Worst Story in a game Ever

[AdumbroDeus]

Ok, really, this is a thread for "worst stories", not the hundred thousand mediocore stories that 90% of games have (pretty much everything in this thread), not the openly parodying ones (Duke Nukem) unless you think it's really that bad of a parody and not ones where you simply didn't pay enough attention to realize was there.


Legitimately bad stories that absolutely destroy games, come on guys, step it up.

Call of duty modern warfare. all of them
call of duty black-ops.
Battlefield bad company 1 & 2
Battlefield 3.

reason: All together now kids!
COLD WAR FANTASIST WANK GAMES!

The fact that you add in a game that hasn't come out yet really tells the story, and while I haven't played the others, I can tell you this, Modern Warfare is not a cold war fantasy wank, it's a that explores the potential effects of American foreign interference in a very visceral way.

So no.

 

[RuralGamer]

That one where the united human forces (usually led by Americans) defeat the evil aliens.

Now being more serious; I wasn't too keen on Fable 2's plot, especially with all the completely out of the blue plot twists that really didn't work;
'What's that Lucian? You murdered all my family? Mmmm I don't remember having one, especially for the past 30+ years since you shot my sister.'

Edit: Probably not the worst one, but the worst that comes to mind just now.

 

[buster60]

Black Ops.

 

[vrbtny]

Ever heard of 50 cent, blood on the sand?

It gets pretty ridiculous.

In the words of Charlie Brooker the whole story is "that ***** took my skull"

That Gaming Episode Charlie Brooker did on gaming was so much win.

 

[Zeema]

Im gonna say Singularity

its story was a bit weird seeing that the big twist was half en hour in

 

[Schadrach]

Well Master Blaster has a Storyline so insanely bad it's awesome
Kid has a pet frog who escapes and runs into his backyard and jumps into a vat of nuclear waste (that I guess happened to be in his backyard). the frog mutates and runs into the sewers, when the kid chases it he finds a tank (in the sewer I guess) so the rest of the game is trying to hunt down your pet frog.

What pushes it even farther into the "so bad it's awesome" territory is that there was even a novelization done of the original game ( http://blastermaster.wikia.com/wiki/Blaster_Master_%28novel%29 ). There was also a novelization done of Castlevania. Nintendo had too much money back in the day.

 

[Elsarild]

I think I'm going to get hated on for this, but Dead Space.

The story has been done to death, every single thing that happend was so predictable and contrived I fell into a trance, when I woke up, I was done and had no recollection of what I had done, just droning around some boring rooms, fighting boring monsters with space ace mac. Bland himself.

Holy chrisp I was bored out of my mind.

 

[Cridhe]

E.T. for atari... god...

 

[Angry Camel]

Simple. Some evil ninjas want to raise the greater fiends because one raised herself and convinced... wait how the hell did Elizibet get out?

Anyway, the CIA is out to stop the fiends, dunno why they believed they existed all of a sudden. Ryu kills them all, gets in the land of the dead while still ALIVE, has to kill the fiends who are already in the land of the dead, then eliminate some super fiend that can resurrect at one drop of blood.

Before you asked that, it never really clicked with me how stupid it was. I knew it was dumb, but saying it just makes it sound even worse. Thankyou for helping me realize that.

 

[smartengine]

Mirror's edge... I love the game, but lets be honest here, the story aint the greatest... I get that she doesn't really care about the grand plan of the evil guys, that she only wants to save her sister, but the story sucks.

Love the gameplay tho.

 

[SuperToaster]

Definatly [PROTOTYPE].

You play as Alex Mercer some guys turned you in mutant, now u must get revenge. Nuff said.

 

[Elfgore]

Crackdown. You jump around buildings and take out 3 gangs. Thats the storyline. Good game though.

 

[DrFreeman]

Definatly [PROTOTYPE].

You play as Alex Mercer some guys turned you in mutant, now u must get revenge. Nuff said.

If you played the game to the end, you'd know that would not be the case. And if you devour all the web of intrigue targets you'd see that it goes a lot deeper too.

So no, it's not enough said.

And to add in with a story, I'd say...Alone In The Dark: Inferno, good gameplay, boring story.

 

[Treblaine]

When I think about it, probably Duke Nukem.

In a nutshell: Aliens took hot chicks, kill aliens.

At least it's simple and fun.

Metal Gears Solid 2.

I'm sure that was just Hideo Kojima pulling a giant "Fuck YOU" to the gamers with THAT bullshit, every element that you could call as part of the story is just awful and is only made worse by the high expectations after the perfection of Metal Gear Solid.

Raiden, his emo faux-tough attitude, his ***** girlfriend, Paul Eiding phoning it in as Colonel Campbell. Solid Snake sidelined in his own story. The story is utterly ridiculous based on the most insultingly nonsensical conspiracy theories yet the game takes itself so seriously with HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS of meandering, dull and contrived cutscenes.

 

[Arkynomicon]

Dead Space 2 has a pretty wretched plot.

Spoiler

Government replicates alien artefact that drives nearby people insane. In previous incident also responsible for undead mutants that already wiped out a colony and two huge spaceships without effort. It is also of interest to a corrupted religion that wants to use it for their own nefarious purposes.

So the government decides they want to use this thing as a source of energy because apparently we don't have enough resources in friggin space. They get the blueprint for this by extracting information from protagonist by sticking a needle in to his brain straight trough his eyeball. At the end they still think it is a good idea to not destroy said artefact.

Protagonist is also stringed along by the ghost of his dead girlfriend. Who he learnt in the first game was just a figment of his imagination created by another artefact and he falls for this trick again.

Protagonist helmet also opens by itself whenever the plot requires it to.

There is more stupid parts but I don't care to bring them all up.

 

[RedBeta22]

I'm going to be controversial here a say the Mass Effect series. Just think about it.

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Final Fantasy XIII was a convoluted mess. I finished the game, and honestly I couldn't coherently explain it if someone asked me too.

 

[Colinmac93]

Sonic 2006.
How does a franchise go from "defeat this mad scientist" all the way to "try and get it on with a human female"?!

 

[AdumbroDeus]

I'm going to be controversial here a say the Mass Effect series. Just think about it.

Justify please.


Most were merely mediocore, which I railed against. But how can you justify calling mass effect's story worse then legitimately bad games?

 

[RedBeta22]

I'm going to be controversial here a say the Mass Effect series. Just think about it.

Justify please.


Most were merely mediocore, which I railed against. But how can you justify calling mass effect's story worse then legitimately bad games?

You didn't think about it did you? I want *you* to tell me why it is a horrible story.