Either Boishock or Shadow of the Colossus. You can't go wrong with those for reasons that have been mentioned already.
Game With the Best Story? (For school assignment)
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You could say the same thing about Bioshock.AnarchistFish said:
It's basically: What if Ayn Rand got a sex change then made an underwater city, found some mutating slugs, and became a big asshole?
It's the setting (the dilapidated and decaying underwater city) that makes it, as well as the audio logs (I just love those. XP)
Don't get me wrong, I like both games, but both still have silly stories.
Red Dead Redemption. The storyline does a damn good job of having a plotline that intrigues the player initially before getting into the main meat of the story. And then of course, having the end winding down before one last major spike of action. I'd say it does a nice job with a very compelling story that (for me at least) got me to have feeling for a main character by the end. And that is quite rare for me.
Actually, now that I think of it... it's probably the game I'd go to for storyline everytime.
Actually, now that I think of it... it's probably the game I'd go to for storyline everytime.
While I have played many great games, I am seeing a lot of Bioshock going on and I would have to agree with it.
Part of the reason is that it does something unique to the gaming genre that should be included in your paper, t covers part of the story through the gameplay and the environment. Heck, if you could include screenshots, that might help.
Best of luck with that paper.
Part of the reason is that it does something unique to the gaming genre that should be included in your paper, t covers part of the story through the gameplay and the environment. Heck, if you could include screenshots, that might help.
Best of luck with that paper.
Mother, a.k.a. Earthbound Zero, has absolutely the best story ever in a video game.
I rarely, if ever, get emotional about stories, especially video game stories, but Earthbound Zero's story brings me closer to tears than any other game, and it's out of empathy for the final boss.
How can you beat a story in which the weapon utilized to fight the invading alien threat is the lullaby said alien's human foster mother sang to him when he was a child. You literally break Giygas's will to fight by singing him the song of his mother.
I rarely, if ever, get emotional about stories, especially video game stories, but Earthbound Zero's story brings me closer to tears than any other game, and it's out of empathy for the final boss.
Portal and Shadow of the Colossus are examples of games that tell their stories WITH the gameplay, which is something that ONLY video games can do.
Mass Effect has a great story, sure, but so much of the story is told through movies.
Mass Effect has a great story, sure, but so much of the story is told through movies.
yes it is probably is the best story in gaming. but it shouldn't be a movie. too much goes on for a two or three hour movie. a well produced miniseries or an hbo show are enough.FireSpore said:
but in answer to the question:
mass effect is a pretty good example. it isn't the greatest story of all time, though it is engaging and cinematic which ranks it pretty high for an interactive medium that games are. It is also a very well selling franchise which means it has mass appeal.
Final fantasy Tactics (the original one on playstation, don't refer to the psp psuedo-Elizabethan retranslation) or Vagrant Story are possibly your best examples. they use fully developed and dynamic characters with real human emotions, struggles, idealogies, etc. In reality, Tactics could be seen as the video game equivalent of Dostoevsky's Brother's Karamazov, just for all the various aspects of the human condition subtly layered into the cast and events.
good luck with the assignment.
So you're looking for the "best" story in a game, just to add the title in one sentence without elaborating at all? That's ridiculous. Completely utterly stupid.
Imagine yourself saying this, "Movies generally have good stories, with the best one being _____" or, "The best book ever--no, not the best I've read, but the best EVER--is _____".
Ridiculous.
Imagine yourself saying this, "Movies generally have good stories, with the best one being _____" or, "The best book ever--no, not the best I've read, but the best EVER--is _____".
Ridiculous.
a small list of games that have decent stories
-legend of dragoon
-kingdom hearts
-god of war
-spyro the dragon
-final fantasy 7
-mass effect
-infamous
-megaman battle network 5
-portal
- xmen legends
-knights of the old republic
-legend of dragoon
-kingdom hearts
-god of war
-spyro the dragon
-final fantasy 7
-mass effect
-infamous
-megaman battle network 5
-portal
- xmen legends
-knights of the old republic
I'd suggest finding a copy of the Ultimate Wizardry Archives and try starting at the first game and just go from there. If you don't have the patience, you can skip the first three. Honestly though, you could jump in on any of them and just go with the default start. If you just really don't have the patience for older games, at a minimum, play through Wizardry 7 and 8 a few times. Wizardry 8 is a step up from 7 in some ways but a step back in others. The graphics were greatly improved (still rather dated by today's standards though) but you know graphic improvements usually mean something else got sacrificed. It's been too long since I played and I can't say how easy it'll be to get them running on a modern machine. Wizardry Gold (7 remade for Win 95 with spoiler filled help file/walkthrough and maps), Wizardry Archives and Wizardry 8 were at least all made with a version of Windows in mind (Win 95 for all of them I believe). All others were DOS or earlier.Babitz said:
Wizardry Nemesis is an interesting game but that one is just a linear adventure story with no relation to the rest of the series. Any game outside of Nemesis and 1-8 are just spinoffs. Nemesis was rather impressive for a DOS game but not easy to get running on a modern machine.
This is a tricky question to answer. What constitutes a good story is entirely subjective. I know you're looking for some pointers here, but the best thing you could do is to talk about a game that you know and like, and that has a story that you've enjoyed.
As far as evoking emotion I'd have to go with Metal Gear Solid 3. The over-arching story of the whole series would require a series of novels, not an essay, but the way they treat The Boss is so stirring.
I think it's easy for games to make a big epic story about one man.....alone....fighting to save the world...against all odds. But when a game paints such a tragic personal story about someone, that's where they really shine. Also, because you invest more than 2 hours, and much of that time is a struggle...I feel more invested in characters in games/novels than I do in movie characters.
She's your mentor and leader and then she apparently turns on her country. She spend the entire game whooping your ass every step of the way. The fact that the game is so much longer than a movie makes you kind of resent her every time she pull the goal out from under you. Then when you fight her, she's kind of a cheap *****, which made me resent her even more. It's not until the epilogue that you find out that not only did she sacrifice her life for her country, but her entire legacy and reputation. Basically she had no choice but to pretend to be a traitor to the country she loved more than anything, and will always be remembered that way by history. That's powerful stuff. Then, on top of that is a stellar musical score.
Didn't Extra Credits cover "Games as art"?
Anyways, tossing in my vote.
Planescape: Torment.
Easily the deepest and most fascinating story in a game I've ever explored.
Many. Many times over. I'm still finding new things in that story...
Many games are great and listed in this thread, but most aren't for the story but rather the atmosphere, gamepaly or something else.
Planescape... Had only one thing going for itself. Story.
The combat was Meh, the visuals so-so, the setting wasn't innovative in any way (As it was based on already existing lore) and all in all it didn't have much customization for an RPG (You were stuck with One look.)
But the game was and is Amazing. For it's story alone.
I could talk about it for days, but in the end, I'll do it just as they did it:
Planescape: Torment asks one single question.
What can change the nature of a man?
And spends the entire time you play it answering that question.
(And if for no other reason, the games script is 800,000 words long. Nuff said)
Edit: Also note that Anyone who is Not mentioning Planescape: Torment has in fact not played it. Simple as that. (Yeah yeah there are outliers)
Anyways, tossing in my vote.
Planescape: Torment.
Easily the deepest and most fascinating story in a game I've ever explored.
Many. Many times over. I'm still finding new things in that story...
Many games are great and listed in this thread, but most aren't for the story but rather the atmosphere, gamepaly or something else.
Planescape... Had only one thing going for itself. Story.
The combat was Meh, the visuals so-so, the setting wasn't innovative in any way (As it was based on already existing lore) and all in all it didn't have much customization for an RPG (You were stuck with One look.)
But the game was and is Amazing. For it's story alone.
I could talk about it for days, but in the end, I'll do it just as they did it:
Planescape: Torment asks one single question.
What can change the nature of a man?
And spends the entire time you play it answering that question.
(And if for no other reason, the games script is 800,000 words long. Nuff said)
Edit: Also note that Anyone who is Not mentioning Planescape: Torment has in fact not played it. Simple as that. (Yeah yeah there are outliers)