Better Than It Sounds/Video Games G-M: Difference between revisions

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Ah, video games. No other media allows [[Refuge in Audacity]] so often. [[Better Than It Sounds|And most of the time it works]].

 

* {{spoiler|''[[Grand Theft Auto]]''}}: You run around stealing cars and working for or killing gangsters.

** Or: A series where you commit felonies where the majority of the characters are mobsters who can't swim.

** {{spoiler|''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]''}}: A sympathetically portrayed protagonist runs around stealing cars and working for or killing gangsters in a bad [[Big Applesauce]] expy.

*** {{spoiler|''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]] + DLC''}}: The interesting journey of a bag of diamonds as seen through the eyes of 3 different people.

* {{spoiler|''[[Gun Nac]]''}}: An ace fighter pilot {{spoiler|[[Miko|(who is actually a Japanese shrine maiden)]]}} has to save the universe from genocidal rabbits, octopi, trees, coins, and pottery.

* {{spoiler|''[[Gunstar Heroes]]''}}: Two twins blow stuff up with combining weapons in order to get some jewels and prevent thematically-named villains from taking over the world. They fight these same villains on the moon after fighting them on their home world.

* {{spoiler|[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]}}: It's a game... about playing a game. Specifically, an MMORPG.

* {{spoiler|''[[Half-Life]]''}}: Nerd with thick glasses tries to solve his problems with a crowbar.

** {{spoiler|''Princess 30''}}: ...for the guards to shut the castle gates because the crossbow-wielding adventurer princess missed her curfew.

** {{spoiler|''Knight 30''}}: ...for a wizard to set off a magical nuke while he uses an undead warrior as a meat shield.

** A child soldier and his imaginary friend fight against nasty people for a giant hula-hoop.

** {{spoiler|''[[Halo 2]]''}}: [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] disagree on what fairy tales they want to believe more. [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey]] chats up [[Space Marine]]s while sitting in his grave, and [[The End of the World as We Know It]] is on the way.

* {{spoiler|''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''}}: An epic quest that spoofs just about every RPG convention known to man or beast... done entirely in stick figures.

** You're a stick person with a drinking problem.

* {{spoiler|''[[The King of Fighters]]''}}: Whenever criminals want to hide their misdeeds, they sponsor a martial arts competition. However, half of the tournament's participants are more concerned about a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] [[Captain Planet]] wannabe demigod who thinks that the only way to bring pollution down to zero is to wipe out all of humanity.

* {{spoiler|''[[King's Quest]]''}}: Members of a royal family have adventures and interact with [[Expy]]s of [[Fairy Tale]] characters.

* {{spoiler|''[[Knytt]]''}}: [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: The Game. You are abducted by aliens, and you roam far and wide to find the parts needed to repair their spacecraft.

* {{spoiler|''[[La-Mulana]]''}}: Illiterate archaeologist battles monsters in a vast tomb, smashes pots with his whip and loots the corpses of his fellow researchers in search of video games. He helps get a statue pregnant so he can talk to other statues and solve their [[One Bad Mother|mother]] issues.

* {{spoiler|''[[La Pucelle Tactics]]''}}: Cute demon hunter befriends cuddly monsters and sells them into eternal slavery in Hell.

* {{spoiler|''Last Ninja II''}}: As the last ninja, you must fight hundreds of other ninja.

* {{spoiler|''[[Level Up]]''}}: Forgetful girl searches for gems, starts relationship with amnesiac boy who broke her fence, and tries to cure her insomnia by doing the same mundane actions repeatedly. {{spoiler|They break up when she's cured.}}

* {{spoiler|''Libble Rabble''}}: Two arrows must round up mushrooms and odd hooded creatures while tending to their garden.

** {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' kit}}: Being named after a scrotum kills robots with a paintball gun. Achievement grinding is [[Serious Business]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' kit}}: Sack-like being goes [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|swimming]]. Oh, and there's pirates.

* {{spoiler|''[[Little Nemo the Dream Master]]''}}: A young boy must save the princess of Slumberland by drugging poor, defenseless woodland creatures and wearing their skin.

* {{spoiler|''Little Samson''}}: A boy that [[Everything's Better with Spinning|likes spinning]] and [[Improbable Weapon User|throws bells]], a [[Cursed with Awesome|dragon]], a [[Cursed with Awesome|golem]] and a [[Game Breaker|mouse]] are told to lock three of them in a giant bell and defeat four evil wizards and their leader. The dragon disagrees on the bell part.

* {{spoiler|''[[Makai Kingdom]]''}}: Demon lord accidentally destroys the universe and has to wish soldiers into existence to steal the universes of other overlords for him.

** Alternatively, [[Large Ham|pompous]] [[Jerkass|ass]] nearly commits suicide, has someone else commit suicide because he [[Cannot Spit It Out]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy]]''}}: Years later, a manservant and a country bumpkin attend the same school. They hate each other, but work together to fix the mess caused by the new VP beating some guy in a fight.

* {{spoiler|''[[Manhunt]]''}}: A convict on death row becomes a movie star.

** {{spoiler|''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''}}: The two brothers stop a dangerous plague and furious dictator by getting devoured by a giant monster.

*** OR: [[Idiot Plot|A giant turtle takes mushrooms from a stranger]] and unintentionally [[Enemy Mine|teams up]] with the aforementioned brothers. [[They Fight Crime|They fight]] [[Our Monsters Are Weird|... just about everything]]

** {{spoiler|''Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games''}}: Same arch-enemies enter the winter olympics. The other athletes are still absent.

* {{spoiler|''[[Mario Kart]]''}}: A relaxing drive with go-karts, with turtle shells, mushrooms and banana peels ahoy.

** Alternate one for {{spoiler|''[[Mercenaries]] 2''}}: Your pain-in-the-ass boss won't pay you, so you'll just have to go on a shooting rampage.

* {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear]]'' series}}: Estranged military man sneaks into work, steals equipment, waxes philosophical with former colleagues, kills them all while experiencing life-affirming bouts of depression.

** {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''}}: The top entry, but as a remake of the above entry, and then turned into an eight hour movie about how [[Anvilicious|nukes are bad]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''}}: [[Recycled Script|The same as above]], but there's loads more talking and the final boss is an elderly, half-blind politician.

** {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''}}: [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Distractingly manly]] gourmet kills a MILF for money.

*** A man named after a penis fights a group of freaks, mugs a gay man for his clothes, and gets fondled by a scary Russian guy (all in the span of about 2 days).

** {{spoiler|''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''}}: Two sad old men fight over drugs.

*** Or: The man named after an erection has become old and unable to live up to the name. So he and another old man fight over drugs. Meanwhile, a whiny bitch (who is now a robot ninja) fights a gay vampire.

** {{spoiler|''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]''}}: Earth is conquered, and our only hope is to go after the wife of the one responsible.

** {{spoiler|''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]''}}: An elder god tries to conquer the dimensions. He is backstabbed by a mortal.

** {{spoiler|''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]]''}}: A [[Man On Fire]] tries to destroy the Multiverse. Everybody (and we do mean ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|EVERYBODY]]'') from the previous games sets out to stop him.

** {{spoiler|''[[Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe]]''}}: A merger of two [[Big Bad]]s from two different universes attempts to merge his homeworlds. This infects their inhabitants with [[Unstoppable Rage]] directed towards the other world.

* {{spoiler|''[[Myst]]''}}: In the early nineteenth century, a person finds a book in a New Mexico desert and becomes involved in the life of a troubled man and his family problems.

** {{spoiler|''Riven''}}: You run around five islands situated in an archipelago and try to outsmart an old guy with a gun [[A God Am I|who thinks he's God]]. The world violently implodes into outer space at the end, but it's okay.

** {{spoiler|''Myst IV: Revelation''}}: A guy kidnaps his sister and you have to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|fall asleep in a giant fungus and travel through a trippy dreamworld]] to save her, but first you have to decide which of the girl's brothers did it. One is a [[Psychopathic Manchild|murderous psychopath]] and the other has [[Made of Explodium|exploding musical crystals]].

** {{spoiler|''Uru: Ages Beyond Myst''}}: In the present day, a whole bunch of people get to wander around various worlds touching cloths and moving pillars back and forth. However the company keeps losing funding, making you do it on your own.