sports get a pass because the purpose of the game is to make sure you team wins every match. they don't need story line to stay interesting, especially online play.
i never said gears gets a pass. i said that the action makes you forget that it lacks a deep story line. if you'd bought the limited edition set, the book it comes with explains the story though tbh, epic should have done that in the game. gears does have a plot but it's not that evident. this goes for mario. the difference is, like i said before, that mario's story is the same story that never changes. the princess is kidnapped, go defeat bowser and save her. nintendo never put focus on the story, they just left it the same. it's not lack of story. it's lack of changing the story.
cowgriller
Now we're getting deep into subjectivity though. The bolded statements could be applied to a Mario platformer by someone else. The variety of worlds, power-ups, and puzzle-type play could have the same effect as the action in Gears. I'm not really seeing how it's much different. IF I can apply these same principles to Mario, and please tell me why if I can't, then why do they need to alter the story if the majority is immersed and entertained enough by the gameplay elements that you forget the story hasn't really changed?
And for what it's worth, I actually agree that story is an important element in video games. It's what got me into RPGs in the early SNES/Genesis era, and keeps me going to them now.
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