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

@Axxol:

Coming from a person who only calls others idiots no doubt.

Is there any other sites about videogaming out there? because I am sick of the asses on this site, and the dumbasses on gamefaqs. I want people who have intelligence without being assholes a good 99% of the time like you do constantly to every single post I do, either leave me the **** alone or bug someone else, I am getting tired of the moronicness and assholishness of this site. dumber then gamefaqs overall really, espically since the reply button is ALWAYS broken for me for some odd reason.

@AlexW00d:

Because I have an editor. Along with the fact that I have writing programs only affect my book as I write, not all the time, it doesn't work when I post online. besides, I use grammer much better than you do anyway mister, "CAPS LOCKY MC LOCKY PANTS!"

Also, about Mass Effect 2, story should NEVER be told by story alone. This may make no sense to you, but in reality, it is the charactors that should drive a story, NEVER the story itself. MGS does this right, Mass Effect does this right, Portal and half life do this right, and even Left 4 freaking dead does this right.

Without ANY of the charactors there would be no story to go through. it would just be like dragon age 1, a dead form of telling a story through the actions of a man with zero charactor. YOU. In order to tell ANY story, whether interactive or not, it needs charactor, if they're is a great story to be found in a videogame, it must also have great charactor in order to bring that out in the open.

Too bad idiots here wouldn't know Story from storytelling. Thus meaning most people here have very little IQ's.

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@Axxol:

Coming from a person who only calls others idiots no doubt.

 

Is there any other sites about videogaming out there? because I am sick of the asses on this site, and the dumbasses on gamefaqs. I want people who have intelligence without being assholes a good 99% of the time like you do constantly to every single post I do, either leave me the **** alone or bug someone else, I am getting tired of the moronicness and assholishness of this site. dumber then gamefaqs overall really, espically since the reply button is ALWAYS broken for me for some odd reason.

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"Thus meaning most people here have very little IQ's."

If you really think Modern Warfare 2's is the worst, you've probably only played a handful of games in your life.

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@AlexW00d:

Because I have an editor. Along with the fact that I have writing programs only affect my book as I write, not all the time, it doesn't work when I post online. besides, I use grammer much better than you do anyway mister, "CAPS LOCKY MC LOCKY PANTS!"

 

Also, about Mass Effect 2, story should NEVER be told by story alone. This may make no sense to you, but in reality, it is the charactors that should drive a story, NEVER the story itself. MGS does this right, Mass Effect does this right, Portal and half life do this right, and even Left 4 freaking dead does this right.

 

Without ANY of the charactors there would be no story to go through. it would just be like dragon age 1, a dead form of telling a story through the actions of a man with zero charactor. YOU. In order to tell ANY story, whether interactive or not, it needs charactor, if they're is a great story to be found in a videogame, it must also have great charactor in order to bring that out in the open.

 

Too bad idiots here wouldn't know Story from storytelling. Thus meaning most people here have very little IQ's.

 

 

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I feel obligated to say Gears of War 2. That game made absolutely no sense.

I see why I stayed away from this thread.  It became not so much about stories, but just a thread about games people hate in general.

Twilight.

Edit: Oh GAME stories. Sorry, I thought I was on Screened. Definitely, Super Mario Brothers. Am I to believe that a princess doesn't have any knights and wouldn't scram if a giant demon lizard was heading her way?

any mario game...eh?

" Worthless topic. "

" @Fluxxed said:

" Worthless topic. "

This, I can't believe that someone mentioned Alan Wake in this topic. Man, someone thinks that Alan Wake has the most poorly written story of any game ever. "

sonic 06.../shudder

Take your pick Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, or 4.  All horrible in different ways, all worthless in their own special way.

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@Axxol:

Coming from a person who only calls others idiots no doubt.

 

Is there any other sites about videogaming out there? because I am sick of the asses on this site, and the dumbasses on gamefaqs. I want people who have intelligence without being assholes a good 99% of the time like you do constantly to every single post I do, either leave me the **** alone or bug someone else, I am getting tired of the moronicness and assholishness of this site. dumber then gamefaqs overall really, espically since the reply button is ALWAYS broken for me for some odd reason.

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@AlexW00d:

Because I have an editor. Along with the fact that I have writing programs only affect my book as I write, not all the time, it doesn't work when I post online. besides, I use grammer much better than you do anyway mister, "CAPS LOCKY MC LOCKY PANTS!"

 

Also, about Mass Effect 2, story should NEVER be told by story alone. This may make no sense to you, but in reality, it is the charactors that should drive a story, NEVER the story itself. MGS does this right, Mass Effect does this right, Portal and half life do this right, and even Left 4 freaking dead does this right.

 

Without ANY of the charactors there would be no story to go through. it would just be like dragon age 1, a dead form of telling a story through the actions of a man with zero charactor. YOU. In order to tell ANY story, whether interactive or not, it needs charactor, if they're is a great story to be found in a videogame, it must also have great charactor in order to bring that out in the open.

 

Too bad idiots here wouldn't know Story from storytelling. Thus meaning most people here have very little IQ's.

 

 

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@Axxol:

Coming from a person who only calls others idiots no doubt.

 

Is there any other sites about videogaming out there? because I am sick of the asses on this site, and the dumbasses on gamefaqs. I want people who have intelligence without being assholes a good 99% of the time like you do constantly to every single post I do, either leave me the **** alone or bug someone else, I am getting tired of the moronicness and assholishness of this site. dumber then gamefaqs overall really, espically since the reply button is ALWAYS broken for me for some odd reason.

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Yeah, but they don't tolerate stupidity and would ban your ass immediately.

@Jay444111 said:

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@AlexW00d:

Because I have an editor. Along with the fact that I have writing programs only affect my book as I write, not all the time, it doesn't work when I post online. besides, I use grammer much better than you do anyway mister, "CAPS LOCKY MC LOCKY PANTS!"

 

Also, about Mass Effect 2, story should NEVER be told by story alone. This may make no sense to you, but in reality, it is the charactors that should drive a story, NEVER the story itself. MGS does this right, Mass Effect does this right, Portal and half life do this right, and even Left 4 freaking dead does this right.

 

Without ANY of the charactors there would be no story to go through. it would just be like dragon age 1, a dead form of telling a story through the actions of a man with zero charactor. YOU. In order to tell ANY story, whether interactive or not, it needs charactor, if they're is a great story to be found in a videogame, it must also have great charactor in order to bring that out in the open.

 

Too bad idiots here wouldn't know Story from storytelling. Thus meaning most people here have very little IQ's.

 

 

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Call me an idiot, but what you just posted makes no sense. "story should never be told by story alone" Makes no sense however you look at it. I think I understand what you're getting at, which is stories must have characters ("Without ANY of the characters there would be no story to go through") Well no shit...couldn't have figured that out myself. But just because the games you mentioned have characters that make a good attempt at having personalities doesn't mean that they're done particularly well, or that the strength of the characters alone are enough to tell the story. (By now I've spelled characters correctly enough times that I hope you learned something). Story:  a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader;tale Storytelling: The telling or writing of stories (taken from dictionary.com) So no, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Of course there's a difference between the telling of a story and the story itself, yet you make it seem like storytelling, or the way the story unfolds, is somehow terrible, while the actual story (which is conveyed through storytelling, look at the dictionary definition) is somehow supposed to be told without it? I'm sorry, but you can't just use random words from the English language any way you want to to try and prove your point. Now here's the part where you call me retarded for "not understanding you". You're right, I don't, but I don't think that it's because I have a low IQ, it's because you're a terrible writer and have trouble conveying anything you try to say. And for the record, my IQ is just short of the Genius range, so I guess you lose. One more time, it's spelled c-h-a-r-a-c-t-e-r "

" @DystopiaX: I literally think he's speaking a different version of English somehow. Like, maybe he's from an alternate universe where the "grammer" rules are different.

It's also possible that he's the most successful troll to ever stop by the GB forums. Think about it. He's had everyone's panties in a bunch for weeks now.

Or maybe he is just that stupid.

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" @DystopiaX: See, if he's not actually raging, though, and just making that shit up to trick you, then I'd argue he's extremely successful. "

" @Jay444111:

Your recent reply is, in some ways, even better than the first. Clearly, you tried; you paid more attention to capitalization, and you even went for a parallel structure. This makes your butchering of the language all the better. A cock-up by cock-up reply might be fun, but for the sake of brevity, I'll just let some of your own words speak for themselves. Think of it as a "Corky's Greatest Hits" of sorts. For those on the sidelines, remember: Jay is a "writer".

@Jay444111 said:

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.

 

My hat is off, JayStringofNumbers. Your command of the language, as a "writer", has floored me; I will never again wield a pen without feeling the stinging shame that I will never have your wit or rhetorical prowess. You are the Donny Tourette of the forum, and I am but a lowly man with a modicum of education; I sit on the panel across from you and bask in your radiance (If you don't get this, look the boy up.). I can only offer my humblest apologies for besmirching your loquacious glory with my petty notions of literacy and cohesion.

There is, indeed, a difference between arguing and being an ass; however, they are not mutually exclusive. I accomplish both with more of my posts than not. As for your charge of self-absorption, it is a common mistake; I'm really not self-absorbed, I'm just quite arrogant. There is a difference, but it involves nuance, and I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself on it, so I'll not go into detail.

You are simply not a writer of any worth or ability. Nobody with such awful grammar, syntax, organization, and diction could be. A writer needn't always use a formal style, and there is plenty of room within which breaking the rules can be effective. However, a good writer knows which rules they break and why they break them. Without a foundation in what is, literally (There I go, using that word for what it means again.) grade-school grammar, you will never accomplish anything with your writing. You have no business using that label; you are to writers what those cunts who walk the downtown streets with beards and empty guitar cases are to musicians. You prattle on about "soul," "seat," and "tears" because you cannot fathom what actual writing entails. As for Portal, yes, the story is crap. Some bloke spraying his shorts before sex also makes for a crap story. That Wolpaw told his bland story with wonderfully dark wit has no effect on Portal's plot. That Rochester can make premature ejaculation monumentally clever and strangely endearing does nothing to improve the story behind The Imperfect Enjoyment. By no means do I suggest that Portal is anywhere near Wilmot's level; it's damned good, but that's a high fucking bar. However, both examples illustrate the difference between the story and the storytelling. Again, nuance, so mind the sharp edges.In the event that you, as a "writer", ever post any of your work online, I implore you, please send me a link. Nobody of your level could write anything that isn't hilarious. I realize that my general dickishness may cause you to think that I'm just trying to insult you, but this is not true. The insult is merely a byproduct. "

Modern Warfare 2. It's like it was trying to go out of it's way to insult my intelligence.

" @Enigma777: The story may not have been great, but I feel like the writing wasn't half-bad. "

" @Enigma777: I agree that it was downright stupid at times, but I felt like it kept me engaged and I had fun doing all the crazy stuff in the moment. As soon as I put the controller down and thought about what happened it all fell apart, but it was one hell of a ride while it lasted. "

Yakuza 3:The scenes with the kids were the only good part of the story.

" @example1013 said:

" @Enigma777: The story may not have been great, but I feel like the writing wasn't half-bad. "

The dialogue was your run-of-the-mill military stuff. However every single explanation was complete crap. What, Russia can't afford face recognition software to figure out who was actually shooting all those civilians? There's a ton of security camera footage (that was even shown in the game!) and they can't use it to figure out who the guy mowing down people left and right is? I mean for fuck's sake the americans used the same footage to identify a goddamn bullet shell casing and I'm honestly expected to believe that the Russians couldn't even make out Makarov's face?! Instead they blame some nobody CIA agent that was found shot in the head and launch a suicide invasion over it. Brilliant!

" @Enigma777: The story was written well enough for me to become invested at least in Soap and Price. That's more than some games have accomplished. "

This thread amuses me.

What the hell is up with jay44874518974518945's hate for the pokemon games?

MGS franchise, hands down. A monkey could write better dialog and story.

Lost Planet has always been the most comical and terrible stories I have ever seen.

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                    MGS franchise, hands down. A monkey could write better dialog and story.

                   

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To be quite honest, MGS is much more well written then anything george lucas has ever produced. seriously, at least hideo kojima knows what charactor and how not to retcon everything. Hell, even Kojima is somewhat better than even stephen king just for the fact that hideo knows how to actually end something.

All imo of course. but I am guessing about 100 trolls will flame me for saying this.

Again, why do people hate Hideo again? because he was able to do what you never will? That is what I have gathered anyway.

"Hell, even Kojima is somewhat better than even stephen king just for the fact that hideo knows how to actually end something."

Vanquish.

From what I can tell in this thread is that if a game has no story whatsoever, most gamers will be fine but the second one tries to have a story, they pick out the tiniest flaws and expect them to all work on the same logic patterns regardless of genre. And to all the people complaining about the No Russian sequence, do you not take into account the idea that it's both a setup by Shepherd and takes place in a hyper militarized country while you're contemplating what video cameras would have seen and how NATO would respond.