Looking for a Game with a Great Story

Anyone got any suggestions?

Well there's this thread...

Nier does look pretty good. But i am looking for PC games. Forgot to mention that

@500midgets: Any specific platform or genre you can provide?

Edit: I see you put PC. Of the ones I've played recently, these come to mind.

- Sleeping Dogs

- The Walking Dead

- Dishonored

I would recommend To The Moon.

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

I would recommend To The Moon.

Good call! To The Moon was fantastic!

The Witcher series comes to mind as a standout among PC game stories.

To the Moon looks great. Thanks. The Walking Dead caught my eye also thanks for the suggestions guys

Try and play Ghost Trick, it's got a great story. I was completely hooked on it with clever twists.

Let me just look at my shelf:

• Fire Emblem anything
• Fragile Dreams
• No More Heroes
• Skyward Sword
• Xenoblade
• Final Fantasy anything
• Metal Gear Solid anything
• Persona anything
• Silent Hill 2?
• Asura's Wrath?
• Batman mostly anything
• BioShock
• El Shaddai
• LA Noire
• Lost Odyssey
• Portal 2
• Panzer Dragoon anything
• Dragon Quest mostly anything
• Lufia 2
• Radiant Historia
• TWEWY

Prisoner of Ice! ... Have fun finding it/running it on current systems though...

Crisis Core and I think Mega Man Star Force series has a great story but the games are terrible so don't play them

also since someone mentioned No More Heroes (which I never played) there's also Cursed Mountain. I never finished it but it's definitely cool/interesting and was maybe going to mention it in the cool/interesting story thread.

and maybe Prey

Nier

Deadly Premonition

Alan Wake

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

So many games! haha can't wait to get into them

ARGH PLAY TO THE MOON NOW!

Spec Ops: The Line
Prince of Persia 2008
Metal Gear(s)
999 (it's pretty captivating so far, at least)
Final Fantasy VII-X
Fire Emblem (7) and Path of Radiance
Assassin's Creed I and II
Infamous 1 and 2
Xenogears? God of War III? 
Baten Kaitos: Origins
 
To name a few.

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

@mordukai said:

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

Because I haven't played it. I'm kind of busy with other old RPGs.

Could not recommend the Witcher games enough for good story.

@mordukai said:

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

Pretty much this!

@Xtrememuffinman said:

999 (it's pretty captivating so far, at least)

And Virtue's Last Reward. Fantastic games.

SkiFree had a great story to it. It's easy to play to

What is a good story to you anyways? Characters? Meaning? Choice? Background? Etc.

@Video_Game_King said:

@mordukai said:

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

Because I haven't played it. I'm kind of busy with other old RPGs.

My god man. get on with it.

I just best 999 so you should play that. It's incredible.

The Walking Dead which is currently up for $12 on Steam

Someone already mentioned Alan Wake, but I'd throw Max Payne 2 and Max Payne 3 in there. 2 is definitely better than 3, but 3 as a noir story is second only to the Fall of Max Payne, honestly.

That's really all I got at the moment. Pretty biased in favour of Remedy, but they're one of the very, very few studios who write proper stories and not set jigsaw puzzles connecting set piece to set piece.

@mordukai said:

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

Yup.

In addition - off the top of my head: The Witcher 2, To the Moon, Bastion, Broken Sword series (+ a bajillion other adventure games), Mass Effect trilogy, and Baldur's Gate 2.

jade empire is availaible on steam

As others have said, and as I will say again and again - "To the Moon". It is the best story in a game (and one of my favorites regardless of medium) that I have ever personally experienced. I'll admit that I'm a big soft sap, but that game hit me harder than anything else I've played, and I've played a lot of games over the course of my 25 years of living on this planet.

Some would criticize "To the Moon" as not being a "real" game - there is some truth to that. It's more "interactive fiction" than anything else. But it doesn't matter. As an experience, it's just fantastic. It's extremely cheap too.

I know this was already recommended, but I had to recommend it again, because it is just that good.

Final Fantasy IX had a decent story (even if it didn't make that much sense at the end). Another game with a good story - Spec Ops: The Line and of course, Bastion.

Fallout: New Vegas had a pretty good world and a decent enough story.

@Video_Game_King said:

• Batman mostly anything

I'm guessing this ignores Arkham City.

@ThePhantomStranger:

It was prompted by Arkham City.

Saints Row: The Third is great for humor and just being outrageous.

The Walking Dead is fantastic and will pull on every emotional string you have.

• Max payne 1 & 2 have pretty good stories.
• The Witcher series
• KOTOR
• Fallout 1 & 2
• Assassins Creed 1 ( story starts to go sideways in 2 and never recovers imo)

@mordukai said:

How come no one so far has even mentioned Planescape: Torment? Be ashamed to call yourself proper gamers.

This.

Also the first three Silent Hill games and Grim Fandango.

Of the games not yet mentioned

• Sanitarium
• Silent Hill Downpour
• Nier
• Drakengard
• Deadly Premonition
• Bulletstorm
• Witcher 2
• Silent Hill 4
• Persona 3 FES
• Catherine
• Alpha Protocol

Have you played To The Moon yet? If not you should play To The Moon and then write a blog about it so we can all get a tub of ice cream and talk about our feelings.

So yeah,

• Planescape
• 999
• Suikoden 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3
• FF VI, IX and X
• Xenogears
• Bioshock
• Chrono Trigger AND Chrono Cross (screw the haters)
• Bastion
• The Longest Journey AND Dreamfall
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Tactics Ogre (on the PSP though, the SNES translation is GARBAGE)
• To The Moon
• The Walking Dead
• Portal (doy!) and Portal 2
• Half Life 2 has a decent story, but you have to dig into the game and the internet to get to it. It's kinda LOST-ish, if you're into that.

Mmhm.