Forbes: Let me be clear. This list has nothing to do with sales. Repeat, nothing to do with sales. This list has everything to do with story and plot complexity. I can’t judge on game play, because a lot of mechanics are simply skinned from one game to another within development companies. Nor am I judging multiplayer. Which means games that are solid base don that component alone are disqualified. As such, you might not agree with some of my choices. But I stand by each and every name I put on this list.
This is about story mode and the writing that goes into it. This is about dialogue, suspense, and twists we don’t see coming. This is about campaign mode, not multiplayer. This is about brilliance and immersion. This is about those curve balls you don’t see coming. But this is about great games. Games that you want to play. Games that get you lost within their universe. Games that grab hold and never let go.
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
Mad max ikr! Far cry primal, it amuses me how ubisoft just left ac unity hanging, sadly most of the good staff left from rocksteady while being forced to make that abomination smh
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
Life is Strange developer Don't Nod currently has five unannounced games in the pipeline.
Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain - in best written games and no Witcher 3 Wild Hunt????? Surely, this website is a complete mess!!!
You can call Kojima many things, but a good story writer? nay, even his voice actors think he's not very good at writing for characters
Seems like a sort of simplistic list focused on AAA titles, with a small helping of lower-budget stuff. The Order never really struck me as anything more than the first half of a high school student's creative writing project turned into a game. Several important unresolved plot threads, generic characters (save for the cheeky French guy), cliched from top to bottom.
As much as I really like Life Is Strange...eh...I'd still be conflicted about that on the list too.
Witcher 3 #1. Order 1886 #2. Haha
I liked the story in The Order, until it just stopped and credits rolled. It was like reading half a novel then just stopping, where was the ending? It almost felt like they only finished half the game then shipped it before finishing the other half.