looking for a good story

I was just thinking of games to buy, and i was looking for some help. The game can be of any style, but must have a good story. examples of good stories, mass effect, fable 2, the force unleashed, and thats all i can think of. bad stories were gears (no real story) cod 4 and halo3 great games, no real story. anybody have any suggestion?

Oblivion,

The Orange Box,

Fallout 3,

Far Cry 2 is pretty good,

Tales of Vesperia is an excellent game with a nice story so far. It's quickly becoming my favorite 360 game.

I have to speak out against Assassin's Creed storyline, it's just a flat out terrible story. The ending just calls it quits and walks out the door (litterally)

Fallout 3, Bioshock, and also Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (The game itself is "meh" but the story is epic) are some good games concerning "story"

Eh, I always thought the Gears storyline was pretty interesting for an action game played mostly by bros...

Its difficult to find a good story in a game these days. I found that the best stories were always the old point and click adventures, like the monkey island games and the broken sword games.

on the 360 the game with the best story i have played is BioShock, by a very long way. most other games tend to focus on the graphics and gamplay, which is fine, because its a game after all not a movie or book, but a good story always makes for a better experience.

Dead Space, Bioshock, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey, and The Darkness. All have great stories.

My favourite are as follow in order:

1) The Darkness, The story of the main character in this game can be quite touching at some point and it's a pretty "dark" but meaningful story.

2) Lost Odyssey, You meet different characters who have a certain link of relationship to each other and there are lot of interesting twists in the plot. It will chew up a good amount of your time

3) Tales of Vesperia, if you don't mind the kinda strange conversation cutscene (not the skit) then you may find the story quite interesting to playthrough or once.

Lost Odyssey is a great game in every respect and has a really, really good story. Kaim, the main character is excellent.

Silent Hill Homecoming

Mass Effect

Lost Oddysey

Eternal Sonata

well its not on the 360 (hopefully it will soon tho) but any MGS game. probably one of the best game series of all time/ best story of all time

Yeah, I was going to say the darkness. Cheap, good graphics, and a good unique story.

i thought gta 4 had a fairly good story

also, like the others said, bioshock is great for atmosphere and story

I'd also like to recommend The Darkness, just recently played through it and felt it was a game worth playing. much unlike farcry 2 which I only played for like 20 minutes and got fed up with it... Quantum Of Solace was also pretty fun.

Assasins Creed,Dead Space,Bioshock.Fallout 3,Oblivion IV(for me)

well the story depends on the persons taste isnt it? for me I think GTA IV and Far Cry 2 stories are good.

I'll plug The Darkness again as that was a game I really enjoyed as well.

I'd also like to say that despite the medicro reviews I'm finding the story in Lost Planet to be pretty engaging with a few twists and turns.

The story in Fable 2 was about as cliche as they get. And the end fell pretty flat on it's face but I will say the gameplay was excellent.

so it comes down to darkness or bioshock

Tales of Vesperia and Bioshock both had great stories.

Heard Lost Odessey (probably spelled wrong) has a good story. BTW, did you know that Mass Effect already has two books out. The 2nd one sets the stage for ME2. Both are great reads. I know that reading is almost going out of style but these are great books.

I would say the Orange Box for the Half Life 2 series. If you play through Half Life 2 through to Episode 2 you really get attached to the characters. Episode 2 also has the most shocking ending I experience and it just leaves me excited for Episode 3.

My favourite are as follow in order:

1) The Darkness, The story of the main character in this game can be quite touching at some point and it's a pretty "dark" but meaningful story.

2) Lost Odyssey, You meet different characters who have a certain link of relationship to each other and there are lot of interesting twists in the plot. It will chew up a good amount of your time

ShadowsRunner

Agreed. Also try the Half-Life series (The Orange Box).