Story vs Gameplay

With the new next-generation of games designers come to some very important decisions when it comes to creating an experience for the gamers. Should we focus more on story or is gameplay still the core of video games in general?


As I am a Gamer myself , I would say that Gameplay and Story are both very important elements to games as a whole. I like to think games that first take you into the world with their graphics, then allow you to interact and play with the world with their Gameplay .


Take an example of Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core and Monsters Hunter Freedom 2 both are psp games , one is a RPG and the other is an ADV/ACT based . FF Crisis Core is more to story-telling based Role playing Game with CG movies and the Monsters Hunter has a good gameplay and it can have up to 4 player to play together helping each others defeating the monsters , I continues to play both of the games after the complete of the game, not due to incomplete of mission but for the leisure of playing it again from the begining .











However not all gamers will think this way , like the God of War : chain of Olympus , I would say that it has a very good storyline and gameplay and it does have a story to tell and the fun part the game play itself .

History of Video Games

My first video console was sega megadrive . It was a gift from my sister in law. The first video game I ever play was Sonic the Hedgehog .

This game was released on 1991 june 23 as a rival to the Nintendo game Super Mario . The two games characters inductees into the Walk of Games.

Sonic has become one of the world best-known game characters and sold 45 million of copies in 2005.

From what I know Video Games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe.

After a disastrous industry collapse in 1983 and a subsequent rebirth two years later, the video game industry has experienced sustained growth for over two decades to become a $10 billion industry, which rivals the motion picture industry as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world.

Causes of the crash include the production of poorly conceived games such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. It was discovered that more Pac-Man cartridges were manufactured than there were systems made. In addition, so many E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridges were left unsold that Atari buried thousands of cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico.

In 1985, the North American video game console market was revived with Nintendo’s release of its 8-bit console, the Famicom, known outside Asia as Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and instantly became a success.

The NES dominated the North American and the Japanese market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s.

Defining FUN

What is Fun all about ?
To me : what I enjoy most in doing is fun. Watch exciting movies entertains, playing excite games and even modelling stuffs thrills what I doing.


My Favourite games are Final Fantasy VII and CrisisCore. The most attractive part of the game is the real-time based RPG whereas most of the RPG is turn-based .














Set in a dystopian world, Final Fantasy VII's story centers on the powerful megacorporation Shinra, which is draining the life of the planet to use as an energy source.

A young mercenary called Cloud, who joins with several others to stop Shinra. As the story evolves, the main antagonist, Sephiroth, develops a plan to summon a meteor with the intention of injuring the planet to a point where it would gather massive amounts of its life force in one spot, allowing Sephiroth to collect all the life force and gain control of the life force and use them as a vessel travel to another planet leaving the old planet to die.














The character design by Tetsuya Nomura. Cloud and his six swords in Advent Children (The first design where Cloud actually carried six swords on his back).

The game is the first in the series to use 3D computer graphics, featuring fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds was the part I like most.