| Cadence said: Story is also a factor when you review games. Just because a game isn't known for having great stories does not mean that they get special permission to avoid that. It's like not caring about how bad a game looks when the series is known for having bad graphics. (Fire Emblem). |
The Sims
Sim City
Spore
Tetris
Bejeweled
Mecrury Meltdown Revolution
Carnival Games
TF2
Halo series (just kidding)
and I'm sure many others. Don't get me wrong, I love story (FFVI being my favorite and Tetris being second-- only fun because I get to mention them in the same post^^) and is important for the most part but some games shouldn't be docked because lack of story. Should we dock Portal because there's no backstory? The game has more personality than most games today but the story? You wake up in an abandoned science area that was cleaned out by an out of control robot? BORING. I'm sorry Portal, but there's some points docked.
If the story is only there as a motivation to get the player started there's really no point in factoring it into the score. People who care about story aren't playing that game for the story (if they're even playing it) and anyone else playing it isn't going to be put off by I'm sorry, your princess is in another galaxy.
