Video Games with the worst story.

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#1 sundayismyDAD
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I find the stories in Pong and Tetris to be among the worst stories in any video game. And Don't get me started on Frogger and Galaga.

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#2 XaosII
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Those games you mentioned have no story to criticise. That belongs to Bad Dudes for the NES.

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Or is it the greatest story in video game ever?

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Animal Crossing I want to get away from reality in my games. Animal Crossing just reminds me that I will always be paying everybody money for everything.
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#4 PetJel
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FIFA 2013 has a pretty bad story.
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inb4 MGS4 hatemail
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#6 sundayismyDAD
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inb4 MGS4 hatemailBlack_Knight_00
I was going to make a poll and place only good story games but I decided to save the poll for something else.
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Batman Arkham City undoubtedly contains one of the most botched video game stories in recent memory.
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Batman Arkham City undoubtedly contains one of the most botched video game stories in recent memory.InsipidGameHate
It felt like a mashup of as many cameos as we could shove into a game :P But it was shameless fun
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#9 wiouds
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Spec Ops: The Line - It is so heavy handed whith their "Deep ideal". Also boring characters, and boring dialog.

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#10 turtlethetaffer
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Probably something like Just Cause 2. It's so hilariously poorly done you can't help but love it.

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#11 lensflare15
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Tekken 6 had a very boring story mode.

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#12 capaho
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Probably something like Just Cause 2. It's so hilariously poorly done you can't help but love it.

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Just Cause 2 had a story? The abundant mayhem was fun, but I'd say the missions had more of a briefing than a story.
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#13 speedfreak48t5p
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Pokemon. You have to train monsters, fight other little monsters, and earn badges to prove your superiority.

Terrible. :P

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#14 turtlethetaffer
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[QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Probably something like Just Cause 2. It's so hilariously poorly done you can't help but love it.

capaho

Just Cause 2 had a story? The abundant mayhem was fun, but I'd say the missions had more of a briefing than a story.

Yeah the story was "Take down racial stereotypes while listening to Sheldon."

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Hour of Victory, a WW2 FPS.

The main cast consists of three soldiers hand-picked from various units for the purpose of sabotaging a German secret weapons programme. Initially taking place in North Africa, the game suddenly jumps straight to the Battle of Berlin. It's obvious that no real thought was put into the story, given how completely nonsensical and seemingly random it is. Unless of course the developers genuinely believed that the Soviets were in Berlin while Rommel was still in North Africa... :P

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Probably just about any fighting game with a story.

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#17 Grovilis
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Uh, Red Faction Guerrilla, maybe?

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#18 SaudiFury
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Spec Ops: The Line - It is so heavy handed whith their "Deep ideal". Also boring characters, and boring dialog.

wiouds
could not disagree stronger. it was a refreshing spin on the military shooter. in an infinite sea of shooters where the only thing your hearing is how awesome you are, and "GO Go GO!" talk going on. the macho talk in The Line, but it's put on it's head. hell i couldn't stop playing it, i managed to platinum the game. one of my favorite shooters of the year. The other is Black Ops 2. but for very different reasons.
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Kingdom Hearts.

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Bad Company 2 or Brink.

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The entire CoD series.

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#22 MudoSkills
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To agree with a few things people already said in this thread, I found the story in Kingdom Hearts muddled/borderline incomprehensible, and putting story in fighting games rarely works well. I'm playing a lot of Dead or Alive 5 at the moment and for a series primarily known for boob physics the characters have incredibly convoluted stories. Mortal Kombat also springs to mind as a fighting series whose story has eaten itself several times over in various iterations.
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WKC 1 & 2.

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Hoho, Mass Effect 3, of course!

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#26 sukraj
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Rage

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The entire Sonic series.

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#28 capaho
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Yeah the story was "Take down racial stereotypes while listening to Sheldon."

turtlethetaffer

It looked to me like the fictional island nation was modeled after the Philipines when it was under the thumb of Ferdinand Marcos. What aspects of the story did you find to be racist?

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#29 capaho
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Rage

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I liked Rage but the story was pretty thin.
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#30 Jackc8
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Motorstorm Apocalypse. Why they even stuck that stupid stuff in there is beyond me.

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#31 IC3_C0LD_ZERO
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Oblivion's story was cliche and predictable... fortunately Skyrim fixed this. I also didn't like the story in Kingdoms of Amalur despite the ridiculously deep lore they created for it

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#32 ShadowMoses900
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Killzone and Gears both have stupid stories, just a bunch of military grunt stereotype propaganda.

FF13 had a really boring story I couldn't get into.

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#33 SaudiFury
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Killzone and Gears both have stupid stories, just a bunch of military grunt stereotype propaganda.

FF13 had a really boring story I couldn't get into.

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Gears i cared more. but i agree with Killzone and Final Fantasy. it's weird that i've played Killzone 2 and 3, i hated 2, and i bought three because of this amazing trailer. that trailer makes it look like there is so much damn potential for a great shooter story. and it falls flat in almost every way.....

and as far as Killzone guys, i still view it as two bad guys duking it out.

and my friends and i would laugh at KZ3 story. main characters refer to these other new ISA members like the lady (i forget her name - liked her character design though) and one other guy as though we should know these people. and we would just laugh "don't worry! Bowen will save us! we don't know who is but damn he said he would, and he sounds like he's important!"

FF13 i just didn't care, too much mythology to digest that required its reading and understanding in the very lengthy codex's, not enough showing it to you through story progression. In the end i just didn't care.

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#34 lumbergoose
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Vanquish. It deserves an award for best game play with worst story.
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#35 Venom_Raptor
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  • Just Cause 2 - Great game but terrible characters and story.
  • Haze - Annoying characters and ultimately poor script ruin a cool premise.
  • Borderlands - A terrible ending capped off a lifeless story with no real character interaction.
  • Timeshift - Never felt connected to what was happening, overall not bad, just boring.
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Batman Arkham City undoubtedly contains one of the most botched video game stories in recent memory.InsipidGameHate

better story than Asylum. City actually highlighted the big morale decisions that Batman makes and defined him as such a great character over the years. Asylum was just stop Joker from making a monster army. Very Saturday morning type plot in that one.

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#37 Oozyrat
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[QUOTE="capaho"][QUOTE="turtlethetaffer"]

Probably something like Just Cause 2. It's so hilariously poorly done you can't help but love it.

turtlethetaffer

Just Cause 2 had a story? The abundant mayhem was fun, but I'd say the missions had more of a briefing than a story.

Yeah the story was "Take down racial stereotypes while listening to Sheldon."

"Sloth Demon herreeee"

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#38 Daizengar
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I could just say any modern military shooter these days, but that's just too easy.

The first Borderlands game was very dull and difficult to get into unless you had friends. Even then, I got bored of the story easily.

Dragon Age 2 had a fairly boring story, as well. It was somewhat predictiable with characters that weren't very interesting. Probably the worst, or one of the worst, games by Bioware.

While I enjoyed Gears 3, and still do, I found its story to be lackluster. It felt rushed, and was far too easy to forget about it.

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Unreal tournament....still dont know what its about
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#40 Elutheria
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Rage had a spectacularly bad final act and ending, pity as there was about 75% of a good game in there. Also ME3 deserves a mention for screwing up the ending to one of the best stories in gaming to such an extent it not only ruined the game but tarnished the whole series.
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^Also, what was that JRPG where you played a whiney androgynous teen that discovered he had great power and went on a quest to save the world with a wishy washy magic chick, a cool tough guy, a squeaky little girl, a big strong guy and a weird little cartoon character? Oh yeah, it was all of them.
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^Also, what was that JRPG where you played a whiney androgynous teen that discovered he had great power and went on a quest to save the world with a wishy washy magic chick, a cool tough guy, a squeaky little girl, a big strong guy and a weird little cartoon character? Oh yeah, it was all of them.Elutheria
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