User blog comment:Damac1214/Why Shooters Need Good Stories/@comment-5070322-20130514232040

All this is very true. I think a good example that should have been included was Spec Ops: The line.

That game took our preconceptions of the FPS genre and turned it around on its head. I can't speak for most people, but after that white phosphorous scene, I realizedt what a gung ho asshole I was and that's what the game wanted to do.

Granted, I will probably never play this game again because the game mechanics did give me a headache. But the story basically is what made the game.