Video games with great plots

Wow, thank you for all of the recommendations, everyone! I'll definitely look into these.
 
Final Fantasy 6

I know the FF series gets a lot of praise, some of it deserved some not, but when the main enemy of the game gets usurped by a homicidal clown bent on annihilating all living things, and you fail to stop him, that is a gut punch you weren't expecting.
 
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Xenoblade Chronicles

I felt all the things.

Also Bayonetta starts out ridiculous but then you get into the second half of the game and all this shit is happening and it's putting you through the emotional gambit and by the fucking end you're this ball of joy and sadness and anger and laughter and it's the best thing ever. Then the second game is even better.
 
I nominate Silent Hill 2 and Rule of Rose, and I second The Last of Us and Life is Strange. Bioshock has a pretty good story as well, though I only liked the first one, but that's just a matter of personal preference.
 
Ghost Trick is one of my favorite games, and it's also a game that I can say has one of the better story and writing in videogames. It just all fits perfectly.

I'd nominate LISA too, really got engraved on my mind after playing it.
 
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Final Fantasy 6

I know the FF series gets a lot of praise, some of it deserved some not, but when the main enemy of the game gets usurped by a homicidal clown bent on annihilating all living things, and you fail to stop him, that is a gut punch you weren't expecting.
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On that note, I'll add Final Fantasy IX to the list.

Game's story and characters had me hooked from beginning to end.

I would also add the Team ICO games. While they aren't huge on dialogue or exposition, the visuals and the way characters interact with one another definitely had me invested.
 
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Dead and gone thread but I really enjoyed Dragon Age Inquisition. From a certain angle it could be taken as a story about faith.
 
Max Payne 1 have already been mentioned but it is a great story that had me wonder where it was going. The plot is simple, the characters encountered and their motivations aren't that deep, but it uses mythology and symbolism in a way that have the overall theme teetering between complete mental breakdown or the supernatural end of the world(ragnarök). The game is old so I won't spoiler it but playing it day one when nothing was known it really felt like it was up in the air which one it would be, at one point I suspected the game would take a turn towards that or that Max would start to hallucinate seeing old gods and their foes in the distance. edit: and it would have fitted in just perfectly.

The first Shadow Warrior reboot also had a really nice plot, the game had some problems but I kept playing to find out "why".
 
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