That's right! I said it.

Lately I've been playing games with amazing controls, graphics and other flashy bits but where they succeed in that they seem to fail miserably in story telling and overall they just can't keep me engaged. For instance, one of the easiest to spot is World of Warcraft. The controls and graphics are great, but what are you really doing? In World of Warcraft, you talk to one character and he tells you to talk to his friend who is just across the room. I really deserved getting the level for that!There are some games however that are managing to still grace themselves with fine story telling and graphics, notably the Final Fantasy series has managed this for quite some time and if I may say so Metal Gear Solid has been doing alright with the story and graphics.

You may also want to note that most of these games were not for computer, and thats why this rant is here anyways. I have downloaded several games and honestly they all were really bad. I even stopped to play one that was 2D and had no walking animation for longer than I put up with some with fancy graphics and crazy combat. Why did I stop for the 2D one? It had an alright story, and quests that made sense!

Obviously there is some games that really don't need story to be good, the ones that need it are the MMORPG's which currently are failing to catch my eye. However, there are still First Person Shooters than I can just sit down and shoot things without caring at all wether im the good guy or the bad guy. So there you go, sports games and first person shooters are free of this burden so they can focus on graphics and flashy moves all they want!

Lastly I want to focus on the massively multiplayer part of computer gaming. This is where most of the games fail to have a story, and they need it desperately. You can have a good story on a massively multiplayer game! The only difference is the player can have one, two or three friends accompany him on it. They could also make up a series of side quests and personal quests that you can do alone, to help you get more engaged.

Anyways, thats my two cents. Thanks for reading, and sorry if it didn't make much sense. I know there will people with other opinions, maybe even people that leave suggestions for games. But thats not what I'm wanting here, I just want to judge a book by its chapters (chapters being story and quests) not by it's cover (cover obviously being graphics). On a last note, I don't literally think it's all graphics, there just needs to be less focus on graphics and more focus on the background and story.

So until then, I'm gonna go play a FPS!