The predict-the-sequel game

[HT_Black]

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While I am well aware that this would do well under forum games, I thought that perhaps to overarching motif here warrented it its current place. Now, without further ado:

This is a notion of mine which stemmed from a fun little game I like to play; the goal is simple: Find a video game or other form of media with a shockingly generic or predictable plot, and guess what happens in the sequel. Choose as many as you want, but spoil them if you've been incontinent with your predictions.
List plot points, twists, etc... The only rule is that you can't pick a series that's officially been closed. Whoever gets it right gets to feel smugly self-satisfied for the day. Very goood then-- shall we begin?

FABLE 3:
1. Murgo turns out to be Archon
2. The king/queen (Fable II's hero, your daddy/mummy dearest) is murdered by the main villain, on whom you swear revenge.
3. a quarter of the way into the game, you'll find a temple of light and a temple of darkness; halfway through, you'll have to fight in some sort of arena-type thing; three quarters through, you'll have to use a cullis gate in the middle of a swampy-type place to get to somewhere on the coast.
4. Theresa is REALLY FUCKING OLD

 

[Robert632]

legend of zelda(not the new one coming out.)

1. you,link,lead a happy and ordanary life untill you are forced to fight evil.
2about halfway through the game, ganon comes and kicks your ass.
3.rihgt after ganon kicks your ass, you go to a temple to get the master sword.
4.you get x amount of magic items, lose/use them, then go to find more x amounts of different migic items.
5. there's a horse named epona.
6. there a princess named zelda.
7.you kick ganon's ass the second time.
8.ganon has some sort of beast form thing you fight as well
9.there are empty bottles used as item's.
10.link doesn't get zelda in bed, even though it is hinted at that they would be romanticly involed with each other in anything else, and you save her life x amount of times.


i could go on but it's nintendo. being predictable is what we love about them

 

[Avatar Roku]

legend of zelda(not the new one coming out.)

1. you,link,lead a happy and ordanary life untill you are forced to fight evil.
2about halfway through the game, ganon comes and kicks your ass.
3.rihgt after ganon kicks your ass, you go to a temple to get the master sword.
4.you get x amount of magic items, lose/use them, then go to find more x amounts of different migic items.
5. there's a horse named epona.
6. there a princess named zelda.
7.you kick ganon's ass the second time.
8.ganon has some sort of beast form thing you fight as well
9.there are empty bottles used as item's.
10.link doesn't get zelda in bed, even though it is hinted at that they would be romanticly involed with each other in anything else, and you save her life x amount of times.


i could go on but it's nintendo. being predictable is what we love about them

The fun thing though is seeing how, although most Zeldas follow this, they still differ greatly. For example, could you even attempt to claim that OoT and Wind Waker (my personal favorite) are the same just because of the basic outline? It's that difference that's fun to look for.

 

[scnj]

Mercenaries 3: A Haiku

Tattoos, bad mustache,
Lots of stuff that explodes, BOOM!
Big disappointment.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Half-life 2 Episode 3: physics puzzles, mute protagonist.

 

[Exuberance]

Half-life 2 Episode 2: physics puzzles, mute protagonist.

Wow! You predicted a game that already has come out! Amazing!

 

[Drakmorg]

Fallout 4/New Vegas:
-Listen to Ron Perlman talk about how war never changes
-Explore wasteland while listening to ironically upbeat 50s music
-kill raiders in slow motion
-kill super mutants in slow motion
-kill enclave in slow motion
-recruit Dogmeat

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Half-life 2 Episode 2: physics puzzles, mute protagonist.

Wow! You predicted a game that already has come out! Amazing!

Eh, typo. Your sarcasm is not appreciated.

 

[Inco]

A Mario game- You jump on things....Lots of things.
And you save peach from bowser...She is not in another castle either!

Then! A plot twist that turns the game into a dark, gritty, doom 3-stylised FPS, where the Koopas have rifles and are trying to invade the planet using the tunnel network and its up to the toad-stool marines with their high-powered hammer guns to either shoot or hammer them into submission.
Yes, that was quite bad. For the ones who haven't realised its ripping off gears

 

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[supermaster1337]

Gears of War 3
The Locust will be "discovered" to have been created by Human Scientists to stop the Pendulum Wars by giving humanity a common enemy. Also explains why the Locust Queen is a human chick. (and why they gave her an excellent voice actor. Carolyn Seymour ftw!) Most likely, Fenix, Dom, Cole, Baird, and maybe Hoffman or a new guy will be charged with somehow killing the Locust swarm at the source (again, remember the Lightmass Bomb? Yeah, I almost didn't either), one of the party of 5 will die (Cole? Baird? Dom? maybe Fenix if they feel like making the game slightly more epic?). Somewhere you will either team up with or fight Marcus's father.

First of all I have to say DAMN YOU, you beat me to it. I agree with everything but to add on is that Fenix's father actually had something to deal with the locust coming and has contact with the queen. You will fight him eventually.

PS. I hope they kill Baird, I HATE HIM.

 

[Instant K4rma]

legend of zelda(not the new one coming out.)

1. you,link,lead a happy and ordanary life untill you are forced to fight evil.
2about halfway through the game, ganon comes and kicks your ass.
3.rihgt after ganon kicks your ass, you go to a temple to get the master sword.
4.you get x amount of magic items, lose/use them, then go to find more x amounts of different migic items.
5. there's a horse named epona.
6. there a princess named zelda.
7.you kick ganon's ass the second time.
8.ganon has some sort of beast form thing you fight as well
9.there are empty bottles used as item's.
10.link doesn't get zelda in bed, even though it is hinted at that they would be romanticly involed with each other in anything else, and you save her life x amount of times.


i could go on but it's nintendo. being predictable is what we love about them

You pretty much just read off the plot of OoT... From what i can see, at least.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Halo 4

Master Chief will be forced to save the universe... Again...

The story line will be incredibly bland and short, with a few exciting levels to keep you playing.

Multiplayer will be full of 11 year olds who swear alot when their parents arent home.

It will be...Over rated...

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Sims 4

More clothes! More customization! More freedom! More of EA taking your money!

And more boring.

 

[Flos]

Sims 4

More clothes! More customization! More freedom! More of EA taking your money!

And more boring.

Actually, less clothes. Less customization. More freedom. More of EA taking your money.

I mean, seriously, Sims 3 actually downgraded a bit.

 

[blazinwings]

i'd like to preface this with the statement that the fire emblem series, with the exception of that still-burning train-wreck that was somehow published on the ds, is one of my favorites. i love them to death and have put in the hours to get all of the support conversations on two of them. that being said, "fire emblem: little country that nobody cares about of great misfortune" is going to be great.

the main character will use a rapier like an expert, even though he's a naive, snarky little tosser with zero combat experience.

at least 50% of the female characters will have a massive crush on him.

there will be a surprise invasion of the protagonist's home country by another bigger, meaner, badder country with soldiers in black armor and his parents and the king/queen/both will be murdered.

the story will take place with said protagonist starting out with a rag-tag band of six or so characters that somehow in the course of the game turns into a rag-tag band of 50 or so characters. at least 20% will be whiny attention-whores, and about the same number will be totally badass. all of them will be trained with pointy objects made of iron, steel, or silver, to some degree.

for some reason, even though the main character is not much more than a child, people of stature ranging from ten-year-old thieves (yes, i'm looking at YOU, sothe) to 50-year old enemy generals will bow to his whims and walk to their deaths if he asks them to.

for the first 20 chapters or so the party will be too busy wondering why this happened to actually know what's going on, and the player will be too engaged to care.

the plot will eventually revealed as eerily similar to the following: long ago, a giant battle occurred in which man prevailed just barely but with enough oomph to seal away the leader of the evil force they were battling, and it just so happened that that leader was an evil god/demon king/dragon/other doomy-type thing. the leader of the invading country, present day, will be trying to stir enough chaos in the world to awaken the sleeping mind of said doomy-type thing, and to wreak destruction upon the world.

the enemy units won't actually pose half a challenge until the last three chapters or so, and by the time the player gets there he'll have enough money to hire the doomy-type thing to clean his shoes, but he'll end up killing him anyway with a legenary weapon that happens to be the only thing in the world that can damage said baddie at all.

also, there will be a coin/medallion/tea saucer/frisbee of immense power that will give the game a reason to be called "fire emblem"