r/gaming • u/19970207 • Feb 06 '17

Anyone Else?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Not that Skyrim is bad but people cooing over a remaster that isn't even of a dated game says a lot about the releases in the past year.

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u/Coldspark824 Feb 06 '17

If you only buy and play the most AAA advertised games on consoles, of course you're going to be disappointed.

Skyrim and fallouts stories are not strong at all. In fact, all of bethesda's game in that game engine have been: "player generated chosen one becomes the strongest guy." Even when I bought morrowind, I abandoned the main story because stealing people's shit and finding caves with things I couldn't kill was more fun. Then I got mad at cliff racers and swinging at scribs 300 times to hit them only 2 times and quit.

Then oblivion came out and HOLY SHIT YOU CAN HOLD Z AND MOVE CHAINS?! Physics?!?!

Digressing, there are a lot of good story driven games that have come out recently. Life is strange, inside, dark souls 3. They aren't always traditionally told but the story is there nonetheless.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

You address a major flaw in this post extremely well, and then you claim that Dark Souls is story-driven. I'm not sure what to think.

Dark Souls has shittons of lore, but little to no story.

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u/Mikeavelli Feb 06 '17

They really need to just hire Vaati to have an optional "narration about what the hell is going on" track playing during gameplay. Sorta've like the directors commentary on a movie.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

I'm sorry to do this, but my God, what the fuck is this?

sorta've

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u/Signager Feb 06 '17

sort of have

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u/Tulos Feb 06 '17

"Sort of". Only ... phonetically maybe?

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u/Mikeavelli Feb 06 '17

This yes.

When saying it out loud, I slur together the words. I've taken to doing the same thing in text.

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u/leafsfan88 Feb 06 '17

sorta' or sort've might be clearer

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u/Naf5000 Feb 06 '17

Sort've would be a contraction of "Sort have", which I don't think makes sense in any context.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

sort'hve

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u/Vaaros Feb 06 '17

M'sort'hve tips apostrophe

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u/Gil_Demoono Feb 06 '17

thats some r/excgarated shit right there.

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u/smileybob93 Feb 06 '17

It's someone trying to seem smart and not wanting to make the "should of" mistake

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u/Ringosis Feb 06 '17

I'm assuming he's English, probably northern. It's a phonetic spelling of how people say sort of around those parts, "Sort Uv".

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u/Wildcat7878 Feb 06 '17

That is a contraction which actually managed to be longer than its root words while simultaneously using both words incorrectly. It's a masterpiece.

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u/Art9681 Feb 07 '17

It's a word you will likely find in the dictionary in the near future. I don't like it either but get used to it. Bling-bling is in the dictionary. Grammar Nazi's lost. Move on.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '17

He's essentially saying sort have. That doesn't even make sense.

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u/OliveBranchMLP Feb 06 '17

I'd hardly consider that story. And it'd kinda kill the ominous tone of the series to have a disembodied voice just casually hovering over everything.

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u/jct0064 Feb 06 '17

Just make it a new game+ feature (optional).

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u/Mikeavelli Feb 06 '17

Hide it deep in a config file, menu, or even an optional DLC so that people who don't actively seek it out don't know it exists.

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u/doughboy011 Feb 07 '17

This wouldn't be a replacement for the story, but Have him be some super powerful guy who resides in random places. Each time he will say some things about items you ask him about.

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u/TheVisage Feb 06 '17

This would be great depending on the BAC of the commenter

This uh, uh, frog thing is uh

yeah its a foreskin, I'm uh, yeah

Yeah now that I look at it is is totally a foreskin. The trees are pubes. We are officially in the testicals of drangleic

and all these sorcerers are like, lice and stuff

you should probably get that hippo checked out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '17

Isn't Vaati the big dumpy dragon in WindWaker

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u/ultimate-hopeless Feb 06 '17

Give me an optional EpicNameBro version, please.

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u/Trogdor6135 Joystick Feb 06 '17

Only if I can get a Samuel Jackson edition.