As badly described as possible, what is your favorite video game?

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You end up stranded on a foreign planet. You need to build a rocket so you can go home, but unfortunately you have to build a whole manufacturing facility to do that. As if this wasn't hard enough, the inhabitants of the planet are environmentalist assholes and will do anything in their power to stop you.

Luckily you can knit nuclear reactors with your bare hands, once you've figured it out, and stuff them in your pockets for later. This is helpful.

Also don't forget your omega-3 fatty acids when you go a-wandering

Red chips. Green science. Expand the mainbus.

Watch out for the trains...

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Getting insulted by a sassy robot while you solve puzzles and try not to die.

A chip is implanted in a potato and you have to find your way out of an underground installation.

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Points for "sassy robot." But you could have described it worse. This was the first one I could identify.

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Upon being released from prison, you thrust yourself directly into the local religions and governments until everyone can agree that you're the rebirth of divinity, at which point you doom the game world to death by giant fucking meteor by poking a large heart with really specific silverware.

Kid gets sick of being told to clean his room and runs away from home, but it's more difficult than he anticipates. In desperation, he reaches out to his estranged relatives for help, which just makes his dad even more mad.

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you land on an alien planet, burn down trees, pollute the air, exterminate the native wildlife, drain the land of all natural resources, pave it all over with concrete, put some fish on a rocket, do not elaborate, leave

another one:

you land on an alien planet, exterminate the native wildlife, do not elaborate, leave

Wolfman dies, kills some monkeys, does some rope stuff, performs eye surgery and kills himself (depending on what ending you go for).

A guy goes to work and encounters unexpected events

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Ooh, look at this beautiful vast open world! Let's go explo-YOU DIED

YOU DIED

YOU DIED

YOU DIED

Elden Ring right?

Could also be the switch Zelda games

Elden Ring was the correct answer, but I don't disagree. I just played BOTW and am now playing TOTK. Up until you get a few heart container upgrades it might as well be Legend of Zelda: Darkness of the Souls.

Once you get to the second row of hearts, it's a much easier game though.

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Zombie convict secret agent gets sidetracked in a "never ravine' by secret village witch ghosts to find a wacked-out politician in a volcano.

Omg this is great. I was trying to figure out how I’d describe this game in the theme of the post, but coming up blank. You nailed it.

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You're an alien frog archaeologist that launches themself into space in a rocket jerry-rigged out of wood and ancient alien goat-person tech. After dying repeatedly in several excruciating and brutal ways you learn to embrace death.

You take a break from roasting marshmallows over a camp fire to go solve the deepest mysteries of the universe.

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Guys, I have the best idea - guys! I hav- Guys! Best Idea! - I have the best idea ever! Guys! Listen! We'll put 64 huge rockets on a tiny pod and then forget to add parachutes. Brilliant.

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I married my cousin, had an affair with my sister and then joined a religious sect that requires me to be naked all the time.

Sounds like a typical CK3 experience

That'll teach me for not reading the post properly. It says badly describe a game, and I went and accurately described it :p

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Incompetent engineer arrives to work late, botches an experiment, and ends up ripping a hole in the universe to a world full of "creatures". He then mercilessly murders the scared creatures while sabotaging efforts by security forces, and an elderly man in a suit, to resolve the situation.

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Fall really far a lot. Stick sticks to big sticks. Throw fruit to avoid confrontation. Frequent fashion changes. Still can’t pet dogs.

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Hit things with fists so that you can hit them with farming implements later on.

It would have been easier to just fix the crashed ship than to build a whole factory to make a new one

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You wake up in a quarrantine zone. Despite having no medical qualifications, you need to cure a global pandemic before you are permitted to leave.

If you manage to succeed, your reward is your life saved and then more debt than you can hope to repay in a thousand lifetimes when you leave quarrantine.

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Keep burning to death over and over again as you desperately try to gather knowledge of previous civilizations in order to save(?) the universe.

You settle a dispute between two snakes who can't agree on whether or not to turn off the light. Not as many swamp levels as the sequels.

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You pull animal-like creatures from their natural habitats to make them fight each other in a way that they somehow consent, in a franchise that systematically weeds out the good ideas from each game while retaining the bad ones.

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Person and person and person don't like other person. The person and person and person work Make other person no have place. Make big word. Person big word person big word other person big word other person.

Make big mad. Many time. Person say big word person. Some person make no person. Make finish person and person and person big no happy, maybe big happy. Make big finish.

Inspired by person do thing

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You're a disenfranchised spacefaring race perpetually performing an, ultimately, menial task in an extremely hostile and dangerous environment. You only exist to create wealth for the company, at the expense of your health and wellbeing. Personal relationships are fleeting as you only interact with strangers you are randomly teamed up with to complete a job at which the company has neither adequately trained or equipped you to do well. Climbing the social ladder in your community is a function of finding ways to more efficiently extract resources from a ripe planet unable to sufficiently defend itself from your advanced technology.

I don't think I followed your prompt, but I got carried a way.

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It’s the pew pew game. You go pew pew and everyone is like aaaaargh, and then you take their stuff. Bigger guns, more pew pew.

You are the Janitor's assistant.

You leave every single room looking like a literal tornado passed through.

You are, in all probability, the best assistant the janitor has had.

This displeases some of the higher-ups, but they don't seem to be able to do anything to stop you or the janitor.


Another game: God is about to die literally any minute now, but it's probably fine because God is really, really, really fast.

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Just trying to live my life and get with big tiddied Cleopatra. Gandhi comes over and cock blocks me with nukes. That's all right though, my Giant Death Robot is teabagging Delhi right now while I launch a satellite. - Abe Lincoln

Five assholes, four idiots, and then there's me.

Keep doing the same damn show over and over, the definition of insanity.

Might refer to more games than one, but just let it be.

Because anyway, you eventually lose your humanity.

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Man leaves gang, teaches dominatrix how to do her job, gets really good at dancing and finds his love for slot car racing.

OP said as badly as possible. You left out the little subplot about the gang still trying to involve you but otherwise this is spot on.

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Smug accelerating rodent and company gaze on in horror as a mad scientst pisses on the moon.

YOU HAVE 23 HOURS UNTIL THE PISS D R O P L E T S FALL TO EARTH

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A girl relies in old emails, social media posts and obsolete sites to understand the reality of the world and avoid murderbots' attempts to destroy everybody.

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A farmer coughs in your face, and then you slowly get sick and eventually die.

but not quick enough to commit some ecocide of the local wildlife?

::: spoiler spoiler RDR2? :::

Go spelunking and become immune to nearly all forms of damage, only to step on a drop of funny pink liquid, get turned into a sheep, get set on fire and die.

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fetishized well dressed fleshsteel interdemensional abominations commit intergalactic genocide at the behest of their flower based mother figure.

experience storytelling featuring family values, political commentary, and conversations with an actual wall!

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You attack a tree, then make tools to attack things even better. You need to now attack dirt and then stone to make better tools. After that, you can attack more stone in hopes of finding valuables. When you find blue thing, you can attack solid cola, and make a rectangle, then curse it by lighting it on fire. Now you agree in hell. You should be proud of yourself. Now you can attack fires with your tools, or if you collected snowballs before, you can also torture them. When they die, you pull out their penis, break them to make fire-thing. Then kill living magmas, and then extract their magma that was inside them, and make it into magma balls. After that, you can kill tall black people, and collect their balls. Then you can merge the fiery-things, the magma balls, and the black people's balls to make some eyeballs. You can then throw the eyeballs (one at a time), and follow them until they fall down where you stand. Then you can start attacking dirt and stone again, until you get into an underground house. Find a room that has a rectangle made from the eyeball's material, go there, and put the remaining eyeballs there, but look out for gray bugs! Now you get to the void on a floating solic cola, then use the stone you attacked to go to another floating thing that is made of solid pee. You should see big dragon. If you made bows, you can start shooting, and when big dragon is down, you can also attack it with a sword. But beware! Big dragon can also fuck you over, and shoot you out of the void into space. If you managed to destroy big dragon, at the center of the pee island, you should see cola spawn inside solid cola. Just jump in there, and you beat the game!

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Alien crashes on planet and murders the native population in order to build contraptions that pull rocks out of the ground and cooks and smashes them together

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Normal mailman gets shot and robbed, embarks on quest for revenge, acidentaly changes politics of the area forever.

You get stranded on an alien planet and in the process of trying to get home you get distracted with destroying the planets resources and native population

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You try to land on the moon but you just keep missing for some reason. So you go to read alien scriptures on some hourglass or whatever

In a world full of robots you live your live in the wilds until your stepdad gets killed and all of a sudden all these religious tribes around you want you to save humanity.

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There is a box. It's a very old box. It might have a thing in it. Everyone tells you to not open it. The game tells you to not open it. You probably opened it on your first playthrough.

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Virgin seeking love.

Enjoys long walks on beaches, lakes, rot etc. Travelling is my passion!

Environmentally conscious. Believes in, loves and supports global warming. Burn those trees down!

Dislikes: lobster.

Interested? Write me back soon! I love a good old finger written note. I'm old fashioned like that x

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β€œHey Siri, how much meat can you get off an adult male moose?” β€œMoose can be processed for over 200 kilograms of meat.” β€œWELL THIS IS FUCKING BULLS-oh no the pretty, scary lights are back.”

No, hear me out, it's cool: The more you eat, the more skilled you become at eating, until you can eat rotten and spoiled food - no problem.

Don’t you dare talk to me, my knife, hatchet, other knife, bow, revolver, other hatchet, or signal gun ever again, you hear me?

…oh maybe that’s why I can’t jump…

I just, like, want to like, grow my plants in peace, man.. and like, totally be one with nature on the edge of town, and like..give these really awesome crystals to this cute chick with blue hair who totally, like, picks up the cosmic vibe of them.

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A group comprised of individual avant-garde artists who are also amateur athletes each travel around a city collecting art supplies while listening to broadcasts so they can create several colourful palimpsests without getting beaten or shot.

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Gigantic balls that you shove your nose into.

Also, people who purposefully pretend to drive poorly because their parents don't openly show them affection.

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One armed topless homosexual tricks gullible mass murderer with a shape changing laser sword into freeing him from super sleep meanwhile robin williams impersonator fools an entire religious group into believing he is not one of them somehow hiding his space wizard powers from all the other space wizards before basically killing them all.

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Funny masked people rob the Whitehouse at 15 fps and get kicked or lose connection before you finish.

A group of teenagers who hate loud music die. Then they eat a bunch of food and meet/become god. Also maybe they become better people or something? IDK, I'm still trying to influence fashion to min/max my stats.

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Rock and stone

They said described as badly as possible, not the most known phrase for an extremely popular game

Your mom dies, your brother runs away so now your dad spends all his time looking for him, and your village gets overtaken by fascists, oh and you're like 12. Somehow it's your job to save the world though.

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tradie goes on murderous rampage, breaks into multiple historical buildings trying to find his girlfriend.

Not necessarily my favorite, but I couldn't think of something better:

A girl who orgasms at the thought of battling children, little miss crippling social anxiety, and mister daddy/mommy issues all need your help!

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You and a girl are having fun at the fair until a portal opens. You enter the portal for everyone to claim your girl is a queen.

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Jumping around obstacles and running away from gunshots, but you'll spend most of the time falling to your death.

Big chickens, big cats, big squirrels, big whatever the fuck that thing is. Better kill or capture them using my big sword.

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You touch something you shouldn't have, then nobody would ever believe what you've seen, but you keep trying to convince every species in the galaxy.

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You kinda play with reincarnations of Adam and Eve but original Eve was kind of Adam's mom. Current Adam has a lot of trauma he tries to shut away with different personalities but then the ghost of his previous incarnation takes over his father's body to try to push the traumatized personality out. Eventually you discover a kid on a lab who comes to life in your presence and she tells you it was an even older incarnation of Adam who created her artificially based on Eve because nobody could have natural kids anymore at that time but that didn't really wipe humans out either. And all through the game some sort of AI with the personality of some very old folks had been spying on you through your save files. In the end current Adam and Eve fall out of the sky naked but inside a giant robot, with all your friends watching you from a distance because they can't fly since your actions made every other giant robot stop working, except for yours.

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Virgin man dismantles mafia fighting over a tiny ass piece of land. He beats up everyone (sometimes with a rpg) without killing anyone ever while doing random bullshit like racing toy cars on the side and helping people around the city.

Also he crosses paths with a less kind one eyed man who runs a brothel.

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Fight for scraps and die. Die 5 more times from getting beat with a rock. Fight for more scraps and get small base. Lose all scrap in base from asshole clan. Beat head against wall in frustration. Oh and die some more and do it all again tomorrow.

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You're an ex CEO of a Japanese company, but somehow are still pulled in their affair.

Spikey hair man, a stuffed animal friend, a meow meow best animal friend, a cigarette smoking space uncle, black gun arm man, big boobie bestie, christian pink girl, thieving ninja girl, and emo vampire-esque goth daddy re-enact Armageddon and also fight long white hair man with mommy issues. Also a dirty old man with floating crystals, no legs, and the ability to fly gives you advice.

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Wake up in a zombie apocalypse and then die after over 100 playtime hours with the same character because of a little mistake losing everything.

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Participate in dream therapy and fall asleep and follow a doctor's voice as you have your mind broken over and over by optical illusions until you wake up and then cry irl at the ending speech.

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Someone's fursona goes to war against an ecocidal billionaire with his robot boyfriend and vandalises a lot of street lights while making PG sex jokes

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You're an outlaw who steals the pets of other people and must recruit them to stop a corrupt mayor and his army of evil Power Rangers from setting up animal abuse factories.

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An endless conveyor belt of new recruits get lasered in the face, squeezed by snakes, shocked by electric batons, and mind controlled while trying to save their home from the ayylmaos.

They also frequently have Sears photoshoots taken of their squads to plaster around the game as propaganda.

(answer: click my profile and see the only community I mod. Then join us!)

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you make people eat things they hate and they kill each other over boulders in the visible vicinity. sometimes the higher power tries its best to kill them, other times you get 36 milk.

Mario finds out that Toads are very racist and sexist rednecks

Boy and his friends fight the dick neighbor kid, who is trying to take over the world with an eldritch horror from space.

you wake up in a desert, and you get your face kicked in over and over until eventually you get enslaved

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So there's this dude bro with a dead bunny, right. He's so pissed off about it that he eventually kills God

You know all those books and literary analysis you had to do in Englidh class that you hated? Yeah what if we made a game about those guys? Oh and don't worry, we got guys from all over the globe, so we're going to make you relive that pain regardless if you're from Spain or Korea. Oh you liked that part of class? Good news! We made Rodion Raskinolov an anime waifu!

Alternatively: solving a centuries long race war in the only way we know how - with 13 year olds and 90's themed warfare! It's not a child soldier if the military doesn't know about it! We swear this is deadly serious we gave the kid a FN P90

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