Games don't need stories.

[Killergran]

richardhutnik said:

What kind of story does Portal have?  I see a series of puzzles, and GLADOS taunting you in very humorous ways.  The game has a goal of completing multiple puzzles.  I don't see a story.  I do see how the game could be used to generate a story, but the game itself doesn't really have a plot.  It does have some interesting stuff regarding the background though.

Now you are talking crazy. Portal has a very clear story. Without the story Portal would have been a great game. With it though, it's the best game of all time (my firm opinion). The compliance/escape/revenge theme that runs through it is similar to Half-Life 2, but with only two characters and much better use of enviroments the storytelling becomes so much more focused and rather impossible to tell from the gameplay.

It's the second best example of storytelling in a game, in my opinion.