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Can you tell me your honest to God favorite stories in vidya without regurgitating memes, best ever lists, or youtube influencers

>> No.6425671

>>6425669
What the fuck are you talking about

>> No.6425675
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I really like the character arcs and plot in Breath of Fire games. For all their flaws you get a real sense of closure.

>> No.6425690

>be honest
>but if your choice is popular it doesn't count pick something else

>> No.6425713

>>6425669
Don't have one, play games for gameplay.

>> No.6425717

>>6425690
It doesn't matter if it's popular or not, just that it's not a second hand opinion.
>>6425713
So?

>> No.6425737
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6425737

>>6425669
We'd just seen the first Mortal Kombat movie and my friends were using the washroom. There was an MK2 machine in the lobby so I put a quarter in and started playing.

Some guy saunters up, puts his own quarter in to play me which kind of annoyed because I wasn't looking to play serious, just goofing off waiting for my buds. He picks Liu Kang, I take Mileena and round 1 I just spammed teleport kicks and rolls and got him to a sliver of health before he hit me with a fireball.

Trying to sound as offended as possible I said "you ruined my flawless!" Second round I played more fair and he got a couple hits in but it was still over pretty fast. He snorted and turned away but his kid brother tugged on his arm and said, "No wait! Look!" And they both stood there and watched as I did Mileena's bone spitting fatality. Him giving me dirty looks and the kid looking in wide eyed glee.

>> No.6426093

>>6425737
it was hilarious how inept that chick was at action scenes, she was a total valley girl.

>> No.6426129

>>6425669
>playing vidya for the stories
Do people really? Games are for playing. If you want a goof story then just read a book.

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Broken Sword II is probably my favourite retro story.

>> No.6426208

>>6426129
>a goof story
The video game medium can be for anything. Take your irate edginess someplace else.

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>>6426129
>>6426208
...so we really gonna let this nigga get away with misspelling "good"?
Nah.

>> No.6426312

It's all the same shit anyway. I don't think I've played a single game with a story that wasn't done in a movie or book prior.

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>>6426208

Why? He made an excellent point.

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>>6425669
Do you live in the youtube comments section?

What kind of places do you frequent where people tell stories that arent theirs while sprinkling maymays

Your request is so nonsensical

shit thread

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>>6426093
I've always liked Bridgette Wilson, but she was definitely poorly cast in Mortal Kombat. If nothing else, she was too young for Sonya. She was something like twenty when they filmed it, more than a decade younger than Robin Shou and Linden Ashby.

>> No.6426343

>>6426323
Shut the hell up. God, people like you are 100x more obnoxious than OP.

>> No.6426365

>>6426323
>What kind of places do you frequent where people tell stories that arent theirs while sprinkling maymays
When did you start to visit 4chan?

>> No.6426380

>>6426365
This morning is my guess.

>>6425669
Legend of Mana gets my nod for best storytelling. BoF4 is a close second.

>> No.6426386

Silent Hill 2, Deus Ex and MGS 1,2 and 3.

>> No.6426393

Klonoa is simple and effective storytelling. I cried twice

>> No.6426441

>>6425669

Not on this board I can't because they're all in relatively recent games. Sorry.

>> No.6426448

Do the Shining games even have decent stories?

>> No.6426451

>>6425669
I olayed FF8 totally blind a few months ago and I fucking loved it. Last year same shit but worh Chrono Cross and I loved it even more.

Mother 3 has a very emotional and touching story for me. But I havent played it since I was a kid.

>>6426393
Thats how I feel about nights into dreams. I love games about dreams. I need to olay Kirby more.

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>>6426451
>I havent played it since I was a kid
>game came out in 2006 and the translation didn't come out until 2008

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>>6425669

>> No.6427218

>>6425669
I can, but you seem like EoP so you couldn't verify it anyway.

>> No.6427635

>>6425669
Final Fantasy 6
Now tell me who is this cute girl and from what game

>> No.6427641

>>6425669
Off the top of my head:
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy IV, VI, and VII
Phantasy Star IV
Dark Savior
Tomba
SaGa Frontier
Lunar Silver Star Story
Grandia
Metal Gear Solid

>> No.6427649

>>6426458
I remind you that Mother 3 came out 14 years ago, that guy is probably at least in his mid 20's, oldfag

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>>6427649
>Mother 3 came out 14 years ago

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>>6427651
>Ren & Stimpy came out 29 years ago

>> No.6427656

MGS, Xenogears, FFVI, BoF3

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>>6427656 reminded me, add Xenogears to >>6427641

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>>6425669
Policenauts

>> No.6427685

I enjoy the shared Final Fight/Street Fighter universe.

>> No.6427714

>>6427685
Same. Always liked getting all the different endings in Street Fighter games.

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6427819

Metal Slug X
>tfw the enemy soldiers start coming onto the stage to help you fight the mothership

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>>6427819
>when they show up to put aside their differences to stand together against a common foe, only for them to throw their lives away in tragically pointless sacrifices in one last bid to regain honor

love those goofy motherfuckers

>> No.6427839

>>6425669
A lot of the "best ever lists" are like that because those truly are the best stories. It isn't like storytelling especially in the earliest retro eras was all that sophisticated.
Anyway let me give this a stab:
Final Fantasy VI, VII, VIII, IX, and Tactics
Tactics Ogre
Legend of Mana
SaGa Frontier 2
Koudelka
The Silver Case
Yu-No
KGB
The Secret of Monkey Island/LeChuck's Revenge
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Chrono Trigger/Radical Dreamers/Chrono Cross
Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, Snatcher, Policenauts

Also Mother1&2 and Dragon Quest V, they have simple plots but are conveyed rather beautifully.
Guilty pleasure pick of mine would be Hellnight

>> No.6427841

Persona 2 Innocent Sin is really cool. Haven't played Eternal Punishment yet.

Planescape is great too of course.

>> No.6428965

>>6425669
...Is that the Tranny from Yu Yu Hakusho?

>> No.6428975

>>6425669
Geneforge
Fallout 1/2
Daggerfall
It came from the desert (dos/Amiga)
Day of the tentacle
Star control 2

>> No.6428987

>>6428975
I kept the best evers out of my list or it would be too long, these are underappreciated storylines.

>> No.6428998

Undertale

>> No.6429005

>>6426093
>>6426335
She was the last-minute fallback after Cameron Diaz, of all people, had to drop out.

>> No.6429121

>>6425669
Marathon trilogy

>> No.6429241

Most of my favorite videogame stories are post-2000, mostly VNs like steins;gate and muv luv. At the time I absolutely loved the story of FFIX since most JRPG tropes were new to me, but I suspect it wouldn't hold up nearly as well if I played it today so I'll just enjoy the memories I have of playing it the first time.

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Mother.
I went in not knowing what to expect other than knowing the music was good.
Ended up loving the plot, way more than in Mother 2/Earthbound, which is more like a generic "group of kids save world from evil alien", Mother 1 is way more layered than that, it's ultimately a love story

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I'm gonna be honest - a game where you take control of a lowly plumber and destroy an evil giant monster who stole a rich hottie princess just has a good theme to it.

Of course, I'm talking about Mario saving Daisy in Sarasaland. Peach is an ungrateful attention whore who may like spiked lizard dingus. Daisy got saved once and was like, "Thanks! Gonna be appreciative and try to make sure that never happens again."

>> No.6429316

>>6429296
Never thought about it like that, huh

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6429427

>>6427652
fuck off stupid li-
>check wikipedia

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>>6428965
Don’t mistakenly Miyuki of her all people.

>> No.6430027

>>6429296
Peach did nothing wrong

>> No.6430029

>>6428965
>probably forgetting a video game OC
>middle horn
>thought of "her" d

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>>6425669
Legacy of Kain is the only series I consider to have a good story for a video game and my favorite series. Too bad it remains unfinished.

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>>6430027

Peach did nothing, more like it. It makes more sense that *Princess Peach* (there must be a king or queen) is trying to rebel against her parents and elope with King Bowser in a way that doesn't put blame on her. Why would Mario find the wrong castle 8 times in the original game? Who would get the wrong intel and risk fiery death for nothing 8 times in a row? They were obviously running castle to castle, sacrificing one of Peach's Toad servants as a distraction each time, until Bowser and Peach just couldn't run anymore - Bowser is strong enough to survive even extreme physical abuse, so getting his ass kicked, letting Peach go back to the castle and letting everyone assume Peach has the hots for Mario is the best option to maintain their facade and secrecy, until one day, they're able to successfully elope and never get caught. Where the hell did Koopa Kids and Bowser Jr. come from? Why do they all (except maybe for the undeveloped Bowser Jr.) have more human traits and names? In Super Mario 3, when it's NOT Bowser that "kidnaps" her, she's suddenly able to send you letters and good power-ups to actually help you find and save her. Where are those when Bowser takes her? Is Bowser's anti-mail service more powerful than a giant magical amphibian's?

Mario is a classic heroic character who feels a drive to do what's right for the sake of doing what's right. Why else would a layman take up the knight's charge to save the princess of a kingdom that he may not even actually live in? When Mario found himself in Sarasaland and finds their princess, Daisy, is in trouble, he saves her with the same vigor that he saved the pink princess back in the mushroom kingdom. Difference? She got saved and stayed saved.

>> No.6430458

>>6430189
Salty Mario fan/Anti-Peach bia

>> No.6430464

>>6430189
Ganguro Daisy is best dark skin princess!

>> No.6430973

>>6425669

>>6425675

i guess for me, a fulfilling ending doesnt go with a good story.

Like, the ending of Castlevania 2, the graphic, the melody, the somewhat esoteric use of english, that really felt like a satisfying end.

but story? gawd no.

from my growing up with the NES, I don't know that any NES games in the west really had a story in the sense of a narrative through the game until JRPGs caught on.

>looks at list of nes games by year

Well, I guess Rambo was an early one, followed by metal gear. Ninja Gaiden after that, then faxanadu. Then Clash, maybe those Golgo13 games....

they're interesting games i just listed, but pretty meh to my memory...

>> No.6431049

>>6426323
>>>/a/ pedoweeb
>>6426458
>>6429241
Not retro.

>> No.6431116

>>6425669
Lufia II is probably the first game I played that I felt had a great story, and I still really get invested when I play it. I also really like the story telling in MGS, Silent Hill, FFVII, and FFT.

However, I tend to feel that games with even very simple stories are often underrated. As I see it games are supposed to provide you with things that capture your imagination: setting, characters, themes, art styles, with maybe a few important plot points/twists; but the "story" of a game is mostly what you create in your own imagination based on the outline provided within the game. If a game makes you want to write a fanfic than that's pretty ideal in my opinion, no matter if your talking about Zelda, Dragon Quest, Sonic, Doom, or Mortal Kombat.

>> No.6431930

>>6425737
I fucking love that movie so much. I watch it at least a couple times a year.

>> No.6432352

>>6431116
Lol dis guy acting like his take holds any salt when he thinks Lufia 2 has a great story

>> No.6433697

persona 2

>> No.6434665

>>6425669
does she have a name or is she just the girl in the intro?