Is game play or story more important?
I believe that the games story is more important than the game play. To me the story is everything a game can have bad game play but as long as the story allows you to think about what scenario it is presenting. Silent Hill 2 has bad game play throughout but the story is so deep and conflicting in nature that it allows you to feel what the characters feel. Their thoughts feelings and past before entering the town is shown in the enemy design and the environment and this shows us how a persons thoughts and feelings can effect their environment and the people they encounter. A games story allows us to see how other people may see the same situation but perceive it differently. No matter what the genre of the game is the story allows us to understand real world situations and mature more. A FPS game like Call of Duty allows us to see the horrors of war and the pain and suffering on both sides. The story in a war game is a modern way of getting across a veterans account of war but it allows us to see and play through the account experiencing the situation for ourselves.