Most Convoluted Plotlines in Gaming.

You know the ones. The games where you have to practically buy the cliff notes or guide books just to keep track of all the characters, nations, terminology, and nonsense that unfolds before you. The type of games where if its a series, missing just one minor entry can make the next entry almost unintelligible for you. The game where you understand everything perfectly, but as you try to explain the story to a friend or loved one, it becomes more and more apparent to you that what you thought was going to be a simply five minute explanation has devolved into a thirty minute essay.

So what game plots did you find convoluted and did you like any of them?

I mean, someone’s GOT to say Kingdom Hearts, right? And no, I don’t particularly care for the overarching plot.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian

I mean, someone’s GOT to say Kingdom Hearts, right? And no, I don’t particularly care for the overarching plot.

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Your loss :monster:

Umineko in no small part because it's literally featuring characters that pull concepts out of their ass when it suits them to make a narrative point, and the overarching setting just rolls with it. It's super meta and it's great and trying to paint the bigger picture is either really fun or an exercise in futility, depending on how you look at it.

Metal Gear Solid always has some crazy bs going on and I'm only semi-following the storyline past the halfway point in all of the games. Plus it usually requires you to remember minutiae from the other games to fully understand the story of any given game. Still love the series though.

I was definitely thinking MGS too, but it's convoluted in a good way.

I haven't actually played them but I'm going to say DMC and GOW. Also, Resident Evil... all of it. I think Legend of Dragoon counts too.

The Chrono games and Another Eden, any game that involves time travel (or alternate universes) is going to get convoluted fast.

ff8 is a bad game and you're dumb if you like it

But Squall is so awesome though! :cry: