Best Story in FPS games?

Which First person shooter you think has best story?

Id go with Original Deus Ex. such an incredible, dark, conspiracy story. amazing from start to finish. HR even thought i like a lot has weak story. other one I think is Half life. A great Story told without cutscene or interrupting any gameplay elements.

Others I think have really good story are Metro games. very well written story with memorable characters. FEAR also has pretty good story too.

anyways what FPS you think have best stories?

Discuss

Bioshock? It fails as a FPS tho.

Ouch, i guess i dont have a favorite story in FPSs. I loved how Half-Life tells its story, without removing you from gameplay. I didnt care for Deus Ex: Human Revolutions story and i felt the ending was kinda cheap. But im very harsh on story games, its rare i find a story i like in a game.

Bioshock. Half-Life. Halo.

Halos of course. :P

Bioshock or Metro

Wouldn't really count Deus Ex as a shooter. I love HR Revolution but the story falls apart at the end.

Halo 3 and Halo Reach probably have the best stories in a shooter. Bioshock Infinite is up there.

Bioshock, Metro, Half-Life, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. One of these would get my vote. It would change depending on my mood though.

Stalker doesnot really have much of story.

I guess it is more of the atmosphere that gives it the tension of there being a story behind the scenes. For some reason, whenever I think of great FPS anything, STALKER pops into my head. I do admit that in a narrative aspect, it is light on a story when compared to the other 3 I listed.

The Darkness

I enjoyed F.E.A.R's story which although wasn't the main feature here, served an interesting experience of oppression and pure struggle through a lens of a tensioned atmosphere that took a significant inspiration from Japanese horror. Its expansion, Extraction Point, Is a direct continuation of the plot and an excellent addition overall. I liked how the story played with your expectations, it was clever.

Unfortunately, the sequels are completely different from the first F.E.A.R and its expansion. The plot in these two is ridiculous, poorly written, and makes no sense. That great, engrossing oppressive atmosphere from the first one is completely gone because they're basically Call of Duty clones.

Halo.

Cryostasis, the darkness, spec ops the line. All 3 excellent story

Bioshock series

• Half Life 2 saga
  
• Halo series
• No One Lives Forever 2 (Funny but enjoyable)
• Deus Ex (RPG/FPS)
• Shadow Warrior Reboot (More than what I expected from a game like that)
• Soldier of Fortune 2 (Didn't play in a long time, but I remember enjoying it back then)
• FEAR (The way it's told is really good)
• Metro: 2033/Last Light
• System Shock 2 (RPG/FPS)
• Thief trilogy (Not FPS but it's First Person,,, and you can shoot arrows)
• Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines (FPS/RPG. Witcher of FPS games. Very dark, mature, gritty, violent and sexual themes)

Half Life 2 saga is best when it comes to "pure" shooters.

I have a special place in my heart for Half-Life 2... I never really experienced anything like running through those apartment bldgs early on. Ending was a let down... but the world is a great one. I really felt like I was part of the resistance.

Lame and uninspired answer, I know.

"Best Story" and "FPS" do not sit well in my mind together. Bioshock is the only thing that comes to mind, but System Shock 2 looks better anyway. Only other decent story driven FPS I'm interested in playing is Brothers in Arms series. But even then it's just a WWII game, so how good could it be. I just hope the characters are believable and well written.

Selecting an FPS with absolutely no RPG elements, Outlaws.

Pretty much a love letter to Sergio Leon, specifically Once Upon A Time In The West.

Interestingly this games cinematic presentation pre-dates the liked of Halflife, Metal Gear Solid and Homeworld. It's Arguably better, albeit relegated to cut-scenes.

Unfortunately nobody actually bought it so it went under the rug relatively unnoticed by the world.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Yep, that's it.

Half-Life

Half-Life 2

Halo

Medal of Honor : AA

DOOM 1&2

COD4:MW before the franchise was milked to death

off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more if i really try to remember.

stalker trilogy and half life 2

Playing through The Darkness II right now (about halfway through I think) and while I'll reserve my judgement of the story until I finish it, the gameplay is a blast. A definite step up from the first. Quad wielding FTW.

My choices, exactly.

Halo, Metro, Call of Duty, BF Bad Company 2.

Can't think of a pure first person shooter that has a particularly standout story to me. There are a lot of great stories in first person games, though, like Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines or Thief the Dark Project. The Darkness games as well, as someone else mentioned, although the first is more of a first person adventure with shooting in it than a pure FPS.

For people saying Metro, I won't lie, I played Last Light and was severely underwhelmed. Maybe I missed something from not playing the first (even though I did some research to understand the story of the first game) but I thought it was confusing and borderline incoherent when it came to who was who. By the end I honestly couldn't tell you who was fighting who and who was in power. IDK.

A lot of people might say Half Life 2 but I'm going to disagree. The way it's told is neat and Alyx is a good character, but the plot and execution is rather bland and a bit too vague for me (seriously, what the hell is up with G man)? The plot mostly involves running form one place to the next, with little in the way of development beyond "help people fight the Combine." Not awful, but severely overrated.

Considering only FPS and not RPGs with first person perspective, for me Bioshock Infinite has the best story. I consider it a pinnacle of linear storytelling.

@pyratrum: The Darkness 2 is a very fun game but it's not as good as the first. However it has a very big advantage. It was released for the PC so it can be played with a mouse and keyboard. The first Darkness is an amazing game and definitely one of the best FPS in terms of story but playing it on a controller was a pain.

@ghosts4ever:

Halo hands down! At least before 343i fucked everything up

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@pug987: I'm actually playing it on PC with a DS4 and I much prefer the controller to mouse & keyboard for The Darkness II. Quad wielding just feels more natural and intuitive on the controller with the bumpers controlling the grab and slash while the triggers control the guns.

The gameplay is way better than one, and I do like the story stuff, except I think the ending is absurd in a way that I don't like. But apparently it's in line with the source material. The Darkness narrative beats are so strong though, The First Time I Died is a fucking classic. It's a god damn clinic on how to tell a story in a game. Plus those loading screens.

I did played darkness 2 not long ago and game absolutely suck. never played first darkness due to not bieng on PC.

Bioshock probably has the best story I think... but I love how Half-Life 2 tells it's story.

Half-life 2 (latest editions)
F.E.A.R. series
Prey
Darkness II
Deus Ex (original)
Shadow Warrior (newest)
Thief (latest editions)
Alien: Isolation
Dishonored
XIII
Far Cry
Delta Force
Max Payne
Wolfenstein (all)
No One Lives Forever

This is my answer.

Doom (2016)'s isn't a good story by story standards, but it established just enough context for the Doomguy to be a total badass. More so than any other video game badass in history.

Bioshock

Half-Life 2

CoD4

Worst story probably goes to BioShock Infinite, just a horrible mess that thought it was a lot more then it actually was.

I see lots of people mentioned Darkness. I've had the second one sitting on Steam for a long time, is it worth playing? Or is only the first one good? Story wise and/or gameplay wise

I enjoyed Bioshock 1's story a lot. Short, clean and with a nice twist. Compared it with Bioshock Infinite, which was a bit too ambitious for my tastes and lost me on a few occasions.

Halo storylines are fun overall, I like the scope and character designs. I love sci fi in general so I enjoyed them overall. Metro games are good too. Shadow Warrior I'm playing through now and I think it's great.

@hrt_rulz01: Which Bioshock story is your favorite? For me even though I enjoyed all 3, the first one will always be my favorite. Tight story with a cool twist, not too convoluted. It was also really cool the first time being introduced to the world and lore. 2 and 3 were great but didn't have as powerful an impact on me as the fist.

Edit: actually 2 was really good too but overall 1 is my favorite still

@arad96: it's a solid game and definitely worth a playthrough but I'd either play the first game first or watch some videos summarizing the story

That why I need glasses to read. I thought it said. Best Sony FPS games. lol

Right, most FPS's just use the "story" a framework to hang the game on.

@Alucard_Prime: Yeah definitely Bioshock 1... one of the best stories in games.

It's quite a lot better than a game that takes itself seriously and tries to sell the player a narrative in a medium not known for quality narratives.

See I don't mind a story driven game when it's really good. But you're right, so many games today are focused on the story or "the experience" and take themselves so seriously when the writing is mediocre at best and awful at worst.

In other words, story heavy games that take themselves seriously have a place when they're really good stories. The problem is that many of the story driven games are not stories worth telling due to their mediocrity.

Another thing that games forget is that you don't need to have traditional storytelling in a game. You can be experimental and weird. Because if you experiment and the story ends up being bad, as long as the gameplay is good, it doesn't end up mattering too much. Take Hotline Miami. It's tough to say if the story is god or not, but it's certainly interesting to piece together due to the trippy atmosphere and weird visuals. Plus the game is held up by a rock solid foundation of its gameplay. So it doesn't really end up mattering if the story is good or not since it's just fun to play.

Another good example of what I'm talking about is Painkiller. That game's cut scenes are weirdly long and involved, all for a story that's honestly pretty stupid and not in a fun way. But it never once takes control away from the player for the sake of the story- in fact, the story and actual gameplay feel almost entirely disconnected. So even though the story in that game is weirdly self serious, it still remembers that it's a game and is supposed to let the player have fun.

TimeSplitter Future Perfect.

Half life 2

Bioshock

Timesplitters future perfect