Stories in Video Games

[Kodiack]

Does anyone else here tend to not attach themselves to video game stories? By this, I mean how many of you don't pay much attention to what's going on and just play a game for the sake of playing a game?

I don't know why, but there are some games that just get me so involved that when a cutscene or something comes up that I just want to say "OH SHUT UP I JUST WANNA FREAKIN' PLAY!!". I honestly hope that I'm not the only one that doesn't pay a huge amount of attention to the average games' stories. Some games, like the Legend of Zelda and Tales of Symphonia, have stories that interest me. But normally I feel that stories are just all-around the same and yada yada yada.

I'll be honest, Mario games probably got me into this bad habit. It's normally the same thing through and through: Peach gets captured by Bowser, you save her, yay win! There are just too many cliches that I tire of. I want originality in stories!! :P

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No, I'm not like this on a first play through. I usually do enjoy the story for the most part. But I do skip the cut scenes if I've already seen them at least once. I also like to explore every possible path to make sure that I experience all parts of the story and game.

[Mystic]

Depends on the game really.

[Kaz]

I pretty much always try to pay attention to the story as well as I can.

[Kodiack]

I pretty much always try to pay attention to the story as well as I can.

Normally I give the story a shot, but sometimes a game starts to extend itself out and the story becomes too confusing. I hate when that happens. D:

[Lohn Jocke]

I pretty much always try to pay attention to the story as well as I can.

Normally I give the story a shot, but sometimes a game starts to extend itself out and the story becomes too confusing. I hate when that happens. D:

I want you to play Metal Gear Solid 4.
Your brain will implode. And I will laugh. :D

[Ridley]

Well Paper Mario kept me interested until they came out with the third abomination.

[Triforceman22]

Well Paper Mario kept me interested until they came out with the third abomination.

lets hope papaer mario 4 goes back to it's roots.
And yes I enjoy GOOD storylines.

and you know your'e a nerd when you UNDERSTAND Metal Gear solid's plot. O_o
I guess i'm a nerd. :P

[Fell]

I really like a story in a game so yeah. In marathon the story is so deep, everytime I play the game I read every word in the terminals. Even if I reaqd it a gazillion times.

In other games, sometimes the cutscenes can be a pain. But if the story's good, then it doesn't matter for me.

[THEEVILSPERKY]

Ooh, I hate it when someone gets mad at the story being present and skips dialog or even worse.. when someone tries to skip a cut scene!

It's unthinkable!

I'm very into the whole experience of gaming, including any story elements there may be in any particular game.

[ThePowerOfOne]

I always pay attention to the story in games. In Okami, I kept my eyes glued to the screen during every cut scene :P

I love watching what happens next.

[TheDarkChief]

It really depends on the game.

In RPGs, the story is practically everything.
FPS can sometimes have a story, but it depends if would be good or not.
Adventure games (like Mario) just needs the basic storyline. It's all about the gameplay in this genre.

[Doodle]

Meh. I don't really care about them.
And I like the Mario game plots. :)
It's always the same, but I like it like that. And plus, unless it's a Mario RPG game, what other plot could it even need?

[CommanderFlint]

Depends. I'll play through the MGS and Ace Attorney throughly since they are more story based then say Zelda or Sonic.

[QingXin]

Games like Fire Emblem, I love to read the story. It's what molds the game, really.