Deepest video game storylines?

[kn]

shio said:

kn said:

mrstickball said:
No mention of Mass Effect frightens me...

KOTOR comes to mind as well....

None of those two have deep stories, so they're not worth being mentioned.

And you know this because you've played both?  IGN awarded KOTOR "Best Story".  If you have played both you'd know that the story can be as shallow as you want it to be or deeper than you thought possible.  The amount of detail each character has and the amount of branching in the story more than exemplefies "deep".  There are certainly some good ones on the OP, but this one certainly belongs on the list.  GameInformer ranked it #2 all-time in top ten all time game plot twists.  In fact, from Wikipedia (on KOTOR):

"has seen success as the game of the year from many sources including IGN, Gamespot, Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer, GMR Magazine, The Game Developers Choice Awards, Xbox Magazine, and G4.^[3] Interactive Achievement Awards awarded it for best story and best character development.^[3] IGN gave KotOR additional awards in Best Sound (Xbox category), Best Story (PC category), Xbox RPG Game of the Year 2003, PC RPG Game of the Year 2003, Xbox Game of the Year 2003, PC Game of the Year 2003, and Overall Game of the Year 2003 across all platforms. In 2007, IGN listed it at #27 on its list of the Top 100 Games of All-Time.^[4] "

But, hey, what do all these people know.  Clearly they are shills.