Lookin for some games with a great story.

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#1 ThaLootDog
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Well I'm so tired of the pointless shoot em' ups and trash games on my 360 and Wii that I've gotten off my butt to get on this forum and ask you all for some recommendations.

I've played these:
Silent Hill 2
Braid
Persona 3 FES
Beyond Good & Evil
Kingdom Hearts 2
Metal Gear Solid Series
Shadow of the Colossus
Final Fantasy Series
Prince of Persia Series
Eternal Darkness
Paper Mario
Zelda Series
Pikmin
Half-Life Series
Okami
Assassin's Creed
SW:KOTOR
Pyschonauts
Halo 1
Halo 2(jk)
Mass Effect
Bioshock
Earthbound
Chrono Trigger

I generally consider Silent Hill 2, Braid, Persona 3, Metal Gear Solid 3, and SotC as my favorite video game stories for an idea of what I'm into. As you can see the uniqueness of how the story is told is as important as the actual story to me.

I've played all these games that have awesome stories or some consider to have awesome stories (Halooooo). So don't reccomend any of those. I also already know of the awesomeness that is the stories of Deus Ex, Planescape, and Grim Fandango, but have not acquired them yet. Also don't say the japanese one on the dreamcast that never saw its conclusion...don't say it

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#2 Dead-Memories
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Hmm good stories. Some of my favs for gaming are FF IV for its quite interesting range of characters and themes.

The Witcher for touching on such dark themes, nodistinction between good and evil. Those are two of my favs

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#3 PAL360
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You need to play Mass Effect. Oh, its on the list...never mind

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#4 8Tango
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Fallout 3 had quite a good storyline going for it. Oblivion aswell, not so much.. But it was still good,.

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#5 tagyhag
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Well, since you already know about Planescape and the like, I'd recommend: The Longest Journey Fallout 1 & 2 Myst Riven FF VI Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Portal Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max: Hit the Road
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#6 awssk8er716
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Professor Layton and the Curious Village. :)

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#7 Ziek-AAT
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Suikoden 2

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#8 MetroidPrimePwn
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Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Syberia

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#9 VendettaRed07
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Ive never played it, but In every thread about a good story, some one always mentions Planescape tourment as having the best story ever

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  • Yakuza
  • Zone of the Enders 2
  • Tales of the Abyss
  • The Bouncer

That's about all that comes to mind at the moment.

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#11 8Tango
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Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Syberia

MetroidPrimePwn

Ooh yeh Fahrenheit was a good un.

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#12 ceruxx
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Xenogears, Xenosaga, Final Fantasy VIII, Siren, ... probably more

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#13 AAllxxjjnn
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Go play The Witcher.
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#14 Norule04
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Definitely the longest journey, best story in a game right there

oh and avoid fahrenheit, unless you want to be disgusted by the ending.

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#15 8Tango
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

Definitely the longest journey, best story in a game right there

oh and avoid fahrenheit, unless you want to be disgusted by the ending.

Come on, it wasn't THAT bad... Maybe rushed, but it was ok.
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#16 Norule04
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

Definitely the longest journey, best story in a game right there

oh and avoid fahrenheit, unless you want to be disgusted by the ending.

8Tango

Come on, it wasn't THAT bad... Maybe rushed, but it was ok.

no it wasn't that bad.. but the story started out so great and just fell flat flopping like a dying fish. It could have been so much more.

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KOTOR2. It's not as epic as the first game, but in a good way. Kinda like how Philadelphia isn't as epic of a movie as something like ID4, but it's a better movie. I think the story and characters are more interesting.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time has an ending that you probably won't see coming. The story is kinda generic but it ends in a way that most games/movies wouldn't do. The platforming is fun and the story is straight enough that i'd recommend it just to see the ending and to do some of the puzzles.

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#18 8Tango
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

[QUOTE="8Tango"][QUOTE="Norule04"]

Definitely the longest journey, best story in a game right there

oh and avoid fahrenheit, unless you want to be disgusted by the ending.

Come on, it wasn't THAT bad... Maybe rushed, but it was ok.

no it wasn't that bad.. but the story started out so great and just fell flat flopping like a dying fish. It could have been so much more.

Yep, true that. Isn't Heavy Rain by the same makers? If it is hopefully that will give us a good ending =D
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#19 Ragnarok1051
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If you liked Persona 3 then you'll like Persona 4.

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#20 Norule04
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

[QUOTE="8Tango"] Come on, it wasn't THAT bad... Maybe rushed, but it was ok.8Tango

no it wasn't that bad.. but the story started out so great and just fell flat flopping like a dying fish. It could have been so much more.

Yep, true that. Isn't Heavy Rain by the same makers? If it is hopefully that will give us a good ending =D

So far none of the characters exhibit dragonballz tendencies so, I think they learned.

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#21 8Tango
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

[QUOTE="8Tango"][QUOTE="Norule04"]

no it wasn't that bad.. but the story started out so great and just fell flat flopping like a dying fish. It could have been so much more.

Yep, true that. Isn't Heavy Rain by the same makers? If it is hopefully that will give us a good ending =D

So far none of the characters exhibit dragonballz tendencies so, I think they learned.

Ha ha, that was hillarious.. I just screamed out HE CAN FLY?!! Followed by lots of swearing and jeering... Then everything got a little hazy, had to go live in a mental home for a while... But i'm fine now I'M FINE I TELLS YA! *Twitch*
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#22 MetroidPrimePwn
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[QUOTE="8Tango"] Yep, true that. Isn't Heavy Rain by the same makers? If it is hopefully that will give us a good ending =DNorule04

So far none of the characters exhibit dragonballz tendencies so, I think they learned.

Yeah, Heavy Rain seems to have a much more, well, "grounded" story.

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#23 ActicEdge
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I would suggest Vagrant Story.

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#24 Norule04
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

[QUOTE="8Tango"] Yep, true that. Isn't Heavy Rain by the same makers? If it is hopefully that will give us a good ending =D8Tango

So far none of the characters exhibit dragonballz tendencies so, I think they learned.

Ha ha, that was hillarious.. I just screamed out HE CAN FLY?!! Followed by lots of swearing and jeering... Then everything got a little hazy, had to go live in a mental home for a while... But i'm fine now I'M FINE I TELLS YA! *Twitch*

lol you should avoid seeing the dbz movie..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvX0qnSwHQ4&feature=related

oh man that was the cheesiest thing I had ever seen it was soo horrificly bad.

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#25 8Tango
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[QUOTE="Norule04"]

[QUOTE="8Tango"][QUOTE="Norule04"]

So far none of the characters exhibit dragonballz tendencies so, I think they learned.

Ha ha, that was hillarious.. I just screamed out HE CAN FLY?!! Followed by lots of swearing and jeering... Then everything got a little hazy, had to go live in a mental home for a while... But i'm fine now I'M FINE I TELLS YA! *Twitch*

lol you should avoid seeing the dbz movie..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvX0qnSwHQ4&feature=related

oh man that was the cheesiest thing I had ever seen it was soo horrificly bad.

Oh yeah, heard about it... eeek. I very highly doubt the series can survive after that abortion.
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#26 meetroid8
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Second Sight. Its a last gen game that got alot of average reviews but I've always thought that its story was incredible. So if you can track it down its worth a purchase.
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#27 goblaa
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Shadow of the colossus

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#28 halo_wars86
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play god of war 1 and 2

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#29 Blommen
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Get a pc, then we can talk about games with awesome stories;)

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#30 enterawesome
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Lost Odyssey and Eternal Sonata are very good for story, as well as gameplay.
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Phoinex Wright, Dusk Hotel, Monkey Island series, and I can't think of others as of now.
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#32 CaptainHarley
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The Longest Journeytagyhag

win

most video games with good plots are 'good' by game standards. next to much of anything else, they tend to be garbage. dreamfall is different. its legitimately good.

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#33 glez13
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Do you like adventure games?

If so then:

Fahrenheit

Syberia (the sequel is ok too)

The Longest Journey (the sequel is ok too)

Myst Series