Games with NO STORY whatsoever.

[Olikunmissile]

pacman?

 

[Strategia]

Red and blu are at war, that's pretty much the story. Just like every other war game.

Nine mercenaries have come together for a job. It's the middle-ish part of a century a lot like the one we just had. A simpler time. There are three TV stations, one phone company, and two holding corporations that secretly control every government on the planet. Each corporation administers its half of the world with a multi-disciplined army of paper pushers. For any problem lacking an obvious bureaucratic solution, mercenaries like these are contracted to address the situation through a massive application of force.

It's cheesy, but it's meant to be. Also, L4D has something of a story, even though it is flimsy and isn't a factor in the game. Rabies-like virus turns humans into mindless violent killing machines, and makes fat guys explode.

As for games with no story, I present you the game I somehow can't seem to shut up about: Red Orchestra (although it probably applies to MP-only shooters in general to some degree). It's basically "Krauts vs. Ivan, pick a class (e.g. weapon), go shoot guys, try not to get shot and cap certain arbitrary points". Especially on some of the custom tank maps - one of the most common ones (Debrecen B2) is literally nothing else than a massive swathe of rolling grassy hills with a few outcrops of trees and one clump of 6 houses in the centre called the "village".

Also, I consider Unreal Tournament III to be without a story. Yes, I know it has a singleplayer campaign, but I refuse to consider that utter mind-numbing piece of shockingly stupid lameness a story.

Garry's Mod would be an obvious example, and a major cop-out.

Depending on the way you look at it, the Civilization games have either no story at all, or one of the biggest stories ever.

 

[cowbell40]

How has no one yet mentioned Doom?!

 

[Triforceformer]

Pong.

Shit, ninja'd. Um, I guess The Magnavox Odyssey in its entirety.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

How has no one yet mentioned Doom?!

Probably because DOOM has a story.

 

[Sh0ckFyre]

Doom. Demons are in a base. You have the BFG 9000. KILL THEY ASS. (ZP reference =])

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Tetris had a nonexistent story.

It's a puzzle game, puzzle games don't need a story. They can have one, but they don't strictly need it.

 

[skcseth]

The entire Madden Football series.

 

[Gerazzi]

How has no one yet mentioned Doom?!

because they screwed it up in DOOM 3.

My levels in LittleBigPlanet and indeed a majority of the user created ones. <--- what I'm nominating.

 

[tenlong]

Street fighter 2's story-beat some bitches and bastards! That is all you need to know mofos!

 

[Nemorov]

Any MMO, really. They can try to have a story, but who the hell actually pays attention to that after level 10. I'm there to kill shit, dammit. To hell with your 'story.'

Also, Sims. My version: You are a sad, lonely, misanthropic god. Here are some people to fuck with. Have fun.

 

[RicoADF]

How has no one yet mentioned Doom?!

Probably because DOOM has a story.

A very simple and easy to forget story when your slaughtering hundreads of demons, but a story non the less

 

[johnman]

Mount and Blade has no story other than the one you craft. But if you dont care for crafting story's then its juts you, a sowrd and a whole load of poorly armed bandits.

 

[Podunk]

How has no one yet mentioned Doom?!

Probably because DOOM has a story.

A very simple and easy to forget story when your slaughtering hundreads of demons, but a story non the less

The books were pretty cool.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Left 4 Dead
Team Fortress 2

 

[GodsOneMistake]

World of Warcraft, is a good example.... Just do this quest than that, no real main line of story.

You've never heard of "The Missing Diplomat?"

There is a lot in that game, i can't be expected to remember a single quest, but...

is that the one looking for the king of Stormwind or something

 

[TheTygerfire]

Plants vs Zombies

Plants are protecting your house from Zombies...that's a story.