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Game franchises you like, but wish were another genre of video game? (pawb.social)
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So I got a bug in my butt to install Mortal Kombat 11 last night and was doing the story mode which is basically like a movie with intermittent fights and it occurred to me that I love Mortal Kombat but just the characters, the worldbuilding, and the lore. I've never been big on fighting games and as I age, I am finding it harder and harder to pull off special combos quick enough to even do much other than slapping buttons and hoping for the best.

My favorite MK game was one of the ones on PS2 where the story mode was basically God of War gameplay turning it from a fighter into an action adventure game.

If Midway were to make a Mortal Kombat title that was like Dark Souls but set on Outworld or something, that would definitely be my jam.

Another would be Warhammer 40k. I am not at all interested in the PnP gameplay nor a lot of the video games. But I love the lore and the game Rogue Trader is fucking dope, playing more like a traditional CRPG in that setting and not an RTS or straight up shooter.

Do y'a have any games like that? Where you like everything about them except the actual gameplay?

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[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

TBoI is from the guys that made Super Meat Boy, not CC. TBoI is like CC's poop jokes on steroids, at least in terms of frequency. There's an entire character who's based around eating poop and throwing it at enemies.

Though, TBoI is perhaps more likely to desensitize you. Save for the aforementioned character (not-so-coincidentally my least favorite out of all 34), most of the poop stuff in the game is just a simple sprite that you shoot and break, and it becomes something you don't really need to think about. There's no gross sound related to it and it isn't designed to look particularly disgusting. Especially since its something you see just about the whole time you're playing, it's easy enough to get used to. I can't think of any other game that manages to make me think something like "yay, golden poop!" without a second thought.

Compare that to Castle Crashers where everything's good and then there's suddenly a giant bat throwing gross looking and sounding crap at you during a fight, it really stands out more.