Woodbury, MN
Quoted from gambit3113:Fun absolutely outweighs theme. Take LOTR, for example. I have WOZ on order, admit that the theme and cab are sissy, but still can't wait to get this thing into the gameroom.
For sure! Take a game like White Water, theme does nothing for me. Never been rafting, doesn't interest me in the least, but the game is great. Or Nascar. I think Nascar is a waste of fossil fuel. Granted the game isn't the best game ever made, but if I judged it just on theme, it would have never gotten a quarter from me. On the flip side take a game like Stern's Indiana Jones. Potentially the greatest theme out there but the game is downright awful and incomplete.
Does the old addage...never judge a book by it's cover ring a bell? 
