Story time! (week 8)

Story lines in games, important or not?

Yes to me story lines in games are what sell them to me. For example the story line in Halo was epic. I know people hated (well some people) Halo, however for me it was as i said and epic game with an excellent story line that just kept me hooked to it. Again for Half-life, the weird twists and turns just made you want to play the game more and more. Its all the same for all the games I play. However Counter-Strike was different, there were no story lines to it (even though the devs tried to create one for Counter-Strike condition zero but failed horribly and I got rejected by the community like a ginger step child). But Counter-Strike (CS) had playability and was one of the games that took off with E-Sports and the idea behind playing CS at a level where you became world famous.

However in some MMO games there are always storys line and back stories. However these are generally for Role players who enjoy taking a break from whatever they do in real life and pretending to be someone else in another world. They then choose who they want to become after reading about a characters back story so they can fit within the role easier.

However some games have amazing graphics engine and a piss poor story line tend to fail badly.
So yes a decent story line is needed in todays games!