Quote Originally Posted by WILL
Sly: Don't forget you have to make an article/review about E3 on PGD
D'oh! I should be able to write something up with a few pictures too.

Take Doom for instance. A simple story, but without it a senseless and pointless game. Demons are invading or hoarding in from Hell into Mars' moons. Now you could have had cows instead of hell spawn, but why cows? There is even a story behind that too! You'd have to use non-sensical objects or things, but then what on earth would be a point of playing a game like that?
The Diablo II Mad Cow Secret Level. Hordes of cows armed with sickles coming for your blood. That was fun. Crazy and non-sensical, but fun.

Yes, a good story does help with a game, but I would not say that it is essential. Take Llamatron for example. That was a brilliant, wildly popular shoot-em-up in the early 90's that had no story, but then it didn't need one. You were a llama shooting lasers at everything in sight. Why? Because you're a llama, that's why.