/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>8379661
What a silly thread.

>>8379661
Kamaitachi no Yoru.
It's a visual novel.

Actraiser 1/2, Ace Combat, Front Mission Gun Hazard, and Medal of Honor were pretty kino too.

>>8379661
Ecco the dolphin

>>8379701
I've heard of this. A horror novel on SFC is pretty strange but maybe I should check it out

Deus Ex
Snatcher
Policenauts

>>8379661
I don't care about story in vidya.

>>8379661
Daggerfall

>>8379661
Planetfall

>>8379661
link's awakening
super metroid

>>8379661
Sonic 1. It doesn't need pointless text and unskippable cut scenes to tell a good story.

>>8379685
>bad guy steal girl and attack place
>good guy fight
ok boomer

>>8379946
>bad guy turns animals into robots
>good guy stop him
I like the environmentalist message it has going on, and I 100% agree with what you said about a good story not needing text or unskippable cutscenes, but this was still the weakest example you could've gone with

Simple stories aren't BAD mind you, but OP is asking for GREAT stories here

>>8379661
Majora's Mask

Pacman.

>>8379661
Adventure (Atari 2600)

>>8380039
Okay, then Altered Beast. It has cut scenes and some text but they are perfectly done. Surely you agree with me this time.

>>8379661
Half-Life

>>8379661
Punch-Out, an inspirational underdog sports story.

Donkey Kong Land

The story is that Cranky Kong believes that DKC was only a success because of it's great graphics, so he traps DK in a gameboy game to prove that he can still be a good game even in monochrome 8 bit graphics.

I'd say that's a great story

Pong.

>>8380384
/thread

>>8380412
nigga stole my bike

>>8380412
the ending to the wii one is kinda sad.

>>8379661
Metroid on NES and Famicom

Link's Awakening

I will debate

>>8380413
Awesome

>>8379661
Sonic3& Knuckles
Yoshis Island
Rtype
UMK3
Fatal Fury 2
KOF 97
Crash Team Racing
Armored Core
Ninja Gaiden (nes)
Wario Land

Verification not required

>>8380867
Yoshis Island, ctr for their story? Yikes.

>>8380697
Planescape did it better.

>>8380867
Not sure about some of the other pics, but the Armored Core games had great stories, good choice there.

>>8379670
FUARK came here to post this. Holy based.

>>8380910
Maybe, haven’t played. Regardless, LA did it well.

Warcraft 3.

Minecraft

>storyline
Games aren't about story. Go to >>>/tv/ and >>>/lit/ if you want story.

The Lurking Horror

Link's Awakening
Star Fox 64
Sin & Punishment
Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2
Castlevania Rondo of Blood
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Ecco
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Moon: A Remix RPG
Final Fantasy Tactics
Batman (Genesis)
Revenge of the Shinobi
King of Fighters '97
Metal Slug 3
Outrun

>>8379661
>games
>story

>>8379661
Fallout 1

>>8379661
Colony Wars

>>8379685
ALttP is my favorite game of all time but there is nothing special about the story. OoT had a better story.

:(

>>8381293
Retarded take

>>8379661
Soul

>>8379661

Starcraft's lore was amazing imho, even if it was influenced by Warhammer 40K and other stuff. Arcturus, Raynor, Kerrigan, DuGalle, Zeratul, Tassadar, Aldaris are all legends.

>>8379661
Warcraft 3

Moon RPG remix
Another World
Majoras Mask
Super Metroid

>>8386403
Metroid 2

>>8379661

It makes me happy to see so many people suggesting s3&k. I love that game and even I didn't put it in my list for this thread. It's impressive how many of that games story beats are told via background elements outside of cutscenes. The path from the start to the end is always connected through visual storytelling. Does anyone have a good example of other retro platformers dedicating themselves that much to making the locations feel cohesive?

I can't think of any videogame with an actual GREAT story by OP's standards.
You have to get into TV and film to get GREAT stories, outside of books of course.
Lots of GOOD stories. My favorite non-RPG mythology is either classic Mortal Kombat, or the later Zelda games.

>>8379661
Sindicate

>>8379712
Based

Gunstar Heroes

>>8379685
>>8383092
I'd say A Link to the Past has great background lore for the era, the manual story is pretty good in my opinion and it is what set the foundation for future Zelda lore. Actual in-game itself though, yeah the story is still nothing special in the end. Ocarina of Time pretty much has the same ALttP backdrop but is told in a much more compelling way in-game to make it an actual great narrative instead of just background lore.

>>8379661
Photopia

>>8379661
the amount of plebs in this thread is frightening

>>8391632
came here to post this but ya beat me to it, brother

>>8391632
>>8380384
>>8383102
Based taste anons
My vote goes out to Alundra.

>>8379661
you say hard mode but you don't say the game itself has to tell the story. there are shit games like little nemo and a boy and his blob that have outside literature/art that connect it to a much bigger universe which, arguably, is more diverse and interesting than the majority of modern games by themselves and there are tons of such examples.

but for in game storytelling, what about ninja gaiden 2? who did cutscenes better than that and before that? the story was great some great evil taking a girl you're the only one who can do shit, there's some super cop that starts to follow the trail but we're talking crazy demons and legacy ninjas with magic swords obviously it's pretty much just them by themselves.

i mean you can say diablo but they kind of just subverted a bunch of christian theology which was more to do with the real world than story telling.

but then there's the sierra series and though a bit goofy, quest for glory (hero's quest) was pretty awesome. they pulled in a lot of things from the real world... rusulkas and baba yaga, brigands, a ton of non-islamic arab culture... it's basically a rift to a ton of famous fairy tales.

i mean quest for glory is a lot like the matrix plot if you take out the transcendentalism part of it (thought there's magic in the game) - you're some idiot hero who is able to repel absolute evil just because you are 'the one'.

the more of this shit you see throughout your life the more you will realize there are almost never any new ideas. because there can't be. reality is what all good ideas are based on. you take what is possible and you twist it against the unknown and the pieces that properly predict behavior and future states of reality are 'art'.

the story in quest for glory about erana is pretty good. the dryad and the tree is another. but like i said, you say hard mode but you don't say truly original ideas because you know even modern games don't have any truly original ideas either.