/v/ - Video Games

Destiny does exist, it's a great plot device and can recall religious iconography in the most beautiful of games. Tropes are an imaginary concept.

>he wasn't born as a hero

of course you werent you fucking NPC. now shut up and sell me potions, thats the only thing you're good for.

"Lore".

If you go to a town and can learn about it through visual cues, talking with NPCs and perhaps some light reading, sure, as long as it's substantial.

But most "lore", especially Fromsoft "lore" is just what color dildo every boss likes and what toppings they like on their pizza, described in about twenty pages worth of WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS you have to drudge through.

>fight boss

>has unlimited HP and insane defense

>it's a cinematic fight where you have to lose

or

>backed into a corner

>very obviously going to initiate deus ex machina

>deus ex machina

>>16443388

>you were born to be a hero

>spawn into game

>ignore the main quest

>completely obliterate entire villages cos XP and free stuff lol

>dig up thousands of tons of iron and spend months of game time sitting next to a forge maxing blacksmithing, leave giant pile of rusty junk sitting in the street

>join assasins guild/thieves guild/dark brotherhood and steal and murder even more

>never actually do main quest

>eventually get bored of game and leave

yep i sure was the chosen one

>>16443388

I agree with your point. This is literally the only reason I'm apprehensive about playing Fallout 2.

And one of the many reasons Fallout 3's story is so shit.

In Fallout 1, you're just the guy they ended up picking out of a hat to go on a suicide mission, but became the hero at the end because it was either adapt and survive, or die. Even in NV, you're after some cheeky fucker who screwed you and get roped into things bigger than you.

>>16443507

The thing is that with some classical iconography, it could work. But writers just bank on ripping the Zelda set up most times.

>>16443418

>>16443533

I kek'd.

>>16443428

People who jerk off the lore from FromSoftware games are cancer. Why isn't exploration and difficulty enough for people? Ghosts and Goblins handled it better, ffs.

My entry has got to be "Downtime missions".

You get this a lot in Rockstar games. Oh, you don't like how the game is paced? Well fuck you, you can't progress. I have the same opinion of films, honestly. If you're struggling to find more interesting things to do, why not make the experience just slightly shorter but of inifintely higher quality?

>tropes

fuck off, Anita, do your own goddamned research

>it's a fight you are supposed to lose

>you ended up using tons of items trying to win

>you are not rewarded in any way

>there is no bonus for actually beating the boss because he just has a scripted event where he one shots you anyways

>>16443388

>the predictable 'bossfight room'

>health, armor, ammo, chest-high walls everywhere

>bonus points: the bossfight begins with a long, unskippable cutscene every single time you try it again

>see an enemy carrying a cool looking weapon

>kill enemy, he drops weapon

>you attempt to pick it up, it just adds to your ammo pool instead

>the 'big bad' is your friend/partner from the beginning of the game

Every single fucking R* game ever.

>your vehicle has no crumple/damage effects, just a health bar

>when you wreck it, it just explodes and kills you instead

>the story/dialogue is rife with shoehorned memes, despite it attempting to take a serious tone overall

>someone is playing a video game within said game

>it's those stereotypical bleeps-and-boops that represent the game like in any shitty television show, and it's always some shitty 8-bit interpretation of what video games really are

>game attempts to be 'retro'

>uses 16/32-bit sprite art, but still uses 8-bit chiptunes

>game tries to emphasize MUH REALISM in its gameplay while having no understanding how other things work

>attempt to reload your gun amidst a gunfight, gun animation takes 15+ seconds to reload a single magazine, guns also degrade and jam after 5 shots

>in the same game, a vehicle you drive somehow has 80 gears, and the upshifting engine loop is played repeatedly despite going top speed

>game offers you a choice on being the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy'

>it very clearly tries to nudge you in the direction of being the 'good guy'

>going the other route just loops you back to being the 'good guy' after two events

>good guys are always blue

>bad guys are always red

>game has a fucking awesome main theme

>the game itself has zero music, or its music is terrible in comparison

>>16443388

>No one is born a hero

Anon, Hercules was born to be a hero. In fact many archetypal characters in folklore and mythology have a profound sense of fatalism in alignment with a teleological ends.

>>16443405

exactly

>>16443388

>Say's you are the destined hero

>You can decline that you are no hero and just don't want to get dragged into a tedious quest

>All hope is lost so fuck you for saying no to me!

>GAME OVER

Sometimes the game is self aware that it is an extremely cliche trope and people who are tired of it are given an option to tell the game to go find someone else so it insults you with a game over because you don't want to do the cliche thing to do. Yeah no i'll do an evil route if a game allows me so i can break this over played rule.

>An ancient evil has awoken

>>16443750

Get this cuckchan/reddit shit out of here. Pretending to be retarded is 110% cancer, and you goddamn know it.

>playing character action game

>in the middle of boss fight, random button prompts pop up turning into a QTE sequence

Fuck any game for that matter, that inserts button prompts that do stupid flashy shit at the expense of real player interaction. Also

>playing fighting game

>character launches into super move

>game pretty much stops allowing the super to basically attack opponent uninterrupted

Fuck Dimps tbh

>the troper audience