" What in your opinion are the top 5 games with the greatest stories of all time? 5. Mass Effect 4. Kotor3. DragonAge: Origins2. Persona 31. Mass Effect 2 "
1. Deus Ex 2. Half-Life (less of a narrative, more an awesome chronology of events, gotta include all games in the franchise) 3. Metal Gear Solid 3 4. Chrono Trigger 5. Max Payne
" What in your opinion are the top 5 games with the greatest stories of all time? 5. Mass Effect 4. Kotor3. DragonAge: Origins2. Persona 31. Mass Effect 2 "
5) Prince of Persia (2008) 4) Baten Kaitos: Origins 3) Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance 2) Final Fantasy X 1) Metal Gear Solid (all of them, combined. It's one full story, split up)
Honorable mentions: FFVII and VIII, Persona 3, Assassin's Creed, Kingdom Hearts.
Odd choices, I know.
EDIT: Oh right...forgot about Xenogears. Honorable. Oh, and Silent Hill 2, too.
1. BioShock - Loved environment it was in, and it was told really well. 2. Fallout 3 - It's not a top runner to most people, but the small twists and turns keeps things fresh. 3. Heavy Rain - As a game 100% focused on story it was pretty good. With a twist I didn't see coming and all the possible different endings is pretty cool. 4. Zelda Ocarina of Time - As my first video game and beating it lots of times, the story has always been one of my favorites. Not really a top notch engrossing story (looking at games today), but I've always liked it. 5. Prince of Persia - The best of the series, I mainly love it because of the great character relationship that grows throughout.
1) Vagrant Story 2) Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem 3) Kid Chameleon (I'm totally serious) 4) The Legend of Zelda 5) ...
I used The Legend of Zelda, but really any Zelda game will do. They're great because of their simplicity and classic archetypal story. I just couldn't think up a fifth game, but I'll probably edit in one later once I've thought it up.
1. Silent Hill 1 & 3 as a combo. 2. Planescape: Toment 3. Super Robot Wars Original Generations 4. Final Fantasy Tactics Edit - 5. Totally forgot Shadow of the Colossus
Games stories are stupid, but I like how Xenosaga 3 concluded all its bullshit lore. edit I really like Mother 3 as well. But if I explained the individual elements of the story it would seem asinine. The larger message is powerful, and the interpersonal story is powerful, the story in the middle is ridiculous (in a good way).
1. Mother 3 (rather simple but incredibly powerful) 2. Grand Theft Auto IV (best dialogue ever) 2. Metal Gear Solid 3 (the most well rounded story of the series- brilliant)
I played through Planescape and remember almost nothing about the story. Something something, amnesia, 100 lives, floating skull, crazy living armor, fallen angel, flame on guy, fighting a clone of myself who beats me with his arm, talking the final boss into oblivion. Hmm. Yeah that's pretty good actually. Planescape is a game with moments, and considering how difficult a decent overarching narrative is, having a lot of good moments is good enough.
@Video_Game_King: Still, Alex Jones, he's more evil than everyone else in NewsCorp put together.
@ryanwho: True. I always digged how you could get through every major encounter through talking if your core stats were high enough. It put less emphasis on the game's wonky combat.
For the length of the game and what it did, I thought Portal had a great story. It wasn't the gaming equivalent of a sweepingly epic novel, but was more like an excellently written short story. It didn't need cut scenes to play it out, either, but unfolded wonderfully while you played.
People mentioning Bioshock and Half Life, their stories aren't that great. The places they exist in, and the way the tell them is great, but the stories themselves aren't. Bioshock's is very good until the very end, where it all falls to shit.
I haven't played too many story driven games... hopefully RDR will be on this list when I get it.
4. Silent Hill 2 (I've only played it for 3 hours so far though because it's too scary!) 3. Assassin's Creed 2 (the whole series, even though I've only played the 1st for about 2 hours. It mst be good to be linked to the 2nd) 2. Metal Gear Solid 4 (Only MGS game I've played.) 1. BioShock.
Max Payne 1 Beyond Good and Evil (the journey, not the end) Advent Rising (average beginning-middle, incredible end) Shadow of the Colossus Ico
I would also include the Half-Lifes and Portal, but that falls under the execution angle rather than the story. Because, honestly, the story itself of Half-Life ain't that interesting - it's the "being in the middle of it" aspect that makes it work.
Uncharted 2; Silent Hill 2; Max Payne 2. Metal Gear Solid 2 in concept; all the Metal Gear games have terrible stories when it comes down to the actual execution.
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