>The Godlike enemy you were fighting were just ancient humans that ascended
>the godlike enemy you were just fighting was just a decaying husk that had only 1/1,000,000,000th of its original power
>>739104751Name 3 games>>739104837Name 3 games (hardmode: no DS1)
>>739104907ds2 ds3 elden cockring
>The thing the game calls god isn't ACTUALLY *the* G-d.I feel like this is a cope headcanon/argument used by fanboys of the game that are huge christfags.
>>739104907mario 1, mario 2 and mario 3
>the god was just a really strong guy, and you are stronger than him
>>739104984Hello kike.
that's every alien
>humanity was a drunken amusement by the gods one night>they were to be erased because of obvious drunken mistakes in design>but one of the gods warned humans who warned everyone else>the rest of the gods settled on letting them live but limiting their life spans
>>739104751>you are every character in the game
>>739104751Like this
>the ancient evil you've been looking for the whole game is actually your taxi driver
>>739104751>you're the god like beings that ascended a second time to a simple pastoral life that got interrupted by bad guys>mere once ascended beings are too timid to intervene, since you technically still have seniority over them even if its been forgotten
>fight a god that brought destruction across the world in the past>game builds up the immense power this thing has>it's strong but can still be defeated by a party of 4 people using karate moves, guns and magic spells that are no different from what people had in the past
>>739104751insufferable libshit
>>739104984I can't think of many games where you fight THE God.It's usually "The God of X" or someone power-tripping so bad that they proclaim themselves to be a god.
>the god is a higher dimension being that was trapped inside a physical object>he's actually on your side, your enemies are people and creatures misusing his power>ultimately you free him
>>739107821What game?
>>739108024Xenogears.
>>739104751Of course, any God thing you can fight and defeat is not a real God
>>739104751I prefer>the godlike enemy you're fighting is your ancestor that slept for 100,000 years while you and your kin degenerated
>>739104984>>739107543>>739108361You fight God every time you play a video game
>>739104837Carl sex.
>>739108361>Game has a god in it>It's not a villain or anything, but it's just there>But if you anger the god it can just instakill you because you're messing with a fucking god
>>739107543YAHWA or whatever from SMT gamesOnly one i can remember
>>739104751>justShow some respect, pleb.
>>739104751what are those silly birrin up to?
>>739104984My god > your god
>>739108848Nethack you can cheese it tho
>>739107456this
>>739109679Your "god" can be beat by copyright law
The only real god is me.There is no reason to believe in anyone else, im not a cuck
>>739110115t.
>>739104907Wasn't Ultima from FF16 something like that? Ancient race of beings higher and more evolved that the common human race you encounter in the game
>god was just a really tired dude using smokes and mirror and some old space era tech to keep people in place, knowing that faith was the last thing to hold the world together.
>>739108848>But if you anger the god it can just instakill you because you're messing with a fucking godit happened in Balding's Gay 3 when you larp as Lolth to a spider, if you fail the bluff she kills you but if you succeed she finds it funny and let's you off
I SAID, YOU FIGHT GOD EVERY TIME YOU PLAY A VIDEO GAME
>an ancient evil has awoken >It's just a slightly bigger dumb monster that is slightly more resilient to conventional weapons
>>739104837name a game with this trope, but you get to have a rematch where that enemy is actually at full power.
>>739107543How would you even implement such a fight in a believable way? The only way you could defeat The GOD is if he lets you win. He could destroy you with a thought if he wanted to. More than that: unmake you. Delete you from the very fabric of space-time, and all the marks you've left on the world. Make it so you practically never existed. That is the extend to which The God could end you.What would even be the point of fighting him.
>>739115072It takes more than a little arrogance to believe you could beat God in a real fight. It takes foolishness, bordering on such stupidity that should make you question if you are mentally retarded.
>>739114730Star Scourge RadahnTopped by a Twink Radahn
>>739115072What if I grinded to level 99 though. What then, big guy?
>>739114730Hollow Knight with the Hollow Knight and Pure Vessel.
>>739115072If God is everything, then it cannot control it's own impulses - to do so would be to chsnge the fundamental laws of reality, which it already is. It'd be like asking why thr speed of light isn't a bit faster or slower. If organic life is a natural evolution of the inherent laws, then the protagonist is already a part of God that wants the thinking part to die. That's the best I can come up with.
>god of two entire tribes and cultures>actually just some US army grunt with a rifle
>get into a time traveling fight with the bad guy that lasts so long God intervenes and finally puts it to a stop by giving you an actual final fight
>>739104751Ascension type Gods is a gorillion times better than "le omnipotent trve God"-type. And I'm not afraid to admit it
>>739115460Wouldn't that make God simply a mindless entity indistinguishable from everything else? If God = Universe, then there is no reason to even call him God, since he has no control over anything. Would be like calling a tsunami by the name of Poseidon. The Tsunami is no god, it is just a force of nature. In order for God to be taken seriously as God, he would have to be seperate from his creation and have full agency.
>a godlike being wreaked havoc across the setting for no apparent reason>the entire game is about a traumatized survivor believing it's still hiding somewhere and will one day return>enlists you to help him>when you find the being, it is revealed he was hijacked by a cosmic force of destruction after his birth, eventually grew a conscience and doesn't want to harm anything anymore>you're literally the same being as him, and you nearly provoke the end of the realm after defeating him by creating a black hole in your head>but you buddies manage to stop you and release the seed of destruction from you, you can even thank them for it>unfortunately, it flies away into another world where it will certainly fuck things up for everyone, probably serving as a catalyst for the first game
>>739116090Only if the way of ascension is interesting and tied to a great story. Not just "I collected 4 mcguffins, now I am a god!".
>Godlike enemy is a self-refining AI pursuing its own evolution just for the sake of evolution, like a deranged paperclip maximizer
>>739107253>turns out there's no prophecy or choosen one or artifact or stuff like that, people just didn't try hard enough back then
>>739115072
Not much of an 'ascension' if you got killed by a mortal. Looks like I'm the ascended one now, bitch.
>game has a god>you can fuck/marry the god
>>739104751>enemy is a higher dimensional fractal casting shadows on our universe
>>739116754But that is the good part about ascension types, that they are often not omnipotent and can be defeated.
>god is just the dev team working hard on the game and thanking you for playing.
In the scifi story I'm worldbuilding, the galaxy is an incubator to raise the human race until they are eventually able to consolidate and ascend into a 4th dimensional being/god. The "gods" that the main characters encounter are previous sets of humanity that eventually ascended and left the galaxy behind to watch over the current incubated humans and continue the cycle.Its left the galaxy full of unexplainable treasures and technology of past unique humanities, yet completely desolate. leaving the characters to wonder what happened, and set them on the path to learn the truth of their existence. Is that too tropey, or do I have enough originality going to set my lore apart?
>an ancient God wants to reach this realm and destroy humanity>you can't defeat it, so you summon another God that will fight it for you>but this God also wants to destroy humanity>you have to seal away the God you just summoned at the right time
>>739116920>it was all just a gameThat twist will never not be shit.Star Ocean did something like that and it fucked up the entire franchise.
>>739117051Massively depends on the framing. Personally Ive come to despise precursor races leaving forgotten relics around as passe, and it sounds like that with a dash of The Egg and Childhood's end
>>739117051Anything that involved perpetual cycle is tropey
>>739117161if your ref for this is Star Ocean then you are just a tourist asking @grock for names.
>>739104751>god is the game engine>finale tasks you with hunting down timmy IRL to complete the game
>>739104751Well elves but basically
>>739117426Name infinity games
>>739116270well there are a few possible interpretations of how a creator might relate to its creation. mind you, I'm not specifically talking about the christian god, or even to an all-powerful god in general, just to any entity that creates the universe, even as a group effort:>God as The WatchmakerGod is completely separate from the universe. God might still choose to intervene in the world after creating it, but it's not strictly necessary; the universe can exist and operate on its own without the need for its creator, who might even be dead or absent>God as The Simulator The universe is part of God, but an inconsequential and fungible part of God. Like a human doing shadow puppets on a wall, the universe is like a simulation and God is the computer, or a thought in God's mind, or a tale God is telling. The universe doesn't exist at all without God's constant effort, but God isn't really the universe>God as The SoulLike some believe that humans are made both of a body and a soul, God is the universe itself, but it's also something else that isn't part of the universe, just how the soul isn't part of the body>God as The MindGod is an embodiment or representation of the universe itself, but is aware and can act and take decisions; mortals that are "part" of the universe (and thus of God) could have their own ideas and not conform to these decisions, just like a human's consciousness doesn't necessarily exists in every cell of their body>God as The Blind IdiotThe universe is God and God is the universe. God can't really make decisions or "act" in a way discernable to mortals becase everything that happens is already part of god's "will", if it can be called one: God's "actions" appear to be nothing more than the universe's uncaring and chaotic laws and forces.
>>739107456It's not inherently libshit. The Greco-Roman pantheon consisted of gods that had human-like flaws and vices. They were petty and selfish. Many of them practiced infidelity and some even partook in bestiality. And that's just one example of false gods in ancient human civilization. It's not a big leap to design an enemy based on that false idolatry.
>>739115072Worldless' final boss was like that. It was completely invincible and basically pounded both player characters into a crater.
you trannies really like these threads for some reason
>>739117321Everything is a tropeNothing is originalBest you can do is good execution
>>739119315Yesn't
>>739114730ultrakill the corpse of king minos
>>739119908Close, but not exactly.1) The Corpse of King Minos isn't really Minos anymore, so I wouldn't call that a rematch.2) Minos Prime isn't him at his original power, it's far beyond that. He was basically just a human before Gabriel killed him.
>>739117101Bankorok, Pargon, Pargon, Aretak, Pargon, Pargon, Xel'lotath, Pargon, Pargon
>>739115772Kino
