What's the most pretentious video game of all time?

What's the most pretentious video game of all time?

Transistor

Pure pretentious tripe

Nothing tops this. Any other reply than this one is a meme answer.

Probably some Jap shit.

Life.

/thread

I thought Bastion was shit as well.

Undertale

New Vegas

Wasn't Braid intentionally pretentious?

Gone Home

>Nobody says Star Citizen

blood born

Yes, but it still had a game.

I agree with user is the epitome and nothing can beat it without ripping it off in nature. It's literally just a corridor full of "Meaning". No narrative. No way to interact other than a chair at the end of the single corridor you walk.

whats pretentious about it

you read into things too much

not a game

Black Ops 3 is still 60 bucks, so I'll go with that for now

ITT: Nobody knows what "pretentious" means but are happy to label anything they don't like as pretentious

Dunno about the worst, but nier automata came to mind as recent one.

Braid. Jonathan Blow is the most pseudo intellectual fag in the indie gaming scene. The Witness sucks too.

dark souls

Sunset. Literally had books placed around showing how 'coast's they were. Tale of tales is hilarious to read about

the problem is that no one is posting WHY they think the game is pretentious, they're just posting game names.

Still mad they didn't put it on PC eh.

Dunno how smart became coasts, stupid phone, stupid me

meaning and narrative are both unimportant to the quality of a game. What is the meaning or narrative behind such eternal classics as pong, tetris, or asteroids?

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dumb phoneposter

Let it Die. Everything about the game suggested it had a lot of depth to it: the upgrade system, the weird story, the wacky grim reaper who felt cliche but somehow also didn't feel cliche. The graphics were alright. There seemed like a lot to do. Then you get to the combat and its the most shallow, boring thing. Everything else about the game acts like it's a good game, but the core part was shallow and bad.

dwarf fortress
you posted good video games the list then changed the name to post it in this thread

Nothing can beat The Beginner's Guide

But those aren't pretentious.

This is a game that's so pretentious, it doesn't have narrative even in a gameplay-less game. You have to come up with your own reasons as to why the old lady is visiting the graveyard.

>almost all good games
this is some reverse hipster stuff

the thread is for games that are pretentious

fuck you

Actually, wasn't asteroids the game that had some ridiculously complex backstory?

Or was that arkanoid?

From tale of tales Twitter when they were shutting down.


We don't need commercial failure to know capitalism is evil, right? Because it is: evil. And if you think that's cool then you are evil too.

Firewatch is hardly a game, but it pretends like there is a murder mystery type thing going down, and then pulls the rug out from under you, leaving you with a love story to be interested in, but when you get to the end, they pull the rug out form under you again.
Firewatch pretends to be a game
it pretends to have an interesting murder mystery story
and then it pretends to have a less interesting love story
but it sucks

9/10 bait

Just because you can makes whitout a story, doesn't mean that you can't make story focused games.

The more posts I see, the more I agree with you.

Michaël Samyn, one of the two people who made up Tale of Tales, launched a Patreon page to fund a series of articles dedicated to criticizing the gaming industry. “I can safely bite the hand that was unable to feed me,” he says in the Patreon description. “Maybe this will inspire some to make the many changes necessary to improve the situation. If not I hope it will contribute, however modestly, to the utter annihilation of videogames as we know them. That would be nice.”

At least one of these (you)'s is genuine and that saddens me

>all these posts
>no bioshock infinite
i'm disappointed Sup Forums

That's kind of Grasshopper's MO. Style over substance.

but at a certain point you may as well make a film. Gameplay is what makes the medium unique so it ought to be superlative. You can make games which use gameplay less sure, but they're going to feel like lesser games than ones that advance the medium or use it in a unique way. Narrative is really unimportant in film in the same way, you might as well just create a stage play.

A lot of Obsidian games, including KOTOR II. The SW prequels already gave us a balanced idea of the duality of the force and how can Jedi be blinded by arrogance, then Obshitian had to step in and substitute all that with forced, in your face, average obsidian rpg videogame tier intellectualism and characters that ultimately seem pointless and don't fit Star Wars universe in the slightest, it's really no surprising why no studio works with Obsidian twice, their pretentiousness simply makes them unable to stick to the universe they were hired to work on, so glad they are making their own garbage looking kickstarter games now, so they are easily avoidable.

It doesn't NEED a story, but it's nice to have. That's how much the medium has evolved. Games barely had stories back in the day and now that can be a big selling point for players.

Gahahahaha...im a stupid fag. I trolled you by being a stupid fag

This image is actually accurate though
Most of the pretentious fucks I know started out with legitimately good taste

>prequels

The game itself is enjoyable silly spy shit, but the fans are... well, they're special aren't they

Spec ops: the line or braid

>original doom
>pretentious
Literally said no one ever, it's one of the most simplest, made for fun games out there, and it's great because of it, shooters became garbage once they stopped taking inspiration from it.

>Drakengard
>good videogame

Talos Principle

That story got fucking weird. Even for a Metal Gear game.

Pillars of Eternity

Despite the fact i love xenogears surprised its not on here but this looks more like a good games ill try to bait with image.

Wow i can relate to every single red text, and i don't even feel bad

>Majora's Mask
A children's game that deals with dark themes with more tact than 90% of adult-oriented games
>Doom
One of the most influential games of all time that still holds up to this day
>Silent Hill 2
A game with so much symbolism that people are still debating over the meanings (and one of the best OSTs in video game history)
>Dark Souls
A game that changed the industry when it came out, despite being a budget title
>Dwarf Fortress
A game that one man has spent the better part of his life making, and happens to be one of the most in-depth games ever created

Yeah man wow so pretentious

I think you're mislabeling "historically significant" as "good".

Are you guys confusing overrated with pretension?

If you think the game is enjoyable silly spy shit and nothing else then I think you simply weren't paying attention.

Bloodborne.

NieR: Automata

Witcher 3 no doubt

Shadow of the Colossus.

It's time to accept that is not really that great.

Your favorite game.

>narrative
>unimportant in film
pleb """""""critics"""""" pretending to be patrician need to go. Narrative is a fucking part of human consciousness, fuck off with trying to tell which artforms need it and which don't

Dwarf fortress may be hard to get into, but why would it be pretentious. Have you ever hears anyone bragging about playing it?
Story times on /tg/ don't count, those are most of the times legitimately funny or at least interesting.

this is right but applies to all Taro games
people literally praise those games for being "so unique and intellectually stimulating" when compared to other "lesser" games

Holy fuck this..

Someone needs to show Obshitian this quote at once.

I think the NieR games are ahead of their time to be honest. Interactive storytelling is the future of video games, if it's ever properly utilized as an artform. Whether this is a good thing or bad thing

Sure, if you're some hipster faggot who couldn't cut it as a writer or director

If i'm looking for a good story i'd sure as hell look elsewhere than games

Fuck story faggots for forcing their pretentious pseudo intellectual shit on our hobby

>you simply weren't paying attention
You're proving my point, the game is great, the fans are pretentious

Meant to put 'is up to your interpretation' at the end there. Whoops.

but more words means the writing is better

fuck off, it's a great game. Yeah, the graphics blow donkey dick now, and the controls are a bit wonky, but thats it. Great music, truly unique gameplay, time attack modes for the hardcore that ALSO reward items that make the game play a bit differently. SotC is great, anyone who says otherwise can fight me.

Path Of Exile.

The initial amount of customization and itemization seems crazy until you realize that every build is just you focusing on one ability that you repeatedly spam while everything else boosts that ability. Every build plays this way.

Six new acts? Nah it's actually one new act, then the next five are retreads.

The variety in endgame or activities a character does isn't that high. If you can't Shaper/Uber, you farm T16, if you can you farm Shaper/Uber. This is regardless of your character being a "trader" or a "racer" or however it is the community tries to split implying ppl make different characters that do very relatively different things from each other. Mentioning this because all the maps, labs, etc. Makes it feel much larger than it is.

The game's racing community is pretty big to the extent that it's what gives it the popularity on Twitch over D3 even though D3 is more popular in all other metrics. But the game STILL hasn't fixed its desync and disconnecting problems yet. In fact, the guy in first place just died due to DC, and it wasn't even his fault! Like, how can you encourage something that has such shitty support in the game?

lol.

Fuck off back to your shit movies and books you didn't understand and had to look up online

Pretentious people are literal thrash. You're incapable of critical thinking, you have zero original thoughts and yet you feel superior based entirely on a false premise

You made a baseless claim. You don't know what pretentious means.

lets go ahead and stop calling a game pretentious just because some of the people who play it are.

>I'm dumb
>fuck those who are smarter than me for being smarter
Drumpf posters should return to Sup Forums

Team Fortress 2

Cat lady/Downfall

It was frustrating at the least. Would anything really have been different if the MC just killed herself from the start?

This, those games are so fucking stupid.

Undertale by far.

the fact that you don't understand how narrative works in art outs you as a complete pleb, sorry

>ctrl-f
>no the void
literally defintion of pretentious
shit's fucking unbearable

dwarf fortress devs are the most humble unassuming devs on the planet though, they are the opposite of pretentious.

her city would be fucked. pretty selfless actions driven by selfish desires.

You're right. Let's stop calling it pretentious and call it what it is; dog shit.

see

>game is free
>there's a paid version, but the only difference is the chance of the little old lady dropping dead at any moment.

it? I was referring to games in general, not any specific game. which game do you think is dog shit?

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