Best Videogame Story

What game had the best story?

For me out of the games I've played Deus Ex: Conspiracy was the best. The story just sucks you in and makes you think about conspiracies and secret power plays. I hope it gets made into a movie. It would be better than Tomb Raider and the other game movies. I can't wait for the books by Aaron Allston.

Oh and Night, if you say Biker Mice from Mars...

 

Grim Fandango

 

hmm, final fantasy x and also all of the silent hill games.

 

Keen 3

 

I thought RE: Code Veronica had a pretty decent story line.

Skies of Arcadia was pretty good too.

I have to give Soul Reaver my vote for best though.

 

Silent Hill 2 had an excellent story. It just sucked you right in.

Red Dead Revolver had a really neat story.

 

I have no serious remark to add to this thread, so I will simply say:

Biker Mice from Mars

(maybe one day I'll post a video of this game)

¤Night

 

I agree wholeheartedly, Deus Ex has the best story of all the games I've played. Not only is it so immersive, the gameplay, music and plot will have you eating and breathing DX for a long time.

I hope it gets made into a movie.

IMDB says production is cancelled (it was supposed to be released this year). I have mixed feelings about this though. I don't think squeezing an awesome 50+hour game into a 2hr movie will translate well. *shrugs*

 

I'm kinda partial to 'The Suffering', personally. The story in that game is really cool. The story in both Max Payne games is great, too, along with Tron2.0's story.

 

Isn't the story of Max Payne pretty usual for cop movies?

 

For a Star Wars title: X-Wing Alliance.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein had a pretty comprehensive plot running through and the story was great... pity for the undead zombie part though But I guess that all tied in with operation resurrection.

 

Final Fantasy 7.

 

rygar had a suprisingly great story.

i think of all final fantasies, FF8 has the best story. i love the whole seed mercenary thing. mercenary schools (and i just love rinoa).

mafia had a good story too, but the playstation version of the game sucks, i cant say the same about the pc version cus i never played it.

soul calibur 1 and 2 have realy nice storys (for fighting games, that is).

silver is a nice fairy tale.

metal gear solid 2 has a quite nice cinematic story.

but i cant think of one game that has what could be called THE BEST VIDEOGAME STORY.

 

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption.

 

Kotor.

 

Ocarina of Time, Chrono Trigger/Cross, X-Wing Alliance, Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast, KOTOR, and Eternal Darkness.

At least for single games, anyway. Some of my other favorite game stories develop over the course of multiple sequels i.e. Mega Man X/Zero and Metroid. Zelda develops (or rather, kind of confuzzles) its story over many games, but OoT has enough story crammed into it to make the list.

 

Planescape : Torment

"What can change the nature of a man?"

 

Bad Dudes.

 

Obviously RPGs are gonna feature prominantly in this department, The Baldurs Gate Games are epic and the whole Child of Bhaal storyline is fantastic (although, I did find some of the character-based side stories in BG2 alot more interesting than the main plot). Planescape does it for me too.

But, those two aside, onto the list.

Anachronox, possibly Ion Storms best game ever and a superlatively crafted RPG/Satire story, which unfolds across such a vast, vivid, beautiful and ever involving universe.

Deus Ex, possibly Ion Storms other best game ever, a superlatively crafted RPG/FPS story, with government plots, and all sorts of other things that would keep the avid X-Files fan involved for months. It's not the most varied game though, and monotonously follows a path of noir, confusion and paranoia, which don't keep the game as exciting as it could be, but the Narrative and Diversive Character Development is exceptional.

FF7 eats the perverbial best videogame story cheese, seeing as it's loved by all console toting RPG players. The Game itself is AWFUL, lacklustre graphics, dire 4 dimensional controls, repetitive gameplay.
But the story entirely makes up for it, it's epic, varied, immersive, moving, full of depth and well-paced (if you can somehow turn the random encounters off).

No One Lives Forever easily wins the best FPS plot, with a scenario packed full of style, and an entirely witty and immersive story that easily rivals any 007 cinema offering.

StarCraft easily has the best story in any strategy game, the three races offer so much depth of story, and the Kerrigan wild-card is played well throughout the whole scenario and into Brood War.

Grim Fandango is the best old skool adventure story (seeing as Sam and Max and DOTT are just pure satire).

 

TIE Fighter.

 

Kotor,Jk2

 

*Grumbles* Everyone should be voting for KotOR, I don't know what's wrong with yall!

All though I will say the story has dulled a bit in my mind seeing as I've played it through 5 times.


But yeah, that or Jedi Knight. Now that was just cool. But part of that was probably due to my wicked crush on Yun.

 

*Grumbles* Everyone should be voting for KotOR, I don't know what's wrong with yall!
Because BioWare have quite often come up with better
(cough cough Do I have to mention Baldurs Gate again? cough)

 

Besides, GL did the KOTR story MUCH better in his films/