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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 80810, member: 1510"] So you don't care why anything is happening, you don't care where you have to go to continue (which gets revealed in the story), you don't care about characters outside of their function, and you don't care if something about the gameplay changes or needs to be understood within the logic of the story? How can you even get through the game comfortably with that little understanding of its internal logic? No, people who play RPGs aren't looking for a book. Nobody joins D&D sessions just for the story. But they still want the story, because the mathematics on there own are just dull. Again, an RPG without any story elements is basically just a spreadsheet of math and RNG. But that math is actually entertaining when it has a story to go with it. The speed features were added because some parts of RPGs (the grind, most notably) can get a bit slow and need rebalancing. That isn't skipping gameplay; it's keeping it from getting overbearing. Games with great story and bad gameplay are in the vast minority. (You didn't even give a real example of one.) Carmack sucks at understanding games that aren't FPS. He's stuck in an outdated mindset of what games can do and how they can be designed. If all games were made based on his view of how it works, the gaming landscape would be dull as a brick. Oh, and since you're a fighting game fan, I'd like to point out that there was a huge outrage from the fighting game community over Capcom's "characters are just functions" argument to justify [I]Marvel vs Capcom Infinite[/I]'s garbage roster. Even fighting game fans, who don't get too invested in story, still care about it more than you'd think. [/QUOTE]

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