Poll: Has a bad story ever made a game better?

[Eldarion]

METAL. GEAR. SOLID. 4.


Not that stupid, really, but just insanely complicated, messed up, distorted, warped and twisty. That just makes it better.

Seriously, fighting an army of cow-robot-frog-tanks with a rail gun while a cyborg ninja and immortal vampire-ninja have a knife-fight on top of a nuclear-equipped-walking-tank adds to the experience like you wouldn't believe.

"It was nanobots all along!!!"

I just gave you the entire complicated mess of metal gear solid 4's plot in 5 words.

 

[Anarchemitis]

A bunch of 3D platformers have corny storylines that I find endearing.

A bunch of them not only have bad stories, but also repeat.

 

[Waaghpowa]

METAL. GEAR. SOLID. 4.


Not that stupid, really, but just insanely complicated, messed up, distorted, warped and twisty. That just makes it better.

Seriously, fighting an army of cow-robot-frog-tanks with a rail gun while a cyborg ninja and immortal vampire-ninja have a knife-fight on top of a nuclear-equipped-walking-tank adds to the experience like you wouldn't believe.

As Batshit bonkers the MGS games stories were, they were always entertaining.

Just Cause 2. Yet I'm still not sure that isn't tongue-in-cheek

yes.
That is all.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Metal Wolf Chaos, God Hand, Resident Evil (all of them), Tenchu ...
Yeah, I'd say it's made some of the greatest gaming experiences of all time.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

The original Mortal Kombat was a tribute to Bruce Lee's classic film "Enter the Dragon". After the first game, the series adopted a sort of comic-book style approach to it's storyline. Mortal Kombat, considering that it's in a genre that is quite light on exposition, is probably the series that's done the best job of fleshing out the characters and making the story interesting to follow.

Actually, while that's partially true, I find the biggest visual inspiration for Mortal Kombat was "Big Trouble in Little China". Which is pretty comic-booky albeit in an awesome way. But Mortal Kombat has always had one of the most powerful backstories out of all the fighting games out there. It was a shame to see that Shaolin Monks just butchered it. Not only the narrative, but also the actual events that took place, as according to MK's own canon.

So yeah, sometimes, a cheesy storyline can make a game better. But frankly, when it comes to Mortal Kombat, I don't think it did.

 

[hyzaku]

Castle Shikigami 2 has one the worst english dubs ever. Most of the dialogue doesn't even make sense on top of not ever communicating a single piece of actual plot. Top that off with horrid voice acting and solid bullet hell gameplay and you end up with one of the most hilarious and fun games I have ever seen.

I have no clue what the plot is supposed to be, I don't know much of anything about the characters, and yet I still go back and play it just to hear the dialogue. Amazingly the dialogue gets even funnier with a second player as both characters will converse with each other. Each pair of characters has their own dialogue set so there is quite a bit of comedy to be had.

 

[Bags159]

Three words: Metal Wolf Chaos. That game has the most epically horrible storyline.

 

[icame]

Resident evil benefited from its horrible story because of the pure hilarity caused by it.

 

[Kumomaru]

Yes. But only when done comedically, such as in magicka or RE4. - if a bad story tries to make you take it seriously, well...

 

[TehChuckles]

I would love to see a game where your character is the only one that realises that everything that is explained is complete nonsense/bullshit/utterly ridiculous and the only s/he can stay sane is by completely shattering the fourth wall. maybe even near the end of the game, s/he completely loses it and tries to get out of the game by hitting the screen and yelling "GET ME OUT OF HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" then curls up into a ball and cries his/her face out for the rest of the cut scene, while the rest of the cast looks at him/her like s/he's some sort of lunatic. X3

Any Indie developers out there who can make this work? I would just Love to see it at least on a script.