you can get away with no story, like mario, but if you are attempting to have a story it needs to be passable. thought there are times when a well told story makes the game less fun to play. Fallout 3 has a well done story with subtle foreshadowing and growth as a character. If you play good, at least, you grow from an innocent thrust into the harsh world and gradually become it's savior. and then you frickin have no choice to be a good character and survive the story you die a hero, despite have the good guy exclusive mutant who is immune to radiation is with you. they were so excited to tell their story that they robbed you of a logical course of action to shoehorn you into it. If i were watching a movie with the orginal pre-dlc hero ending of Fallout 3 it would be a touching moment. When playing it , i feel cheated
edit: i am aware of the morally ambigious move to let the botherhood chick go in, and die. My point is that you cannot be a good guy in the game and survive unless you have the exra content. I played it when it was fresh, and i had no options at that time. be a jerk or die when there should have been a way around it.
"But as always, technology refused to be dignity's bitch."--Vance DeGeneres
