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Half Life
Gordon Freeman is a mute mechanic or something but is strangely good at killing aliens, and it's either the most overrated or the most underrated game in history.
Half Life
It's like Duke3d only more advanced, less puerile and they never brought out the long promised next one. And there's crowbars?
 

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Crusader Kings II:
Look at a map of Europe and slowly become Caligula

X-Blades:
Stare at a woman's buttcheeks while playing God-of-War-but-worse

Spore:
Play a boring sandbox game within a shallow RTS within an-even-more-shallow survival game.
 

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Johnny Novgorod said:
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

The first Assassin's Creed to let you choose between a male and female character.

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

The first Assassin's Creed to let you choose between a male and female character.
Ubisoft:Double Diversity points!
(Shoos AC: Liberation quietly out the back entrance)
 

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The Rogue Wolf said:
Undertale

You have to only play it one way and know everything that will happen, even though you're supposed to play it blind.
Interestingly, you actually can't change the entrance on your first playthrough. You can only access the good/bad ending on the new game +.
 

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Mass Effect

It's Star Trek and nobody liked the ending.

Shenmue

QTE: The Game. Also you're looking for sailors.

Undertale

Don't kill anything.
 

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The Rogue Wolf said:
Undertale

You have to only play it one way and know everything that will happen, even though you're supposed to play it blind.
Interestingly, you actually can't change the entrance on your first playthrough. You can only access the good/bad ending on the new game +.
Not entirely accurate. You can go Genocide, Neutral, or anything in between on your first playthrough. However, if you're going for Pacifist and you didn't kill anyone on your Neutral run you can actually just reload the Neutral save and tie up the loose ends on it.
 

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Asita said:
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The Rogue Wolf said:
Undertale

You have to only play it one way and know everything that will happen, even though you're supposed to play it blind.
Interestingly, you actually can't change the entrance on your first playthrough. You can only access the good/bad ending on the new game +.
Not entirely accurate. You can go Genocide, Neutral, or anything in between on your first playthrough. However, if you're going for Pacifist and you didn't kill anyone on your Neutral run you can actually just reload the Neutral save and tie up the loose ends on it.
Wierd. I'd heard you were locked into neutral on your first run, but maybe that was wrong.
 

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Johnny Novgorod said:
Shenmue

QTE: The Game. Also you're looking for sailors.
Shenmue: You're looking for the guy who killed your dad. You spend most of 2 games doing busywork to pass the time and then go for a long walk and then the game ends. Cue long wait for the final game.

Final Fantasy XIII: 20 hours of running through a very pretty tunnel, broken up by cutscenes. At some point the game opens up, but by that point the game is almost over.
 

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Bloodborne: You play as a doctor in a race against time to save the world from a blood born virus that threatens to wipe out the human race.

Blur: A walking simulator which takes you through the career of a British rock band.
 

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Command & Conquer 3 -- Apparently the best game in the franchise. There is Kane (he's angry or something) and there are aliens maybe.

Command & Conquer 4 -- Oh hell no.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent -- You escape, can't look at the monsters, you might go crazy, somewhere in the dark a young man is screaming in Swedish.

Any 3D Mario game -- Best games ever made. Nintendo has never failed. The brightest example is Sunshine. Brings out the "child" in "manchild".

GTA V -- Rich guy, black guy and crazy guy walk into a bank. They're robbing it. Stunts, skydiving, janitoral duty, misogyny, a popular roleplay destination on Twitch.

Doki Doki Literature Club -- Fun game let's your read books and game files. Just one girl to interact with but it should be enough to dig it.
 

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Metroid Other M

Samus sees a pterodactyl and has a meltdown.

Senua's Sacrifice

Something about mental illness.

Fallout 76

There's nothing to do, apparently?
 

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Terraria

2D Minecraft

Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Link and Tetra/Zelda from Wind Waker no longer sail the seas, but find land and ride trains.
 

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Dalisclock said:
Asita said:
Dalisclock said:
The Rogue Wolf said:
Undertale

You have to only play it one way and know everything that will happen, even though you're supposed to play it blind.
Interestingly, you actually can't change the entrance on your first playthrough. You can only access the good/bad ending on the new game +.
Not entirely accurate. You can go Genocide, Neutral, or anything in between on your first playthrough. However, if you're going for Pacifist and you didn't kill anyone on your Neutral run you can actually just reload the Neutral save and tie up the loose ends on it.
Wierd. I'd heard you were locked into neutral on your first run, but maybe that was wrong.
Pretty sure you can get genocide the first run, but it's not commonly done because it requires killing everyone, which players often don't know (or know how to achieve) the first time around.

You absolutely cannot get pacifist on the first playthrough, however. What I refer to is a...exploit? Simply put, while you cannot get a True Pacifist ending on your first playthrough, you don't have to start a new game from scratch after beating the final boss and getting the neutral ending (provided nobody was killed in your save file). Beating the boss globally unlocks the content you need to complete to get the True Pacifist ending, and the game doesn't overwrite your file after you beat it. So you can just reload the mostly completed neutral run from before the boss fight, complete the extra content, and then go to the final confrontation again.
 

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Resident Evil series

Exactly not the same as the movie series starring Milla Jovovich.
 
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The Last of Us
It's like the Walking Dead with budget! But your main duo is white. There are also zombies! But they're more weird mushroom things really.
Also the MAN was the REAL monster all along! That stays the same.

Prey
You play as a native american kidnapped by the aliens. Or an asian(?) guy(?) playing prop hunt with the aliens? It's all very confusing.

Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear? A surveillance camera? Gray Fox? You're that ninja! Hnrh... Colonel. I try to sneak round the oil platform but i'm DUMMY THICC and the clapping of my ass cheeks Just like one of my japanese animes! Snake? Psycho Mantis? Hot Coldman. Snake! The Boss. Big Boss. Revolver Ocelot. Revolver Ocelot. You're... pretty good. Metal Gear?! HERE? SNAAAAAAAAAAKE! LIQUIIIIIIIIIIID! BROTHEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR! La Li Lu Le Lo. The Patriots. Meryl. Zanzibarland. Raiden? Diamond Dogs. The Motherbase. S.K.U.L.L.S. Parasite Unit? They played us like a damn FIDDLE! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? Careful Boss, they're just kids. Kaz, i'm already a demon. You can feel it too, don't you? Give back our past. This is good, isn't it?
 

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The wonderful 101: a game about many tiny superheroes (possibly 101 of them) that had a button prompt ending, commercially failed real hard and left to stagnate under the placid Waters of the Wii U platform, but was good and made people sad, possibly resulting in more suicides.

Beyond two souls: creepy developer creeps on and out Ellen Page. The only game I refused as a free. Mainly cos watching it LP'd is essentially the only positive version of the experience.

Black Mirror: it's definitely totally one hundred percent not the brilliant TV show.

Road Rage: No, it's not Road Rash, Road Redemption, Road Rules, Road Rambles or Road Rickets. It's worse than even Road Kill. Oops, typed 'road' too much and now it looks wonky.

Lovecraft versus Tesla: it's, well...that, am left to assume.

Metal gear solid 4: it's an ending but also a movie, also narratively frustrating. But I will never truly know because Konami won't allow it on PS4.

Crypt of the necrodancer: dance! No, not literally, idiot! Press buttons to the music while the game presses buttons to music too, and whoever presses the buttons the most conformist gets to feel like they may have danced in between all that violent bloodshed.

Sims pets: can't be trusted with real animals? This is for youuuu!

New fire emblems: can't be trusted with real kids? weeeell...
 

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Neurotic Void Melody said:
Metal gear solid 4: it's an ending but also a movie, also narratively frustrating. But I will never truly know because Konami won't allow it on PS4.
Nanomachines. Nanomachines? NANOMACHINES! RETCON! RETCON!

Big Boss. Big Boss? Big BOSS!

Johnny poops his pants a bunch. Ocelot is hilariously hammy. Snake is old and feels old. Raiden goes full anime because it RAINED THE DAY HE WAS BORN!

Also, Some Metal Gears with chicken legs.

There, you're caught up. You're welcome.

Crypt of the Necrodancer
It's a dungeon crawler but also a rythem game. Apparently it's pretty fun.

Minecraft

A massive freeform sim where anything can be done and there's zombies. It looks super primitive but that's part of the charm.

Dwarf Fortress
Minimalist interface/graphics about draves killing themselves hilariously, mostly due to the player not considering things like lava and such. Apparently really fun though.

Rimworld
Like Dwarf Fortress but with sci-fi on a randomly generated planet. Apparently it's super easy to starve/die.

Detriot: Beyond Human
Do robots have emotions? Are emotions peoples? Do Robots=Peoples?

Beyond Two Souls
Cage Creeps on Ellen Page beyond the scenes. Ellen Page Cries a lot on screen. Everyone in the game hates Ellen page and wants to harm/rape her in game because reasons, to give her reasons to cry all the time.
 

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Nanomachines. Nanomachines? NANOMACHINES! RETCON! RETCON!

Big Boss. Big Boss? Big BOSS!

Johnny poops his pants a bunch. Ocelot is hilariously hammy. Snake is old and feels old. Raiden goes full anime because it RAINED THE DAY HE WAS BORN!

Also, Some Metal Gears with chicken legs.

There, you're caught up. You're welcome.
Aw, now that seems like the kind of nonsense a few bottles of wine and a like-minded friend could transform into worthwhile entertainment. And Raiden always came off as the type of character who would channel seasonal affective disorder when it suits him.