Which game has the WORST story

[IamSofaKingRaw]

We always have those 'whats your favourite game EVAR' type threads, but I want to look at the bad. What game have you played that was so atrocious you had to put it down.

For me its every pokemon game thats right fanboys Mercenaries 2. The game made no sense. The guy/girl you're playing is trying to hunt down the guy that shot you in the ass in the beginning of the game. To hunt him down you decide to blow everything up. And then *SPOILERS* you do a QTE to finish him off in the last level.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

For the pokemon thing i can see where your coming from, but at the same time it has a nice simplicity to it that's why it works out so well for kids/anyone of any age.

mercenaries 2 i will agree with though, fuck that shit.

for my own submission?

borderlands.

fuck that fucking ending and fuck the games build up to it

 

[IBlackKiteI]

When finished, Borderlands.

While playing, all Halo games past CE.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

The Great Gatsby, for the NES. I played that game believing that the plot was true to the book. I went on to read the book, and was SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED. I couldn't even finish, such was the depth of my despair!

 

[Soviet Steve]

The upcoming "Homefront", with Modern Warfare 2 in hot pursuit, due to the most blatantly idiotic plot lines since the emo dance scene in Spider-man 3.

 

[RoboGeek]

Front Mission Evolved.....its about lifts built into space, story is presented awfully as well with bad lip syncing and stupid cut scenes

 

[mb16]

all Halo games past CE.

(no offence to you personally)
see this is what i dislike. people not liking games for lacking in story when mostly its shooty fun. Thats like saying Doom or pac-man was bad as there was little story. Not all games need one to exist. but they can often be a nice add-on to explain some of the reasons for doing things.

EDIT:
anyway halo didnt have a "bad" story.

Spoiler: halos main points: (to my knowledge) These are the main points im sure i could make a 10,000word essay on the story. !dont read if you like spelling or grammar as both are poor!

Spoiler: pre-halo: forerunners

forerunners find flood and try to combat, find they cant be stoped unless they die of natural causes such as starvation. so the rings are built to starve the flood and the ark is a safe place to make sure life continuous after they go off.

few 10,000s of years

Spoiler: covenant

covenant form by the conquest of other races which then become one large army. the main religion of which are these forerunner structures which they really don't understand. After so long they find a planet with humans on which an Oracle they have says that there are 1000s of forerunner relics. In turn these turnout to be the humans which the oracle says are forerunners/relics of the forerunners. The head of the covenant finds this out and realises this would destroy "his" religion so sets the humans as enemys of the covenant so no-one finds out

Covenant attacks humans

Spoiler: this is where the halo games happens (in bulet points as i cant be bothered to type more}

-covenant attack human colonies.
-reach which is the strongest colony is destroyed (halo reach)
-humans find halo and the flood are realised but manage to kill both (halo CE)
-covenant find earth "acidently" and then lead the humans to a second halo whilst escaping (halo2)
-the second halo is armed but then disarmed putting the others on high alert, and the flood escape the ring. Also the elites discover that the profits lied to them and join the humans (halo2)
-humans defend earth, while the covenant open the gateway to the ark and then the flood make it to the ark also (halo3)
-the ark is destroyed along with most of the covenant fleet and the flood. but the portal is destroyed before the ship can get fully back. (halo 3)

please not i am tired and dyslexic so i left allot of things out and spelt allot of things wrong

 

[Awexsome]

In B4 people saying Halo to look cool... damn too late.

While I don't really know what game had the worst story I do know that anyone that says Halo is fucking retarded or an "insert game here" fanboy. Probably some game back on the old NES or something.

 

[timeadept]

For the pokemon thing i can see where your coming from, but at the same time it has a nice simplicity to it that's why it works out so well for kids/anyone of any age.

mercenaries 2 i will agree with though, fuck that shit.

for my own submission?

borderlands.

fuck that fucking ending and fuck the games build up to it

I actually quite liked borderlands. I don't feel that the game was about the story and so i feel that the minimalist approach to story telling that they took worked well. There were subtle things going on through out the game, you always knew you were going to find the vault, yeah i expected an ancient treasure trove of advanced (yet ancient) weapons (i never understand the idea that these guys were capable of such advanced feats of technology and yet they are all gone today and the knowledge lost and forgotten) but there were hints that there was something else in there. Sure i was disappointed by the lack of loot for bringing down that behemoth, but i felt that the story was told well up to that point and so i was willing to forgive the lack of guns and enjoy how that little mystery unfolded.

I don't really have a good candidate for my worst story ever, comparing what I've played through so far of golden sun dark dawn i have to say that i am very disappointed, it is nothing compared to the first game (golden sun + TLA = 1 story = a 2 part game(don't take this too literally please)).

There are other games that i ignore the (already bad) story completely cause i'm in it for the gameplay, ie. just cause 2 and magicka. Though magicka is a special cause cause it's trying to be silly but the story actually got in the way of the game for me. I just wanted to blow shit up, i didn't care why, so any pause in the action for a cutsceen or story telling was usually unwelcome.

 

[relevantcore]

Black Ops had a pretty absurd story. However, I really like the second-to-last level, but after that the finale just brought me back full circle. It's a nice game, and I like how they were trying to do something different than "terrorists, shoot them, kaboom," but it was a pretty lame execution.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Prototype's was just silly. How am I supposed to feel sorry for a guy who was given superpowers and takes it out on innocent civilians?

 

[Raregolddragon]

How about The more recent Mario games. You would think the princess would have an elite teem to hand Bowser by now. I mean yes there was the time he stole the whole castle but still, its always fucking Bowser!

 

[IamQ]

In B4 people saying Halo to look cool... damn too late.

While I don't really know what game had the worst story I do know that anyone that says Halo is fucking retarded or an "insert game here" fanboy. Probably some game back on the old NES or something.

Haha, love your avatar!

OT: Left 4 Dead. For obvious reasons, sure, but still.

 

[beniki]

Pac-man.

Seriously; funny yellow circle eats white dots and occasionally ghosts, as he explores a nameless dungeon filled with fruit. What the hell?

Although I have to say that Valkyrie Chronicles is high on my list. Not the meta story line, I like the cool WW2 parallels and even the mystic stuff. But the scene to scene stuff is just so unbelievably stupid.

Great lines such as "Thanks fish," and logic such as "Look goat poop! That means there's a game trail here. Let's roll the tank down it!" all combined to just irritate me. And then they add a pig with wings. A flying pig. Are you kidding me?!

Still fun to play though.

 

[minisammy]

Final Fantasy XIII. It made no sense from the start. Fair enough, I haven't finished but I got to disc 3 looking for the slightest glimpse of a good storyline but couldn't find it anywhere in the linear corridors of that game

 

[Woodsey]

all Halo games past CE.

see this is what i dislike. people not liking games for lacking in story when mostly its shooty fun. Thats like saying Doom or pac-man was bad as there was little story. Not all games need one to exist. but they can often be a nice add-on to explain some of the reasons for doing things.

And yet they spend their marketing budget on adverts with more emotional-depth than the games ever convey, and are very obviously trying to attempt a story. Pac-Man isn't criticised with that because they didn't bother to attempt a story beyond him needing the *whatever the fuck those dots* were, and Doom gives you the bare bones to give you an excuse for what you're doing.

OT: Not really sure, I don't play that many games with bad stories (other than JC/2, but both of those are intentionally bad). GTA IV's was pretty dire, although the characters' dialogue wasn't that bad (although I hated most of the characters).

If someone says one of the CoD games has good writing I will abandon my wishes for strong storytelling in games, if those are the standards we're going to set.

 

[Beelzebozo]

Final Fantasy X and X2 (same crap diferent name). Man that history was a piece of trash. Generic characters, lame story lines, horrible ending...

 

[Fishtie]

I love how I can win almost any kind of 'worst [blank] in a game' thread with one simple word.

Drakenguard.

If you understand, then you understand. If you don't, then consider yourself lucky. *shudder*

 

[Jessta]

while I couldn't say what game had the worst story I can say it completely depends on whether its what game has the worst story that actually cares about story (final fantasy games, most RPGS), or what game has the worst story that is meant to drive the game along (Halo, Borderlands most shooters) or what game has no story and just doesn't care (Pac-man, Tetris, most old school games)

I'm going to go ahead and say Mario because it felt like it was meant to be in the last section but for some reason it's treated as though it belongs in the first ><
Also the reason you don't see what kind of game has the worst story, worst game play, worst graphics etc. etc. is because there are allot of games who just don't care about those kinds of things. Pretty much the same reason we have a world record book for who is the best at some things but not a book for who is the worst.

P.S. those who say the final fantasy games had bad stories, try actually paying attention they kind of require that... Actually Final fantasy XII and XIII where a bit TO hard to understand so I agree with you there.

 

[MasterChief892039]

Tetris.

I mean, it's like they weren't even trying.