video games with narrative have been evolving imensly along with the evolution of the consoles themselves, it all started with the simple mario narrative of save the princess and evolved into the modern day complex fantasy scifi drama such as final fantasy, kingdom hearts, action movie style espionage plots like splinter cell and metal gear solid, demon and mythology games like devil may cry and god of war to modern day gangsters like the world famous grand theft auto. all these games while they provide immense and intese gameplay that is alone enough, provide the player with an intense story (narrative) the drags him into it that he even reacts to the happenings of the story, I remeber nearly crying when one of the main characters was killed off in final fantasy 7, and kept yelling at the TV "NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING", such intense emotional interaction can only be provided with a strong visual and audible narrative, because you can't just cry for a block in tetris.
for more information about the games mentioned wikipedia does a kick-behind job of explaining them and even providing a synopsis of their plots and twists if you don't mind spoilers.
also castlevania had a great narrative, and if we mention narrative we can't forget the comedic lucas arts games of the ninties spearheaded by monkey island and maniac mansion
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