Games With Great Story Lines

[partyprobe]

I want to know what games did you think had some of the greatest story lines ever. I dont care what system or how old the game is . I will start it off by saying one of the greatest story lines ever has to be legend of the dragoon. It made me play it over and over and it helped that the game was amazing.

[Gerbil-Man]

my favorite game was final fantasy 7 dirge of cerebus, it follows the story of Vincent Valentine as he treis to remeber what happened to the women he loved, Lucrecia

[Corwin]

Legend of Dragoon of course was a great storyline as was Final Fantasy XII and Star Ocean 'Til the End of Time, and one of my personal favorites of course, were the storylines from Kingdom Hearts I and II

[partyprobe]

i think a majority of the final fantasies had good story lines and i loved kingdom hearts 1 and 2.

[Corwin]

yes they did, of course I also forgot to add Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, and just for the hell of it, Earthbound, let's face it, a large number of the rpg's released by Square and it's later incarnations have become golden hits, they are the poster child for great storylines

[quietchat]

Legend of Dragoon, freaking owns the gaming discussion.

On that note, there's alot of games with good stories, but good is subjective of course. Unless it's final fantasy, then it's gotta be good. Unless it's in X with the Tidus laughing cutscene... or XI with it's lack of story... or XII with it's forgettable plot.

[Gerbil-Man]

ya' know what game kicked ass? Super Mario Brothers thats what

[partyprobe]

yes they did, of course I also forgot to add Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, and just for the hell of it, Earthbound, let's face it, a large number of the rpg's released by Square and it's later incarnations have become golden hits, they are the poster child for great storylines

You got that right they have had so many good titles that it would be hard to name them all. I would love to put forth god of war. theres nothin like a mortal rising to power then going mad with it.

[quietchat]

Well, XII is forgettable to me

[partyprobe]

Legend of Dragoon, freaking owns the gaming discussion.

On that note, there's alot of games with good stories, but good is subjective of course. Unless it's final fantasy, then it's gotta be good. Unless it's in X with the Tidus laughing cutscene... or XI with it's lack of story... or XII with it's forgettable plot.

are you talking about 12 or x2 because one of those did suck.

[quietchat]

12, I would said Ten-2 as X-2

[partyprobe]

12, I would said Ten-2 as X-2

lol i get you now. i always loved the story in the metal gear solid 1 it was so complex.

[Corwin]

FF XII was pretty good, I personally liked the gameplay and storyline, even FF X wasn't that horrible, I just wasn't too happy w/ the ending, FFXI had a storyline, it just required about 100hrs of gameplay to see enough of it to know what the hell was going on but that's what you get for expecting a storyline from an online game, it was good though, and I definitely had fun w/ the summoner class in that game, but as far as an mmorpg went, it tanked in my opinion except for the storyline, as for FF X-2, that would be the only FF I think that didn't really have a good storyline, it could have been good, but they tried to make too many twists and turns and surprising plot revelations, that it just ended up getting to the point where I don't think anyone cared, especially after they realized it was really just a port of "Barbie Dress Up: The Final Fantasy Edition"

[Koopaking]

The story of Final Fantasy VII is one of the most highly developed, most well articulated story in any video game ever. They incredible amount of writing they put into every character, every area, and the history is staggering. Hardly any video games have matched the deep mythos of the world of Final Fantasy VII, which is truly one of the greatest games ever made.

(I did like Final Fantasy IX better though heheheh)

[partyprobe]

Ive noticed that apparently the best storylines have come from final fantasy but i dont get why people complain about there being to many. They have to be doing something right if we are sitting here going down the list that we are naming and 8 was one of my favs lol.

[analogZero]

The story of Final Fantasy VII is one of the most highly developed, most well articulated story in any video game ever. They incredible amount of writing they put into every character, every area, and the history is staggering. Hardly any video games have matched the deep mythos of the world of Final Fantasy VII, which is truly one of the greatest games ever made.


amen, the story itself was so amazing, plus all the secret back stories that were to be found as well. not to mention the link up of the beginning to the end. Gave me chills the first time I finished it. truly my favorite game story.
I think chrono cross totally completed chrono trigger. It was an amazing sequel story wise.
I like valkyrie profile's story so much. It's like a bunch of interwoven short stories with a mirroring story at the centre. Plus the subtle mysteries that lurked about in it made it really interesting.

[monsoon 10]

Grand theft auto 4 anybody who has played the game will know what I mean.

[Corwin]

huh? are you on crack? a GTA game coming in for best storyline? next thing you're going to be saying is that Soul Calibur or Street Fighter should win for best storyline, or maybe Britney's Dance Beat will win best graphics and gameplay, seriously what are you thinking?

[Mugen]

I'll be strange and throw in a game that IS NOT an RPG.

Half Life. That game is so rich in detail. Okay, so the main character doesn't talk...but that doesn't subtract from the fun.

I also thought KoToR had an excellent story line. (From what I can remember.)

[Corwin]

yeah KoToR was fun and I have heard that Half-Life had a very interesting story, another fun one of course is Baiten Kaitos, I didn't like the battle system but the overall story and gameplay was fun

[Blooddrunk]

Kindom Hearts I and II, and final fantasy VIII

[partyprobe]

Thinking back i loved all of the dot hack games and their story line was kindive like the anime but i still loved all 7 of them.

[quietchat]

To the person that said GTA had a good storyline: GTA has good writing and voice acting, but unless you double checked it you probably couldn't figure out what the plot is supposed to be about.

[jamjfly]

I would have to say Kingdom Hearts I and II and also Rygar. I also thought that Shadow Hearts I and II had good storylines as well.

[partyprobe]

I agree with the people that said gta has no storyline worth bring forth in here. Half the time people dont do it because they dont care that dosent sound like a great storyline game to me. Would you start that game all over just for the story no you wouldnt.

[Mugen]

To the person that said GTA had a good storyline: GTA has good writing and voice acting, but unless you double checked it you probably couldn't figure out what the plot is supposed to be about.

Many reviewers have said that GTA: IV has award winning dialogue.

[partyprobe]

Many reviewers have said that GTA: IV has award winning dialogue.

The dialouge yes but the story is still pointless every one does it to get to all the places on the map.

[Mugen]

The dialouge yes but the story is still pointless every one does it to get to all the places on the map.

The story, as always, is working your way to the top of the "food chain".

[Rincewind]

Lost oddyssey has a great story and so does many of the games mentioned by you guys :D

[quietchat]

The story, as always, is working your way to the top of the "food chain".

Let's put it this way; All of Shakesphear's works are considered masterpieces, but if your actor blows then it's underappreciated as a play. If you have a play with a confusing plot, and you don't understand it by the end, but your actors have the greatest emotion and range, you have people that will go on to do great things, but a writer who's gonna live on the street. The performers are the only ones remembered.


Now, the most I've been able to figure out with GTA 4 involves someone immigrating to New York. That's pretty much it. However, everyone loves the writing for the dialogue, and the voice actors go very well to their intended parts, but the plot, the story, I have no idea if there even is one past the immigration part.

[partyprobe]

That was well said. But moving on i think Call Of Duty 4 had a great story line and a sad ending. I think that was the best story line for a war game in a while.

[Mugen]

Let's put it this way; All of Shakesphear's works are considered masterpieces, but if your actor blows then it's underappreciated as a play. If you have a play with a confusing plot, and you don't understand it by the end, but your actors have the greatest emotion and range, you have people that will go on to do great things, but a writer who's gonna live on the street. The performers are the only ones remembered.


Now, the most I've been able to figure out with GTA 4 involves someone immigrating to New York. That's pretty much it. However, everyone loves the writing for the dialogue, and the voice actors go very well to their intended parts, but the plot, the story, I have no idea if there even is one past the immigration part.

Wrong. That's not the whole plot. The main plot to GTA: IV is that Niko us trying to find one of his comrades that betrayed him on a number of occasion's.

[monsoon 10]

The story, as always, is working your way to the top of the "food chain".

....Oh God no! I'm assuming you didn't even bother playing the game, this time the story mostly deals with the themes of the trouble a war can create for its veterans, the american dream, and surviving by having to do awful things.

[Dark Zeik]

Final Fantasy IX, the only game to date to make me cry at the ending. Go ahead and make fun of me, you would of cried too if you played it.

[Mugen]

....Oh God no! I'm assuming you didn't even bother playing the game, this time the story mostly deals with the themes of the trouble a war can create for its veterans, the american dream, and surviving by having to do awful things.
Yes, I did bother to play it. I also completed it. ^_^

[daaavid]

Final Fantasy VII and X have the best stories in my opinion. I've always enjoyed Silent Hill stories too... although they are definitely not in the same league.

[monsoon 10]

Yes, I did bother to play it. I also completed it. ^_^

I'm guessing you didn't take any of the escort friend missions, or never spared anybody from tasting bullet.

[partyprobe]

Final Fantasy IX, the only game to date to make me cry at the ending. Go ahead and make fun of me, you would of cried too if you played it.

I almost did but it was a good ending so dont feel alone

[Sir Skitzo]

I like the Final Fantasy storylines, never played 'em, only watched my nephew, RPG's are not for me. I do FPS, and there is little to no story line in a FPS.

[Dark Zeik]

I like the Final Fantasy storylines, never played 'em, only watched my nephew, RPG's are not for me. I do FPS, and there is little to no story line in a FPS.

I thought Halo's and Cod4's had good stories...

[partyprobe]

IM just asking does any one else think call of duty 4 had one of the best ending but was really really sad for a game like that.

[analogZero]

....Oh God no! I'm assuming you didn't even bother playing the game, this time the story mostly deals with the themes of the trouble a war can create for its veterans, the american dream, and surviving by having to do awful things.

I've been making my way through gta 4 and it's a cool story, gotta agree. "welcome to the layer cake" jumpin out of a pile of crap only to step in sh*t and the wiping that ensues to make you spic and span. climbing the retarded ladder that is life. I mostly love the way they can ridicule the "american dream" and make it appear so illogical and meaningless.
I think the stories to most of the new school gta games are good ( except vice city is pretty much just a scarface rip off). The problem is there's so fn much going on in gta games, such as sub missions, cruising around, having to run stupid errands and doing favours for people that the main story gets mixed into the crowd. Maybe 25% of the missions in most of them can tie into the main story development, so it's not the steady progression that most other games have going for them.

I've always enjoyed Silent Hill stories too... although they are definitely not in the same league.

I actually love the silent hill stories, they were great games apart from the scaring the piss out of you factor. silent hill 2 had a great story.

[Sir Skitzo]

I thought Halo's and Cod4's had good stories...

I would say "good", but compared to the "great" FF series, there is a pretty big gap.

[partyprobe]

I would say "good", but compared to the "great" FF series, there is a pretty big gap.

True there is never going to be a series better suited with story telling like Final Fantasy.

[Mugen]

I'm guessing you didn't take any of the escort friend missions, or never spared anybody from tasting bullet.
Actually, I've got about 41 hours clocked on single player. I'll take a picture later. ^_^_^_^

Also, I'd like to throw Bioshock in there while I still can. They are now going to milk the series of what it's got because the have announced a trilogy. :'/

[Rincewind]

GTA 4 has great voice acting and stuff, but hey , where is the story, lol
story : immigrate -- this long , kill ppl and steal cars this long --------------------------------------------------------------, lol

Bioshock , Oblivion and Lost oddysey , thats story man :D

[Shigami]

According to me warcraft and gothic has the best story line.

[Russkie]

I love the GTA stories. I dont know what it is about them, but I find them highly entertaining and enjoyable. I have not played GTA 4 yet, but so far I like Vice City's story the most.

[Corwin]

well I don't remember if I already mentioned them but Koudelka and of course it's 3 sequels Shadow Hearts 1, 2 and 3, and I have to agree the silent hill games were fun but man, I don't want to start another one on a dark night w/o a buddy, they certainly have the suspense part down

[Sir Skitzo]

well I don't remember if I already mentioned them but Koudelka and of course it's 3 sequels Shadow Hearts 1, 2 and 3, and I have to agree the silent hill games were fun but man, I don't want to start another one on a dark night w/o a buddy, they certainly have the suspense part down

Those Silent Hill games were great, kept me on the edge of my seat, kept my heart pumpin, and.....somtimes....about made me wet myself. lol. (Not really)
I cant say that for the Resident Evil series, those felt almost predictable in their plot, but they did have a real "Shock" value, if you know what i mean.

[Corwin]

yeah, I remember starting Resident Evil 2, on N64, 1am, lights out, heavy storm outside, lighting and booming thunder, first time something popped out at me I almost screamed, they do have the whole suspense thing down, but the story hasn't really changed as much over each game as Silent Hill has, although I am curious, I never got a chance to play Silent Hill 4: The Room(I think 4 was the room), and I've been wondering if it was any good, it looked very interesting, I just didn't have an xbox

[Sir Skitzo]

I havnt played 4(the room) yet, im lookin for a used copy at the local stores now, b4 i order online.

[atomicwarz]

phantom dust kicked ass... pretty original.... and final fantasy 8 was a very original storyline as well. and both had interesting gameplay compared to others. ff8 was basicaly a final fantasy with a tweaked magic system, but phantom dust was just awesome

[Mugen]

Why wasn't Resident Evil 4 scary? Did anyone feel this? (It didn't subtract from the fun).

[quietchat]

Maybe it's just you aren't the one scared. My friend came over once with a remake of Res Evil 1 on gamecube and scared me half to death just by touching my shoulder.... Then he did it again intentially and I scared him into thinking I had a heart attack.

[Mugen]

Maybe it's just you aren't the one scared. My friend came over once with a remake of Res Evil 1 on gamecube and scared me half to death just by touching my shoulder.... Then he did it again intentially and I scared him into thinking I had a heart attack.
Yeah, that's Resident Evil 1. I've got that for Gamecube. That IS scary. Resident 4 is not.

[ziggie]

You got that right they have had so many good titles that it would be hard to name them all. I would love to put forth god of war. theres nothin like a mortal rising to power then going mad with it.

the metal gear solid series has a great storyline

[leerock89]

Super Mario World N64

[quietchat]

I don't know that mario has good storylines. It's like when we were talking about GTA 4, good writing but not much story.

[Mugen]

I wouldn't say Mario Myself...not the best story in the world.

[quietchat]

If you want a good story then I would lean closer to Zelda or maybe Metroid than Mario.

[ziggie]

yeah, I remember starting Resident Evil 2, on N64, 1am, lights out, heavy storm outside, lighting and booming thunder, first time something popped out at me I almost screamed, they do have the whole suspense thing down, but the story hasn't really changed as much over each game as Silent Hill has, although I am curious, I never got a chance to play Silent Hill 4: The Room(I think 4 was the room), and I've been wondering if it was any good, it looked very interesting, I just didn't have an xbox

ive played silent hill 4 awesome storyline and really scary

[partyprobe]

Well i think that ninja gaiden has a great story line. For a modern ninja to be fighting fiends and crazy **** its an amazing mixture of stuff.

[mixpebz]

Well,there's Metal Gear.

[quietchat]

No, not Metal Gear. It's impossible to understand, it's the Twilight Zone with robots and weapons.

[Sadrith]

the Metal gear solid series had a very good story line. So did the resident evil games.

[Corwin]

Yeah Metal Gear does have a pretty good storyline, it's a little hard to understand parts of it until you've seen the whole series, but it's a very good story

[Sir Skitzo]

No, not Metal Gear. It's impossible to understand, it's the Twilight Zone with robots and weapons.

The Metal Gear games would rate a 6.5/10 in my book, above average but not great. And yeah, they are hard to understand. I still haven't got the monkey mask! LOL.

[partyprobe]

The Metal Gear games would rate a 6.5/10 in my book, above average but not great. And yeah, they are hard to understand. I still haven't got the monkey mask! LOL.

Well that book is stupid because metal gear solid had changed many things about video games and no 6.5 series is going to do that. Metal Gear Solid is one of the reasons that the playstation was so great. And the story line is not that hard to understand if you have played them all. But the story line was one of the greatest and the game play will never be forgotten as one of the first tatical sneaky games to come out.

[Shigami]

Actually,warcraft series,have from what i know,4 book's on sale,that is describing the storyline,from the very beggining to the end.Can't recall any other game having such a story.And yes,i'm talking about warcraft the strategy game not *World of warcraft*

[Corwin]

World of Warcraft extended the storyline, it's just it was so spars, and even in when they did make an effort to continue the story it was always through the major raids that only a select elite really made it not only to, but finished, so only they got the benefit of the extended storyline, if I had to pick an MMORPG that had a storyline I'd say FFXI Online, I may not have liked the lvling system and certain aspects of the battle system, but it did have a great story line and continuing development available to all players not just the elite who could spend 18hrs a day on the game

[Sir Skitzo]

Well that book is stupid because metal gear solid had changed many things about video games and no 6.5 series is going to do that. Metal Gear Solid is one of the reasons that the playstation was so great. And the story line is not that hard to understand if you have played them all. But the story line was one of the greatest and the game play will never be forgotten as one of the first tatical sneaky games to come out.

What part of this thread is about "Gameplay". If your gonna throw hate my way, at least keep it on topic, the story is "just another shooter" and felt like it was from a "Cookie cutter", the plot twists? the memorable moments? There weren't any for me. But you can throw your "Stupid" comments at me all you want.

[AyumiBee]

Actually,warcraft series,have from what i know,4 book's on sale,that is describing the storyline,from the very beggining to the end.Can't recall any other game having such a story.And yes,i'm talking about warcraft the strategy game not *World of warcraft*

i think the online warcraft has got that history too ;) i read most of the warcraft books and the game is nearly the same for example when Thrall escape, i think it has got an amazing storyline

[Shigami]

i think the online warcraft has got that history too ;) i read most of the warcraft books and the game is nearly the same for example when Thrall escape, i think it has got an amazing storyline

Well,yeah it has the same story line but it's an moorpg..I mean basicly,it doesn't have any story,the main point is gain level..
On the other hand when you play warcraft,you play through the story.

[partyprobe]

The game dino crisis for the ps1 had a story line i liked even thou it was the standard something has gone wrong and we have to fix it.

[RzXzB]

I would Say Doom 3

[Shigami]

I would Say Doom 3
DooM 3? Like yeah,aboard this spaceship and kill zombies.
What a great story,should have won an oscar.

[Mugen]

I was ABOUT to throw in Shadow Of The Colossus into the mix...then realised..the story is insanely simple.

[Corwin]

So was Ico's storyline, but it was still good, I kind of wish Ico had a sequel, just to find out what happens, as for World of Warcraft, like I said, it had a very good storyline, the problem was that it wasn't easily accessible to most players like the storyline in the mmorpg FFXI Online was, it's not that mmorpg's don't have storylines, it's just that some of them manage to incorporate the storylines into the games well, and some do a horrible job, WoW did a decent job, but didn't make it accessible enough, except in the basic quest portions, whereas FFXI made it very accessible to all players, the lvl system was just annoying as hell, I'm sure there were one or two more mmorpg's w/ a good storyline, such as Trickster Online, that sounds good from what I've read about it, not the greatest storyline but good, I just haven't played a ton of mmorpg's

[atomicwarz]

noone agrees on phantom dust -_- and kingdom hearts was enjoyable too. all 3. dunno why people hate kh chain of memories so much.

[Corwin]

my only problem w/ KH:CoM was that stupid card battle system, I could have lived w/ using cards to create the new areas, that was kind of neat, master of each world, but I'm not a big fan of card battles, they might as well set it up so i can play Texas Hold'em against the enemies, it seems about as intelligent, last card battle system I was willing to play was Baiten Kaitos, it was good but the card system got old real quick even though it was somewhat innovative, CoM couldn't even really claim innovation for theirs even w/ the combo system

[monsoon 10]

I would Say Doom 3

Story:
Check it guys I'm a grizzled space marine. Oh what's that some demonic creature *Kills*.

In short you fail.

[partyprobe]

since ive played it today im going to say fear had a great story line and it waso creepy.