When you play a game do you immerse yourself in the story, and get into the lore of the game, or do you just play it for the immediate fun and then move right on?
I don’t find myself getting into the whole story arc and lore of games in the slightest. I’m playing through Halo Infinate and I just realised I have no real idea about the whole story line of the game series, and I have played entire Halo library since OG Xbox. I went back and watched a Halo history video on YouTube and I had no real idea about any of the storyline. One thing I realised is the storyline is a mess of add ons and change ups.
For me when I play through the games I kinds do so using short term memory and not long term if that makes sense?
I see others online talking about the side stories and the lore, buying the books to get more of the story, but I just play the game for the immediate fun factor and then move on.
Am I the only one like that?
Both for the fun and story, for sure. Although gameplay is #1, or I wouldn’t play games without story, like Tetris or PGA Tour. But I am for sure interested in the story in the games that have them. I’d never skip a cutscene for example, and years after having finished a game with a story, it’s that story that is more likely to stay with me rather than what the gameplay was like.
I am super guilty of playing games part way or half way through then starting something else and forgetting. My mission in 2022 is to stop doing this and take one game at a time
I’ve had the tendency to run but come back later. Some games I’ve never gotten back to like an imortals and Ac valhalla. I might go back to imortals one day. Valhalla I’m done with after 10 hours.