Your top 5 story/character driven games that have technologically or artistic graphics to boot

1. Jade Empire
2. Mass Effect trilogy (yes even 3)
3. The Witcher 3
4. Oblivion
5. Conker Live and Reloaded

GTA San Andreas as honorable mention

1 horizon zero dawn 2 skyrim 3 shenmue 4 redemption 5 the witcher 3

Story driven?

1. Deus Ex 1
2. System Shock 2
3. Mafia 1
4. Max Payne 1
5. Metro 2033/last light

Halo 1

Halo 2

Halo 3

Halo 4

Halo 5

Easy peasy lemon squeezy :P

Full Throttle

Bioshock

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Grim Fandango

Uncharted 3

Alundra

Shenmue

Metal Gear Solid 2

Steins Gate

The Witcher 2

1. Uncharted series (2nd is best)
2. Resident Evil 0-6 (Remake is best)
3. Tomb Raider (2013 reboot)
4. The Last of Us
5. Zelda series (TP is best)

I dig it!

For me:

1. Last of Us

2. Enslaved

3. RDR

4. Uncharted Series

5. Horizon (I'm only a few hours into it, but this story is much more interesting than I imagined it would be)

;) I'm feeling ill today and it's not getting better so my list was a real lazy offering and if I'd felt like putting more effort in, it would look different. One on your list would certainly make my list... RDR!! :D

1. Panzer Dragoon Saga
2. Shenmue
3. Yakuza 0
4. The Witcher III
5. KOTOR

Hope you're feeling better by now. And yes, RDR was great.

For me:

1.Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2(Very great draw distance )

2.Metroid Prime 1

3.Star Wars TFU(That Darth Vader character model still amazes me)

4.Alien Isolation(Feels completely similar to the first movie)

5.Matrix Path of Neo looks to have an artistic graphics on PS2.(Have to play it though)

Lol Deus Ex is the ugliest game I have ever seen.(Every male character is short and fat) Faces also look so hideous.

its a 20 year old game.

1. The Witcher 3

2. Shenmue

3. The Uncharted Series

4. Horizon Zero Dawn

5. Red Dead Redemption

Edit: Swapped out Persona 3 for RDR. Forgot about the graphics part

@ghosts4ever: And? Plenty of 20 year old games still look good and hold up, any other excuses?

It looked ugly compare to the games at it's time.

And Shenmue 1 on dreamcast(An open world game in 1999) looked much better.

no 20 year old game has depth that Deus Ex had.

@ghosts4ever: Lol, keep telling yourself that.

Metal Gear Solid

Uncharted

Dues Ex

God of war

Final Fantasy 7

He has no reason not to.

Uh.

As far as a story-driven with graphics go Phantasy Star, with it's huge world of multi-planet, vehicles, 3D dungeons and animated enemies, strong female protagonist who doesn't dress like a dirty slut, undoubtedly a colossal title for an 8-bit RPG. Doubt anything even came close to it. Even it's sequels don't really match the scope, nor do they have the 3D dungeons (to save space).

1. Halo series (5 was weak in this regard)

2. The Witcher series, yes all 3. I got a gaming PC so I could play them all on PC with my save files carried over. I love3d every minute of it.

3. Mass Effect series

4. Jade Empire

5. MGS/GoW 1-3. I loved Kratos' quest for bringing down the house!!