Games don't need stories.

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.jayderyu said:
11 pages of this.

Game = competive activity with a set of rules to determine a winner and loser. VG can be games because Mario competers against Goombas, turtles, bowsers with a set rules to determine a winner.

All VG are games. since they all have a set of rules where players compete either against other players or AI.

There is no story in that definition.

Thus games do not need story. If people aren't touching games because of lack of story. Then it's not the game they are interested in as it is the story.

11 pages? good lord.

That is an incorrect definition of what a video-game is today. If that were actually the definition, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly, but it isn't.