Would You Have Played These Without a Story?
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Oblivion had a story?
Seriously, though, the story was by far the worst part of that game. If it had been just the guild quests and goofing around, it would have been the exact same game to me. So long as the Shivering Isles were still there, the main story could definitely be deleted.
I've never played Fallout: NV, so can't comment on it.
Seriously, though, the story was by far the worst part of that game. If it had been just the guild quests and goofing around, it would have been the exact same game to me. So long as the Shivering Isles were still there, the main story could definitely be deleted.
I've never played Fallout: NV, so can't comment on it.
Well define "story" in those games.
Do you mean the main quest, or every single story behind every quest, every character, every random dungeon area, all of the DLCs, the entire setting and its existence and all of the backstory?
Do you mean the main quest, or every single story behind every quest, every character, every random dungeon area, all of the DLCs, the entire setting and its existence and all of the backstory?
I didn't buy Oblivion for the Story. I found myself rather irritated with the story and just went off exploring or doing the side quests. I did eventually finish the story just to get rid of the oblivion portals popping up and ruining my trips through the forest... It was cool but nothing spectacular imo. I found the side quests much more entertaining.
If it did, I never noticed. I spent a little over 30 hours playing the game before getting bored of it, and if I'd stuck to the main "story", it would've been more like three. It was far less interesting than the random other crap I ran around doing that had no real coherent story to it. There was plenty of backstory available through the setting and the books (which I absolutely could not bring myself to read after having read the far more interesting (to me) ones in The Witcher) and talking to various people on various side quests, but not really a whole lot of active, meaningful, world-changing story progression, at least the way I played the game. Maybe there is a little if you actually bother to do the main plot, but it sure didn't bother to go through any effort to make me care about it. Captain Picard died and wants me to go do...I don't even remember what? I think I'll go stab people and steal stuff from the Mage's Guild to sell it back to them instead. Heh.SwimmingRock said:
Ever played Tetris?Bob_Dobb said:
Awww Hell, now I want to go play Tetris!
Well don't count puzzle games out of the story contest, Portal 2 had a pretty nice story going on in their, definitely not Mass Effect but better than the CoD story arc of 'Here is some Nazis, shoot them' (or if its MW than replace Nazi with Russian).Bob_Dobb said:
Absolutely. I paid the least attention to their 'stories'. I'd like to think that if there weren't any effort put into including a story, their damn facial expressions (or lack thereof) may have been juuuust a bit better.
