Most Confusing Story in a Video Game Series

[NinjaKirby1322]

As video games get more sophisticated, the story writing becomes more and more important. We've constantly praised the good, and hounded on the terrible. However, good or bad, there are some stories that are sometimes difficult to sort out.

My nomination for the most confusing story is Street Fighter. With multiple branches due to the amount of characters involved, it is so difficult to figure out which dialogued fights actually occurred that Capcom has to release official statements saying which fights occurred and which didn't, and who won those fights.

How about the rest of the Escapist? Which stories (good or bad) confused you guys the most?

 

[Churchman]

Command and Conquer Red Alert.


Hell, C&C proper too.

 

[Audemas]

Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid. I'm surprised no one mentioned those.

 

[setsunafseiei]

I hate to admit it but FF VII.

 

[Drakmorg]

I gotta say the Halo series. Not counting Halo Wars, still haven't gotten far enough into it to see if I'm gonna get confused.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

Metal Gear Solid for me. Good games, but the storyline is a little too... oh whats the word....

Convaluted

 

[Pandalisk]

Command and Conquer Red Alert.


Hell, C&C proper too.

why that? it was pretty much US VS THEM type of story

Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid. I'm surprised no one mentioned those.

Im a insane to say that i actually understand the Resi plot?..

backing you on MGS though, i had to look so much shit up to find out what i did and what the fuck happned when i completed mgs4

 

[-Seraph-]

Metal Gear series I felt got a little confusing at times. There were complete WTF moments and then there were huge chunks of story that lacked any sort of subtlety what so ever...which I hated.

I hate to admit it but FF VII.

I will never understand why people think it's confusing...

 

[Boxinatorizore]

The Legend of Zelda games. The storyline in each game isn't confusing but how are they connected?

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Metal gear solid without a doubt, parts in four had me scratching my head till it was raw.

 

[the captain]

Final Fantasy 10 - " Wait. So they're all dead, and he's a dream? What the fuck?!"

 

[Lozzo87]

Metal Gear series I felt got a little confusing at times. There were complete WTF moments and then there were huge chunks of story that lacked any sort of subtlety what so ever...which I hated.

I hate to admit it but FF VII.

I will never understand why people think it's confusing...

Me either. FFXII is MUCH worse. Might help if I actually cared about any of the characters. Somtimes I think they may just all be reincarnations of characters from older FF games.

Edit: I thought MGS had a solid story (forgive the pun) until it started to go all meta-physical and abstract in MGS2. I sorta followed it, but the story really is the result of a gaming auteur gone totally mad.

 

[Tacoguy]

Metal gear solid and po rappa the rapper 2,I just never saw how the events tied together.

 

[Fortesque]

Resident Evil hands down.

My friend 'claims' to understand it, but i think he must be lying. No one can understand that crap. They are fun games to play, just have a shitty plot

 

[Churchman]

Command and Conquer Red Alert.


Hell, C&C proper too.

why that? it was pretty much US VS THEM type of story

The time traveling, the psychic supermen, the fact that the first two game never happened in the story line now. and with CnC, How Kain seems to be Cain from the bible, Tiberium is some kinda alien weapon, a SHODAN rip off AI.

 

[UpSkirtDistress]

Final Fanasy VIII Fucking Time Paradoxs

 

[Pandalisk]

Command and Conquer Red Alert.


Hell, C&C proper too.

why that? it was pretty much US VS THEM type of story

The time traveling, the psychic supermen, the fact that the first two game never happened in the story line now. and with CnC, How Kain seems to be Cain from the bible, Tiberium is some kinda alien weapon, a SHODAN rip off AI.

Oh i see the problem your doing it wrong, you ignore that shit and kill the badguys

"Tiberium is some kinda alien weapon" That confused me immensly

it seems they make up shit as they go along doesnt it?

 

[Churchman]

Command and Conquer Red Alert.


Hell, C&C proper too.

why that? it was pretty much US VS THEM type of story

The time traveling, the psychic supermen, the fact that the first two game never happened in the story line now. and with CnC, How Kain seems to be Cain from the bible, Tiberium is some kinda alien weapon, a SHODAN rip off AI.

Oh i see the problem your doing it wrong, you ignore that shit and kill the badguys

"Tiberium is some kinda alien weapon" That confused me immensly

it seems they make up shit as they go along doesnt it?

Never mind in the first CnC RA, Kain seemed to be Stalin's adviser.

 

[-Seraph-]

Metal Gear series I felt got a little confusing at times. There were complete WTF moments and then there were huge chunks of story that lacked any sort of subtlety what so ever...which I hated.

I hate to admit it but FF VII.

I will never understand why people think it's confusing...

Me either. FFXII is MUCH worse. Might help if I actually cared about any of the characters. Somtimes I think they may just all be reincarnations of characters from older FF games.

Edit: I thought MGS had a solid story (forgive the pun) until it started to go all meta-physical and abstract in MGS2. I sorta followed it, but the story really is the result of a gaming auteur gone totally mad.

Oh I understood like 95% of it, the rest was probably me not paying much attention as that is the ONLY time I ever get confused by game stories. My main gripe with that games story was what I mentioned earlier, I lacks subtlety and that downright pisses me off when the player is spoon fed most of the shit and required little thought process. And that spoon feeding leads to me turning off my brain and missing that 5% lol.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Metal gear.