I challenge /v/ to post a video game with a story which is worse than this
WoW.
Metzen is a master troll.
A CHALLENGER APPEARS
Never played Starcraft 2, how bad is the story?
>>344735459
Bioshock Infinite.
>>344736402
Through the power of love and friendship the terran, zerg and protoss work together to destroy an ancient evil
>>344735459
anything he touches. take your pick
>>344736509
Not quite the series to do that with.
>>344735459
Diablo 3
>>344735459
Tales of Symphonia 2
Tales of Zestiria
Tales of the Tempest
Star Ocean 4 and 5
>>344736402
Blizzard has never really written a good story. SC2 is laughably bad. SC/BW got by through its sharp presentation and world, but the narrative is just cookie-cutter Blizzard about corruption and blahblahblah.
plenty of games have a worse story. pic related
>>344736402
It isn't
>>344739636
lol ok
how about this piece of shit
>>344735459
pokemonGo
>>344739539
Picking Tales is cheating
>>344740058
Fine.
Castlevania Lord of Shadows
Castlevania mirror of fates
Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2
I don't even know what happened after half way...
>>344740058
not it isnt. if were going to ban tales from the discussion then how about literally every fighting game ever made?
>>344735459
>>344735542
>>344736263
>>344736417
>>344737891
>>344739390
>>344739539
Guild Wars 2 or Fallout 4.
>>344740365
>>344740365
If you ignore everything after level 25 or so in GW2, then you've got like 5 sick storylines with multiple paths.
I would say HOTS is worse than LOTV.
LOTV at least made you use groups of units and had variety in it's missions. The Arkship was a fun mechanic as well. HOTS was too much like WC3 where the power of your party just revolved around your hero. HOTS is essentially a Kerrigan simulator.
>>344740225
>THQ
That explains it.
>>344740365
>Guild Wars 2
either version
>>344740031
>The bad guys were just under the house of the fucking main character.
That was bad but pretty funny, there are worse plots.
>>344740618
How? There's a difference between a bad story and an uninspired story.
>>344736509
But weren´t the Zergs the fucking ancient evil?
i can think of games with worse story lines all day
>>344740618
I never played this, but my girlfriend recently played through the first 3, and honestly, Drake is a fucking murderer. How do people like this guy?
>>344740818
very thin line in this case. what about the 180 turn at the end.
>>344740823
No, the Burning Legion and Kiljaeden...I mean....Amon and his hybrid are the ancient evil.
>>344740950
the game is good the story is bad. read the original post you cunt
>>344735459
>people think it's gotten worse
>>344741040
but the story wasfunespecially the haunted mansion level
>>344741095
You're a fucking retard.
>>344741098
agreed
>>344740926
What 180 turn?
>>344741095
While I agree with you that BW was pretty fucking bad, the opening and ending cinematics almost made up for that, kind of.
>>344741168
the monsters at the end
>>344741120
He was born after the game came out, it's not his fault he thinks CoD is the height of storytelling.
>>344741207
>>344741201
You mean the things that breath a little life into the story?
>>344740727
>embrace who we are
>continue to live an illusion
hell yeah
>>344741312
are you kidding?
>>344741312
the "life of the story" should come well before the climax
Thug Hero Party
>>344741095
Starcraft and BW's story wasn't good either, but it was way better than the shitshow of SC2.
>>344741207
makes sense...
>>344740873
It was """"self defense""""
>>344741816
All blizzard games
I was going to post the Telltale Game of Thrones game, but then I remembered this exists
The story of this damn game is atrocious and it literally made me physically sick. I forced myself to finish the game anyway and now I have a burning hatred of everything southeast asian and/or involving radical teens doing radical things
>>344740727
>Entire city gets destroyed
>The trauma caused Symon to retreat into a fantasy
>The existence of mesmers enables this delusion even further
This is the story of a mentally ill man who will never recover nor receive the treatment he needs to regain what he has lost.
>>344742414
It's really hard to top
I really disliked how they turned the Protoss into taller humans with their campaign instead making something out of their flair of unity
Maybe not the worst story overall, but definitely the worst plot twist ever.
>>344743735
Quite. All that "WE SHALL BE FREE WITHOUT THE KHALA" garbage has been done to death already in countless other media, would it be too much to expect for an alien race to actually be, you know, alien, and try a little harder to save what has been the literal centerpoint of their culture for aeons and literally the only thing that saved them from extinction?
>>344735459
Each profession has something called a half-life (not quite the same as half-life of knowledge, but it's a similar concept).
For example, phyics has a half life of four years. Meaning if you were to take four years off, your value to an employer would half and so would your salary.
YFW HALF LIFE 3 WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO COME OUT, IT WERE JUST A BIZ MEME
![SECRETFILE[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/21jSTCH.png "SECRETFILE[1].png")
>We advanced the timeline 300 years from the time period everyone cares about for no reason.
>To compensate for this, we wrote a bunch of new characters, all of which aren't even remotely memorable.
>You guys like that Darth Nihilus guy, right? Well our new character, the SITH EMPEROR, is the same except WAY COOLER.
>That Kreia character was really overrated, so she's just a crazy ghost now who's in love with our AWESOME SITH EMPEROR.
>You know how Darth Revan is essentially a mythological figure at this point, and the comics and games both went to decent lengths to portray the character as faceless? We threw all that out the window, he has a canon face, he's been captured by our awesome SITH EMPEROR (that guy is just so cool!) and he's also a mid-level raid boss.
>Oh, and we got a lot of criticism for not having any gays in our game, since that's the only reason people buy our shit anymore, so we made a gay planet.
>>344739823
It had a story?
>>344741095
It was better, and more importantly, not shoved in your face all the goddamn time. You could easily play the game ignoring most of it.
>>344740873
He's a witty and crafty murderer with great upper body and core strength.
The part where he got all shocked at the Russian dude in 2 for killing his own guy was funny since it was so out of place
>>344744176
Don't forget about satele shan, had to throw in a reference to bastilla in there
>>344741095
>sc1
>kerrigan is a fucking monster who has no problem getting people killed to suit her goals
>raynor promises her he'll kill her for everything she's done
>sc2
>kerrigan is a perfect mary sue that raynor is madly in love with
>she turns into a fire god and flies into space with her "people" to fight evil hell demons
>>344740734
I have never played this game but it has a character named Orochi Zilla. Does that speak for the game's story
>>344744480
Had to give her the same voice actor too, so people don't get confused.
>>344744390
Playing a story game to ignore the story. Best story ever!
Starcraft has always been cheesy. Just enjoy it for dumb schlock and you'll be much happier.
>>344743879
completely agree, whatever story the game had was completely ruined in the last chapter by a stupid fucking gimmick
i still cant go back and bring myself to finish it.
>>344744559
Mostly.
There are two basically plot lines running side by side, one is about the main character and Orochi Zilla, and the other is his demon sidekick with no memories. The former is pretty cheesy, the latter is more serious and actually a bit interesting.
Both can be safely ignored if you don't care at all for them, they don't get in the way much.
>>344744659
>story game
starcraft has hella solid gameplay though?!
>>344744659
SC2 story is godawful, but I still played through campaigns, WoL and LotV mission design is pretty neat. HotS is beyond salvation.
>>344744867
>WoL
jimmy whiteknights to meet a girl, gets friendzoned
>HotS
jimmy´s hoverhanded grill is now strong independent woman who doesnt need a white man and is slaying alien dog cock in space hotel all the fucking time
and in third sequel you got fucking bionicles drama against many faced god and so privileged strong women they transform into flaming space gods. i dont wanna buy Void fuck that
>>344735459
Halo 5
>>344744661
it was always cheesy but not a love story written by metzen
FO: New Vegas
>>344739823
Story wasn't bad really. Just very simple to set up game modes.
>>344739823
>those missions where the rebels had to "defend the medicine from being stolen" and the security had to "steal the bioweapon from the terrorists"
>it never exactly makes clear who's in the rightit's obviously fucking security though, security did NOTHING WRONG.
>>344741312
Agree completely. I was so pissed at 3 for not having any supernatural shit. Hallucinogenic water was a shit twist.
>>344742510
While the story wasn't exactly great, the main characters story arc was fantastic. He enjoyed killing as much as the player did and the characters around him reacted to that.
>>344745160
idk wtf you are talking about. I'm not even sure you've read my post
>>344741561
>>344742551
Please go back to your containment board, thank you.
A complete joke
>>344746478
that the whole sc2 story more or less evolves around jim raynor´s sex life and it´s cringeworthy shit to follow
>>344746921
how does it affect mission design or my point?
>>344736263
/thread
>>344741120
He wanted a reply, why did you give it to him? Generosity doesn't belong here.
I wish I had the time, patience and autism to make an artcle explaining in great detail why SC2 has such a nonsensical plot, missed opportunities, garbage characterization and worthless ending, while also shining light on the flaws of the original in other to compare the two games in an unbiased manner.
Or I could just rant about SC2 for an hour... that would work too.
>>344746620
>only /pol/tards think trannies are mentally ill
>>344747069
it doesnt, all they have for gameplay is sandbox simulators with couple goals and it got old years ago. it´s just so cheap to play a once upon time video each time a map ends, shift back to menus, repeat and call it a game.
>>344747507
The SC2 books ruin it for me. They are better written than the plot in the games, and the lack of quality in the games or cohesion with the books ruins it for me.
>>344747821
you did play the game, right?
WoL had such a lackluster presentation in its campaign design. It tried to borrow from Mass effect's branching storyline but failed miserably by creating 2 characters that unavoidably become schrodinger's cats, both alive and dead in the canon.
Hanson story had potential to be a briliant twist on Jim's quest for Kerrigan's blood. As Hanson searches for a cure for the infestation you could have Jim resoning against it, as he can only see Kerrigan's genoside, leading him to choose to purify the colonists rather than saving them, after killing Hanson he could come to a realization about his possible confrontation with Kerrigan, that he may be doing more harm than good, he could begin to doubt himself, real character growth (although they try to give it an angle with the Kerrigan's cinematic, but it leads nowhere).
Another thing that ticks me off about WoL is how they implement so many fantasy elements that don't belong in a Sci-Fi like StarCraft, prophecies, ancient gods, spirits, visions of the future... it all sounds too WarCraft to me, ironic for a game that sold itself on not being WarCraft in space...
I can't even wrap my mind around that Tassadar fake out, its like the team was so lost they were going for something stupid and gave up midway for something ever stupider, since they couldn't damage control what they've done.
Tassadar returning has no point, he served his purpose in the first game, and even there the Tassadar praising was starting to become obnoxious "I can not even speak 'His' name", maybe it could be in tone with en taro Adun, since he also was a war hero, but really, geeez, the guy just died and the war is not even over, this is the definition of too soon.
When they explain that good Cthulu took the form of Tassadar to not starle Zeratul, which is utter nonsense, use the form of literally anything else and you wouldn't starle Zeratul, and was that form really necessary? Couldn't you just make Zeratul receive the vision without showing yourself? Did you reeeeeeally have to tell Zeratul an Obiwan misleading quote to get us to think you didn't outright lie to us by claiming Tassadar never died? "I never tasted death" "you see I didn't lie, because I, myself never died, so what I said was true from a certain point of view :^)".
Zeratul was not looking for the Hibrids during the WoL protoss missions, he went looking for answers (??), I am pretty sure Zeratul would get people hunting down those hibrids he found, also whats up with his reaction to seeing a hibryd? He acts like its the first time, when its clearly not. The only explanation I gather is that perhaps he saw a different type of hibryd and when he saw this new one he gasped in surprise... but then again he asks himself "who created this atrocity?" when he already knows the damn answer... its the duran guy he already met.
Also why did Mengsk had anything to do with the hybrids? Moebius was so confusing to me, they said they were from Mengsk, but Valerian owns them but doesn't know about the hybrids, yet the answer to Mengsk, which never once interacts with a hybrid... why??
So Kerrigan was fucking around in space and came across some antient prophecies at the same time as Zeratul... its a small world... sector... universe...
So Zeratul fights Kerrigan, and with his newfound ability to teleport he teleports on top of kerrigan instead of her back where she would had a harder time seeing you coming. I mean its only the Void energy... the only enegy that can permanently kill a Zerg agent, Kerrigan really wanted to show off her new zany powers, thankfully for her, Zeratul was dumb for the sake of the cinematic.
So Kerrigan has devious plans, takes revenge on Mengsk, kill millions, decieves the protoss twice, destroys the UED, all in the first game completely contious of all of it... she gets an amnesia in HotS in other to make her a likable protagonist. If you are going to throw the last game out the window, at least have the decency to not take a shit on its corpse.
All of Kerrigan's companions with the exeption of abathur add nothing to the damn game, all of them act like dumb power hungry mobsters, as if its like a godfather knockoff, also they come up with some bizarre plotlines for them like teaching Zagara "vision". Why...???????
>>344744176
Don't forget with the expansion
>You remember that awesome SITH EMPEROR you killed. Well we rused you and now he's back being an even more awesome SITH EMPEROR WHO'S INSIDE YOUR HEAD AND WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP
>>344748091
>fantasy elements that don't belong in a Sci-Fi like StarCraft, prophecies, ancient gods, spirits, visions of the future
Except this shit it right there, in Brood War.
If it wasn't for Alarak's no bullshit attitude in LotV I would just skip through every dialog witouth missing a goddam story beat, but surprisingly, Alarak managed to get the numb protoss characters to show some emotion, some grit and motivation. Alarak basicly saved the campaign. He isn't without flaws though, the most glaring one its that he challenges another protoss highlord to a Mak'Gora, its the same principle, a fight to the death with no helpers, the only twist is that you can lend psi energy, but thats about that for inovation. If you are going to regurgitate some element from another game into the plot, you better just leave it as a reference. That just looked and felt terrible in a StarCraft game.
The nu-Khala made no damn sense. So only the Templar had the Khala hivemind? Wasn't the whole strife something about drifting away and becoming devoid from the Khala's light? Why isn't every other Protoss tribe using the Khala? I though the Templars were just a caste among the ranks of the Protoss with the highest authority being the conclave, which also were very into the Khala business. Though the conclave was rip, that doesn't explain why there are so many different non Khala things going on in the protoss, almost like a contrived way to not have to explain why amon can't mind control them...
Also Amon's mind control, why didn't he use that bullshit sooner? Could have saved him a lot of trouble. I just have a feeling that the way that the player needed to begin the campaign without having everything needed a contrived explanation so they though of that nonsense in the first draft and rolled with it...
General warfield was only doing his job, and you killed him for it Kerrigan, so much for redeemable.
>>344749856
I'm pretty sure that there are only vague mentions of gods (Xel'Naga), though i aways took that they could be just a very ancient race of creatures that tinkered with other races in the past, and the protoss had them as gods, like they parade their heroes, Adun for example.
No prophecies, no spirits, no visions, no ancient evil awakens. Duran makes a quick mention of preordained cosmic order, but that is just too little for me to even consider Warcraft levels of ancient gods.
