Whats the best storyline in a game that youve played or heard about?

Zelda - duh

World of Goo

Zelda or most of the final fantasy games.

Pong.

It's all about the plot twists.

gta

I liked Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy's are great too

Chrono Trigger
Flashback
Another World
Baldur's Gate .. sorta.
Fallout

And some others I cant think of right now.

FarCry 2

Leisure suit Larry

Not that I ever finished it, but Planescape Torment's story is just f***ing great.

Lesuire Suit Larry

1. Deus Ex 1
2. Grim Fandango
3. KOTOR1/2
4. Any Final Fantasy before 8
5. Any blizzard game for backstory
6. Fallout 1/2/3
7. Planescape Torment
8. Chrono Cross/Trigger

And all the rest of the lucasarts / black isle / origin fit in there somewhere

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mass effect moved me.

quake

i didn't know quake had a story line?

Deus Ex and Half Life

Deus Ex

Return to Castle Wolfenstein kinda had me going with the cyborgs and s***.

Zelda
StarCraft
Mass Effect

Baldur's Gate .. sorta.

The story was very predictable, but the characters and voice acting were so well done for a game of its vintasge you didn't notice really. Definetly worth a mention!

Secret of Mana
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
Wing Commander IV
Under a Killing Moon

I'd like to include Sam and Max or Day of the Tentacle but nah. Twilight Princess isn't too bad, I guess, dunno about best though.

Notice how everything I've listed is at least 10 years old? :/

Its just a shame that deus ex 2 was so crappy in comparison

Mass Effect - great game, only issue with it I have is that its split up into a series, they really could have gone that extra step.

Chrono Cross - before disc 2 it was brilliant
Secret of Mana
Kana: Little Sister - only game thats ever made me cry
Max Payne 1 & 2 - pretty decent storyline I though

Wing Commander IV

I'd say WC3 was heaps better than 4, more very dodgy cat suits and a porn star. 1 and 2 had better gameplay though, and all of it is pretty much dwarfed by freelancer.

DEUS EX

Quoted for the MOTHERf***ING TRUTH!

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Grim Fandango

sw:kotor 1+2
morrowind (if you can pay attention long enough)
crysis
cod 4
jedi knight 1+2

Avencast

Kana: Little Sister - only game thats ever made me cry

Kana: Little Sister focuses on storytelling, and falls into the subgenre of anime revolving around incestuous relationships.

what the f*** dm

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conkers bad fur day imho

BioShock

what the f*** dm

I only said the story was good, which it is. As for everything else... yeah well it is rather messed up. However if it makes you feel less creeped out they aren't really related.

who cares if they were, as long as she was hot

quake 3.

Space invaders

f3

1. Deus Ex
2. Thief I, II, III

as if Zelda, geez. Play some more games will ya


Conquests of the Longbow/Camelot
Heroes Quest 1 2 3
Police/Space/Kings Quest
Laura Bow 1/2
Day of the Tentacle
Maniac Mansion
Jedi Knight
Kotor
Fallout 3
Beneath a Steel Sky
Deus X
Max Payne
World War 2 themed stories based on real life
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Leisure Suit Larry
Manhunter Sanfransico
Wing Commander
Xwing/tie fighter
heaps of others....


sif zelda pfft
And so many others I can't think of right now....

space quest 2 was also quite good.

Streets of Rage

Duke Nukem: Nobody Steals Our Chicks...AND LIVES !

privateer 2

quake

I still play the single player game of that sometimes and late at night I still get goosebumps, quake had the best amosphere.

deus ex
lost odyssey
kotor

quake had the best amosphere

^

Dues Ex

The Witcher was pretty good storyline wise the game was a bit meh ...

Dead Or Alive

Portal, was pretty straight forward story wise but was very well written.

Gabriel knight 1 and 3
The other game with that chick that there is 2 of.. journey something
System Shock 2
Bioshock

oh.. that vampire clicky one

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Thief I, II, III

yep - fo sure. it'd be nice to see T1 and T2 remade using a modern engine. I'd buy them again :)

I'd also vote for most oldskool adventure games.. the Monkey Island series stood out the most from memory

Is that the DeathStar in ur Dark Side of the Moon Avatar ?
Post the fullsize pic ?

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no matter i found it.

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Bioshock. Snatcher. Portal.

The other game with that chick that there is 2 of.. journey something

The longest journey and dreamfall. Good storylines indeed. Sadly enough, a mate of mine has the ringtone of Zoe's phone as his ringtone (ie: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCnvLgypJw), so fkn annoying

By the way, the third one is coming soon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamfall_Chapters

Space Quest 2

Awesome, except for the annoying bit with the pink tentacle/plant/maze thing to get the berries. Kind of like the cliffs in KQ3, except without the psycho wizard after you.

zelda on N64 for sure. played majoras mask and ocarina of time so many times. Probably one of the only games i've replayed more than once

Ultima V

The longest journey and dreamfall.

Completely forgot about those. That game had a pretty sweet story.

Zelda. Actually just finished playing Ocarina of Time again yesterday, probably the first time I've played it in 10 years but couldn't resist now that I can play it through component cables on the Wii in widescreen. Fighting Ganon at the end of that game just looks so cinematically awesome.

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Awesome, except for the annoying bit with the pink tentacle/plant/maze thing to get the berries. Kind of like the cliffs in KQ3, except without the psycho wizard after you.

ROFL, yer the fkn berries.

I remember having so much trouble with the cliff in KQ3 and getting the berries when I was a wee kid. I went back to play the game a little while ago, it was sooo easy. I must have been an unco child.

O and anyone remember this:

: Put Gem In Mouth

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/SpaceQuest/Images/SS-47.gif

boiling point

No one lives forever 2: spy in h.a.r.m.'s way. Btw, was this game the inspiration for the visuals of TF2?

Yeah, now that I think about it, Space Quest 2 was pretty cool.

> Throw rubix cube to creature

the matrix......

I wish I had of played Deus Ex.

duke nukem fo sho

FULL THROTTLE

No one lives forever 2: spy in h.a.r.m.'s way. Btw, was this game the inspiration for the visuals of TF2?

haha ya know it was :P

I actually loved the backing story for the original Wing Commander. I know a few people have mentioned some of the later games which had much better developed stories, but I remember I used to read the WC manual over and over because it had such a great backing story/universe about it. A lot of those old Origin games had cool manuals with awesome universes.

Sweet I just found it here!

Yeah. Claw Marks had tons of backstory.

Sadly some jerks who claim to be professional writers tried to then go and write novels based on the WC universe which were as painful to read as most Fanfics, and had enough fetish fans buy them that the wcnews guys actually jumped onto the 'these=good' bandwagon :(

Prophecy had a ton of story stuff going on too regarding the Nephelim, even though they were trying to get back into gameplay not story.

Seriously though, how can you go past WC4?
- Tolwyns Black Lance blow up Confed ships with FlashPacks claiming to be Border Worlds
- Decorated captain and pilot switch to Border Worlds to help
- Border Worlds discover hidden massive starbase, steal Black Lance fighters
- Black Lance test Gen-Select Bioweapon on Telamon.
- Tolwyn brings out supercarrier Vesuvius to smash Border Worlds stuff.
- Stuff happens
- Creepiest end scene of a movie ever.

Quake 2

in reality
Baldurs gate*
FF

Dragon Age looks like it might.

Super Mario Brothers
Dr. Mario

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Also going to say Grim Fandango, no game has ever come close to the awesome feeling I had finishing it.

warcraft hands down

there are even dragons!

Counter Strike

Monkey Island 3.

Bioshock was a good game, but I honestly wouldn't rate the storyline. Similar to Zelda - the storyline is crap, but the game is still good.

Half Life / Half Life 2
Fallout 3

riddick :p

FEAR. very interesting and scary as hell

Tetris. Though the book was better than the movie.

Tetris. Though the book was better than the movie.

The remake of the movie in 2003 was a lot better than the John Wayne version. Have a look on IMDB.

FFX was pretty epic. Dudes dad killing every mofo in site and sucking them up with his colossal sized butthole. Now that's a story.

Deus Ex.

duke nukem 3d

FFX was pretty epic. Dudes dad killing every mofo in site and sucking them up with his colossal sized butthole. Now that's a story.

Does this really happen? because thats awesome.

Does this really happen? because thats awesome

Not in those exact words but more or less, yes, that is the gist of it

wizardry - crusaders of the dark savant
wizardry 8

deus ex

NOLF2 had an awesome story and really well done into the gameplay. That game really sucked you into the spy thing. And it went for ages too. Not mention the character animation was far ahead of it's time (I think they used mocap). Very well done

Does this really happen? because thats awesome

I may have embellished a little. Started giving it a play through again though, and I'd forgotten how much of a whiny bitch Tidus is.

The storyline in System Shock 2 wasn't bad at all.

Even more immersive when you installed the third party texture pack and eased up the settings where your guns would break every five minutes. Seriously, were the weapons made of balsa wood and styrofoam!?

i played The Operative: No One Lives Forever but not number 2

was 2 better then 1?

Ultima 7

I may have embellished a little. Started giving it a play through again though, and I'd forgotten how much of a whiny bitch Tidus is.

Yeah, biggest complaint was the amount of whine from most of the ffx characters, although Auron and lulu made it worthwhile.

I never played NOLF1 but NOLF2 was great.

Ultima 7

Is this a joke?

ZORK

Alone in the dark 1 & 2 (original PC ver)

Hexen/Heretic great stories

Monkey Island

Strike Commander

Freespace2

Descent

Freelancer was cool.

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Max Payne and Max Payne 2 just completed both over the last few days, good storyline but to much shooting more cutscenes and storyline would have been good.

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NO

was 2 better then 1?

Imo, No.

NOLF 1 is one of my all time favourite games. The different voice actors/story just didn't do it for me in NOLF2. Got rid of cool elements like santas workshop etc.

I'd love to see a nolf 3 but.

No mention of Xenogears? I suppose it didn't actually ever get released in PAL format, so maybe a lot of people didn't play it.

I also loved Xenosaga. Awesome if you're cool with putting the controller down and watched for over an hour at a time instead of playing.

It should win longest and most confusing story, if nothing else, but it was also really sad, and kind of thought provoking.

I'd have to say KOTOR still had the best plot twist though, and FF& maybe had the saddest one.

I wish I had played Deus Ex, it's gotten a lot of mention here. I wonder if I have a copy? (has boxes full of games bought on whims and never played.) Too bad my only working PC right now is running linux.

Second Bioshock, KotoR & DeusEx (can't wait for Deus Ex 3 end of this year hopefully)

My gf wants me to say ZUMA as she is now brother of the frog god and tells almost everybody - am training her up with ETQW for TF2 ...

Descent ?

My vote is for the DUKE 3d (atomic)

Planescape Torment

I think Fahrenheit/Indigo prophecy had an awesome story for the first half of the game, worth checking out if you are a fan of adventure games in a modern setting. I think Quantic Dream have the right idea and their next game should be awesome.