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mrbean343, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

BioShock 3. Game establishes that it is a multiverse. There are many worlds/universes, but there is always a girl, and always a light house. You did something bad and it caused suffering. At the end of the game, you go back and change something, and create a bright happy future. Everyone sings Kumbaya (literally they play a song called break the cycle). The idea is that there was a single event and everything bad happened because of that. Going back and stopping it prevents all the bad stuff. The problem is, that only works with “Back to the Future” style time travel. The game already established it is a multiverse. So yes, you did create 1 future where everything didn’t go to shit. But because it’s a multiverse there are still an infinite number of universes where things are still very bad, and there is suffering. For whatever reason the writers just didn’t think about that I guess? It seemed really asinine at the time I played it.

MyDarkestTimeline01, (edited )

spoilerI clocked its ending as you became a coalescence of all Bookers, and since all the Elizabeths kill you it stops you in every timeline in which you exist.

Hadriscus,

coalescence, I think

MyDarkestTimeline01, (edited )

One moment going to research that.

Update; you are correct and I changed my original comment. Thanks for the correction.

Hadriscus,

If it means the same as in french, convalescence is the period of time after an illness during which one recovers. Coalescence would be the action of joining/merging things

btw I never really got the ending of Bioshock Infinite, so your explanation is welcome. It felt a bit masturbatory to me at the time. It doesn’t help that I didn’t really enjoy the game itself, contrary to the previous two

MyDarkestTimeline01, (edited )

It does. My just having woken up brain mixed the two up.

Also, I was actually a huge(ba-dum-tiss) fan of it. It’s one of my favorites. It’s flawed and you can tell that it had to drop some things to make it out the door but I liked it. My wife and I actually have matching tattoos based on the series.

Tenderizer78, do gaming w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

All I’ve got are examples of plots where you have no impact on the plot. The world ends, or the world sucks, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

spoilerOuter Wilds, Diary of a Spaceport Janitor, Umurangi Generation, Norco

audaxdreik, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
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This reminds me that there’s an official fan translation for Persona 2: Eternal Punishment PSP version. It has some many quality of life improvements I was holding off on completing the duology until it was available.

StrixUralensis,
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Do you have links ? I'm interested

audaxdreik,
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github.com/sayucchin/P2-EP-PSP/

This isn’t the CJ Iwakura patch, but if you’re not into fan translation drama that won’t mean a whole lot to you. It’s fine!

pruwybn, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
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Final Fantasy, if i remember correctly - the time loop is broken so basically none of the bad stuff ever happened.

Kolanaki, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
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Damn near every time travel game I’ve played has ended where you basically stop yourself from starting the whole plot so that none of it ever happens.

In the sense that everything you did was pointless: BlastCorps. It’s a “puzzle” game about destroying everything in the way of an out of control truck carrying a world-ending nuke on it, with the goal of having it safely crash into the ocean… But it still blows up and destroys the world at the end. 😩

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
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I’d say in many time travel plots it is the entire point of the story to make nothing happen.

Like in Day of the Tentacle, you want to go back to yesterday so that Purple Tentacle cannot take over the world.

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

Firewatch was the biggest disappointment for me because the big mystery they hype up for most of the game just ended up being a nothing burger.

Jajcus, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

Braid

smiletolerantly, do games w Grow a Garden Calculator

I was SO confused until I checked the community.

Thought this was about literal, real-world vegatable gardens as a hobby.

gressen,

Same here, I think there would be a real use for such tool.

smiletolerantly,

Well… In my case it would be “calculate how much loss you’ve been making by growing your own veggies!”, lol.

(Container gardening and watering add up, but I am not complaining, I am not doing this to save/earn money)

donuts,

Lol yeah I was like “why the fuck is the first data point profit?!”

coupongpts, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #16

That’s a really cool idea you mentioned! Sounds like a fun project. Whenever I start something new, I find the hardest part is coming up with a good name for it. I’ve been using this awesome name generator for inspiration lately. It’s great for getting the creativity flowing.https://www.bestnamegenerators.com

coupongpts, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #16

Has anyone here gotten into the simulation game ‘Grow a Garden’? I started playing it recently and it’s pretty addictive. I even found a handy calculator for that game that helps you plan the most efficient garden layout. If you’re into that type of sim game, I’d definitely recommend checking it out.https://www.grow-a-garden-calculator.app

Honytawk, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

The Last Of Us.

The entire plot is about getting this girl to a location, only to get there, kill everyone and leave again. They could have stayed at home and the result would have been the same.

Same with The Mandalorian, the ending in Boba Fett completely invalidated the entire show. But that isn’t a video game.

StrixUralensis, do games w Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
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Minecraft ? Other sandbox games ?

AceFuzzLord, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 10th

Mostly the pokemon fangame Pokemon Decay.

I was going to break my years long permanent quitting of minecraft to try a modpack, but Curseforge wasn’t working on my laptop and then I accidentally deleted a bunch of appimages off my device and have given up on mc since.

popcar2, do games w Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes?

Some of my favorites:

I had a bigger list around somewhere but I can’t find it… These games are all pretty darn good though.

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