Any games with an unreliable narrator? Why is this literary device only used in movies and books?
Heavy Rain
The Stanley Parable.
That one mission of Battlefield 1
...DARK SOULS
>>738432445Wasn't this the explanation the guy behind YIIK adopted when people started saying the story made no sense
>>738432445>Why is this literary device only used in movies and books?because it sucks. why would i want a peice of media to lie about itself to me.
>>738432445Silent Hill, all of them
>>738432445Braid kinda
>>738432517THE ORI GARMI KILLER
>>738432445Slay the Princess
>>738432445are you the same guy that made the thread with a Claymore screenshot
Not really a "narrator" but the first Nier game / remake Nier Replicant.
>>738432445src on imaeg?
is there a more hack trope than the unreliable narrator?>tee hee who knows what really happened :)
>>738432517>there are parts where you play as the killer>there are parts where you play as the killer and have access to their inner thoughts>their inner thoughts are not "I'M THE FUCKING KILLER"heavy rain is worse than an unreliable narrator
>>738432445Well it's a spoiler to name any of them.Deadly Premonition.
>>738432445It's because "narrator" as a role in videogames is not as necessary as it is in literature. In movies and games it's the "viewpoint character"MGSV Venom is an unreliable protagonist, he is constantly hallucinating all kinds of goofy shit
>>738433081it's not hacky, it's extremely basic and there have been countless good and bad uses of it
does Heavy Rain count?
>Prince of Persia: Sands of Time>Player fucks up and dies>Prince narrates, "I must be misremembering something"
>>738432445Afraid of Monsters
>>738432445spec ops the line
>>738432445play more gamesthere's a plethora of VNs and rpg maker games doing this shit. lmao fucking posers who don't know anything about the genre trying to appear cultured
>>738433301Name 3
>>738433847silent hill 2american psychololita
>>738433486VNs and RPGMaker slop aren't games, though.
>>738433301i find it hacky because it allows you to handwave away half the problems in your story
>>738432792he's unreliable AND unreasonable.
>>738432445Cyberpunk 2077. All of Johnny's flashbacks are mostly bullshit.
>>738432445Yeah OP, PoP: Sands of Time. Every time you die, Prince goes 'Oh actually, it didn't happen like that, here's what REALLY happened'.Git gud.
>>738433847Just from glancing at my libraryMGSV>brain injury causes Venom to hallucinate some elements but it's a curated, important part of the narrativeYakuza: Like a Dragon>Ichiban is schizophrenic, hallucinating various comedic elements and leading to gameplay scenariosDisco Elysium>Harry is a brain damaged, drug addled schizophrenic who hallucinates primarily narration from his fragmented psyche, leading to worldbuilding and gameplay elementsAnd actually all of the party characters in FFVIII have amnesia, which is central to the plot of the game. Lots of other games with amnesia as a theme which is one of the main kinds of unreliable narrator.
>>738434151>And actually all of the party characters in FFVIII have amnesiaYou could also say the same with schizo Cloud in FF7.
>>738432445call of juarez gunslinger
>>738432445>OP: 'erm ackshually, why aren't there any unreliable narrator games?>A dozen examples and countingApologise to this board right now you fucking pesud
>>738432445killer 7
