204c73 No.15482795
Lately, probably as October approaches, i've seen a bunch of anons talking about shit like Nechronica. A game where all players are some form of japanese style 'undead' be it mutant, mechanical, doll based or what have you who wake up long after the apocalypse where the world is an 'ash grey' waste.
It made me think about what games use this. We have plenty of straight post apocalypse games but they are usually games set when the world has been dealt a blow that changed the status quo but over time it will heal. Its not often you get 'nope, shits fucked m8' settings and i tried to think of the ones i remember, for example:
>Nier Gestalt: years after humans went extinct and plenty of nukes the world is slowly turning into a desert and animals are becoming scarce. The player character is a clone of a human trying to save his daughter who is also a clone. Doing so leads to the end of the clone experiments and life begins the slow march to extinction. By the sequel most marine life is dead and the domitant life is basically large, solitary herbivores with only trees really still chugging along as everything else is nearing extinction.
>Submerged: The world flooded and what little life is left clings around the top of rotting skyscrapers, sometime after a strange fungus came up from below sea level, from a lab or naturally is unknown, but its taking over every form of life and cannot be stopped.
>Xenoblade: The world is an endless sea and society exists like moss growing on the back of a colossal continent sized giant called a Titan. But the titan is going to die and take life with it. In the end they start a new universe where the only thing that crosses over is a floating laboratory that becomes a world tree but everything else is destroyed.
>Journey: You are a ghost making its journey to the afterlife, walking through the dusty ruins of a world where your people grew too vast and divided over a war for resources but the sentient war machines targeted a species, not a faction and so everyone was wiped out. You take a brief journey through these ruins and move on but the world itself is a dead and lifeless desert.
>Wild Arms 3: In an alternate earth during its 1800's wild west era the world of Filgaia is dying. The oceans are all sand, the land is rolling plains of sickly yellow grass and like the dark towers midworld fire doesnt burn as hot, the days are never a set number of hours and nights are longer and longer. You discover an 'yggdrassil project' to restart life but the ending leaves it ambiguous if its permanent or a stop gap
What games can you think of where its a 'its not quite the end of the world, but you can see it from here' setting where the hero's journey is not about saving the world but surviving a personal ordeal thats ultimately meaningless to the setting?
c1021a No.15482808
>>15482795
Unorignal joke: any EA or Ubisoft game…
3349ec No.15482827
Not as immediate as your examples, but it's made clear everything is in an irrevocable death spiral, long-term.
c2c59b No.15482833
Dark Souls series. Maybe Call of Pripyat. Real life.
064116 No.15482863
01ba76 No.15482894
0b3d51 No.15482927
Black Rock Shooter
The game starts off by telling you that an alien invasion force has been so successful that there's only 12 people left on the planet, only one of which is a woman. On a mission to find said woman, you find out she died ages ago, and the few humans left are all killed right after finding this out. It could have been a decent game had it not been held back by the PSP's limited controls.
ff6d4f No.15482930
>>15482795
The most hardcore game of all real life
a5269d No.15482942
>>15482795
>In the end they start a new universe
eh? didnt the lazy scientist made a huge continent and crashed all the titans on it?
204c73 No.15482972
>>15482942
no the scientist was from our reality, he blew that up to become a god and make the world of xenoblade then at the end that world dies and the world of xenoblade 2 is made and only the space station survives the trip.
d6bf30 No.15482975
The intro to the game states that the war on terror has evolved to destroying all ICBM's, no nukes, and that all air traffic has been ceased, including helicopters. And yet, terrorism persists. The world isn't ending, but you can tell everything is fucked.
0f1fd7 No.15483072
>>15482827
It's not that the world is beyond repair it's just that the age of the gods is coming to an end along with the peace, and stability it brought.
ad416f No.15483094
Drakengard, from what I hear.
5c779d No.15483183
Armored Core: For Answer
The planet is in a decrepit and decaying state. Pollution from not only Human habitation, but from the hazardous waste given off by Kojima particles has caused the surface of the earth to become virtually unlivable. In desperate need of a solution, the remaining corporations from the Pax Economica build giant airborne habitats to house a majority of the populace - safeguarding them from the contaminated surface below. Some however, are forced to live on the surface.
From that, a group of Lynxes who are discontented with the current social standards form a resistance force known as ORCA, and amass a formidable arsenal to battle against the corporations. The Kojima particle radiation however, will eventually reach the Cradles wiping out the rest of humanity. Moving to space is not an option due to Assault Cells which are unmanned hovering weapon platforms created by corporations long ago to prevent any single corporation from gaining access to space. Thus, the path to space is blocked and the surface is unlivable.
Depending on your actions, 3 different ending can occur:
> ORCA path: Join ORCA in an effort to destroy the assault cells and open the path to space. The cost? The grand majority of the cradles would lose power and crash to the surface. Now the majority of humans that were on those cradles will die slowly due to radiation exposure.
>League path: Maintain the status quo and prevent ORCA from killing millions. Now whatever is left of humanity can live safely in the clouds, at least until the radiation reaches the Cradles wiping them all out.
>Destruction path: Take the advice of a happy Russian guy and kill everything. Destroy all of the Cradles and become the biggest monster mankind has ever seen, taking more lives than any other in history. The shortest path, but the hardest to finish.
****
ff6d4f No.15483191
>>15483183
Old King did nothing wrong. It was probably mostly jews in the cradles anyway.
677f86 No.15483211
>>15482833
Call of Pripyat ends in a rather positive note depending of the endings you had. Now that I think of Stalker they should emphasize that the Zone expands with every wish and, if I remember correctly, with every emission. Then the stakes would be higher.
53c612 No.15483237
>>15483183
>League path: Maintain the status quo and prevent ORCA from killing millions. Now whatever is left of humanity can live safely in the clouds, at least until the radiation reaches the Cradles wiping them all out.
Christ I haven even played the game and already I can tell ORCA did nothing wrong. Why the fuck would you cage yourself in for a slow death like a bunch of retarded cunts?
7b1790 No.15483252
ff6d4f No.15483257
>>15483237
The cradles are a huge part of why the surface is polluted in the first place too.
53c612 No.15483268
>>15483257
Between the kill everyone ending and the League ending the kill everyone ending sounds like the less evil way to go goddamn why even save anyone at that point?
5c779d No.15483350
>>15483237
You know the thing about kikes? They tend to play multiple sides.
The head of ORCA is actually a member of the League who started ORCA as a way to pave the way to space without having the blood of the innocents on the corporations/Leagues hands. The rest of the ORCA members were either in on it too or were played for fools and were going to be killed after ORCA accomplishes its mission. That's why near the end, the League stops fighting ORCA and simply lets them do their thing because they don't want to box themselves in for a slow death, but also don't want the blood of innocents directly on their hands. One of the top-ranked Lynx finds out about this kikery and personally asks you to help her stop this shit despite it meaning a slow death for humanity.
Interesting to note that Old King (happy Russian guy) was a member of ORCA but was either kicked out or voluntarily left due to differences on how to accomplish things. It's implied that he knew about the whole plan too, but rather than letting humanity die a slow death he would rather kill everyone now. Thus leading to the Destruction path where he asks you to join him.
There truly is no winning here.
67cbde No.15483385
Legacy of Kain Series, the only way to repair the World being traveling through time and space
7b5095 No.15483400
>>15482795
>>15482827
I feel like Dark Souls gets a lot of credit for being the spooky scary undead game, but I don't think the Souls series ever really did much with the whole "cursed undead" thing, other than using it as an excuse to have some skellies around, have some jerky zombies, and handwave in an explanation for why all the enemies respawn whenever the player dies.
The part of the world where these games take place is clearly fucked and cursed and rotted, but there's not much to it. Being undead is more of a minor inconvenience than it seems to be in Nechronica. No body parts falling off. No people trying to hold onto their humanity and memories that make them stay human instead of becoming a horrible rotting monster. No risk of sacrifice or loss from staring too long into the abyss.. Of course, they use all these words to sell the theme of the game, but it's all kind of.. hollow.
On the subject of Soulsborne games: The Surge is a game where the world is absolutely fucked at the end, but you don't get to see it. They touch on some of the themes mentioned above, with one of the ideas being to turn humans into horrible nanomachine super beings who can survive the impending fuckening of the world, but your character is never forced to make hard choices, like lopping off an arm or injecting yourself with someone that will risk your humanity, but give you an edge over your enemies. They have confirmed a sequel, which seems to be focused on going outside the CREO facility, so maybe we'll get to see how badly the nanomachine satellite fucked the planet and what that entails.
204c73 No.15483452
>>15483400
You have to bare in mind Dark Souls isn't an original concept so to speak but the [DISTINCT ENOUGH FOR COPYRIGHT] Demon's Souls sequel. In the original IP it wasn't undeath causing hollowing as you couldn't truly die but a deep fog was spreading from a kingdom that invited demon's into the world and normal people didn't become undead, they just went insane. The threat of the world being covered by fog wasn't destruction but worldwide dementia/alzheimers. People could kill the demons. Not in equal combat but demons were totally killable and unlike undead dead means dead. But when people are literally going insane you have no armys and not even a culture left to defend.
Dark Souls takes this idea of 'dementia' and turns it into entropy instead and the idea presented in 3, much as overall i think its the weakest entry in the series, that the world/reality itself has been rekindled so many times its going hollow itself is a neat idea. But in a world where death has no meaning threats are all a bit bland. Even showing what happens if you become the lord of hollows shows its not true apocalypse but something new. In Demon's its the fear we all have of degenerative mental breakdown. Something you can't fight.
204c73 No.15483470
>>15483400
Also when you mention the Surge, a flawed game i love, i actually shot the shit with one of the devs a while back and the only thing they refused to answer was my question "which ending is canon?" which is interesting.
45ac33 No.15483719
>>15483452
Oh yea one of the few things that stood out for me in dark souls 3 is how the entire world is smashed together at the end also the last bossfight is a neat idea but meh execution, pretty much the entire game is though
94c977 No.15490599
>>15482795
Do EO games count? I mean I guess they're post-post apocalypse but still, the root (haha) of the environmental problems aren't ever really solved, just that whichever version of the yggdrasil project that game had running rampant gets stopped.
>>15483094
The plot of drakengard is the developers are edgelord chucklefucks and do it for shits & giggles/sales.
>'The Watchers (Angels in the original jap) they laugh'
>Literally go to the realm of the gods to kill god for being such a cunt and he lives in tokyo
Also both of those images are pretentious, retarded and shit. Drakengard OST had an original sound which was a pretty interesting take on stravinsky's music redone in an electronic style and the in-air gameplay was a decent enough, although simple, ace-combat knock-off but with dragons until you unlock the jet 'dragon' and its actually a straight up ace-combat knock-off. Ground segments were tedious in a lot of missions, but the combat was miles above GoW tier shit and frankly better than DMC2 (not that that means much, but still.) The story was also pretty kickass and about the only game which resembles berserk dark-fantasy styled stuff without actually being the berserk ps2 game. Taro's later games are so stylistically different I find it hard to believe he was even on the dev team for drakengard 1, even DoD2 does a better job of being drakengard than anything Taro ever made, which would've been fine had taro not made DoD3 and just stuck to the tangentally related Nier spin-offs.
>>15483237
>ORCA did nothing wrong.
ORCA was actually a ploy to gain power over the league by a particular group of individuals and they throw all the ravens/lynxes/robotdudes to the dogs the second their threats get taken seriously and the league opens negotiations.
>>15483350
>There truly is no winning here.
Fortunately when you're in the ORCA path yourself you're still able to personally destroy the cradles power supply systems and hopefully screw over the league now that otsdarva and just about every big arms fort is dead. In other words 'more guns' is how to win against the juden (but unfortunately not russian winters).
8bdc62 No.15490607
95b9e0 No.15490616
>>15482795
as shit as it is, hl2, but of course like almost any western game where the world is beyond repair protagonist plot armor reigns supreme
b1bd2a No.15490636
Maybe Link's Awakening. Once you know how it ends, you then realize that there was never a way to save these people and their island in the first place.
777757 No.15490661
The majority of the game takes place in a small city. You later find out that it's the last city, sealed inside a dome, on a destroyed world. Most citizens have no idea.
38bcc8 No.15490665
>>15482795
>Xenoblade: The world is an endless sea and society exists like moss growing on the back of a colossal continent sized giant called a Titan. But the titan is going to die and take life with it. In the end they start a new universe where the only thing that crosses over is a floating laboratory that becomes a world tree but everything else is destroyed.
Did you mash together the plot of both Xenoblade games?
38bcc8 No.15490668
>>15482972
Yeah I should have read the thread first, you seem to have meshed together the plot of Xeno 1 and 2 and the backstory into one story.
66f5fe No.15490694
>>15490661
The way they tell you you're stuck in a dome through a quiz was really fun too, I remember playing the game as a teenager and being really surprised when I answered the earth was round and they said I was wrong.
000000 No.15491037
Is Chrono Trigger an example of this? You go to the ruined future and it's clear that it's not going to recover, but you have the chance to go back in time and fix it.
23c9ce No.15491194
Sands of Destruction for the DS. It's on my backlog, so I can't say much about it besides what I read in Nintendo Power, and all I remember is pretty much summed up as "Are you a bad enough dude to destroy the world?"
7a184f No.15491374
>>15482795
It's not exactly post-apocalypse, but Pathologic. The more you learn about the world, the more you learn how utterly fucked and depressing everything is. Then you find out the secret ending that is essentially a massive fuck you
418510 No.15491426
>>15491194
Pretty much, though its worth noting that of the "World Destruction Front", only Morte actively seeks destruction, while Kyrie and Taupie (as well as the eventual rest of their posse) are along for the ride through guilt by association. Unfortunate that the game suffers executive meddling via Sega telling Kato he couldn't go full dark on the world building, resulting in mood dissonance jumping all over.
>>15482927
How badly did NISA fuck the script/bug the fuck out of that one?
683961 No.15491445
>Vermintide
Five badasses try their level best to contain an endless horde of vile ratmen that have thoroughly ruined everything already, while carefully avoiding the subject that their efforts are wholly pointless in the long run
>The End is Nigh
You control the only living thing left after an unclear apocalypse. His last video game broke down so now he sets out to do the only thing he can do outside of killing himself - crafting a friend out of body parts
>ReCore
Earth got fucked up and mankind has started terraforming a new planet by sending self-replicating bots and a few human engineers in cryosleep. One of them, a girl, wakes up to find the bots have all gone rogue and are trying to stop the terraforming and wipe out humanity
>EDF 4.1
Despite the best efforts of the EDF, Earth got surrounded by a barrage of hexagonal bots constantly churning out robots and giant insects, wiping pretty much everything by the time of the final mission, where humanity is literally throwing all that's left
>Steamworld Heist
Earth literally blew up and robots are fighting in space for what remains of water
1f5015 No.15491508
>>15482795
Freespace games do this really well
>start off outgunned and outclassed fighting a delaying action
>maybe a few new things come out and you score a tactical victory which command treats like they've won the war
>it's revealed that all of the Shivan efforts so far which have devastated your worlds and crippled your fleet was just the equivalent of a small scouting party
>missions get more and more desperate
17eabf No.15491665
>world ends regardless of your efforts
dd8f84 No.15492514
>>15490599
Drakengard 1 also had significant writing done by other people
36e4dc No.15492994
>Ecology is completely fucked
>Alien worms have invaded the earths oceans and killed all fish and basically all native marine life
>Land animals have been nearly completely killed off by invasive and deadly alien creatures
>Water and oxygen has been slowly stolen from earth lowering the sea levels
>All humans are in their 20s at least due to combine fields preventing sperm formation in males meaning no mammal can reproduce
Even if the combine are taken away from earth the earth is fucked
36e4dc No.15493026
>>15483183
Anyone who doesn't pick ORCA is a pussy
515fab No.15493062
Any Warhammer Fantasy game.
515fab No.15493063
974931 No.15493077
Beyond repair is a very kind way to put it
8fef49 No.15493112
>Darkest Dungeon
Your actions only delay the awakening of the entity at the core of the planet
>Endless Legend
An endless ice age is approaching the world which cannot be avoided
8fef49 No.15493158
>>15491037
Nahh, seeing that you kill Lavos before he fucks up the world in the future averting the shitty future you see ingame
4e5d2d No.15493213
The Legend of Dragoon.
In the beginning it seems like a fairly generic fantasy RPG, saving your small hometown girlfriend from an evil empire with your best friend, but by disc 3 or 4 you begin to discover that your real "enemy" is an absent god who created a tree of life. The tree of life periodically hatches new fruits containing new forms of life, with each fruit bearing an increasingly powerful and intelligent species. Mankind was 267 or some shit like that. After mankind was the Winglies, who were like humans but smarter and could fly. The absent god's rules basically mean that every new, improved form of life is destined to conquer all before it and become the new owners of the world, so to speak. But humans fought back against the natural order and had a great war with the Winglies and won a sort of pyrrhic victory, forcing the Winglies into hidden communes but also destroying most of the planet and pushing humanity back into a sort of Medieval level of technology. But the Winglies great commander, Melbu Frahma, has been working on basically destroying everything since he lost the great war and restarting the Tree of Life's machinations from scratch, more or less.
Something like that, anyway. It's been a while since I played this game but it was pretty good. The gameplay is fairly standard RPG stuff, but with a couple nice additions like the Addition system in combat, where every normal attack you do has a sort of QTE deal and the better you do at, the more damage you inflict. And you get stronger, more complex additions as you level. Also the Dragoon system, where certain characters can carry on the Legend of the Dragoons (humanity's frontline fighters against the Winglies in the Great War who were pretty much all killed in the battle).
4e5d2d No.15493255
>>15493213
Anyway though, the way the world is beyond repair is that even if you defeat Melbu Frahma and stop his plan, sooner or later the tree of life will hatch something even stronger than the Winglies, and it will be an even more difficult battle for humans, when they barely won against the Winglies anyway. Also if that god ever returns to the world, it probably won't be too happy about humans fucking things up. Another tidbit, before humans were dragons, who humans conquered. Then Winglies, who humans also conquered. So maybe there is a chance after all. Human supremacy, bitch.
sage for doublepost
a35dcf No.15493353
>>15482795
>Games where the world is already beyond repair
Why would I want to play a game that is just like reality. Video games are for escapism, dummy.
4e5d2d No.15493359
>>15493353
It's all about the struggle to survive, anon.
87ec3a No.15493368
>>15482795
>Games where the world is already beyond repair
Real life.
974931 No.15493592
Depending on your cynicism pretty much every warhammer 40k game
4e5d2d No.15503534
>>15493592
Oh ye of little faith.
0c75ba No.15503869
>>15483400
>>15483452
>The part of the world where these games take place is clearly fucked and cursed and rotted, but there's not much to it
But faggot, that's like the number one reason to play dark souls muh gameplay fags can suck a dick. Even at the very start of the game when you meet the crestfallen warrior you KNOW the world is fucked, and as you go on and see how fucked everything is, what happened to the place, and particularly the people you meet your only feeling is "well, fuck". Hell, it's even better when you kill Gwynevere and meet Gwyndolin. Then you know everything is fucked beyond repair, there are no gods left and everything is going worse and worse.
Hell, anon, just little details like how all NPCs have those little laughs at the of their dialogue showing how hopeless they became and how they are kind of losing their minds.
>No people trying to hold onto their humanity and memories that make them stay human
>>15483400
>No risk of sacrifice or loss from staring too long into the abyss
>But when people are literally going insane
But that's wrong, anon. People in DaS go insane all the time for the process because they keep dying and dying, actually trying to do something, just to fail every time, the Crestfallen Warrior being major proof, even Solaris and that Cleric woman. Sure, death is not really a real threat a couple of times, but think how many times that people died before going insane and rotten. The whole world is hopeless before they have tried to do something, that's why people pilgrimage to Lordran in the first place, just to die many times and be broken and literally go crazy.
147a8d No.15503936
>>15493076
Fun fact: Gliese 710 has a chance of coming within 1,000 AU of the sun. At which point shit will get fucking fancy.
57594c No.15504010
ugoku ugoku
I'd love a game in the vein of Girl's Last Tour. I guess Fragile Dreams is the closest thing I've played.
39689b No.15504053
>>15493076
So the future is literally a huge blackpill.
692ff3 No.15504106
>>15493213
>Mankind was 267
Mankind was like the 106th and winglies were 107th. I only remember this because 108 is a number of ill fortune in Shinto/Buddhist countries
515fab No.15504117
>>15493592
Warhammer Vermintide would be more fitting.
204c73 No.15504136
>>15504010
I see you are a man of culture.
060930 No.15504148
>>15504053
if humanity survives long enough to witness any of those events, we'll have dyson spheres and similar and needn't worry about the rest of the universe
4e5d2d No.15504269
>>15493076
This stuff reminds me of that old website, ExitMundi, about all the possible ways the world could end. Wonder if it's still up.
Checked and it still is, albeit with a lot of broken links.
http://www.exitmundi.nl/ for the interested.
82df44 No.15504363
>>15482795
Anything based in the real world.
3349ec No.15504408
>>15493158
>he didn't play chrono cross
>>15491445
>>15493062
>>15504117
>he hasn't played age of sigmar
Don't do it
7c8fc5 No.15504432
Free Spoilers: the thread.
9119cf No.15504488
The Mega Man timeline sort of becomes this during the Zero series and onwards. While humanity has recovered somewhat in the ZX series, most of the world is still a wasteland filled with dangerous out of control machines. And then there's the Legends series, where the Earth is flooded and humanity dead.
4e5d2d No.15504515
>>15504488 (doubles dubs checked 卐)
Megaman Legends was a fantastic game.
d61719 No.15505542
>>15483350
that's stupid though
1 ending: people die but humanity lives
2 ending : people die and humanity dies
3 ending: kill everyone nao lol
68aac9 No.15505623
>>15505542
>implying its humanity that lives and not corporate jews
d61719 No.15505629
>>15505623
it'd probably be majority WASP and asians
68aac9 No.15505648
>>15505629
>goodest goyim and yellow jews
83873d No.15505681
>>15482795
Xenoblade X: The Earth fucking explodes and the ship that your on gets blown the fuck up and crash lands on a hostile alien planet and the only part that remains intact is the miniature city that was connected to the ship it turns out everybody are actually remote controlled androids whose life support system is lost in sea which turns out to be fucking broken and they are all still alive due to some fucky shit the planet is doing which is implied to be a reincarnated Bionis
Then the game ends on a cliffhanger, whoop de fucking do
Not to mention there was another alien race at war with humanity that was trying to kill them that are still out there somewhere
1f5015 No.15505745
The Surge
>globe is fucked due to pollution, climate change, and resource shortages
>the project that is supposed to restore the biosphere was rushed and has a side effect of slowly mutating and killing shit over a longer period of time
>the patch they decide to use is releasing nanites into the atmosphere to fix it, except the nanites evolved out of control just prior to launch and have a taste for people
>your choice is killing everyone slowly with the first project or releasing the nanites and killing everyone faster
bccad1 No.15505820
>>15493592
Heresy!
Youre actually right. The Emperor even if he’s not dead probably wishes he was by now. After seeing everything he built and fought for being perverted and turned into the very thing he despised. The only ones who know peace are Ferrous Manus, Sanguinius and Konrad Curze, cause they’re all dead. Dorn’s still alive though, Perturabo has him as a prisoner And tortures him daily.
515fab No.15505828
>>15504408
You don’t need to tell me that, Age of Sigmarines is non canon to me.
4dd0bf No.15505914
>>15482795
>Mad Max
No explanation needed here.
>Endless Legend
It's not immediately clear but the world is dying. If you then play Endless Space 2, you find out what the canon ending to Endless Legend is, and it's not pretty… but some do survive.
>>15504408
>Age of Sigmar
Being brought back as a shadow of your former self? A fate worse than death.
83873d No.15505925
>>15505914
<Mad Max
I acutally don't know the lore about madmax.
I just know that is mel gibson and a bunch of other dudes driving cars in the austrialian desert.
cd9aa8 No.15505959
>>15483072
the Ringed City would like a word with you
if you don't know, there's a section of the DLC where the Unkindled travels into the far future, and the whole world is nothing but ash and ruins
the gods irreversibly linked man to the flame, so the flame dying means man dies as well
instead of the world reverting to dark, it turns to ash and crumbles
041952 No.15505970
Left 4 Dead and the seemingly endless hordes of zombies. Where the survivors are the literal carriers of the disease, so there's no way they can return to regular life.
b54436 No.15505994
>>15504106
>108
That isn't bad luck to Buddhists, if it was they wouldn't have 108 prayer beads.
cd9aa8 No.15506021
>>15505925
I'm not totally sure (it's been a longass time since I've seen them), but I think the basic idea in the movies is that the nukes dropped, and everything that hadn't been obliterated slowly dried up
that's why the first one starts off in a relatively peaceful area, but Max goes nuts when his wife and kid are brutally murdered in front of him and drives off into a shittier area (the Wasteland) to get revenge or somesuch
but in the game it's sort of implied that there was a plague that killed everything
not sure why the seas dried up though
3349ec No.15506707
>>15506021
http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(original_trilogy)
http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(rebooted_franchise)
The bombs drop after the apocalypse happened in both official backstories (after Mad Max 2 in the original backstory, after Mad Max in the Fury Road backstory). The apocalypse is instead caused by oil shortages.
08aed3 No.15506885
I guess creeper world applies to this.
I remember playing it as a flash game ages ago but apparently it's getting made into a full 3d game for creeper world 4 with fluid dynamics and a bunch of unique units for the creeper. The dev blog of the new game popped up on youtube out of the blue and reminded me of it. The torrent for the full release of creeper world 3 exists and still has seeders too which was a nice surprise.
Setting is basically biological grey goo scenario where the enemy is a fluid and pours out of emitters. It has consumed worlds and no matter how hard it is pushed back or what new technology is developed to fight it, the creeper always comes back and eventually overcomes the new defenses. 3 is set after several galactic human empires have fallen to the creeper and now basically everything has been overrun.
5d043a No.15506984
>Not a single mention of Bastion
The game is literally about the world going FUBAR and why it stays FUBAR.
000000 No.15507083
>>15504269
I remember this from way back when. Funny to see how much progress we've made on some of these. The climate is getting fucked and feminism has destroyed the fabric of society. At this rate by the time the space invaders get here there'll be nobody left to kill. Maybe if they'd just come right out and listed feminism as an apocalypse scenario when they first made the site, we'd all be a hell of a lot better off.
>>15504408
Chrono Cross is kind of an interesting case of this because you could make the argument that humanity is screwed in some way or another on all timelines. There are at least 3 different timelines important to the story, and all of them feature some kind of super-being imposing its agenda. The Lavos timeline has Lavos awakening in 1999 and visiting supreme rekkage on the humans, the timeline where Lavos was defeated has FATE come into existence and probably pretty much become Skynet, and then there's the timeline the Dragon God was summoned from where humanity's predecessors were wiped out by the Reptites. CC's ending really doesn't give us any idea what the fuck (is happening/has happened/will happen, choose one or all of the above), so there may still be a way out for humanity, but due to the lack of a third game it's hard to say.
>>15504488
Humanity and Reploids have merged by the Legends era, so it's really not humanity dying out so much as being replaced by a successor species. The Legends era has the energy crisis to deal with though.
e9af19 No.15507156
Minecraft.
>World in ruins.
>Last human
>Villagers literally all Jews.
>Demons everywhere.
Any updates post these is when it stopped being Minecraft. Minecraft had Portal tier horror undertones of just how lonely and hopeless everything is.
Also
>World in ruins.
>Last human
>Villagers literally all Jews.
>Demons everywhere
Real life.
204c73 No.15507197
>>15505925
A lot of people think its a post nuke thing but its not. Mad Max is literally 'gas ran out and whats left was warred over and poisons in the atmosphere are ruining the world but the location in MM survived because its straya and was already a shithole. If you rewatch it the flashbacks are during the fuel crisis and max is a cop and theres still some greenery but as the series goes on cars are giving off dirtier fumes and the greenery becomes increasingly scarce.
Its actually an ecopocalypse story but it was part of a huge surge in post cold war 'nukepunk' stuff it got lumped in with a bunch of other stuff that is nuclear mutants and the like.
9b21c9 No.15507241
>>15482975
You forgo to mention:
>the internet was killed when it was at the height of its creativity (early 2000's)
>this in turn spurns apathetic citizens to worship Kun Lan's doctrine and become Heaven Smiles, causing terrorism for the sake of terrorism
>this is apparently an unforeseen consequence of the US, China and a Middle Eastern faction trying to colonize Japan to prevent a third world war from ever happening again (fun fact even in our universe Japan is the only fascist country that was condoned for their actions by the US for political reasons)
>some Japanese politicians create the Yakumo Cabinet Policy in the 50's, literally the Diplomacy skill from HoMM3, a magical piece of paper that contains basically the secrets to the ultimate forms of propaganda and used it to rebuild Japan from its ashes (possibly with the help of Kun Lan)
>the US wants in on it as does the entire world, which leads to more and more deaths
>the entire fucking mainland Japan is nuked and only shitholes like Battleship Island are ethnic Japanese dominions
>there's a migration crisis surrounding Japs moving in droves into America legally and illegally, with a good portion of little girls being used for organ harvesting
>you're just a government lapdog with no consequence to the story other than pushing someone else's agenda
>even when you regain your senses and become a Lion the only choice you're given is extremely sadistic, either partake in the genocide of the Japanese or destroy half the United States
>it doesn't matter either way cause China took over and your action were already foreseen by a CIAnigger who isn't even mentioned in the whole story and may or may not be the person who heavily altered history books to suit the US' needs
Also special mention to the fact that the only people you talk to are either ghosts, virtual avatars or delusions of the protagonist and everyone who is alive either dies before you or because of you and the only person who truly understood the power of the Yakumo's propaganda asks you to kill them to cure Heaven Smile before it becomes a fucking epidemic
57594c No.15507253
>>15507197
The nuclear war was retconned in in Thunderdome. Some people believe the actual War happened after Mad Max 2, but that's probably not the case. Mad Max has very loose canon.
f94561 No.15507372
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Part 1 of the Hoopz Barkley Saga
080aa7 No.15507503
Undertale
ignoring the meme ending of course
a95850 No.15507511
>>15504148
>>15504053
Not to mention that you can mine stars, starlifting, to modify the lifespan of your star. You are also simultaneously mining enough material to create new planets if you feel like it.
Get to Kardashev 2 and the only thing that can cause the exctinction of intelligent life is the end of the universe.
974931 No.15508998
>>15507372
Im sad that theyre isnt going to be a second one especially considering it was pretty much /b/ and /sports/ the game
3349ec No.15509048
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15508998
There's always the prequel
5105ac No.15509276
>>15507253
Speaking of loose cannons, Rance world probably qualifies for this thread. The world pretty much exists because its god likes watching people struggle and suffer.
4e5d2d No.15518019
>>15505925
Oil shortages, also the oceans dried up.
ac8283 No.15518081
The first Shin Megami Tensei, more or less.
Not even the end game content, just from the beginning when demons start showing up and the American army starts showing up you know absolutely nothing is going to end well. Then Thor rapes the world with Nukes.
>>15508998
That's what you get for trusting goons with kickstarter money.
ac8283 No.15518090
>>15518081
>and the American army starts showing up
*and the American army starts declares martial law
f61f0d No.15518400
>>15507241
I badly want all the shirts Travis wears in Killer7
d61719 No.15518989
>>15518081
the nuke going off with the timer is my favorite part of the game, too bad the last part of it is pretty boring and by-the-book
d61719 No.15519008
>>15508998
they're working on it
>>15518081
eric's not a goon
dd7d98 No.15520850
>>15505994
It's not that. It's that in Buddhism, there are 108 sins that must be overcome individually. Those huge staircases out front of their temples have 108 steps, for example. They ring their massive bells 108 times on their New Year celebration. Spiritomb's local Dex number, height, weight, and stats are all 108. The 108 Beads item in FF often shelters you from spiritual status ailments.
Once you know the significance, you'll see it everywhere.
bae937 No.15524029
Atelier Ayesha, set in the world of Dusk (hint hint), which is the majority of the time a very happy game with cheerful characters, but in actuality the world is dying, literally crumbling away in spots. An older civilization abused Alchemy, the same power you use, so much that the world is just giving out and a badass magic grandpa has to travel around and prevent people from fucking it up further and accelerating the decay with alchemy. The end goal of the game isn't finding a solution to this, but just rescuing your sister from a lifeform made by the older civilization, that's trying to take samples of various kinds of life before the world bites it. Even if you succeed in getting your sister back, the world is still fucked at the end of the game
a5bdf3 No.15524132
Pathologic and Binding of Isaac
6b7af2 No.15524876
The metal max series is pretty good, if your looking for a setting where everything is basically fucked. Some of them have English patches, but the only ones with English releases are metal saga, which was just ok, and Metal Max Xeno. I'm sure NISA fucked that one up somehow though.
63e4cb No.15524915
>>15493255
>>15493213
Dragoons used the souls of dragons to transform. I can't remember how they got those, considering that there were dragons aiding them in the war against the winglies. It seems murder, but I don't remember much of the details of that game. Melbu Frahma also sold the winglies out, as even then he was working with the servants/children of the god of destruction; I believe some winglies even allied against him during the war, but again, I don't remember the details.
As far as any new forms of life? Not likely. The tree of life gets hit with the moon at the end. I do find it amusing that the area around the tree was so fucking barren.
657690 No.15525035
I would say the end of Dead Space 3 kinda implies that humanity is 10000% fucked.
>>15483183
But V and Verdict Day exist, so the world rebounds pretty fucking good I would say. The corps don't seem to have survived though, and the world still seems pretty fucked.
Why is the world in a perpetual state of fucked in the AC canon?
b00392 No.15525049
>>15504148
There is not enough material on earth to create even the simplest form of dyson sphere. Humanity will likely die on earth.
af2c35 No.15526934
>>15504010
>>15504136
No, you're both faggots.
1210f3 No.15526957
>>15490636
I've played through that game 5 or 6 times, but only the last time I played it, which was a year or so ago, did I get a little teary-eyed. I guess the understanding of completely destroying a world full of people inside Link's mind for the sake of saving himself finally came to understanding for me only recently.
a06411 No.15527023
>>15507241
>there's a migration crisis surrounding Japs moving in droves into America legally and illegally, with a good portion of little girls being used for organ harvesting
Is that the origin of Ayame Blackburn?
83fd22 No.15527147
>>15482795
SOMA
>Your at the bottom of the ocean in a lab-complex after a meteor has hit Earth killing all terrestrial life. You and everyone you encounter save for one are fragments of transplanted conciousnesses in robots. You do run into the last living human but she's on life support so its not like it helps the situation anyways