The Game Oversimplification Thread - Take any game and intentionally make it sound boring

[The Valeyard]

Drug addict goes psycho and eats his friends

Pac-Man

a scientist permantently alters time. That scientist's name?...

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

 

[ES 148]

Mutant children spurt bodily fluids all over city infrastructure

 

[Begemot]

Accused of murder, you try to prove your innocence by murdering people

 

[OhGoy]

Man meets the daughter he never knew he had, despite issues with her adoptive father.

bioshock: infinite

which is over-rated, btw

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

Mailman tracks stolen package and delivers it.

New Vegas?

Mexican goes to hell for his girlfriend

 

[ES 148]

Man saves son from drowning

 

[Red Hood]

New Vegas?

Mexican goes to hell for his girlfriend

Shadows of the Damned?

Government contractor seeks retirement.

bioshock: infinite

which is over-rated, btw

Infinite being overrated is such a popular opinion that it's hard to say it's overrated.

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

Shadows of the Damned?

Yep!

 

[ColtWalker1847]

A convicted rapist beats up a man half his size.

Mike Tyson's Punchout

Space Quest

Correct

 

[Red Hood]

Overworked security guard finds a side gig in IT

 

[lordoftheflies]

Mutant children spurt bodily fluids all over city infrastructure

Splatoon

Accused of murder, you try to prove your innocence by murdering people

Asura's Wrath

 

[ES 148]

Splatoon

Yeet

Hard-as-nails Swede builds an empire with his bare hands.

 

[Begemot]

Splatoon


Asura's Wrath

No. Sorry.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

You die, become small, and then your asshole friend eats you

 

[ES 148]

Overworked security guard finds a side gig in IT

Watch_Dogs?

 

[Red Hood]

Watch_Dogs?

Sorry, no. Think a decade or so older by a studio that wasn't famous but would be known worldwide in a few years.

 

[Zaragoza]

New Overworked security guard finds a side gig in IT

System Shock

 

[ES 148]

System Shock

He was a hacker tho

 

[Red Hood]

System Shock

On the right track. Some extremely similar plot elements. But not there yet...

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

A nerd gets stuck in a maze