@chenguo: That was excactly the point. Game without music is better than a game with shit music.
Ok, you're really starting to running out of arguments when after you make one, start to make exceptions in the same centence. Why wouldn't an epic Lord of the Rings or War and Peace style -story be needed in Tetris? It would be a perfect set to a story about bald space marines defending a circular space station from alien attackers, whose aim is to conquer the universe. It should be included to the games core.
Look, in a story focused way of thinking, the purpose of the story have always been to offer a motive for the (main character) quest. The story in games, is the quest itself. Before cinematic games, you were supposed to play the story, where the story was the sandbox and your purpose was to decide how you play the story, all the passive story elements just working as a link to the next gameplay, when in todays cinematic games, gameplay work as a link to the next cinematics. They could even be called as non-games.
Besides, now that the topic was about Nintendo getting a free pass with having no story, that's where you are wrong, all of their games does have a story. Fire Emblem and Zelda being in the genres that require the most story, they are the ones with the most heavy story. When Wii Sports and Wii Fit not needing a story at all, they don't have it. And SMG for example has a bit too much of a story.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
