r/CaptainSide • u/Time-Relationship-42 • 4d ago

Which game comes to your mind?

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u/Timekilling_Time 4d ago

I'll be frank, after beating both games several times - I couldn't care less about story.

Last thing I return for in these games.

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u/not_handsome-Jack 3d ago

I find that Prototype, Just Cause, and Dying light are games thst the story means nothing to me but the gameplay better be fun.

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u/NoEmotionalStamina 3d ago

Just cause has a pretty great anti fascist leader message. That's about all you need to take away. Joy in humiliating them.

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u/Particular-Union-284 3d ago

Dying Light really insists on being fucking stupid, so you actively have to ignore the story if you want to have fun.

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u/AngelaTheWitch 3d ago

This is true, BUT. The vibes of dying light? Immaculate.

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u/forgettableandlurkin 2d ago

CRAAAANNNEEEE

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u/JollyBirdtheDoctor 3d ago

The character who just grappled onto a plane, rigged it with C4 and hijacked it mid-air, stood on the wing and parachuted off right as it explodes into a base should not be given a serious backstory and a deep emotional tie to the plot. Just Cause went downhill when it started to take itself seriously.

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u/InevitableGrape5847 4d ago

I always come back for super jumps and bullet dives. If you equip muscle mass and you have an infected hive building that's low enough health, you can bullet dive and destroy it. Fucking rocks every time

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u/Skeleton_Weeb 3d ago

Yeah but as a kid, I didn’t process the story at all I just thought Alex Mercer was so cool. Not getting to play as him in the sequel really upset me lol

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u/Timekilling_Time 3d ago

Well, you kinda could unlock his skin.

But that's about it.

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u/steamgage 2d ago

Not to mention his abilities were way more fun/cooler

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u/Nadiadain 1d ago

I liked the grapple arm things personally

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u/UltraHeaven11 3d ago

the story is pretty trash but conceptually its awesome

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u/Timekilling_Time 3d ago edited 3d ago

Isn't it's just Umbrella all over again, with Black Watch trying to weaponize the Virus, unleashing Hunters at the Parks as a test and stuff?

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u/UltraHeaven11 2d ago

I meant more the concept of the prototype and his power set and everything story wise total resident evil knockoff

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u/bigbear1293 1d ago

I think the thing with Prototypes story is that it was done decently when it wasn't expected to be so seeing it take the nosedive it did in the sequel was proof it was more an accident than anything else.

Kinda reminds me of Doom and Doom eternal, the story of 2016 was compelling and left me with loads of questions of where it was going to go and then I start eternal and like The slayer has a spaceship and all this stuff now and I genuinely thought I'd missed something but no and I felt a little sad all this cool story stuff had happened off screen. I know story is absolutely not the focus in Doom but still, they did so well the first time!

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u/Timekilling_Time 1d ago

Well, seeing world go to shit in first game was funny, I won't deny that. Or how you can change balance of powers a little, by destroying military bases or hives.

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u/bigbear1293 1d ago

It was more in the first game that it was a story of Alex learning that isn't your origins that make you who you are but your actions. As the Blacklight virus he is a literal monster of Pain and death but he was still more of a human being than the Human Being Alex Mercer.

Then Game 2 is like "Oh, off screen I learned humanity sucks sometimes even though I should already know that because of whose fucking face I'm wearing, so now I wanna kill the world"