Favourite Single-Player/Story Driven games?

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Thought it would be interesting to see what some of your favourite single-player/story-driven games are? I'm a big fan of the Max Payne series and Alan Wake. I completed Wolfenstein: The New Order a few months ago and that was great, I've got the new Wolfenstein game, The Old Blood, but haven't got around to playing it yet.

I liked Far Cry 3 a fair bit, though it's more because of the villain and not the story itself.

As for other games, idk... Sleeping Dogs was a nice journey, Okami (yes, that Okami) and AC4: Black Flag put some fresh light on the world of assassins so I can't really say much bad about it. Also, the first two Bioshocks.

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I liked Far Cry 3 a fair bit, though it's more because of the villain and not the story itself.

As for other games, idk... Sleeping Dogs was a nice journey, Okami (yes, that Okami) and AC4: Black Flag put some fresh light on the world of assassins so I can't really say much bad about it. Also, the first two Bioshocks.

Far Cry 3 seemed cool but for some reason I never did get around to completing it. I would play a few hours of it, maybe an hour or two a day for a few days, then I'd forget about it for months, then I'd go back to it and do the same, and just kept repeating the process. It was strange because it seemed like a good game but I just couldn't get into it. I actually forgot about Sleeping Dogs until now, still haven't completed more than the first few missions in that but I really should go through it, seemed pretty good. Not heard of Okami honestly. I heard AC4: Black Flag was good but never got around too it, I stopped playing the AC games a few years ago. I got AC2, loved it, got AC1, didn't like it as much as 2, started buying every AC game on release and enjoying them all, but I just never got into Revelations like I did the earlier games, and I don't like skipping to the next game in a series usually if I haven't finished the previous game. Bioshock is great. Loved the first one, Bioshock 2 and Infinite both seemed great to play but I never did get around to completing them.

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Far Cry 3 seemed cool but for some reason I never did get around to completing it. I would play a few hours of it, maybe an hour or two a day for a few days, then I'd forget about it for months, then I'd go back to it and do the same, and just kept repeating the process. It was strange because it seemed like a good game but I just couldn't get into it. I actually forgot about Sleeping Dogs until now, still haven't completed more than the first few missions in that but I really should go through it, seemed pretty good. Not heard of Okami honestly. I heard AC4: Black Flag was good but never got around too it, I stopped playing the AC games a few years ago. I got AC2, loved it, got AC1, didn't like it as much as 2, started buying every AC game on release and enjoying them all, but I just never got into Revelations like I did the earlier games, and I don't like skipping to the next game in a series usually if I haven't finished the previous game. Bioshock is great. Loved the first one, Bioshock 2 and Infinite both seemed great to play but I never did get around to completing them.

Yep, Far Cry 3 was pretty good a game itself, though it's more like a one-time experience than anything else. And it kind of gets swallowed up by itself after a certain point in story, which I will not spoil. The ending, however, was a pretty good move, especially with the 'choose your own ending' style.
Sleeping Dogs has a great mechanic to it so it's a pure pleasure to play, with the story accompanying it pretty well.
Okami... one of those PS2 games that earned their name quite a long time ago, yet I still find the pleasure booting it up on my emulator.
With Assassin's Creed, the story is pretty straightforward. AC 1 was a big boom when it came out, but with other games of the franchise coming out it went back to being a mediocre title. 2 and the other parts revolving around Ezio (so Brotherhood and Revelations) stay as my favorite parts of the AC franchise, since they cover pretty much everything out of Ezio's life, ever since he's became an assassin until his death. 3 was buggy and not too enjoyable so I don't really like this part too much. 4: Black Flag is, at least for me, undoubtedly a different game than the rest. And it's the best AC game to date, even though it's no longer Assassin's Creed - mainly because it focuses on way different aspects. Also it no longer features Desmond, so it's more like a brand new game instead of a forcibly continued 'adventures of Desmond' sort of thing.
And I nearly forgot, Persona 3 Portable was my downright favorite PSP game. Good times.

I absolutely loved playing Metro: Last Light. Amazing game. COD W@W's campaign was sweet too.

Tbh this year I haven't been playing any game at all. But I like Devil's May Cry. I play it on xbox one a lot.
I'm trying to get into gaming again. 🙂
Also from what I saw Far Cry 3 & 4 seem like great games.

NieR + Drakengard 1/2/3
Silent Hill 1/2/3
No More Heroes 1/2
Deadly Premonition

I don't know if The Stanley Parable counts since its story is more of a weird anti-story, but it's one of my favorite games of all time (that list includes like 4 games). Papers Please is also noteworthy because it has very good storytelling.

I still haven't beaten Bioshock even though I really should :T

Infinite was nice, though.

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I absolutely loved playing Metro: Last Light. Amazing game. COD W@W's campaign was
sweet too.

I always used to like the campaigns on the CoD games, even though I think the multi-player has pretty much got progressively worse with each game (CoD2 is still best CoD). I never did play the WaW campaign though, might try it out sometime. Black Ops 1 had a pretty great campaign which was a lot of fun.
I got the Metro: Last Light Redux on steam a few months ago and played it for a few hours, seemed like a really good game but I never finished it, should definitely start it up again sometime.

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