Please list games that you think have good stories.

[infornography42]

Xenogears/Xenosaga

Chrono Trigger

Disgaea

La Pucelle

A bunch of the ones already listed in this thread.

Probably several more that my sleep deprived brain can't recall.

 

[tribal]

in my opinion the best stories in games are zelda-the ocarine of time and ff8

 

[robwright]

Chrono Trigger!!!!!

Good call, fantastic game. Probably the first time that infornography42 and I have agreed on something. Well played, sir.

This one deserves mentioning, too: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
Ho. Lee. Crap. That is one weird game. I you like surreal sci-fi and are a Harlan Ellison fan, check it out. Mind-boggling.

 

[Kelkins]

Fallout 1&2 are excellent Tactics wasn't

 

[suresh babu oo7]

In my status, i think assassin creed series is the best!!!

 

[sam_p_lay]

Planescape: Torment (IMHO one of the all around best games ever)

+1!

 

[casualcolors]

In no particular order and just off the top of my head:

Metal Gear Solid 1 & 3 & 4
Suikoden 2
Lunar Silver Star Story & Eternal Blue
Darksiders 1 & 2
Max Payne 3
Sleeping Dogs
Bioshock
Deus Ex & Deus Ex Human Revolution
Dishonored
The Witcher & The Witcher 2
Borderlands 2
Bastion
Final Fantasy 4 & 6 & 9
Phantasy Star 2 & 4
Shining Force 2
Chrono Trigger

 

[casualcolors]

Is this thread only for PC games? If not, I will be the first (and only) to say that, In my opinion Sonic Adventure 2 (dreamcast) has a great storyline. Its also the LAST good Sonic game ever made.


DC G4/\/\3R 4L!f3

Forgetting Sonic Generations already? lol

 

[TheGhxst]

Forgetting Sonic Generations already? lol

Check the date of the thread =p

 

[casualcolors]

Check the date of the thread =p

Holy necro. lol

 

[TheGhxst]

Holy necro. lol

I think the title needs to be edited for "FROM THE DEAD"

 

[helpstar]

la noire
john yesterday

 

[sam_p_lay]

Check the date of the thread =p

Damnit Suresh Babu!

 

[Hawkeye22]

The Thief series was excellent IMO.

 

[chocostain]

I don't know whether I'm getting old or it's just that I'm still attached to the old games.
New games don't seem that appealing. They have great graphics, yes. However they are hallow. They have a storyline, yes. However it's empty. There is no satisfaction or excitement in completing them. That's why I'm just content with multiplayer games.

Nothing beats Xenogears. It has action, drama, and everything you could ask for in a good RPG. Perhaps what's missing is the graphics but if you think of it, a lot was already achieved on the year this was created.

Perhaps it's the Nostalgia. Perhaps I'm really just getting old and there are other things which are more important right now.

Nevertheless.

Does anyone agree or it's just me?

 

[Hawkeye22]

I don't know whether I'm getting old or it's just that I'm still attached to the old games.
New games don't seem that appealing. They have great graphics, yes. However they are hallow. They have a storyline, yes. However it's empty. There is no satisfaction or excitement in completing them. That's why I'm just content with multiplayer games.

Nothing beats Xenogears. It has action, drama, and everything you could ask for in a good RPG. Perhaps what's missing is the graphics but if you think of it, a lot was already achieved on the year this was created.

Perhaps it's the Nostalgia. Perhaps I'm really just getting old and there are other things which are more important right now.

Nevertheless.

Does anyone agree or it's just me?

I think it's just because at the time some of those older games came out, nothing had been done or tried like that before and graphics were always getting better. It was all fresh and new. Now games just seem like variations of the older games. The market is flooded with nearly identical games making them feel stale.

 

[bystander]

I agree with the above, but I also think some of it is just age. The longer we are alive, the less things are new and exciting. When I was a kid, movies were awesome, but today, they are also boring to me much of the time. I find myself enduring them, rather than being captivated.

It may be that movies have gone down in quality, but when I watch movies I thought were awesome as a teenager, they look so stupid to me today.

 

[casualcolors]

Since this thread is here, necro'd or not, I'll toss in Spec Ops: The Line as well. I was impressed.

 

[TheGhxst]

I still have to give Spec Ops a try. Games back then just seemed like they were made with heart. There are a few breakthroughs today that are really good, but it just seems like they are lackluster.

 

[bystander]

I still have to give Spec Ops a try. Games back then just seemed like they were made with heart. There are a few breakthroughs today that are really good, but it just seems like they are lackluster.

You can always go to the Indie developers, you see a lot of them on Steam. Big game companies that utilize voice acting and high end quality graphics spend too much money to take a risk the risk of something unique.

I still think most of our complaints about todays games being boring is because it just takes more to impress us. We seen that and done that already.

 

[sam_p_lay]

I think that's an important point, and one I find applies equally to books and films... maybe even music, though to a lesser extent. I'd also like to try Spec Ops, though I'm on a crappy old 1GB Radeon 4870 (since my 5970 died) so until the GTX770 launch, I'm only playing games I know I can max on a 4870. Not seen anyone benchmark Spec Ops so I'm not sure I could run it.

 

[casualcolors]

My specs are in my sig, and granted a 570 is quite a step up from a 4870, but even fully maxing the game and injecting more anti-aliasing I couldn't ever get it to dip below vsync'd 60 fps. lol

 

[sam_p_lay]

I'm afraid I'd need a bit more to go on than that before buying the game I'm happy to estimate 4870 performance based on that of comparable GPUs (5770, 6770, 7750, GTX260, GTX550 Ti, GTX650) or adjacent models to those (4850, 4890, GTS250, GTX275, etc) but a 570 is about double the speed!

I've gone through Tom's, Anandtech, Tweaktown, Tech Review, Tech Spot, Tech Powerup, Bit-Tech and probably others I've forgotten, right back to 2008 on each to find games my card will max. None were benchmarking Spec Ops. I'll maybe open a thread about it and a few other games to see if anyone knows of sites that have benchmarked them.

 

[tinyE]

I'd like add the Kain series. Great story, albeit somewhat confusing. First you play Kain, then you play Kain before or is it after, then his dad, or is that his son, or his cousin, or his sister's brother's cousin last century, or his uncle's best friend's former roomate next century or...

 

[spazzolone76]

hi

the good story is Tomb Raider Anniversary and Prince of Persia the sands of time

games no recently but great satisfaction

(sorry for my english)