Tell me... which games have stories that can stand amongst the greatest works of fiction?

Planescape Torment, Hotel Dusk: Room 215

No and at this rate they never will. Hardly any resources go towards artists. Games will never be anything but toys or pale imitators of better art from other mediums.

Boatmurdered is basically the Watership Down of vidya

pretentious post

FEASTING on the blood of your ENEMIES

>Boatmurdered

you mean that one Dwarf Fortress LP with the "fuck the world" lever?

>be mostly interested in video games
>grow up playing vidya and not caring too much about movies
>like some video game stories and think they're really good
>people tell me to watch movies and that video game stories are shit compared to movies
>grow up
>watch some movies
>most of them have worse stories than video games

Being used to video games, movies are too fucking short. The characters a lot of the time feel too one dimensional and not developed and all the development seems fast forwarded and in forced scenes because there simply is not enough time for organic development aside maybe like one or two main characters and the story has to proceed at the same time and start, tell you all the basics, develop and end all in one go.
The only thing I learned growing up is that movie stories are vastly overrated. Of course it depends on the game and the movie, but I don't feel on average video games are worse than movies at all in the story department.

You just don't like it because I'm correct. Half a century has passed and games are still toys.

Game industry makes more money than film industry, there's bunch of orchestras doing music from vidya across the globe etc. Videogames passed films and majority books long time ago.

jesus fucking christ.
zoomer: the post.
go take your adhd meds and read a book

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Agreed, desu. Movies simply don't have enough time to set up compelling characters with a good story. Television and novels are the superior format for storytelling.

>don't like something because it's too quick and doesn't take more time to develop stuff
>let ADHD XD

Undertale is unironically one of the best examples of a video game making full use of the medium to tell a unique narrative.
The Last of Us and God of War fail as "industry changing masterpieces" because they don't do anything with the medium they're presented in, they may as well be movies.

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If VNs count: Umineko no Naku Koro ni

If they dont: Nier: Automata

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>Game industry makes more money than film industry

AFAIK this has been the case for a long time. The amount of money something makes is irrelevant to its quality. Example, the entire mobile market.
>vidya music
Sure, I like vgm too. I'd even say some of my favourite orchestral music comes from videogames.
>passed films and majority books
Tons of videogames are better than most movies, sure. The issue I have is that games haven't yet hit the amazing high points that music, cinema and books already have. Same point as OP basically

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. Books, tv series and vidya all can excel in that regard. Movies can't.

*worldbuilds your path*

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Unironically the DMC franchise especially 3 and 5

The story of your experiences playing multiplayer games

Based
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Final Fantasy VII

Spec Ops: The line
The game did an amazing job using all its tools to show walker’s decent and desperation.
Between it, heart of darkness, and apocalypse now, I’d say spec ops was the most effective since you were an active participant in the tragedy

>Spec Ops: The line

ah, the pretentious game that berates the player for doing something they had to do in order to advance.

Why is that a bad thing and why is advancement a justification? You saw things going to hell, you saw the mission get abandoned, your motive was the same as walker’s to find Konrad and see the end of the story. I’ll admit it’s a bit pretensious but it’s still overall effective artistically. Hell even saying that it was walkers decisions and you were along for the ride is just another flavor of ‘I was only following orders’

Planescape Torment
Final Fantasy VI
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite
Startropics
The World Ends with You
Final Fantasy XII
Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets for Gamecube
Gone Home
Wario World
Fallout 2
Tetris

>Metal Gear Solid 2
>Silent Hill 2
>Bioshock

DmC: Devil May Cry.
It’s Shakespearean.

>liking bioshit games

user, that game was shit, and unfinished according to the devs.

Off did it better

Silent Hill 2.
Deadly Premonition.

That's about it. When it comes to Devil May Cry, 3 has a perfectly executed story, regardless of it being very simple. I wouldn't put it up there with the greatest works of film or literature, however.

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I can’t believe that a single French man made a better game than a team of krauts.

>movies are too fucking short.
You haven't seen enough movies if you think this isn't one of their best qualities

Every story has been done. Because of that and due to marketing, video games can only show their prowess in narrative over plot, which is a good thing.

Games with great narrative and focus on actually utilizing the platform include titles already mentioned here, such as SOMA, Nier Automata and Hotel Dusk.

Games focused on plot and a story in itself are usually steaming horseshit writing-wise, and those games include most RPGs and generally every story-heavy commercial game with a wide audience such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games.

Based kisekek bro

the strength of games is in the wholly unique manner of storytelling they offer. odds are no game will ever match the level intricate character study or emotional power that written word offers, but no other medium can portray a story in the immersive, enthralling way that a videogame can. it's apples and oranges. regardless there hasn't been a game yet to really fully utilize the potential of the medium.

Haven’t played it but I want to

I don't know about greatest, but some vidya with a good story that comes to mind is SH2 and PS:T

good bait, because it's mixed both ends of quality.