Which game has the best story, ever?

I really tried to get into the Metal Gear Solid series, but the excrutionatingly long cut-scenes and reptitive game play sort of put me off. I played four hours of the first one. I may get into again, because it could very well be good. I got to the part where you have to fight Physco Mantis.

Anyway, I really like God of War 1's story. God of War 2 was the overall better game, but God of War 1 just had a very interesting story with a decent amount of plot twists, and it was good.

No More Heroes because... it's Suda 51 and he's godly? Is that enough for you?

All the Paper Mario games. I think I liked the second ones story the best because it wasn't as cliched as the third one, but they all had good stories with humorous dialogue.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. Say what you will, but I really felt connected to these characters, and I loved how the story was told through many different perspectives in Radiant Dawn. These games are both so great. After I am done with The Orange Box, I am going to replay both. I mean, each character had their own unique personality, and I thought there was much more to the story than just "save the world."

BioShock... Yes, the game play was rather shallow, and almost everything else about it was disappointing, but I felt that the plot twist near the end of the game was just jaw-droppingly awesome. Like, wow, I didn't notice that before. The ending, on the other hand, sucked.

Jak 2 and Jak 3 both told stories of corruption in a city, and thought it was very interesting. I haven't played these games in a long time, so I don't remember them too well.

Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon, unfortunately, don't have many games to write home about. Nintendo is more focused on delivering amazing game play. And they do just that.

Off the top of my head:

• Deus Ex
• Grim Fandango
• KotOR
• Max Payne
• Metal Gear Solid series
  
• Planescape Torment
• Fallout 1 & 2
• WarCraft III
• StarCraft
  

ohh So MGS series is repetitive ?????

your topic is about best story and MGS is repetitive ?????????

well anyone has the right to express his/her personal opinio so i respect that, but which game is not repetitive ??

FPS - you shoot and shoot over and over again in different areas.

Platform - jump, run. collect, jump run collect in different levels

Racing - well you race in different circuits

Action - you run, shoot,kill, jump, solve puzzle and do that over and over again..

Arent all games in a way repetitive?? i think so but still they are good and mostly give you a good time... but please please please, if you want the best stories ever look no further than MGS and the Final Fantasy games.... these are great story-telling games...

ohh So MGS series is repetitive ?????

your topic is about best story and MGS is repetitive ?????????

well anyone has the right to express his/her personal opinio so i respect that, but which game is not repetitive ??

FPS - you shoot and shoot over and over again in different areas.

Platform - jump, run. collect, jump run collect in different levels

Racing - well you race in different circuits

Action - you run, shoot,kill, jump, solve puzzle and do that over and over again..

Arent all games in a way repetitive?? i think so but still they are good and mostly give you a good time... but please please please, if you want the best stories ever look no further than MGS and the Final Fantasy games.... these are great story-telling games...

Malta_1980

You know those four examples you just gave me? Well, they aren't all like that. Half-Life 2 has puzzles that actually mix it up a bit, and it's not like you FEAR, where you just hide every now and then, then pop out and shoot anything that has legs. There's much more to it, but since we aren't discussing game play aspects, I won't get into it.

I can't stand the MGS stories...and the dialog and voice acting in those games are laughably bad.

Best story I have seen in a game is prolly shadow of the colossus.

• Kingdom Hearts Series
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Halo Series (Probebly will get flamed for this...)
• Lost Odyssey
• Mass Effect

BTW: Bioshocks story was a joke. (Probebly will get flamed for this as well...)

Anything metal gear related, conkers bad fur day for n64....and some people say mass effect is good.

)edit-Oh and nmh has a good story but I dont like the overall game.

• Homeworld (Seriously, more people should play it!)
• Mass Effect
• Half-Life (Well it's not so much the story itself, but the amazing way in which it's told. Plus, i love the mystery behind it all)

KOTOR!It truly makes you feel like I you are the main character. Because of the light or dark story lines you can choose from. Great plot twist too.

Also,Eternal Darkness for the multiple connecting story lines through out time.

Lets see out of the hundreds of games I've played thus far?

Mass Effect

It was so great it actually felt like I was apart of the story... really sucked me in to be honest.

Maybe Halflife for me, Gordon Freeman is my favourite video game mute.

FF6, Max Payne.

I didn't like Path of Radiance much, all the talk between battles most of it was just lordy exchages of pleasantries.

• Homeworld (Seriously, more people should play it!)

Doom_HellKnight

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!

Oh and I would add the entire Max Payne series to that. As well as System Shock 2.

Deus Ex

Thief

Max Payne

Advent Rising

Possibly Metal Gear

Final Fantasy (Take you pick : FFIV, FFVI, FF7-FF10, FF12)

Chrono Trigger/Cross

Metal Gears

FF6/7/10

Deus Ex

Half lifes

Fallouts

Zelda: MM

Kotor

Final Fantasy series. Most of them have great stories that bind you with the characters.Supafly1

yeah but its all just over sentimental japanese mush

I'll start by saying I don't play PC games anymore, ok, now I'll list:

- Final Fantasy VII
- Any of the MGS games
- Grim Fandango
- Tales of Symphonia

FF7 and Chrono Trigger.Ragnarok1051

Yup

Metal Gear Solid SAGA!

Those who want to play MGS1 but can't stand the graphics but want to know more about the story you can buy the newly released first ever official MGS novel here:

1st MGS Novel

REVIEWS about the BOOK are AWESOME!

[QUOTE="Supafly1"]Final Fantasy series. Most of them have great stories that bind you with the characters.doobie1975

yeah but its all just over sentimental japanese mush

That's a nice stereotype.

It's not true, and I'm sure it makes it easier to ignore the games.

MGS

Grim fandango

halo 2

half-life.

• Planscape Torment
• The Last Express

The latter is a superb example of interactive fiction which is severely underrated.

Metal Gear Solid series

Bioshock

Halo....yes, i said Halo

Shenmue (half finished story)

FFX

Resident Evil series

MGS, in general

Persona 3 FES comes first to me, it's the only story that really made me feel, so sentimental.

Also Okami had a fantastic story, the ending was kind of complicated but the story keeps you coming back for more.

Metal Gear

KoTOR

Final Fantasy

Half Life

Bioshock

Portal(no story as such, but backstory, voice acting and overall atmosphere are unmatched)

Halflife (very subtle presentation)

GTA IV(Love the depth the characters have)

Metal Gear Solid's story is perhaps the only one I can say I like. Or, perhaps not the story, but the messages and dialogue that are in it.

Maybe story gets a little too much emphasis. I believe the world you explore makes a much bigger difference than the story that it follows.

A great world to explore, for games, gets a story across better than a script does.

The world and it's inhabitants. That's what a great story for a game is.

Music is another big part of it too.

Such as Final Fantasy XII. I mean, the story itself was pretty good, I suppose. But the world you explored and the characters in it were just amazing. Never in that game did I feel compelled to get on with the story, but rather I wanted to do all the sidequests, talk to all the NPCs and explore the world.

Really, I think a story is the core of non-interactive media. But for games, it's just what ties everything together.

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