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I honestly don't get it, so many great games would be so much less interesting without their political commentary. Imagine Bioshock without the anti-libertarianism, Final Fantasy 7 without the environmentalism and anti-capitalism, or Fallout without the satire of American Exceptionalism. It's honestly like the "politics ruin gaming" crowd actively want games to be worse.

I just beat phantom liberty and still doing the main game.

I didn’t think anything would come close to Elden Ring or BG3 (the only game I think I put ahead of my eternal favorite ff6) but this is really close. It’s absolutely one of the best games I’ve ever played. I think Phantom Liberty may be the next expansion ever and that is saying A LOT.

Incredible game.

That is all

Huge respect to CDPR for making this game, seriously I'm replaying this game after a long time and I'm realizing just how much content is in this amazing game. This game is open-world, and has true exploration, hidden ruins, portals to dungeons, underwater areas and hidden treasures, etc. Each city and region has their own unique vibe and ambience, especially Novigrad, Touissant, and Skellige. The main story is actually quite amazing, there are cutscenes for even small sidequests and events which CDPR didn't need to do but they did anyway, a lot of variety in gameplay with the materials and alchemy system with potion, oils, bombs, and decoctions, the crafting, and even exploiting enemy weakness by reading info about them preparing for a fight. My most favorite part of them all is the really fun minigames like fist fighting, horseback riding and we can't forget Gwent. All these little things combine together to create a truly alive open-world game that feels so immersive and fun to play.

In most games, it always advocate that good triumphs over evil. Realistically, that's not always the case. What are some games that shows this and you can choose to be evil too?

Now I'm not asking for obvious answers like DKC2 or Skyrim. I'm asking about games that barely anyone talks about, or belong in a genre that isn't necessarily known for good OSTs, that have surprisingly good soundtracks.

For example, I like browsing VGMs for samples to use in my music and I recently came across Reel Fishing Wild for the Dreamcast. Why is the OST for this obscure ass fishing game so damn beautiful? They really didn't need to dig that deep for this...

Holy crap. Just heard undertale megalovania in my surgery (i do xray / ct)

Awesome how its one of the only gaming musics ive heard so far thats gotten into the public sphere outside of gaming. Like how some WWE guy also utilized it too.

My surgeon has a pop techno electro dance kinda station and all of a sudden megalovania!!!

Besides this song, ive heard some final fantasy music at a bone museum nearby. And like the first ten seconds of command n conquer generals music in Physical 100. (Made a separate post about it)

So, like the title states. Ever heard vidya game music out in public before?

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I bought breath of the wild a few years ago and tried playing it but I really could not get into it. Since then I have tried to play it twice more and I always drop it at about the same time

I get that it is a vast open world and you can do things however you like and there is tonnes of things to do but it really just wasn’t doing anything for me

My experience was just ‘so I’ve spent the last 3 hours walking towards the first objective after the tutorial. Theres a camp of the same enemies every 15 minutes. All my weapons broke so I’m stuck with nothing. Other than the occasional shrine or tower I’m just wandering through mostly empty fields’

I like open world games that have at least some linearity or guidance on what to do. Maybe after the first objective that happens more but i don’t have the patience to push that far

It’s funny because i love ghost of Tsushima and even the open world assassins creed games which most people think are boring and repetitive

What am I missing?

As the title says leave your comments in the link below.

I’m talking, stories like outer wilds and the matrix(movie), Death Stranding… stories that’ll make you take a step back and rethink life. Stories that’ll hit you so deep, it’ll feel like you just died. I would prefer shorter games but open to longer games if it’s worth it… pretty new to story games so hit me with whatever you got.

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One of my best gaming memories is playing Red Dead Redemption on the PS3, intro cutscene was getting a little long so I put the controller on the floor while I was snacking, or whatever.

Cutscene ends I'm in the saloon, pick up the controller, bump the shoot button (and you actually start with a gun in that game unlike every other Rockstar game it seems.) Gun goes off I get a wanted level and immediately fail the first mission of the game in the first 3 seconds of gameplay.