonist, etc.

Neither and both.

I don't understand why ppl pick one over the other. It depends on the game. Resogun doesn't need a story....it's an old style arcade type game....but if TLoU didn't have story, there would have been no real cohesiveness to the game.

So they are both needed...and at the same time....neither of them are more important.

Stupid poll, it's not either or, if the gameplay sucks it it doesn't matter if the story is really great or not. Games that are story driven can get away with decent gamplay if the story and atmosphere are great but ultimately gameplay is the single most important aspect since it's an interactive medium.

Not really. The narratives in Griffith movies are hardly much better than 8-bit video games.

The Tales games are action RPG's, so 60 fps is pretty important for the action. On the other hand, 60 fps isn't really necessary for turn-based RPG's.

Sure you can. The Walking Dead, for instance.

@donalbane

Need more of those and less Uncharteds

Its an rpg. Action RPG is for games like Mass Effect. Even outside of battle the game is still 60 fps. On the GameCube. Even then, Mass Effect was 30 fps on the 360.

Your poll is fail as its all to one extreme or the other. I agree with jg4xchamp that gameplay is more important being that interaction is the driving factor of this medium. For me, I like a story as well. I don't need Nathan Hawthorne, Poe, or Shakespeare, just an attempt to make me want to listen to dialogue and cutscenes in the first play through.

He's going to be found with a copy of Bayonetta 2, a couple of bottles of Mad Dog 20/20, mascara smeared on his face from the tears, whimpering "why cant I destroy you...........why cant I kill you............."

I didn't mean it like that.

Gameplay for me. I can tolerate a mediocre story if the game is hella fun to actually play.

I don't think one is more important than the other these days. Developers choose to either focus on story or gameplay, with each being equally important. One thing has to be sacrificed to accel at the other. I do feel like having a horrible story gets penalized a lot harsher by people than below average gameplay though.

Unable to vote in poll, because I think both are equally important, I mean sure, I agree that Gameplay needs to be great, but it feels like a game can be even more of a success with an awesome story. However, the game just probably needs more Gameplay than story, but at the same time the story still works, key is finding a happy medium.

This thread shouldn't even be a question.

Yeah that's what a lot of people who praise the game masturbate over.

For me Gameplay. I've played plenty of games that were light on story but had amazing mechanics. With a story driven game it can be light on mechanics as long as they are functional. The Walking Dead is a good example of this.