Best Game Storylines

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ussr
Who understands MGS storyline?? Cmon, seriously???

Mine vote goes to Uncharted 👍
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Umm, I understand the storyline! :sly:

Anyways, there are way too many fantastic storylines for me to choose form.

Only a few of them are: Assassin's Creed II, Resident Evil: Code Veronica X, Zone of the Enders 1 & 2, Catherine, any Metal Gear game (Except Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2. I hated them :mad:), Heavy Rain, Resident Evil REmake, Yakuza 1 & 3, Uncharted 2 & 3, L.A. Noire, infamous 1 & 2, Mafia 1 & 2, Grand Theft Auto 4... The list goes on, and on and on... :indiff:
 
GumShoe
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid. Just loved the whole atmosphere too.
Half-Life
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Thank god, I was waiting for someone to mention these :lol:

Chrono Trigger is one of the best games ever created. Period.

I'd also add Secret of Evermore to the list. And probably the Kingdom Heart games, even if it is was a bit odd with the Disney stuff.
 
I will assume none of you have heard of Ace Combat: The belkan war? That's one.... An also CoD Black Ops. And chuck in MW3.
 
Solid Lifters
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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This.

The entire series is awesome and definitely gets my vote, but 3 in particular was outstanding.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost & Damned, GoldenEye (Because.. great film) and Tekken 3 get worthy mentions from me.

I'm guessing the storylines created from games like Football Manager or Formula 1 97 don't really count...
 
That might be because the techical limitations of the time made a truly deep and involved story much harder to implement.

I stress, might be the case. Personally, I thought Sonic had a great storyline. And in their own ways, F1 97 and TOCA.
 
I always liked the storylines from Jak & Daxter games, because they are simple, then start getting a little more complex throughout the games. And everything finally connects at the end.
 
Azuremen
Also a great suggestion.

I find it odd that most people are suggesting games from mostly the current generation. Mostly. And very little from what is now consider the classic eras.
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I agree, my favorite story lines are from the older PC games. Two others I enjoyed were the Wing Commander series, and Full Throttle by LucasArts.
 
88FoxBodyFan
I agree, my favorite story lines are from the older PC games. Two others I enjoyed were the Wing Commander series, and Full Throttle by LucasArts.
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Full Throttle was great. Can still remember the music from the Radio in that guy's basement.

My picks

MGS1 + 3
Zone of the Enders 2 (possibly the greatest game ever imo. Great story too)
Final Fantasy 7
Half Life 1, 2 and all expansions.

Really want to add in the first three Monkey Islands, but it was more the clever dialogue than the actual stories.
 
:rolleyes: timesplitters two.
Fallout 3. Killzone1 and 2. 3 was not as good. Red dead redemption. Mgs 1-3. Some mentioned ace combat belkan war. Although the ending to my reccolection seemed odd :lol:

Nobody mentioned it?
Black. Nuff said ;)
 
I adore Kingdom Heart's storyline! It's quite touching from beginning to end. But at times the scripting is pretty terrible.
 
1. Mass Effect
2. Ace Combat: Distant Thunder /Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
3. Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
 
Dragon Age: Origins was pretty good and while the second one kept with it the game sucked. Mass Effect is sort of the same way too, great story, pretty meh game.

The past three Elder Scrolls games (Morrowind, Oblivion & Skyrim) all have had excellent stories and sub stories. I never played the first two so I'm not sure what they are like. Same goes for Fallout 3 & NV, both had good stories but I have no idea what the first ones were like.

I really liked Alpha Protocol's story too, the game was a bit strange but the story was pretty cool which made it enjoyable.
 
Don't know my exact favorite, since almost every story seems to have at least one big flaw or unexplained stuff in it, but I liked Heavy Rain, where your actions basically decide the ending...
 
Dead Space, loved the story, it was one of the most perfect blending of gameplay and story line that synced so well.
 
In nearly 20 years of gaming, one would think I'm qualified to tell what is a good story or not.

Top 15 game stories:
15. Batman(NES)
14. Final Fantasy XIII(PS3/360)
13. DC Universe Online(PS3/PC)
12. Assassin's Creed Revelation(PS3/360/PC)
11. Sonic the Hedgehog 3(Genesis)
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops(PS3/360/PC)
09. Mega Man 2(NES)
08. Final Fantasy V(Various Consoles)
07. Chrono Cross(PS1)
06. Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow(GBA)
05. Final Fantasy VIII(PS1)
04. Metal Gear Solid 4(PS3)
03. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night(PS1/Saturn/360)
02. Castlevania: Lament of Innocence(PS2)
01. Final Fantasy VI(Various consoles)
 
Sanji Himura
In nearly 20 years of gaming, one would think I'm qualified to tell what is a good story or not.
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How so? Most games aren't known for having good stories, you know... :p

As far as story goes, I think Silent Hill 2 and 4 are worthy of some praise.

Modern (as in post-V) Final Fantasy games typically have pretty decent storylines, but also have some god-awful moments that keep them from being great.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was enjoyable story-wise, but was also totally absurd and overdone. Lots of great fanservice perhaps, but not a great story.

Assassin's Creed series might be up there. I haven't beaten any of them, so I don't really know how well the stories progress as you get farther along, but they all start off very intruigingly. Combined with the lovely environments that are ripe for the picking, and I bet the stories in Assassin's Creed are pretty damn good.

The Mass Effect trilogy has been pretty damn amazing story-wise thus far, even though ME2 was basically a side-story and I'm a little unsure about how well ME3's story is gonna pan out.

Some older games that had stories I thought were awesome back when I played 'em but don't really hold up would be Perfect Dark and Hybrid Heaven, both for the N64. Both are crippled by the fact that they're trying to tell stories in a very cinematic fashion with in-game cutscenes, when the hardware just wasn't at a point to make such an approach successful. Perfect Dark is the worst out of the two, mainly because it's story gets downright silly towards the end.
 
How so? Most games aren't known for having good stories, you know...
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It all depends on how you play or approach the game really.

Modern (as in post-V) Final Fantasy games typically have pretty decent storylines, but also have some god-awful moments that keep them from being great.
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Final Fantasy VI was first released in the US as Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES. When Square Enix re-released the game in the Anthology collection(and in the process bringing V to America), they gave it its correct title back.

Assassin's Creed series might be up there. I haven't beaten any of them, so I don't really know how well the stories progress as you get farther along, but they all start off very intruigingly. Combined with the lovely environments that are ripe for the picking, and I bet the stories in Assassin's Creed are pretty damn good.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't beaten any of them myself either, but the suspense in the story is what draws me in.
 

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