>>92654860this I fucking hate idiots trapped in the 80s that think every game needs to be fucking Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt.
Games with mostly gameplay are not well recieved by the masses, yes I like my pure unadultered only gameplay vidya once in a while but for that I play strategy games or indie retro shit and most of them have a bit of story anyways even if it's just a backdrop overrall argument
Videogames have evolved, the technology has evolved for devs to put great stories, if someone thinks this wasn't intended from the beginning then that person is delusional, there's a reason CRPG's and adventure games became popular as fuck people wanted a narrative interactive medium, it's no surprise games like Zelda or the Elder scrolls were so popular from the moment they hit the shelves, because people got mesmerized by their big ambitious narratives.
if gameplay was the only thing that mattered on videogames why are games like Helix or Geometry wars not selling in the millions while the Halos, the Skyrims and the Uncharted sell like hot bread and made the gaming industry shit on hollywood to the point some kikes in beverly hills are trying to cash on the wave with shitty game adaptations