abc3d7 No.13924906
I need video games that take place both BEFORE AND AFTER an apocalyptic event.
c67c40 No.13924953
1374ab No.13924982
448fca No.13924988
abc3d7 No.13925018
0de546 No.13925031
5dd3d0 No.13925034
I dunno, Saints Row 4? Nier?
570bf8 No.13925052
Oh boy do I have the game for you…
75285d No.13925063
I'd wager the Metro franchise is a good candidate.
7d3ef8 No.13925104
>>13924906
Fallout 4, SOMA, Outer Wilds depending on how you feel about time loops.
Oh, and WoW.
18e186 No.13925132
Chrono Trigger. The entire game revolves around the apocalyptic event and how it affects the world before and after. It's also not grindy for a jrpg if that bothers you.
e267aa No.13925135
fb3e43 No.13925223
When I was a kid the destroyed village in Oot spooked me good.
b4779c No.13925229
>>13925138
feast your eyes fellow anonymous
8bc783 No.13925274
>>13925018
But anon, you play a whole 10 minutes of character setup before the bombs drop in fallout 4. Amazing how Bethesda managed to go so far as to let you explore the pre war world in such a high level of depth and detail. :^)
4358fd No.13925364
>>13924906
Fear 2 is absolute garbage. Questionable choice for op image.
791af8 No.13925370
>>13924906
Being a little loose with the description:
>F.E.A.R. 2 starts just before the finale to the first F.E.A.R., and concerns itself with the fallout
>COD4 has the nuke go off
>Darksiders' first level takes place before all of humanity is wiped out.
>Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles details the story of the RE universe from the very start of the outbreak to 5 years after it
>Halo 1-3 and ODST deals with the revival of alien zombies, and two subsequent alien invasions of Earth
d8d75e No.13925371
619278 No.13925381
The introduction and some character flashbacks IIRC.
47acad No.13925394
>>13924906
You could move to the UK and experience the entire process in real-time
737608 No.13925413
>ctrl f shin
>0
Mainline SMT, Devil Survivor, and Persona 2.
846a39 No.13925424
>>13925229
Thanks I will buy it right now.
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194e50 No.13925568
>>13925018
Yes, before. Like in STALKER. If you want an "after" out of STALKER, though, you've just gotta wait for the sequel that the interns replacing interns replacing interns replacing interns at GSC don't have the talent to make :^)
abc3d7 No.13925797
>>13925432
be killing yourself
c73d5f No.13928161
The legacy of kain series, you will experience the world of nosgoth before and after MULTIPLE cataclismic events that doom humanity.
f3dfa2 No.13928183
>>13925018
>Not knowing that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a pre-apocalyptic event
>Not knowing that you are essentially watching an apocalyptic event in progress when you play
18ddd1 No.13928184
>>13925568
The zone was completely contained though. You might argue that it's a contained apocalypse, but since you can walk outta there at anytime it wouldn't make for a sound argument.
c73d5f No.13928188
>>13928184
Wasnt the zone expanding?
8953f6 No.13928301
>>13928188
>Wasnt the zone expanding?
b3bc01 No.13928397
Any games that don't just go into "here's a pre-apocalyptic prologue now apocalypse and the rest of the game" formula?
b3bc01 No.13928399
>>13928397
Or more precisely, games where you spend a long amount of time in a world before shit hits the fan.
0de546 No.13928405
>>13928188
The superstition is that each time the wishgranter is used, the zone expands by 5km.
In reality, each time the c-conciousness dicks around with the noosphere it expands, because they don't know what the fuck they are doing
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ce80fd No.13931682
>>13928399
SMT1. It takes some time for the bombs to fall.
194e50 No.13932197
>>13928184
Uh, no. You're not even wrong - you're basically agreeing with me, but then you've gone and missed the whole story behind the Zone and of the future of the Zone, and then that's not even what "apocalypse" means, anon.
d509ea No.13932202
>>13928405
>In reality, each time the c-conciousness dicks around with the noosphere it expands, because they don't know what the fuck they are doing
Half-right. They managed to keep the rate of growth fairly low, but once Strelok killed them the Zone started expanding rapidly, generally growing with every blowout.
194e50 No.13932232
>>13928184
>>13932197
I didn't actually explain what I meant with that last post, so let me quickly do that now:
So, the area around the Chernobyl NPP was evacuated in 1986. That had nothing to do with the Zone - the Zone wasn't around then, and then the (pre-Zone) Chernobyl exclusion zone was chosen as the site for what would birth the C-Consciousness (and from that the Zone) due to its being seen, essentially, as a good hiding place for the project. Then, in the STALKER universe, the universe is something of a subjective one, one that can be influenced via psionic "mind over matter". The human mind can influence reality, and due to the presence of humanity on Earth, there's a semi-physical "sphere" of human thought/concentration of psionic energy seen as surrounding the Earth.
It's all spoilers from here, but here's the meat of it: The C-Consciousness saw themselves as being able to eliminate human flaws by altering that sphere of human thought, but instead what their actions ended up doing was that through the psionic energy of that sphere of human thought they tore something in the fabric of reality apart. So: The Zone can be expected to be but the first, most obvious manifestation of that tear in the fabric of reality, and even it is quite clearly described to be spiralling out of control as the games progress. Human society so far appears to be virtually unaffected by what created the Zone (i.e. is definitely not mid- or post-apocalyptic), but that can be expected to change very soon.
8892db No.13932261
>>13930697
Reminds me, looks like an English patch for the JP only Raidou version of Nocturne came out recently.
194e50 No.13932376
>>13932261
I ended up downloading that, although I'm not sure I'll play it. The Raidou content is just a stripped-down total replacement for the Dante content, isn't it?
b4c608 No.13932420
>>13932232
>Human society so far appears to be virtually unaffected by what created the Zone (i.e. is definitely not mid- or post-apocalyptic), but that can be expected to change very soon.
I know that this is unrelated but I think that the outside world at large is very much interested in the Zone. There has been multiple expeditions by the UN (lol) and it all failed spectacularly (double lol) since they were outsiders, and being a bunch of pompous eggheads they were, disregard the zone's stalkers. Not to mention that The amount of artifacts smuggled out of the Zone by Sidorovich will have a significant impact to that world's technological progress. Speaking of technology, how can we all forget about the Gauss Rifle and the Exoskeletons?. I like that S.T.A.L.K.E.R still have tidbits like this that makes it still worth discussing about until now.
46f827 No.13932984
>>13925052
Well Todd is an apocalyptic disaster.
7735b4 No.13933722
>>13932376
It is, however I think that Raidou was a better choice than Dante. I also think that Raidou is infinitely cooler than Dante.
009d14 No.13933734
panzer dragoon trilogy, nier and nier automata.
f0703c No.13933774
>before
all the games that don't happen after an apocalyptic event?
43990f No.13933837
>>13932984
He sleeps on a big bed of money because everyone actually bought his game but some faggots on 8chan calls him a disaster?
7db440 No.13933857
>>13933774
>AND AFTER
Are you stupid?
61b58c No.13933894
>>13933857
>implying a spark of life cant bloom once again after the apocalypse
No u
ff00c2 No.13934895
Real life.
>>13932202
Wrong. It's completely contained post-SOC.
556a8e No.13935071
>>13932232
>soviets try to alter the fundamental character of mankind
>fail miserably and cause catastrophic damage instead
Every time.
194e50 No.13941223
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>>13933734
>nier and nier automata
Plain old Drakengard is definitely a game set mid- and post-apocalypse, actually.
f0105d No.13941234
>>13924906
Half-Life 1. The game starts right before an apocalyptic event, then the other 80 percent of the game takes place after
194e50 No.13941249
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>>13941234
What I find interesting, actually, is that while people talk about how Half-Life 2 could have had a darker tone than it did (or, rather, did have a darker tone in its early drafts), it's still a setting that's completely fucked in the final, "lighter" version of the game. Besides the drained resources, besides human civilization having come to a complete halt, besides that the Earth is being colonised by who-knows-how-many different kinds of invasive species, besides the post-singularity alien empire, just what did the Seven Hour War involve for the Earth? Just how much of the Earth has been turned to glass?
f0105d No.13941571
>>13941249
Now tha it's confirmed HL3 will never be a thing, I'm sticking by the hypothesis that Earth is just permanently fucked after the events of HL2 and Freeman is just delaying the inevitable
194e50 No.13941648
>>13941571
Actually, I think it shows that Half-Life 3 was going to involve a cosmic journey somewhat akin to that of Olaf Stapledon's Starmaker, with Freeman travelling between worlds in search of a way of saving humanity despite the Earth being completely unrecoverable. There's the All-Knowing Vortigaunt talking about higher dimensions, and then the extended sequence in my embed talking about the different worlds of the Combine and the promise that can be found for humanity out in the universe (albeit, at the hands of the Combine). That extended sequence was cut from the final game, but the only reason I can think of for why it would be cut from the game would be that it might have given too much away with what their plans for Half-Life 3 would have been.
… The board wouldn't let me actually embed this video with a timecode attached, so I'll just link it instead: https://youtu.be/KWT9EWOZUms?t=45m45s