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thelifatree on 19 April 2010

Final Fantasy X Quite Easily Actually for me.

FFVIII
and KOTOR II, is a close second, KOTORII might have been if they didn't have an unfinished planet and unfinished character subplots at the end.
I thought KOTOR's story was bad... Just it did everything else better than the sequel



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Porcupine_I on 19 April 2010

Planescape: Torment, without a doubt!

Second place takes every adventure ever released by Legend Entertainment

 

edit for lulz:

...or Planet-Escape Tournament as a friend of mine used to wrongly pronounce it (i have no idea why, but he hated it)



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sapphi_snake on 19 April 2010

Planescpae: Torment

or Grim Fandango

or BioShock



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Zargeras on 19 April 2010

Metal Gear Solid , is still my fav game



g-value on 19 April 2010

Xenogears (The Greatest!!!!!!!!)
Grandia 2 (SUPER EPIC storyline)
Digital Devil Saga series (Very Deep, very dark & very original)
Xenosaga series (Very deep plot & characters with awesome plot twists and great endings)
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Don't hate on Darc :P)
Tales of the Abyss (AWESOMENESS with the main character having one of the best character developments I've seen in a game)



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freebs2 on 19 April 2010

Good question. Metal Gear Solid 1 in my opinion.



jedians on 19 April 2010

Heavy Rain for me



RageBot on 19 April 2010
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

I don't think I've found a game out there that has even come close to any of the books, movies or TV series I have seen in solid plot and character development. Simply because games either focus too much on chunks of plot that lose their way (such as Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid games) or lose focus of the story as they have to focus on the gameplay, eventhough they still have good characters and powerful moments at times (such as Zelda games or Dragon Quest games).

Suffice to say, the games that I remember the most for their storyline are Suikoden I-III. Which can't be chosen individually, as all three games are an ongoing trilogy with interconnected characters and plot points. It did what I feel makes a story good in a game, which is focus on the characters and drive the plot by putting you in the role of interacting with each scene and event directly. You truly were the 'hero', as everything you did influenced the course of the games storyline, who joined your party, who lived and died and even how the games ended.

If you liked Suikoden I-III, you really should try Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics, they are very similar in many aspects.

(If you play FFT you should play the PSP version, even though there are slowdowns, that's because the original translation was bad)



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NKAJ on 19 April 2010

easily time crisis series...pure story writing genius



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Huya on 19 April 2010

Kotor1/ME1+2