Gentle Player
Arcane
Ultima Age of Enlightenment trilogy (IV, V, VI) in order. Then you might carry on with Ultima VII and Serpent Isle.
Try these 4 games:
- Bastion (you'll fall in love with the narrator's voice)
- Ori and the blind forest (good platformer with a pretty good story)
- To the moon (short but memorable and has charming characters)
- Machinarium (A point and click adventure game where you solve puzzles. You're a robot who saves a robot city from a certain Brotherhood)
I'd go with the Metal Age (Thief II) over the first one. Both have nice stories, but imho the second one is so much better in terms of how the missions are done.
The Game of Thrones RPG from Cyanide might fit your bill. The gameplay is not much to talk about, but the story and especially the two protagonists really carry the game.
Edit:
Oh, and the Yakuza games might work too if you can handle over-the-top Jap melodrama.
Pick random MMO and force some friends to play it with you. You will encounter so many weird/cool/creepy people that multiple stories will write itself. I'm not joking... or read a Bible
Ultima Age of Enlightenment trilogy (IV, V, VI) in order. Then you might carry on with Ultima VII and Serpent Isle.
Have not played it.I've tried Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and A Mind Forever Voyaging. The former had insane puzzles and I never finished it, the latter was incredibly amazing. Would you say they are similar to AMFV?
Why would you, that's actually a good and awesome game.of the Codex for not mentioning Betrayal at Krondor.
Stanley Parable was a masterpiece, and Binding of Isaac (Rebirth in particular) had an amazing story
But... but... I thought we at the Codex were a friendly bunch as the OP said and were recommending genuinely good games... (except the obvious Stanley Parable troll and such)Why would you, that's actually a good and awesome game.of the Codex for not mentioning Betrayal at Krondor.
Stanley Parable was a masterpiece, and Binding of Isaac (Rebirth in particular) had an amazing story
Also check out this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lost-and-forgotten-except-by-us.98735/
Have not played it.I've tried Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and A Mind Forever Voyaging. The former had insane puzzles and I never finished it, the latter was incredibly amazing. Would you say they are similar to AMFV?
Spider and Web had pretty little of puzzles, but last one was very, very good.
Anchorhead had wonderful feeling of dread when you combined all little clues. (Speaking of background information, Legacy: Realm of Terror was very good in that regard too)
Galatea was good and probably the most close to AMFV, having no conventional "puzzles" at all.
Just sieve through XYZZY Award.
http://xyzzyawards.org/awards/historical.php
Bullshiat.I do not know what to believe anymore.
Stanley Parable was a masterpiece, and Binding of Isaac (Rebirth in particular) had an amazing story
Also check out this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lost-and-forgotten-except-by-us.98735/
Thanks for the link. And yes, that a was a serious opinion. But it seems I don't belong here, judging by the way I see those games
Why do people keep bringing that shit up? It doesn't have any story it's just a mindfuck. If you want to be pretentious about it, it's an experience, but a fucking story? No fucking way.Stanley Parable??????????
Since you enjoyed Stanley Parable, that means you don't mind hipster indie crap, which means you might also want to check out Kentucky Route Zero. Personally I think it's the best of all the hipster indie stuff.
For the record, Stanley Parable's humor fell flat for me so YMMV.
On the visual novel/Jap fag area, the Phoenix Wright series and Ghost Trick could work too. Lots and lots of plot twists and some gameplay as well. Ghost Trick in particular had some excellent twists and turns in it and left me fairly astonished at the end of it.
The last game with a good story and actual gameplay probably has to be the aforementioned Cyanide's Game of Thrones.
On adventure game side there are some obvious picks like I Have no Mouth, and I Have to Scream. Or even Harvester, presuming that you can get to the right mind set. Dreamweb?
Kara no Shoujo is light on game, but will definitely leave a lasting impression.
Believe, I tried everything. WoW, Guild Wars, even that disgusting MMO called Tera, nothing worker. We either split when we level up, or we realize the game sucks, and we uninstall right away. I will see if I can find something that appeals to everyone anyway. We have some good memories with Runescape.