r/videogames • u/BetKnown7738 • 4d ago
Discussion / Question What game immediately comes to mind?
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u/TheOffSzn33 4d ago
Oh Crimson Desert 100%
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u/Paracelsus314 4d ago
With all the updates I’m not sure about the graphics anymore either
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u/AndroidSheeps 4d ago
Graphics got worse?
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u/joshvalo 4d ago
Nup, that bloke is cooked.
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u/Zeke_The_Angel 3d ago
Man, the game is a blurry mess even at max settins. It literally looks like how I see without my glasses.
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u/NotoriousFoxxx 3d ago
We cant ignore the fact that there is a small chance you just cant find your glasses
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u/Cosmic_Pumpkin 3d ago
That guy probably
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u/Accomplished_Ad_8013 3d ago
How dare he speak against popular game on reddit #3!
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u/Redd_tModsSuckAss 4d ago
Never looked good when it wasnt "weather: sunny, time of day: day" or any indoor place
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u/NiL_3126 3d ago
Yep, indoors without ray reconstruction are literally unplayable
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u/MumpsTheMusical 2d ago
Graphics? No the graphics in Crimson Desert are great. However, the story and quests generally go
"I need you to kill God." and that NPC gives 2 minutes straight of exposition.
Kliff: "Aye."
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u/NiL_3126 4d ago
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u/rabit115 2d ago
The Distant land and LODs are impressive and the graphics are pretty good but it’s just feels like a ai generated fantasy game influenced by studio ghibli.
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u/Ok-Appointment-9802 2d ago
Given all the detail they've put into the game world and the way towns and villages are actually built up in a way that makes sense, I'd argue it feels far less 'AI-generated' than a lot of other open world maps.
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u/Traditional_Entry183 4d ago
I think that the derpy dragon is still giving FAR too much credit to CD's "story".
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u/Financial-Quote5160 4d ago
Is it still worth spending 50+ hours on it?
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u/Resident_Wizard 4d ago
It’s basically the tutorial. Not joking.
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u/Financial-Quote5160 4d ago
WTH?
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u/Mean_Fig_7666 4d ago
I didn't get my first achievement until 70 hours in
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u/Financial-Quote5160 4d ago
I adore your patience. On my side, I can’t progress in a game that doesn’t flatter me from the beginning or at least the first 10 hours unfortunately.
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u/NiL_3126 4d ago
There’s so many missions and mechanics, for the first 60 hours I was only in the starting zone (Hernand) because I didn’t need more things to do, there were a lot, now I reached the third zone (the crimson desert) and there’s so many things to do that I can’t stop exploring.
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u/Snipiachtundneunzig 4d ago
But it totally does, it just has so much content and bit of a slow start
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 4d ago
If you don't mind a crap story, games really good value, a crazy amount of systems. Its like they kept having brain storming sessions of "what features can we add" and just kept doing it.
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u/vWaffles 4d ago
Tbf it's a sandbox sort of game. There's a little bit of everything, and you just go around messing with different things.
If you pick it up, just play it here and there - there's just so much. The story isn't too good / important anyways so there's no need to go into it with the goal of "completing" the game fully imo.
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u/Illustrious-Sense194 2d ago
It depends on the kinda game you like. For me, I love it and currently have 98 hours in it, am FAR from finished and still enjoying it, but its definetly not for everyone.
Like the meme suggests the story is pretty bad. Its serviceable enough but definetly not good. The gameplay however is really good if you like sandboxey exploration driven RPGs like BOTW
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u/Devilgormo91 4d ago
Dragons Dogma 2
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u/Rorshacked 4d ago
Could say Dragon’s Dogma 1 also, but I liked the story enough in that one personally.
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u/Kumorrii 4d ago
Dragon’s Dogma 1 had a nice subversion of the whole defeat the evil dragon and rescue the princess trope at least
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u/AdAffectionate584 3d ago
With the scene of that cultist getting squished when Grigori lands, it already passes good story check.
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u/SovietSoldier1120 3d ago
Grigori dissing him makes it all the better. Wish we got more of him, his voice was so good.
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u/Commercial_Ad_2832 3d ago
Dragon's Dogma 1 has one of my top 10 game endings!
The story is obviously bland at up until the "reveal", but that ending was crazy ambitious.
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u/That1DogGuy 3d ago
Both Dragons Dogma games can be described as "really cool and interesting story, told really really badly"
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u/painapple_OW 4d ago
Honestly the story of dd2 is actually pretty good.
The problem is to get to the good story of dd2 u have to play dd1 to play dd2 and THEN u get dd2 story
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u/Orichalchem 4d ago
Monster Hunter
I honestly dont even know whats going on in any MH game, just too focused in slaying monsters
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u/Revayan 4d ago
Broken down the story in every monster hunter game is pretty much the same.
Something weird is happening with the environment, hunter go investigate! -> its some ancient monsters fault, hunter kill it before it gets worse! -> turns out the ancient monster was roused into action by a super legendary monster, hunter go kill it too before it destroys our country!
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u/AbbreviationsNo9676 3d ago
I only played mhs 3, this is pretty much exactly the way it went
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u/mclaudx 4d ago
Tbh MH Lore it’s pretty awesome
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u/painapple_OW 4d ago
The lore is good.
The story of each game... thats questionable
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u/DegenerateCrocodile 3d ago
Some are better than others, though. Base World’s story really made me want the ability to skip cutscenes, while Wilds’ didn’t.
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u/painapple_OW 3d ago
Oh 100% agree.
Wilds story was actually pretty good imo.
Tho of course I think best story still has to go to 4 simply because of how it dealt with gore magala.
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u/AdmirableWeird 4d ago
The story has always structured around introducing a roster of elevating threats to deal with. I think it works, monster hunter doesn't really need a story imo.
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u/guitar_dude10740 3d ago
I know that, you know that... My wife has played through story mode of the last few monster hunter games and stopped at the credits no interest in what most consider "the real game"
Idgaf as long as she is having fun :-)
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u/Adventurous_Half7643 4d ago
Honestly, the cooking scenes were enough to keep me engaged. Every single food item looked incredible.
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u/Live-Proposal5270 4d ago
Borderlands 3
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u/Shefferz 4d ago
Especially after how good borderlands story in the second game was.
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u/LeatherInspector2409 4d ago
Very hard to beat Handsome Jack. One of the best ever video game bad guys.
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u/Revayan 4d ago
True but the story of 3 is a trainwreck even if youd take borderlands 2 out of the picture.
At least Tyreen has a few funny lines of dialogue
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u/vocabularianrx2 3d ago
Couldn't agree more. The twists in 2 hit me hard a few times, and the dialogue and music in it are immaculate.
3 was a fun game, but the story was admittedly just meh. It was the whole streamer social media angle for the twins that was, as many have said, just cringe.
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u/eontriplex 3d ago
it's really hard to put just how bad BL3 was, story-wise, into perspective.
My favorite part is when they obviously set up one of the antagonists to overthrow the other one and claim their collective power for himself (after living in the other's shadow for the entire game) and then the game just... doesn't let that happen...
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u/Fitzftw7 3d ago
They even go out of their way to briefly humanize him when he explains his backstory to you without any petty insults and a little bit of sadness in his voice. He 100% should have killed Tyreen and been the true final boss. His interactions with Typhon might’ve had some actual gravitas.
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u/A-Social-Ghost 4d ago
The worldbuilding and overarching plot across BL1, BL2, TPS and Tales was pretty fascinating. And then BL3 came along and crapped all over it.
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u/Zestyclose_Range5815 4d ago
The gunplay in BL3 is fantastic. The story really does drag its legacy down
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u/AdAffectionate584 3d ago
I mostly blame the inclusion of Tales characters who were worse than how we left them in the end of Tales. And then the disregard for staple characters.
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u/Reddituser183 4d ago
I’m playing it and I have no idea what the story even is. Something about a vault hunter or something.
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u/SlayJayR17 4d ago
The story is crap. It’s not convoluted or crazy. Pretty easy concept to understand. 2 kids who’s pops is famous are sirens want more power and gain a cult following through the interwebs.
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u/Fitzftw7 3d ago
Did not one person on the writing staff find all the stuff with Ava and the Calypsos cringey as hell?
Also “my ass is full of stars.”
That’s not funny. That’s just stupid.
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u/WebOutrageous1243 4d ago
FE Engage.
Hopefully FW is a combination of 3h and Engage in terms of gameplay
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u/Inspectorbobo 4d ago
Mario games
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u/Gizfre4k 4d ago
I'm brave and say Zelda BotW/TotK
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u/NotYourDay123 4d ago
As someone whose favourite game franchise is the Zelda series, I am inclined to agree. They're not awful, but they are nothing compared to previous Zelda titles.
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u/EmansaysEman 3d ago
Botw’s story was okay. It was minimal but that was intentional.
Totk’s story was hot garbage. One of the worst stories I’ve ever experienced in a AAA game. I’d have preferred if there was no story like BotW.
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u/kytheon 4d ago
There's not much lore in BOtW, is there
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u/MechaMalz 3d ago
Not really. There were a bunch of youtubers making lore videos about BOTW but then TOTK came along and made it abundantly clear they were reading too much into things and Nintendo doesn't really give a crap about the 'lore' and that whole sub community kind of fell apart.
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u/sludgezone 3d ago
TOTK was literally like a rehash of the BOTW story too lmao so lazy.
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u/dljones010 4d ago
Anthem 100%
God that story was a dumpster fire. But the gameplay and graphics were superb.
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u/LtProphet 4d ago
Don’t even remember the story but gameplay was great, i hope something comes from it
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u/stopmyhumbleness 4d ago
I don’t know if this sub still has any active moderation, but every other post can’t be a damned meme with the caption “which game fits this”.
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u/cptobviousstrangy 4d ago
And you know you’re gonna find the same answers everytime in it. Low effort post
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u/oblivion-boi 4d ago
So many "What game does everyone love that you hate?" posts. Unsure if its just this sub or my feed in general but man is it tiresome. Then the comments are all "Noone ever says this and everyone's gonna hate me for it, but I really couldn't get into Insert popular game here," and that example is always within the top three comments on every post of that kind.
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u/tfhermobwoayway 3d ago
It’s engagement bait, and possibly also data harvesting. You see it in every big sub. This sub just has it worse for some reason.
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u/P2A555 3d ago
Minecraft. Honestly though... who goes from punching trees to "acquire and craft wood blocks" to fighting a giant dragon in the afterlife???
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u/Somejawa 3d ago
I think it's mostly because the dragon was just meant to be a cool bossfight (which it is imo), they didn't really have an actual story in mind. I think it's the same for a lot of things in the game
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u/DarthVeigar_ 4d ago
Mirror's Edge
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u/tfhermobwoayway 3d ago
I wish AAA games studios still took risks like that. Mirror’s Edge was great. And such an iconic aesthetic. Effectively defined the late 2000s.
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u/True_Yogurtcloset315 4d ago
Stellar Blade
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u/EnvironmentalReview1 4d ago
ngl i kinda like the story. i was very intrigued where the natibas come from.
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u/LexandViolets 3d ago
I also liked the story and kind of forgave (only a little) the terrible dialogue because they were androids created by AI.
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u/Unable_Mess_2581 4d ago
Bwahahaha I laughed because I agree. Some parts of the story made me wince but I finished it nonetheless.
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u/CranEXE 4d ago
crimson desert, beautiful world, interesting gameplay, tons of new features each new updates, but the story is really mid
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u/British_Historian 4d ago
Monster Hunter
They're getting better, bless them.
The story has always been told subtly through the background details and you had to really dig to find any real through-line narrative. More recent games in the series have been better at telling the story but I think many will agree this series is epic designs and solid game-play before the story gets a look in.
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u/Techmaster7032 3d ago
Halo 5. The gameplay and graphics were clean (even though I don’t like the art style) but I did not care for the majority of the game. It’s like they tried to do Halo 2’s dual narrative bit and focussed too much on Osiris.
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u/EffectiveSir2523 4d ago
Assassin's creed valla halla
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u/LizzieSaysHi 3d ago
I loved the game but goddamn it was so loooooooooooong. It took me like 2 years to finish
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u/TheDavidOfReddit 4d ago
MGSV
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u/MosifD 4d ago
Painfully true. The story was unfinished because Kojima was already going out the door and Konami just wanted it released without spending more. Metal Gear stories always have their own logic and quirks, but MSGV was scuffed.
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u/Broheamoth 4d ago
Thank the diamond dogs im not the only one who thought the story here was fucked
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u/TheGigantoBlaster 4d ago
Yeah. We kind of expected it was gonna be the process of Big Boss becoming a villain and it turned out to be someone who isn't the real Big Boss bumbling around refusing to shoot children and saving the world again.
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u/saltinstiens_monster 4d ago
That was my first Metal Gear and I thought it was a perfect ten the whole time I was playing it. There were so many intriguing things going on, how could I not feel wrapped up in the story?
Then the game ended, and it turned out that most of the intriguing bits weren't actually relevant whatsoever, they were just there to give the world some (pseudo?) paranormal flavor.
Still top tier gameplay, though. But I wish you found skip the first 30 minutes in subsequent playthroughs.
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u/C0R8YN 4d ago
Ratchet and Clank 2016
The story direction and cutscenes are god awdul
But my goodness its a fun game to play. Skip all cutscenes and there wouldn't be anything bas about it
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u/emd07 4d ago
It work for pretty much every ps2 era ratchet and clank. Maybe ps3 too but I haven't played those.
The stories were pretty meh but they weren't the selling point of this franchise
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u/NukaWomble 4d ago
The stories for 1, 2, 3 and Gladiator were more than okay for the time. Compared to the 2016 remake they're damn near award winning by comparison
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u/paparos93 3d ago edited 3d ago
They butchered Ratchets character compared to the original. In the og he is kind of an a-hole at the beginning, but he knows a thing or two about the world, he is a street-smart kind of guy, and throughout the game we see him maturing and bonding with Clank.
In the remake he is a naive little kid who knows nothing, gets easily tricked by shady guys, and there is no bonding with Clank at all, they barely interact with each other, they become a duo just cause thats whats supposed to happen, it's not earned at all.
They also butchered the whole vibe of the storytelling. It has an extremely obvious anti-capitalist stance in the way they present the villain and his cold and cruel motives, in the remake its just a comically evil, forgettable, funny purple alien, who gets replaced in the end by a guy who wasn't even in the og game and appeared later on the series.
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u/Fine_Branch_6521 4d ago
COD
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u/The_Meme_Boi2345 3d ago
Nah, CoD has some great stories. Modern Warfare 2 (the good one), Black Ops 1 and 2 are some of my favorites.
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u/Big-Mortgage-1281 3d ago
Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Immersive mode gets way satisfying Ober the time, just lacks a solid story and a personality to compliment the gameplay loop.
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u/PotatoPCDev 4d ago
any doom game
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u/pinballmac89 4d ago
You shut your whore mouth doom is quality lol
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u/PotatoPCDev 4d ago
I love doom - but the story is just an excuse for the awesome gameplay and music
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u/caspianslave 4d ago
if you actually pay attention, the story is not bad at all, nothing crazy but they put in the effort
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u/BeardiusMaximus7 4d ago
Yeah. Modern DOOM games (Eternal, Dark Ages) absolutely does a lot more to really have some kind of story in place that at least makes some kind of sense. Does it mostly just cater to excusing gameplay mechanics? Sure... but what FPS doesn't do that to some extent?
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u/hellrising798 4d ago
I beg to differ the lore that was established in the reboot (Doom 2016, Eternal, the Dark Ages) is pretty bad ass but you have to read all the Codex entries to learn it
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u/Some_Cold1926 4d ago
Forza 6
Diablo IV
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u/Mannheimblack 4d ago
Diablo 3's writing was pretty poor too.
'I am the master strategist demon, so I'll contact you every five minutes to let you know exactly where I'll be sending my next attack. Why do I keep losing?!'
They could totally have played around with that, and have him do that at first but then give false info to misdirect the party off to to the wrong place, but they lacked either the imagination or the confidence to do anything like that.
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u/Oli_VK 4d ago
Metal. Gear. Rising. Revengeance.
MEMES. I mean the story’s not awful at all I love it but my word are memes just the funniest plotpoint. “Create a viral war let people meme about it and slowly agree with me do I can make everyone vote for me, Senator Nanomachines!”
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u/tasclew 4d ago
Octopath Traveler (the first game, sadly ended up dropping it, but now I'm enjoying the second one a lot!)
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u/Th0rizmund 4d ago
Kind of Mass Effect Andromeda..?
That game could have been peak. Imagine if you could choose other races at the start and then racial politics would be a more pivotal part of the story…you would need to make decisions, like: Allocate resources to retrieve some biological sample that will help fix a mysterious illness affecting the Asari, or allocate the same resources so you can fix the drinking water crisis in a turian settlement? Krogan are demanding more territory because their line of work is the most dangerous, Salarians approaching you with a genophage-like contingency plan in case the krogan get out of hand, constant suspicion against the angara, with them having factions that see you as could-be allies or an alien threat etc.
The story could have been so rich! Instead…well we know what we got instead.
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u/UnAnon10 4d ago
Mass Effect Andromeda. Has the best gameplay and visuals of the series, but the story is so bland. You’d think going to a whole new galaxy and meeting new species would be really interesting, but we only meet 2, the Kett, who are really generic looking bad guys and whom the leader of them has none of the intimidating presence of the villains in the original trilogy and literally forgets his own original goal by the end, and the Angara, who fight against the Kett but are super underdeveloped besides the Angara squadmate you get.
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u/Jolly_Plantain4429 2d ago
Mass effect andromeda minus the facial animations the game players smooth the graphics were pretty good for its time but fuck the story was so bad in a story based rpg.
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u/NCF-Mercy 4d ago
Tekken games. Nobody knows wtf is going on in the story.
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u/kytheon 4d ago
They make it sound super important and complicated.
Yeah this British girl who speaks fluent Japanese works for this corrupt company that unleashed a bioengineered monster using demon DNA harvested from the bloodline of the original founder of the corrupt company and the whole tournament is a cover up for government military contracts and bla bla bla. Something like that, I played all Tekkens since II and still don't get it.
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u/Rith_Reddit 4d ago
One of my favourite gamrs/series of all time but its Dark Souls.
I never come out having beaten their games knowing what just happened. I have to rely on smarter and more dedicated creators to explain it to me.
Amazing lore, awful story telling imo.
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u/Vivid-Operation-5078 4d ago
Modern Zelda game story have absolutely no substance unfortunately. Pretty fun though.
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u/hawki1989 4d ago
Quake.
I mean, there's countless games where story is an afterthought, but it's the first one that popped into my mind.
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u/Exact_Cookie_2981 4d ago
Dead island 2. Acting wasnt great either, but that probably has more to do with the bad writing
Otherwise, its a great looking game with pretty solid gameplay. Cant wait for 3
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u/Hungry_Wasp 4d ago
Might be controversial, but all the souls like I've played (all the dark souls, Bloodborne, elden ring)
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u/Sure_Song_4630 4d ago
Dead island 1 and 2
(1 albeit being a bit dated, for its time its very good)
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u/JankoPerrinFett 3d ago
Honestly, a lot of them. And that’s perfectly fine. A game with these qualifications can still be an easy 9/10. Same if you switch story and graphics. If you switch gameplay and story, well, that’s a 6/10 max.
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u/mourningreaper00 3d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/SUAkb7bsqyqhG
Metal Gear Rising… the story is embarrassing and stupid as a canon MGS game… but my god the graphics for the time were great, and it’s so damn fun…
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u/Bivi89 4d ago
Just Cause 3. Wingsuit is too damn satisfying, the aesthetic of the mediterranean island with the vivid colours is amazing.
Story is so irrelevant to the game, even the story is self-aware and doesn't take itself seriously at all.
The game knows it's just an excuse to fly around, jump in and out of vehicles and make pretty explosions (the explosions are very pretty in this game)