And that's where you've lost me. Game play should always be the main focus of a
game.
Otherwise you're playing glorified interactive novels.
The
game is what takes you
through the story.
Without the gameplay, there is no story, because there is no way to
progress through the story, if, what you need to progress, is totally ****. Except for interactive novels.
An FPS without guns is a First Person
Slasher. They exist just fine.
I never said I don't care about story. What I said was that I don't care if the story is
bad, if the
gameplay makes up for it.
I can play plenty of FPSs and Sports and Racing Games that don't even
have a story (not really), because the gameplay is what I signed up for.
No I'm not. I
hate base-survival games, and if '76 moves further away from story then it will have neither of what I want.
FO3 had better gameplay, but a worse story (and really, only the main quest was bad).
New Vegas had worse gameplay, but a better story.
Now, if you ask me which is a better
game, then I say FO3. Because that's what I prioritise. I feel that even in an RPG,
gameplay is still going to drive
story (see above). If you believe the opposite, then...Yeah. But, if gameplay is bad...There's no point. I may as well read a book.
I'll say last time...Not what I said.
While Sports, Racing and Shooter, and TBS games are slouching towards RPG mechanics.
Never said that.
My favourite genre is Turn Based Strategy with combined elements of RPGs because that's how Skinner Boxes work (e.g; Level ups, New gear, personal choice in how you build your character...Tangible rewards for playing the game, by playing the game...I understand what EA was going for in their infamous 'Pride and Accomplishment' post. But their
execution of it was a disaster).
Which Fallout 1 and 2 was nicely when you put that option on.
Fallout 3 rewarded exploration. It rewarded playing the game on your own.
New Vegas, did not. Despite having a better out-of-game story...The
in-game story is confront Lanius or Oliver. The
only thing that sets this binary choice apart from all other games, is that is possible to kill both of them.
"Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun."