Y'ever play a game that makes no damn sense?
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Fantastic timing, considering I replayed Frog Fractions last night!
I haven't even played XB2 but this made me laugh out loud. :)
I haven't even played XB2 but this made me laugh out loud. :)
Gorogoa is probably the finest example of "doesn't make sense, but in the best possible way". Delightful game. :)
Kentucky route zero (only played ep1), what is going on in this game? It's just so weird for the sake of being weird. Never understood the hype.
Halo 5 and Metal Gear Solid 4.
Okay, MGS4 probably made sense but ... ungh ... those story decisions don't sit well with me.
Ah yes, this one, too!
I finished it last week, and I am still not sure what I played. I like the singing in Episode 3 though.
I'll probably replay it in chunks (an episode a day or a week) so that I can think about the story some more.
It is pretty artsy fartsy though...
Okay, MGS4 probably made sense but ... ungh ... those story decisions don't sit well with me.
Ah yes, this one, too!
I finished it last week, and I am still not sure what I played. I like the singing in Episode 3 though.
I'll probably replay it in chunks (an episode a day or a week) so that I can think about the story some more.
It is pretty artsy fartsy though...
Man, there is a ton of info dumping in Digimon Cyber Sleuth about how the mechanics of hacking and virtual reality work and it's delivered in huge blocks of text that is both important and unimportant to the plot. It's mixed together.
Then I found out that King Drasil was actually a mistranslation of Yggrdrasil and had a hearty chuckle. Not that it mattered regarding the plot, if the guy was named King Drasil or Yggrdrasil, it's not like he was a tree or needed to be anything besides an authority figure, but the game's various translation hiccups made me uninterested in reading all that lore if it was gonna be haphazardly translated so I started mashing through some explanations. Bummer. I still enjoyed it though! Just maybe not as much as I could've.
Then I found out that King Drasil was actually a mistranslation of Yggrdrasil and had a hearty chuckle. Not that it mattered regarding the plot, if the guy was named King Drasil or Yggrdrasil, it's not like he was a tree or needed to be anything besides an authority figure, but the game's various translation hiccups made me uninterested in reading all that lore if it was gonna be haphazardly translated so I started mashing through some explanations. Bummer. I still enjoyed it though! Just maybe not as much as I could've.
I'm playing it right now and actually thought it was pretty straightforward! Unless the plot swerves hard in the endgame. The emails from your partner keep you updated on your goals and the characters with mysterious motivations are intentionally so. I'm riding pretty high with the expectation that all this buildup has been properly setup and is going to pay off. Surprising since I haven't played IV in years and Apocalypse relies strongly on knowing IV lore but I think they did an admirable job condensing it into the Cliff notes bits.
If you stop to think about it none of the really popular games makes really sense. What's the damn logic behind fortnite? Why DotA and LoL work they way they do? Why counter terrorists and terrorists keep facing themselves in small numbers and arenas in such an orderly fashion ?
When you consider the lengths they've made regarding the backstory and lore of the game, your average Overwatch team makes absolutely no sense when it's a mix of OW and Talon operatives.
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For me it was the Evil Within. Even after completing the game i didnt know what was going on. And I liked that about it
Did you play Doom Eternal? It has a jarring tonal shift from the first game, and it's like there is a game missing in between. I'd love for it to just be "shoot demons" but there is a story there that the game takes pretty seriously.
Shout out to most of the Sting games
Though I recommend them to people who want something a little, uh, different.
Did you get to the dialogue choice yet?
Yes.
And I would like to forget it. But it`s a Phantom Pain (har har).
It should be Kojima on the ground for what was done to their characters
It helps when you realize that a very large portion of the story beats were just ripped straight from Evangelion.
No :(
The game seems broken. I'm stuck on the loading screen after the Funomena logo, and nothing happens. I tried to re install the game but it doesn't fix the issue.
Sucks to hear. If you manage to get the game to Work, hopefully that part I mentioned helps make things make sense!
Kentucky Route Zero. Like, I get the themes that are in play, but the actual moment-to-moment stuff is just so bizarre.
Flower Sun and Rain is in my top 5 yet i dont know what the fuck was happening through most of the game.
Those lost and found puzzles are actually nonsensical i dont know how suda expects you to know how to solve them.
Those lost and found puzzles are actually nonsensical i dont know how suda expects you to know how to solve them.
Yes this... Something about getting lost in a forest, falling in pits, telephone parts, weird symbols at the top...
Also This, wander from a ok I don't really know what that area was... to a market place, then walk off a cliff? then I am in some sort of marsh? Back in in area I don't know what it is, I can blow up this random wall to get into a cave, whats this flashing red symbol thing chasing me?
And then there is also Superman 64...
So Superman has to fly through a bunch of rings, and when he gets to the end he has to save pedestrians by picking up cars before they run them over, then you throw the cars because I guess driver's / passengers lives are not important. Then more rings, once you get to the end of that you have to help the police car get to the end of the road by picking it up and flying it there...
You know I can't help but think I may have made some poor purchasing decisions when it comes to games in the past...
I played Noby Noby Boy and I don't think I ever gleaned what it was about. Metaphorically speaking. Linger in Shadows was another one. I am sure they meant something to the people who made them. I enjoyed reading how to get the trophies for both lol
He wasn't actual director or main writer for KID. So, don't worry - he is still the genius behind Silver Case/FSR/K7 saga.
Only two I can think of:
Halo 4
Had no idea what was going on due to the game relying so much on material from the books. I still don't remember who or what the Didact is except he has a weird face. And his goal was to turn people into digital skull robots or something?
Final Fantasy 13
I played this game for at least 5 hours and I still had no idea what was going on. Who are these characters? What is going on? Who are these people being rescued? What's the deal with the world this game is set in? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
I need some kind of reference poi t for the games I'm playing, whether it's someone explaining what's going on, figuring it out through clues in the storytelling or environment, etc.
For example, Final Fantasy VII starts off with a big action section in a world you don't know anything about yet, but within a few minutes you're given at least SOME context and soon after that Barrett basically explains everything to you. It also helps that you can tell you're in a big city, even if it's a fantasy city.
FF13 just felt like nonsense of hyper futuristic stuff. Am I in some kind of city? Space station?
I seem to be on a rescue mission, but who am I rescuing and why?
Halo 4
Had no idea what was going on due to the game relying so much on material from the books. I still don't remember who or what the Didact is except he has a weird face. And his goal was to turn people into digital skull robots or something?
Final Fantasy 13
I played this game for at least 5 hours and I still had no idea what was going on. Who are these characters? What is going on? Who are these people being rescued? What's the deal with the world this game is set in? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
I need some kind of reference poi t for the games I'm playing, whether it's someone explaining what's going on, figuring it out through clues in the storytelling or environment, etc.
For example, Final Fantasy VII starts off with a big action section in a world you don't know anything about yet, but within a few minutes you're given at least SOME context and soon after that Barrett basically explains everything to you. It also helps that you can tell you're in a big city, even if it's a fantasy city.
FF13 just felt like nonsense of hyper futuristic stuff. Am I in some kind of city? Space station?
I seem to be on a rescue mission, but who am I rescuing and why?
