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[Abraham_uk]

Warning. This post contains a lot of waffling.

All the games I've played either have a plot that is too simplistic (nearly all of the Mario Games) or a plot that is too complex (all of the Final Fantasy Games FFVII onwards. Before FFVII they were the opposite extreme).

Well written game maybe Twilight Princess. Sure the plot isn't all that complex, but it's engaging. There is a lot of pathos thought the story.

Bioware games are decent when it comes to plot, but what makes Bioware stories great is their characters. Larger than life characters really steal the show.

Final Fantasy's strength is in their characters too. FFXIII seems to be the exception to that rule.

FFXII is the only game in the series to pull of the whole multiple opposing factions without being too complex. You know preciesly who all the enemies are. You know who is trying to userp who and you know who the spineless power craving maniac is. You know what each party member thinks about the situation and you know what you have to do about the situation. It's a little bit on the convoluted side but it's well written enough for you to get the gist of what's going on. Just don't delve deeper into Final Fantasy games (your head would explode).

No games really take the title for well written. As for Resident Evil they are extremely scary but the fear factor is ruined by exposition delivered by evil Umbrella agents trying to explain their convoluted plans. Is it just me or does Umbrella's motives make no sense? The films were even worse for this. They might as well ditch the plot and focus all their attention on shooting zombies (which is the only thing Resident Evil gets right).

Perfect Dark is silly fun and has a good plot. No engaging characters. Though there is a cute alien who talks like Mordin.

You know what? I can think of a few games that really excelled in the plot department.

Forced Unleashed!
Infameous!
Bully!


I was going to put Dragon Age Origins but the A plot is a bit cliche. Do loads of quests that involve far more interesting subplots to reunite the world against the Reapers I mean Darkspawn. Come on Dragon Age Orgins and Mass Effect 3 have the same plot.

I haven't played the Deus Ex games.

Modifié par Abraham_uk, 22 février 2012 - 01:08 .

[fatalfeline]

Whoa I totally forgot about Ghost Trick. The plot twists in that game are ludicrously awesome.

[General User]

Best written ever?

Not really a game in and of itself, but Neverwinter Nights II: Mask of the Betrayer was awesomely written.


Maybe Starflight?  Though it's honestly hard for me to say why I loved Starflight so much.

Just for fun:
"Yep, Starflight was a key inspiration for the ME series. It's now older than some ME3 team members!" - Casey Hudson

Modifié par General User, 22 février 2012 - 01:38 .

[AkiKishi]

Abraham_uk wrote...


Final Fantasy's strength is in their characters too. FFXIII seems to be the exception to that rule.

I had to drag myself through FFXIII. Oddly enough FFIII-2 is a completely different story. Noel ,Sarah and thier "pokemon" make the game tremendous fun leaping across time removes the on rails feel and rather than trying to spread things across what I thought were not particualrly likeable characters. Only liked Lightning,Vanille and Fang.

No one beats Tiffa and Yuffi though.

[Nageth]

In order of release the three stand out ones are:

Deus Ex (oh Black Helicopter, why do I love you so)
Mass Effect (1)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Edit: Kotor is kind of a love hate thing due to what got cut from the games.

Modifié par Nageth, 22 février 2012 - 01:24 .

[Jon Phoenix]

Force Unleashed and Jade Empire, runner up, Escape from Butcher Bay.

[Zatou]

Jynthor wrote...

Anything Elder Scrolls, not the main quest stories, because those are pretty basic, but the lore is goddamn awesome and well written and that's why it's my favourite fictional universe.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
I like how they integrate every race into different provinces with diverse cultures.
The Witcher games are also damn cool

But anyways, this is not ME3 related.
I must contact the Cyber-Police at once and have them send the Party temple.

Modifié par Zatou, 22 février 2012 - 01:25 .

[Alicia Keys]

I'm playing Persona 3 FES right now and find it a excellent story and character driven RPG....I'm near the end though and it's a tough game gameplay wise....I'm playing on easy too...

Will play Persona 4 later on sometime....I hope it's even better than Persona 3 FES....

Also I have Catherine. Is this game a great story and character driven game too? Also when does Persona 5 come out? I would really like to see one on these next gen consoles...

[madclaw]

Zork

[Taradil]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Fallout: New Vegas (The Old Blues DLC was pure gold), Warcraft III, Ratchet and Clank Series (not all of them, but some had some really clever comedic writing).

[Iakus]

1 Baldur's Gate 1 &2
2 Fallout 2
3) Planescape: Torment
4) Deus Ex
5) KOTOR2 (with restoration mod)

[Abraham_uk]

BobSmith101 wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...


Final Fantasy's strength is in their characters too. FFXIII seems to be the exception to that rule.

I had to drag myself through FFXIII. Oddly enough FFIII-2 is a completely different story. Noel ,Sarah and thier "pokemon" make the game tremendous fun leaping across time removes the on rails feel and rather than trying to spread things across what I thought were not particualrly likeable characters. Only liked Lightning,Vanille and Fang.

No one beats Tiffa and Yuffi though.

FFXIII was enjoyable but mainly for the combat and the story (not the characters. Lightning and Sazz)

[dragonflight288]

Mass Effect, Jade Empire, Blue Dragon, L.A. Noire, Most Final Fantasy Game. And Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.

[shaneofthedead]

Is Alan Wake really that good?

[Armass81]

In no particular order my favorites story and writing wise:

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters
MGS 1 and 3
Final Fantasy 6 and 7
Chrono Trigger
Suikoden 1, 2 and 5
Mass Effect 1 and 2 (tough 2s story was crap, dialogue and character sidequests were good)
Deus Ex HR
Grim Fandango
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
L.A. Noire
Kotor
The Dig
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

Modifié par Armass81, 22 février 2012 - 04:03 .

[mybudgee]

The legend of Zelda Ocarina of time
KoTOR
/thread

[MoltenRock]

Star control 2 was a great game story wise in my opinion. I still like to play the port of it (which is free, how awesome is that!). Too bad star control 3 couldn't live up to its predecessor.

[suprhomre]

 1. Mass Effect so far 
 2. Bioshock1
 3. Max Payne 1,2

Sorry, in my opinion Dragon age is not a good story, it's a good game but the story is not that good. 

[fatalfeline]

suprhomre wrote...

Sorry, in my opinion Dragon age is not a good story, it's a good game but the story is not that good. 

Even if the story isn't spectacular, I don't know how anyone can say it wasn't well-written.

Modifié par fatalfeline, 22 février 2012 - 02:43 .

[Palathas]

I think the writing for Mass Effect 3 will be really good. There, it's now ME 3 related.

1) I also thought Planscape: Torment was right up there.
2) Arcanum.
3) Games like Age of Conan and Star Wars : The Old Republic with their class based story lines.
4) Baldur's Gate series.
5) Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines from the Malkavian perspective.

Modifié par Palathas, 22 février 2012 - 02:57 .

[lukex38]

1. UNCHARTED 2, AMONG THIEVES
2. MASS EFFECT
3. UNCHARTED DRAKES FORTUNE
4. MASS EFFECT 2
5. UNCHARTED 3 DRAKES DECEPTION
6. SKYRIM, not the main quest
7. FALLOUT 3

[Il Divo]

1) Legacy of Kain series.
2) Planescape: Torment
3) KotOR 2
4) Assassin's Creed
5) Bioshock
6) Heavy Rain

Honorable mentions:

7) Portal 2
8) Red Dead Redemption
9) Skyward Sword
10) Deus Ex: Human Revolution

I've yet to find anything even remotely on the level of quality of the first three, especially LoK. An incredibly brilliant blend of vampires, gothic horror, and time travel. Voice-acting remains top notch unto this day.

Modifié par Il Divo, 22 février 2012 - 02:50 .

[Soverign 666]

What a post about writing in video games and no one has commented mass effect haz terrible writing I know because I took an english class once?

But in seriousness definatly mass effect for its characters and dialouge (And a pretty good plot) guess that goes for all bioware games
Assassins creed has a pretty good plot.
Alan Wake has a good plot as well
GTA IV was also very good

[Carnage752]

Mass Effect as a whole.
Bioshock

Both tugged at heartstrings, plus were pretty awesome

Can't think of anything else...