>rain hits the camera

>characters are added to the title screen as you unlock them

>>712539004 (OP)
>antagonist is afraid/worried once you make enough progress

Death stranding?

>Company name/logo is an easter egg in-game
>Main menu changes depending on how far in-game you are
>game's soundtrack changes depending on time of day
>character's idle animation changes to fit weather conditions
>Collecting required quest items before even getting to the next step has unique dialogue

>main theme / remix plays on final boss

>>712539004 (OP)
>final boss has your same exact powers or "dark" version of your powers
CINEMA

>>712539004 (OP)
>Large character has small child companion

>>712539308
>leitmotif connecting the cast
>final boss theme shifts into mc theme

>>712539004 (OP)
>medieval-esque fantasy world
>actually post-apocalyptic future

>final battle is both of your characters fighting, and you get to decide who to play.

>>712539991

Endsinger?

>>712539004 (OP)
>mc is depressed

>>712539004 (OP)
>bird shit hits the camera

>>712539209
>antagonist fights confidently till his last breath

>>712539004 (OP)
>badass guy does a big attack
>damages something non-diagetic like the UI or the borders of the screen

>NPC realizes you're in NG+

>characters on opposing sides find forbidden love

>sequence shot that basically sums up how shit got so bad.
Typically zombie shit does it like the first person camera of Dead Island 1.

>>712540312
>Character loses in-universe HUD
>The player UI goes haywire

>>712540354
Sauce? there is about a thousand fucking animations of them together.

>>712540517
pff, i wish..you're just lazy, anyway the source is Overwatch

>>712540296
>early game antagonist gets betrayed and killed by the secret real antagonist
>comes back at the end for some "I lived, bitch" revenge moment when all hope seems lost

>Play as rebels
>Defeat the empire
>Become new empire
>Game ends with people rebelling against you

>>712540320
>mysterious NPCs and big bad realise you are on NG++++, resolve all game's conflicts instantly and join you to take down the actual super hyper definitely most final boss

>>712540485
>the UI starts lying to you/directly addressing the player
Love a good mimdfuck moment like that

>>712540517
It's literally on the first page of results for
>tracer + widowmaker + animated
you fucking retard.
it's futashit

You are not the hero. You are the hero's sidekick. The villains and heroines mainly address the hero, not you. You are an observer, either roped into the conflict or wanting to do something about it and force your way onto the team. You start weak, and as you level, gradually come to replace the hero as the strongest and most important on the team, which they acknowledge.

>fishing minigame for no discernable
reason

>>712540731
Name one (1) game

>game has a fishing minigame for no discernable reason

>>712540697
>spoiler

>game has mimics

>>712540879
Code vein, oblivion (kinda)

>>712539004 (OP)
>Villain can become an optional recruitable ally
Chrono Trigger does this. If they're a villain who just joins later, it doesn't count, it must be optional.
>>712539114
Paper Mario Thousand Year Does this great.
>>712539991
Pokemon Violet and Scarlet go hard on the leitmotif. From the early game to mid game to end game, the main theme is always part of most major tracks.
>>712540128
I personally don't like it, Nier Automata did it "best" because it's require to do unlock the best third route end in the decision branch.
>>712540320
Persona games do this well.

My favorite trope would have to be horror games/movies "diaries/recordings" from people who are obviously going to die. In real life it wouldn't make sense, but they're charming enough that they get a pass. Dead Space has tons of them that make you laugh or feel unnerve.

>>712539004 (OP)
>new villain so threatening the hero and franchise's original villain have to team up to fight
>in the end the original villain overpowers the new one and becomes the final boss

>>712540673
>NG+ in an in-universe thing, you have dialogue options that reference having done things before

>>712539004 (OP)
>a powerful foe maims you at the start of the game and it is your quest to regain your strength and defeat them

>>712540879
thug hero party

>>712541072
>In real life it wouldn't make sense
Dude that is common enough to the point of being automated in black boxes. It's extremely common in war too but suppressed for rather obvious morale reasons.

>>712540697
>get this gay shit
>the shit they tell me to do doesnt fix it
fuck this gay earth

>>712539004 (OP)
>the final boss theme is the menu theme

>>712540669
that sounds too kino to actually be real

>>712541140
You can kill him in a regular cycle or NG+ but the game cheats your victory over him in a special short cutscene.

>>712541134
>the previously bat shit insane characters start making sense when you start looping too

>>712540879
Final Fantasy XII.

>>712540879
Metal gear 2

>>712540669
EVIL
FUCKING
WIZARD

>>712541230
works on my machine

>>712539004 (OP)
>Final mission: [Game's title]

>>712541171
So this is the new Boku no Pico, huh

>>712541467
I wasn't joking

>>712539308
>THUNDER, RAIN, AND LIGHTNING!
>DANGER. WATER RISING!

> Game's main theme builds over the video game's acts from simple melody to a complex orchestra over the course of the game, with the final act being the crescendo of the entire symphony.

>>712539004 (OP)
>Old man shows that he is still a formidable foe.

>Music tracks have two versions, a combat and an out of combat one.
>Rathat than music transitioning from an out-of-combat music to combat music, the out-of-combat music picks up and becomes combat music.
Only one game series ever did this, and I have no idea why nobody copied them.

>>712539004 (OP)
>final boss is fucking massive

>Characters are trans

For me it's levels/bosses that are themed on the 7 deadly sins

>>712541140
>you can win the fight you're meant to lose for plot reasons
>villain will acknowledge you before finishing you off if you do it on NG+
>If you do it on NG, villain is genuinely flabbergasted

>>712541272
>You can kill him
No you can't. You can "beat" him, but he still wins in said cutscene.

>>712539004 (OP)
>character/s who stay behind to stop enemy reinforcements somehow show up together for the final fight
>bonus points if it was a character that "died" in a previous part of the story who saved them all

>>712541506
You might think that's funny but I've already seen the same response four (4) times to different questions. I doubt the game is everything in existence.

>>712541707
Only shit games do this

>Antagonist just wants to die

>>712541747
>you get to play the sequence where you stay behind to buy time for the others to escape
>by the end the enemy troops are visibly nervous and hesitant to approach you

>>712541750
that doesn't mean it's not some things

>>712539004 (OP)
>silent protagonist talks during the final stage

>>712539004 (OP)
>Enemy is literally just you but "evil"
>Fight starts with Enemy walking towards you SLOWLY

>you team up with the whole enemy faction to defeat an even bigger evil

>>712542017
>endgame fight starts with YOU walking towards the enemy slowly

>>712541092
mario and luigi 3 (kind of )
DMCV
Megaman V
chrono trigger (if you count the fight with Magus in the castle a fakeout climax)
Pokemon red and blue
Thousand year door (penultimate boss fight after you fight x-naut leader)
FInal Fantasy IV ???

>go behind waterfall
>signpost there from the devs telling you you're retarded for expecting a chest back there

>reoccurring villain retains battle damage from previous encounters

>boss phase shifts
>boss theme's lyrics kick in

>kino game tropes

Final boss is (you) from the future

>>712542682
(you) are the final boss

>>712542437
reflux in rayman 3
the bear thing in Dynamite Headdy (gradually loses limbs)
Solidus Snake (THEY GOT MY EYE)
Revolver Ocelot
Volgin from MGS3 to MGSV
Jack in RE7
Alien in Alien Isolation

>>712540879
Infinite Undiscovery

my favorite shitty jrpg forever stuck on the xbox360

>>712540879
Tales of Symphonia does something like this iirc, youre just a close friend of the chosen girl who has to go one some generic JRPG journey or something like that I dunno its been like 20 years since I played the damn thing

>>712539004 (OP)
Rain hitting the camera blows ass. I want to see the rain. Not what it looks like behind a window

>>712539004 (OP)
>rain hits camera
>camera
>videogame
Into the trash it goes, the only time the rain should hit something is if there is actually something there to hit like a helmet or visor.

>>712544296
Metroid Prime was so dope for having things like enemies splatter your visor if you kill the juicy ones too close or rain hitting it and steam fogging it up for a bit.

>>712541680
IIRC FTL kinda did this

>>712541680
Jak 2

>>712540879
Dragon Quest 5

>>712544012
Oh and you are the son of the super chosen one ancient warrior AND your other father happens to have made the super mysterious plot device sword. What a coincidence.

>>712539308
>the menu theme weirdly stands out from other fromsoft games
>it's cool but feels kind of out of place
>step into the erdtree
>immediately get boner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-9bfbCAAc
Genuinely one of the coolest fucking bosses in any game, then he is immediately followed by a dogshit momentum killing boss instead of a proper phase two
also
>the sound of the elden ring shattering is incorporated into the song

>>712539991
Metaphor finall battle theme

>>712539004 (OP)
Your love interest, with which you end up together, is a redhead.

>>712542017
Stellar kino.

>>712539308
Castlevania IV. Holy kino

>dynamic clothing/armor damage

>>712540879
Dawntrail lmao

>Shits looking bleak
>Suddenly power up moment
>Your theme starts playing
Final boss STANDS NO CHANCE

>select "New Game"
>main menu seamlessly transitions into the opening of the game
I can't remember all the games that do this but I remember loving that in God of War on PS2.

>>712540731
Elona(and Elin)

>>712546069
nuGod of War also does that

>>712540696
>fission mailed

>>712541230
Open original, nigger.

>Humanoid bioweapon/supersoldier project gone wrong becomes an ally
>They have that one scene where they just go apeshit on the enemy
>Have to talk them back down with something OTHER than friendship/a love confession for the love of God fuck that shit hard

>>712547446
>seamlessly transitions to cutting a tree
it's not the same

>>712548604
why is cutting a tree bad?

>>712548815
might serve as a weird intro for a game titled
GOD of WAR

>>712549146
it's called build-up lil zoom-zoom

>>712549189
right i forgot how the other 3 games started with Kratos doing his chores
faggot

>>712549381
>why isn't this game like other game
because it's a different game, lil zoom-zoom

>>712549474
take some advice from it and be a better bot then

>>712549529
i am, since i am not complaining like a little bitch about chores

>new ip from a company is actually a hidden prequel/sequel to another old franchise of theirs
love shit like this, especially if its something that only fans of the other franchise would recognize

>>712545698
>*Tranny voice*: SCHPHEEEENNNNNNEEEEE

>character from a previous game abruptly shows up
>hype rearrange of an otherwise somber theme from the previous game starts playing

>>712549189
Imagine if the Tomb Raider games started off with Lara going shopping instead of getting ready to raid a tomb

>>712547446
Is NuGoW worth playing if I really like the old ones? It looked like the typical modern Sony "walk-forward-slowly-while-characters-spout-dialogue" moviegame shit that I despise but I could be wrong, the action looked okay.

>>712540320
>NG+ is actually canon and explained through time travel
>protagonist is the only one aware it's NG+
>antagonists actually piece together that the protagonist somehow knows their entire strategy and change their strategy to be stronger and more unpredictable accordingly

>>712539004 (OP)
>character is named Kino

>>712549669
Are you saying you would hate for her game to start with her going shopping for some new guns and survival gear? Also i am pretty sure the new games don't start with her immediately raiding a tomb.

>>712548272
wat

>>712548272
dumb fuck

>>712539004 (OP)
worst part of MK 11

>>712550104
>for some new guns and survival gear
That constitutes getting ready to raid a tomb so no, I'm talking clothes or grocery shopping or some shit, but even packing provisions for an expedition would be lame as fuck

>>712550316
Kratos cuts the tree for firewood, a survival element, since he had a fire going in the house.

>>712550506
Bro this is God of War, not God of Surviving Cold Climate

>your character has a personal space that you get to visit between missions
Bonus points if it reflects your progress in the game and/or is customizable. Shit's comfy.

>>712540669
SNES Ogre Battle?

>>712550686
kek anon won the argument, other anon btfo

>>712550686
yeah but the game writer wanted Kratos to cut a tree, so yeah. Guess you're not the target audience

>>712539004 (OP)
>Objective: Survive

>>712539004 (OP)
>title screen changes after major story events

>>712541092
System Shock 2

>>712553753

>>712539004 (OP)
>the ending shows how the lives of your friends/allies are going after the events of the game

>>712539114
>villains are added to the title screen as you discover them

>>712540673
Bravely default?

cutscene music progresses perfectly into the gameplay
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BB6XPMdzzpY&t=83s

>>712549614
realizing where I was made me unironically soi gape

>>712549146
oh but some suicidal dude jumping off a cliff is fine?

>Attract mode is actually good at the game
Nothing kills a vidya boner more than a game that can't play itself

>hero getting absolutely curbstomped by the final boss
>gets cheered on or sometimes quite literally powered up by every random NPC and sidequest character you've helped throughout your journey
>gets back up for one final push

>>712557257
>powered up by every random NPC and sidequest character you've helped throughout your journey
Persona 4?

>>712549614
Infopill me anon
According to google image, that's from metaphor. What's the reference here? A map of SMT?

>>712557364
persona didn't invent the spirit bomb anon. neither did DBZ but that's besides the point

>>712557425
Even better, it's a map from Etrian Odyssey, specifically the final stratum where you realize it was never a fantasy world, but our world the entire time, and that while you were going down a labyrinth, at the bottom of it you see the sky.
https://youtu.be/FKcxyCTDW1A
https://youtu.be/Nsbdw_k2vYQ

alright enough wholesome positivity
let's discuss tropes that worsen whatever they're in

>>712550716
based

>>712558069
Ah, that's neat.
Was aware of etrian's twist, but didn't know metaphor would do a callback to it.

>MC from the first game meets the new protag of the sequel and becomes his mentor/bro

>>712539004 (OP)
>Overworld theme changes in the last stretch of the game as a build up to the end
https://youtu.be/cjbn2BuhEkg?si=HfoCwYJSmUbXB6dZ
https://voca.ro/11jlIUdw4HOh

>games with unapologetically well designed characters and camera angles

>>712558789
classic

>>712539004 (OP)
>train level where you fight your way to the front

>>712557035
>beating the game changes the attract mode
>it shows you how to do secret techniques

>>712539004 (OP)
>in racing games, when a plane or a chopper flies over the track

>>712550716
based

>final mission name is the name of the game

>final mission objective: survive
>you know that you cant

>>712539004 (OP)
>Do events of the the game out of order
>game acknowledges this through alternate dialogue

I like getting pat on the back for thinking outside the box and not doing things the “intended” way.

>>712540731
Asscreed Valhalla kinda?
Sigurd, the chief of your clan is usually in charge whenever he's around but you two are basically siblings, so you have a lot of pull to begin with. In the end he passes leadership onto you.

Guild Wars 2 until they kill off the treeman and you become the big dick commander

Last Story iirc but you get mystic power'd pretty early on

>>712539004 (OP)
>breaking the 4th wall for any reason

>>712558193
>unskippable cutacenes
Not a trope but whatever

>>712541680
Fire Emblem did that awesome

>>712541680
ultrakill does this really well

>>712541713
Overlord
>adventurer party that "won" and fell victim to their vices

>>712542437
Nemesis system (rip)

>>712542682
>>712543116
did the third game have a cool finale?

>>712558193
>kill countless evil mooks and help people during gameplay
>game gives you a choice to spare or kill some literal who leader of the mooks that apparently has wronged you in the past
>killing him locks you out the good ending

>>712539004 (OP)
I remember seeing this in vice city and it was the craziest thing

>>712554681
even if it's just still images with some narration, I need my fucking closure, man

>>712563008
Erm ackshually you're le heckin bad guy if you kill Evil McOrphanslayer right after he announces his plans to commit multiple genocides

>>712562136
>accept quest to get spme thing
>"I already have thing"
>quest complete
big dick energy

>your party members in the tutorial become the bad guys for the rest of game

>ammo expended in cutscene is reflected in available resources post-cutscene

>>712563695
ac3 and uhhhhhh that's it

>>712564273
not exactly the same but the Trooper storyline in SWTOR starts with you joining a new squad only for them to defect and leave your ass behind
think MGS3

>>712539004 (OP)
>main menu changes as you progress
>objective: kill your mentor, kill [character] that you've known the entire game anything along those lines
>character gets back up after getting beat down
>main theme starts playing

>>712557257
>game is so fucking long that you have forgotten who most of them are
oof

>>712558193
>game ends on a cliffhanger
>never continues it despite getting several more games

Any boss with a helicopter in the background it must be some written rule that if there's a helicopter in the background (or the boss IS a helicopter) it has to be as kino as possible

>villain of a previous game joins the hero to take down a new bigger threat
Always so fun to have the villain and hero banter back and forth

>>712539004 (OP)
>Final Boss’s attack pattern syncs with a music album

>>712541986
nah

>elevator levels
Maybe it's just nostalgia but I miss them.

>final boss is your bro
>during the fight you get flashback to the moments you spent together, before being snapped back to reality and the fight

>>712563008
If you kill him you will be just like him! Because, uh karma or some shit idk.

>antagonist who is basically an annoyance you embarrass in the first part of the game keeps coming back more and more pissed until he barges in on the final battle and through sheer force of seething hatred becomes the bigger threat

>>712549189
>it's called build-up
No bro it's called shit introduction

>>712563447
Orphans are unloved and unwanted.

>>712541072
>tons of them that make you laugh or feel unnerve.
Hey my peanus weanus does that too! :D

>>712541727
Wait the cutscene is different on NG and NG+?

>>712540879
White Knight Chronicles and its sequel.

>attack is so powerful it destroys the screen

>>712563523
>Wait why do you already have thing

>>712539004 (OP)
>last mission is a suicide mission

>>712540879
Deltarune in a very literal way

>>712570361
>Objective: Survive

>game gives an unwinnable minigame
>if you know the gimmick you can win and the rigger gets really mad

>hidden dev room
>little representations of the devs there tell you fun facts about the game's development or just have little fun messages

>Play as the rebels
>win
>worse than the "evil" empire

>boss takes away a good chunk of your moveset you've gained throughout the game
>slowly claw your power back as you beat the shit out of him

>>712571773
>the community of rebels is based on helping each other without recompensation and doesn't have competition for resources or crime because.... that's just how it is because they are the good guys okay?

>final level is the place where you set an adventure for the first time

>>712572806
>final boss unleashes an ultimate attack that uses the very first mechanics taught in the game

>>712549614
>>712558069
>Edeni decides to call the island Eht Ria
>Literally Etria
lmao

>Villain delivers his justifying monologue and it makes perfect sense, but the protagonist is having none of it
>The game has you play the villain, now the protagonist, for the final confrontation

Unfortunately, no game that I can think of has done this

>>712539004 (OP)
>Final boss has three stages
>Each stage has music that builds up on one another
>Last stage music contains remixes of the game theme/first village theme

>>712539004 (OP)
>antagonist becomes aware of how fucked up the setting is and just wants to destroy it all, or die via ''suicide by cop''

>>712540879
>XCX

>secret area with secret boss hidden in tutorial/starter area

>final act of the game is you playing the sidekick finishing the job and saving the protagonist you played up until that point

>>712549642
>Don't press it!
>it's the real one
>https://youtu.be/5jmF7aSzFH0 starts playing
KINOOOOOO

>>712549642
>Don't press it!
>it's the real one
>https://youtu.be/5jmF7aSzFH0 starts playing]
KINO.

>>712540892
Sonic Frontiers.

>>712541713
Not vidya, but I like the K6BD demiurges for this.

>>712562517
>Former adventuring party turns bad
kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQVJT4S3lU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGnRtOxBWs

>>712539004 (OP)
>bad ending is new game+

>>712573085
Final Fantasy Origin Strangers of Paradise, in a sense

>>712571796
>Boss loses bits of his moveset as he loses health
>So do you when you lose health
>Fight devolves into you chipping away at each other with basic punches and kicks

>>712574768
>K6BD
Damn shame Abaddon is a bitch ass

>>712573203
>remixes first village theme
mfw kokoto motif in Iceborne Fatalis' theme

>>712539004 (OP)
your mother is meant to be the carrier of the armageddon and your father sends you on a quest to kill her but what you don't know is that it was all a ruse because YOUR MOTHER IS YOUR FATHER he went through HRT to hide from the church and sends you on a quest just so you fuck off and he can hang (no pun intended) with his transexual friends (actual coven) so they can plot against the church, god and even yourself of course because he knows you hate trans people so no inheritance for you

>>712575294
Friday isn't over yet, maybe we'll get an update today...

>>712575652
Allison and Cio are the weakest parts of KB6D

>>712539004 (OP)
>The Player is factored into the plot as an entity or greater force

>end credits theme is in a fake language from the game
>if you play through the true ending it's now in english

>>712539004 (OP)
>final level is a destroyed version of the tutorial area

>>712550716
>late game level where your personal space gets attacked by enemies

>>712575972
>game characters ask The Player for help to kill their Creator

>enemy interrupt common cutscenes (like saving, using the in game store, rtc) where you think you're 100% safe

>>712575024
Its not that but sounds like mgs4 final battle

>>712539004 (OP)
>game is fun and doesnt need a dumb gimmick

>>712539004 (OP)
>you lose your teammates one by one as you further progress the story
>by the end it's just you

>>712541680
I absolutely loved how in Three Houses the final map of the Church route has its combat music be a soft piano version of the out of combat one
https://youtu.be/GFu06pnLyXs?list=RDGFu06pnLyXs
https://youtu.be/KIqyUbeYFMs?list=RDKIqyUbeYFMs

>The enemy is a known user of a certain technique/skill/spell
>You can also learn it
>If you use it against that enemy he will counter or nullify it and laugh at you

>most powerful boss in the game is some random nobody
any other game than DS3 and E33 that does this?

>Final boss thanks you at the end of the game

>>712544659
And then they immediately fuck it up with that stupid fucking whale.

>>712579187
>some random guy seethes so hard about you delivering a package that he tries to re-destroy the world to own you

>game's title screen change as you progress through the game

>game soundtrack only uses classical instruments
>final boss theme incorporates electric guitar

>>712539004 (OP)
>vocals come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQWHpJ3V-bE

>>712573085
This basically happens in OFF

>>712539209
>calm and collected antagonist gets more emotional and angry once you make enough progress

>game set in Renaissance period uses mostly Classical music
>when you fight the future mole people it becomes dubstep
>when you fight a resurrected bandit from 1,000 years ago he sings opera in a forgotten language

>>712539004 (OP)
>final jrpg boss fight
>main theme instrumental ver plays during dialogue
>fight starts
>vocals kick in

>>712539004 (OP)
>sex is mandatory

>main menu changes based on where you are in the game

>>712540879
Tales of Symphonia

>>712541680
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet does this in area zero

>>712542437
Klungo from Banjo-Tooie, tho most of those wounds are inflicted by Grunty.

>>712571796
One of the bosses in Risk of Rain 2 takes all your items and uses them, and each hit restores one item. It was a buggy piece of shit when that patch hit. If you had items that granted shields, the boss's health didn't take damage, so you wouldn't get shit back and die

>>712563695
Xenoblade 2

>>712541680
music stuff is cool but most players won't notice this. It's just way easier to make some extra songs than to make dynamic music, especially if you use a real orchestra instead of something digitally composed.

Imagine making something like a jrpg where each main character has an instrument tied to them so if's the big muscle man's turn the drums are more audible and if the cute girl heroine turn the violin is more pronounced and then your smooth trickster dies and the trumpets in the bgm die down.

>boss has multiple stacked HP bars in different colors

>a baby becomes a boss

>>712539114
>mfw Joey

>hardest boss in the game is either crippled or heavily injured

>>712564273
Final Fantasy Tactics
Deus Ex

>final boss can be talked out of his plan

>>712563695
Fire Emblem Fates... sorta

>>712579725
>look up this game
>2009
>check steam
>$49.99

>game set in save universe as when you defeated the bad guys
>their guns/tanks/mechs etc are now just mil surp you can buy on the cheap

>>712583587
>Boss explains his master plan
>he was actually just stalling for time and there is nothing you can do to effect it.

>>712539004 (OP)

>>712583731
Japanese have quite different pricing policies. They also tend to think timeless masterpieces are timeless masterpieces regardless of the current year.

>>712539004 (OP)
>Main menu screen shows the villain of the game standing there menacingly
>Your character takes his place if you go for the evil ending

>Main character goes back in time to kill Hitler
>Hitler just shoots his sperg ass dead with his gun

The story might be nonsense but this moment was just neat

>final stage just goes full SPACE!!
>final boss true form it's and eldritch atrocity

>>712558681
Extremely based.

>>712541680
i loved it in company of heroes

>>712575024
>Boss was mutual friend in the past
>no way they can defeat you
>still tries
>keeps getting back up even though they are more and more injured

>doreen ACKS! at the bottom of the rope

>>712540320
Dragon's Dogma 2 does this

>open kino thread
>its actually kino
i guess there are still anons that play games here

>rival bro joins party in the last level

>lots of guest characters

>You and the final boss are facing off because you've both come to a philosophical impasse that can't be overcome and not from contrivances

>>712541680
fgo did this by the end of lb1
it was indeed kino

You fight the final boss
so you can save them

>enemy from the last game joins you till the bitter end

>>712540879
FF12

>Hidden route/ending/DLC content that recontexualize the whole game.

On the same note, hidden route that requires rejecting everything the game lays and taking non obvious steps to achieve the admirable giga chad consequence, very similar to the taking red pill scene in the matrix.

>the final stage of the game can be viewed at the horizon of the first stage

>game tells about a horrible event at [Location] that sets the stage for its plot
>prequel heads for [Location]

>protagonist can steal the heroine's underwear

>character doesn't disappear when you try to look up her skirt

>protagonist gets raped for an extended period of time when your hp hits 0

>>712539004 (OP)
>title theme is used for the final boss/area

>>712591729
>Character has a really nice round ass when you look

>>712539308
King's Field 4

>a character calls you a pervert for trying to enter the women's room.
>you were just trying to find all the treasure.

>enemies have a funny death animation when you shoot them in the dick

>you can surf vehicles if you jump on top

>>712591984
Well there are treasures in there.

>>712539004 (OP)
logistic simulator

>open menu
>protagonist is flipping through his phone/digging in his backpack

>>712539004 (OP)
>Antagonist: You and I are the same...
>(Alternatively) Protagonist's comrade: No! If you kill (Antagonist), you'll be just like him!
>Protagonist: Yeah~
>Protagonist proceeds to beat the shit out of the villain

>Game lets you marry the female main antag
>can start a happily family with them

>>712563695
bomberman 64

>low rank enemy grunts in the late game are visibly intimidated by your presence

>>712541680
a lot of games do this
isaac, ultrakill, arguably a lot of the splinter cell CT tracks,

>>712539004 (OP)
Final boss makes an early appearance and wrecks your shit in an unwinnable fight.

>>712593696
This, but a winnable fight.

>antagonist is actually saddened by the death of his underlings

>>712594036
>Antag doesn't betray his end of the deal

>protagonist from previous game shows up as mentor character in later games
always kino

>>712594359
Why is Rex holding his wives like that.
Are they cool with it

>>712594407
his wives dont exist inside those swords anymore

>>712593696
Optional utter dogshit alternative
>Steamroll a boss in gameplay
>Cutscene triggers and the boss suddenly wipes the floor with you

>>712594427
wtf why

>>712594475
because they are too busy with tyrone

>>712539004 (OP)
Menu screen plays different themes based on the zone your in

>>712539004 (OP)
>title screen changes as the story progresses

>>712590485
>The final stage of the game can be jumped to from the first stage using cheats

>>712594438
Better version
>Win unwinnable boss fight
>Get extra footage where boss cheats
>Original post loss footage has additional dialogue where boss is shameless about cheating.

>>712590485
das it mane

>Extra final boss phase on hardest difficulty
>Extra final boss phase on NG+
>Extra final boss phase if you do all the side quests

>>712593753
I'll settle for being able to survive the encounter versus beating them which takes away from their end game mojo. Give me an item and a compliment to boot.

>only the final stage has bgm with vocals

>>712563695
Catherine, sorta

>>712593753
>win fight
>lose in cutscene

>>712593753
>>712596416
>win fight
>"ENOUGH!"

>>712596546
Every fucking quest line in WoW's Legion expansion ended like that then gave you a quest to kill the antagonist in that area's dungeon. Fucking maddening

>>712593753
>win unwinnable fight at the beginning of the game
>credits roll

>>712549669
And then the plot hook is Lara Croft getting breast cancer

>boss teleports to the center of the arena
>camera zooms on him as he does cool pose for phase transition
>music cuts to chorus

>shopkeeper before the final boss
>"It's all on the house kid. Go on and save the world."

>>712540354
What are they doing?

>BGM matches the boss' moves

>>712596645
in Legion they did it so much that even the writers got tired of it and put in a quest line where the villain tries it and Velen just goes "fuck you nigger, this ends now" and kills him anyway

>>712597185
>last time you leave the shop in the game
>short scene of shopkeeper wishing you good luck

>>712597402
Dynamic boss music is awesome.
Pikmin 2 playing the freaky boss stinger when they do their ultimate attacks added so much to the chaos

>game takes place the same year it released

>>712597732
>sequel comes out like 16 years later
>keeps to the theme and MC is now a dusty old guy

>>712597334
looks like porn

>>712539004 (OP)
>beat final boss
>after cutscene ends, you resume control to deal the final blow

>game lets you pick a faction to side with in a war
>multiple branching paths
>multiple endings
>game ends
>game reveals every group was controlled by the same shadow faction

>>712581795
classique

>>712600440
>you can lose before dealing the final blow

>>712542163
FF7 should've done this after Cloud delivered the black materia. I thought Shinra would become your staff for defeating Meteor.
Instead they just got us out of there and then it was back to being enemies again. It was weird.

>>712597732
>>712598998
>story takes place in same year it released
>cliffhanger ending
>sequel 13 years later takes place literally 13 years later in-univserse

>>712605568
name 46 games

>character on the title screen refuses to acknowledge you after you decide to shoot her in game

>>712596706
this but
>unwinnable fight at the start of the game
>if you win you get a bunch of rare gear and a slightly altered story
Rondo of Swords (NDS) did this

>>712596091
If you like card games, try Chrono Ark. It's one of the best examples of this.

>game has multiple routes where you side with different teams
>between every route, you kill everyone in the entire story at least once

>>712540879
utawarerumono