The Rules: List what you think is the worst story (or at least a very bad one) in gaming and explain why. For the purposes of variety, try not to list a game that someone already listed, or at least don't do so without giving additional reasons for why it's bad. Also, try to pick games that are actually trying to have a plot of some kind. There is little point in critiquing Super Mario, however valid it may be, in having the same paper thin plot from game to game. Besides that, go nuts.
My pick is:
This plot was....completely incomprehensible. It was nothing more than continuing series of shit blowing up with no logical reason or flow connecting the events. Rarely has a game left me more baffled as to what went on than this one.
In the beginning of the first mission with the plot in mind, the terrorist leader attacks a russian airport with you, an undercover CIA agent, as one of his underlings. "No Russian" he mutters, so that they will not be identified as Russian by....I don't know, the people he's killing? I somehow doubt that anyone who survives will hear them talking in english over the screams and gunfire as they run for their lives. Strangely, while he's very concerned with not being heard speaking russian, this world wide famous terrorist, Makarov, apparently has no issues showing his face. Apparently, Russians airports don't have security cameras. Anyway, you do your part (or perhaps you don't), and at the end of the mission Makarov shoots you point blank in the head. The Russian detectives somehow, I don't know how, identify you as a CIA agent (I never knew that the russian government had such easy access to American National Security personnel files). They worked out that this was actually an american act of war. Apparently, the fact that the american was found lying dead with potentially no victims roused no suspicions. This clearly means that the russians have no choice but a full scale invasion of America! Somehow, this doesn't result in nuclear war.
I will admit, it's been a while, so I'm a bit foggy on the rest of the plot. I only rewatched that one mission on youtube to get a refresh. But the rest of the game is just as wacky. I remember that somehow Price manages to launch a nuclear bomb (how he managed to do that, who the fuck knows) and somehow programmed it to detonate in outer space so that it'd sent an EMP to slow down the russian invasion. There's this other part where you get shot and burned alive by the US general for...no reason I can tell. It's not like you knew what the files on that thing you gave him were, and I doubt he'd find out. And he does this in front of hundreds of other soldiers. Apparently, he trusts them to be loyal on faith alone. Then there is this one mission where the navy will bomb a place even though it's allies are still there, but there is another oil rig mission where they refuse to assault it because of a few hostages.
Like I said, that campaign was just a series of Epic Shit Going Down with no logical reason following it. None at all.
My pick is:
This plot was....completely incomprehensible. It was nothing more than continuing series of shit blowing up with no logical reason or flow connecting the events. Rarely has a game left me more baffled as to what went on than this one.
In the beginning of the first mission with the plot in mind, the terrorist leader attacks a russian airport with you, an undercover CIA agent, as one of his underlings. "No Russian" he mutters, so that they will not be identified as Russian by....I don't know, the people he's killing? I somehow doubt that anyone who survives will hear them talking in english over the screams and gunfire as they run for their lives. Strangely, while he's very concerned with not being heard speaking russian, this world wide famous terrorist, Makarov, apparently has no issues showing his face. Apparently, Russians airports don't have security cameras. Anyway, you do your part (or perhaps you don't), and at the end of the mission Makarov shoots you point blank in the head. The Russian detectives somehow, I don't know how, identify you as a CIA agent (I never knew that the russian government had such easy access to American National Security personnel files). They worked out that this was actually an american act of war. Apparently, the fact that the american was found lying dead with potentially no victims roused no suspicions. This clearly means that the russians have no choice but a full scale invasion of America! Somehow, this doesn't result in nuclear war.
I will admit, it's been a while, so I'm a bit foggy on the rest of the plot. I only rewatched that one mission on youtube to get a refresh. But the rest of the game is just as wacky. I remember that somehow Price manages to launch a nuclear bomb (how he managed to do that, who the fuck knows) and somehow programmed it to detonate in outer space so that it'd sent an EMP to slow down the russian invasion. There's this other part where you get shot and burned alive by the US general for...no reason I can tell. It's not like you knew what the files on that thing you gave him were, and I doubt he'd find out. And he does this in front of hundreds of other soldiers. Apparently, he trusts them to be loyal on faith alone. Then there is this one mission where the navy will bomb a place even though it's allies are still there, but there is another oil rig mission where they refuse to assault it because of a few hostages.
Like I said, that campaign was just a series of Epic Shit Going Down with no logical reason following it. None at all.
Explanation? Why anyone who has played it knows how it starts out very good, and then gradually gets worse and worse to a point where it´s just becomes a joke. It´s really as much "anything goes!" as the plots in the Modern Warfare games.
