What's the most pretentious game you've ever played?

Bioshock Infinite or Skyrim

>>385310567
Probably Heavy Rain. I tend to avoid pretentious-looking shit like the plague but my dad fell for the interactive movie jew and since it was sitting there I played it because why the fuck not. That was a mistake, I still want those hours of my like back.

Elaborate pretentious pls.

Nier Automata

>>385310567
Probably the game you posted, OP. The gimmick was interesting on paper but horribly executed and the writing was obnoxiously teenager-scribbles-edgy-fiction-in-his-notebook-during-class.

Undertale was pretty damn pretentious.

>>385310685
In what way was Skyrim pretentious to you? Do you understand what the word means?

Dear Esther

>>385310567
Oneshot

>>385310910
LoOk HoW DeEp We ArE

Dark Souls

System Shock 2

Undertale followed by Braid

Gone Home or Dear Esther.

>>385310567
Undertale

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>>385310567
Pirated it after i saw the developer have a cry on twitter. It is so pretentious it almost parodies pretentious art games.

>>385311035
Oh yeah I forgot about braid.

I wouldn't say undertale is pretentious, it realizes it's shit and markets to the lowest common denominator.

The witness, hands down.

>>385310567
Xenogears. It's literally like something an edgy 14 year old would write after an Evangelion binge.

Rez
El Shaddai
Journey

tumblrtale

>>385310948
not so much, it has humor. it tends be a bit too nerdy but not in the pretentious way.

on the other hand the Witness is as pretentious as it gets

>>385310567
What makes a game pretentious?

Every Souls game that isn't Dark Souls 2 or Demon's Souls

>>385310720
JASON!

NNNOOOOOOOOO!

>itt: 2 out of 10 know what "pretentious" means

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>>385310567

Yonder, absolutely garbage game don't even bother. It doesn't do anything right and the main story is finished in a couple of hours, you can finish everything in about 9 or so hours.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/580200/Yonder_The_Cloud_Catcher_Chronicles/

and just recently refunded The Low Road, very pretentious point n click tumblr nose garbage. The music is nice though but i was already at chapter 3 out of 6 in 50mins.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/603700/The_Low_Road/

Check out this game, pretty good slice of life game that takes inspiration from harvest moon, dark cloud 2, steambot chronicles
http://store.steampowered.com/app/666140/My_Time_At_Portia/

>>385311183
Anything that isn't a self aware "haha I'm so camp and 90s" devolver game

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>>385310567
Phylomortis. Literally nothing else compares.

>>385311035
>>385311067
>>385311142
This meme is getting old. There's literally nothing pretentious about that shit game.

>>385311240
Stop being pretentious anin

Magicka

>>385311183
The message the game tries to portray is treated as really deep or groundbreaking even though in reality it really simplistic/ portrayed poorly.

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>>385310567
Spec Ops: The Line
>just put the game down bro, you paid for this but just don't play it

Poker Night at the Inventory

Lollipop Chansaw

>>385310806
>>385311183
>What makes a game pretentious?
>Elaborate pretentious pls.
A dishonest game, attempt to convince you that it is smarter/deeper/more meaningful or important than it really is.
Usually this can be easily achieved by stuffing it with vague references to recognizable works of intellectual weight, intentionally obtuse storylines or writing, pompous presentation of things that are actually mundane, forcing the player to deal with completely unreasonable demands only to offer nearly no meaningful reward etc...

I think good examples would be all Tales of Tale games (Path, Graveyard etc...), the epilogue of Braid, all of the "true ending" of The Witness, or Swords and Sworcerery.

That said, the problem with calling games "pretentious" is that you really must be GOD DAMN SURE you are actually smarter than the author of the game. It's frequently easy to call something pretentious just because you actually aren't getting it - the meaning might just flow over your head, or you might be insecure and project that insecurity into the game etc... It's often misused, as a notion. Morons should never be using the term, and most people around are indeed morons, so...

>>385311183
If it's trying to be smart and it upsets you, clearly.

A pretentious game is one the sole purpose of which is to impress or wow, whether it's with a heady mechanic or narrative, but it's actually shallow and/or meaningless.

Often people just ascribe the trait to something that doesn't explore a subject matter sufficiently or satisfactorily, but these games usually lack the "preachy," look-at-me aspect of pretentiousness. A pretentious creator wants to impart his awesomeness on the dull masses first and foremost.

Plants vs Zombies

The Line and Automata really have a high ground in the sense that there is no excuse for such big companies to make such steaming pile of pretentious, half-baked, teenager-logic garbage in their writting.
Most indie shit falls in the category but that's just, fine. I mean they have the excuse of it being indie, there's no 300 people to filter your writting into something not disturbingly bad.

AAA games have no excuse. The Line is still at the top of that shit pile though.

>>385311006

No, not really. It wants you to put the lore pieces together but I doubt they expected autism like VaatiVidya or that people take it that seriously.

>>385311031
???

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Accept it.

>>385311183
When you're 16 and you think you're smarter than everyone else

>>385311737
Too much of it is right to be pretentious, people should just not just praise Kojima for it. He didn't even mainly work on the codec conversations.

Undertale

>>385311360
I wouldn't say that Undertale itself is pretentious but their is no denying that some of the fan base is pretentious

>>385310720
I enjoyed Heavy Rain. Way too easy to get the good ending though.

>>385311812
I will agree that the ending speech is a bit... dunno. I didn't like it. And not even Snake seems to believe in that anymore in MGS4.

Dues EX MD

Spec Ops: The LIne

>>385311737
Whatever its faults, MGS2 really isn't that pretentious--not any more so than any other MGS game, at any rate.

Its fans, though: holy shit.

>>385311737
I think less that specific game and more just Kojimbo.

>>385311916

that's because Kojima completely fucked up the writing from Tomokazu Fukushima

>>385311564
Also your comment is a pretty good example of pretentious.

>>385310915
You forgot to mention the slower-than-snail (STS) pace of the movement.

>>385312146
Not really, but thank you for proving my point.

>>385311737
No, but "kojima predicted ess jay dubyas" retards should be gassed

>>385310964
>>385311564
There you go champ

>>385310567
Starseed pilgrim, or bioshock infinite.

>>385312168
And over your head it went. This is fun.

all "too deep for you bruh" japanese games

>>385312245
>This is fun.
How pretentious can you get?

>>385312301
>dude if you don't like this game you must not be straight lmao
I fapped to 2B before, doesn't change that the game itself is psuedointellectual af

>>385312324
>I'm 14 and I'm deep

>>385310567

Wow nobody even posted No Man Sky.

>>385310567
At least you could fap to that.

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>>385312257
If anything Automata is the opposite of pretentious. It does the legwork and contextualises and decently explores most of the themes it presents.

>>385310567
Nier

>>385312168
Don't get me wrong what you said was spot on, buuut you overdressed in a cocktail suit to go to taco bell. In this crap boards you only sounds like your trying to make yourself look flashy and smart. Hope that clears that up.

>>385312532
How? Seriously, I'm confused as fuck. How is that overdressed?

>>385312469
That's a bold-faced lie.

Silent Hill 2
>DUDE MONSTERS TOTALLY REPRESENT THINGS
>but isn't the gameplay kind of dull, puzzles illogical and combat system straight up shit?
>DUDE ITS ART DONT YOU SEE THIS MONSTER MEANS HE WAS RAPED OR SOME SHIT BRO YOU HAVE TO LIKE IT
SH attracts the most pretentious cunts

>>385312403
how so

>>385312596
>as fuck
Goddamn, the pretense...

>>385312532

Anon thats what many people do in Las Vegas, dressed to the nines with 4 prostitutes in each arm at a fucking taco bell.

>>385312640
The path had loads of fap worthy scenes. Especially in the hut at the start with all of the girls lounging.

>>385312532
>gay little analogy while failing to distinguish between common english homophones
Now THAT is pretentious.

Phantom Pain

>>385311858
I would say Undertale itself is pretty pretentious. The whole "your are the true monster" message is nowhere as enlightening as the game proposes. We get it, most video game protagonists are violent murderers. There is nothing inspiring about that message. Just let me have fun and kill some imaginary goblins.

>>385311692
Yes, really.

Undertale

>>385310567
eternal sonata
it was like playing the video game equivalent of a fedora. the gameplay was mediocre, and if it was just that it would have been maybe a 7.5/10 decent, but the fedoracore bullshit story with long ass cutscenes was so fucking omnipresent that it bogs down the whole experience to a 6/10.

>>385312785

Unfortunately yes, I also hate how they repeat buzzwords "PHANTOM PAIN" "LINGUA FRANCA" etc. because it's really annoying and awkward, nobody ever says this normally but they push it to make even 10 year old players understand what the game is about.

naughty dog
Nu-Male indie game (inside, gone home, emily away)

>>385311415
>>385311983
So you didn't get it, cool.

>>385310567
Serious Sam 3
I wait to buy this game for like 2 years and ı finally buy it.

>>385312678
>>385312596

You niggas will pick apart everything like little children, is just an example assmunchers.

>>385313094
>you didn't get it
If I remember correctly, the director claimed in an interview that he considers one of the endings as the player putting the game down and just not continuing. That's about as pretentious as a video game can possibly be.

>>385312532
That isn't at all flashy and smart. Not even remotely close to that. It's simply a post with more than 1 sentence, no greentext and seems to be written by someone that is over the age of 15 at least.

>>385311858
>no denying that some of the fan base is pretentious

not relevant to the thread at all

Undertale

>>385312718
Wow i didn't know that my pretend english teacher was stocking me

Ai Mai Mi

>>385310567
last of us and uncharted

holy fuck

>>385310964
hi todd

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Kinda wish there was a sequel to it.

>>385313307
>more substance "oh i'm SO above it all, darling" party girl sarcasm
You are the definition of pretentious. If you were to, say, cut your balls off before crawling under a parked car to die....the world would be a much better place.

>>385312718
You are a homo phone.

>>385312532
>make a good post
>ugh why aren't you shitposting?
Fuck you

>>385313168
I felt that he could of used simpler words, like he just got done reading a dictionary. Not his statement

>>385313357
>uncharted
Hi retard

>>385310567
Braid

>>385310567
gone home

and i only played it because i was having an argument with a friend and the whole "you never played it so you're opinions dont matter" came up

>>385313512
That post you're referring to is at like an 8th grade reading level you incompetent moron. Go fuck yourself

>>385312387
The game itself (while still shit) isn't what you think pretentious means. Seam Murray isn't even that pretentious because he knows his games writing is super vague and not supposed to mean anything. Still a fucking fag though.

>>385313463
No i think you got the wrong impression on what a meant.

>>385313218
How does the majority of the fan bases / reviewers perception on the "deepness" of a games message/mechanics not hold relevance on how pretentious a game is viewed.

>>385313608
Ha and your calling me an 8th grader.

Im sorry that my simple statement made you get triggered

>>385310567
Fucking SuperHot.
Oh boy I sure did enjoy being interrupted every other level for your shitty story.

>>385312469
NIII CHAAAAN NIII CHAAAAAAAN

KOROSARERUUUU KOROOOOSAREEEEERUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Man is Route A fucking shit.

The rest is ok though.

>>385313815
such a wasted concept

>>385310567
Spec Ops

Also want to say Braid

>>385313815
I think it was their to distract on how little game their was.

>>385312469

shut up dumb anime poster.

>>385310567
This game was pretty enjoyable though. It had a pretty nice atmosphere.

>>385313684
All those things take all responsibility or blame away from the game itself; the actual topic of discussion, as well as enabling you to completely avoid the game yourself leaving any claims you make uninformed.

>>385313469
>Good post
Were literally in a thread about being pretentious... oh shit well I replied good job 8/10

>>385312805
>The whole "your are the true monster" message is nowhere as enlightening as the game proposes. We get it, most video game protagonists are violent murderers. There is nothing inspiring about that message. Just let me have fun and kill some imaginary goblins.
I don't understand people who fault the game from this angle. Yeah, the "you are the true monster" idea isn't exactly unique but it works because you actually have to a spend a ton of time grinding while the game discourages actually killing things from the very beginning. The game asks you to not kill people and the game only pulls the "you are the true monster" shit if you go out of your way to kill literally everyone.

>>385313949
There is literally nothing wrong with that post. It's easily the best in this thread and doesn't have a shred of pretension around it. It's accurate, brief, and to the point.

>>385310567
All PC games.
Oh...wait. no. That's just the players.

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>>385311006
Dark Souls lore is retarded but not pretentious. Pretty much like pic related.

Braid. And this was around release, I'm glad it's dust in the wind and actual good indie games blew it the fuck out now. Fuck LIMBO and its awful controls too.

>>385314007
You've been caught dude, just stop.

>>385310567
Digital Devil Saga. It disappears up its own ass towards the end.

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>>385313891
No.

>>385310567
There are very few games that I consider "pretentious" and when I say pretentious I mean the actual definition of the word in the dictionary and not, "game I didn't like so I'm using this word to sound smart on an anonymous imageboard"

Out of all these games, I consider Hatred to be THE most pretentious, the devs thought this game was a super serious work against PC culture and AAA games but ended up just as a very mediocre top-down shooter that everyone forgot in a week, Life is Strange comes in a very close second place though.

>>385311006
>>385311692
>>385312834

The game isn't really pretentious in and of itself, but a majority of the cutscenes are.

With characters like Frampt, Siegmeyer and Gwynevere it can't be trying too hard though.

>>385314042
Stop shitposting

>>385313165
That's pretty stupid thing to say indeed. But it doesn't make the game pretentious, actually it doesn't influence game at all.

Rugrats: Search for Reptar

Bioshock Infinite, makes it especially annoying because at least in the previous two games there was a lot of solid gameplay and most of the story was in audio logs that you could listen to while exploring. Bioshock Infinite craps on the gameplay with the two weapon limit and the boring enemies and it's constantly interrupting your progress to try and be cinematic with its 2deep4you story that has too many plot holes

>>385313846
>>385313871
Pretty much, I believe the story took up more time than the actual gameplay.

>>385314043
wtf did I just watch?

>>385310567
To the Moon, probably.

>>385314007
I played Undertale blind when it first came out and did not think it was pretentious. I am trying to explain how having a preconceived view of the game based of the fan-base / reviewers (who say it's a 10/10 one of the most unique rpgs of all time) might lead you to think that the game is not as deep as you were led to believe .

>>385314292
Expert tier detective work.
They found the bad guy after that.

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This heaping piece of shit

It's not only incredibly pretentious but it seems to bask in how pretentious it is in pretentious ways.

Like "Oh man I'm so deep but damn this isn't actually deep and I know I'm not actually deep which itself is pretty damn deep you know" fuck right off seriously your puzzles aren't even well done

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>>385314152

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>>385311126
Now to make you feel old: Everyone born during the original airing of Evangelion are now 21 years old.

>>385311564
>Swords and Sworcery
Fuck, I forgot about that pile of shit. Even the title is pretentious, and the pixel "art" is fucking painful.

>>385314292
That's how Miyazaki wants you to piece the lore together. The movie is Black Dynamite if you want to watch it.

still haven't played tumblrtale and nobody can convince me to

feels pretty good

>>385314149
>a majority of the cutscenes are.

I can't really consider the cutscenes pretentious, the opening scene is your standard fantasy mythos, everything else is just a character saying 3 lines and then fighting you. DaS 1 isn't pretentious at all since it never tries to pass any sort of message to the player and the story takes a back seat from beginning to the end.

The sequels can fuck right off though.

>>385314095
How? I mean, I've beaten both games, and I don't see what you mean.

>>385314532
Nobody is really asking you to.

It's just really easy to tell when someone talking shit hasn't played the game they're bitching about. Just keep that in mind.

>>385314725
damn that passive aggression

tumblrtale really is pretentious as fuck though, I mean those characters, that soundtrack, those ends... can you be more pretentious?

>>385310567
Braid. Most of the indie games I have I get long after release when they're known to be fucking great like DustForce. Braid I got in a bundle and I can see why it was popular but god damn is that shit motherfucking pretentious.

>>385314137
>Hatred
That's like saying Postal is pretentious.
>Life is Strange
It's a pretty straightforward story. Apart for the whole "your choices have consequences" shtick, I don't see what's so pretentious about it.

>>385314452
Stop shitposting

>>385310567
What game is that?

>>385314292
Black Dynamite is thoroughly entertaining.

>>385314782
I haven't played it either and don't intend to, but my passive aggression is because good games constantly getting shit on by people who don't play them. It ruins every community.

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>>385314880
The Path by Tale of Tales

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Depression Quest

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>>385314837
How is this consider shit posting we all know this is true are you acting like CNN trying to hide the facts, and reporting fake news.

>>385315020
People who haven't played games don't actually care enough to ruin a community

you can probably count the posts I've made about tumblrtale on one hand and they're all just short ones implying it has something to do with tumblr

>>385313891
you are on an anime-inspired image board complaining about anime

>>385314820
>That's like saying Postal is pretentious.

Except Postal was clearly a parody, there is nothing like that in Hatred and the developer's attitude during and after development makes it very clear that you're supposed to take the game seriously.

And Life is Strange is drama for the sake of drama, you have all characters written into some sort of archetype and put into increasingly more ridiculous situations, I think the final choice being "sacrifice your girlfriend or a giant tornado will kill everyone" really symbolizes the series.

>>385315052
Stop shitposting

>>385315052
Cleve-sama?

>>385315236

and your a dumb sperg anime a poster, catch my drift

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Calling something "pretentious" is already assuming authorial intent is a thing. Our personal interpretation or perspective is the only meaningful thing that matters in the end, but it isn't the absolute truth and we don't really know for sure what the author wanted to say if anything at all, so we shouldn't make the mistake of seeing "our version" and "the author's version" as the same thing.
A lot of people disregard games as pretentious at the slightest sign of some form of elaborated narrative, but it's obvious you won't find deeper meaning in anything if you're not willing to find it.

The discussion should be about whether a game is trying to be deep or not, and to discuss if it succeeds or not. Story-focused games like Undertale or Gone Home should be out of the debate entirely because I don't think they try to be deep at all (seriously, a dyke falling in love with another dyke and they live happily at the end, how the fuck people call that pretentious? Have you even played it?) and instead focus on telling a simple straight-forward story with varying success. Just because the fanbase is retarded, the game is not to blame for that and should be judged fairly.

Games like Bioshock Infinite or Sons of Liberty however try to be deep, and where Infinite failed miserably, MGS2 is still relevant and discussed to this day. That's how a meaningful debate on the subject should be I think.

>>385312596
>It's frequently easy to call something pretentious just because you actually aren't getting it - the meaning might just flow over your head, or you might be insecure and project that insecurity into the game etc... It's often misused, as a notion. Morons should never be using the term, and most people around are indeed morons, so...

This is the most pretentious post on this thread. What are you like 16? This shit screams "I'm a teenager but man I'm just so ahead of everyone else. I've really got everything figured out. Why is everyone else so dumb?"

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>>385315158
>People who haven't played games don't actually care enough to ruin a community

>>385310567
Life is Strange

>>385310567
League of Legends

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>>385315705
You seem upset.

>>385315854
Stop

>>385314179
How does the way the game is directed not influence the game? Are you actually retarded? Do you have to have a rubber drool cover over your keyboard?

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>>385315362
Sorry pal I ain't your spoil little brat kid where you tell him to stop at the count of 3

>>385315727
>The discussion should be about whether a game is trying to be deep or not, and to discuss if it succeeds or not.
Which IMMEDIATELY reintroduces the problem of authorial intent so you just moved absolutely fucking nowhere. This is pretty much why anyone who tries to wave around the whole postmodernism angle before even making a point is universally doomed to utterly fail. Also:

>Our personal interpretation or perspective is the only meaningful thing that matters in the end
People should actually be legitimately SHOT for uttering this both flat-out wrong and insanely arrogant bullshit.

You also fail to actually provide any compelling argument on why selectively filter out certain works from the discourse.

>>385310685
how the fuck is skyrim pretentious? it's the most streamlined piece of shit ever

>>385314451
Mad cuck not having completed the challenge.

>>385313165
You don't remember correctly.

>>385316236
Stop shitposting

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This piece of ass...

>>385314149
Yes, it is.

>>385314095
considering this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krTZf_BUqE is a real cutscene, I'm 90% sure the ending was played for laughs

>>385315748
I really do find it hilarious how eager you people to prove my point, actually. The post specifically states that it's a frequent mistake to assume that anything that triggers your insecurity is automatically pretentious, and how common that is around these parts of internet: and the first thing that happens is a crowd of people screaming angrly how that post is pretentious because their insecurity has been triggered.

No, fuckface. The post might be condescending, but then again you people aren't exactly giving other much reason to take you seriously to begin with.

>>385311564
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZly6bW3UMk

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>>385316662
>"nuh uh! yes it is, yes it is, yes it is, yes it is"

>>385316814
To be honest, the two people behind this game are just flat out amazing. I really don't like to enjoy watching people acting cringeworthy or stupidly. I think a lot of people around here enjoy the cringe or others just fucking up while I usually find it painful and sad, and genuinely feel sorry for them, but the Tale of Tales folk just crack me up.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone as monsterously bitter and arrogant as those people. Right now: basically all they do is travel around various game discussion events to talk about how games are the worst medium in the world and how they are absolute shit and how everyone who thinks they are anything but worthless garbage is stupid.
They have been doing that for several years now. That is how they handle the fact that they haven't succeeded in the industry.
It's... really fucking amazing.

>>385316307
I should rephrase it, instead of "trying to be deep" to "manages to be meaningful". "Deep" is a very misleading adjective. Which is still of course, up to each person's interpretation of it, but it can be developed further by explaining why does someone consider it meaningful or not, which I think can be interesting to debate.

>People should actually be legitimately SHOT for uttering this both flat-out wrong and insanely arrogant bullshit.
Nothing arrogant about it. Am I wrong for making my own very personally meaningful interpretation of a work even if it's not necessarily what the author intended? Other people's opinions on that are important too, but would it really be any better if you just told me that my meaningful interpretation is actually completely wrong and I should discard it entirely? It seems pretty pointless and counter-productive to me unless it's backed with some strong evidence.

>You also fail to actually provide any compelling argument on why selectively filter out certain works from the discourse.
Like I said, it's a matter of finding some personal meaningful content in a work. Although as I was thinking about it, I realized by discarding Gone Home I was falling into my own trap. I didn't find GH meaningful at all but I guess some people would feel very conected to the events in the game, so it could be a lot more meaningful to them than it was to me, so yeah, you're right on that one.

>>385312403
True

>>385310974
Came here to post this. I've played through it dozens of times trying to decipher what the fuck the narrative is.

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>>385316604

>>385311737
The real answer is MGS3 and I'm not joking.

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>>385316947
>"nuh uh! no it's not, no it's not, no it's not, no it's not"

>>385314451
It may be pretentious. Don't really like how the story is presented. But the execution of puzzles is great

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I don't care if it was made by Russians and /v/ has a hard on for the slavs, it's fucking awful pretentious trash.

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>>385317256

>>385314191
This. Ok we fucking get it, the holocaust was bad..

Gone Home
Not even videogame. And it's praised everywhere for some reason I don't understand.

>>385316607
Oh man. Did the kid who won it actually did something with his "god-in-a-game" prize?

>>385311342
Is that the register game made by Rpgadvocate?

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution

>>385317472
RPG maker, sorry phone posting.

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>>385317441
Not really. He was to become a god in Godus and get a share of the profits... But that game went to shit as well.

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>>385317309
MGS3 is chok full of bloated emotionalism and stretching out basic concepts already covered much better in the previous games, and THEN tries to force some big reaction at the very end.

If that's not the definition of pretentious I dont know what is. The game is entertaining sure, but by far its the most "pretender" game of the series.

>>385311342
Does that shit actually tie into the main plot, as in government factions are quarreling and actually fuck with the protagonists?

>>385317549
Source

Honestly, Bioshock 1 was a lot more pretentious than Infinite was. /v/ will deny it though because for many of you it was your first "adult" game.

>>385315039
Context?

>>385317375
>Not even videogame.
Yet you're posting it in a thread about pretentious video games. And this part isn't even relevant to it being pretentious. Your butthurt is palpable.

>>385317558
>If that's not the definition of pretentious I dont know what is.
Correct.

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>>385317661
Sheeeeiiit. Don't remember. I've seen it a couple of times on /gif/ though...

TLoU
that game was pure pretentious dogshit

>>385317767
Damn thanks anyway man

>>385317761
>pretentious
>attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

We have a match, sweetie

>>385310685
Skyrim is the most dumbed down hick piece of shit I've ever played

>>385317667
None of the games are pretentious in content its just that with infinite the half finished mess of a game was hidden behind a lame convoluted story that was lauded as being deep and intricate.

Pillars of Eternity. Glad i pireted that garbage before buying.

is there anything more pretentious than a bunch of kids who lease their faces out to zit farmers debating the meaning of the word pretentious on a school night

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>>385317979
That entire reply.

>>385316783
>i'm 16 and i'm smarter than everybody: the post

>>385310567
>Honorable mentions:
Beyond Two Souls, Soma.
>Runner up:
Tons of weebshit where subtlety, allusion, and subtext are in short supply and they're on-the-nose with their 1st year philosophy shit (see: Nier Gestalt/Automata).
>Grand Champion:
Bioshock Infinite. Never have I seen such a lofty premise executed so poorly and with such disdain for the audience's intelligence.

>>385317683

They are "artists" pissed off that nobody appreciates their "art", i.e. nobody buys their shitty games, and so they were announcing they were quitting the industry. They got very upset when people told them if they want to make money selling a product it might be a good idea to make a product people want to buy.

>>385310567
The last of us
>>385310806
Ignore this cunt
>>385311564
It literally just means it's in over it's head and takes itself way too seriously, acting deep and meaningful but it's just vague bullshit, pseudophilosophy, or nonsense rambling that doesn't really mean anything
>DUDE WHAT EVEN ARE HUMAN
>DUDE LIKE THE UNIVERSE
Think Jayden Smith's Twitter posts

>>385313094
>fantasy isn't real
woah......

>>385318109
Nier Gestalt wasn't really pretentious and didnt overstay its welcome. Automata is too bloated for what it actually has to say.

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It wasn't that bad, tho. I think i could like a sequel.

>>385310567
Half Life

>>385310567
How has no one posted The Beginner's Guide yet? That's easily the winner of this contest.

>>385317667
To me Bioshock always presented itself as an honest, straight-forward and personally pretty shallow criticism of Ayn Rand, even if critics were going crazy about its depth. And I love Bioshock, but the game is what it is. Infinite on the other hand was definitely trying a lot harder at appearing smarter than it really was.

>>385310567
>>385310915

What game? Google gave me this result, while it's not the one in the OP, i think it's appropiate for the thread.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/27020/The_Graveyard/

>>385310910
I don't know, It's melodramatic but not really pretentious. It pokes fun at itself often enough. It's not trying to cite shakespeare to me.

>>385310567
I never played Two Brothers but that faggot at AGDQ made it sound like the most pretentious shit in existence while sucking it's dick without end.

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>>385311261
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/603700/The_Low_Road/
What were you expecting?

I feel like people are attributing a game's fanbase being pretentious as a result of the game itself.
It's not really the same thing.
Fanbases are shit everywhere.

>>385316783
Nope, you're doing the textbook example of pretentious
Nice superiority complex, asshole
>pre·ten·tious/prəˈten(t)SHəs/
adjective

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

>>385317170
>I couldn't figure out what the narrative meant
>must mean it's pretentious
>>385317250
Stop shitposting

>>385318372
How does Beginner's Guide affect any greater importance than it has? It's a pretty self contained narrative.

>>385318372
One of the very few examples of meaningful and well-executed thematic development I've seen in a game. Being aware of the creator's context at the time after The Stanley Parable helps a lot at understading what the game is really trying to say.

>>385318109
I agree with the Nier ones but fuck is it still fun to play
It takes itself way too seriously but if you dont, it's still fun
What isn't fucking fun because it's constantly shoving itself in your face is the last of us
Fuck that game

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>>385318153
Their Twitter accounts are hilarious/disturbing.

>>385318754
>>385318792
t. Davey Wreden

That's the last fucking time I sit through one of your games only to find out you were stealthily sucking yourself off the whole time. Oh what a tortured soul, your artistic drive has left you because you imposed realistic goals on it. Truly a classic for the ages.

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>>385310567
The Graveyard is objectively the most pretentious game ever made. Any other answer is a lie.

>>385319290
>in jest
>twas mearly pretending
Hoo boy these people are something.

Definitely Undertale. Sure there's lots of pretentious crap that does it by its visuals and story while keeping bog standard gameplay, like Limbo, Bioshock: Infinite and others. But Undertale is the only one that managed to have pretentious gameplay.

>>385318372
OP asked for games.

mostly indie DEEP STORY kinda of games probably
like Limbo/Inside, Brothers

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Firewatch

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>>385310567
this trash right here

>>385312631
Symbolism doesn't make something pretentious you brainlet. It's a story about a man who killed his wife and it doesn't try to be anything more, it just has some clever symbolism. The combat is fine for what it's supposed to be and the only illogical puzzle is the head cube in toluca prison,
>inb4 baited

Meadow

>>385317935
I agree. Wild goose chase about made up, in-game religions, powers that didn't even do anything noteworthy, and when the big bad finally did talk to us 5 minutes before the credits it's more expositions than anything else.

And Obsidian and their fans tried to sell this like some grand 3deep5me story. Fuck those guys.

>>385310567
Is that the path? It was good for that semi sexual content.

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>>385320530
>make military shooter game
>fucking force players to do violent deeds to progress
>DUDE YOU'RE A MONSTER THOUGHTLESS VIOLENCE LMAO

>>385317118
Attention whores still trying to lap up those last few precious moments of relevancy before they get lost to time like so many other failures in this industry. You can only drown yourself in irony so much before the topic(s) at hand consume your stupid ass for trying to force wit.

>>385320669
No one forced you to press the button. Just like Walker, you were too far along to consider anything else. Now at that point there are two things you can do: you can say, "oh, I see, that's clever," or you can miss the point and take it personally.

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>>385314454
Pretty soon this board will be infested with kids as old as 4chan itself.

>>385311564
So the entire metal gear series?

>>385318723
No

>>385313836
Just beat Route A myself. I think it was intentionally shit. I mean you had a big, destructive beast boss; an annoying pretty-boy boss who gabbles freshman-year philosophy at you all through the fight; an evil religion; a boss who looks human but turns into some kind of abomination during your fight with him; a tragic death that's immediately undermined...

It's like it's going out of its way to parody other Square Enix games. tl;dr - "shit Square Enix!"

>>385322031
>Just beat Route A myself. I think it was intentionally shit. I mean you had a big, destructive beast boss; an annoying pretty-boy boss who gabbles freshman-year philosophy at you all through the fight; an evil religion; a boss who looks human but turns into some kind of abomination during your fight with him; a tragic death that's immediately undermined...
Sorta sounds like you're describing Drakengard 2 there as well tbqh.

>>385317858
Infinite BECAME pretentious after the reviewers started praising the stupid TWEEST and the director was like "Oh yeah TOTALLY intentional lol I'm SOO smart hah ha hah-"

1 and 2 never tried to be smart and had twists that an observant player would notice or find lampshade to. Infinite just drops a fucking big pile of shit on your lap and even has the gall to put in fragments of the game we wanted, not got, during said twist. I will never not be mad at them pretending the unfinished-game was totally just another reality that you unfortunately didn't get to play instead. Fuck Levine, he could have been humble and honest and tried to just make a good game with a plot that fits the theme of Bioshock beyond "Lol plasmids/vigor superpowers amirite?", instead we got a post-pretentious fuck mess of absolute loathing of the fans.

>>385322031
>an annoying pretty-boy boss who gabbles freshman-year philosophy at you all through the fight;
I do actually love that he does that. He's learning.

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http://www.revolution60.com/

>>385317125
>Am I wrong for making my own very personally meaningful interpretation of a work even if it's not necessarily what the author intended?

Yes, specially when you claim your interpretation must be considered legitimate even when you admit it wasn't the author's intent, is not too far away from a "samus is transgender, deal with it" kind of interpretaion.

>>385319290
Even knowing the context, I STILL don't get the context. It's like they're typing words, but there's no actual meaning behind them; they're just shapes on the screen...

>>385322165
I only vaguely remember Drakengard 2. I think I played it when I was like, 15 back in '06? It was my first exposure to anything even slightly related to Yoko Taro and I just couldn't understand what was going on. Some levels honestly felt like I'd skipped a bunch of context and then a character came out of no-where and everyone acted like they'd met him before and knew him? Weird all-round.

>>385322359
Yeah, but it's so damn unoriginal. Even Pascal seemed more reasonably-characterised than Adam. The Forest King (original) was a better character and he was dead!

Hell, I actually caught myself talking to my screen during Eve's fight, going, "You are so damn boring! I've heard all this before! You're not original, you're not special. Just shut up already!"

Then immediately after when 9S succumbs to some kind of virus I had to pause it and just throw my hands up going, "Yeah of COURSE this is happening! The bingo sheet is complete!" If the game had really ended there, I'd have considered it a 7/10 and been distinctly underwhelmed. Fortunately, I know better and expect the Wild Ride to really start in Route B onwards.

>>385322829
But it's not always possible to know the author's intent nor is the author always successful in conveying his intent in his work. For this reason, interpretation is always a subjective thing, albeit based on textual evidence.