Would you play games with mediocre to bad gameplay but amazing stories?

[Salandrin]

As the title says guys. Here's my current shopping list for reference. Feedback would be nice.

[Deleted]

feedback is always nice

[random296]

We all play wow don't we?

Also, Spec ops was actually alright gameplay wise.

[Edge-]

We all play wow don't we?

Also, Spec ops was actually alright gameplay wise.

WoW...amazing story...I must have missed where those two were part of the same sentence in a way describing WoW's story in a positive light : 3

[Thunderbleem]

Spec Ops: The Line has decent gameplay, I thought.

[Salandrin]

Everyone criticized Spec Ops for having generic TPS gameplay.

[Thelxi]

No, but I'd play a game with amazing gameplay and who cares stories anyday.

[Belloc]

We all play wow don't we?

Also, Spec ops was actually alright gameplay wise.

WoW has excellent gameplay in a raid setting.

[Velshin]

No because for me gameplay is more important than storyline. Of course I'm not saying storyline not important...in fact storyline is second most important thing for me in any video game but gameplay comes first. Example of games that has amazing gameplay but mediocre or bad storyline:

1-Dragon Quest 6 in the PS2

2-Super Mario RPG series

3-World of Warcraft is a good example the storyline most of the time medium quality sometimes even bad but damn the gameplay is amazing.

These are the games that I currently remember I will post more when my old memory doesn't betray me (Old veteran video gamer original nintendo and MSX era unfortunately we are becoming rare breed).

[random296]

WoW...amazing story...I must have missed where those two were part of the same sentence in a way describing WoW's story in a positive light : 3

Oh, that's easy.

Wow used to have an amazing story behind it, that it subsequently ruined.

[bbr]

WoW has excellent gameplay in a raid setting.

Too bad it requires an excellent group of players to be excellent,. if you got 1-2 idiots, it's FAR from excellent.

[Deleted]

No, but I'd play a game with amazing gameplay and who cares stories anyday.

Me. I play only play games with stories. Good gameplay is great of course (and should allways be as good as possible), but its not what drives me to play.
Its the story almost exclusively.

[DiscoGhost]

thats what books are for, a story. i play games to play a game, good story can be part of a game but isnt needed. examples can be tetris and the first mario (oh! the princess isnt at this castle. go to the other one -the end-), or any classic arcade game, really.

[zolok2.0]

Definitely gameplay over story. I skip all the cutscenes in games, they don't interest me at all. I just want to play the damn game, not watch a movie

[zealo]

I can drag myself through terrible gameplay for a decent to great story with most games at least one time, but i would definitely prefer if they had good gameplay as well.

Bad gameplay is the reason for why i have not played the first Witcher game more than once.

[Hellravager]

How dare you call the original drakengard crappy! It was one of my favorite games when i was growing up i also liked/LOVED this game suggest trying it out have very fond memories of the game. Also to the question yes i can tolerate it

[Belloc]

The Silent Hill series is just about the only set of games where I can tolerate bad gameplay for good story telling.

[Deleted]

Assassin's creed's got a really nice story but horrible combat, if that counts.

[zoomgpally]

As the title says guys. Here's my current shopping list for reference. Feedback would be nice.

Depends on the games.

I play rpgs with mediocre gameplay all the time because the story is worth it, but no story would make me play a fps with mediocre gameplay.

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Bad gameplay is the reason for why i have not played the first Witcher game more than once.

That is the one rpg i never managed to finish...

[Deleted]

Mediocre gameplay yes.
Bad gameplay would almost certainly detract from the enjoyability of playing so probably not.
Spec ops did not have mediocre or bad gameplay. It had average gameplay. Nothing that made it standout (gameplay wise), but certainly adequate, especially at the sale price of like $2 that it's been.