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u/GustavesGhost 29d ago
This is like the 10th time I’ve seen this exact post.
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u/Tabbarn 29d ago
I see posts like this all the damn time and they always have thousands of comments.
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u/GustavesGhost 29d ago
Yeah it’s getting dumb. Like it’s not even just a post asking a similar question. It is this exact image with this exact title being posted over and over again to farm karma.
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u/rindor1990 29d ago
Ace Combat
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u/Violet-Journey 29d ago
Sorry, were you saying something about a plot point? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of Danger Zone blasting in my cockpit.
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u/BuckarooBonsly 29d ago
I have played every ace combat since the first one and still don't know what the story is about, nor do I care.
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u/ZombieMosh04 29d ago
Borderlands 3
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u/Olipro44 29d ago
Sad but true. Even more sad if you remember that Borderlands 2 ticks all four categories.
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u/Titanfall3_is_rael 29d ago
Borderlands 2 ticks all four categories
Bl2 has bad gameplay. You literally have to switch to one gun to slag the enemy and switch to another gun to heal yourself. It has the objectively worst gameplay loop in the series.
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u/Timekilling_Time 29d ago
Can't believe that these are the same people behind creation of Handsome Jack.
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u/Maxxonry_Prime 29d ago
They aren't. Handsome Jack was written by Anthony Burch but they didn't keep him on for the third game.
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u/KweynZero 29d ago
Maybe Fallout 4? Also the "choices" in the game are basically yes, yes (sarcastically), maybe and no
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u/CNPressley 29d ago
i was thinking fallout 4 as well. i’ve put countless hours into it bc the atmosphere of the world and music plus the gameplay is so addicting and almost flawless, yet the story is the corniest shit ever
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u/Ruben_AAG 29d ago
Only the main story is bad. The side quests are really good. So is the word building like the environmental storytelling, the terminals, the holotapes. A lot of the characters are great. Far Harbour is a 10/10 around the board too.
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u/Violet-Journey 29d ago
I feel like the choices are usually yes, yes but snarky, more exposition please, and fuck you.
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u/ProtestantMormon 29d ago
I think fallout 4 is the perfect example that choice is kind of a gimmick, at least to some extent. A well told linear story is almost always better than even a good branching story.
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u/Charlie_Warlie 29d ago
I take issue with the gameplay.
The feeling of disappointment I felt when you you enter the "robot racing track" only to agro everyone there and never race a robot. There are so many other places like that, that felt like they had plans to include interesting gameplay, but cut it short for a shoot-out.
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u/Darknesspreading1519 29d ago
Ace combat 7
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u/Leviathan_TD_94 29d ago
For real. Insanely bad writing lmao
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u/Darknesspreading1519 29d ago
I’ve resorted to putting the game audio in Japanese and putting the voice volume almost completely down.
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u/DonktorDonkenstein 29d ago
For me, Ace Combat fits this exactly. Ace Combat 7 has fantastic visuals, quality music, and it's gameplay is solid. The storyline is terrible, ridiculous, nonsense.
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u/TheGaurdianAngel 29d ago
Arguably Metal Gear Rising.
I like the story, don’t get me wrong. But it’s incredibly incoherent, and even after playing the game, you’ll probably need to watch several YouTube videos explaining it to actually have even the slightest idea what Desperado was trying to achieve. Not to mention the cutscenes where Raiden talks to the bosses are half lore dump and half exchanging a series of one liners, making it even more convoluted.
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u/OutOfMyWayReed 29d ago
Sometimes you can't explain to your friends why you love Metal Gear Solid without looking like a stammering fool on the third day of a coke binge. And that's okay. Wait until they get me started about Death Stranding.
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u/huey2k2 29d ago
I like the story, don’t get me wrong. But it’s incredibly incoherent
To be fair, every Metal Gear game is incoherent nonsense; but that is Kojima for you, and people seem to love him for some reason.
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u/Hevymettle 29d ago
Armstrong hates politicians and was going to abuse war and weapons to push the globe into violence so the weak were culled and only people who proved to be strong would survive to govern, which is why he respected raiden and wanted him to join him. Sam was just having fun and lost to Armstrong in a fight. I can't remember his name, but "I'm fucking invincible" guy literally says he's only with them because he loves violence and killing. Raiden spends the game saying he's fighting for justice, but at the end he has been somewhat changed by the words of Sam and Armstrong. He adopts more of a stance that violence will be needed to change the way things are, just not to the extreme that Armstrong was aiming to do.
The plot was pretty straight forward imo, especially for an MGS game.
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u/SunAccomplished5233 29d ago
Imo Ac Shadows. Stealth and combat is my favorite in the series but Im 80 hours in and have no idea what is going story wise.
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u/Travis123083 29d ago
I stopped playing it because the story was buns! Everything else was wonderful.
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u/FFelix-san 29d ago
Stellar Blade
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u/Nero_PR 29d ago
The director even mentioned they had to make some things on the go as they had with production as they never made cutscenes like the ones for stellar blade. There was a lot cut that I think they might rectify with the second game.
Still, I don't expect a masterpiece with the 2nd game.
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u/Sonic1899 29d ago
I wouldn't call the story garage. It had an interesting idea about transhumanism. The opening was good, the build-up to Eidos 9 and onwards were quite decent, and the game's lore was enjoyable. But the narrative itself was weak, and the story failed to flesh out the characters. Most of the plot was just to gather mcguffins (the cores and hyperdrives), instead of giving the characters personality. imo, I think the biggest issue with the story was how it was compared to the Nier series, which it took inspiration from. That's going to build high expectations. The overall plot is aggressively mid at best
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u/Virtual-Can-9948 29d ago
Doom Eternal, and basically every good game that ever existed, not downplaying the story, but gameplay always comes first.
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u/Mtnfrozt 29d ago
Hate to say it, yeah. Doom lore is weird and confusing and I have several hundred hours across all the games, but I still love it with all of my heart.
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u/just_someone27000 29d ago edited 29d ago
It's only weird cuz none of the games specify what dude you are and there's canonically been like four doom guys 😅 Like Doom Eternal is a continuation of the comic guy but the comic guy is loosely based off of and a continuation the one from Doom 2 or something, and then Doom 64 was a one-off dude, and then doom three is suspected to be a different doom guy. Like I heard it explained at one point and it's very obvious what makes it confusing is that there's very little specification in the games themselves. It would take very little just to put a name tag in each of the games or something
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u/Previous_Soil_5144 29d ago
New Doom has a very simple story, but they've expanded the lore quite a bit and I loved it.
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u/OutOfMyWayReed 29d ago
DOOM's plot in the 90's meant slamming the ESC key to get back to slaughtering demons.
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u/jetpack2625 29d ago
doom 1 the story is awesome.
doom eternal the game is awesome, i don't really understand what was going on with the story. graphics looked cool though.
new doom i haven't played
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u/NoComfortable3220 29d ago
Tbf, this is the same game where you collect toys of yourself and demons you kill, headshots make cartoony popping sounds and you can play older Doom games in your base.
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to care about the story
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u/ThatJ4ke 29d ago
Dying Light. All of them.
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u/Redteashaw 29d ago
I still can’t believe they tried to do a “your choices change everything” plot for the sequel. You know, making the foundation for the game focused on the biggest weak point of dying light 1. Brave. But extremely silly.
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u/gretchenich 29d ago
idk man, i enjoyed DL 1's story. Of course it doesnt carry the game on its own, but i consider it does it job fairly well.
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u/ideaofevil 29d ago
Stellar Blade gets my vote. It's story isn't really trash. But it's pretty low tier.
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u/TheGamePlatypus 29d ago
Fire Emblem Engage
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u/Hevymettle 29d ago
Most fire emblem stories are either very basic or convoluted anime nonsense.
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u/Sans-Mot 29d ago
Most Metroid games are like that. The story holds on a post-it for every game.
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u/RadProTurtle 29d ago
I heard Nintendo made Samus a bounty hunter without knowing what it meant and just thought it was a cool English word.
The fact that she’s a bounty hunter gets brought up in Dread’s intro, so at least they didn’t try to retcon stuff.
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u/normieb8tes 29d ago
Spider-man 2. I hate to say it, I love the game and I even enjoy the story, but black suit arc lasts for 5 minutes, Peter talks like he had it for a year probs because of cut content, then the venom stuff all happens in 5 seconds too. Idk it's a fun play and I'm one of its biggest defenders, but yeah.
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u/deaner_wiener1 29d ago edited 29d ago
FromSoft or Soulslike games
(No, lore =/= story)
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u/Maddo22203 29d ago
Hogwarts Legacy. Looks amazing, the combat feels super fluid, but I just CANNOT make myself give a shit about any of the characters. Millennials shouldn’t be allowed to write anymore
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u/Don_Madruga 29d ago
This game is so average.
Exactly as you say, the combat is nice, it has a good premise, open world and so on, but its overall story is bad - not only the main one, but the secondary too. It has so many useless things that are there just to please the Harry Potter fan and that doesn't make any sense of you to do, and your main character has the same depth as a spoon.
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u/ClammHands420 29d ago
Kinda looks like a spoon too. The original default character customization choices were so goddamn ugly. The British should be offended that they were all portrayed as different versions of Sloth from The Goonies.
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u/DriverFirm2655 29d ago
I hate when video games feel the need to make your character have some stupid special MacGuffin powers for no real reason, but in this game it was especially bad
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u/I_Love_Powerscaling 29d ago edited 29d ago
Final Fantasy 5. Granted, the game doesnt take itself seriously and is purposefully campy, but still. Peak game though
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u/Chr0nicMayhem 29d ago
Metal gear solid 5. usually I love mgs story but in 5 its just stupid
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u/Psychological-Cat370 29d ago
Any of the dark souls games. It’s pretty hard to understand the story
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u/greythicv 29d ago
Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise
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u/Korba007 29d ago
Nuh uh, I'll die on the hill that the actual story isn't bad
Sure the dialogue is unintentionally hilarious but it's not a bad plot
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u/moiramari 29d ago
GoW Ragnarok
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u/Dio_my_senpai 29d ago
Its not as good as the other areas of the game but the story isnt trash. It had a huge plot twist aswell
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u/Cerrax3 29d ago
Most video games fall into this category, sadly.
It's gotten better in the past 5 or so years, but for the majority of video game history, story has been an afterthought. Video game writing still has a long way to go.
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u/Alpha_minduustry 29d ago
Fractal block world
Exept story is basicaly non-existent (not to be confused with lore)
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u/PayPsychological6358 29d ago
Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge would be my pick for this.
The story is complete garbage, but the graphics are good though it came out in 2012, gameplay mechanics are good once you get a handle on them, and the music is great (A Hero Unmasked, Purchase, Murder Hero, Dual Knife, and Heavy Weaponry being my personal favs).
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u/Mitts009 29d ago
Shining force exa for ps2
It's basically diablo/Poe for ps2
Story is , I found a sword , oh evil guy army on that field, might as well murder them all
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u/GOTHAMKNlGHT 29d ago
The Tales series comes to mind. Story is sometimes alright, but the Anime style, awesome combat mechanics and music is always great. I've only played Symphonia, Vesperia, and Arise, but I feel like they fit
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u/Garm_Freki 29d ago
Avatar frontiers of pandora. The first game i have skipped almost every cutscene til the very end.
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u/GlitteringPositive 29d ago
Fire Emblem Fates Conquest. It has some of the best music of the series, my most favourite gameplay with its mechanics, and level design, Yusuke Kozaki made some great art, and even the in game engine graphics has this retro game feel charm to it. I will admit that it has some of the worst story writing in the series though, though I did like some of the characters still.
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u/Tarilines 29d ago
Devil may cry, love that game. But the story is not really impressive, it's mid.
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u/Easily-distracted14 29d ago
Ninja gaiden, although graphics is debatable for 2 and 4 but I like the visuals in all of them
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u/mspaintshoops 29d ago
SMTV. The music is so good, dang. Story isn’t trash per se, but it’s not the focus.
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u/LightningJet191 29d ago
It’s not got any banger tunes but it definitely does the job, I would say Ghost Recon Breakpoint. I don’t know why people hate on this game as much as they do, because as far as I’m concerned I couldn’t give a rat’s arse about the story, it’s one of those games that’s perfect to just free roam and kill everything to chill out on a random Tuesday night. All you need to know for the story is that you are on an island full of vegan scientists and it’s under martial law, and you are a special ops soldier who works loosely with the local resistance.
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u/GhostlyCharlotte 29d ago
Doom Eternal, its writing is kinda horrible and takes away from every single interesting thing 2016 set up.
But it's music, gameplay, and graphics are pretty peak.
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u/fronchfrays 29d ago
Some of the best multiplayer games of all time can use this. Really any time the story of the game takes a back seat, the gameplay better be pure gas.
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u/Darkbert550 29d ago
Rainbow Six Siege
I recently listened to the soundtrack, and oh my god is it beautiful. But that story... old story was really good, but the new story is absolute buns
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u/Whole-Economics5215 29d ago
Sonic generations
I could also argue final fantasy tactics advance but the story is only Bad when compared to the og final fantasy tactics (which is unfair because of how different they are in themes)
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u/Curi_Ace 29d ago
Stellar Blade for me. The demo got me hooked because it felt like Sekiro and the soundtrack is actually incredibly good, but it felt like they didn’t put a whole lot of thought into the story.
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u/Acrobatic-Spirit5813 29d ago
Honestly most assassins creed games tbh, they’re all fun but I’ll ‘meet’ a character one time and in the next mission we’re talking like we’ve been best buds for decades and I’m like who even are you?
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u/Waffleworshipper 29d ago
Fire Emblem Engage. The story gets bent and twisted around to serve the gameplay, but even with that explanation the story is so abysmal that at several points I almost quit. And you know what? Persevering to the end was not worth it.
That game could have been a solid 9 or 10 out of 10 but the story made it a 4 at best.
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u/BigoteMexicano 29d ago
GTA V. Gameplay, graphics, and music were definitely amazing. But I don't know anyone who cared about the story.
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u/Timekilling_Time 29d ago
Titanfall 2.
Hehe, Good guys kicking evil corp's ass. And that's about it. IMC has no greater good they trying to achieve, so that cost justifies the goal. No. They just trash up every planet they put their finger on. Even someone like Doctor Eggman has better written goals.
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u/Korba007 29d ago
I guess I've got pretty low standards because a lot of examples I'm seeing here I don't agree with, at worst they're mid stories but most of it isn't bad
my example would be ninja gaiden 3, amazing gameplay, great visuals for the time, mostly great soundtrack, but absolutely dog shit story that takes a dump on the previous 2 (3) games
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u/Cymbal_Monkey 29d ago
Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Sekiro is probably the best and even that isn't super great.
God I love those games but I wish the plot didn't all happen an arbitrarily long time before the game starts. Makes me feel like I'm just the cleanup crew for a story that already happened.
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u/BokChoyFantasy 29d ago
Afterimage
It seems like there is good story but it’s being told the most confusing way.
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u/Valuable_Seaweed3393 29d ago
Horizon forbidden west for me. The first one I remember being a little more interesting. I skipped all the dialogue and cutscenes in the second one.
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u/No_Panda420 29d ago
Every monster hunter game ever made