Are you impressed by the great storytelling and new, fantastic ideas that have permeated the video game worlds in which we all love to spend so much of our time? Yeah, we didn’t think so. Take a walk down painful memory lane as GameLemon discusses some of the worst in game writing over the last few years.

Not all games, of course, actually have anything approaching a plot or dialogue - Tetris, Lemmings, Puzzle Bobble for example - and they never needed one, because they were all about the game, or about twisting your brain and eyes into pretzel-shapes, depending on how long you played them. But these days you'd be hard put to find a 'triple A' title that doesn't have some pretensions to narrative to link together its preposterously contrived levels of fantasy nonsense. So when did this start? When did it stop being enough for a game to just show you a bunch of lemmings, or blocks, or bubbles, and expect you to just get on and do stuff to them?

GLDarthziggy via gamelemon.com »