Games with forgettable storyline.

Any game you can come across that had a forgettable storyline.

For me it is Too Human. Granted I never finished it but know I wanna go back and play it because I can't remember nothin about the story.

Final Fantasy XII. Seriously, I could never follow or care about what was going on.

Final Fantasy XIII, all fighting games that have a story (well BlazBlue wasn't that bad), Metal Gear Solid 4 (Only MGS title I felt that way towards), Unlimited SaGa, Romancing SaGa, Army of Two, FallOut 3

i was totally confused by mw2 and resonance of fate was pretty dreadful

Red Dead Redemption. Poorly written.Sins-of-Mosin

Agreed. Great game, but horrible story-telling.

I, too, would say Final Fantasy XII.

Super Mario Galaxy. What story?

Red Dead Redemption. Poorly written.Sins-of-Mosin

Could you explain?

Call of Duty, the WHOLE series

Call of Duty, the WHOLE series

thoraxe42

Yup. I can't believe they even contemplated making Modern Warfare (the game is essentially scenes mixed together from random films) into an actual movie. That and Gears of Wars (which they also wanted to make a movie out of...).

Could you explain?

TheGrayEye

For me I felt like Marston was beating around the bush the entire game.

I understand he was: [spoiler] on a secret mission from the gub'mint to hunt down his old gang buddies. [/spoiler]

What I don't understand is why it took me til the 30th mission to find that out. The only draw to doing the missions was to find out what the damn story was about. I don't like that type of story-telling.

Ok, some games it makes sense and doesn't matter muchif the story to take a back seat to the gameplay, like FPS games, RTS ones etc.

But in RPGs? No. You dont do that. Which is why I say FO3. Pathetic storyline.

For me I felt like Marston was beating around the bush the entire game.

I understand he was:

on a secret mission from the gub'mint to hunt down his old gang buddies.

What I don't understand is why it took me til the 30th mission to find that out. The only draw to doing the missions was to find out what the damn story was about. I don't like that type of story-telling."

airshocker

I actually liked it a lot. Once you get off that train with Marston, you've essentially entered his life from only that specfic point, anything prior, we don't really know. I liked how we don't know what Dutch and his other gang members, or even his family look like, but Marston does. It also worked to effectively reveal things about his life slowly, like that *spoilers* his wife Abigail was a whore that the whole gang basically fooled around with.

Also, it wasn't exactly that hard to figure out what he was doing from the beginning of sorts. You didn't exactly want an entire dossier on Marston handed to you at the beginning of the game, did you?

Final Fantasy XII and Just Cause 2 are definitely on my list. I would also like to add Dark Sector and the Army of Two series.

Just Cause 2, even though it's one of my favorite games, has an overly-clichéd storyline.

CoD, as someone said earlier, is just a collection of random action movie scenes blended together by a storyline full of nonsense.

Fallout 3 was just so unexpected and dreadful at the same time. [spoiler] Water? It's about damn bloody water?! [/spoiler]

Final Fantasy XII and Just Cause 2 are definitely on my list. I would also like to add Dark Sector and the Army of Two series.

ZenesisX

What story in Dark Sector? For a game that looked so good. It blowed big time.

ff12 it as such a let down

CoD series, especially the Modern Warfare series, more so MW2, i sat there playing it and it just jumped from one level to another with no segway, literally as if it were a film. It really bugged me. I never noticed it with MW1, but looking back it was fairly similar.

CoD series, especially the Modern Warfare series, more so MW2, i sat there playing it and it just jumped from one level to another with no segway, literally as if it were a film. It really bugged me. I never noticed it with MW1, but looking back it was fairly similar.

lucfonzy

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developers even admitted they created the levels first and then tack the story around it.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developers even admitted they created the levels first and then tack the story around it.

klusps

Well that explains a lot.

Resident Evil 5

FF7

Demon's Souls

Borderlands

Any Call of Duty

for a few, IMO.

Uhh, RE4, Silent Hill Origins, FF3 ...

[QUOTE="klusps"]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developers even admitted they created the levels first and then tack the story around it.

TheGrayEye

Well that explains a lot.

Pretty much everything. Usually its so bad and forgettable that i forget whats happening WHILE im playing the game still.

[QUOTE="TheGrayEye"]

[QUOTE="klusps"]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developers even admitted they created the levels first and then tack the story around it.

ASK_Story

Well that explains a lot.

I never expected a good story (in fact, I made a topic saying the story would be horrible before the game came out, the fans didn't like that of course), but I didn't expect it to be the giant mess that it was. If you're going to have a story mode, and you're going to make it look very serious, then it should at least be coherent. Since most shooters play incredibly similar these days, a story is what can give it an identity, and give you a motivation as you play through it.

I don't think I have played any games that I thought the story was remarkable in anyway. I suppose I just look for the gameplay.Grand242154

Play Half-life 2, Kotor, Mass Effect, The Darkness, GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption, Assassins Creed 2, and the Uncharted games :D.

I just finished Jurassic The Hunted yesterday in about 5 hours, and don't even remember what the storyline is about already, it was so bland and un-decriptive/deep that it makes me sick. It was a good rental no doubt though.

I just finished Jurassic The Hunted yesterday in about 5 hours, and don't even remember what the storyline is about already, it was so bland and un-decriptive/deep that it makes me sick. It was a good rental no doubt though.

Any game you can come across that had a forgettable storyline.

For me it is Too Human. Granted I never finished it but know I wanna go back and play it because I can't remember nothin about the story.

cjohnson007

I think there are far more games with forgettable story lines than those with memorable ones.

Kingdom Hearts. Right now I'm trying to think of what happened in that game other than Sora saved the "princess" and then Goofy and Donald made some obnoxious noise. I know there was a key involved somewhere in there.

Oh and also Devil May Cry. I forgot why he even went into that castle in the first place other than it having to do with some chick on a motorcycle knocking down half the building. Or something...

[QUOTE="Grand242154"]I don't think I have played any games that I thought the story was remarkable in anyway. I suppose I just look for the gameplay.TheGrayEye

Play Half-life 2, Kotor, Mass Effect, The Darkness, GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption, Assassins Creed 2, and the Uncharted games :D.

I think it will be Chrono Cross for me.

Final Fantasy XII. Seriously, I could never follow or care about what was going on.

BuryMe

Same here...I never knew what the hell was going on or why...couldn't even remember some characters...

Just Cause 2's story.Crimsader

[QUOTE="airshocker"]For me I felt like Marston was beating around the bush the entire game.

I understand he was:

on a secret mission from the gub'mint to hunt down his old gang buddies.

What I don't understand is why it took me til the 30th mission to find that out. The only draw to doing the missions was to find out what the damn story was about. I don't like that type of story-telling."

TheGrayEye

I actually liked it a lot. Once you get off that train with Marston, you've essentially entered his life from only that specfic point, anything prior, we don't really know. I liked how we don't know what Dutch and his other gang members, or even his family look like, but Marston does. It also worked to effectively reveal things about his life slowly, like that *spoilers* his wife Abigail was a whore that the whole gang basically fooled around with.

Also, it wasn't exactly that hard to figure out what he was doing from the beginning of sorts. You didn't exactly want an entire dossier on Marston handed to you at the beginning of the game, did you?

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