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* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'' series of missions are actually referred to as story arcs, another way to capture the feel of comic books.
* Each of the original games in the ''[[When They Cry]]'' series are their own arc. Later remakes tend to have multiple arcs in one game though.
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' splits up its ongoing, [[Continuity Creep|sometimes confusing]] plot into arcs, each with rotating [[The Protagonist|protagonist]] duties. ''{{'}}94'' was a stand-alone title meant to kick off this [[Mascot Fighter]], but is now commonly referred to as "The [[Starter Villain|Rugal]] Saga". ''{{'}}95'' simultaneously ends this story with [[Blood Knight|Rugal's]] [[Karmic Death]] via [[Superpower Meltdown]] and begins "The [[Orochi]] Saga", which climaxes in ''{{'}}97'' when [[The Hero|Kyo Kusanagi]] [[Megaton Punch|literally]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punches out Orochi]] with help from [[The Rival|Iori Yagami]] and [[Barrier Maiden|Chizuru Kagura]]. ''{{'}}99''-''2001'' was "The [[Nebulous Evil Organisation|NESTS]] Chronicles", chronicling an evil cartel's [[Take Over the World|plans for world domination]] using the DNA of a captured Kyo to create human bioweapons. One of these <ref>[[Cloning Blues|Clones]] in this case referring to regular humans injected with the DNA of another person; there ''are'' more atypical clones in the series, but most adhere to the former definition.</ref> is [[Anti-Hero Substitute|K']], a [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Knight in Sour Armor]] who ends NESTS' ambitions by defeating their top-ranked executives. ''2003'' started "The Tales of [[Trickster Archetype|Ash]]", detailing Ash Crimson, [[Hidden Agenda Villain|a enigmatic man]] [[Manipulative Bastard|who uses others for his own purposes]], and [[Standard Evil Organization Squad|Those From the Past]], a mysterious cult intent on [[Sealed Evil in a Can|unsealing]] Orochi. ''XIII'' seems to be the conclusion of this part of the story, as {{spoiler|Ash, [[Good All Along|really a]] [[Guile Hero]], enacts a [[Cosmic Retcon|time-rewriting]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to stop Those From the Past and [[Big Bad|their leader Saiki]].}} Fans can generally expect a new arc to pick up if the last title was a [[Dream Match Game]] (''[[Obvious Beta|XII]]'' [[In Name Only|notwithstanding]]).
* The ''[[Kirby]]'' series had a Story Arc nicknamed the "Dark Matter Trilogy" consisting of ''Kirby's Dream Land 2'', ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'', and ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'' because all three deal with Kirby and his animal friends dealing with the threat of Dark Matter on Popstar and its solar system. These games were not produced by Masahiro Sakurai but Shinichi Shimomura. This is noticeable because all three share a puzzle-solving structure instead of the more combat-oriented structure of the other games.
* ''Mass Effect'' basically runs on one big story arc involving the Reapers and the Normandy's battles against them. (with a ton of little subplots and side story arcs added in). Each game has the crew facing a diffrent threat which is related to the Reapers.
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* Everything except filler in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. Also has a [[Myth Arc]], though it has spent the past few years lurking in the background.
* ''[[Living with Insanity]]'' used to be a comic strip with the occasional story arc, but now is mostly story arcs.
* Both ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719023505/http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City/ Dragon City]'' and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix]'' both started off as a gag-a-day strips, despite having an ongoing story, but both became arc-based. This is because the writer has a hard time writing jokes without having a story in place to joke about.
* ''[[The Packrat]]'' had only one Story Arc so far, and that was the time travel story from January 2011 to February 2012.
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' was fond of arcs lasting days or weeks, and mostly followed the common US newspaper comics' tradition of having a non-arc-related strip every Sunday. Several arcs involved the [[Running Gag|long-running]] [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|non-relationship]] between AJ and Miranda, {{Spoiler|which was arguably one huge arc since they eventually got together - and it took them most of the strip's 13-year run.}}
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