Poll: What is the best Story Revolved Game?

[Smooth Operator]

Hmm, I think CoD: Modern Warfare 2 really has some depth to it... could be wrong tho

 

[Nexus4]

Metal Gear, Persona 3 and Yakuza 3 are all butting heads in my opinion. If I had to choose, I would have to say persona 3, same as the OP.

 

[Cogwheel]

Well, this is tricky. Planescape's been mentioned, so... second place? Terranigma. Terranigma tied with Arcanum gets second place for story in games.

After that, FF9, Iji and Shadow of the Colossus in no real order. I'm forgetting plenty of stuff here, but eh.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Lost Odyssey.

I cried over 2 dozen times at that motherfucking game.

The last sections of Disc 1, in particular.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

What exactly qualifies as a "story revolved game"?

Most games these days involve a story of some kind. Hell, even stuff like Halo has a story. Not necessarily a good one, but it's there.

Christ, so does Gears.

Games with their focal point being the story. A game like Heavy Rain where you don't actually do very much gameplay but te story elements make it excellent. Or Persona (I only played 3) which is such a well loved game because of the way Atlus incorparated such excellent social elements when speaking with NPC's and other min characters. The story also had a lot of twists and turns.

Halo and Gears are played for the gameplay not the story.

Shouldn't the gameplay and story go hand in hand? Otherwise, why not watch a movie?

As for the question, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time stands out to me, though I also have to include MGS 3, despite the whole cutscene thing. I would also nominate Portal, though you may differ in your thoughts on how much of a story it has.

Bioshock and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Yes, I liked the story behind it.

I preferred the story in Underground, but American Wasteland wasn't bad either.

Ys but I'm asking for games that pride themselves on the story, not the gameplay. Persona has the most basic repetitive dungeon crawling gamepla but the reason why its such a great game is becauase of the story. People don't flock to get Halo because of the story of the conflict between Spartans and the Covenant or are preordering Gears 3 to hear how Dom will cope without knowing his wife is dead. Like I said before, those games were made with gameplay in mind, not the story.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Huh. Everyone seems to be mistaking "quantity" for "quality" here. Saying that a game has 100 hours of story isn't necessarily a compliment.

OT: Bioshock, because it made me think and the plot twist beat the SHIT out of my brain.

 

[Grey_Focks]

*looks at avatar*

Yea, I think you can guess what games I'm going to say. The Mass Effects, ofcourse. Honorable mentions to Red Dead Redemption and KotOR.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Huh. Everyone seems to be mistaking "quantity" for "quality" here. Saying that a game has 100 hours of story isn't necessarily a compliment.

OT: Bioshock, because it made me think and the plot twist beat the SHIT out of my brain.

No I'm not mistaking anything. The game is only playable because of the story. the gameplay itself (ie the battles, dungeon crawling) is terrible. Yet many people (includng me, its actually the first time I spent 100 hours on anything) play this game for 100+ hours because of the character development, interactions with the games NPC's (its actually fun making friends in the game, who would of thought?) and the overall plot with all its twists and turns.

*I'm not saying its a bad game but I hate both Bioshock 1 and 2. Whil I can't really say much on 1 (I only played the demo and hated it) I wa lent 2 by a friend and found the game is trying to be scary and fails at it. I dunno, I just can't keep wanting to play the game while I am playing it. I always think of all the other games that I could be playing.

 

[Sacman]

wow... NO ONE mentioned Deus Ex yet???

well then :

DEUS EX
Mass Effect
Half-Life
Bioshock
Star Craft (I actually like the SC story)
Knights of the Old Republic

(not really in this order though of best story)

well he took the words right out of...I guess, my finger tips since I'm typing...

 

[crusha_aa]

Grim Fandango, Outcast, Thief Series and Legacy of Kain series. Plus many that have already been mentioned.

 

[Sprig]

Deus Ex is my #1

I liked Mass Effect, DA:O, KOTOR, Starcraft, FFVII

 

[EatPieYes]

I'm gonna have to say Final Fantasy VI. It still is such a brilliant game, in every way possible.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Definitely Bioshock, fantastic story. The plot twist, in my opinion, is the greatest compared to all to the other games I have played.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Huh. Everyone seems to be mistaking "quantity" for "quality" here. Saying that a game has 100 hours of story isn't necessarily a compliment.

OT: Bioshock, because it made me think and the plot twist beat the SHIT out of my brain.

No I'm not mistaking anything. The game is only playable because of the story. the gameplay itself (ie the battles, dungeon crawling) is terrible. Yet many people (includng me, its actually the first time I spent 100 hours on anything) play this game for 100+ hours because of the character development, interactions with the games NPC's (its actually fun making friends in the game, who would of thought?) and the overall plot with all its twists and turns.

*I'm not saying its a bad game but I hate both Bioshock 1 and 2. Whil I can't really say much on 1 (I only played the demo and hated it) I wa lent 2 by a friend and found the game is trying to be scary and fails at it. I dunno, I just can't keep wanting to play the game while I am playing it. I always think of all the other games that I could be playing.

Well, I guess we just have different tastes. Like, really different tastes. Like, exact opposite tastes.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[MC_Smizzle]

What exactly qualifies as a "story revolved game"?

Most games these days involve a story of some kind. Hell, even stuff like Halo has a story. Not necessarily a good one, but it's there.

Christ, so does Gears.

Games with their focal point being the story. A game like Heavy Rain where you don't actually do very much gameplay but te story elements make it excellent. Or Persona (I only played 3) which is such a well loved game because of the way Atlus incorparated such excellent social elements when speaking with NPC's and other min characters. The story also had a lot of twists and turns.

Halo and Gears are played for the gameplay not the story.

Shouldn't the gameplay and story go hand in hand? Otherwise, why not watch a movie?

As for the question, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time stands out to me, though I also have to include MGS 3, despite the whole cutscene thing. I would also nominate Portal, though you may differ in your thoughts on how much of a story it has.

Bioshock and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Yes, I liked the story behind it.

I preferred the story in Underground, but American Wasteland wasn't bad either.

Ys but I'm asking for games that pride themselves on the story, not the gameplay. Persona has the most basic repetitive dungeon crawling gamepla but the reason why its such a great game is becauase of the story. People don't flock to get Halo because of the story of the conflict between Spartans and the Covenant or are preordering Gears 3 to hear how Dom will cope without knowing his wife is dead. Like I said before, those games were made with gameplay in mind, not the story.

Just because Sands of Time has great platforming and time manipulating mechanics doesn't mean its story should be any less recognised than Heavy Rain. Part of the reason that Half Life and Portal are so great is that the story unfolds as you play through, not only without sacrificing the gameplay, but with innovative and original gameplay.

I'm not against games like Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, in fact I liked Fahrenheit until the story went to shit. But I wouldn't consider them as sacrificing gameplay, rather having a different kind of gameplay.

The notion that a game can only "pride itself on it's story" by sacrificing gameplay is pretty ridiculous. Again, gameplay is the reason you choose it over a movie or book.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

That is the best poll I've ever seen.

OT: Indigo Prophecy or Heavy Rain. Personally Indigo Prophecy.

 

[Littlee300]

A lot of people seem to be under the illusion that Metal Gear Solid is well written...

What makes your opinion any better then yours? I can save you the strain of thinking about it by saying nothing and you can stop strain on your back too by getting your head out of your ass.

 

[Blue_vision]

Metal Gear Solid it's practically all story.

I love the messages that MGS games tell. The games would still be awesome without them, but the story and more importantly the message behind it is wonderfully poetic.

What else. Mass Effect's up there, probably #1. Red Dead Redemption also had a pretty amazing story.

EDIT: Half Life 2 and Bioshock's are also good, though the style of telling the story is quite different I find. I think those sum up my top games ever in terms of story.

 

[accountdeletethis]

wow... NO ONE mentioned Deus Ex yet???

well then :

DEUS EX
Mass Effect
Half-Life
Bioshock
Star Craft (I actually like the SC story)
Knights of the Old Republic

(not really in this order though of best story)

well he took the words right out of...I guess, my finger tips since I'm typing...

I'd just add Planescape: Torment from other posts mentioned and say this is the perfect mix in my book.