WC: The major takeaway from the modern Story Wars is that there are examples even in the premium releases where the plot is a tangled mess, forcing players to keep notes, and in rare cases, resort to searching the internet for some explanation of what the hell just happened. What follows is a look through some of the more complex plots known to gaming.
Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
I’d love to know how many units have been sold of all the Final Fantasy VII franchise games, including the original, the remakes, spin offs such as Crisis Core, and mobile games Ever Crisis. I bet a fair few copies.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
I find kingdom hearts really easy to understand and I know my ffellow kingdom hearts fans will agree, what makes it complicated is that it spans over diffrent consoles and so you need to heavily invest money wise to play through the whole story.
Gametrailers summarises the story very well. If you read it the stroy would be complicated but having played through the games I get it.
Its like metal gear solid, I haven't played them all so I am thourghly confused about the plot.
1. Metal Gear Solid is not so much complicated. They use a lot of in-universe technical terms during the plot and that can make things confusing, but once you get familiarized with them the story is actually pretty straight forward, TBH. Just dont't expect someone to be able to explain to a non-MGS player what its all about (as I said, too much in-universe terms for someone not familiarized to follow).
2. The Legend of Zelda, I always treated the games of the series as stand alones, TBH. But I'm not an avid Zelda player.
3. Final Fantasy VII isn't complicated at all. Very easy to follow. Final Fantasy Tactics is much more complicated, if you're looking for a complicated FF game.
4. Mass Effect is incredibly easy to follow. Not sure what this guy is going on about. The ending was confusing, but the Extended Cut tied everything up (even if not in a very satisfactory manner).
5. All other games, I have never played, but I'm sure there are more complicated games out there than most of the ones present in this list. Hell, Parasite Eve seemed pretty hard to follow when I firt played back then.
I found the story of Pong complicated.
Mass Effect? Are you kidding me? It's a perfectly straightforward plot. The alien robots are going to kill advanced civilization every 50k years. Stop them.
Well the final 10 minutes of ME3 makes the plot needlessly convoluted but really, in the grand scheme of things I don't think it's overly complex.