Video Games with cool/interesting stories

So I finished up Spec Ops: The Line and Binary Domain recently. I really liked both of their stories and am looking for other games with cool stories. I've done a little research on my own, but some suggestions from the community would be appreciated since that's where I heard about both Spec Ops and Binary Domain. You guys seems to have good tastes when it comes to video game stories :-)

Thanks duders!

This is going to sound crazy but I think Bulletstorm had an oddly decent story. Certainly the humor in the writing and the made-up curse words aren't great, but the characterization and the way the story moves is good.

@believer258: Already played Bulletstorm. I remember liking it, but I can't really remember the story...I just liked the "kill with skill" system.

Play this. Should be really cheap these days.

I hope you like plot-twists.

Planescape: Torment is hella old but has some of the best game writing to date

Yakuza 3, takes a while to really get going, but it rarely slows down afterwards, however it certainly isn't everyone's cup of tea. (Hope you like reading)

Point and click adventure games! Walking Dead, Resonance, Gemini Rue, Monkey Island(any of them), and old lucas arts games. Then Frog fractions. Just gonna check my steam lis for some others: Indigo prophecy, Braid, Bioshock, Little Inferno. Maybe Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. It's a long game and I never finished it but I do remember some political intrigue and shades of gray in that game.

I will sing the praises of the Silent Hill 2 storyline until I fucking die.

Edit: There are actually a lot of horror games with great stories provided you can work through some... interesting control schemes.

The Mass Effect games have a great story that expands throughout all three games. But from what I hear, you will need to get all the DLC's for ME3 in order to fully enjoy it, including the Extended Cut. It's worth it, though. They're the best games I've played on the X-Box 360.

Another recommendation is The Darkness. It's one of the best story-driven games I've ever played. It's a horror-based first-person shooter, with great voice acting, and wicked powers for you to learn from your fellow sidekick beasts. Also, Mike Patton is seriously creepy as the voice of The Darkness.

Play this. Should be really cheap these days.

I hope you like plot-twists.  

I will sing the praises of the Silent Hill 2 storyline until I fucking die.

Edit: There are actually a lot of horror games with great stories provided you can work through some... interesting control schemes.

Another recommendation is The Darkness. It's one of the best story-driven games I've ever played. It's a horror-based first-person shooter, with great voice acting, and wicked powers for you to learn from your fellow sidekick beasts. Also, Mike Patton is seriously creepy as the voice of The Darkness.

• Deadly Premonition
• Sanitarium
• Silent Hill: Downpour
• Drakengard (especially in conjuction with Nier, as the story ties together)
• Brutal Legend
• Shadows of the Damned
• Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
• Jade Empire
• Witcher 1 & 2
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy VI
• Lone Survivor
• Heavenly Sword
• Catherine
• Persona 3 FES
• American Mcgee's Alice
• Alice: Madness Returns
• Infamous 1 & 2
• Dead Space Extraction

• Bioshock
• The Mass Effect games
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Fallout 3 and New Vegas
• Braid
• Saint's Row: The Third

Psychonauts

Bioshock

Lone Survivor

Bastion

Walking Dead

Oh so many examples that I can't list here, and everybody knows the examples I want to list, anyway.

I'll always believe that Bioshock 2's story is superior to Bioshock in many ways. If anyone liked the first game and was worried about the second because of negative buzz, check it out.

• Max Payne 1 and 2
• Alan Wake
• Deus Ex 1
• Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3
• Half-Life 2 and episodes
• Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2
• StarCraft and StarCraft: Broodwar
• Zeno Clash
• Limbo
• Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood
• Demon's Souls
• Uncharted 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• The Walking Dead

That's all I can think of right now.