What are some of the games with the best writing?

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Shameless on 08 May 2008

As a lover of films/books, I've always found every game I've played to have a laughable storyline. Games do better when they tell the story visually in my opinion.

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Graim Fandango - c'mon, best voice acting and dialogue ever
Day of the Tentacle - for the humour
Longest Journey - very solid, good writing with decent characterization
Deus Ex (considering that a lot of dialogue covered political and governing discussion I was amazed they managed to make it work at all)
Portal - there's not a lot of dialogue, but what dialogue there is is fantasic
System Shock 1 & 2 (Shodan basically, no opponent has ever taunted me better, though a certain 'lady' in Portal comes close)
Beyond Good & Evil - fantastic characters and great voice acting

Uncharted & HS for their cutscene dialogue and direction, the best around IMHO

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Strategyking92 on 08 May 2008

Mass effect, best rpg ever, so why shouldn't its story be the best?

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shio on 08 May 2008

ToastyJaguar said:
I'm going to say Mass Effect, just because of the thousands of lines of dialogue they had in that game.

Planescape: Torment has 800,000 words. Not that the amount of dialogue really matters.

Shameless said:
As a lover of films/books, I've always found every game I've played to have a laughable storyline. Games do better when they tell the story visually in my opinion.

Then play Planescape: Torment. It has even been compared to literary pieces.

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Mass effect, best rpg ever, so why shouldn't its story be the best?

Because it's not true on both accounts.

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Dallinor on 08 May 2008

Max Payne.

It had some of the most cheesy lines imaginable, but it suited the dark film noir theme quite well.

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