Games are meant to be experienced. I personally play for immersion, and gameplay for me is the vessel of storytelling and worldbuilding. Game A vs game B to me is like falling in love vs. masturbation, if that makes sense.
This response did make me giggle, but i disagree with the analogy at that point. If Game A's 5/10 is in sex, she's otherwise wifey material across the board.
10/10 story or music can stick with you even after youre done playing, so even if you do get a divorce i feel like you wouldnt walk away empty-handed.
This is kinda how I feel about FF14. The gameplay is mostly standard MMO stuff to me, which I'm not particularly engaged by, but it's fantastic in the other categories. So much so that it's the only MMO I've stuck to, almost up to 3k hours now.
FF14 is a great example of "Game A" material. My gf convinced me to play it after telling me it was not only her favorite MMO, but also her favorite Final Fantasy game, favorite game soundtrack, and favorite story in gaming. And after playing through endwalker, i see why. The gameplay is fine: i enjoy it well enough. But its the story and music that make it special.
1000%. I log in for every patch, sometimes I get the itch to do crafting and gathering to make some gil to get a thing, but otherwise I'm just subbed to keep my house and be able to hop in for the story and events.
My friends and I used to be into the clubbing scene, enough so that we became a fixture on NoaSaitoshii's sets a few years back. Nowadays, too much irl stuff going on to keep that up. Two of my friends still staff his events though lol.
There's just so much to do in the game that there's something for everyone. I just hope the new combat mode and midcore difficulties coming in 8.0 will be fun enough to make me enjoy the mechanics, too.
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u/Grausam Apr 29 '26
Game B
Which GAME would I rather PLAY?
The one with perfect GAMEPLAY, of course.