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Describe a game you hate and see if people can guess it.

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Night Angel

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A game in a long running franchise that completely changed the genre from the rest of the series. You have powers and can get upgrades, but your progress is reset after each game. The series since went back to what it was supposed to be and everyone has tried to forget this ever happened.

More than one world. The sequel wasn't terrible.

Streamlining taken to an awful extreme. Armor no longer has stats, magic is OP, and you still can't watch a goddamn tree grow in real time.

3 games, people.
Hints:
All on xbox 360, two rpgs and a shootbang.
 
Bakkus

Bakkus

Member
Umm...The main character in this game is the avatar of a frequent poster in this thread. Him being the main character is actually debatable as well now that I think about it.
 
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Manu

Member
Gooch: The Destroyer said:
It's a PS1 fighting game that came to America in 2002. it had 22 characters but if you type in a code during the intro or some shit, you'll unlock some more fighters. Crappy graphics and sound effects for a PS1 game. It's an popular anime series by the way.
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Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
 
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Memento

Member
GSR said:
I mean, I'm not trying to make some grand thesis about the pros and cons of The Last of Us™, by Naughty Dog in collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment America, I'm just saying that when the game is going on and on about how desperate and dangerous the world is and how we all need to be very careful moving through this area etc. etc. etc. the illusion is kind of broken by me needing to swirl the camera around and enter Daredevil mode every twenty seconds in case there's a skill upgrade or comic book in a corner I'm missing.

And yes, I acknowledge I could've ignored most of the collectibles, but at least in my personal playstyle I tend to look for them; after all, the devs put them there for a reason in the first place. Not to mention the game's emphasis on collecting parts to make items encourages thorough searching to begin with.
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Ok, I understand it. But I dont see how it is logical to associate it with ludonarrative dissonance. I finished the game searching every single room in the game and the narrative was not effected at all by this in my experience. And why would it?
 
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thenewjeva

Member
Game 1: Get your weapon. Fight enemies. Get to the first checkpoint. Fight more enemies. Die. Get to the first boss. Die. Attack from left. Die. Attack from right. Die. Get frustrated. Die. Die. Die. And die some more.

Game 2: Take a classic mascot, give him stretchable arms like Mr. Fantastic, and put him in a clunky brawler with a horrendous framerate.

Game 3: Rock out to some of the cheesiest songs of the last decade and hold everything else behind microtransactions, all while using a flimsy guitar that you need to recallibrate every time you turn on the system.
 
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Night Angel

Member
Luis1986 said:
After a series of games with an interesting playable character, let's make the playable character in this one a bland and boring bore of a character but you can only start playing him after going through a really long prologue that ends with a twist you saw coming from a mile away.
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AC3.
Beaten by a mile.
 
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GSR

Member
Memento said:
Ok, I understand it. But I dont see how it is logical to associate it with ludonarrative dissonance. I finished the game searching every single room in the game and the narrative was not effected at all by this in my experience. And why would it?
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Well, I was really just taking a dig at the phrase "ludonarrative dissonance" and how it still gets trotted out from time to time when people don't want to take the effort to actually go into details about how a game's tone or plot don't line up with its gameplay, heh.

You're right that the collectables aren't something that actively break with the narrative in the game - it's much more of a tone/atmosphere thing.

Bakkus said:
Umm...The main character in this game is the avatar of a frequent poster in this thread. Him being the main character is actually debatable as well now that I think about it.
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(Assuming my guess is right here, I honestly do love AA4 but I also totally get why it doesn't work for a lot of people.)
 
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gogosox82

Member
Darth_Caedus said:
Overly cynical, grim dark fantasy, middle school boy power trip. Rpg, originally only on the pc. It's a trilogy.
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The Witcher

Night Angel said:
Your party consists of the most tragically British people in voice acting, doing repetitive MMO fetch quests in a way-too-big world with terrible combat.
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Dragon Age: Inquistion

orthodoxy1095 said:
Recent. A search for a lost child. Child turns out to be a gigantic ass.
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Fallout 4
 
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dreamlongdead

Member
Night Angel said:
A game in a long running franchise that completely changed the genre from the rest of the series. You have powers and can get upgrades, but your progress is reset after each game. The series since went back to what it was supposed to be and everyone has tried to forget this ever happened.

More than one world. The sequel wasn't terrible.

Streamlining taken to an awful extreme. Armor no longer has stats, magic is OP, and you still can't watch a goddamn tree grow in real time.
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Does this post apply to just one game? I'll try to solve this one.

I want someone to guess my titles, too.
 
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MrSaturn99

Member
1. "Hey, uh, despite developing my character for the last five or so hours, I'm going to leave your party and never be important again."

2. Something is the something that somethings into something.
 
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Painguy

Member
Game 1: Old grumpy man misses his kid so he takes care of walking anti-fungal cream.

Game 2: High school drama by the beach

Game 3: You're a religious head case, but you're also not. Oh look it's George......Washington?

Game 4: There's lot's of sand, and you start trippin' hard.

Game 5: Kids think they're in summer camp, but they're not.

Game 6: You climb tall buildings as your great great great...great grandpa

Game 7: Your stuck in the middle of no where looking for a bank

Game 8: There are these crystals, and you become crystals if you listen to the crystals, and i'm not really sure.

Game 9: You're pink, and probably have a good tailor.

Game 10: We blew ourselves up, lets try to rebuild society and fail hard

I can go on, but I don't want to look like more of a cynic than I already am.
 
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KidB

Member
MrSaturn99 said:
1. "Hey, uh, despite developing my character for the last five or so hours, I'm going to leave your party and never be important again."

2. Something is the something that somethings into something.
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1. Tales of Zestiria
2.Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
 
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GSR

Member
MrSaturn99 said:
1. "Hey, uh, despite developing my character for the last five or so hours, I'm going to leave your party and never be important again."

2. Something is the something that somethings into something.
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1. I think this is a recent Tales game but I don't remember which one. I just remember hearing hubbub about some character who was advertised and then was barely in the game.

2. Courage is the magic that will not save Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World from being a goddamn trainwreck
 
Bakkus

Bakkus

Member
GSR said:
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(Assuming my guess is right here, I honestly do love AA4 but I also totally get why it doesn't work for a lot of people.)
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Correct. The entire game's characters and storylines just rubbed me the wrong way after Takumi's original trilogy.
 
Battlechili

Battlechili

Banned
You listen to BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY in between picking waifus and going to school. Lots of time is spent in a seemingly never-ending really repetitive dungeon.
 
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Snakey125

Member
Night Angel said:
A game in a long running franchise that completely changed the genre from the rest of the series. You have powers and can get upgrades, but your progress is reset after each game. The series since went back to what it was supposed to be and everyone has tried to forget this ever happened.

More than one world. The sequel wasn't terrible.

Streamlining taken to an awful extreme. Armor no longer has stats, magic is OP, and you still can't watch a goddamn tree grow in real time.
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Is it Fable?
 
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AbrahamGiggles

Member
Battlechili1 said:
You listen to BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY in between picking waifus and going to school. Lots of time is spent in a seemingly never-ending really repetitive dungeon.
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Never played the game, but I'm guessing Persona 3.

Edit: Also for mine from the last page, here's a hint: Most people who own this game probably didn't buy it themselves.
 
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Memento

Member
Battlechili1 said:
You listen to BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY in between picking waifus and going to school. Lots of time is spent in a seemingly never-ending really repetitive dungeon.
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COME ON

I am getting depressed seeing TLOU, ICO and now Persona 3 being mentioned. You guys have awful taste.
 
Battlechili

Battlechili

Banned
AbrahamGiggles said:
Never played the game, but I'm guessing Persona 3.
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Bingo.
The main dungeon of the game, Tartarus, ruined the whole game for me. P3 has a lot of really cool things about it but I can't get over Tartarus. I often feel underleveled in it because despite making it as far as the game lets me go before each full moon, my party is usually vastly underleveled in comparison to enemies in the area so I feel like grinding in it. And usually while grinding I wind up getting wiped out by an enemy that gets REALLY lucky with its critical hits due to the press turn system, which takes away an hour of mindless grinding. Tartarus itself is also the exact same dungeon in layout and looks for the most part and it just gets really dull and monotonous. I wanna enjoy the story and social links and school stuff but I get bogged down by Tartarus.
 
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Lunarwhale

Member
Painguy said:
Game 1: Old grumpy man misses his kid so he takes care of walking anti-fungal cream.

Game 2: High school drama by the beach

Game 3: You're a religious head case, but you're also not. Oh look it's George......Washington?

Game 4: There's lot's of sand, and you start trippin' hard.

Game 5: Kids think they're in summer camp, but they're not.

Game 6: You climb tall buildings as your great great great...great grandpa

Game 7: Your stuck in the middle of no where looking for a bank

Game 8: There are these crystals, and you become crystals if you listen to the crystals, and i'm not really sure.

Game 9: You're pink, and probably have a good tailor.

Game 10: We blew ourselves up, lets try to rebuild society and fail hard

I can go on, but I don't want to look like more of a cynic than I already am.
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1. The Last of Us
2. Life is Strange
3. Bioshock Infinite
4. Spec Ops: The Line
5. Psychonauts
6. Assassin's Creed?
7. No idea.
8. Final Fantasy XIII
9. Uh... Kirby?
10. Fallout?
 
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dreamlongdead

Member
Night Angel said:
A game in a long running franchise that completely changed the genre from the rest of the series. You have powers and can get upgrades, but your progress is reset after each game. The series since went back to what it was supposed to be and everyone has tried to forget this ever happened.

More than one world. The sequel wasn't terrible.

Streamlining taken to an awful extreme. Armor no longer has stats, magic is OP, and you still can't watch a goddamn tree grow in real time.

3 games, people.
Hints:
All on xbox 360.
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Okay, this makes WAY more sense now.

1) Still don't know
2) Two Worlds
3) Fable 3?
 
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MrSaturn99

Member
KidB said:
1. Tales of Zestiria
2.Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
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GSR said:
1. I think this is a recent Tales game but I don't remember which one. I just remember hearing hubbub about some character who was advertised and then was barely in the game.

2. Courage is the magic that will not save Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World from being a goddamn trainwreck
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Correct. Playing Zestiria now and it is nothing less than torture. It might even be worse than playing DOTNW, I dunno.
 
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Painguy

Member
Lunarwhale said:
1. The Last of Us
2. Life is Strange
3. Bioshock Infinite
4. Spec Ops: The Line
5. Psychonauts
6. Assassin's Creed?
7. No idea.
8. Final Fantasy XIII
9. Uh... Kirby?
10. Fallout?
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Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes, well...close. It's a particular one :p
Yes
 
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MGrant

Member
Night Angel said:
A game in a long running franchise that completely changed the genre from the rest of the series. You have powers and can get upgrades, but your progress is reset after each game. The series since went back to what it was supposed to be and everyone has tried to forget this ever happened.

More than one world. The sequel wasn't terrible.

Streamlining taken to an awful extreme. Armor no longer has stats, magic is OP, and you still can't watch a goddamn tree grow in real time.

3 games, people.
Hints:
All on xbox 360.
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1. Dynasty Warriors 6

2. Two Worlds

3. Fable 2
 
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