Looking for a good story

When it comes to games for me, I enjoy games that have great story. I have a decent amount of store credit built up at a local store and was looking for a great title that will hold me over for awhile. I've already played through Skyrim's main story and am pretty much done with it. Finishing LA Noire today or tomorrow and I've beaten Uncharted 3. I was hoping to find a game that has great story telling. I've been looking at FFXIII but I've seen alot of people laughing at the story in game. Does anyone have any suggestions?

After quick look at your game collection page (assuming it's uptodate). I'd recommend:

• Yakuza 3 and 4.
• Assassin Creed 2.
• Red Dead Redemption.
• Alice: Madness Returns.
• GTA 4.
• Folklore.
• Heavy Rain.
• InFamous.
• Metal Gear Solid 4 (if you followed previous titles story).

And maybe these games (didn't play but i watched on youtube):

• Mass Effect 2.
• Mafia 2.

A few of my favorite story-driven games:

Enslaved, MAFIA II, Alone in the Dark: Inferno.

Sadly, I really haven't updated it much. I was looking at AC2 but I believed that AC1 was a bit too repetitive for my interest, is there a big change? I played GTA 4 and hated it, just a personal thing and played through RDR on the 360. Also own ME2 on the PC.

Sadly, I really haven't updated it much. I was looking at AC2 but I believed that AC1 was a bit too repetitive for my interest, is there a big change? I played GTA 4 and hated it, just a personal thing and played through RDR on the 360. Also own ME2 on the PC.

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Sadly, I really haven't updated it much. I was looking at AC2 but I believed that AC1 was a bit too repetitive for my interest, is there a big change? I played GTA 4 and hated it, just a personal thing and played through RDR on the 360. Also own ME2 on the PC.

xGamePlayerx19

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Sadly, I really haven't updated it much. I was looking at AC2 but I believed that AC1 was a bit too repetitive for my interest, is there a big change? I played GTA 4 and hated it, just a personal thing and played through RDR on the 360. Also own ME2 on the PC.

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Those are actually pretty good if you like conspiracy laden Illuminati type stories. I liked the way AC2 progressed and integrated with the puzzles. Not a terribly captivating narrative but at least it all stuck together well.

However, overall OP, I recommend getting a book. There are some decent stories in games but it's not really a storytelling medium. Whenever I hear someone rave about the story in a game, I either find it very tedious and contrived (anything by bioware) or really pretentious and overly-dramatic (gta4 or heavy rain).

When I want a good story, I turn to movies or literature.

And I'm not saying that it's impossible to have a good game with a good story, just that they keep trying to put a movie type story or a literature type story in games when really, they need to figure out how to tell a game type story. For example, I keep getting the feeling that Rockstar wants me to feel really bad for the chartacter that dies at the end of their games (it's kind of a pattern they've got going with their games of this gen) but it always feels rather contrived and forsed so they always end up making me laugh when I feel like they want me to cry.

I found both inFAMOUS games to have spun very entertaining yarns

L.A. Noire, Mafia II, Mass Effect, and Red Dead Redemption all come to mind. Personally, I found Heavy Rain's story to be B-rated quality at best, but with a really good atmosphere and soundtrack.

Nier has a very good storyline, it's free roaming, and has very interesting characters. I'm actually kinda mad I sold it. I'm gonna have to re-buy it.

I heard Heavy Rain has a good story too.

Alpha Protocol has an amazing interactive branching story. Its a real treat. Just know your playing a RPG, not a third person shooter. It's a great game.

Red Dead Redemption has a very well told story. If you ever liked westerens at all its not to be missed. As far as gameplay, its basically a more refined GTA4 set in the west at the turn of the century.

Metal Gear Solid series. As a whole the series is great, but you need to play it as a whole. It loses most of its steam if you just get bits and pieces.

FF XIII has a very interesting story, with a lot of political and religious undertones. I think some of the peoples problem with it is that it moves slow, and some people have issues with some of the characters. I personaly like the game.

I keep hearing Nier is really good. I have never played it. Maybe its time I did.

Mafia II has the best story I have ever seen in a video game. I haven't played the MGS series as I have been scared away by the cutscenes.

• FFXIII is great, ignore them. Just don't go into it expecting it to be X, enjoy it for what it is.
• NieR tells a good story, very depressing though. Not for the faint hearted.
• Red Dead Redemption was pretty awesome IMO.
• ICO HD was beautiful, hardly any dialogue but played with all sorts of themes.
• inFamous was good, the black and white moral choices made me laugh too...
• Dragon Age: Origins is fantastic, a bit generic but it's good generic!
• White Knight Chronicles is great fun, saving the princess and transforming into 'transformer-like' knights of armour? And being able to create your own in WKCII? Yes please.

I'd like to say the Assassin's Creed series but i'm not sure. Sure I care for Ezio's story, it's pretty fantastic, however it's majorly hampered by the over-the-top desmond story arc, which is quite honestly terrible. It invades Ezio's story in parts and that really bothers me.

Yakuza 3 has a pretty good story, it's the only one of my games that has a plot that actually makes me care about what happens to the characters.

Also Siren Blood Curse has a pretty good plot that screws with your head, and you can collect archive files to read that help explain what's going on in the game so it has a real mystery-solving aspect to it.

Dead Space Games/movies/books

Assassin's Creed Series

Mass Effect Series

Orange Box

Uncharted Games

Metal Gear Solid HD collection

Metal Gear Solid 4

Bioshock

- Infamous

- Heavy Rain

- Red Dead Redemption

- Bioshock 1 & 2

- The Darkness 1 ( i haven't played 2 yet so i don't know )

- Enslaved Odessy to the West

- Alice Madness Returns

- Batman Arkham Asylum & Arkham City

- Assassins Creed 1 & 2

- Metal Gear Solid 4

- Nier

- Dragon Age origins

- Dead Space 1 & 2

• Valkyria Chronicles
• Folklore
• Uncharted series
• Disgaea 4
• Catherine
• Yakuza 4

• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• Red Dead Redemption

From the games I own, these are the ones with best stories.

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