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Top 5 Game Stories

Overmind Writes "Gamers are a hard bunch to please. We can always find something wrong with a game. ALWAYS. Yet one feature of a game that seems to be forgotten about, at least in the crowd I talk with / see, is the story. A lot of people I talk to don't care about stories in games, some people I talk to haven't even completed or even touched the single player in some games and just went straight to the multiplayer. No matter what way you look at it there will always be some people who just don't care about the narrative of things, and that is just not acceptable."

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hay5379d ago

Fail list IMO. No MGS, FF or Mass Effect.

Hato-kun5379d ago

Did you read the end of the article?

"Now obviously, I didn’t add a lot of games you may have added, like, oh I don’t know, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid etc, but that is because this is MY list."

morgadeth5379d ago

Read the article before commenting.

Tony P5379d ago

The best story I've ever seen in any game I've ever played in my 20+ years of experience is w/o a doubt Planescape: Torment. This isn't "best game evar" or anything, but the meat-- the story --imo is second to none.

FFVII, MGS. These have epic stories as well. What makes me rate them not as high is the fact that they are seemingly complex for the sake of complexity.

Mass Effect is only just beginning. The first game told its story well and the best dynamic was Saren and Sovereign. Beyond that it's cool, but not best of anything right now.

SotC is interesting because it's minimalism at its best in a game. I wouldn't say the story is incredible because of it though.

Warcraft, despite my feelings about the franchise is an admirable addition. It's practically it's own campaign setting by now. The lore is very deep, a lot deeper than your average game ever gets so I admire it. But so too do I admire Elder Scrolls. It has only a few games, but the lore is incredibly complex and deep at the risk of being completely optional to read about in-game.

mal_tez925379d ago

And MGS should be there as well.

Philip J Fry5379d ago

It may be his list, but I have a feeling he has not played many games. My favorite game story is Bioshock followed by Mass Effect. To put Assassin's Creed on the list just lunacy to me. That is just MY opinion.

hay5378d ago (Edited 5378d ago )

@1.1 and 1.2: First of all, who the hell is this guy and how important he is to defend his opinion? Secondly, why should we gife a damn about his opinion? It's the same as with me.
You shouldn't give a f*ck about my opinion as much as his.

The difference? I didn't went through all the trouble creating a blog using existing blogsystem script. It's a gaming blog and this entry is an opinion of a... Student?

And look at the list. It kinda reminds me as if it's written by a kid who grewn up on Jak series, played some recent games like AC(while story isn't great at all, it's just OK) and UC is a WoW geek and added Shadow of Colossus cause it's cool to love this game recently.

Common sense dudes, common sense. OR, let me quote Philip J. Fry: MY opinion.

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JonnyBigBoss5379d ago

WARCRAFT? Come on now, is this article serious?

1. Metal Gear Solid Series
2. Final Fantasy 7

2FootYard5379d ago

My list would include MGS, Bioshock, Mass Effect, FF7, and Chrono Cross.

JonnyBigBoss5379d ago

Chrono Cross/Chrono Trigger and Mass Effect have terrific stories. I'd add those to my list as well.

Tehdaza5379d ago

No Half-Life or Metal Gear Solid?

Fail list.

xb0x_trashie5379d ago (Edited 5379d ago )

the story of the xbox rrod fail is a legendary story

millions of ppl already know

it will be in history

54% people agree

Pandamobile5379d ago

Are you ever not trolling? I mean seriously, every article I see has some stupid comment from you about 54%

Wakka_5379d ago

Every PS3 fanatic mentions the 54% in every article.

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Two Decades Later, the Original Splinter Cell is Still a Masterpiece

They don't make games like this anymore.

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vgvill4d ago

Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.

Jingsing4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.

TheProfessional4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.

rlow14d ago

I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.

vgvill4d ago

They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.

PrecursorOrb4d ago

Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company

Chocoburger3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.

Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!

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A Matter Of Trust: What The Game Industry Should Do To Win Gamers Back

Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.

anast10d ago

Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.

Garethvk9d ago

How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.

anast9d ago

Wait until release. Watch Gameplay. Exercise patience.

Garethvk9d ago

But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.

1nsomniac9d ago

Get rid of the suits in the industry and job done!!

Garethvk9d ago

They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.

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From The Last of Us to Baldur's Gate 3: The success of the Game Music Festival

Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.

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