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LMU Uncle Alfred said:
Xenogears, but for good reasons. It's difficult to take in the story as its coming at you, but even when you don't understand details or characters being presented to you it's still ripe with mystery and "holy shit" moments as everything eventually comes together. It's that convolution that keeps everything ticking to some degree. The well written characters also help :P. And even when you look back at it after you complete the story, there's so much that happens it feels almost like a world with a long drawn out history behind it...sort of like ours.

Even the real world has a pretty convoluted history. Some societies were buried by conquerors for instance, and we will never know if lets say certain cultural aspects/items/inventions from some countries originated from them. They could have stolen a few that we all now take for granted as their culture.

Agreed. Xenogears had layers, and depth. You can look at the same scene in many different ways.



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MGS isn't hard to understand, there is just a lot more to the story if you dig deeper. You don't have to know every aspect of it.



InnocentSin said:
Chrono Cross and Xenogears.

I love Chrono Cross though. Xenogears....not so much.


Concerning Xenogears; was it that you didn't understand the story? Because it usually gets praised my some jrpg fanatics for having the best story in any video game and most mature one, mixing ideas of Niezche, Jung and Freud.

I have not played the game myself because it was never released here in Europe (but I've seen the opening on youtube and it was amazing). It's at the No. 1 spot in my wishlist because I'm a fan of 19th century philosophy/psychology and sci fi jrpgs.



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Stellar_Fungk said:
InnocentSin said:
Chrono Cross and Xenogears.

I love Chrono Cross though. Xenogears....not so much.


Concerning Xenogears; was it that you didn't understand the story? Because it usually gets praised my some jrpg fanatics for having the best story in any video game and most mature one, mixing ideas of Niezche, Jung and Freud.

I have not played the game myself because it was never released here in Europe (but I've seen the opening on youtube and it was amazing). It's at the No. 1 spot in my wishlist because I'm a fan of 19th century philosophy/psychology and sci fi jrpgs.

The story definitely did make you want to find out more about it and the plot can be analyzed deeply. But I think Xenogear's gameplay was boring, maybe I'm just getting sick of turn based battles but I didn't enjoy playing the game and considering it's around 60 hrs or longer, I just lost interest.



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This may sound weird but I think call of duty zombies has a convoluted yet intriguing story. I say this because the zombie storyline does not fall within one game, but rather with most of treyarch's call of duty games (world at war and black ops 1-3).

The story interconnects every single map that on the surface, doesn't really have depth to them. But, if you dig deep enough and perform the ridiculously unintuitive crazy easter eggs, bits of the story begin revealing themselves.

A story involving 4 different warriors of different nationalities, who are trapped in a cycle due to time travel, forced to work together against the zombies (created by one of the warriors who is also a scientist) who fall under the control of the daughter of a different scientist. Seeing as how this is a small part of the story, it's easy to say there is a lot to take in and that all of this seems convoluted, but after watching/reading the story unfold in each map, it is actually a great tale



InnocentSin said:
KhinRunite said:
Chrono Cross.

I'm playing it again to see if I can get everything straight.

Have you checked out Chrono Compendium? It explains the complex plot points and helps to make sense of it all, albeit it's still quite complex.


Yeah I did some reading, but I want to see if I can now "get" it firsthand from the game. It could be the case of bad presentation, or just maybe I got lost in all the sidequests that the main storyline totally got away from me.



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Alot of the biggies were said:

Chrono Cross
Xenogears
Sin and punishment(lol)
Sonic 06

Heres another - .Hack series: tries to be more than what it is



Mystro-Sama said:


Is that a compliment?

No, ugh usually means disgust.