Good games with terrible plots.

[saintchristopher]

Frankly, there's very little crossover between "good games" and "terrible plots." If you can use one of those phrases to describe it, chances are you can't use the other.

 

[Crimsonsniper]

most "Look at me im CoD4+Halo!" (Im looking at you MW2 and Halo3:ODST) had awful stories. they always try to mix drama, intruige and gritty spacemarine/aliens into one insipid package.
i just cant wait till Halo and its "regenerating health", "one button melee" buddy's get forgotten and we can get our gooey green health tubes of healthyness back.
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It's obvious you didn't actually read the thread title since you just riped those games apart on gameplay and plot. The point of the thread is Good games with Bad plots.

As for myself, it would have to be Freedom Fighters, the plot consists of the Russians suddenly attacking America and winning within just (looks at watch) 15 minutes according to gameplay. You go within those same 15 minutes from being a no-name plumber in New York city to a prominent member of the resistence. You then kick some commie ass by going through the sewers using manholes (lol?!?!?). There is also a corny plot twist no one cares about. It ends with the Russians leaving the good old USA in defeat. It's also one of my favorite games of all time because of its great gameplay.

 

[lewism247]

Ummmm

Left 4 dead probably

Edit: How could I forget

Soul calibur 3

 

[Cherry Cola]

Anything in the NES days (mostly anything) and you know why

Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?

 

[Mar451]

Prototype, terrible plot, but the game was fun as fuck

 

[OhJayEee]

No-one else is going to say it? Fine. Modern Warfare 2.
Yep, I enjoyed playing the single player campaign. Not because of the story, because that was utter crap. But the huge number of completely random set-pieces? Great fun!

Yeah. Between that and Bad Company 2, I get the feeling that developers have forgotten the fact that the Cold War ended almost 20 years ago.

Good games though.

 

[Xeros]

Freelancer. I loved that game, but once it started talking about ancient cults, and psychic aliens, that unimmersed me like getting hit in the face with a sledgehammer. (Thank god for the awesome Star Wars mod.)

Ooh, which one? Freeworlds? I've been waiting for the latest version of THAT to come out for yonks now, and even then I have to hope that new players turn up!

Yeah. Used to play it a lot with an old friend of mine, but we lost interest as it was just him, and I dicking around for hours on end. Haven't played in a couple years now. Did they ever patch the voice acting? We used to have a very good laugh at Vader casually asking us if we were new in town.

 

[reaper159]

halo 3: odst.

story line: run around city looking for your friends while having flashbacks every 5 minutes.

gameplay: it's halo ffs, it's gotto be awesome.

 

[ljd184]

the pokemon games well at least most of them

 

[triplea]

God where do I begin?

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Oblivion: A god-thing is bored, so he wants to conquer the world with his legions of heroes. Then there's some chosen one, and a camera-faced dude/dudette who must aid said chosen one. A decent plot would have been great with the vast world...

HL2: As mentioned above, this one picks up in medias res. I know what is going on, but it would have been nice to have one of the characters explain it. I mean, the physicist who can't talk appears twenty years after saving the world, and nobody wants to tell him why aliens have instituted an Orwellian regime. Isn't that just a little bit strange?

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Anything in the NES days (mostly anything) and you know why

Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?

oh hey Its Hubilub, but what game is that from? Also SAVE THE PRINCESS!!! oooooohhhhh!

 

[Machiavellian007]

Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Great... errr...

Oh, wait, no, the game just sucked.

 

[Skribblings]

There are tons of dumb things about Just Cause 2, but the biggest issue I have with the story is the bad guy's evil "masterplan"

Spoiler

"I am president over a country with a lot of oil, therefore I will send one and only one nuclear bomb each to America, China, Japan and Russia and take over the world"

Seriously, that's his evil plan to take over the world. He's going to send one nuclear bomb towards America, one to China, one to Japan, and one to Russia.

And then at the end, the good guy rigs one of the nuclear bombs to bomb the island they are on so that the oil is destroyed, resulting in none of the waring nations having any interest in it anymore. But does the super-lethal nuclear bomb that was supposed to destroy USA kill our protagonist? No, because the bomb wasn't even strong enough to destroy the island you're on. Hell, there isn't even an aftermath, there's just a cutscene of the bomb exploding in the distance, some guy saying that it blew up all the oil, and then it's over

That actually sounds so bad that it's funny. Actually, what you described is also like Just Cause 1.. That was the reason for going in. Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Now what does that sound like, boys and girls?

 

[Machiavellian007]

There are tons of dumb things about Just Cause 2, but the biggest issue I have with the story is the bad guy's evil "masterplan"

Spoiler

"I am president over a country with a lot of oil, therefore I will send one and only one nuclear bomb each to America, China, Japan and Russia and take over the world"

Seriously, that's his evil plan to take over the world. He's going to send one nuclear bomb towards America, one to China, one to Japan, and one to Russia.

And then at the end, the good guy rigs one of the nuclear bombs to bomb the island they are on so that the oil is destroyed, resulting in none of the waring nations having any interest in it anymore. But does the super-lethal nuclear bomb that was supposed to destroy USA kill our protagonist? No, because the bomb wasn't even strong enough to destroy the island you're on. Hell, there isn't even an aftermath, there's just a cutscene of the bomb exploding in the distance, some guy saying that it blew up all the oil, and then it's over

That actually sounds so bad that it's funny. Actually, what you described is also like Just Cause 1.. That was the reason for going in. Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Now what does that sound like, boys and girls?

*puts up hand* Oooh, oooh, I know.

The United States of George W. Bush?

 

[Skribblings]

There are tons of dumb things about Just Cause 2, but the biggest issue I have with the story is the bad guy's evil "masterplan"

Spoiler

"I am president over a country with a lot of oil, therefore I will send one and only one nuclear bomb each to America, China, Japan and Russia and take over the world"

Seriously, that's his evil plan to take over the world. He's going to send one nuclear bomb towards America, one to China, one to Japan, and one to Russia.

And then at the end, the good guy rigs one of the nuclear bombs to bomb the island they are on so that the oil is destroyed, resulting in none of the waring nations having any interest in it anymore. But does the super-lethal nuclear bomb that was supposed to destroy USA kill our protagonist? No, because the bomb wasn't even strong enough to destroy the island you're on. Hell, there isn't even an aftermath, there's just a cutscene of the bomb exploding in the distance, some guy saying that it blew up all the oil, and then it's over

That actually sounds so bad that it's funny. Actually, what you described is also like Just Cause 1.. That was the reason for going in. Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Now what does that sound like, boys and girls?

*puts up hand* Oooh, oooh, I know.

The United States of George W. Bush?

You're absolutely right, little Jimmy! You get a cookie.

 

[Forever of the Stars]

Metal Gear Solid 2.

In fact all the Metal Gear Solids that were not Metal Gear Solid 1, which wasn't terrible but merely very bad.

I AGREE SO MUCH WITH YOUR STATEMENT! Anyways, exclamatory capslocking aside I am going to say Silent Hill 4 the plot was fucking rediculous, and the gameplay was fairly shitty too come to think of it. I was still fun though.

 

[Brainst0rm]

Um, Guild Wars. All of them. Most people think Nightfall is the best, but everything in the game is cliche on top of cliche. It has the most awkward and clunky storytelling of any game I've ever encountered. As an MMORPG, with no subscription fees, it's completely epic and I play it most every weekend (and will be buying GW2 as soon as it comes out), but I don't love it like I love most games I play regularly. It has good graphics, limited grinding, and it's 15 more dollars in my wallet every month, but any pretense of story is a joke.