Doom: The Dark Ages<\/a>, I feel ripped (and torn) out of the game. There are some Maykr alien guys, humans dressed like Viking warriors and sci-fi soldiers, and a whole lot of proper nouns about a heart and a prince from Hell not played by Adam Sandler. It\u2019s not that any of it is inherently bad. As far as I can tell, the voice acting is solid, the cutscene cinematography is clean, and the art direction lines up with the rest of the game. I just can\u2019t bring myself to care about the story at all, especially when it\u2019s what paused my first-person demon-killing experience.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s besides the point because I am still enjoying my time with id Software\u2019s latest shooter. I\u2019m enjoying the moment-to-moment gameplay so much that I truly don\u2019t care about my thinking that the story is bad. Should I? If I were reviewing the game, perhaps it\u2019s a point I mention, but even then, if it\u2019s not affecting my enjoyment, does it matter? These are the ethereal questions spinning around in my brain as I play Doom: The Dark Ages. It has me thinking: I just simply don\u2019t care about the story in a game, unless I do.<\/p>\n
To play devil\u2019s advocate with myself, I thought about the flipside. A game whose story is so good that I don\u2019t care about the gameplay. Unless I do. Until I did.<\/p>\n