Dare I say it, but I have to agree to that, too many games now are just "skip, skip, skip, SHOOT, duck, shoot, call in artillery, skip, skip, skip, shoot, artillery strike here, shoot, skip - credits"
I have to say that I lost all hope in games like that years ago, yet I have to admit that COD 4 Modern Warfare storyline, and the whole USMC surviving to see the nuclear fallout just before dieing, was one HELL of a good bit of gaming.
Now, lets look at Star Trek Online, a nice MMO that has been squeezed to "tie up" a lot of idionims to the older Trek series (seriously, the amount of "hang on, that's from TOS", is silly) has gotten to the point of just skipping everything and shooting, only since they got some of the guys who made Fallout 1 and 2 involved, it has gotten more "read the story" and more "diplomatic approach" than the old "go here, blow this up, shoot this guy, come home" that most "gamers" want today.
Hell, I prefer games with good stories and gameplay, but I NEVER like it when they sacrifice the story for just out and out shooting fest.
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