>THIS MAN IS WATCHING A LORE VIDEO ON A FRANCHISE HE HAS NOT FINISHED
>>738163726Shame me as much as you like, I'm never playing halo 4, 5, or Infinite
I jack off to characters from games/anime I don't even know
>>738163908>doesn't want to play the newest entries>cares about their lore anywayRetard bro...
>>738164324>she thinks I watch lore videos about whatever nonsense 343 shat out instead of lore videos about the only actual canon games in the series
I like watching Mortal Kombat lore and cutsenes from the latest games even though I don't play them anymore. The last one I played was Armageddon.
>>738163726Should've watermarked your image with a million nigger texts, OPNow twitter jeets will steal your post.
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>>7381639084 is worth it faggot
i watch formula 1 MAD videos actually
>>738163908None of that shit is Halo
>>738163726its not my fault Persona is 70% visual novel and puts me to sleep
>>738164047This is literally the only way to enjoy gacha games.
>>738163726Try "Has not experienced."
>>738163726I always get on my friend's cases for using avatars of series they haven't finished. I don't think it's unreasonable to do this. What if the character you have as your pfp turns out to be a loser down the line? Bad optics.
>>738163726Everything prior to Oblivion is unplayable
>>738163726>well I hope he has a nice meal to eat while watching it!
>>738164823fr fr on GOD
What are some fun lore/story videos to check out? I've enjoyed a lot of different ones, like Marathon, Homeworld Cataclysm, even stories that are shit like Nancy Drew games can be fun to check out
>lore videos for a game series you like start popping up>retards that never played the game start coming into threads spouting factually incorrect bullshit and/or youtuber theories
>>738164047Im guilty of this too>Mona from Genshin Impact and all of her ass gifs and whatever>the pink haired Felyn ninja from the MH spinoff>Morgana from Persona>blown LODES to Toriel and Asriel but only loosely know the lore of game1 and dont care at all about Deltarune sequel>unironically like 99% of the Pokegirls. Havent given a shit about Pokemon since Battle Revolution on the Wii 20 years ago yet have lost entire civilizations of future rockstars and philanthropist to Melony and Klara
>>738163726TL;DR Devs suck at explaining basic shit and would rather hide behind a dozen side games on various platforms. Look, I beat Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, and 3 as they released across my life. If a dev cannot tell a story or explain your world in 3 games across 16 years, that is on them. I am not playing your esoteric list of side games and remixes and final mixes and x.5s across what, 8 different consoles(?), just to piece together a coherent story. Someone on YouTube will do that for me in the amount of time it takes to watch an episode of TV. Did I play the entire franchise? No. Am I expecting to actually learn what the fuck a "Kingdom Hearts" is? YES.inb4 "no media literacy". Some of these games are intentionally obtuse.
>>7381645802 series I watch on youtube when they release even though I have no interest in playing them are MK games and Call of Duty. I spend the entire day doing it and have a great time usually. I genuinely have kind of a high brow taste when it comes to films and such, but there's something so enjoyable about seeing what dumb shit they come up with each year in those franchises. Call of Duty has been really boring the last few years though, with almost every mission being a cheap sandbox type level, so I'm losing interest in that. They have no time or budget anymore to make good CoD campaigns.
>>738165112>>Mona from Genshin Impact and all of her ass gifs and whateveryou aren't alone in this regard
>>738164047There's literally no lasting difference between having played a gacha and not having played it.A lot of popular doujins are clearly by people who don't play either (like that FGO one where Mash is wearing the harem outfit).
>>738164651No it isn't. You only say this because of 4's Cortana.
>>738164823Everything prior to Skyrim is unplayable
>>738165231More than enough reason and it's the first game in series where Master Chief actually had a character. I liked the little love story between them. 4 is the last real halo game ever
>>738165173yeah. I dont think gacha games as a genre are for everyone but the fact that a lot of them get by off of having attractive female designs to goad people in I think this happens way more often than we think.>Nikke>Genshin>that uma pony girl game>wuthering waves>ZenlessZoneZeroI think tons of ppl fap to maybe one to two chars of these games but dont bother to play them because theyre a total scam.
>>738164580>>738165167Also, I've watched everything MK related since MK9 (+ the 90s film), and I don't understand why they don't just stick to the tournament. The first half of MK9's story mode is actually very engaging because you're just following characters in a tournament. Whenever the story veers from that it becomes less interesting. If I was in charge of the next game, I'd set the entire thing within the competition and then have a few branching paths depending on who you choose to have advance.
>>738163726Fate GO can GO in the trash bin where it belongs. I'm not finishin that. I still want to know how my waifu became da.age good at some point, though
>>738165461No offense, but this a supremely retarded and short-sighted take that I've never understood.You can only do "this is the tournament to decide if Earthrealm lives" once or twice. What do you do for the game after that? "Here's the tournament to decide it but for really reals this time"?
Wait until you realize that 99% of Touhou Fan never plays a Touhou game in their life.
>>738163726why yes i did watch a 16 hour video on the first kingdom heartsand id do it again
>>738163726Sorry man I just don't feel like completing the series, most of them get shit after the 3rd game and I just wanna know what happened without subjecting myself to the dogshit gameplay.I played the first couple but I don't feel like playing anymore -- Final Fantasy, Fallout, World of Warcraft, Assassins Creed, Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Resident Evil, Yakuza, Diablo -- games as the last one or two were just so much of a let-down and if I'm going to be honest? shit.
>>738163908Good. 343 """Halo""" games aren't Halo games and the new lore is dogshit.
>>738165303Everything prior to Oblivion Remastered is unplayable
>>738165879But Oblivion Remastered is also unplayable
>>738164047I'm yet to play any of the Witcher games and I love Ciri porn. I lover her so much. How can one character be so freaking hot? Her face with the silver/white hair and the way it's styled, and her outfit... god. All these things combined light up neural wiring in my brain in ways few other characters do. It may have something to do with this girl I used to play with that I had a massive crush on because she had such a sweet voice, and she set Ciri as her profile pic for a brief period. I recall that being the catalyst for my interest in the character. And it's still going strong all these years later. I cannot get enough of Ciri.
>>738165907No it's in UE5 so it's playable
>>738164823Morrowind is unplayable but daggerfall and arena are good for for a while, the fun just doesn't last long enough to actually finish them
>>738165619I can agree it doesn't work very well as a story in games one after another, but they have never committed to it once so they should at least do it one time. Same goes for the movies. It does fit better with a bit of "fish out of water" story beats when the characters are more ignorant and new.But if it had to be set in a tournament every time they could probably find ways to shake up the tournament significantly each time as well. Focusing on a different evil "world" each time, like outworld, netherrealm, chaos realm, etc. And a story mode told mostly from the bad guys' perspective would feel completely fresh I'm sure.
>>738165303Morrowind and Oblivion are ugly and have a garbage leveling systemMorrowind's writing and lore is shit too and all of the nonsense people jerk off Kirkbride for is literally just concepts stolen from Hinduism and poorly stapled on top of a D&D world
>>738164936The Dark Picture anthology is fun, mostly for how dumb and trash it is.
>>7381646514 was Frank's horrendous fanfic and fucking killed the series you dumb cunt.
>>738163726>WELL LETS HOPE HE BUYS SOME MERCH
I'm reading lore wikis on franchises I haven't started and don't intend to start.
>>738165336>Master Chief actually had a characterWhich is the exact opposite of what Bungie intended. He was always supposed to be just a pretty cool suit of armor for you to self insert as while you kill aleins and don't afraid of anything. 343's forced melodrama is so fucking gay.
>>738163726I watched a recap of Chain of Memories because I didn't like the gameplay and wanted to jump to KH2
i havent played a game in like 10 years, but i love watching streamers play and i get caught up in the lore for a bunch of series. latest obsessions have been fear and hunger and FNAF
Watching videos of games and spoiling the story is for stuff you're not that interested in. Games you look at and think "at best this will be a 7/10". But if you watch a game or the lore video on youtube, that doesn't make you a fan and participating in lore discussions will make you sound retarded.
>>738166363Yeah the most character they ascribed to him was "he's kinda like Clint Eastwood"
>>738163726literally me with Fear and Hunger
>>738166417>I haven't played a game in like 10 yearsso this is the power of /v/...
>>738166417>latest obession is FNAFSo when you say you haven't played a game in 10 years, do you mean you're 10 years old?
>>738166628fnaf is 15 years old
Random horror games while I zone out playing an unrelated game is kino
My friend watched a recap on the entirety of Metal Gear Solid just to play Revengeance
>>738163726You push buttons to watch metal gear solid games. I also push buttons to watch metal gear solid. Were not so different, you and I.
>>738166786holy based
>>738163908>actually the forerunner aren't ancient humans but a separate species who called themselves the forerunners, made by the precursors
>>738164047this is normal, not everything is worth experiencing. i don't need to play generic gacha #7942 to understand that one of its characters makes my dick hard
>>738166786Based, Revengeance is the only game in the franchise worth playing, the rest are just movies.
>type in game's name on Google>autocomplete full of spoilers
>>738163726>play game with cryptic story>immediately watch a ____ EXPLAINED video after beating it
>>738163726Next you wil tell people who watch sports to play sports. Tell people the who play EA Sports like NBA and FIFA to play the actual sport.
>>738166912I already knew that.I watched a lore video about it.
>>738164823Only Arena is kind of bad and it's not awful, just worse than DF in every way. I would only barely rather play Oblivion than Arena, the objective rating is 3 > 5 > 2 > 4 > 1
>>738163726there's nothing more gay than watching lore of a fiction
>>738163726>mfw watching let's plays of gay storybook movie games instead of buying them and getting the exact same experience as if I bought them
>>738166912>in an ironic twist, the human-covenant war had the religious zealots unknowingly exterminating their own gods>throw this absolutely kino revelation out the window with a retcon so bad that it retroactively made the war justified, because they're now actually exterminating the old enemies of their godsI hate 343 so much
>>738163726Why yes, I am a Bloodborne fan.
>>738166786good, MGS is just a series of movies with minigames in-between anywayMGS4 is literally almost 50% cutscenes, the TTB is 19 hours including 8 fucking hours of cutscenes
>>738164047This
>>738163726Literally all fighting game franchises because most people play it for the multiplayer and never touched the singleplayer modes which includes arcade mode and story mode if the game has it hence they all never "finished" the games.
>>738165112…Morgana? The cat?
>>738164047that's definitely the majority for some games, gachas have literally nothing to offer except character designs, so it makes sense for porn artists to use attractive character designs
>>738163908>listening to the OSTs of games that you will never playFor me it's Angerfoot
>>738163726you don't know how common it is, that's how most people consume media these daysit's not even just games, they do it with anime and tv series too. zoomers fucking watch tiktok summaries of manga instead of reading them
>>738167463The worst part about 343 trying to "solidify" their extended universe lore, even beyond making some of it necessary to even understand what the fuck is going on past "bad guys and you shoot shit", is that the very, absolutely, and suddenly first major thing they did was the fucking Cryptum. An okay read for sci-fi, but a complete rape of retcons galore to justify their new bullshit while essentially stripping the mystery of the Forerunner out like with the subtlety of a Mortal Kombat fatality. It's like someone was jonesing to hijack everything with their fanfiction and take over to separate themselves from Bungie as fast as humanly possible.
>new Mortal Kombat game comes out>watch story on YT>watch fatality compilation on YT>watch intro banter compilation on YT>wait for DLC
>>738167819343 just wanted to make their own fanfic and having the publishing rights allowed them to call it "canon" because the property technically was MS' not Bungie's.Although, if Bungie still had Halo, looking at what they made since Halo shows us that it would have been just as bad or worse anyway.
>>738167994>cannon
>>738164324>Doesn't want to play the terrible janky shit known as halo>Still wants to know if the story is any goodyup. thats me
>>738164047I used to do this but I stopped because I was spoiled about a character's dual persona.
>>738163726I would never subject myself to Drakengard's shit gameplay.
>>738164047I actually prefer if I don't know the game, in most cases.
>>738167536He has a thing for cats.
>>738168109was it Genocide Jack?it was Genocide Jack for me
>>738163726I like the stories but I'm too much of a coward to play Silent Hill games
>>738163726I watched my favorite YouTuber finish it :D
>>738164047Give me good NIKKE characters to goon for bed.
>>738168141I played both Niers, and I had to stop on Route D for Replicant because it was actual garbage, but I’ve heard Replicant is significantly better than Drakengard’s combat. I have no idea how anyone would trust Taro to make a game after only Automata made SE any money or how anyone could force themselves to play a second game made by him after experiencing his crap once, other than once again, automata. And it’s not even like automata is crazy good, it’s an 8 at best, the story being the weakest part, and that’s supposed to be the good stuff in his other games. I really do think it’s all a joke and people only say it’s good to trick people into playing it to cause misery.
>>738166363>343's forced melodramaDid you not play halo 3?
>>738164534watch suda51 lore videos instead, they are enetertaining
>>738163726>he isn't experiencing media with his parasocial vtuber findomgrim
>>738165112>Havent given a shit about Pokemon since Battle Revolution on the Wiithe only good pokemon game everything else is goonerbait yes even pokopia
>>738165575>feels the need to catch up on how his waifu gets shat oncouldn't be me nigga. they lost the plot a LONG time ago
>>738163726But I dont wanna give garten of ban ban devs a red cent and also secretly love the lore and hate myself
