Scoobes on 23 October 2009
The vast majority of games do have crap stories in comparison to other forms of media, but the industry is still very young and there is a lot of potential for games to be able to tell good stories. Also games don't actually need a brilliant story to garner intense emotion from the player as the interactive nature of games can aid and convey concepts far better than other mediums. However, they're a few games that I would say have good storylines:
Deus Ex
Planescape Torment
MGS1 (not so much 2 or 4, 3 was emotion invoking but more down to interactivity)
And a game that makes unique use of the interactive nature of games to tell a simple story but at the sametime invoke strong emotional responses: Shadow of the Colossus
