The Worst Video Game Plots

[WILLTHEALMIGHTY]

Resident Evil 4

The president's daughter has been kidnapped by zombies! Are you man enough to save her?

 

[Jizz Philanthropist]

Indigo Prohpecy (AKA Fahrenheit) was pretty terrible, starting about halfway through. It started out amazingly well, but then they had to go and ruin it with all of the Aztec crap.

I also recall rolling my eyes on a constant basis during Painkiller, and although I respect the attempt that Gearbox made to ensure that Brothers in Arms didn't glorify war (which is an attempt that I have literally never seen in any other video game), I have to say that they did a really bad job of it. It's extremely disingenuous - the story is delivered without a hint of detachment or subtlety, and the voice acting was god-awful.

 

[Tattaglia]

You can't blame Battlefield: Bad Company for its lacking plot. DICE is infamous for its Battlefield single player campaigns. Why doesn't anyone pick on Battlefield 2142?

The Plot: In 2142 northern Europe and Asia are frozen. So Russia and Europe fight each other for North Africa.
That's it. What happened to the North Africans? Do they mind two superpowers fighting each other on their homeland? Apparently not.

 

[NeedAUserName]

O, and for those of you not into Guilty Gear X, here's the deal with Bridget.

This is Bridget. Bridget is male.

Bridget was born in a village as the second of twin boys. However, the village saw twin boys as a sign of bad luck, and as such his real gender was hidden, for fear of scaring the other villagers.

His role in GGX2 is to try and show that he's not such bad luck after all...

It begs to be asked.... why the hell does he still dress up like a girl then. Thats just plan creepy.

 

[Zombie_King]

Tetris:

What happened to the red brick?

Team Fortress 2:

How did the forbidden Spy-Heavy romance end up? What happened between Engineer and Pyro? Could Sniper and Medic every reconcile their differences and become friends again?

 

[ariac]

Gonna say MGS, if you need to go on gamefaqs to understand the plot then its not worth knowing.

Then maybe you should try thinking you idiot. I can understand it perfetly fine, you either haven't been paying attention or theres something wrong wth you.

Gonna say MGS, if you need to go on gamefaqs to understand the plot then its not worth knowing.

I thought it was pretty easy to figure out, although i haven't played 4 yet no PS3, I really hope hideo realizes he'll get a bigger (albeit less mature) audience if he remakes 4 MGS4 for the 360.

Your mistake is in thinking that he is motivated in the slightest by profits. If he were, Snake Eater would have been ported.

I'm gonna say this again - if you chose to buy a 360, then its your own damn fault that you can't play MGS4.

I'll say Crackdown.

First of all you said in 3 posts what could have been said in 1. Second of all you're ragging on someone based on his opinion of a shitty game with a crappy story full of nothing but cut scenes and bad characters who sound like they've had asthma all their lives. Look, if people wanted to watch a movie, chances are they'd watch a movie...not play this crappy game. I really don't understand why anyone at all likes it, it's not like you can play it...

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Are you a bad enough dude to save the president?

I have a song that starts with a guy saying "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas, are you a bad enough dude to save him?"

Hillarious

Now, bad plots: Dead or Alive 4. Most fighting games really but I think DoA4 has the worst of all I played.

EDIT:

Halo 3: Halo is widely accclaimed by many to be the very height of FPS perfection, rarely does a story from an FPS receive any acclaim, some are happy just to try and fight against the 24/7 Halo veterans in online matches, not everyone notices the story, which, in today's games, has become a necessity that is sometimes ignored in favor of other things, don't get me wrong, Halo is fun and exciting and even better when you're shooting your friends out of the sky with a laser. My problem with the story is the sheer schizophrenic feel it has. While the levels in the flood-controlled ship were an obvious attempt at horror, it was hugely offset by the knowledge that your character was an ultra-powerful god-being. Then of course you got to lose all the sense of horror and tension when you see grunts running around like chickens with their heads cut off, screaming stupid things that were obviously meant to distract the player while the real enemies slipped around his back and blew his brains out the side of his head.

That doesn't address the plot at all, it's just Yahtzee's exact complaints. The plot itself is rather focused (Let's do this so we can kill Truth being the crux of it) even if the progression of levels isn't, which most consider a good thing as variety is the spice of life. And the "ultra-powerful god-being" feel can still be horrific if the enemies are tough enough to actually kill.

I consider the Halo series to have some of the best sci-fi story-telling to be found, which isn't a great feat considering the annoying lack of decent sci-fi.

 

[PersianLlama]

Halo series. Gears of War series.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Mass Effect...
Anyone see a connection with that and Hellboy?
ex. tenticaled super destroying god with crazy infected guy as his herald

I disagree. First of all no, little to no connection.

And Mass Effect's story was very interesting, can't wait for it to be continued in the alleged trilogy. It had to be good, since the story and diolague was all the game was relying on. Certainly wasn't the gameplay.

 

[Psychedeliasmith]

Rogue Galaxy! It was a fun game, and some of the characters' stories were quite sweet, if trite. But...it was a massive mess of cliches, and halfway through derailed itself so badly it's almost like it's demanding you lose interest. Plus the main female lead fades a few times which is then never referred to again, and the ending...my god, the ending. I have a vague feeling they were trying to achieve a bittersweet yet important kind of scene, which comes off as a really off-hand 'Yeah, bye then, everybody hates you' which is then undermined further by an even more terrible post-credit guff which suggests nothing but misery for all involved. I still get chills just thinking about it.

Also, I love Dragon Quest VIII, but replaying it again recently felt like one extraordinarily cheesey nested-fetch-quest. For most of the game you're just wandering around the world map in a clockwise direction with a cursed horse and a hopeful expression. When you're actually required to do something, it's all 'We need this thing! Lets look for it. I hear the King has it! Let's go see the king. Oh dear the king is too depressed to help us! Let's find a way to help him. There's a thing that can help him! Let's go get it. Oh no, it's broken! Let's go find something to fix it! We found it, let's go back. We fixed it! Let's take it to the king. We took it to the king! He helped us. Now we can go to the next town for an equally trivial series of requests!'

And that entire chain of events happens pretty early in the game, and only occurs because the cursed king just seems to like helping maids. Later it only gets more convoluted, a particular highlight being the entire Sun Mirror section. Ack. As I say, I do like the games a lot, or I did. The horrifyingly bad plots have apparently removed any replay value though.

 

[suck it trebek]

"The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?"
No. No I am not.

Christ, what game is that anyway? I've always wanted to know?

"Bad-Dudes"


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[Caliostro]

MGS.

Trying to fully make sense of the story is like trying to dive head first into a poll filled with wood. And it only gets worst as it advances. Someone should introduce Hideo Kojima to some "heavyweight" editors... He desperately needs them.

 

[Sketchy]

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddlers Green.
"It all started like this. I Just finished feeding the hogs when the power went out. That happened from time to time out here in the country. I tried calling the electric company but the lines were dead. I didn't think too much of it at the time. Later that day, I noticed a stranger in my yard. Something wasn't right wih him, the way he was just...standing there. I went out to see what he wanted."

Wut?

 

[PersianLlama]

Halo series
Gears of War Series
GTA series
Oblivion
Most Final Fantasy games (But not all!)

 

[milskidasith]

Just about 95% of anything involving time travel in a fantasy setting winds up incredibly bad, in my opinion. The other 5% is generally lacking in gameplay, probably due to needing to use most of the budget to make the time travel aspect not seem totally absurd (and get rid of that nagging feeling of "why can't I just time travel and make myself ruler of the universe?")