How many times have you, as a gamer, saved the world or the universe? It could be ten, twenty or even fifty times but the story is generally the same, especially when it boils down to the standard “Aliens have invaded, fight back” or various riffs on such a theme. I’m getting a little tired of the grandiose nature of the current gaming landscape due to this focus on the “epic” scale of things. It feels as if a developer doesn’t have a fist-pumping narrative to really show off in trailers and interview then the game won’t sell, which is quite possibly true but as we increase the scale we lose a lot of personality leading to faceless scale and boring characters.
Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.
Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.
That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Sometimes i don't want to save the world, or defeat an alien invasion. There are lots of games that don't focus on that. Just focus on them for awhile for some easy rejuvination. Games like Journey, Dark Souls, Lumines, etc. will do the trick.
As long as the execution is interesting and fresh, then I don't see how the "save the world" plot would badly affect a game.