Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?

• STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The video game Spec Ops: The Line is essentially both stories, but set in Dubai after a cataclysmic sandstorm.

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I remember reading that one of story shooter games had a particularly great mission where the player descends on a city from the surrounding elevation or somesuch. And I’ve heard multiple times recently that ‘The Line’ is quite outstanding with its story and gameplay. Is it the same game, by any chance? I don’t think there’s any elevation near Dubai, so probably not, but just to make sure.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t remember of any particularly great mission descending onto a city, there are some segments that could fot the description, but honestly Spec Ops: The Line is not memorable for its gameplay, it’s just average and it’s meant to be, the point of the game is in the story. Although I think that playing it now might not be as impactful as when it first released and every other game was a third-person shooter, but it still I strongly recommend it.

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      • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s hard to get the same feeling now compared to back in the day when everything was a beige military shooter.

        The story is still good but I think that meta layer of “I do this constantly in games and don’t think about it” won’t hit the same way for people that didn’t grow up at the time. A bit sad.

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