So I got a bug in my butt to install Mortal Kombat 11 last night and was doing the story mode which is basically like a movie with intermittent fights and it occurred to me that I love Mortal Kombat but just the characters, the worldbuilding, and the lore. I’ve never been big on fighting games and as I age, I am finding it harder and harder to pull off special combos quick enough to even do much other than slapping buttons and hoping for the best.

My favorite MK game was one of the ones on PS2 where the story mode was basically God of War gameplay turning it from a fighter into an action adventure game.

If Midway were to make a Mortal Kombat title that was like Dark Souls but set on Outworld or something, that would definitely be my jam.

Another would be Warhammer 40k. I am not at all interested in the PnP gameplay nor a lot of the video games. But I love the lore and the game Rogue Trader is fucking dope, playing more like a traditional CRPG in that setting and not an RTS or straight up shooter.

Do y’a have any games like that? Where you like everything about them except the actual gameplay?

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I have only really played one game in the franchise, but I’d love to see BlazBlue in more of either a regular action game or maybe a visual novel.

    Again, I have only really played Continuum Shift Extend since I picked it up maybe 2021 thinking it was gonna be a regular JRPG and not a fighting game since I didn’t look it up or read the back of the box at the pawn.

    I’m interested in the story just as much as I am in some of the fighting, but I am much better at understanding the story than doing the fighting portion of the fighting game. Especially since I swear some of the attack combos having me move the joystick in specific ways on my 360 controller don’t register or have some other problem that makes it nearly impossible for me to do anything more than spam a few attacks whenever possible, locking me out of a character’s moveset.

    Would love to hear more about their world because I find it interesting enough, but not interesting enough to play through the story type mode and other story mode like modes with every character. Not gonna kill myself with the stress of that challenge.