What is the most poorly written story in a game in your opinion

I remember Red Faction Guerilla's story just being awful. And Just Cause 2's more for being just nonsense.

Torchlight....It didn't really have a story...but it still counts. 

" You hate videogames, it is just a fact that everyone in this topic knows now. You defended yourself by being an insane ass and now look at yourself. Because I knew as soon as I said that I was a writer, without proving it to you, you would make a total ass of yourself in this very topic. There is a difference between arguing and being an ass. One of which you don't seem to realize that I am taking advantage of.

 

Get a mirror dude, look at yourself, you are quite possibly one of the most self absorbed people I think I have ever met, in real life or the internet. I am glad that I was able to destroy you like I was planning upon your first post here."

" Portal having bad story? alrighty then, gamefaqs I go again, at least they are smarter there and know what a good and or great story actually is. most people don't even know the MEANING of what the word STORY is. I am done here. "

All-time, I'd have no clue. But in recent years, Borderlands and Gears of War spring to mind. 

Final Fantasy 13, I've never seen anything like it, it basically tells you to read pages upon pages upon pages of dry text (horribly formated by the way) just so you can have some idea of what the fucks going on.

I have to go with condemned 2 and mw2, black obs, dantes inferno, fear2, motorstorm apocalypse, kane & lynch1-2.

" If you think people at Gamefaqs are smart you must not be. Portal's story was terrible, there wasn't even one for the most part. You wake up and for 75% of the game have no idea what's happening other than the fact that some robot wants you to complete puzzles.Was the writing funny? Yes. Clever? Yes. Was the ending song awesome? Yes. Does that mean the story is good? No. "

" @DystopiaX said:

" If you think people at Gamefaqs are smart you must not be. Portal's story was terrible, there wasn't even one for the most part. You wake up and for 75% of the game have no idea what's happening other than the fact that some robot wants you to complete puzzles.Was the writing funny? Yes. Clever? Yes. Was the ending song awesome? Yes. Does that mean the story is good? No. "

man i would hate to go to the movies with you. we'd watch stalker and you'd say, 'well that was just three guys walking around in the wilderness for two hours, that's not a goodstory' "

" @DystopiaX: a story is its contents, not whether it's still interesting when summed up in one sentence. "

ectera.

have you boughten any videogame that even has dailouge in it that isn't pokemon

Every, single, one on this site will agree with me on this.

Also, people like you sicken me, not for the fact that you are a ass.

 A story is not just how it is told, or what it is about, it is about the soul of the piece of work that was created, the sweat the tears and the joy all forming together to a single point to create classics such as citizens kane and Bioshock

 Ken Levine is a great writer, one of which WILL be known as great as shakespeare of videogames. But it's going to take about 3 more pieces of classic works from him then for him to suicide for you to notice him as a writer huh?
 
 It's going to be an awesome day when bioshock is going to be in museams as a piece of high art of storytelling, I will laugh at you severally. Most likely causing a heart attack for how much I will laugh at your inability to know what is good or bad in videogames, or story overall.

 Wow, so the game about good and evil and call bioshock shit? You're quite possibly one of the most saddest human beings I think I have ever argued with

 I have won this fight kiddo. (While having massive OCD on spelling.)
 
I have the internets side on this battle.
 

There is a difference between arguing and being an ass. One of which you don't seem to realize that I am taking advantage of.

 

" @DystopiaX: i addressed your point, but maybe it was too brief for you to notice. the ambiance and humor is a part of the story. it isn't the way it is for no reason. a story is not just the framework in which all the action takes place. if that is the most sensible way to judge a story, then almost all of them are bad. "

I'm gonna go with Army Of Two. It felt blatantly chopped up with the gaps between events.

Any game where an arm has its own soul.

Homefront had an awesome idea for a story but it was VERY poorly done. I might have to go with that. None of the characters have any personality and everything about it was extremely underwhelming.

Audible sigh. As usual following the inquiry of "worst ever" in regards to games, people continuously cite ABSOLUTELY FINE GAMES. The notion that Modern Warfare 2 has *the worst story in a game* is thread endingly ludicrous already in the first post.

Serves me right really, I keep hoping that topics like this are attacked with a measure of insight and intelligence, and they invariably end up being about "thing X you lot didn't like very much".

" @nick_verissimo: 

Black Ops has the worst story I have ever tortured myself to play out of all games I own.

It's a bad game in general, zombies and multiplayer offer hardly any redemption. Next time, Treyarch need to do a better damn job.

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Homefront

" Any game where an arm has its own soul. "

GTA Chinatown Wars felt like it was written by a kid in grade 10 who was working as an intern at R* over his summer break. Abysmal writing with a predictable and uninteresting plot. The only likeable character was introduced in the second mission and killed off in the third mission. All the other characters were one dimensional with no development.

"The game stories people hate tend to be the ones that most people like. "

" @RYNO9881 said:

"The game stories people hate tend to be the ones that most people like. "

Make no sense you do not. "

Heavy Rain.

It doesn't shine as much because it isn't a total shitride, but I don't give a shit about the story in Modern Warfare 2 or Bulletstorm. I'm there to shoot people in the face (or in the latter case, balls). In Heavy Rain, I'm supposed to be enthralled by the story, care about the characters and it's impossible with the amount of plot holes. Half of the shit that happens after the first half makes no sense.

Also, Bionic Commando, but that game is a different fucking category.

@l4wd0g said:

" Uncharted 2. They have great characters, it's very pretty, dialog is witty and fun,  but what was the story again? "

" all the mario games. end of story. "

Which video game story isn't written badly? There are only a handful.

Worthless topic.

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                    Worthless topic.

                   

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This, @ectoplasma

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                    Which video game story isn't written badly? There are only a handful.

                   

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From a person that has only played pokemon games, correct? this just proves a majority of gamers are morons and wouldn't know what writing is if it smacked them in the face, I call it. Espically considering people who play videogames that complain about story like the below guy don't even know what a story actually is. It is about a tale of a meaning. something many many videogames do very well. Whether that be is to Survive like in Left 4 dead or Portal. (which does have a great story, only morons say differently to be quite honest.) or about war and technology like the MGS and Fallout series. both of which follow this meaning extremely well. to even things like objectivism like Bioshock. (saying it has a bad story is one of the dumbest things a person can say online, just being honest.)

I'm glad to see that this thread hasn't stopped being fucking retarded. I wish the mods would close it, it's just left the original point so far behind by now.

Gears of War 2 had one of the worst stories and most poorly established game worlds I have ever seen. There were tons of inconsistencies between the first game and the second (it was a long time ago so I can't remember many specifics, other than the strange lack of Berserkers in the second game,) and overall it just took itself way too seriously. It's like with the first game they weren't really trying so they just made stuff up as they went, and they thought they could do the same with the second game, but they decided to make it way more serious. That level of absurdity in the story (razor hail? Seriously? So every time it hails, all of their shit gets destroyed and everyone has to flee indoors?) does not meld with the serious tone they were trying too create. 

" @Fluxxed said:

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                    Worthless topic.

                   

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This, @ectoplasma

said:

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                    Which video game story isn't written badly? There are only a handful.

                   

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From a person that has only played pokemon games, correct? this just proves a majority of gamers are morons and wouldn't know what writing is if it smacked them in the face, I call it. Espically considering people who play videogames that complain about story like the below guy don't even know what a story actually is. It is about a tale of a meaning. something many many videogames do very well. Whether that be is to Survive like in Left 4 dead or Portal. (which does have a great story, only morons say differently to be quite honest.) or about war and technology like the MGS and Fallout series. both of which follow this meaning extremely well. to even things like objectivism like Bioshock. (saying it has a bad story is one of the dumbest things a person can say online, just being honest.)

 

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" @drbendo said:

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                    The question raises a fine point that is often missed.There's a difference between a bad story and a poorly written story. For example, Bioshock's story is complete shit, but it's adequately written. On the other end of the spectrum, Jericho actually had an interesting story, but it was horribly written to the point of killing any promise.Very few games have good stories, but there are several that have adequate or better writing. Mass Effect is another example of a dull, derivative story that is well executed; the character's have distinct voices, and there's a natural flow to the dialog. The Thief games are underwritten, but what's there is great. The early Silent Hill games have great stories, but the executions were hit and miss (a lot of stilted dialog).I'd say that Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Jericho, 50 Cent, and Naughty Bear included some of the worst writing of this generation.

                   

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Are you actually serious? No, really, are you actually serious? Saying Bioshocks+mass effects story are shit is basically saying that Air is not good because you need it, or that the sun sucks because it gives warmth. This is something I would expect someone from Gamefaqs to say, it is that unbelieveably foolish. Honestly, I am going to be serious, Just saying that invalidates your entire opinion on writing FOREVER. Have you actually read a book before? Or hell ANYTHING before? You are proof that some videogamers wouldn't know what a story is even if was stapled to their scalps! I am now going to dissect your entire post right now.

 

First two sentences start fine enough, but the third, by God the third is basically like bending down the greatest writers of the world today and basically telling them they suck while you take a crap on them. you have literally angered the writer inside me to the point of writing this very, very long post to be destroying your points altogether. fourth sentence now, Saying Jericho is INTERESTING while saying Bioshock is SHIT is like saying the greatest movie of all time is crap compared to Garbage Pail Kids. It is an insult to intelligent thought that I take personally in this matter.

 

 

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" @TehFlan said:

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                    @Jay444111: I stopped reading when you said Halo was better than Star Wars, but from what I did read, you weren't so much making arguments as just insulting the dude.

                   

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I meant the entire series dude, do you wanna know why Halo is better than star wars. let us look at the prequals of star wars! the first one was basically one of the worst things I ever saw at a theator, I mean, wow, the only good thing was the jedi fight with darth maul. that is it. while it completely retcons everything from the classic 3 movies.

 

the second movie is a abomonation, I can literally cut off a couple of my fingers, wire them up to a mices brain and tell it to write a something, that something would be better then this movie, any part of it. I mean, my goodness. I literally wanted to puke in my mouth upon watching this.

 

3, the third star wars movie was the best of the prequals, although it still messed everything up by making vader wimpy and the princess dies from the lack of the will to live. (most idiotic thing ever.)

 

these three movies literally killed and murdered the classics by having the same name as them and being officially canon, I am sorry to say, but anything can beat them, but even then halo series does have a quality story one of which star wars wished to have.

 

Also, I wasn't insulting him, I was just baffled by the sheer WTF from that single post actually being taken seriously by another human being is all.

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