>start game>"an ancient prophecy has foretold only you have the strength to defeat the ultimate evil of the universe"
>start game>you're a worthless piece of shit nobody cares about. Here's the most basic of tools to begin. Now fuck off.
>start game>you have amnesia
>>736902117That's my favourite.
>>736902056well, hop to it
>>736902056>geoff keighley's game awards cuts to black>british female voice starts talking>"an ancient evil awakens..."who are these games for. do nerds really need like a million of these fantasy slop games
>>736902819exponentially rising stakes. every story's got to be an existential battle for the good.Take Resident Evil 2 (1998). Leon + Claire are young ordinary people thrown in to an extraordinary event. They have never survived a zombie infested city and neither hhave you. Their battle for survival is your battle. By the end you feel like you survived.Now imagine the same game but Leon's a SpecOps Operator with over 600 confirmed kills, and Claire's a champion UFC cage fighter and an ex Israeli commando. The whole game would be cheapened.
>>736902056>prophecy has been force fed to the prophets in order for the villain to enact their planKINOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>736902056Name 10 games where you aren't some bullshit chosen one
>>736904532>names 10 sports games
>start game>An ancient prophesy has foretold that you are sus
>>736902056That's every game ever. Were you not paying attention?
>>736902056unrionically why WoW vanilla was best for story>Hey retard, go collect some pig asses for me>Go tell this other retard in this other zone to do x y or zThen as time goes on, you go from being some literal who adventurer errand boy to a semi competent person who can be entrusted to take targets out>Then comes CataclysmAnd suddenly you're god's appointed representative and everyone sucks your dick
>>736902117>5 minutes later>"an ancient prophecy has foretold only you have the strength to defeat the ultimate evil of the universe"
>>736906149Grab onto rap to make you feel like a gangsta, but wont do the same for the thing that makes you feel heroic?Talk about narrative dissonance. I thought that's what all you nu gamers cared aboutNow it's all about the fun for some reason? The joy? Woukd you even regognize joy?
>>736905721>Implying atheletes aren't graced by fate
>"an ancient prophecy has foretold only you have the strength to defeat the ultimate evil of the universe">No one actually cares for you
>>736902117>>736906223>game claims to be about the story of some nobody rising to the occasion and saving the world>plot twist later in the game reveals that the nobody MC is actually the super special reincarnation of God and they were always destined to rule the lands>then they awaken to some newfound god power which makes them the post powerful being in the world
>>736906275I knew you were going to bullshit memove the goalpost on this!>Tetris>Bejeweled>Bejeweled 2>Bejeweled 3>Columns>Columns 2>Columns 3>Lumines>Hexic>Hexic 2
