OC Looking for narrative driven games

ampersandrew, 11 months ago

Some of my favorite stories in games would be BioShock Infinite (mentioned elsewhere in this thread), Planescape: Torment (lots of reading, but very good), Spec Ops: The Line (stick with it past the first few hours...it picks up), and the Metal Gear Solid series (which, fortunately, are just becoming officially available on Steam very soon). And of course, for the type of game you're looking for, it would be odd if I left out the likes of Half-Life.

If you want a campy, thrilling, exciting story that knows it's dumb and doesn't take itself too seriously, I'd highly recommend the Mortal Kombat games. You'll have to pirate Mortal Kombat 9 (also known as "Mortal Kombat 2011" or just "Mortal Kombat") because it's no longer available for sale, but Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 11 continue off of it and lead into the upcoming Mortal Kombat 1. Likewise, from the same developers, the DC fighting games Injustice have really good story modes as well. I don't like much DC super hero stuff, but Injustice 1 (Gods Among Us) is maybe my favorite thing ever done with Superman. As for Batman, the Arkham series is held in high esteem, and my favorite of those is Batman: Arkham Asylum.

I'm also presently in the middle of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition for the first time, and while the story isn't exactly blowing my mind, it's intriguing and keeping me interested leading up to the release of Baldur's Gate 3 in a few months.

conciselyverbose, 11 months ago

A couple that popped to mind from my library are Pillars of the Earth and the Banner Saga. I haven't played a lot of either because I prefer open games and get my narratives from books instead, but they were both spoken relatively well of when I looked at them.

Pyre kind of counts, too, though the story and gameplay are both kind of weird. It's decent, just unique.

JohnfZoidberg, 11 months ago

The first season of The Walking Dead was very good, if you like Until Dawn. Firewatch is also very good, its kind of short, but I personally got sucked into the story. If your looking for old school style RPGS ( OG Fallout/Baulder’s Gate) Tyranny and Pillars of Eternity are good.

spite, 11 months ago

Tell tales Twd you mean?
I’ve played firewatch on release, thanks.
I’ve got a little burned out on isometric rpgs cause of pathfinder awful crusade system. I’m now recovering so I will be ready for BD3 :)

JohnfZoidberg, 11 months ago

Yeah TT TWD, I only played season 1 so I can speak for the rest of the game.