Great games with poorly defined campaigns and minimal story

[Duronos]

Perhaps. However,

Games with poorly defined campaigns and minimal story.




Quintessential.

Well in that case, well played Fencers... gg.

noob

[Faesroll]

Left for dead 1&2

[Duronos]

To add one on, Star Fox 64.

[Kathandira]

I'm inclined to say Dark Souls because of the limited narrative story, but there is still story (and a very interesting story, at that) found within the details of the game. So I'm not sure if that falls into what the OP is describing, but I just thought I'd throw it out there!

I was going to say the same thing, but I didn't want the hounds released on me. Dark Souls is great because it doesn't hold your hand. And neither does the story, it is an adventure through and through. The story is there, you just have to discover it.

[wariofan1]

Don't know if a game with NO story at all can really be considered to have a "bad story". Otherwize i'd say that Tetris heads this list. Awesome game, but not a very great story, now is there?

Ah c'mon, Tetris' story is killer, the Nintendo characters all come together at the end to play music together, the peaceful times before Super Smash Bros...

Speaking of Super Smash Bros., Melee had an Adventure mode that sucked pretty hard, as minimal story as it can be too. Though that can hardly be called a campaign as it is beaten within 20 minutes or so.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Dragon Age II no female characters I actually enjoyed. The story was good IMO but combat and such bleh. Male characters were...meh to. Especially the brother. Good lord was he a pain in my ass. If you're a mage anyways. I'm a sucker for young girls >_<

I really hope DAIII is MUCH BETTER.

[Asmekiel]

Just Cause 2. The story is hilariously bad, but the game is -SO- fun.

Haha, so true. Love the game, but if you only play games for their story you shouldn't even want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.

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Dragon Age II no female characters I actually enjoyed. The story was good IMO but combat and such bleh. Male characters were...meh to. Especially the brother. Good lord was he a pain in my ass. If you're a mage anyways. I'm a sucker for young girls >_<

I really hope DAIII is MUCH BETTER.

Yeah, the characters were pretty disapointing. The only one who was great was Varric. The others were way too annoying or whiny. Hope DA3 has more companions like Alistair, Ogren and ofc Morrigan.

[The Casualty]

Bad Dudes. For sure. I remember tossing quarters at this arcade many years ago.



Also: Dynasty Warriors. I'm sure there is plot in there, but for the most part its you picking your hero and wading through armies of soldiers hacking at anything that moves.

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Rise of Nations.

As an RTS game, it's amazing. But as story it's basically throwing you into key events in the world (like Alexander the Great's campaign or Napoleon's wars or The Cold War) and saying "ok, pick your side, done? good, now conquer the world" It also becomes quite repetitive after a while to be honest. As I said, as an RTS game it's great, but the campaigns, if I can even call them that, are horrible.

[Digglett]

Harvest Moon series, and Rune Factory series. I guess I should mention Donkey Kong Country as well since the basic plot for that game is that a giant crocodile stole some monkey's bananas.

[Ravenblade]

Rise of Nations.

As an RTS game, it's amazing. But as story it's basically throwing you into key events in the world (like Alexander the Great's campaign or Napoleon's wars or The Cold War) and saying "ok, pick your side, done? good, now conquer the world" It also becomes quite repetitive after a while to be honest. As I said, as an RTS game it's great, but the campaigns, if I can even call them that, are horrible.

Hah, RoN is one of my favourite RTS games I have ever played due to its crazy AI. Tbh I never saw the CtW modes as campaign with story. It's more like a themed Risk game. I wish RoL had a similarly good CtW mode but I found it worse in many aspects :/

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Hah, RoN is one of my favourite RTS games I have ever played due to its crazy AI. Tbh I never saw the CtW modes as campaign with story. It's more like a themed Risk game. I wish RoL had a similarly good CtW mode but I found it worse in many aspects :/

I have to agree. RoL had a great campaign in story, I kind of liked it, but from certain strategy ideas it was worse in many aspects.

In a way I thought of them as campaigns, but you're probably right, they are more or less a Risk game. I loved RoN a lot though (I never could conquer the world with the soviets though before the time ran out... some measly nation always remained somewhere)

[inboundpaper]

Battlefield 3, I think I know 1 person who did the campaign.