What Game Has The Best Story?

Probably Red Dead or Enslaved. They certainly have the best characters anyway.

Red Dead Redemption and the Assassin's Creed series.

I love Mass Effect´s story and lore.

This gen? Gray Matter easily. TIght plot that doesn't follow the cliche "OMG! save the world" plotline, characters that aren't one dimensional, behave like real people do and most of all they change because of the events in the game. Coupled with suberb writting and spiced up by tons of historical lore about Oxford.and nothing this gen comes even remotely close.

Legacy of Kain. No other game comes even close. All who went through it know :)

Out of other good stories, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Warcraft, MGS, The Longest Journey.

I really liked the story in NIER & I really like the story in Assassins Creed.

Planescape: Torment.

Witcher 2 there's no competition to it this gen.

I'd say either the MGS series or Persona 4. FFX had an awesome story too.

Baldurs gate 2

never played a game that came close to it. But I cant say if its the story itself or how the story and everything else comes together in the game. Masterpiece

Pac Man and Pitt Fall. The originals.

i liked heavy rains story

My top 5 stories of all time in games (just from top of my head, no particular order):

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Mass Effect

Albion

Quest for Glory 3

Warcraft 3

Big Rigs.

Pick one:

Deus Ex
Planescape Torment
Xenogears
The Longest Journey
Syberia
Sanitarium
Clive Barker's Undying
Max Payne 1
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island
Metal Gear Solid 1
Vampire The Masquarade: Bloodlines
Arcanum
Fallout 1
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Knights of the Old Republic 1
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Gothic 2: Gold Edition
System Shock 2
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Wizardry 8
Ultima 7 (both parts)
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Fallout: New Vegas
Betrayal at Krondor
Suikoden III
Chrono Trigger
Breath of Fire II

I have dozens more examples that have impressed me, but i can't remember all of them at the moment.

Mass Effect's & Halo's are way up there but I think KOTOR still leads the pack. :P

Witcher 2 there's no competition to it this gen.

l-lord

Nice! Never played the series. Cant wait to pick 360 version this fall.

Pick one:

Deus Ex
Planescape Torment
Xenogears
The Longest Journey
Syberia
Sanitarium
Clive Barker's Undying
Max Payne 1
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island
Metal Gear Solid 1
Vampire The Masquarade: Bloodlines
Arcanum
Fallout 1
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Knights of the Old Republic 1
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Gothic 2: Gold Edition
System Shock 2
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Wizardry 8
Ultima 7 (both parts)
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Fallout: New Vegas
Betrayal at Krondor
Suikoden III
Chrono Trigger
Breath of Fire II

I have dozens more examples that have impressed me, but i can't remember all of them at the moment.

Lucianu

Fantastic list. One of the best I've ever seen on a forum, like ever.

Out of those, I think vying for top spot would be:

• Planescape: Torment
• Syberia
• KotOR 1
• Soul Reaver
• System Shock 2
• Chrono Trigger

Silent hill 2 Nuff said.

Fantastic list. One of the best I've ever seen on a forum, like ever.

Out of those, I think vying for top spot would be:

• Planescape: Torment
• Syberia
• KotOR 1
• Soul Reaver
• System Shock 2
• Chrono Trigger

FrozenLiquid

MGS, Mafia II, Mass Effect, Gears (love the characters). Worst: Assassin's Creed, Halo Reach, Crysis 2,.BigBoss255

I've seen worse than the three you mentioned. In fact, none of them are actually that terrible. Assassin's Creed especially. It's a boring game, but the story is definitely one of its stronger points.

I'd also pick the original Mafia over Mafia II. The original Mafia was authentic to the bone. Mafia II was just going for cheap gangster thrills.

It's not the best by I like Half Life 2's. As far as story telling, atmosphere, and environments go, it's fantastic. As an actual story, it could be better. The best actual story in a game would probably be Knights of the Old Republic in my opinion.

This gen I'll go with red dead redemption. The game got very boring quick but I was so into the storyline and the characters that it made me finish it. i wish there was a movie of it cause I want to go back in it but i don't want to replay it one bit

Of all time i'll go with FF8. many hated it, not my problem I find it was the best.

For this gen 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors.

Uncharted, the closest game to a movie.

EDIT: On Handheld: TWEWY

I am going to go with:

FFVII

MGS series (especially MGS1)

Xenosaga (all episodes)

Chrono Cross

Legacy of Kain (don't remember the names of the the two games form the series I played)

I'd also pick the original Mafia over Mafia II. The original Mafia was authentic to the bone. Mafia II was just going for cheap gangster thrills.

FrozenLiquid

Ah, i forgot about Mafia, another game with a great story, fantastic atmosphere (multiplied by its wonderful soundtrack) and one of the best endings ever. (it left its mark on me, few games manage that)

Chrono Trigger, mainly because the characters are so great.

This gen, NIER.

Uncharted 2. It's the best of all action flicks in interactive form. Easily the best.hoogiewumpus

Really? I thought Uncharteed 2's story didn't even hold a candle to the National Treasure movies and those movies were pretty bad. The game presents the story well, but the actual plot is so bad.

I'm going to pick Wind Waker for this one. It's tale is definately art. It has such a strong consistancy in symbolism

Gears, Mass Effect Series, Halo Series, Assassin's Creed Series

For this gen 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors.

Wanderer5

SPOILERS ALERT:

Super Mario Land. The passion, the romance, the tears, the anguish. You could really relate to the uphill struggle of the main protagonist.

If an alien bastard took my girl i'd be on the "special" flowers and mushrooms too. You can feel how he felt when he becomes an arsonist and starts throwing fire everywhere.

And how the turtles and goombas metaphorically represent our demons and enemies. It's such a beautiful and poetic piece of moving, art. I just couldn't stop thinking about it when the credits rolled the second time. Because the magical thing is, after the first time, you get to play an even more emotionally intense version of the game.

Left 4 Dead 1 and 2

I'm creating the story. It's emergent. The creators wanted emergent story-telling. They didn't want you to play the game and start talking about Rochelle and Coach's future, but the story you and 3 other friends (or in versus some more) created.

The charectars in the game are actual perfect for the game because the actual players usually fit along these archetypes:

Theres the cynical player: (Francis, Nick)

There's the positive, but naive and unrealistic player (Loius and Ellis)

And the veteran that knows everything (Bill and Coach)

I don't have one for Rochelle or Zoey though.

The game is limited to a zombie apocolypse, in which 4 people must survive, but within the levels the players can create their own stories rather than some stupid FPS telling us about "the horrors of war" etc.

I'll be talking about how I risked my life to save my best friend, just for us to get left behind to die as the other 2 escape in the helicopter. Or the time where all of us are ready in the helicopter except the one lone survivor who crawls slowly on for a quick last minute escape as a tank just misses him as we fly away.