Which game has the WORST story

[Wondermint13]

If the more recent Halo games didnt try so hard to be all poetic and cinematic with its trailers and extra content I wouldnt pick on its story right now. But I did Try to be more than a fun shooter and failed miserably, writing in such transparent chacters in the hope that pasting a skull or something on their helmet would make them come across as deep or badass.
The story was Lame, If it could admit to just being a crappy emotionless shooter like the rest of em, I'd leave it alone! x

 

[The Night Shade]

Castlevania dawn of sorrow,Dracula's castle apears in Japan from a solar eclipse

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

Much as I am a halo fan, I gotta say that Halo 3 was a huge turd as far as the campaign is concerned.

Beyond that... yea, borderlands was exceptionally bad.

 

[bullman422]

Grandia 3

For about 1/5 of the way through the story started off very promising about a teen (Yuki) who wants to fly. But as things progressed and two interesting adult characters left for good, things went horribly wrong. The replacement characters suffered from being either horribly underdeveloped and/or bland and other notable characters started showing up and then just disappearing without ever a proper wrap up at an alarming rate. Even worse the story never even bothered to explain important things like maybe why the main baddie wanted to destroy mankind in the first place. So if you even bother to finish the game in hopes of a decent wrap up, you will be very disappointed.




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After leaving all those loose ends open all you got was a long boring scene of the defeated baddie going up in the heavens while his good sister (Alfina) cried and cried while other team members consoled her. Then cut to a scene a few years later with Yuki and his Wife (Alfina again) now with a little boy who (surprise! surprise!!) wants to fly. THE END!? Wasn't that fucking amazing?? It is like they gave up and said to hell with it since most people will be paying attention to the semi-decent battle system anyway. How Pathetic.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I have to say Half-Life 1.

"Okay so shit just hit the fan, so let's survive."

"Wait, you want me to flood a room full of flames to get rid of this tentacle beast?"

"Now you want me to set off another missle to interfere with the alien teleporter thingies?"

"Now I have to go to their world... WHY? And what do I do or find there?"

 

[The King of Rock and Roll]

I'd say Far Cry 2, but oh wait, there wasn't one.

 

[Xenomorph42Q]

White Knight Chronicles.

It's a flawless marriage of terrible story and atrocious gameplay. After creating a character with a creator more detailed than Dragon Age, Fallout and Mass Effect, said character DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A USEFUL ROLE IN THE STORY, FFS, YOU DON'T EVEN CONTROL THEM BY DEFAULT.

Instead we're expected to sympathize with the main character who is "in love" with the princess because, I shit you not, SHE TRIED TO CATCH A BUTTERFLY THAT LANDED ON HIS HEAD WHEN THEY WERE BOTH 5 YEAR OLDS.

But that's not the best part! The princess hasn't spoken a word in 11 years because her mother was murdered in front of her, okay that's understandable, but then when HER HOME IS ATTACKED AND HER FATHER IS KILLED IN FRONT OF HER, SHE HAS NO PROBLEMS SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE SHE'S NEVER MET BEFORE IN HER LIFE?

Let's not forget how every pre-teen/teenager is TIRED OF THIS BORING LIFE WHERE THEY'RE UNAPPRECIATED, AND SEEKS ADVENTURE.

The crowning moment of "Are you goddamn kidding me?" was when the protagonist, generic childhood friend and useless player character are asked to escort a wagon carrying several casks of wine and a 20 FOOT TALL TROLL/OGRE/GIANT attacks because it smelled the wine and wants it. And what do they do? Forget the wine and run like anyone with common sense would do? NOPE, THEY DECIDE THEY NEED TO FIGHT IT AND PROTECT THE WINE. YOU ARE A BUNCH OF CHILDREN THAT CAN BARELY FIGHT, ARE YOU RETARDED?

 

[putowtin]

Mafia II

Spoiler

At the begining you rob a shop because your mate thinks it'll be easy, you get caught and end up in world war II, you come home and start working with the same friend for the worst gangsters ever, you get caught on a job and end up in prison this time. You get out and guess what start working with your friend again for another bunch of toss@rs, why does your character never turn around to this so called friend and say "NO!"

 

[Defense]

I'm tempted to say FFXIII but I didn't see it all the way through
couldn't take anymore of it... :/ I really did try to like it

Believe it or not, the story actually fell apart at the end. It was pretty interesting and above average until then, and you didn't have to read the datalogs if you knew what the shitty lingo meant.

yeah? you think so? haha idk
maybe if the characters had been more likable (some say they grow on you, maybe)
but I also think I simply didn't like the setting (very flashy) as opposed to the more grungy or darker settings of some previous FF games

Well, the setting and characters aren't necessarily the story.

And for most people, the characters became significantly better after they each received their eidolons. Even Hope, believe it or not.

 

[Beautiful End]

I know no one has mentioned this one: Musashi Samurai Legend for the Ps2. I don't blame people for not playing it/liking it. I bought it with high expectations. Nice graphics, somehow interesting battle system, yada yada. But then the plot ruins it all! Basically, there's 5 or 6 (I forget) princesses and they all get kidnapped throughout the story (You'd think after the first or second one is kidnapped, they would try and do something about it to prevent the others from being kidnapped too!) and you gotta rescue them the exact same way. That is, carry them, sacrifice your fighting abilities and run like hell across the level. The story tries to hint a small romantic relationship between Musashi and the main princess and it looks promising towards the end, but *SPOILERS* at the end, Musashi decides to call it a day, gather whatever it is he learned from his adventure, ditch everyone and go back to his era. Oh, did I mention he time traveled?
Yep, I still can't get over the disappointment. Hell, I finished the game years ago!

 

[superbatranger]

Just Cause 2.

Government-Rico, you must stop the dictator of Panau.
Rico-How?
Gov't-Blow everything up.

 

[Katana314]

Cave Story.

Yes, you indie-lovers heard me right.

I can tolerate a game with a throwaway story that I'm not supposed to care about. Gears of War? Fine by me. What I hate is being railroaded down a path I simply don't like, being forced to kill former friends and "accidentally" dooming everyone around me despite knowing full well what's coming. The game was needlessly depressing, and kept carving me out as the villain, and I just couldn't tolerate it.

 

[an874]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Really stretches canon to its breaking point, uninteresting characters and poor writing, on top of the fact that its a sequel to a game which had a self contained story for which no was really screaming for a sequel.

 

[FalloutJack]

Hi. I'd like to put in a vote for Final Fantasy 8. And anyone asking for an explanation can just start prepping for a wall of text right now.

 

[smeghead25]

I love how everyone here is choosing high profile games like Halo and CoD even though they are fantastic games compared to pretty much every other game that would be considered average. I mean seriously, would you rather play Halo or Fracture?

I'm gonna say either Stormrise or Universe At War or Eat Lead. This is out of the games I've played, I'm sure I'd hate Leisure Suit Larry more. Stormrise I think I could get into if the controls weren't shot to hell and all shitty from being kept up Satan's arse. And Universe At War is apparently good on PC. So annoyingly, I'm gonna have to say that so far, Eat Lead is the worst I've played so far.

If I WAS gonna pick out of high profile games, I'd say either Civ 5 or Killzone 2. civ 5 because I just can't get into it, and turn-based games are NOT my thing. I'm sure it's great, just not to me. And Killzone 2 while absolutely amazing, really manages to piss me off more than Gears of War in the AI department.

 

[Zanaxal]

Well its a close call, i don't usually play games for stories, i'd rather read a book or watch some tv for that.

But it's hard to choose between MGS 4, fallout 3, Two Worlds, Command and Conquer 3 and anything after in that franchise.

Mgs 4 because its insane. Lets see the plot travels around in 4 continents? And has a serious stupid sideline with some Drebin idiot that obviously has some teleportation and super powerful tracking device.

Fallout 3? DAD DAD DAD, then dad dies. They want to make water for a population of 999999999 super mutants. Garbage

Two Worlds. Just no.

CnC? Aliens that eat tiberium etc etc. Gdi getting caught with the defenses down idd sure. Horrible real life acting in it. Unless you enjoy extreme overacting. Lieutenants, Majors halfnaked, looking like some supermodels that never seen a obstacle course in their entire life. YA SHUR promote then to Generals Hurr durr, no wonder why the gdi failed so hard at defense.......

 

[EHKOS]

I would say Postal 2 but dammit if it didn't work.