Best Written Stories in Gaming
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I think that KZ2`s story was far from award winning it`s willingness to show the good guys utterly fucking u[ their mission was commendable as if i`m honest i`m tired of the jingoy bullshit that these types of games put forward traditionally i particularly remember batllestations midway as having a prime example when at the battle of wake island the protagonist (who is in charge of a PT boat) remarks that "we should not have retreated" at which point i could not help but think "then i suppose ypu and your PT boat with 2 torpedos are going to single handedly sink the entire IJN fleet" to be fair the PT boats weren`t the only ships there, some destroyer had to be evacuated tooKneeLord said:
Well, they feel this need to endlessly repeat each other when explaining things, and then every time a Metal Gear shows up someone has to say 'Nuclear equipped walking battle tank' as if we didn't already know what the hell it was. Really, I'm just tired of the characters droning on and on when I'd rather be playing. The fact that the GAMEs feel more like movies (and boring ones at that) is a sign of bad game writing in my book. As a movie? A little better, but still too plagued with ridiculous repetition (am I sounding like a broken record here? Ironic).PirateKing said:
Ah right, I forgot about Kojima's Author Saving Throw. "Nanomachines did it" is the new "the one-armed man did it".Indigo_Dingo said:
Conker's Bad Fur Day:
Gentlemen, we have ourselves a hit!
Oppressive king with his German scientist, who wants to use a squirrel to balance out a table leg so that the king can keep on drinking his milk.
Gentlemen, we have ourselves a hit!
1) Deus Ex - IMO the best video game ever made and it owes its greatness primarily to its story. This game beats most good books in story size, quality and depth!
2) Max Payne I & II - Not the "awesomest" story ever told, but damn they do a nice job of telling it. Max's monologues deserve awards.
3) KotOR - Great story with a big slap of a plot twist set in the Star Wars universe. That's a double win.
2) Max Payne I & II - Not the "awesomest" story ever told, but damn they do a nice job of telling it. Max's monologues deserve awards.
3) KotOR - Great story with a big slap of a plot twist set in the Star Wars universe. That's a double win.
Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2. Still two of the best written games.
Half-life 2.
And you know what, the first Dawn of War worked really well. It wasn't fantastic but it fit the mythos like a glove.
Half-life 2.
And you know what, the first Dawn of War worked really well. It wasn't fantastic but it fit the mythos like a glove.
People are saying Fallout 3 and I don't really get it. If you follow the storyline of Fallout 3 you'll be done in less than an hour and the story itself isn't really that interesting.
Anyway, most Japanese games tend to have the better stories, I personally think Tales of Symphonia had one of the best.
Anyway, most Japanese games tend to have the better stories, I personally think Tales of Symphonia had one of the best.
The script in the Sam & Max games was wonderfully written and very funny. My non-humourous favourite would be the Metal Gear Solid series, they all have a very well-written plot and there is a lot of eye for detail. Okay, MGS2 was full of over-the-top crazyness, but it did brilliantly deconstruct the first game and all expectations people were having about its sequel [http://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM_TOC.htm] and had a lot of phylisofical and scientific themes. [http://junkerhq.net/MGS2/]
UMm there are plenty of great written games out there. But i'm gonna say portal. Cause the story and script WAS the game. It carried it to its cult status without anyhelp from heroic charaters, ubers, evil badasses, epic graphics or a major franchise name/reputation.
Hmm...
Saint's Row 2 - the characters felt believable in that universe, with that universe being a cartoon representation of gang life as seen by a person who's only contact with gang culture is 50 Cent and Ali G. The writing was superb within the source material, and I genuinely cared about the stories.
Fallout 3 - It kept me hooked from beginning to end, even with the 11-level gap so I could get to level 20 before I died.
Soul Calibur 3 - OK, this is a joke answer.
Saint's Row 2 - the characters felt believable in that universe, with that universe being a cartoon representation of gang life as seen by a person who's only contact with gang culture is 50 Cent and Ali G. The writing was superb within the source material, and I genuinely cared about the stories.
Fallout 3 - It kept me hooked from beginning to end, even with the 11-level gap so I could get to level 20 before I died.
Soul Calibur 3 - OK, this is a joke answer.
