Do you pay attention to the storyline in FPS games?

[chuckywang]

I don't. I just like to play the game.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Few FPS have a storyline worth paying attention to.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yes. That's why HL2 sucked.

 

[RaDragon]

Some of them, yes.

 

[mitchafi]

of course...

 

[ucdbiendog]

hl2 - yes
doom3 - there was a story?

 

[Jpark]

that's a negative ghost rider

 

[DnetMHZ]

Nope,

Cheats, run and gun....profit!

 

[meltdown75]

Unless it's Doom 3 or something, yeah usually.

Doom 3: <God Mode: On> boom bang woo hoo, game complete <God Mode: Off> *throws game in trash*

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: jpark932
that's a negative ghost rider

good response. i think i'll steal it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

There's a story?

 

[chuckywang]

Poll so far seems to contradict the responses.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Poll so far seems to contradict the responses.

I think I need a "It depends" option.

Max Payne 1/2 have very involving stories (okay, third-person shooter but it still counts).

 

[Snapster]

Unless it's an engrossing storyline, normally I keep a loose tab on it.

 

[RedRooster]

Deus Ex for PC and Riddick for XBox weren't bad at all, kept my attention and I actually wanted to finish them to see what happened.
Halo 2 on the otherhand, bleh.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Of course I pay attention, I want to enjoy the game as much as I can.

I don't see the fun in just blazing through the game, either with or without cheat codes...

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Nik
Yes. That's why Doom 3 sucked.

Fixed

 

[Jpark]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Poll so far seems to contradict the responses.

I think I need a "It depends" option.

Max Payne 1/2 have very involving stories (okay, third-person shooter but it still counts).

good call :thumbsup:

 

[yukichigai]

Anymore you need to for most FPSes to know what you're trying to do. Doesn't mean I don't gloss over the details if it's a particularly crappy plotline. Red Faction, while a truly satisfying gameplay experience, had a plotline that I only paid attention to when someone said "okay, you need to...." Doom 3's plotline was easy enough to grasp, didn't require much thinking. And Half-Life 2... one of the reasons that game pisses me off so much is that they have this reasonably decent plotline with absolutely no f%$#ing explanation for anything. Hopefully the expansions that will no doubt come out for it will clear up some of that.

Then again there are games where you don't even know the plotline if you didn't read the manual. Like FarCry. The first half of that game I was going, "wait, why are they trying to kill me again?" It was still fun and visually stunning... in fact I think I may go play it again now.

Oh yeah, Serious Sam. Plot? What plot? Kill things you idiot. Love those games.


P.S. Deus Ex is one you really needed to pay attention to. Of course that's more like a FPS-RPG. Too bad Invisible War sucked donkey balls.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Does the storyline involve shooting someone in the head or blowing stuff up?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

eeing how these games take hours if not days to play, the 2 minutes of storyline involved usually isn't noticed.

 

[Ausm]

Never

Ausm

 

[jjones]

Depends if there is a storyline. If it's like Max Payne, yes.

 

[clamum]

I think Half-Life 2 was the first FPS where I did pay attention to the story.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: ucdbiendog
hl2 - yes
doom3 - there was a story?

i felt it was the other way round