Which PC Game has best story line??

[Serial_Killer]

Title says it all ,
I think Diablo II had awesome story, POP:WW and Halo also were pretty good .

What do u guyz think...

[Ethan_Hunt]

The best i Liked was Hitman 2 both gameplay wise and storyline wise....as the game is totally connected with its unique storyline and goes hand in hand with the gameplay....awesome game and definetly a worth play....the rest games havent paid much attention to storyline and stuff

[Mr.47]

HITMAN I'M MR.47
HITMAN 2 HAD A GREAT ENDING SO DID HITMAN CONTRACTS
WAIT FOR HITMAN 4
ITS CALLED BLOODMONEY



STORY WISE MAX PAYNE 2 WAS REALY TRAGIC
IT BROUGHT TEARS IN MY EYES....OH MONA........

[ctrl_alt_del]

IMHO, Max Payne 1 & 2 had the most pwerful story line. You sort of connected with Max as he wnt on his rampages with a 600+ bodycount!

And Half Life 1 had a great storyline as well. Add to that the seamless level loading and the player being forced to view the world through Freemna's viewpoint all the time made up for some immersive game play.

[ycr007]

I Looved Max Payne I & Deus Ex

[ctrl_alt_del]

Did any of you guys ever try "Freedom Fighters"? Though the plot-line was with all familiar twists and turns, the alternate-future setting was an exciting game setting to start with.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by ctrl_alt_del

Did any of you guys ever try "Freedom Fighters"? Though the plot-line was with all familiar twists and turns, the alternate-future setting was an exciting game setting to start with.

i had just played it once....liked its easy playing interface and 3rd person action view......quite good game....but dun ask about the story line cause they aint of much concern to me

and yea again HL 1 did have a good storyline preciesly the reason why Hl2 had to be done with a even better storyline and Gameplay which it definetly lived upto

[ctrl_alt_del]

Story line something that is always of paramount importance to me whenever I sit down to play a game. I watch each and every FMV, listen to all the dialouges, watch all cutscenes. The gameplay for me will be half complete if I dont know why I am going to suffocate that bugger to death over there!

Coming on to good story lines, Mafia too had a great one. I just loved the old world charm of the game, with so many twist and turns. And the ending was just great! The Mob never forgets!

[Charley]

Anyhow my personal favourites have to be Max Payne and Soul Reaver,deus ex,Leisure Suit Larry series,Fallout 1 and 2, Final Fantasy 2, and 3,Starcraft.

Solid storyline,characters as well as graphics in one single package.

[cheetah]

Urban Chaos.

[hard_rock]

Story wise nothing can beat MAFIA the last scene was hearttouching,and Tommy's dialogues are awesome..........they really make u think abt wat he said....I liked the story very much.
Second Is Maxpayne-2.

[enoonmai]

Story-wise, it has be Max Payne, especially the sequel. And not to mention, Deus Ex and DX: Invisible War. Playing the final levels in the decrepit UNATCO buildings and going through its ruins was just plain freaky and totally eerie.
The other contenders would definitely have to be the Half-Life series, Tribes: Vengeance (a great approach to storytelling, in my opinion) and Doom 3. I thought the way they told the story and the way the events unfolded partly via cutscenes and partly via the PDAs was just great.

[bharathbala2003]

i liked Mafia.. MAX PAYNE.. Man Hunt.. n wat bout Enter the matrix

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by bharathbala2003

n wat bout Enter the matrix

ummm....well i say that was a total dud.....as it could have been way better than expectation....i mean seriously when the game was about to be launched i thought that there is gonna be a good storyline for itself....but nope the story begins from the same length as in The Movie Matrix Reloaded and the part where Niobe and Ghost are sent to intercept a mysterious parcel from the post office and then a series of own masala is added to extend the storyline by adding some sorry looking cut scenes and the end is a total waste i guess.....but overall it was just a plain Ok IMO

[bharathbala2003]

hmm i know it wasn upto expectations.. but then the graphics was awesome.. i first played it on a XBOX n not to say i was addicted to it.. n was playin it for bout 2 days ( not 24 hrs ) until i finished it n i do accept the end was also not upto mark..

[enoonmai]

EtM was good in a sense, but the hype surrounding it and gamers' expectations of what the game would turn out to be spoilt it. Fans of the trilogy expected it to be a seamless integration and a true Matrix experience, which it was not.
While it helps give a deeper perspective of the Matrix storyline, it was a console part and that I guess was partly its downfall. The game does a good job of tying the storylines of "Final Flight of the Osiris", Reloaded and Revolutions together, and a lot of what's being said in the movies can only be understood if you've played the game.
Same with "The Matrix Online" MMORPG. A lot of the post-Neo world and the different factions vying for power is pretty much the setting for the game, where you can either ally either with the humans, the machines or the exiles.
So, I guess the only thing that sums up EtM is - "couldve been better" especially when it comes to gameplay and graphics because all Shiny Entertainment and Atari and the Matrix team at WB wanted to do was cash in on the Matrix partywagon real fast, and they didn't mind raising the hype and inconveniencing users by pushing a badly finished game at them.
All in all, a game that's better to watch someone else play rather than play it yourself.

BTW, allwyndlima, you've got to see Final Flight of the Osiris and the rest of the 9 animated shorts in "The Animatrix" to complete the Matrix experience.

And oh, the ending was tied in perfectly with the end of The Matrix Reloaded and a bit of The Matrix Revolutions.

[borg]

Metal Gear Solid series win hands down in the story department. No competition. If u thought Max Payne had a nice story, I don't know what u would have said if u played MGS. The whole game is nothing but a huge, big, mega story.

[Ethan_Hunt]

@enoonmai.....ya i guess Atari had a total let down on the actual Story aspect of it....but rather i wasnt completly stisfied with its co-ordination to the game....the cut scenes look like a total replacement for the Oh-So dull gameplay....i mean yea sure those bullet time Combos and stuff would make u feel as if u were Ghost/Niobe but rather it just didnt click that much....plus the major setback for it was the removal of Neo and hence the game became pale considering no aspect relating to him was provided in it....So i think this was a major fallback for the games storyline as well

Btw i havent seen the Osiris final Flight yet....i believe it was an 9 min or something additional computer generated Scene i guess....not too sure about it but anyways how is it????? is the Animation Similar to Animatrix????

[DKant]

Max Payne and Deus Ex. Been a long time since I played HL, so I don't remember what it was like.

And oh, how could I forget the classic : QUAKE III ARENA!

[ctrl_alt_del]

And oh, how could I forget the classic : QUAKE III ARENA!

Pray tell me, where did you find a story in that game?!!!

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by ctrl_alt_del

Pray tell me, where did you find a story in that game?!!!

lol....its a simple one.....Xaero is supposed to be the Grand champion of a Arena (God Knows where that is)......and then there's u trying to take that championship title from him(atleast thats what i know) .....See not much talk in this game....but just the walk and "Blow whatever u see in front of ya" funda for this 3D FPS

[ctrl_alt_del]

Actually the story line goes something like you are placed in an arena where you fight for the entertainment of the ruler there. To ensure that the fight goeson forever, you are immidiately re-spawned the moment you are killed. Actually its almost a page long story but I just cant recall it. Hey Prof., care to post the story yet again?

@Prof: Know what? I tried to wade through your 2829 posts at Skoar! to find that one post where you had put up the story!

[enoonmai]

No problem, cody. Here it is:

Untold centuries ago the Vadrigar, the mysterious Arena Masters, constructed the Arena Eternal for their own infernal amusement. Virtually nothing is known of these beings except that they savor the carnage and clamor of battle. As such, they have stocked the arena with the greatest warriors of all time. And you have just joined their ranks.

As a gladiator in the Arena Eternal, you must not only survive, but also win each and every battle against ever more powerful opponents. Don't worry overly much about getting "fragged." The Vadrigar won't be cheated of their favorite sport by a little thing like death. Those who fall are instantly restored to life and immediately thrust back into the battle, perhaps a little wiser for their misfortunes.

When the dust, blood, and gibs settle, all warriors will have earned the right to battle again, providing further entertainment for the Vadrigar. But only the warrior who has fragged the most foes will be lauded as the winner. The victorious gladiator advances to a more challenging array of arenas, until, at last, he or she faces Xaero, Lord of the Final Arena.

Source: Quake 3 Arena Help File
Path: Quake3 directory/Extras/Help/Manual/index.html

@cody: Wading through all the posts? LOL, you're crazier than I imagined. Even *I* dont dare do that.

[ctrl_alt_del]

Thanks Prof! So as the help file surmises, thats the Quake 3 story. But the best story of all times??? Sorry, next please!

[drvarunmehta]

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Broken Sword - The Sleeping Dragon
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[enoonmai]

Yeah, that was one of the lamest "stories" I ever heard. It sounds cool, but it literally has next to nothing to do with the game or its gameplay. Heck, Q2 had a better storyline. Technically, the best "story" that has come out of id Software so far has been Doom 3 and RtCW.

Technically speaking, Half-Life was the first game to have a semblance of a story, and it was the first time someone professional actually worked on the script of the game. Marc Laidlaw literally was the first scriptwriter for an FPS. And it was so appealing because it WAS a true first-person shooter. You got to find out everything through the eyes of Freeman. (Man, how I loved the part where at the end of "Surface Tension" Freeman gets ambushed by the grunts who throw him in the trash compactor. Literally everything goes black and you only hear your heartbeat before you faint and wake up when you're thrown into the compactor)

Having said that, I dont know if id hired a scriptwriter for Doom 3. They must have, the storytelling was so good in that game.

[ctrl_alt_del]

Infact they did :

For the game, id has enlisted the services of science fiction writer Matthew Costello to pen the game story and dialogue. Costello is no rookie to this sort of thing -- you may recognize him as the writer of the 7th Guest and The 11th Hour games. The game has already been storyboarded from start to finish

Source:http://archive.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/doom3b/

To Myself: Should go and study now. Sems starting tomorrow!

Hitman 2
Dues Ex 1
Max Payne 2
Thief 2

[moshel]

Originally Posted by hard_rock

Story wise nothing can beat MAFIA the last scene was hearttouching,and Tommy's dialogues are awesome..........they really make u think abt wat he said....I liked the story very much.

I agree with you m8 nothing beats the ending of Mafia. That is one of very few games with a sad ending......

The story depicts the true life of many people who go on the wrong path due to bad circumstances.

[DKant]

lolz. I was kidding regarding QIIIA's story. I never even knew it had one worth 5 posts!