Best plot/stories

[HMD Temeraire]

I personally love games that have incredible stories. Anyone else know of games with great stories?

Some of my favorites:
Knights of the old republic 1
Mass Effect
World in conflict
CoD: Modern Warfare
Assassin's Creed
Age of Mythology

Edit: Try to say why you believe the game you are talking about has a good plot, unless someone has already said something about that game. Thanks.

[Djûn]

Assassin's Creed and CoD: MW?! Controversial decisions! ;P

Bioshock, Vampire Bloodlines (mostly the atmosphere) and Baldur's Gate (mostly the characters) are a few I would say off the top of my head.

[HMD Temeraire]

Assassin's Creed and CoD: MW?! Controversial decisions! ;P

Ok I can see CoD didn't have the most incredible story but it was really good for a shooter. And Assassin's creed had a good suspense conspiracy plot. Just defending my opinion.

[Phoenixx]

MGS, Pwns All.

[Freddie]

KOTOR 1: Needs no comment the story line is so compelling and deep you have to keep playing the game again and again and again to get all the back stories.

GTA: Vice City (kind of plagiarised every gangster movie going but it pulled it brilliantly)

Thief Series: The first game wasn't that great but the second game I have grown to really appreciate over the last year and third game in the series had a fantastic script that made up for the shortfalls in the gameplay.

The Witcher: RPG's lend themselves to this sort of thread but the Wicther (make sure ou play the Enhanced Edition) is very engrossing I just wish Andrzej Sapkowski has more of his books translated into English I think they would be a huge success.

Wing Commander: The best FMV based games ever! The actors made the storyline for this game. Mark Hamil, Luke Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future) and Malcolm McDowel head up an all star cast.

[Stalins Ghost]

Thief Series: The first game wasn't that great but the second game I have grown to really appreciate over the last year and third game in the series had a fantastic script that made up for the shortfalls in the gameplay.

Agreed on everything but the bit about the first game. The first game had a bloody brilliant story. Still one of the best twists in gaming ever.

[Freddie]

Agreed on everything but the bit about the first game. The first game had a bloody brilliant story. Still one of the best twists in gaming ever.

It's been a while since I last played Thief 1, might be time for a reinstall. I think I still the original disc from 1998!

[Larry Blackmon's Codpiece]

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CoD: Modern Warfare
Assassin's Creed

Uh, no?

I say Kingdom Hearts 2, Dreamfall the Longest Journey, Mass Effect, JK 2: Jedi Outcast, KOTOR.

[Djûn]

I didn't enjoy the story of Assassin's Creed, just because I wasn't sure whether I should be treating it as historical, fantasy or Sci-Fi. Though the game itself wasn't bad at all.

[Thanatos]

- System Shock 2
- Portal
- MGS series (even if it is incredibly complicated)
- Final Fantasy 9 (some would say it's cliche, but darn it, I *like* it when the lowly thief wins the heart of the beautiful princess )
- Neverwinter Nights (only the first one and the expansions, the second one can bugger off)

[The Dude]

Knights of the Old Republic: Obvious choice. I should've seen the Revan plot twist coming but for some reason I didn't. The twist is what made the game stand out. I remember going "omg wat". XD

Gears of War: Steroidgobbling alpha males wearing cars for armor (thanks, Yahtzee). You love it or you hate it, no two ways about it. In my case, I love it. Guns with chainsaws, come on! The story is told in the most spectacular fashion I've ever experienced in a videogame and unlike some (who for some reason still consider the story entirely dispensable) I think the Locust have a pretty good mystery going on that I can't wait to see unraveled.

Halo: The entire trilogy was a work of art. Halo 3 was the crown jewel and seeing everything come together was awesome. I loved how it was full to the brim of biblical references and how the Covenant was an amazingly accurate portrayal of an army of religious zealots, despite being alien!

Warcraft: I love the Warcraft story, I just don't like how they're trying to tell it with an MMO. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed WoW a lot and RP servers were a blast, but things were too static and that bothered me. Overall though, the Warcraft story is definitely a good one. It was rather generic until Warcraft 2 but really took off with Warcraft 3. The Frozen Throne was made of epic and win.

[Silo]

Most games that come to my mind were already mentioned (kotor, the witcher, jade empire,....) I would have to add Gothic 1 and 2 to the list though...both games had a nice plot (the first one was better though)

[Djûn]

Warcraft: I love the Warcraft story, I just don't like how they're trying to tell it with an MMO. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed WoW a lot and RP servers were a blast, but things were too static and that bothered me. Overall though, the Warcraft story is definitely a good one. It was rather generic until Warcraft 2 but really took off with Warcraft 3. The Frozen Throne was made of epic and win.

QFT

Awesome call, completely forgot about Warcraft universe.

[philip augustus]

Knights of the Old Republic: Obvious choice. I should've seen the Revan plot twist coming but for some reason I didn't. The twist is what made the game stand out. I remember going "omg wat". XD

Gears of War: Steroidgobbling alpha males wearing cars for armor (thanks, Yahtzee). You love it or you hate it, no two ways about it. In my case, I love it. Guns with chainsaws, come on! The story is told in the most spectacular fashion I've ever experienced in a videogame and unlike some (who for some reason still consider the story entirely dispensable) I think the Locust have a pretty good mystery going on that I can't wait to see unraveled.

Halo: The entire trilogy was a work of art. Halo 3 was the crown jewel and seeing everything come together was awesome. I loved how it was full to the brim of biblical references and how the Covenant was an amazingly accurate portrayal of an army of religious zealots, despite being alien!

Warcraft: I love the Warcraft story, I just don't like how they're trying to tell it with an MMO. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed WoW a lot and RP servers were a blast, but things were too static and that bothered me. Overall though, the Warcraft story is definitely a good one. It was rather generic until Warcraft 2 but really took off with Warcraft 3. The Frozen Throne was made of epic and win.

I stopped playing gears of war 2 after that "horror" level after that i pretty much just figured out who the locus are...they were created by humans and they got away..its why they sent you to the complex cuz its where it all orginated at. oh and i LOVED KOTOR 1's story i was just like wtf, it made me love my character even more, and also mass effect its weird i honestly feel sad that i had a chance to experince it cuz now i have to wait till freakin 2010..

[The Dude]

I stopped playing gears of war 2 after that "horror" level after that i pretty much just figured out who the locus are...they were created by humans and they got away..its why they sent you to the complex cuz its where it all orginated at.

The complex hardly explains everything, so it's still a mystery. All that place indicates is that there were early tests done on humans that resulted in Sires. How that precisely relates to the current Locust still isn't clear. We don't know where the Queen comes from, we don't know how the Locust multiplied so fast, we don't know anything really. At best we have vague ideas. That makes it interesting.

And besides, why would you stop playing Gears of War 2 after that mission. XD The campaign is made of win. You missed out on half of the awesomeness.

[thatguy]

Eternal Darkness was pretty sweet.
Iloved Final Fantasy 9, the characters where just great.

[philip augustus]

The complex hardly explains everything, so it's still a mystery. All that place indicates is that there were early tests done on humans that resulted in Sires. How that precisely relates to the current Locust still isn't clear. We don't know where the Queen comes from, we don't know how the Locust multiplied so fast, we don't know anything really. At best we have vague ideas. That makes it interesting.

And besides, why would you stop playing Gears of War 2 after that mission. XD The campaign is made of win. You missed out on half of the awesomeness.

ya i know it just sorta ruined it for me for some reason, i will admit though that game was freakin fun as hell, i got it for christmas and couldnt stop playing it my fam was pissed lol i actually played a bit farther to when you drive the tank thingy to the mountain, and i just stopped..ill have to pick it up again during spring break

[frontier-auxilia]

Knights of the Old Republic: Obvious choice. I should've seen the Revan plot twist coming but for some reason I didn't. The twist is what made the game stand out. I remember going "omg wat". XD

Gears of War: Steroidgobbling alpha males wearing cars for armor (thanks, Yahtzee). You love it or you hate it, no two ways about it. In my case, I love it. Guns with chainsaws, come on! The story is told in the most spectacular fashion I've ever experienced in a videogame and unlike some (who for some reason still consider the story entirely dispensable) I think the Locust have a pretty good mystery going on that I can't wait to see unraveled.

Halo: The entire trilogy was a work of art. Halo 3 was the crown jewel and seeing everything come together was awesome. I loved how it was full to the brim of biblical references and how the Covenant was an amazingly accurate portrayal of an army of religious zealots, despite being alien!

Warcraft: I love the Warcraft story, I just don't like how they're trying to tell it with an MMO. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed WoW a lot and RP servers were a blast, but things were too static and that bothered me. Overall though, the Warcraft story is definitely a good one. It was rather generic until Warcraft 2 but really took off with Warcraft 3. The Frozen Throne was made of epic and win.

You didn't mention the cole train he's one of those minor reason that raise gears from being your awesome shooter with tough guys throwing one liner around to straight up classic.

[snuggans]

- Final Fantasy 9

personally 7, 9, and 10 reeked of awesome but there's very little that's stopping me from naming a couple more FFs.
i love RPGs. : )

KoTOR 1's 'twist' puts M Night Shyamalan to shame.

[Pallantides]

- Neverwinter Nights (only the first one and the expansions, the second one can bugger off)

The only good thing about Neverwinter Nights is Hordes of The Underdark and the easy to use toolset, NWN 2 is a better game overall.



anyways my list


Planscape Torment
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
Grim Fandango
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne