Is there an existential RPG?
Where the protagonist questions why he is alive, or why he even exists, what reality is, etc?
And maybe faces God / The Gods about it, and seeks answer to why he or anyone else was created? Why does consciousness exist, or why does everyone has to die, what happens after death, topics like this.
Does this RPG exist, or anything similar?
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Planescape: Torment tbqh famalam
Planescape Torment kind of fits the bill. There's a lot more to it than that, though.
Xenogears might be what you're looking for.
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try middle school
You all exist to fulfill His will, fools.
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Xenogears
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Not an RPG, but Talos Principle fits the bill
What if the entire universe is just another giant black hole we're living inside and if we could see past the edges we'd just see another galaxy orbiting us but we never can because we're trapped forever by gravity we don't even know is there.
Freaks me out, man.
Kingdom hearts 2 and days kinda
You see, it doesn't matter at all. We wouldn't notice any difference.
SOMA?
Dwarf Fortress
Planescape: Torment
Existentialism is "middle-class white boy problems" - The philosophy
What said. No matter what form are universe actually exists in whether we're a blade of grass in another universe, a black hole, or a fucking simulation it doesn't actually affect us. At least not till we bring real science into the territory of science fiction and can begin to cross those kinds of gaps
I wouldn't really notice any difference in my life if someone dropped nukes on Finland but I'd still think it was pretty fucked up.
What real difference would it make?
Philosophy is for retards anyway.
Those two things are in no way similar in their effects. One is very real and tangible effect on your actual world, the other has literally no effect on anything
>question about the nature ofnature
>is existensialism
no existensialism is that faggot shit faggot faggots came up to pocket money and ruin philosophy
terranigma
digital devil saga
dragon's dogma
morrowind
e.y.e. divine cybermancy
not a rpg but the talos principle is really what you just described
I dunno, I wrote an outline for one a while back.
Basically the protagonist is a robot whose purpose is to disguise itself as a human and conduct covert operations on humanity. The character creator is literally the player making up whatever human-like shell they want for it. It can even alter its memory to better fit the new identity, but internally, it never feels right. Even when the protagonist strips down to bare metal, it doesn't feel like a true representation of itself.
Eventually, shit goes down, robots all over the interstellar network start going insane and the enslaved buddhist monks whose prayers power FTL travel start praying for death instead, causing all sorts of bad mojo in the metaphysical realm.
The protagonist is the only robot immune to all this wacky bullshit, and it turns out it's because it literally has no identity at all. It has to come to terms with the fact that there is no "real me" whatsoever. The name is fake, the skin is fake, the metal bones are fake, every thing about it is a lie.
But that's alright. It can still change the world. It doesn't need to be anybody or anything to save the day. It is action. It is pure force of will charging headfirst into the apocalypse.
Final boss is a demi-goddess whose gigantic ego caused everything bad to happen. First phase you have to fight her in multiple timelines at once because she happens to be a fully 4-dimensional being. Second phase, she loses an arm, picks up a sword, and goes berserk. Third phase is her corpse. Her ego is so gigantic that she literally will not stop fighting even after she's dead. The only way you can win is by playing perfect defense while her corpse destroys itself trying to kill you.
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You seriously need to get laid
I'm not even joking
What's inside a supermassive black hole
a really big dense lump of aggregated matter
A fiery hell of infinitely dense matter. Or nothing. Or a wormhole. Or another universe. We literally can't know. And unless there is some way back from the other side of the black hole, we never will.
While not *strictly* an RPG, Talos Principle would be a good fit for you, OP.
>RPG
>text is important in VIDEO GAMES
>Not the gameplay
>RPGs
>DEEP
>have sex
>enjoying the afterglow for a while
>gf asks 'you ever wonder why we're here?'
nope, didn't work
That's really cool man. The whole buddhist monks fuck up the universe and the protagonist is immune is kinda sudden tho.
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Parasite Eve, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Final Fantasy IX somewhat ponders around this.
Not an RPG, but a really great game centered around your topic is SOMA. Worth checking out if you haven't already.
Philosophy is "middle-class white boy problems" though.
It is a mystery
I think only a bunch of magic teenagers could save the world from that.
All of the socks you have lost in the dryer
Can't we send a camera sticky taped onto a space ship inside?
Tales of the Abyss
a supermassive black turd
>SOMA
read Permutation City instead. takes the concept way further
How do you plan on retrieving the footage?
It doesn't let light escape -- do you think radio waves (or similar) have a chance?
*tips
I think that's like putting a camera into a meat grinder, the black hole would crush the ship.
kirby could just wallow it
it would get crushed into a singularity.
Yeah I know. It's a heavily abridged summary.
Basic idea is that in the somewhat-near future, humanity discovers how to utilize faith. I mean literally taking concentrated belief in non-real things and amplifying it until it becomes real. That's how FTL travel works. FTL is impossible, but if you get enough super-dedicated monks praying all at once, it doesn't matter. It's about imposing your will on the universe. Saying "NO FUCK YOU I AM THE SPEED LIMIT" until the laws of physics stop trying to argue.
Worth noting that the monks are basically slaves. They're raised in secluded monasteries from birth, taught literally nothing but meditation and prayer. Genetically and socially engineered to be perfect prayer machines. When their faith has reached an acceptable strength, they are put into a permanent coma, and their body is hooked up to a life support rig. This "faith engine" can then be installed on a spaceship, with the flight controls directly connected to their nervous system. It was believed the monks were simply in a whimsical, dreamlike meditation for the rest of their lives. Turns out it's more horrible, so instead of praying for FTL travel they start praying for death and disease and hell and stuff like that.
Make it out of diamonds, diamonds are the strongest metal known to man.
>Is there an existential RPG?
Stanley parable
No. One of the first problems you encounter is making it over the event horizon in one piece. I believe it's impossible with a supermassive black hole due to it's size but even with a smaller one you would need to be going incredibly fast in order to shoot the horizon without being torn apart. Even after that though nothing can come back through after the event horizon. Light can't escape and neither can anything else. They only thing that comes out of a black hole is hawking radiation and that in no way helps this problem.
The only way even theoretically you could ever know is to make it across the event horizon and then there ends up being a wormhole to somewhere else inside. Then you'd have to actually be able to make it back to Earth
This isn't Failed Memes General, user.
It'll get destroyed before it passes the event horizon. And even if it didn't we wouldn't be able to get feed from it anymore.
Because nothing gets out of a black hole, not even information. That's the source of a speculation for "entire different universe on """the other side""" a black hole". Black holes aren't real holes, they don't have the other side. But they have infinite information loss. So, in theory, if an entire different universe really was inside, we wouldn't be able to tell.
>metal
>diamonds
Please kill yourself
God damn, space is so fucking fascinating
Are people actually this fucking retarded or was this just a person pretending to be retarded?
I fucking can't tell anymore.
do you really think most people know anything about black holes?
most people dont even know what space-time is let alone whats in the universe
According to one thesis, in case of massive black holes it's more like an actor going to the backstage. You can't see him through the curtains, but he is still there. Your scenario applies to small black holes with event horizon being in line with singularity.
Of course crossing even the surface safely is considered impossible for multiple reasons.
People are really fucking stupid when it comes to space. Astronomy and how physics work in astronomy are not taught as general education and even in Uni it's either a basic course or it's what your studying for a degree.
>All these (You's)
Armchair physicians are so austistic.
As well as armchair english majors. The word is physicist. Physicians treat illness.
That's because it's not necessary you fucking clown. Kids are taught about the different fields (gravitational, electric and electromagnetic) if they choose to pursue the sciences and that's more than enough.
Serious astronomy is something that the average person doesn't need simply because he'll never understand it. You need exceptional interest, hard-work and a bit of talent to even begin discussing these things.
The basic concept of what a black hole is should be common knowledge at this point. I'm honest fucking shocked someone could be this mind bogglingly fucking stupid. The name itself even implies that light can't escape it, and the first thought the guy has is "strap a camera to a spaceship". I mean... fuck. Dude.
Yes, people are that retarded.
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NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer flirts with some of these themes. As does Planescape: Torment. But no RPG truly explores all these themes imo.
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>having an education makes you autistic
it was an elective in my australian highschool
>The basic concept of what a black hole is should be common knowledge at this point.
People also think circumcision is good, diamonds are worth something and herpes is dangerous
This just in; people are stupid
Are armchair english majors even a thing?
>Should be common knowledge
Common sense isn't so fucking common because everyone has a different definition for it.
Why should Astronomy be common knowledge outside of people who like and study it?
unironically dark souls trilogy
say what you will about 3, it pretty successfully brought into question the nature of your existence, the purpose behind it, and questioned the entire reasoning on which your world was built
Learning everything you know from wikipedia and sperging out over discussion is though.
a supermassive black dick
>you need exceptional interest, hard-work and a bit of talent
No you don't. You can learn the basic concepts of astronomy as nothing more than route memorization. Why would it not be important for the masses to know some basic fundamentals of how our god damn universe works. Maybe if the masses had any idea about basic astronomy there would be more interest in actually getting things done up there instead of constantly trimming NASA's budget.
Star Ocean 4 does it with the protagonist
[s]after you implode a 1950s earth in an alternate universe, and all your crew basically tells you it doesnt matter that much since it wasn't their main universe/timeline and there was nothing they could do despite it being their fault[/s]
>The basic concept of what a black hole is should be common knowledge at this point.
It is, but mostly learned from TV shows and movies. And half the time in those examples it's about the heroes defying the black hole in some way.
>Learning everything you know from playing vidya and sperging out over discussion is though.
Beep boop double standard faggot
I'm in an armchair and I am an english major so yes.
Not that user, but if we're using common sense, then if sending a camera in a black hole to get info on it was that easy, don't you think the world would know more about black holes than we already do now?
And Black holes wouldn't be so mysterious anymore?
We're not talking astronomy. This is both common sense and general knowledge.
We're living in an age were information is literally at your fingertips. There is no excuse for this level of ignorance, aside retardation.
>No No Man's Sky
well, then all I have to say is
No Man's Sky
No?
Because how the universe works has LITERALLY zero impact on how our daily lives are conducted and wasting time teaching these things might compromise other, more useful things that could be taught instead?
No user, we would not. We can't even reach a black hole to preform and sort of tests. We have to actually have the ability to get to one first.
A singularity
Most people aren't as retarded as you make them out to be, they're just severely indifferent to your own thoughts and opinions.
Most people understand the relationship between the Sun and the Earth and the Moon and every fucking celestial body surrounding us minus the dwarf planets. They just don't give a shit about further studying it like you do, asswipe.
In the grand scheme of everything, since what happens in the universe is measured by millions of years instead of a few decades we get as individuals, it really doesn't effect us to spark wide-spread interest.
You forgot "don't hit on me silly, physicians".
Teaching more people about space and how it works would lead to an increased interest in space exploration, otherwise we will never get out of this planet
spoilers.
Star ocean series
Yes.
Dont get upset when others sperg out about science when you sperg out over vidya, and dont pretend you dont.
It's btw not the diameter of the black hole itself but only it's Rothschild radius
Is it worth a pirate after the updates?
You'd be surprised most people don't Google their miscellaneous questions like you and I do.
There's no reason aside from indifference.
Except I don't? And it's completely irrelevant to the conversation, proving my point that you're an autist.
Not the same thing, that's dealing with hope to survive and ethical philosophy