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Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by Gaxsun@lemmy.zip to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46035991

Good Day good people.

I am looking for some more examples of Video Games where there is a plot, but for one reason or another, the result of the plot is that nothing happens. My criteria for this is fairly lax on the "how" but in some sense, by some definition by the end of the game, absolutely nothing has happened. I'm hoping some of you fine people may be able to identify some instances of such a thing.

Examples (I've chosen to spoiler tag everything as just being listed gives away certain plot elements. All examples given here are niche titles from over 15 years ago).:

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (specifically the Japanese release): Huge inter-corporate conflict with several different factions and paths you can follow. One you go through all the different endings, the game reveals that it's just a simulation made by one guy to make sure no matter what happens in an upcoming conflict; your character, an AI, will kill the dude who cucked him.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin: You spend the whole game fighting Nyarlathotep to prevent him and the Nazis from destroying the world. At the end of the game, you fail and choose to abort the timeline and erase everyone else's memories, leaving the main character stranded in the doomed timeline.

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter: This is the most boring way for this to play out IMO as it's just a straight coma twist

So please. Let me know any and all games you can think of where the end result of the plot is that nothing happens. The more ridiculous, the better!

(Sorry, for repost. I didn't know about the crosspost feature)

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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (fantastic visual novel with an insanely complex story until you find out...)

The game's time-traveling events, all the locations you can go to, and the biomechanical enemy kaiju and your giant sentinel mecha fighting them don't exist; all the high-school staff and students have simulated bodies in a virtual world and are actually continually, rapidly rebuilt DNA goop in a cryoship whose computer got infected by a virus that involves an invasion of Japan by colossal, unmanned Martian terraforming machines-gone-rogue from a fictional, in-game manga, whose victories against the kids keep causing the computer to go haywire and resetting the simulation, repeatedly melting down the protagonists' half-formed bodies and restarting their bodybuilding cycle hundreds of times—until the start of the game, which is when you together finally break the loop in this last iteration, land on the new planet, and restart humanity post-Earth (which has been environmentally annihilated by ourselves, obviously).

Talk about a run-on sentence! And I don't know if "bodybuilding" is normally used in this literal way, lol.