Never argue with Hitman. He wont listen to anything. His opinion is the only one that ever matters in his eyes.

Mocking each other isn't going to get you far.

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

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Videogames are about gameplay. If you need a story or motivation to play a game, like it's a movie, you probally aren't a gamer. Ubisoft games doesn't have great stories, it mostly focus on the gameplay.
 
I'm not suggesting you aren't a gamer, however i'm saying gameplay is more important than story and presentation. Maybe you should play a bit more if you stopped right there at that story point. It's like saying I watched a movie and stopped watching it because I didn't like the first plot point.

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That's a matter of opinion. Now stop being a douchebag. "

" Never argue with Hitman. He wont listen to anything. His opinion is the only one that ever matters in his eyes. "

You really shouldn't use something designed to be satire to prove your point. It makes you sound crazy. (teh_pwnerer wouldn't even play this game at all, because you can't beat another dude at it, he's all about competition.) Especially when you're trying to ostracize this dude from the "gaming community" instead of addressing his real issue, which is shitty stories in games. If real gamers don't care about stories in games, then everyone who makes games must not be a real gamer, because they keep putting it in there.

" @Binman88 said:

" Hitman is a professional troll dude, just stop replying. "

He can't be though, he has almost 5000 posts. This is just honestly how he thinks "

"Alrighty, I'll rephrase. Hitman is a professional crazy person. "

Still quitting a game because you didn't like the first plot point or it's different than what you expected. Let's use a few examples, god of war 3,

 
After that plot point do I just give up on the game right there at the beginning? Absolutely not, I will try to play more of the game before I jump to conclusions. Also just cause 2 has a non existent story, I still play that game though, it doesn't  matter all the time, most games doesn't have a good story.  
 
Like I said, ppl often accuses themselves through others, throwing the word crazy out of nowhere really shows maybe you have some form of mental illness. I think I figured out what it is.  

That's crazy son. You need to overlook the crappy story in the case of good gameplay sometimes. The game isn't GOTY material or anything, but it's pretty short and worth seeing.

My beef with SCC's plot twist re: main character's offspring is that her status was more or less Sam's impetus for doing anything, like the OP said. Also, going back to Double Agent the same family member was Sam's reason for going underground and taking on a physically, emotionally, and mentally difficult mission. 
 
The writers basically decided to ret-con the series's storyline.

The reason I NEARLY didn't finish the game was because of the that one room in the white house where a metric fuck-tonne of bad guys came bursting through the doors after killing interrogating that one dude. 
 
Damn that was a long sentence.

" I loved Splinter Cell Conviction. True, the story wasn't "all that", but it was told in a great way, and the gameplay was beyond marveoulus (lol, spellcheck).   "

" Surprisingly... that was NOT the twist :P "

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It doesn't mean splilnter cell conviction failed because of ubisoft's style of story telling. These are game directors, not movie directors and the medium doesn't have to be as well told as movie scripts. I don't know a ubisoft game where it had a great story, or a story that is told well. My quotes are from the video above, so it's not entirely my opinion, rather I agree with what the pwnerer said and his definition of a gamer.

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I didn't finish Splinter Cell Conviction because it played like shit and the wasn't good enough to make me persevere with it. 

A story can be a foundation for a video game, and be just as crucial to the enjoyment as any gameplay mechanic. If the foundation fails to deliver then everything else can be made redundant. I'm not sure why people are finding this so hard to believe.

No light/sound meters, no varying levels of npc awareness, 100% linear game play (in both single player and co-op). Aside from familiar names and faces this game bares no resemblance, with regard to game play, to the first three games.