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Games with great plot and story lines.

  • 31-10-2015 5:57pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Old Perry


    So ive been watching the cutscenes of some games lately as a subsitute for films. Most recently the last of us and also the shadow of morder.. ... So what are recent games with good cutscenes/film potential. Was thinking maybe assasins creed?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I had been watching a few of the Metal Gear Solid games that were edited into movies in preperation for MGSV, those were great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,319 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Some very recent ones that spring to mind are Witcher 3 and Life Is Strange.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Witcher 1, 2, 3. The game of thrones of video game world. Fantastic. I think they do have an actual tv series of it in Poland.
    Bioshock series have great stories. Some of the best in video games.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Recently picked up Undertale for a tenner on Steam and its the best money I've spent on a game in a long time! Don't want to say much about it for risk of spoiling it but I would wholeheartedly recommend for a genuinely compelling story experience with some fun gameplay!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

    'Wherez mah skull!'


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭Robert ninja


    The Max Payne 1/2 voiced comic strips are a work of art. Give a sit through those. Although it's a sin not to play the games.



    whole playlist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,495 ✭✭✭brianregan09


    GTA has always had movie potential given that it borrows massivley from big movies in the 1st place

    Last of US is one of the best, heavy rain , the 1st 3 resident evils before they went mental had good stories


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    Life is Strange is pretty much easily the best game story in recent memory.

    Also, Deadly Premonition, Tales from the Borderlands and Gone Home are really good as well.

    Everything else is fairly laughable.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    Actually, I would love to see the original Deus Ex made into a film. I think that would be really interesting, and would introduce a lot of people to the story who simply aren't willing to play what is now considered to be a really ugly game :pac: It'd have to be perfect though


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I thought Dishonored had good cut scenes with an excellent created steampunk world.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    Actually, I would love to see the original Deus Ex made into a film. I think that would be really interesting, and would introduce a lot of people to the story who simply aren't willing to play what is now considered to be a really ugly game :pac: It'd have to be perfect though

    There has been talk of a movie ever since it was ported over to the PS2 way back when.

    They would probably make a mess of it like all the other game to movie transitions.

    Could be excellent if done correctly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    I find games with good stories a bonus, i dont actively look out for it. I have noticed a clamour lately for games with good storylines.

    Prefer gameplay over story every time.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    No mention of Silent Hill 2? It's got one of the best stories ever written and it's not just the writing, it's the way everything in the game from the visuals to the gameplay ties into it. Most games that get praised for having great stories are just trying to ape Hollywood, and even something like Last of Us is really only aping the best that Hollywood puts. Silent Hill 2 is something that could only get done as a game and it's really something special.




  • Retr0gamer wrote: »
    50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

    'Wherez mah skull!'

    Gameplay is actually fun tbf




  • I would add Bioshock.
    And before its said yes it nicked some of System Shock 2s themes / story ideas but its the characters and the historical setting that makes Bioshock 1 so awesome.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    Gameplay is actually fun tbf

    Yep, it's surprisingly good and the stupid story is comedy gold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭brady12


    first 20min of the last of us still blows me away and sucks me in.have say until dawn was brilliant even though it based on a stupid genre !


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    brady12 wrote: »
    have say until dawn was brilliant even though it based on a stupid genre !

    I'm not sure if Until Dawn is the work of sheer genius of dumb luck. As a movie it would be a pretty ropey slasher flick. Add the visual novel elements to it and it's utterly compelling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Actually, I would love to see the original Deus Ex made into a film. I think that would be really interesting, and would introduce a lot of people to the story who simply aren't willing to play what is now considered to be a really ugly game :pac: It'd have to be perfect though

    It'd be far too long with too many characters. I'd see it more as maybe a 3 part miniseries ala Frank Herberts Dune.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭brady12


    Retr0gamer wrote:
    I'm not sure if Until Dawn is the work of sheer genius of dumb luck. As a movie it would be a pretty ropey slasher flick. Add the visual novel elements to it and it's utterly compelling.


    I'd say dumb luck .judging by the sound of the vr game they bringing out


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    It'd be far too long with too many characters. I'd see it more as maybe a 3 part miniseries ala Frank Herberts Dune.

    Idk about that, much of the length is due to the missions which wouldn't need to be shown in full. A mini series would be interesting though!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Hmm. Bioshock (1 & Infinite)
    Last of Us
    Gears of War(s)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    GTA has always had movie potential given that it borrows massivley from big movies in the 1st place

    Last of US is one of the best, heavy rain , the 1st 3 resident evils before they went mental had good stories
    Old Perry wrote: »
    So ive been watching the cutscenes of some games lately as a subsitute for films. Most recently the last of us and also the shadow of morder.. ... So what are recent games with good cutscenes/film potential. Was thinking maybe assasins creed?

    Surely you are both joking with these 2 suggestions, they have some of the worst stories of any games I've ever completed. :confused: ESPECIALLY the endings/twists.....just awful....as in really really bad, written by a 1st year secondary school student level bad. It's like those cop outs...and then it was all a dream. :P

    - Metal Gear Solid (PS1) had a great story. (I know it's not recent, but MGS V came to mind....and immediately NO )
    - Bioshock 1 I liked
    - Mass Effect 1 and 2...not sure about 3
    - Spec Ops the Line
    - The Walking Dead
    - Wolf Among Us
    - Sleeping Dogs I thought had a great story for that type of game
    - GTA : Vice City was the best of the series in my opinion (storywise)
    -


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭CiaranW


    Red Dead Redemption would make an excellent movie.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Mass Effect 3 had such a fantastic story and brought the trilogy to a fantastic close. Sure, they messed up a little, but there was enough there to make it worth it. It made everything feel like all your decisions had galactic consequences,
    there was one such decision that resulted in almost an entire species being destroyed
    but also had some fantastic personal touches.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I wouldn't say the Mass Effect series had a great storyline. It's just the same Bioware fantasy monomyth told with a sci fi coat of paint with elves, dwarves and orcs replaced with space versions of them. I've played too many fantasy games where you have to save the universe from an ancient evil that is returning. Still it's the decisions you make and role playing that raise it up a notch and make it worth it. My advise to anyone starting it is not be a goody two shoes and actually role play a character and live with the choices you make... and also pick a female shepard. Makes the whole story a lot more enjoyable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    I always liked Hotel Dusk's story, or maybe it was the soundtrack :o








  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I wouldn't say the Mass Effect series had a great storyline. It's just the same Bioware fantasy monomyth told with a sci fi coat of paint with elves, dwarves and orcs replaced with space versions of them. I've played too many fantasy games where you have to save the universe from an ancient evil that is returning. Still it's the decisions you make and role playing that raise it up a notch and make it worth it. My advise to anyone starting it is not be a goody two shoes and actually role play a character and live with the choices you make... and also pick a female shepard. Makes the whole story a lot more enjoyable.

    I sank in around 150 hours into the ME franchise, with replays and making different decisions each time, just to see how it changed my gameplay and it really did make a noticeable difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,197 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I absolutely loved the story in Portal 2. Considering how it was done and the type of game it was, the story of Cave Johnson & Caroline was surprisingly deep and very well told.

    Also, Assassins Creed 2 had a great story and characters, both past & present stories. The ending especially completely blew my mind. The story has been on a downward slide since then however.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    My advise to anyone starting it is not be a goody two shoes and actually role play a character and live with the choices you make... and also pick a female shepard. Makes the whole story a lot more enjoyable.


    I could never bring myself to play as female Shepard. I've played through the trilogy 3 times (once on each console + PC ) ...always Male.
    I guess I want him to be 'me' basically..and I ain't no woman :P
    But I have heard from numerous sources that the woman voice actor was a lot better.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Male Shepard is just utterly bland to me. The actor does a good job but the problem is kind of the crappy dialogue. Jennifer Hale who does the female shepard on the other hand is a totally different level of voice actor and just makes the role hers. She is very believable as a gruff military type who has been in the military for a number of years and seen it all already and there's just a whole lot more nuance to how she delivers those lines. The male shepard is just generic hollywood lead 101.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    SeantheMan wrote: »
    I could never bring myself to play as female Shepard. I've played through the trilogy 3 times (once on each console + PC ) ...always Male.
    I guess I want him to be 'me' basically..and I ain't no woman :P
    But I have heard from numerous sources that the woman voice actor was a lot better.

    That's the exact same as me.. when I play games that involve any form of character customization, I usually build it to look as much like me as possible. So with those games, I largely play as male.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,197 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    That's the exact same as me.. when I play games that involve any form of character customization, I usually build it to look as much like me as possible. So with those games, I largely play as male.

    I'm the opposite nowadays and will select a female character if given the choice, mainly because every character customisation of a male I do always looks the exact same, or just somewhat generic. Plus to see what differences there might be in terms of story, dialogue etc as a result of picking female (where the majority would probably pick male).


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Is there ever a noticeable difference with regards to male and female characters in games with regards to story? Which ones had?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,197 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Is there ever a noticeable difference with regards to male and female characters in games with regards to story? Which ones had?

    Probably not, most keep the dialogue fairly generic to suit both. But every now and again there may just be a line where you think "Wonder if that line would be the same if I was playing as the other gender..."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    People should stop recommending Bioshock Infinite to people full stop, it was a poor game.

    Linear gameplay, unimaginative enemies, no exploration, useless Vigors/Powers (complete the game using 2 or 3 stalwarts), terrible Gun levelling system, overly convoluted story.

    The only redeeming factors are the visuals, the world they created and the NPC you're guiding around (who is one of the best in any game full stop)

    Those are not good enough for it to be help up against Bioshock 1 in anyway shape or form.

    Would have made a better Telltale game, there I said it.

    The gameplay was really not on point at all at all. It's all rose tinted glasses and echoing bias reviews.
    The fact that was considered a a game of the year is laughable frankly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I seriously enjoyed Bioshock Infinite, thought it was a fantastic game. :confused:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    You get different romance options... I think. I think that's where the main problem with role playing a female came in. I wasn't role playing, more so getting protective of her and was like 'get your filthy hands off her you generic space marine!'. It's probably why I barely explored any of the romance options in the game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Links234 wrote: »
    I seriously enjoyed Bioshock Infinite, thought it was a fantastic game. :confused:

    Ya see, you think that, but maybe if you wait 2 years and go back and replay it you'll see what i'm on about. :P

    Whereas I came to Bioshock 1 about 5 or 6 years after release and was absolutely floored. Infinite will not hold up like that, mark my words.

    I was seriously let down.
    The Gun/Vigor balance was just all over the shop. Having 2 sets of pretty much the same guns was dumb.
    The linear/open world balance 1 and 2 got so right was out the window, turning the game into a rail-shooter.
    The story was trying WAYYYYY to hard, let's be honest. It was a good story but was just a bit too silly, a bit too M.Night.Shamalany

    The world, characters, setting, landscape.... all Wonderful.

    But I consider that stuff on par with a Walking Simulator (see Telltale) type game


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Thought Bioshock Infinite was kind of boring and the story was rubbish as well. It's alright making a statement about videogames being generic and boring but it doesn't work if the game itself is nothing more than a generic boring shooter.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Came here expecting to continue my one-man war against Bioshock Infinite, what happened next shocked me :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,314 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    Gotta say I loved Bioshock Infinite and going back to what the OP is interested in, that game immediately sprang to mind.

    I thought some of the earlier CODs set during WWII had decent plots; it was nice for the writers to be able to draw from a historical narrative that almost all of us already know and that can easily framed as an engaging good-vs-evil story!

    Would also give another vote for Portal 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Cina


    I never got the massive hype for Bioshock Infinite. I mean its core gameplay was flawed to the extent that Elizabeth wasn't actually supposed to be invincible against enemies but they had to make her so cause her AI was so rubbish. The story also wasn't that good either.

    I think The Last of Us is probably as close as a game has gotten to great movies both in terms of plot, acting, setting and characters. It didn't feel like it was just a game, it felt like a lot more than that.

    In terms of making me laugh, Portal always wins, and Portal 2 has its moments, too.




  • Just to make it clear I was talking about Bioshock 1 (Post war theme / Sanders Cohen :D)
    and I agree infinite was a let-down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    The Uncharted games are very by-the-numbers in terms of plot, but their execution sets them apart from other games.
    There's so many memorable characters, lots of great dialogue moments that seem very organic. Just flat out enjoyable.

    TLOU is fantastic.
    SnakeEater is easily the best MGS in terms of story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,523 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Cormac... wrote: »
    Ya see, you think that, but maybe if you wait 2 years and go back and replay it you'll see what i'm on about. :P

    Whereas I came to Bioshock 1 about 5 or 6 years after release and was absolutely floored. Infinite will not hold up like that, mark my words.

    I was seriously let down.
    The Gun/Vigor balance was just all over the shop. Having 2 sets of pretty much the same guns was dumb.
    The linear/open world balance 1 and 2 got so right was out the window, turning the game into a rail-shooter.
    The story was trying WAYYYYY to hard, let's be honest. It was a good story but was just a bit too silly, a bit too M.Night.Shamalany

    The world, characters, setting, landscape.... all Wonderful.

    But I consider that stuff on par with a Walking Simulator (see Telltale) type game

    I finshed it but HATED the limited two weapon system. I only used the rocket launcher and rifle as they are all purpose weapons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Potatoeman wrote: »
    I finshed it but HATED the limited two weapon system. I only used the rocket launcher and rifle as they are all purpose weapons.

    Honestly, that was my biggest problem with the game, once I realised that it was designed that way my mood soured. I don't mind limited weapons, but I remember having to do some boss fights with total sh!t weapons as those were the only ones the trash mobs were dropping




  • Cormac... wrote: »
    Honestly, that was my biggest problem with the game, once I realised that it was designed that way my mood soured. I don't mind limited weapons, but I remember having to do some boss fights with total sh!t weapons as those were the only ones the trash mobs were dropping

    I hate the way it pissed away the rpg elements present in bio 1 & 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    I hate the way it pissed away the rpg elements present in bio 1 & 2

    It was like 3 completely different Sheep!

    I liked Bioshock 2 more

    *Drops Mic*
    *Runs*


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    I hate the way it pissed away the rpg elements present in bio 1 & 2

    I hated the way Bio 1 and 2 pissed away the RPG elements of System Shock 2 :pac:


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