Games with NO STORY whatsoever.

[Satin6T]

Smartball!... well you don't have story till the last cut scene
Uniracers! omg a racing game with no story!

 

[arcstone]

Any game made in the eighties.

 

[mikecoulter]

WipEout hasn't really got a story. Unless you watch the little videos before a race, then it gives you a back story to the area and the times it's set.

I found out one of the race tracks is set close to my house!

 

[DeadlyYellow]

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

Well back in the day stories were pretty much an insubstantial part of many games. Did you care more that you were hopping platforms and having fun or more that you were saving a princess who was kidnapped for arbitrary reasons?

 

[vampirekid.13]

You know the ones. The games where you get plonked into a suit of power armor, a shotgun deathcock shoved into your arms, and your vision tunneled to the first person perspective and thrust directly into the game with no idea how; or best of all why.

Worse of all as you progress through levels you still have no fucking clue what the point is besides fucking this world up.

My list includes Quake, and the entire racing sim genre.

What others have you come across that never once actually gave a story in the game itself.

PS: And don't say it's explained on the box, games should hold up on their own.

quake2 and quake 1 are still the best FPS games i ever played. all the ones we have these days bother making this elaborate plot and crap no one cares about.


if you want a plot read a book, or watch a movie.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Most of the games from the 70's had the plot in the title. For instance missile command is game where the player commands missiles. That's pretty much all the plot you get.

 

[NeutralDrow]

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

That's the thing. It's not a single quest. It's a quest line, and one I've been on for the past fifteen or so levels (and haven't finished yet). I guess I could have brought up "Summoning the Princess," too, but that one is less expansive (though again, I have yet to finish it).

An MMO having "no real main line of story" is simply a facet of the medium; the story of the game and its updates are instead lore-based to fit in millions of completely unrelated characters. It's a gross exaggeration at best to call it a game with "no story whatsoever."

 

[DrunkWithPower]

Any Sid Meier's Civilization game. But I still love them.

 

[DazZ.]

Plants vs Zombies

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

That's an objective. That is about the same amount of story as in Tetris your stacking blocks.

 

[kantalupa]

shadowrun mentioned something about a story but there was no story gameplay or anything that had to do with a story besides the intro

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

Animal Crossing has no story...

 

[Conveant0]

Unreal Tournament 3... I know no one of yet who was able to divulge any story from that terrible game. It pretended it had one early on, then I realised I was playing a hyperactive COD4 but with bots... I mean come on the online and story are exactly the same pretty much.

 

[Boxpopper]

Team Fortress 2

TF2 has a story.

It's weird, but it's a story.

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

WoW is the prime example. No concentration of plot.

Its more complicated than that. I think its two companies that are fighting eachother in year 1976. Pay attention to the calendars and the team posters. RED and BLU are both company title anagrams.

 

[RanD00M]

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.

And some very bad combat controls.

 

[Orca87]

Tetris kinda had a story, if you complete it you see the rocket take off and stuff.
Asteroids doesn't seem to have a story. Just a scenario, shoot rocks.
Tetris seems to be building towards something, and low and behold, a rocket thing, woo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6OFwLZk6w&feature=related

 

[j0z]

Half life 2? I have no idea what the fuck is going on, people just seem so excited to have GOrdan around and then just assume that in my greatness I already know everything. Plus since there are no cut scenes I start to zone out then miss whatever is being said

HL2 had a good story, but for the reason why everyone thinks Gordon is the second coming is slightly harder to decipher, maybe the events at BM, or is it the Gman's doing?
You won't get the story of most games if you zone out during the cutscenes (or in HL2's case, the in game sequences)

 

[Sewblon]

Any game made in the eighties.

Not true, remember King's Quest? On topic, Civilization.

 

[Perwer]

"Carmageddon" 1 & 2. Here's a car, there's a meatbags; go make meatloaf.

 

[Trendkill6]

I thought Shadow of the Colossus was lacking in story.