20 Best Video Game Storylines Of The Decade (So Far)

While the Uncharted series has always been an excellent, high-octane series of games, their actual stories have never been anything to write home about. Sure, over the course of three releases Nate, Elena, and Sully all became iconic PlayStation mascots, but their motivations and personalities were no deeper than those you'd find in your average Fast and Furious film.

But Uncharted 4 completely changed that when it hit shelves this year. Although it featured the same swashbuckling fun the franchise was known for, this time around the game was tackling decidedly more mature themes, delving into these characters as real people for the first time ever and giving them genuine human motivations, hopes, and fears that any player could relate to.

Not only that but even the core pirate adventure was more complex than it had any right to be. Over both cut-scenes and environmental storytelling, the politics and personalities of the characters were imaginatively brought to life, which ultimately gave the game's setting, Libertalia, a tangible history and context that you believed in.