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The bleakest game of them all? • Page 3
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Timmywimmywoo 105 posts
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Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoLimbo -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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eshy76 210 posts
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Registered 12 years agoEverybody's Gone To The Rapture, though probably more sad than bleak -
up_the_ante 1,574 posts
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Registered 14 years agoThe ending of Rime. Something suddenly dawns on you -
HairyArse 1,476 posts
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Registered 6 years agoValiant Hearts. -
Tetris, its depressing -
SiroccoJetProp 430 posts
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Registered 5 years agoBioShock can be quite bleak at the end depending on your choices. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoFake_Blood wrote:
I won this thread on page 2. For people that don't know:
I have no mouth.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (video game)
The game's story is set in a world where an evil computer named AM has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, whom he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years. Each survivor has a fatal flaw in their character, and in an attempt to crush their spirits, AM has constructed a metaphorical adventure for each that preys upon their weaknesses. To succeed in the game, the player must make choices to prove that humans are better than machines, because they have the ability to redeem themselves. Woven into the fabric of the story are ethical dilemmas dealing with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia and genocide. -
M83J01P97 7,607 posts
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Registered 14 years agoThe Witcher 3 is littered with some very subtle, but very bleak moments, and many not so subtle bleak moments. If you spend the time exhausting the dialogue of many random NPC's they will hint at being subjected to or witnessing some pretty horrible stuff.
The bit which sticks in my mind is a scripted event as you enter a remote village early on in the game and you see soldiers entering huts and rounding up the villagers and one of the soldiers says he's going to "have a go" on someones daughter. If you hang around the door locks and he hear crying and grunting inside the hut while the father just stands outside crying... -
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Registered 7 years ago@JamboWayOh God only knows what lists I am on for Googling that acronym
To save you the bother; that's what he squealed.
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JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Are you referring to the Saville boardgame? -
Ddanno 1,888 posts
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Registered 7 years ago@JamboWayOh I'm holding onto the collector's edition for the sweeping change in global acceptance that will lead to a massive upswing in its value -
Skirlasvoud 4,039 posts
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I won this thread on page 2. For people that don't know:
Too on the nose. I prefer my bleakness to come from the removal of hope, not the absence of it.
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wizbob 936 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'm too old to take anything like The Last Of Us seriously, so most of the depressing games I remember are much older.
Motor Massacre. Drive around a post-apocalyptic landscape foraging for supplies on foot in shopping malls. The residents have been turned into some sort of green-jelly zombies. Piles of the quivering green stuff lie everywhere. Eventually you too will turn to jelly.
Zombi. Shepherd a group of survivors around a mall, in a direct homage to the Romero film. As your group die they eventually return as zombies. Until the last person succumbs, then it's game over.
Eco. Control a random creature; mate, spawn and die. Evolve a bit but clicking on the wrong bit of DNA can turn you into a tree. This does not end your game but heralds the dawn of a new, non-interactive playthrough. -
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RawShark 2,202 posts
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Registered 10 years agoSome good suggestions on this thread but for me no game will ever be as bleak as Demon's Souls. The eternally overcast level where you're constantly being barraged by the barbs of flying stingrays? And having to replay the entire level if you get killed? Brutal. -
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Registered 17 years agoManhunt was pretty bleak. -
mrharvest 5,718 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDwarf Fortress
You start off with seven alcoholic dwarves. You end with the last dwarf going insane because he witnessed his wife murder the mayor by bashing his brains out with their own infant, as she had gone insane from being constantly covered in vomit and miasma at the cat farm.
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AcidSnake 8,461 posts
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Registered 15 years agoNo-one's mentioned Spec Ops: The Line yet?
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAcidSnake wrote:
It wasn't that scene that did it for me but the spiral of madness the game takes afterwards. Incredible game.
No-one's mentioned Spec Ops: The Line yet?
Especially after that certain scene...
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Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoDishonored 2 is pretty bleak when you dig beneath the surface. I don't think my Heart has ever found anyone who wasn't a rapist or arsonist or murderer.
Baroque, at least the Saturn original, is very bleak too. The world is gone, everybody hates you even though you are the only one who's trying to do anything about it, and yet by the end it's implied that the whole idea of saving the world was never going to work.
It was so bleak that, when a manga adaptation was greenlit, the author reportedly hated the original ending and decided to give it her own, more optimistic take. The PS2 remake draws from the manga a little bit, so its ending is slightly more upbeat than the original (only slightly).
Edited by Malek86 at 09:22:45 26-11-2017 -
Witcher 3 is a decent shout. Completed a side quest last night which concluded in a main NPC hanging himself. So I went back to a prior save game to pick a different course of action. Turns out the initial outcome was the most positive one already. Ugh. -
Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSYS64738 wrote:
Was that the Blood Baron quest?
Witcher 3 is a decent shout. Completed a side quest last night which concluded in a main NPC hanging himself. So I went back to a prior save game to pick a different course of action. Turns out the initial outcome was the most positive one already. Ugh.
I managed to finish that one without any apparent repercussions, except an entire village was ravaged by the dark creature. But then, who cares about unnamed NPCs?
Edited by Malek86 at 10:43:06 26-11-2017 -
@Malek86 yeah that was it. So are you saying I could've avoided 'my' ending? -
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Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSYS64738 wrote:
I don't know, but in my ending, Geralt manages to rescue the Baron's wife from the Crones, and then the Baron simply goes away with his mad wife to try and find a cure (although Geralt implies that it's impossible). The daughter also survives and returns to Oxenfurt. No further mention is made of any of them.
@Malek86 yeah that was it. So are you saying I could've avoided 'my' ending?
It's also shown that, with the Baron gone, his men have taken control of Crow's Nest and started raping and pillaging. So yeah, still pretty bleak. But probably not as bleak.
Edited by Malek86 at 13:30:13 26-11-2017 -
@Malek86 Interesting. In my case, I had a choice of picking 1 out of 4 dolls that the Crones used to curse the wife. First time round I picked the one with the flower, which reverted the curse - but it was a trick as that was the death sentence of the wife. She recovered her human form briefly, just enough to say goodbye to her family. Then passed.
The baron just told me to come pick up my reward, upon arriving he was hanging from the tree. Genuine "ah man!" moment for me as he had grown on me as a (flawed) character.
The second attempt of mine (picked another doll) had the wife go up in flames without reversing the curse. No final goodbyes for the family and everyone blamed me for fucking up. Baron and daughter fell out further, with baron still hanging from the tree in the end. Kind of preferred the first option - and it was my original choice - so reverted to that save game in the end.
Not sure if each doll yielded another outcome, but I decided to 'live' with my decision instead of trying every option. Could also be that a prior action of mine within that quest was more relevant.
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