What's the most melancholic game you can think of?

What's the most melancholic game you can think of?

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The Void

Mad Max

The first part of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Defcon is the bleakest multiplayer games can aspire to be.

Majora's Mask without a win state.

Life is Strange

Demon Souls is the best answer

When you really start looking into the implications Majora's Mask's makes about its world, shit gets really bleak, really fast. There's no hope. People have given up.

The Postman might be the worst of them all. What a wreck he becomes.

Long Dark sandbox mode. No matter how much you prepare, gather or exceed, you will always run out of resources eventually and die.

Most games don't really do melancholy well at all.

How come the only games people will acknowledge as deep are Japanese and Euro Indie Developed Games?

Are American games actually that shallow?

Melancholy comes from a self-reflection that I don't think video games can do properly without sacrificing and lot of their other elements.

Sort of related, but is there any game that really screams "America" and uses a lot of American culture that isn't pop culture?

Unravel is about "wehmut" so there's that.

Fallout 3 and 4, sort of. American "culture" is always a doozy to talk about in general

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Mega man legends and running arou d in the dungeons

It's kinda hard to separate "american culture" and "pop culture"

The GTA games are very American, but probably leans too much into pop culture.

There's LA Noire, also very American, but a different time period.

Silent hill 2

Deus Ex: Human Revolution
>The music
>The color scheme with the black 'n gold everywhere
>Adam's apartment
>Running around Detroit and seeing it falling apart at the seams.

Fallout New Vegas

Nier
Planescape: Torment
The Void
Demon's Souls

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Could you let go, user?

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Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2

/thread

Yup, Silent Hill 2, and Cry of Fear

Dead Money is more oppressing than melancholic

I Am Setsuna is pretty melancholy

>not persona 3

everyone in this thread is gay

Pathologic and The Void come to mind.

Maybe Call of Duty is more suitable for you, m8.

What the fuck are you talking about

my life

Agree with u. Melancholic is a very specific feeling and Dead Money isn't it. In fact New Vegas in general is not melancholic.

go away fatlus

most depressing game i've ever played. highly recommend

I'll be the one to say it: Limbo

U N D E R T A L E

No matter what you do, Asriel will NEVER see the surface.

Souls games in general.

The world is lonely and barely inhabited. All of the great technologies and powers overflowed and ruined everything. The signs of horrific experimentation, torture and failure are everywhere. Consciousness is bound up in mutants, demons and hollows. Most life is just a shameful, miserable waste.

At the end of it all, I assume the game asks if you'd like all of that all over again (by relinking the flame), or if you'd rather just put an end to the crime. It's actually pretty heavy stuff.

At the end of the day, though, the game has a beautiful world, and you do get access to the best and most interesting fruits (equipment, items, souls) of so many different ages, so there's a silver lining to it all (not to mention the absurd empowerment of the main character)

Dragon Age: Origins is very melancholic. The fact they effectively changed it from dark fantasy to high fantasy over the series is something that always bugged me off.

FFX has some melancholic moments, if only because of the soundtrack.

Chcek out "Where the Water Tastes Like Wine"

Good, little fucker deserves it.

Fable 1

Wolfenstein

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Hollow Knight

Dwarf Fortress

Pathologic is by far the most depressing game I've played.

When i reflect on MM i always think of the swordsman

The problem with stuff like this is after a few iterations, it becomes a mechanical slog. You know what to do before you do it. It's the same reason I've never found the appeal of endless runners and the like.

Why you doing this user.

Silent Hill 2

but also Max Payne 2, The Darkness, Alan Wake

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The ultimate somber, but comfy.

>theme of laura.mp3

Sunless Sea

It elicits many emotions, but melancholy most of all

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Half the reason being the ending that resolves jack shit. Mae's still a dropout, Bea is a perpetually-trampled sadsack, the others are moving, the town is declining, etc.

Also that it was made by a tool who seriously believes socialism/SJW's are the answer.

Literal retard

>op says melancholic

>somber
>comfy

Wish comfy autists would kys

>melancholy literally means somber and comfy
When will ESL shitters fuck off and die already?

But it is melancholic, did you even play it?

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Silent Hill 4

minecraft?

Shattered Memories.

Bioshock and Spec Ops, whenever the bullets stop flying in both.

WoW, flying around abandoned continents.

Souls, most definitely.

Most open world RPGs without fast travel can capture this feeling as well.

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Transistor and Bastion.

I honestly think Transistor is the better game, but it doesn't have that unique narrator, which is why I think Bastion is typically rated higher.

Limbo and Inside, too. For all the deserved shit indie platformers get, there are some good ones.

Red Dead Redemption

Never played them, are the puzzles as good as in Braid?

The problem with Transistor is that it forgets that VATS is supposed to back up combat mechanics that can work on their own, instead of the other way around.

Bastion's combat has much a better sense of flow.

Different user, Limbo has some good moments but isn't consistently good like Braid.

Inside is mostly go right and the puzzles are nothing noteworthy.

Kentucky Route Zero is the most melancholic game I can think of.

Yeah, I mostly skipped vats unless I needed time to think. Same thing in fallout.
Yeah, puzzles aren't anything significant. I found braid pretty easy too, I think I had trouble with one puzzle.

That's a shame, braid was so fucking good.

Shame it will never be finished.

MGSV, the whole game is about building up your life after having it all taken away, but eventually it all falls apart and you watch everything you gathered get taken away from you once again. There's a constant feeling that all the good times in the franchise are over, especially after Peace Walker.

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins to the Moon

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It will, give them a year or so. By now I feel that waiting is part of the experience.

here's a link to the 6 chapter follow up manga that the game apparently has
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Somber but comfy is essentially melancholy genius

I wonder if Duskers would be apt. Sometimes melancholy, sometimes nervous fear.

Planescape torment?

Kentucky Route Zero
RymResa
Hyper Light Drifter
Red Dead Redemption
Fallout games
LISA
Souls games
Total War games after an important battle ends
Jotun
Eidolon
Journey
Minecraft

Muh niggers

Dark Souls (specifically 1) is a good choice too.

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Gone Home
I really enjoyed it
Ost made the game for me

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life is strange too

Say what you want about MM, no game world got me to care about everyone living in it quite like this one

All of the Fallout series (with the possible exception of Fallout: Tactics, which was - surprise! - outsourced to a non-American team) is steeped deeply in Americana. 3 and 4 just make it more explicit (and loses a lot of the commentary as a result).

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Any of the Bioshocks, but it does depend if you want the 50s Deco style or Turn of the century Americana with 1&2 or Infinite respectively

Except it has shit gameplay. The rest of it is just barely enough to outweigh how shit the gameplay is.

>color scheme is literally piss

Yea turned me off the whole time I was playing.

Surprised that no one has mentioned SotC. I haven't played The Last Guardian yet, but it looks like it could fit too from what I've seen of it.

How about specific music from games that makes you feel melancholic?
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