Frog Fractions is a work of unmitigated genius. It does not devolve into absurdity, it rises majestically against the sunrise.....Luftwaffles said:http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
Pretty sure i win.
Frog Fractions is a work of unmitigated genius. It does not devolve into absurdity, it rises majestically against the sunrise.....Luftwaffles said:http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
Pretty sure i win.
Have to agree with everyone else who already agreed with this. That game started out so good, and then it ended up so bad. Possibly the biggest trainwreck ever in terms of game story scripts, at least that I can remember. It was mostly realistic in tone at the beginning with hints of something supernatural going on, and then all of a sudden it goes completely batshit crazy with nonsensical conspiracy theories and basically quaffs a glass of Kool-Aid and goes for a ride on a comet.PieBrotherTB said:Fahrenheit kind of goes without saying.
Sort of slow, creeping dread and edge of madness skating becomes SUPER SAIYAN BLAST AIR BATTLE.
Also, it's established that the temperate basically drops to a level wherein it's not safe to go outside; so why on EARTH would you undress and *ahem* in a train carriage of all things?
Yeah, there's also that, the unexpected sex scene. Wat.
That is the first thing that came to mind when I saw "absurdity" in the title, but it doesn't exactly devolve into it. It starts there and then progresses further into it and invents entirely new levels of it as it goes along.Luftwaffles said:http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
Pretty sure i win.
Eh, what?alphamalet said:Final Fantasy X
FINALLY. The ending may have given me rage-induced amnesia.. Everything up toalphamalet said:Mass Effect 3
IckleMissMayhem said:Eh, what?alphamalet said:Final Fantasy X
Ah yes, MGS 2...the game that made me go into a screaming fit of "WHAT THE FUCK!?" after it finished. Oh, don't get me wrong, fighting in a katana duel atop federal hall is epic in and of itself but...the plot hurt my head. I mean REALLY hurt my head.nexus said:Metal Gear is it's own trope for absurdity.. but that being said -- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Years ago, I stayed up all night playing through the final few acts... and just... what, what. What. I was already very tired and loopy, and so was my friend who happened to be watching while I went through the acid trip known as the final act.
That game really set the bar for me on how a game could get absurd. For MGS2, even when you thought you set the bar high enough... it wasn't enough..
Fairy nuff. I just assumed that that was just Squenix being miserable buggers... an opinion backed up by FFXIII-2s ending. Aaaaanyhoo... Just glad someone agreed with me on ME3!alphamalet said:IckleMissMayhem said:Eh, what?alphamalet said:Final Fantasy XTidus himself was a walking, breathing dream. If that doesn't sound absurd, then I don't know what does.
And your soul. Seriously, every single ending in than game just sucks the joy out of my soul. And that's without mentioning the levels with the child soldiers screaming as you kill them, the child-eating elf or the peadophile priest with the psychopathic fairy.Infernai said:I'd also like to bring up Drakengard, although in that game it was literally the purpose of the developer to make your mind break.
Hah! Yeah I think the FF13-2 was pretty terrible as well, but that whole game was so damn absurd that I don't think it struck me as much as X's ending.IckleMissMayhem said:Fairy nuff. I just assumed that that was just Squenix being miserable buggers... an opinion backed up by FFXIII-2s ending. Aaaaanyhoo... Just glad someone agreed with me on ME3!alphamalet said:IckleMissMayhem said:Eh, what?alphamalet said:Final Fantasy XTidus himself was a walking, breathing dream. If that doesn't sound absurd, then I don't know what does.
I kind of agree with you but I'm curious how you see a mission where two men kill an entire base off by themselves and then jump over a canyon on snowmobiles and consider that vaguely plausible, as opposed to "James Bond antics"Esotera said:The game that first springs to mind is Modern Warfare 2. The first few missions were vaguely plausible but then it just went completely crazy.
...meaning... FFX-2(?) If so, I agree wholeheartedly!! - I jest - I know what you mean, it was a major wtf-territory, but I think the alternative "everything comes up roses" ending would have been a little bit too saccharine, n'est-ce pas? - See FFVIII/IX. Though those endings didn't make me want to smash up my controller in raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage!!! ;O)alphamalet said:X's ending.
I'd suggest getting the bad ending for Silent Hill 1, makes the whole thing make a lot more sense.alphamalet said:Indigo Prophecy
Silent Hill 1
Silent Hill 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Condemned
Condemned 2 Bloodshot
Dragon Age II (fuck this game)
Final Fantasy X
Mass Effect 3
I don't know what I just played, but as I floated serenely down the aqueous vents of Bug Mars, dodging missiles on the silhouette of my dragon as a placid voice explained the origins of boxing, I knew I had found my game of the year.Luftwaffles said:http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
Pretty sure i win.
I'm pretty sure it's a "devolution" when it ends with erotic pictures of bug porn. Just saying.Nalgas D. Lemur said:That is the first thing that came to mind when I saw "absurdity" in the title, but it doesn't exactly devolve into it. It starts there and then progresses further into it and invents entirely new levels of it as it goes along.Luftwaffles said:http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
Pretty sure i win.
hazabaza1 said:Alright, so I've just been playing a lot of Sleeping Dogs, just did the last few missions and... holy fuck, what happened.
For those who haven't played it, Sleeping Dogs is an undercover cop style game with fistfighting and slow-mo John Woo style gunfights. The only time realism seems to invade is in the cutscenes. Or so I thought.
Okay, so up to this point, the game's been kind of straight faced about the story. People have had limits, and when someone gets shot, it's normally fatal. Seems realistic enough, it achieves what it's going for.
Then I get to one of the last missions. Through a series of events your character, Wei, gets kidnapped and tortured. Fucking brutally. It builds up this amazing sense of vulnerability in contrast to all the dick smashing you've been doing before.
Wei gets lucky and escapes, and goes through that bit in every modern game where the protagonist is injured and going all slow and stuff, ends up killing a couple of dudes through a massive effort, really building up this idea that you're injured and near death. Feels really good.
Then you enter the next room, and there's like, 8 guys. All of a sudden, Wei springs up, charges in, and starts kung-fu kicking guys and throwing them into buzz-saws despite getting his bones smashed with a hammer and kneecaps drilled about 5 minutes ago.
It gets better. After some fucking free running, you take out the guy who tortured you, steal his comically oversized knife, and basically go on a fucking murder spree with this giant knife. Seriously, nothing can stand against you with this thing, and you just fucking bash dudes with it until Wei is COVERED in blood.
Some more free-running, and you get in a gunfight. Pretty standard for this game, until you remember the aforemention drilling.
So after gunning through a small army of gangsters with apparently the biggest balls ever, you open the next door to the lead antagonist, at which point he shoots you point fucking blank with a shotgun. Apparently he forgot to load it though, because he runs out of ammo.
So what happens next? He runs, you chase him, jump onto his moving boat, he crashing it into a gas station, causing a massive fucking explosion which you're pretty much on the center of. No worries though, you pat yourself off, and have enough time to climb onto the wreckage.
Turns out Mr Bad Guy did too though, and you have to fight him, MSG4 final boss style, with really weak punches and a really hard fight.
Or it would be if you couldn't counter him with full fucking force.
And after all this, Wei still has the energy to show him into some random fucking Ice Chipper. Fuck.
I always found it morbidly amusing how your party consisted of a pedophile who only survived an attack on his parish because he was molesting a boy in the woods at the time, an insane Elf who ate children alive because she could never have any of her own, and...a boy who is eternally 8.anthony87 said:And your soul. Seriously, every single ending in than game just sucks the joy out of my soul. And that's without mentioning the levels with the child soldiers screaming as you kill them, the child-eating elf or the peadophile priest with the psychopathic fairy.Infernai said:I'd also like to bring up Drakengard, although in that game it was literally the purpose of the developer to make your mind break.
As much as I love that game, it's ridiculously fucking depressing.
Not quite that absurd, sorry. Just breaks a lot of established rules in a rather extreme manner.MrGalactus said:hazabaza1 said:Alright, so I've just been playing a lot of Sleeping Dogs, just did the last few missions and... holy fuck, what happened.
For those who haven't played it, Sleeping Dogs is an undercover cop style game with fistfighting and slow-mo John Woo style gunfights. The only time realism seems to invade is in the cutscenes. Or so I thought.
Okay, so up to this point, the game's been kind of straight faced about the story. People have had limits, and when someone gets shot, it's normally fatal. Seems realistic enough, it achieves what it's going for.
Then I get to one of the last missions. Through a series of events your character, Wei, gets kidnapped and tortured. Fucking brutally. It builds up this amazing sense of vulnerability in contrast to all the dick smashing you've been doing before.
Wei gets lucky and escapes, and goes through that bit in every modern game where the protagonist is injured and going all slow and stuff, ends up killing a couple of dudes through a massive effort, really building up this idea that you're injured and near death. Feels really good.
Then you enter the next room, and there's like, 8 guys. All of a sudden, Wei springs up, charges in, and starts kung-fu kicking guys and throwing them into buzz-saws despite getting his bones smashed with a hammer and kneecaps drilled about 5 minutes ago.
It gets better. After some fucking free running, you take out the guy who tortured you, steal his comically oversized knife, and basically go on a fucking murder spree with this giant knife. Seriously, nothing can stand against you with this thing, and you just fucking bash dudes with it until Wei is COVERED in blood.
Some more free-running, and you get in a gunfight. Pretty standard for this game, until you remember the aforemention drilling.
So after gunning through a small army of gangsters with apparently the biggest balls ever, you open the next door to the lead antagonist, at which point he shoots you point fucking blank with a shotgun. Apparently he forgot to load it though, because he runs out of ammo.
So what happens next? He runs, you chase him, jump onto his moving boat, he crashing it into a gas station, causing a massive fucking explosion which you're pretty much on the center of. No worries though, you pat yourself off, and have enough time to climb onto the wreckage.
Turns out Mr Bad Guy did too though, and you have to fight him, MSG4 final boss style, with really weak punches and a really hard fight.
Or it would be if you couldn't counter him with full fucking force.
And after all this, Wei still has the energy to show him into some random fucking Ice Chipper. Fuck.
I didn't click the Spoiler, but that is great news. True Crime: Streets of LA turned into fuckin' Constantine half way through. and it was AWESOME.
... The fuck did I just watch?lacktheknack said:Should we mention the fact that it may or may not technically be a necrophilia scene? At least they didn't attach a QTE to it.PieBrotherTB said:Fahrenheit kind of goes without saying.
Sort of slow, creeping dread and edge of madness skating becomes SUPER SAIYAN BLAST AIR BATTLE.
Also, it's established that the temperate basically drops to a level wherein it's not safe to go outside; so why on EARTH would you undress and *ahem* in a train carriage of all things?
Yeah, there's also that, the unexpected sex scene. Wat.
And if anyone is doubting the "gloomy psychological thriller turns 'Dragonball Z'", and dismisses it as hyperbole, allow me to present:
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The entire game is like that - you play a guy who just murdered someone, and have to survive police investigations and bizarre visions that are driving you insane.
Now explain to me how that turns into this:
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Yep. At the 4/5 mark, two super-saiyan dudes have a *****-slap catfight while hanging in midair.
What.
WHAT.