Top 5 PS4 games with incredible narrative, story and characters

Shrey Katsura writes-"Prefer stories over gameplay? Here are the top 5 PS4 games which have the best stories and characters."

[bikar]

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is bad game with bad writing and characters.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

One of the best PS4 games I've played. Original is still the best though as well as the #2 best game of all-time.

[coolbeans]

Ah man! You beat me to it. :P

It's a great coincidence to see that pic + title pop up.

[-Foxtrot]

Cringe worthy dialogue

I don’t get how any one likes these games

[coolbeans]

Yeah, yeah. There's no one who's shy about those moments of seeing thirty-somethings trying to capture millennial high-schoolers. But at least Season 1 has heart and ambition. It's a game containing an apocalyptic doomsday, time travel, and some dark material but ultimately centers it on a coming of age tale for the two leads. There's more going on there that's worth exploring.

[-Foxtrot]

It's not that it's just everyone acts its the best thing ever, same thing that happened with Walking Dead

People putting it up there with story telling found in games like Bioshock, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Mass Effect etc but at least at the end of the day those other games were full on AAA games where you got full on involved with the story, not just watch, point and click on repeat.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Best. Game. Ever

Needs no further explanation

[coolbeans]

Oh man...I still have time?!?!? I honestly didn't intend to have this last-minute type of response to this. I did know about your 2nd reply earlier, but it fell to the wayside in favor of other stuff. Anyways...

-"It's not that it's just everyone acts its the best thing ever, same thing that happened with Walking Dead"

Hold up! Your initial stance about this was people simply "liking" the Life is Strange games, not going over the moon about them. I fall into the former category, not the latter. And bringing The Walking Dead (TellTale) into this muddies the water since I hold Season 1 in higher regard than any LiS season (so far).

-"People putting it up there with story telling found in games like Bioshock, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Mass Effect etc..."

You're not really winning me over with that list, especially when some of those series have wildly disparate levels of quality writing to them. Uncharted 2 & 4? Sure, those are ones I really enjoy. 1 & 3? Eh...1 isn't all that great and 3 can be as much of a shambling mess as Before The Storm in regards to plot contrivances and characterization. Mass Effect 3's bad writing isn't just limited to the ending too. It takes updated endings and solid DLC to actually get close to previous games' level.

-"...but at least at the end of the day those other games were full on AAA games where you got full on involved with the story, not just watch, point and click on repeat."

By this rationale, should we dispute people liking old well-written adventure games with moon logic puzzles? The point-'n-click adventure genre just has a new subgenre that trims the unwanted fat. Plus, LiS did utilize time manipulation to complete certain tasks so that's not all you do there.

EDIT: Please feel free to comment here and jump to PM if the timer runs out. I didn't mean to handle the convo like that. I apologize for that.

[King_Noctis]

Uh no. If you play LiS season 1 then Before the Storm hits home really hard. The game is very emotional.

[coolbeans]

Speaking as someone who's been with LiS since the beginning, I think Before The Storm has some godawful writing. There's a light smattering of emotional, effective scenes to be found, but are dwarfed by everything else. A mess from top to bottom.

[King_Noctis]

Well let just agree to disagree then. I love everything about LiS season 1 and BtS. LiS season 2 on the on the other hand sucks really hard.

[josh-eh]

Completely Disagree. Not as incredible as Season 1 but still worth playing if you liked the original!

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Farewell episode is my favorite of any LiS

[whitbyfox]

Life Is Strange 1 > (enter games here)

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Hell yes!

[Nacho_Z]

Bloodborne has all of these beaten if you're willing to put the work in to uncover it. I liked the new GoW a lot but it was mainly for the satisfying gameplay, apart from the end credits scene and some of the opening moments I wasn't very much affected by its storytelling.

[Poopmist]

Torment Tides of Numenera has the best story this gen imo. The gameplay will make it a chore for a lot of people though.

[Stay-Toasty]

My god, you're right about that. I absolutely LOVE Torment: ToN but have never played anything like it before i picked it up, so I didnt know exactly what I was getting into. I had just heard it had a great story. The lore and the world are AMAZING, but sometimes it'll take me like 20-25 minutes just to exhaust one random character's dialog tree. Feels like I'll never finish it.

[gangsta_red]

"The gameplay will make it a chore for a lot of people though."

Amen to that! I stopped because it was going nowhere

[CP_Company]

i put up Yakuza series higher than Horizon, the same as Nier Automata. RDR2 is also way to high. it is way to hard to put up top 5. on PS4 it could be top 20 easily.

[PapaBop]

FF14? Granted it's slow to get going and requires a good deal of patience but for those who stick with it, you have over 300 hours worth of plot, narrative and some of the best character development seen in gaming. Still a great list of games though.

[Bridges28]

Haven't played 14. 15 was alright. Thanks for the suggestion though. :D

[Tross]

It's a one item per list article. Sigh.

I still haven't played Before the Storm actually. I backlogged it at some point and meant to get around to it. Maybe I will now.

[Bridges28]

You should. It's an incredible experience. :D