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[Treewyrm]

Max Payne... Yes, but it's more like reading a book. A good example of how linear game should be "told".

I also think of Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance from the Legacy of Kain series are good at that, the story wraps around you as you progress the game and while you cannot affect it you still go on to learn more, to "read" more about it.

[Blood-Pigggy]

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Don't buy that. Try to find a used one with the CD key, then you can get all the expansions, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, and several other mods that you would reguraly need to pay for, for free, via Steam.
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Umm, are these expansions downloadable via 28.8k modem?

Oh, and i've come to the conclusion that Max Payne has the best-presented storyline i've ever seen in a game.
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I doubt that, Max Payne has a good method with its comic book style scenes, but unfortunatly, they take a lot of the intimacy out of the experience, I find Half-Life's never ceasing involvement of yourself in everything going on a much better game of actually telling a story in a game, I really believe all games should be like Half-Life, there need to be more stories told by PLAYING the game, not just watching cinematics, unless of course, it's something incredible like Metal Gear Solid.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I wont go through the hassle and stress it would be to pick 10 but Suikoden 2, Golden Sun 1 & 2, UT series and Battlefront series would be in there. Possibly Tales of Eternia and Tales of Symphonia too.

EDIT: LOL That's actually 10 games right there.

[chainsoar]

Seeing Pigggy talk about immersive storylines has left me with one name stuck in the forefront of my brain - Metal Gear Solid 2. At the end of that game, your brain hurts. Definitely the most in-depth and monumentally complex storyline I've ever encountered in a game.

[Iowa]

I have Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, and i've almost beaten number 1 with my friend (can't kill the damned Metal Gear)...unfortunately, my Playstation broke about two days after I got MGS3 and I got really stuck in number two...

But the first one...oh, god, there was an experience...I have never, and still to this day haven't, seen a better storyline in any game created.

Oh, and you still didn't answer my dial-up question!

Honorable Mention:

Star Fox: Adventures
Zelda, but you play as a fox...what more could you possibly ask for...how 'bout a hot girl and a whole bunch of magical powers? Check.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Star Fox: Adventures was a mediocre Zelda rip off in my opinion.
Assault was the game they should've made instead of Adventures.

[Iowa]

LOL LOL You're so contrary to my opinion, it's hilarious...

Assault was pure, unadulterated mediocrity. I really like Adventures, actually, because it's so much like Zelda, but puts in it's own elements...

I wanna play Command...stupid non-having portable game system!

[Blood-Pigggy]

I more or less enjoyed Assault far more than Adventures because it had its own formula, and unlike Adventures, it only got better, it didn't go downhill like Adventures the instant you beat the first dungeon for example.

It was also the REAL Starfox game, it had Starfox gameplay, and it capitilized on that by expanding it.

[troop18546]

In no particular order:

Max Payne,
Vivisector: Beast Within,
Arcanum (not to mention all other games from Troika),
Diablo (series),
Painkiller,
The Suffering (series),
M.A.X.2 (best strategy ever???),
HOMM (from IV it's downhill),
Hitman (series),
AvP2...

And others, many of them here by me.

Coming up are to be the best of 2006-2007:

Cryotasis: Sleep of Reason,
Precursors.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Arcanum was FANTASTIC!

But a few game killing bugs (buying a ship, all Arcanum fans know this one, hehe) and the freaking annoying random encounters and its retarded AI kinda made me refrain from putting it on my list.

And I thought HOMM V was a MASSIVE improvement, I think they lost their pace with IV but came back up strong with number five.
And M.A.X. I won't really comment on that, but all I will say is massive unbalance between the different factions, it can't hold a candle to Starcraft or Dominions.

PS - The best game of 2005 was God of War :P