FPS gaming, story or killin?

[mtek]

Just read this, sometimes when I play I like the story,
sometimes it's just a
fragfest....Levine Says Game Plots Must be "********** Stupid," Explains
what does everyone else think..thought?

[SpeedDMN]

I personally care more about the frag fest!. I like combat to be cut up with a few puzzles like with HL2 and a little story line, but most of them are pretty pretentious so I pay more attention to combat physics etc.

[Cogar]

For me, the story always comes first. Fragfests are a dime a dozen--Painkiller, Serious Sam, etc. don't even pretend to have a plot or storyline, and Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 were only a notch above. You are just there to "clean up" the lower level bad guys and take out their leader at the end. One of the reasons Half-Life (1) was such a breakthrough was that it actually had a story, which was basically "escape" (by crawling through ventilation systems, etc.), "survival" as the enemy tried to eliminate you to remove evidence (the "Marines") or kill you because you were a natural enemy (the inhabitants from Zen), and saving the universe (by shutting down the connection between our planet and Zen). Actually, a lack of meaningful storyline is one of the reasons that I have turned to RPGs in the last couple years.

[FearFactory]

I'm playing COD4 and i'm loving it! I think it's one of the best FPS i ever played! Great action and good story, sometimes i think i'm on a movie

[Acid8000]

Half-Life had the right balance, more so than HL2.