Well my favorite games are Elder Scrolls (all of them ) , Fallout (all of them ) and many more . Problem in nowadays is that there are many people who doesn't look for the story but the graphics and I think that this can be a problem in the near future because game developers( not all of them ) won' focus anymore on making good storylines but graphics and that will be the thing that will ruin some long running games .
I really couldn't agree more! I think it's already happening now, I mean the triple A titles are all about graphics and 70% of them are terrible, however the indie games are the shiners usually with mediocre graphics but amazing story telling and smooth gameplay