Thread 718421229

The older I get, the more I realise that I get easily bored by many of today's modern AAA games (many of them open world), attempting to pad out their gameplay numbers with hours of filler content, and where you spend half of the game basically watching a movie as the story is explained through hours of cutscenes.

The part that I really love about games is the gameplay, and sometimes I'm not in the mood for a big heavy story and world-building alongside it - I just want to play a reasonable length, tightly-crafted game, with minimal cutscenes and some damn good gameplay.

What are some "Zero fat" games with minimal filler/cutscenes you'd recommend me?

quake 1 but its a little boomery

>>718421229 (OP)
tokimeki memorial

I thought she has a thicc neck

>>718421229 (OP)
Do you consider story and fillery, poorly-constructed gameplay to be inextricable from one another? That's pretty one dimensional and reductive thinking, no?

What you're asking for is unrealistic and if you get filtered by cutscenes you should neck. I don't even play movie games but calling cutscenes fat that needs removed is retarded. Just play some shitty boomer shooter or adhd game.

>>718421229 (OP)
Cuphead
Worldless

>>718421534
the pillow behind her head being the same color as her skin certainly does not help

>>718421229 (OP)
Daaaamn son that bitch's neck game must go hard

Pizza Tower

Factorio

You're probably too old to find games that reward skill with high ceilings enjoyable as well, you're just asking for normalfag indie games

>>718421229 (OP)
This creature has the same soulless face as the adrenochrome guy. Turns out she's been raping her face with a variety of substances and surgeries for a while. I hate women.

>>718421229 (OP)
Factorio

>>718421229 (OP)
Disposable Hero
Banshee
Litil Divil
Daggerfall
Dark Forces quadrilogy
Doom
Duke Nukem
Shadow Warrior
Blood
Witchhaven
Neverwinter Nights
Age of Empires games
Empire Earth
Warlords Battlecry series
Alien Trilogy
Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2
Pedit5
Future War
Moria
Most NES, SNES Amiga, PC-88, PC-98, Sega consoles and PLATO games for that matter
There's so many I could keep on a day long

>>718421229 (OP)
Even her eyebrows are angular

>>718421229 (OP)
the long dark

>>718421229 (OP)
When I look at this thumbnail, my brain cannot see that the couch behind her on the left side is not part of her neck and it looks like a boner with a ladies face painted on

>>718421229 (OP)
Does have some story & world building but I feel it's best served by being a game so I suggest Rain World.
Also Armored Core, the earlier ones don't have a bunch of story, just mission briefings.

>>718421229 (OP)
Real Roguelikes
Puzzle games aka Zachtronic
You're probably too much of a normie if you didn't care for your entire life desu but at least you should mention what kind gameplay you're looking for

>>718421229 (OP)
Soulsborne games.

>>718421229 (OP)
Roguelikes etc
Path of Achra is just theorycrafting

>>718421229 (OP)
Are you saying you don't like my lasting legacy on the western videogames industry?

>>718421229 (OP)
Breath of the Wild. Just go explore and have fun.

>>718421229 (OP)
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
It's like the opposite of a moviegame, because its storytelling is very gamey, which is great

>>718421229 (OP)
crazy taxi

Elden ring, dark souls 3 or trilogy, demons souls, bloodborne, all virtually no tutorial and it's just raw gameplay with rare minor cutscenes

>>718421229 (OP)
UFO 50

>>718424273
Hell no.
Go arcade and retro OP, but do not waste your time on hipsters crap.

>>718421229 (OP)
Crazy Taxi

>>718421229 (OP)
Try this game that's a fan remake of Tempest 2000. No story, no cutscenes, just non-stop zapping ugly monsters to techno.
https://archive.org/details/typhoon-2001

>>718421229 (OP)
take the treasurepill op
>>718421623
>Cuphead
you too

>>718421229 (OP)
find a racing game with graphics you like

Black Tiger.

>>718423445
I’d really like to see what his brains look like scattered all over a wall somewhere

>>718424507
There's also Tempest 4k which is done by Minter as well.

>>718421229 (OP)
Almost the entire shoot em up/shmup genre.

>>718421229 (OP)
>Recommend me games that aren't trying to be movies
tetris

>>718421229 (OP)
Shmups
3rd and 4th gen games
A lot of 5th gen games are good too
6th is where things start to get sloppier and 7th is when the industry went full slop mode aside from a few outliers
I just stick to retro gayman myself because most of the indies trying to recreate them are worse than the originals design-wise and just feel soulless since they bring nothing new to the table

>>718422151
Blood has cutscenes and they are important to the game.

pretty much any non-RPG up until around PS2 (wioth some notable exceptions like MGS) is like this.

NGL it's kind of weird to pop in a game like... Smuggler's Run or something and just see the game sorted into missions and you just go right into the action with NO exposition. It makes you realize just how much has changed.

King's Field

>>718424845
this but also play *every* pixel art jrpg before the playstation 1

>>718421229 (OP)
Ueda games. You'll have some of the best stories in video-game industry, told through gameplay mechanics. Not a lot of cut-scenes, almost no dialogues.

>>718425363
Oh, and unironically, Breath of the Wild.

>>718421229 (OP)
Shmups

>>718421229 (OP)
Tetris

>>718421229 (OP)
Shadow of the Ninja Reborn

>>718421229 (OP)
Minecraft

>>718421229 (OP)
Fortnite

>>718421229 (OP)
Puzzle games
Fighting games
Racing games
Shmups

>>718421229 (OP)
That's an alien.

>>718421229 (OP)
why are her lips so slimy?

>>718421534
Same, I only opened the thread to see what it was.

>>718427326
Lip gloss (she was eating my ass)

>>718427608
And then she kissed me immediately after

>>718421229 (OP)
Donut Dodo (arcade games in general, really)
Monster Rancher 2
Pikmin 1 (when you beat it, play Pikmin squared)
Honestly, just download an emulator for something with pixel graphics, and you will find hundreds of games like that.

COCKNECK

>>718427668
guess that makes us twinsies~

>>718424714
Wait 'til 9:16 movies become a thing. An Ikaruga 1CC will win Best Picture.

>>718421229 (OP)
Nightreign is actually very good. I was skeptical about it at first, because I'm an exploration kind of guy. But I got it anyway, and I'm enjoying it, even though it's just pure fighting, snatching resources as quickly as you can, and then running to your next fight. Somehow they made that feel very satisfying.

If you're a puzzle kind of guy, give La-Mulana a try. It blends action with solving riddles. So you can run around and kill things while you think of solutions. And it's actually a fairly lengthy game. Don't let the pixel art fool you. It's a meaty game.