Not true. The ‘story’ is in the environment and progression of the game, as well as in the intermissions, which aren't the manual, so you're wrong anyway. Besides, the more extreme example is Quake, not Doom.
I'd ask you to give some examples, but there's a 95% chance that they are all tedious trash.
Believe it or not, Doom has a setting, and that setting develops as you go through the game. Obviously it's still very basic and not anything that's interesting on its own, but it's there and makes the game a far better experience than it would be if it were just random shit. I know, it's extremely ‘insignificant’, but it's actually very significant. No, I didn't mention ‘environmental storytelling’, and I didn't mean there was much of any narrative there. But there is a kind of story there that makes it a cohesive experience. It's the kind of story that has no story. It's so subtle you might not have even noticed, but your brain did. Not that you would understand seeing how you're a retard who likes Dark Souls 2.
‘You used a word that's the same as that one phrase people use sometimes, therefore you mean that! I'm so smart, I win.’
Now that's just bad taste. Dark Souls 2 was a failure in every way. Graphics are shit, setting is shit, and at least half of the boss fights were retarded. Huge decline from DS1. And yet there's all you retards who choose it as your favourite. Why? What's wrong with you?
Read between the lines. Understand the intent of my words and not your own literalistic interpretation that you use to dismiss things you can't comprehend.
Well I played it and it sucked. It's a rushed, thrown-together, mediocre game. For what it is.
hexen was a pretty good game
It's actually the same for the books AND movies.
Well, there is the things in the environemnent that tells you a "story" that happened in these environments, and the environment themselves that give a feeling of progression as they change, that is it's own story in itself. Like... the logs/bodies/items in you know-what-games are the former while beginning on Phobos and ending in Hell in Doom is the latter (you don't need more to tell that story. In fact... the stupid text dumps between chapters should be removed entirely, it will make the game better).
Yeah, but no one reads a book for its words or watches a film for its frames. They're just the forms of the media. It's the contents that actually matter. You might read or watch something because it has good form, but not for it (unless you're trying to analyse how the medium works, or something, or are just a nerd with internet autism). Form can elevate or ruin anything, but serves no purpose when it has nothing. With games, it's different as the ‘gameplay’ is actually part of the contents of interest, but I don't think most games are able to get by on just that alone, nor are they meant to. I suppose the better comparison would be design rather than gameplay. Imagine playing a game for mechanics and not for actual gameplay. A game that's just form with no content... that sure sounds like Daggerfall!
