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So I got a bug in my butt to install Mortal Kombat 11 last night and was doing the story mode which is basically like a movie with intermittent fights and it occurred to me that I love Mortal Kombat but just the characters, the worldbuilding, and the lore. I've never been big on fighting games and as I age, I am finding it harder and harder to pull off special combos quick enough to even do much other than slapping buttons and hoping for the best.

My favorite MK game was one of the ones on PS2 where the story mode was basically God of War gameplay turning it from a fighter into an action adventure game.

If Midway were to make a Mortal Kombat title that was like Dark Souls but set on Outworld or something, that would definitely be my jam.

Another would be Warhammer 40k. I am not at all interested in the PnP gameplay nor a lot of the video games. But I love the lore and the game Rogue Trader is fucking dope, playing more like a traditional CRPG in that setting and not an RTS or straight up shooter.

Do y'a have any games like that? Where you like everything about them except the actual gameplay?

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[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

The Endless games have such fucking dope ass lore and it makes me wish there was any kind of RPG where we could get more intricate lore instead of just the grand, sweeping stuff.

Like, how do the average Riftborn cope? What was it like for individual Vaulters to retuen to the stars? What's it like day to day in Broken Lord society?

So many awesome things to explore and the vistas would be stunning! I really hope Amplitude gives us one someday. But they're still fantastic 4x games with great music and top tier artwork. If you're a 4x, definitely go try them! Just don't expect Civ.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

I completely agree with you. I loved mortal kombat as a child but I never liked fighting games. I feel the same way about this.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago

I'll say it, Mega Man X7 should have been purely 2D.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

World of Warcraft, but predominantly as a persistent single-player world where you can invite players in (ala. Diablo 2).

I love the world building of Azeroth (even the bow out-dated, throw-away, pop-culture additions); just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I feel like the genres of Warhammer 40K games are all over the place. Last year they put out a racing game.

I felt this way about Eastward and Pyre. Both were beautiful games, amazing art, well written characters, excellent soundtracks, but the actual gameplay didn't grab me.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to see Doom as an Assassin's Creed style game, where instead of it being wall to wall high-intensity violence there is a slower-pace open world story and every once in a while you're dropped into a kind of death match arena to face a boss, but you can also run into them in the wild and have to scramble to take them out before they get ya.

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[–] orenj@leminal.space 5 points 4 months ago

I love soul calibur 2's story mode i wish it was a devil may cry

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Fighting games were very neat when they came out but I was never very good. A few sorta innovations came out with new games but eh to me they are kinda all the same thing so what is the point of new ones at some point.

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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Fallout 4 might be a very good immersion Sim, but it's probably the worst FPS I've ever played. I think it could have been a cool turn based JPRG. The best part of Fallout is it basically never runs out of content, and I wished for that experience when I was on late-game Clair Obscur.

[–] SlyLycan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never really given FO4 a chance, the FPS feel just didn't land right for me. I'm curious though, in what ways does it basically never run out of content? I love being able to play a game for a long time.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's not literal like it would be for Dwarf Fortress, the game just has A LOT of content. Even FO3 or Oblivion have a ridiculous amount of content, where you need hundreds of hours to do all side quests.

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[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I just want two genres to merge. Give me Skyrim (and/or Oblivion or Morrowind) but with the survival/crafting/building loop of Valheim.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

FO4 is almost there if you play it in Survival mode.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dead by Daylight.

The idea evolved out of turning horror games into multiplayer. As balance adjustments were made over time, the horror element was depleted and most of it is based around pathing between obstacles as a slower character, against one very powerful melee-based character.

It's certainly fun and bearable in its current form, but: The objectives based around "escaping the killer" tend to result in lopsided results (eg, one player that hid and escaped feeling proud, while a very good chaser gets few points since they died). The game is not accessible to players intimidated by horror, and some effects even trigger certain phobias or bodily resistances (eg, The Plague causes some empathetic vomiting issues to some people) Plus, some players taking the killer role sometimes associate a bit too much ego to their result (they do badly in matches, and blame the game, stating "I'm Michael Myers, dropping bits of wood and puny flashlights shouldn't phase me")

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