well i'm on a lot of video game forums and i feel that people are always talking more about MP than the Campaigns of great games we know and love. and rather or not you'll be able to have six and blow people to bits instead of wanting more story info or discussing new characters. and i wish people would remember what drives games. it's the Story.

Stories don't drive video games, cars do.

All sarcasm aside, is story really necessary to a game? All games don't need to be story driven, shooters usually have a very shaky or non-existent story (COD, Gears, Halo etc.) and they're still amazingly fun to play, 90% of all racing games completely sacrifice story for gameplay, and does anyone really pay attention to the story in a GTA game or do they do what I do and just have fun. What makes a great game isn't story, it's how much fun you have playing it.

Yup...

People play games for different reasons and for many, story takes a backseat to gameplay and so on. These days I usually need a nice story and interesting characters to get into most games, but a lot of what I played when I was little didn't even have stories outside of what was in the instruction manuals (which I didn't even have half the time ), so really solid gameplay can still triumph.