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MMOGology: Why bother with story? 
Massively | by Marc Nottke | Sun, Sep 14
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I played Oblivion a lot when it originally came out, but because my old rig struggled with it, I never played more than about a quarter of the way through the game. I decided to start over from scratch and as I progressed I remembered why I love single player RPGs: the story. A great story provide...
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