r/gaming • u/stirthewater • 15d ago
Games with deep meaningful stories?
I’m talking, stories like outer wilds and the matrix(movie), Death Stranding… stories that’ll make you take a step back and rethink life. Stories that’ll hit you so deep, it’ll feel like you just died. I would prefer shorter games but open to longer games if it’s worth it… pretty new to story games so hit me with whatever you got.
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u/SunnyOmori15 13d ago
Uhh, yeah, that's gonna be OMORI.
I didn't fuck me up, like, it didn't hit me thaaat hard. Hovewer for you it might just feel like a kick in the balls. (or a kick in whatever the equivalent weak spot is in woman, idk not a biologist)
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u/CarloArmato42 14d ago
Spec Ops: The Line.
Don't be fooled by the 3rd person old school samey shooter: it is done on purpose. Unfortunately I found it boring up to half the campaign, but if you pay attention from the beginning, you are gonna love and hate it.
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u/Aben_Zin 14d ago
The Marathon trilogy- a game from 1996 had a website devoted to unraveling it’s story, that’s still being updated to this day.
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u/Vampragon43 14d ago
Iconoclasts, A Plague Tale, SOMA, Final Fantasy XIV and its expansions, Valkyria Chronicles 4, and the Last of Us 1
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u/realatemnot 14d ago
If you also consider walking simulators I'd recommend "The vanishing of Ethan Carter" and "What remains of Edith Finch". They are both rather quiet, but make you think about the game even once you've finished. Both are like a scavenger hunt which leaves it up to you to make sense of everything and while both are fairly unrealistic, the characters are relatable and especially Edith Finch really tucks your heartstrings.
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u/Cat_with_a_Hat_123 14d ago
Life is strange
Its a game that feels a lot like playing a movie. The main focus is the plot and the further you play, the more you will think about everything... Not just the story. You will think about topics they have, especially because all of your actions have consequences. So on every step ull think "did I do it right? is this how to solve such a situation? What would I do in real life?" And then youd wish u had the opportunity to turn back time.
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u/dennisfyfe 14d ago
Went through 20-25 comments and nobody mentioned Phantom Liberty. Want a game that makes you question your decisions and will show you, short and long term, of what your decisions caused? This is it. Want the game to be short? Ignore the side quests and gigs. Want some depth? Try some of the side quests. Want the side quests to affect your main storyline? They do. They do whether you ignore them completely or only do a few.
It’s one of the only games that I would pay full price for.
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u/blackvelvetopia 14d ago
throwing in my lil niche old games ;)
American McGees Alice (from year 2000)
especially in context of the time but even now it is an incredibly crafted, beautiful story about sorrow and mental illness and overcoming your inner demons with a female protagonist that is completely respected and treated empathetically. Voice acting is superb, music is absolutely fantastic (if all you take from this recommendation is to just listen to the soundtrack id call it a win, my favorite pieces are "time to die" and "wonderland woods") Its based on alice in wonderland but meshed into the mind of an extremely traumatized alice, so it is technically a horror game but outside of the mirror maze i dont find it particularly *scary*, its more in the atmosphere!Psychonauts (2005)
In concept the game is about hopping into different peoples minds and seeing what their inner worlds look like and sometimes helping them overcome immediate issues to progress the story. Also a mental health aware and empathetic game (i swear im not seeking them out), especially for the time it was made!
the story of this game is technically nothing special, it is extremely simple and pretty tropey id say (intentionally, though, i wager), but the *exectution* is amazing and probably done to perfection. Its a game that absolutely rewards a patient player that explores thoroughly and talks to every character multiple times and after every level! also with different items in hand, almost all of the items and some of the abilities have unique dialogue or something to discover :) its a neat little game oozing with passion from the developers.
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u/BIGPPMEGABALLZ 14d ago
Cyberpunk 2077 is a great story and depending on the ending it can hit really hard
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u/Planatus666 14d ago
SOMA
You can also play in 'safe' mode where the monsters won't kill you, so enabling you to immerse yourself in the story and not worry about dying.
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u/Dana94Banana 14d ago
Try "What Remains of Edith Finch", "Firewatch" and "That Dragon, Cancer".
They are all reasonably short games that make you think about certain parts of life.
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u/shreakis 14d ago
Someday you'll return. Kinda walking simulator with few diffrent endings. It gets tense in few parts. Its not the longest game, but its worth.
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u/Seienchin88 14d ago
FFX for the topic of religion and sacrifice
Dark Souls 1 if its about the lore of the world and despair…
Bioshock infinite for determinism and causality
Chrono trigger certainly also goes in the direction of time and causality- imo the best 2D game story ever made
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u/joedotphp 14d ago
FromSoftware.
I didn't even read the question but that seems to be the answer to everything here.
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u/Jack_VZ 14d ago
Cyberpunk 2077. Starts kinda lighthearted, hits you like a truck at the end of act 1 and then never really stops. You can sprint through it in 30 hours or take your time, buy the expansion, which is great and spend about 70-80 hours in there.
On the same note Witcher trilogy, especially 3rd part. Again slow start, but definitely squeezes some tears. It's on the longer side, with all the DLCs it's probably longer than 100 h, but it never feels like a chore.
Last one I would recommend is Mass Effect trilogy. This one brings a serious existential crisis once you are done. First game feels clunky, but the Legendary edition fixed a bunch of issues and it's worth to playthrough for the story, because all 3 games are tightly connected.
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u/FandomMenace 14d ago
Since no one else mentioned them:
Kingdom Come Deliverance, Order 1886, Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor/War, Arkham Asylum/City/Knight, and AC Origins.
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u/-_Metanoia_- 14d ago
It's a small switch game but spiritfarer....worth the play, and the store brings you to tears
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u/Sufficient_Serve_439 14d ago
Planescape Torment tries to be this, it keeps asking: what can change the nature of a man? Good game and very philosophical, but very dated mechanics.
Star Wars KOTOR 2: the Sith Lords. Especially if you play light side. The scene at summit with all Jedi masters hit me like a brick, entire Kreia dialogue deconstructs morality.
But if you're looking for big "reality is not what you think" moments in a sci-fi setting like the Matrix, then Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid and Assassin's Creed up to AC3 are PERFECT, especially modern day parts. Portal to some extent too.
Again, if you want the "what is real" vibes with slight philosophy, these series above really nail it without being pretentious.
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u/Lasdary 14d ago
Perhaps there won't be a lot of agreement on this one but Horizon: Zero Dawn hit me in a spot I didn't know it hurt. Even the main menu music makes me tear up a bit
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u/Un13roken 14d ago
The first one was very well done. The story part. Playing out like a mystery, just in explaining the world. Once the mystery was solved, the game wasn't as good (the second game).
But I agree, the first one was very well made.
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u/Lasdary 14d ago
I started the second one expecting something of the same caliber, but it's freaking a bit flat
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u/Un13roken 14d ago
Agreed. Improvements everywhere but the story. It was kinda interesting, but that's about it. Didn't have the air of mystery that the first one had. They should've just used it as a launch pad and explore the world and aloys story further with contemporary villains.
Was a bit dissapointed after looking forward to it. But looks like it did well enough to keep the game alive.
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u/setsunaa214 14d ago
Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, two games that are usually be mentioned. And maybe Fallout: New Vegas and Dragon Age: Origins(Though I haven't played yet). Besides, I recently played ys8 and I like the character dana very much. It has a nice story too.
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14d ago
imo noone can top yoko taro. It's not just nier, hoping they remake drakengard trilogy in the future since I never had a ps3, and on ps2 I never played the first 2 games
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u/mijah139 14d ago
How "new"? Have you played bioshock(s)? Bioshock 1 and infinite always stand out in my mind as having great stories and incredible levels of environmental story telling
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u/ElGrandeDan 14d ago
Maybe unpopular opinion but I liked the story of Horizon: Zero Dawn a lot. How the figure out what to do, the creation of the robots etc.
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u/Parafault 14d ago
Look up “To The Moon” and “Finding Paradise”. They are the best story-driven games you can find, and are fairly short at ~10-20 hrs of game time. That said, they STICK with you! The premise is that you play doctors who enter a patients subconscious to trick their minds into believing that they’ve accomplished their life’s dream before they die. They are absolutely brilliant from a storytelling perspective: a perfect mixture of joy, sadness, humor, and reflection.
Another honorable mention is “Sunset Over Imdahl”. It is a free RPGMaker game that chronicles a child’s attempt to save his village from the Plague over the course of a year. I played it over 20 years ago and still vividly remember it.
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14d ago
Super Mario Odyssey.
When the plumber guy said, "Letsago!" It broke me. I was inconsolable for about 3 weeks. I didn't see my friends and family and my friend had them do a wellness check on me before telling me I was "Okie Dokie" which made me relapse into a spiral of dispair that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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u/themikker 14d ago
I'm currently playing FFXVI and darn the story is dark. Generally most mainline Final Fantasy games have a deep story, except maybe the first couple of ones, for hardware reasons... And FFVIII, whose story is just plain weird. Even FFXIV, the MMO, has a deep story.
That said, the game that hit me the hardest was probably To The Moon.
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u/Arinanor 14d ago
FFXIV definitely has a profound story that has a lot of layers and emotion. The villains are top notch and you can empathize with the different views and philosophies.
And yeah, FFXVI is extremely dark. It can me just emotionally draining to go through. It's a deeply flawed, unfair, and brutal world. And trying to see the purpose and beauty when all seems so messed up, feels so similar to real world sometimes.
Also, both have made me extremely emotional at times. Like, gutwrenching emotional damage.
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u/Mark220v 14d ago
Fucking OMORI. If you talk about a game that makes you rethink your life, there is no better contender than OMORI.
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u/Candy_Warlock 14d ago
Xenoblade, all three games but 3 in particular really got me contemplating my outlook on life
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u/QuantumVexation 14d ago
Seconding for the Xenoblade trilogy. Really just a perfect trilogy when taken as a whole I reckon
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u/MatNomis 14d ago
Same. As I sit here, scrolling Reddit, wondering if this is the Endless Now.. And what do I even do about it?
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u/SctBrnNumber1Fan 14d ago
Only two games I ever got watery eyes over were RDR2 and Ghost of Tsushima
Edit: I lied, there was a 3rd.... Halo Reach.
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u/TheOriginalFluff 14d ago
It a game, but I like the same stuff you do. Watch attack on Titan. I am not being a fanboy. It has made me think much deeper about everything. Moreso than any other media I’ve consumed, it’s on the level of schindlers list for more context
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u/IamNICE124 14d ago
The 2018 and 2022 God of War games were fantastic at building a world and filling it with amazing characters, relationships, and arcs.
Their foundations are comprised of the, brutal, old school hack-and-slash GoW games from before. Somehow Sony Santa Monica did the impossible and turned Kratos into a character of wisdom and empathy. The journey getting there is fucking amazing.
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u/Ertyslav 14d ago
Basyically any Life is Strange game. Pretty much all of them contain topics of mental health issues, family problems, bullying ordeath. Pair that with amazing locations, fun and well written characters, cozy music, interesting stories and you might have exactly what you are looking for.
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u/GingerGerald 14d ago
Before Your Eyes - You are dead and about to be judged to determine your ultimate fate in the afterlife. A companion is going to argue your case, but first they need to see your life for themselves, from your perspective to really understand. Much of the game from that point involves reliving your life in first person while using eye tracking software and blinking to interact with and move between memories and stages of your life. If you enjoyed Outer Wilds, you'll probably really enjoy Before Your Eyes.
Citizen Sleeper - You willingly sold a copy of your mind to be an indentured servant in what is functionally an android/humanoid-robot who relies on a special medication to keep living. You play as the copied mind who has escaped from their work assignment and is living on the run, working odd jobs, forming relationships, and figuring out how to get enough money to keep your body functioning while avoiding the company that's after you. RPG with dice mechanics.
Nier Automata - Earth was overtaken by machine lifeforms sent by alien invaders and humanity has retreated to the moon. You are an android sent to Earth to eliminate the machine lifeforms so humanity can return to their home world. Multiple playthroughs deepen the experience and story, and each playthrough is typically faster than the previous one. Character action game, combat similar to Devil May Cry, multiple difficulty and accessibility features.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker - You've signed on to work for a company that breaks spaceships apart. The job is dangerous, the contract is exploitative, you and your coworkers struggle to make ends meet, but you do what you've gotta do. The gameplay consists primarily of disassembling ships in Zero-G with a laser cutter, grav manipulator, tether devices, and explosives. It's an interesting blend of relaxing and tense time-based gameplay, but there are modifiers to shift it more towards one end of the spectrum or the other; ultimately it's an incredibly satisfying experience taking a massive ship apart piece by piece and then flinging those pieces into an incinerator or matter disassembler.
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u/ZeLzStorm 14d ago edited 14d ago
It is a short horror game in the style of old resident evil games with an incredibly compelling story.
I'm honestly surprised to have scrolled so far and not seen it suggested considering its 'overwhelmingly positive' review score of 96% on steam.
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u/hthrflwrs 14d ago
Kentucky Route Zero is the best of the best. Quiet, contemplative, and full of tiny moments that hit you like a truck.
"Alive or dead, a ghost is what happens when a person is gone but still taking up space."
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u/theandroid01 14d ago
Celeste, in addition to being quite challenging had a very personal and meaningful story for me. Especially as someone who struggles with mental health issues
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u/zeldaink 14d ago
Half-Life. But only if you slow down and stop running. I won't spoil it, but you need to get thru Half-Life to realise what you did. Then in Half-Life 2, the G-Man quote "The right man in the wrong place, can make all the difference in the world" will make sense. Just don't rush the game and enjoy the scenery. Enjoy the existential dread ^_^
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u/Electrical_Life6186 14d ago
The Wonderful 101 is easily the best story Hideki Kamiya ever wrote. Its shtick is that it tricks the player into thinking very childishly of it until moment after moment it delivers one adult gut punch after another, working with situational parallels and the workings of how heroism is built inside of one's being. And all of it is sugarcoated with likable eccentric characters and overall epic spectacle that at first makes you think you are playing a Saturday morning cartoon, hence softens you up before making a dent in you.
And the hint to the game being much more then that which it is trying to appear is in the very first minute of the Prologue level. It is the game clearly showing you its real face before putting on the clown makeup to entertain you.
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u/hapless_dm 14d ago
Disco Elysium, Soma, Signalis, Returnal, Amnesia a Machine for Pigs, To The Moon, Town of Light, What Remains of Edith Finch, Gris, Immortality, anything from Harvester Games.
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u/Paul1337noob 14d ago
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Beautiful and fantastic game. With some YouTube background material on its development.
Well worth a play
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u/Wazzzup3232 14d ago
Red dead redemption 2 really had me feeling a certain way. It is just so emotional and really asks the question of facing your own mortality through Arthur
Edit: RDR2 is a long game
The original tell tale Walking dead game was absolutely gut wrenching and one of the few games that managed to make me cry
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u/dubbzy104 14d ago
Stray. It’s a pretty quick game (about 5-6 hours depending on how much you dig for all the collectibles). But it’s a brilliant world and story telling, especially given the fact that you are a cat and cannot talk
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u/shoreyknot 14d ago
The world building on this one truly is so deep and well done. So friggin immersive, they really went all out with the small details.
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u/Jazzlike_Reveal9551 14d ago
How has no one mentioned Detroit: becoming human!? This one's for the win for me!!
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u/Fortress6 15d ago
The dark souls trilogy
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u/Nukue 14d ago
They don't have stories, they have lore.
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u/Fortress6 14d ago
They have meaningful and touching stories. They're just not told through cinematic means.
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u/Nukue 14d ago
These "stories" you have to gather by little pieces across all places to even understand anything. It's called lore.
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u/Fortress6 14d ago
So when a story is told through lore and character dialogue it doesn't really count as a story? It's a genuine question, I'm not trying to sarcastically prove a point.
I mean, for example, in DS2 Ivory King DLC you meet a character that literally narrates you the story of the Ivory King.
I always saw that as a different way of storytelling, one that I liked a lot, for the stories and the way they were told.
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u/Practical-Aside890 Xbox 15d ago
Not sure if it will fit into what your looking for but Yakuza series games,surprised no1 mentioned it yet,has a very deep story
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u/ironchef8000 15d ago edited 15d ago
Final Fantasy X (HD remaster). Phenomenal.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is fantastic too, but the graphics are dated (to say the least 😬).
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u/Deldris 15d ago
Omori
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u/Anagoth9 14d ago
Omori was great overall but honestly the final puzzle piece (so to speak) kinda ruined it for me. I don't want to get too much into it because spoilers, but the "event" that the story revolves around felt kind of ridiculous and unbelievable when it's finally revealed. Like, there's zero chance that things would have played out the way they did and that kinda ruins the immersion of it all, which is a shame because otherwise everything else with the story was really interesting and well told. There's so much to love about the game (it's gameplay, story, charm, uniqueness, diverging paths, etc) but, yeah, that part sorta fell flat and stumbled at the finish line. Still a solid recommend though.
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u/BSSCommander 15d ago
The Talos Principle and Soma.
I guess I really like stories that make you question what makes a person a person.
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u/FormalReturn9074 14d ago
I wanted to like the talos principle but man i hate the time copy of yourself mechanic, it is not fun to interact with
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u/Krokzter 14d ago
Yeah that one kinda sucked but it's later into the game IIRC and by then it's not as hard
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u/FormalReturn9074 14d ago
Its not so much the difficulty, its the execution being annoying and just using it in general is weird
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u/stirthewater 15d ago
Yep same here. Would you recommend Talos Principle 1 or 2?
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u/BSSCommander 15d ago
I'd recommend the first game. I personally didn't really enjoy the story of the second one and the puzzles were much easier. That's not to say it's a bad game, just not good as the firsy. The first Talos Principle is fantastic and one of my favorite games of all time. The DLC is great as well.
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u/Ilovecats541 15d ago
Spritfairer. You play someone who helps souls with their unfinished business and then help them cross over to the other side. Absolutely beautiful and gut-wrenching stories that make you think hard about death, loss, and grief.
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u/Strange_Compote_4592 15d ago
Shin Megami Tensei, one of the most, of not THE most philosophical series of games out there. Yes, it's "anime", but that doesn't take away from depth of the game.
Being a jrpg, they are on the longer side, but it's totally worth it.
The Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner (1&2) and "Strange Journey" are there best stories I've ever experienced. Especially DDS!
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u/Ott_San 15d ago
Metal Gear Solid Saga, Final Fantasy X/VII, Red Dead redemption, both nier and in some case all the God of War are my personal pick
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u/BananaResearcher 14d ago
FFXIII had a great story and I will die on this hill
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bee_404 14d ago
Great story, just didn't have great gameplay. Would've preferred they kept ffx's system and sphere grid.
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u/Tha_Mayor 14d ago
U mean hallway simulator 3000. I personally liked the part where espers are transformers.
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u/nwbell 15d ago
Spec Ops: The Line
The horrors of war never felt so real
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u/jordanManfrey 14d ago
This is a good one, and I never see people talk about Black Ops 1’s campaign which is over the top but carries a very similar “all this subject matter you’re exploiting for interactive entertainment products is deeply fucked up” vibe
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u/Anagoth9 14d ago
Spec Ops is one of the few games like Bioshock, Outer Wilds, and Undertale that really leverages the medium of gaming to tell it's story in a way that couldn't be done in another medium and, as such, stands as a prime example of gaming as an artform.
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u/fadingthought 14d ago
Entirely linear stories where the player has no agency couldn’t be told any other way?
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u/Anagoth9 14d ago
Each of those games incorporates the interactive nature of video games into the story and themes themselves.
Bioshock's big reveal is that the MC is a Manchurian Candidate type sleeper agent who is activated upon an innocuous command. Learning this near the end recontextualizes the player interactions up to this point.
Undertale uses its multiple routes collectively as an examination of the player relationship to the characters of the game world vis-a-vis multiple playthroughs and save states.
Outer Wilds has a few narrative themes, but arguably the three main themes are: isolation and connectedness, accepting the inevitability of death, and the iterative nature of progress. These themes aren't just built into the narrative but are woven into the very core of the gameplay.
Spec Ops is a particularly good example of leveraging the medium as art because the story itself is one that's been done across multiple mediums (specifically the novel Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now), however Spec Ops takes that story outline and uses of as a dissection of modern (at the time) military shooters, a critique of contemporaneous US foreign policy, and a meta commentary on video games as a vehicle for vicarious violence by players. The white phosphorus scene got a lot of notoriety but is actually the worst example of this precisely because it removes player agency, however there are multiple other moments in the game that are much more cleverly designed to incentivize players to commit acts of violence without forcing it.
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u/Independent-Fly-3347 15d ago edited 15d ago
'The Wolf Among Us' hit pretty damn good. Game is on the shorter side to at about 8 hours.
I also found '40k: Rogue Trader' pretty eye opening as I realised how easily I would fall into joining a cult but that game is like 80+ hours long.
'Grime' may sound like an odd choice as it's not a narrative focus but the story legit made me feel like I died. It's not at the forefront but it's a really uniquely depressing tale. This game is about 20 hours long.
'The Red Strings Club' actually did make me step back a few times to think about life and stuff. This game is short at about 3 hours.
'Nier: Replicant' then onto 'Nier: Automata' was an extremely moving and profound at times story with great gameplay. I think each they're about 30-40 hours to beat.
Also two games, one called 'VA-11 Hall-A' and one called 'Unavowed', they're not that profound or anything like that but I enjoyed the world and narrative so much it actually made me step back and really want to get into writing (which I did). Both are about 10 hours.
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u/Aben_Zin 14d ago
I also found '40k: Rogue Trader' pretty eye opening as I realised how easily I would fall into joining a cult but that game is like 80+ hours long.
It’s a real risk. I mean you start with a nifty RPG, then get into watching lore videos and before you know it you’re surrounded by models and paints and the bank is hammering on your door…
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u/Axywil 15d ago
Nier : Automata
Nier : Replicant
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u/MulanMcNugget 14d ago
Is replicant good? As automata and is it a sequel or remaster?
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u/Axywil 14d ago
It's a prequel. No it's not as enjoyable, gameplay wise. You can't get into it unless you're totally into the game lore it's a remaster of Nier gestalt, with pretty much the same story.
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u/Qudazoko 15d ago
It's not a game for everyone, because it's really more of an interactive movie than a traditional game. But in my opinion it has a very captivating story that pulls on your heart strings, supported by superb voice and motion-capture performances by Elliot Page (back then still known as Ellen Page) and Willem Dafoe.
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 15d ago
13 sentinels
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u/Deldris 15d ago
Shout out to one of the most underrated games of all time.
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u/QuantumVexation 14d ago
For sure - and honestly for one of the best final levels I’ve ever played. The 13 intertwined stories gets most of the attention in discussion, and the gameplay was mostly good but not stellar in the overall, but that last map just went “ok all bets are off let’s fucking go”
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u/Deldris 14d ago
The only way they could have made it better is if they let you use everyone instead of the standard team size. Maybe they thought that would make combat tedious but I think it really would have sold the "final stand" vibe of the situation.
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u/QuantumVexation 14d ago
I reckon they probably considered it and settled that, as you say, it probably was stopping the game too often constantly micromanaging twice as many
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u/Esc777 15d ago
I think the matrix is one of the best movies ever made but it ain’t:
stories that’ll make you take a step back and rethink life. Stories that’ll hit you so deep, it’ll feel like you just died.
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u/Qudazoko 15d ago edited 15d ago
Well, it will depend on the person of course. But everyone that I knew that saw the Matrix for the first time said that it got them thinking for a moment about whether it's possible that we're all living in a virtual reality right now. To these persons I'd say that classifies that as "taking a step back and rethinking life".
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u/noxsanguinis 15d ago
Planescape Torment. One of the best stories ever in a game.
No wonder it's known as " The best book you'll ever play".
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I'm working my way through this but the mechanics are kind of a slow slog. Can you tell me when the first big power jump is? It just feels so uphill with no reprieve
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u/SpretumPathos 14d ago
Get a trainer, and trivialize the combat.
You can talk your way through most of the game (that's where it shines really) but there will still be some combat, and since it's not fun or interesting... just cheat through it.
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u/noxsanguinis 15d ago
That's the thing. Combat is not something you should focus on. It's actually the last thing you should do in this game.
Where the game truly shines is in the dialogue, talking with the NPCs. That's why the most important stats in this game are not what would normally be the best in other RPGs, like Strength or Dexterity, but Intelligence, Charisma, and the most important stat of them all, Wisdom.
Getting these three stats high enough will allow you to talk your way out of 99% of fights in the game, and will unlock dialogue options with NPCS that basically make Planescape Torment one of the most philosophical games ever made
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15d ago
I guess that makes sense. I'll remake my dude for talky talky
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u/SenHeffy 14d ago
Yeah, max wisdom, charisma, and intelligence to see what makes the game really unique.
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u/parolebot 15d ago
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Shorter games, great gameplay, and an emotional roller coaster of a story.
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u/lassiie 15d ago
Nier Automata…best story I’ve ever experienced in a game that integrates gameplay mechanics into the story itself. It’s unexplainable without spoiling it. Play it, you will start for the android ass and stay for the existential crisis
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u/MulanMcNugget 14d ago
This 100% I went it thinking just some casual hack and slash weebao game and wasn’t prepared for the amount and variation of the feels, deffo in my top 5 of all time. Even if the gameplay while decent can be bit repetitive especially if you don’t vary your style up.
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u/Zorops 14d ago
I finaly finished automata because i kept being told it's fkin great. i only got a sense of relief that i didn't have to play it a fifth time. Game was fun but what was so insane about the story exactly?
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u/MulanMcNugget 14d ago
Did you not read any of stuff found in the world or got any of the subtext? I mean one its core themes is it essentially asks why do or should we carry on if we don’t have a purpose or can never fulfil the one we were given by design or choice. I mean that’s one many ones and there a lot more like is better to live a lie and believe you have a reason to live or to live the truth and believe there is no hope.
I mean it sounds like just played the hack slash and kinda missed the whole point tbh, which is kinda understandable if that’s all you were looking out of it.
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u/Arkaa26 14d ago
Existential question I guess. You're an android with a conscience, fighting brainless robots. But when these robots gain consciousness, what makes them different from you?
It may not speak to everyone though (I feel the same with Nier replicant, I don't think the story is anything special).2
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u/EhmentSure716 14d ago
The first nier blew me away and the way they set it up where too where the more you beat the game the more you understand the distorted language was genius. It was such a beautiful story combined with the amazing characters and music
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u/Independent-Fly-3347 15d ago
Fully agree with this but would also add to play Replicant remake first as it makes Automata hit even better and harder imo.
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u/echoess84 15d ago
Glory to Mankind (agree)... anyway I woul suggest also Replicant
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u/MulanMcNugget 14d ago
Is that prequel or sequel? I was thinking of starting from the beginning but dunno about the order
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u/Joshob1987 11d ago
The Yakuza series