Best Storyline in a game

if you played FF VI then you wouldnt like VII's magic system... rather than 'earning' magic, you basically just buy it at the store? thats sorta silly... thats just my opinion though.

VI - Acquire Magicite, equip the desired magicite and learn the skills of that magicite over the course of battling

VII - Oh cool, Fire magic is at the store omg. And look even healing magic!

I don't mean by buying, I too agree that was sorta silly, I meant to equip the magics, in this game you weren't stuck to a thief who could only steal or a mage who know nothing but black magic, in this one you could make a single character know how to summon, to use both black and white magic to steal as well, the bad side is that unlike FF6 you have to be equiped with the orb, or the spell wouldn't be casted but still I think it was better.

Final Fantasy VII

FF6 is the Greatest Video Game of All Time, which I guess also makes it the best RPG ever.

first of all, HALO HAS NO STORY. practicly anyway.

Secondly. FINAL FANTASY 3/6 MADE ME CRY! AND KEFKA IS PURE EVIL!

Thirdy. FINAL FANTASY 7 Lovers are just people who look at previous final fantasy games and say they suck because the graphics are primative! YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED!!

Fourthly. THE TOP 3 STORYLINES ARE CHRONOTRIGGER, then FINAL FANTASY 3, THEN... To prevent argument, WHATEVER U THINK SHOULD GO THIRD. END OF DISCUSSION! ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS JUST A LITTLE KID WHO DOESN'T KNOW HIS HISTORY! 💃 it's peanut butter jelly time!

NOW ALL OF YOU SHUT UP AND AGREE WITH ME!

I think the best story line ever is either Final Fantasy 10 or the Metal Gear Solid games. Parasite Eve was ok 2.
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I gota agree with Elliot on this one about Halo, it had no story line.

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The final fantasy games have the best storyline, well besides chrono trigger/chrono cross.

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for christ sake it was donkey kong, i mean Monkeys barrels and ladders a damsel in destress a plumber..........

I think y'all are forgetting galaxian, c'mon now 🙄

Star Wars:Knights of The Old Republic is the best story I've seen in a game. That's coming from a hardcore gamer with a large collection. Currently, I have started Legacy of Kain Defiance. But haven't really had a chance to get into it more.

Heck ya KoTOR! But morrowind rivals its story if you actually get close to completing it, like i am! lol

Um the best magic system created is in morrowind, limitless..... you can train in everything.. there are no limits. You can be a 2 ton lifting warrior shooting lightning bolts outa your left hand while smashing the guy with a hammer in your right.... all in Real Time!!!! no turn based crap...

In morrow and Kotor you actually find out you are the enemy, there is no bigger twist then that!

I hate the metal gear solid story..... i hated the parts where they kept on talking and talking and talking and talking.....i was like "excuse me can i have the gameplay back"

Story wise......Zelda are always nice....Half life story was typical..but how it was told, was amazing. I think the best is Starcraft for the PC...that was awesome.

yeah Starcraft had a great story, i mean Fenix dies and returns as a dragoon, Kerrigan turns into the Zerg queen.........

yah it was great, espically with add on.
Great characters like Raynor, and the Duke, sons of korhal.
Superb game.

hell yeah, I hear there making a actuall sequal too, not just Starcraft:ghost but a legit Starcraft 2. I mean they set the ground work for a Zerg/Protoss hybrid, So theres a brand new race

true...the series did leave with an open ending...but i would still like the humans in it. and im looking forward to ghost also, it would be cool to see the units up close in 3d...

I would very much reject KOTOR; its plot was average at best. Morrowind started interesting but then became pretty mainstream and the ending was dire.

Blade Runner probably made a good go at best plot but kinda lost it at the end... darn... but fantastic for the first half.

I always liked Baldur's Gate II myself- David Warner made SUCH a good bad guy, it just went to show that games as well as films benefit from decent personalities.

Prince of Persia was VERY entertaining, also with great characters; I really was not sure about the end, though. Seemed like they just skipped a lot of the strange bits that had been so intriguing earlier on.

Starcraft and Warcraft both had very engaging plots, but I don't think they can be rated for effort along side your Baldur's Gates and Final Fantasies of this world.

Although it did not have a storyline as such, I always found Alpha Centauri's semi-narrative that unfurled as you discovered things very mature and engaging.

For that matter, cheesy as it was, Wing Commander III was frigging superb!

I suppose it is like films; it depends what sort of storyline you are after at the time. Hard to get a decent storyline like the Usual Suspects into a game because the actual 'game' part has to be there somewhere.

A Final Fantasy will probably win it; I just haven't really played enough to judge. I'll shoot for BGII, myself.