First of all, thanks to anyone who's reading this I generally just blog because I enjoy the discussion with other gamers even though your not really gaining anything from reading it. but now you get my thanks so that's just great lol



Ok then, this is going to be a weekly thing for me now called "Have you ever" and will generally create discussion for things that gamers have done in the past. To start it off with something simple that I mentioned in my last post this is about playing a game just for the story.

Lets get one thing sorted out first though, when I say just for the story, I mean it. I don't mean like did you play something because you heard the story was good this discussion is for those games that you thought were so buggy or time consuming or just hard/stupid you wouldn't want to play them, but the story motivated you to push through. This isn't a common thing with games anymore since 1 out of 3 games is a fps which doesn't really bring much more to the table and as they say at GDC E3 and every other conference/show that has up and coming games isn't really "innovative" enough for "next gen".

Luckily back in the old sprite days this was never a problem, lets be honest you moved from left to right to get to the end. If there was any text that didn't involve "Game Over" "1up" or "But your princess is in another castle, but I'm still kind of lonely ;)" it wasn't going to be interesting enough to make you go through a pixely pile of prick . . . . porcupines.

There was only a short few years where these games would arise, most of them I remember for the PS2, hopefully most of you are going to post "You fail, i enjoy my games, you just suck and can't play! Go read a book" because it isn't common for anyone to find these mystery games, but they were out there and they were only good for that one thing, the story and possibly the characters which as someone said in my last post are pretty much part of the story.

Most games people play now I find are for the opposite reason, the story sucks but the gameplay is just so damn good and as long as it's online full of noobs and lets you pwn to your black cold hearts content then you are happy at your overpriced purchase. But the games I remember playing just for the story are still played now in some cases and are known for their name, my first game that I remember playing just for the story, was resident evil 1 *Gasp* yes I know resident evil games are so damn awesome now, but when I first got it I hated it! The dodgey movement controls, the puzzles (I was pretty young and noobish) and the shooting i actually found back then. Generally though things change because as i got older and played RE 2 I fell in love with it but for that first game it gave me such a hard time but I just had to know if they'd get out of the mansion and where my team mates were. Bad example maybe, but it's the first one I remember.

My second game I remember was a PS2 title by the name of The Bouncer, this game was meant to be Square's attempt at Streets of Rage meets final fantasy(in how the characters looked) but it turned out to be a beautiful looking game that played like shit. But there was an element of story there which involved the main characters, as it got going I actually got really into it. I think overall there was something like 3 different attack combos you could do, but I wanted to know what was going to happen especially since the cutscenes were so pretty.

But now I want to hear from you, has this ever happened to you? Or do you find you just want to get your moneys worth like "us from't north" (UK joke) and won't stop until it's finished. I know a lot of people who would just take it back the next day and be done with it, but I'm guessing if your reading this you may be the kind of person to fight through the pain for that juicy bit of story.

Thanks for listening.