What is the best game plot of all time?

[cobba]

I have completed the Bioshock series a few days ago and caught myself thinking about games with a comparable storyline. I am pretty new to gaming (before I haf a bad PC which was a cause for me to not getting so much into games), so I don't know many games with good storylines. I think also that Metro series' plot is very good, as well as Half-Life's plot. What are your thoughts on this?

[Tiberius]

What remains of edith finch

[J4MESOX4D]

Mafia 2
Deus Ex
Disco Elysium
The Last of Us
The Walking Dead
Metal Gear Solid 1-3
Return of the Obra Dinn
Red Dead Redemption 2
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt

[miamew3]

These are my top 3 favourites for amazing storylines

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174180/Red_Dead_Redemption_2/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222140/Detroit_Become_Human/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/Cyberpunk_2077/

[Beta Ray Shill]

Genuinely? In terms of characters, villains in particular?

Games are very bad in that regard.

But loosely:

1. FF6 (Kefka is a brilliant villain)
2. FF7 original (really magical game with a superlative all-round cast)
3. The Witcher 2 (leto is probably one of the best inventions in all gaming history, and the opening cinematic is phenomenal)
4. Hollow Knight (it's a masterclass of 'show don't tell' - all of the main narrative can be missed if you don't pay attention to the 'clues', and it is fantastical - they are geniuses really)
5. FF Rebirth (amazing character development of especially underwritten characters like Sephiroth - so far, it is extremely good if rough around the edges)

I actually can't recall any others.

Video game writing is very bad compared to paperback literature. If you don't read it, you'll never know.

Cyperpunk (original) had some very good writing, but the studio has become really evil of late. So they get no kudos from me.

[RPG Gamer Man]

FF 6, and Chrono Trigger has some great storylines. In fact one of the makers of FF 6 wants to make another game in the ff6 world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PzHgvv-oM

[RPG Gamer Man]

Breath of Fire series. i really liked the first one from squaresoft. The rest of the series was made by capcom, which did not really do the storylines of the game very good. Although the religion storyline in the 2nd game was ok.

BTW, vote for breath of fire on GOG dreamlist to bring it to pc. I did.

[Aluvard]

Kotor, Planescape Torment.

[Archerodees]

Legacy of Kain

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Breath of Fire series. i really liked the first one from squaresoft. The rest of the series was made by capcom, which did not really do the storylines of the game very good. Although the religion storyline in the 2nd game was ok.

BTW, vote for breath of fire on GOG dreamlist to bring it to pc. I did.

BoF III is one of my all time faves.

[LexAnimex]

For me it's Xenoblade 1, Okami, Witcher 2 and Cyberpunk.

Lots of indie games too

[ˢᵈˣ FatCat]

octopath travaler 1 and 2 , Suikoden 5, Tales of abyss , like a dragon 5 the ichiban guy , Persona 4 and 5 , those are all JRPG style, dont know if you gonnal like it or not

[R3dAlert93]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1350650/FreshWomen__Season_1/

[zirkustier]

One of my favorites.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/282140/SOMA/