Best game Storyline Ever.
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Ok as much as I liked Bioshock on presentation, the story itself I was fairly ambivalent on. I think if I hadn't played System Shock 2, I would have been much more taken with it, but as it was, it all felt very familiar to me.
Planescape is a class of its own.
Knights of the Old Republic is still a standout for me.
Yes, I'm a dork, but I really enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 2. It just all struck me as very sweet, and at the time I needed a break from my usual moral ambiguity at best, and outright darkness at worst.
Shadow of the Colossus also deserves a mention I think.
Planescape is a class of its own.
Knights of the Old Republic is still a standout for me.
Yes, I'm a dork, but I really enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 2. It just all struck me as very sweet, and at the time I needed a break from my usual moral ambiguity at best, and outright darkness at worst.
Shadow of the Colossus also deserves a mention I think.
Metal gear solid 3 should get a mention, aside from the cheesy bosses it doesn't overdo it, and the cutscenes aren't short, but they're shorter than 2 and 4 by a good stretch. I loved the setting of that game.
Shadow of the collossus, an ambigious story with fantastic atmosphere and a great twist at the end. Also, by god i loved that horse.
Majora's mask too. Actually most games I love for their atmosphere over actual story. Guess that's not too surprsing...
Shadow of the collossus, an ambigious story with fantastic atmosphere and a great twist at the end. Also, by god i loved that horse.
Majora's mask too. Actually most games I love for their atmosphere over actual story. Guess that's not too surprsing...
two games spring to mindCrysisMcGee said:
1)Mass Effect 1,2 & 3 (I know it's not out yet shut up)
The fact that you can make the story your own makes it a great story. Every action has a consequence, every choice a ramification. to have so many story options and have it smoothly go together is awesome!
2) Suikoden 3
This is probably my favorite story EVER! You have multiple viewpoint storylines, each that gives amazing insight into the overall plot, in little bit to increase the interest. Example: In one of the story lines you play as Hugo, the son of a clan's chief, where your village gets burned down by a group of knights from a society who you just returned from giving a peace treaty to! You feel betrayed, angry, and sad because you just lost your best friend in that fight.
However, when you play the story line of Lady Chris, the leader of those knights, only to find out that they had to burn down the village because the clans had attacked them during negotiations and it was their only way to open a hole to get home. The story keeps up this viewpoint-wrenching story that even shows the reasonings behind the ultimate baddie. This game actually caused me to try and look at every side of a story, it is that AWESOME!
Well... Now wait...Trivun said:
Not to be a jerk or anything, but I'm thinking one of us is confused. I assume by backstory you mean the out-of-game content. Books, so on... The in-game stuff isn't any more deep than any other plot-based shooter I can think of off the top of my head. Hell, given the proper perspective DOOM 3 is as deep, there just aren't people around to help you get the plot, you have to actively seek it out and use the environment. If we're talking out-of-game story content, then I think you've sold a lot of other games short.
The Half-Life universe is immense and deep, and solid story-telling in and out of the game universe. You already tossed out dawn of war, but you also specifically seemed to be talking shooters here... I suppose if you want to specifically say 'Halo is the best Halo game out there' you can hand-wave all of my examples aside, but we could go on. Out-of-game story, the team fortress 2 universe is starting to flesh out through the developers. It's more light-hearted but you can't deny that they tell a damn good story. Both the companies going head to head controlled by the same puppet-masters...
Please do enlighten me if I'm just missing something truly epic in the halo storyline within the games that gives it the most immense backstory. Do you specifically mean that it has books written about it, and so obviously it has more? Because to use the same example as before, half-life doesn't have books but the full lore perspective of the invasion and the events leading up to, as well a gman's origins...
If we're not talking IMMENSE, but instead immersive, honestly the left-4-dead series does a great job of getting story across while still facilitating the fast and furious gameplay that it was meant to give. That, in my eyes, is a stroke of literary genius. I mean, the story guys should really pat themselves on the back for the fact that you know exactly what's going on and why it happens in left4dead. Everything from a chair and some molotovs on a roof next to a shotgun, to a character saying where you should head next... Sometimes it's blunt, but it's the subtle things that make that world believable and immersive that tells the story of a world ravaged by disease and - well, for lack of a better term - zombies. If you only know that left4dead is about zoey, bill, francis, louis, coach, ellis, nick, and rochelle trying to escape certain death; you didn't pay enough attention. (insert joke about the people driving the rescue vehicles and a witty retort about how that's not what I meant here)
I guess this response isn't even so much directed at you as to the thread creator. The best game storyline ever... Does this indeed just mean within the confines of the game, or all lore attached? Because arguably, the warcraft storyline is the best saga (if you neglect some of the more recent additions, ala WoW)
Wait, where am I? Did I just... oh god. I better just press post now and pretend this never happened.
Well shit. I do believe I am going to have to try out that, it does indeed sound awesome.daheikmeister said:
OT: I haven't finished it yet, but something about Venetica's story keeps pulling me back to playing it. But I have to put in a vote for Warcraft, all the way from the first, although my favourite part is playing the origin of Orgrimmar story on WC3.
I'd have to say Chrono Cross, with Chrono Trigger a close second. First RPG where I actually bothered to replay for the alternate endings. As for non-rpg storytelling, I nominate MGS3, can't go wrong with Cold War era political subterfuge.
Valkyria Chronicles had a very good storyline, loved it to bits.
MGS is also near the top.
I didn't expect someone else to mention Little Big Adventure though, those games were awesome
MGS is also near the top.
I didn't expect someone else to mention Little Big Adventure though, those games were awesome
Many people will probably disagree, but I really like the story in GTA San Andreas. Don't know why though, I just like it.
I'm going to have to say the Fallout series for it's morbid quirky humor, but also i'd like to mention GTA 4, which definitely stepped it up for it's own series in terms of story. Sure it's not breaking any new ground originality wise, but it's does a great job at perfecting it's own story and making you feel for the characters, in my opinion.