'Choice' game recommendations

What are some good choice based games that aren't filled with SJW bullshit and don't rape my computer? I have played:


Bonus points for no low-energy 'visual novel' shit.

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They have 'choice', they just don't have branches in tandem with those choices.

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Alpha Protocol is a buggy popamole TPS with an RPG system attached, but don't let it fool you, it has the best C&C out of any game in the last decade. The order in which you do missions, your stance in dialogue, your performance in combat, and reading the lore will all influence the story and characters in one way or another. Like how you can joke to someone that you're a spy (when you actually are one), and later on that character mentions she should have known you weren't joking about that.

The consequences of your actions in Deus Ex are more subtle. Like how entering UNATCO Alex will tell you about your new e-mail account, and depending on whether you go to your office or Janice Reed to get your password, the dialogue will change. There's even subtler changes like during your first meeting with Gordon Quick where you say 'Paul IS no friend of the West' if he survived and 'Paul WAS no friend of the West' when he died. It's those little things that make the game feel incredibly immersive and responsive to your actions.


I will remember that!

The only true choice based games are visual novels since it takes less resources to make different routes through them than to make different routes in AAA games but OP clearly said no visual novels.

As for OP, I guess there might be some old school WRPGs with plenty of choice, I dunno, I don't play much old western stuff. Also Kingdoms of Amalur, but that shit is massively distilled, it has a choice wheel but 99% of the time there's only two choices in it, you can change the ending to various sidequests and avoid combat with speech tests though.

Witcher 2's choices affect the game much more than Witcher 3 ones

Holy shit, really? 2 & 3 are rotten to the core with that shit.

Which one of the two should I play?

Get a load of this goy

That's the only genre that consistently has choices that matter, though.

So you skipped the first two? Go back and play them, faggot.

life is strange

Shin Megami Tensei, emulate it.

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Which is why I don't want that shitty experience again. lrn2context.


I know, but they're way too devoid of action for my taste, and story-wise they tend to be full of low-energy protagonists and 'stronk independynt' action girls.

Meh.

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I think I wouldn't have enjoyed Alpha Protocol as much if I had chosen something other than wearing a swamp hat, ski goggles, having large beard and wearing casual clothes everywhere.

One of those occasionally has an actual gameplay impact, the others just make all the cutscenes better.

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It's not exactly a choice or consequence, but one detail I always loved about Deus Ex is that NPCs will mention and give you shit for entering the women's restroom in a later conversation.

CRPG's and Shadow the Hedgehog

the original, obviously

Isn't there more than one game of Deus Ex?


Kek, I remember playing that when I was 11.

It's not a central aspect of the game, but Dark Messiah involves a few fateful decisions. It's frosting on an amazing game, so you should play it either way.

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Human Revolution, original Deus Ex aged like shit

Noted.

I know this is trolling, but the witcher games are great with choices, especially 1 and 2.
VTMB is nice.
Fallout New Vegas, and the original Fallout 1 and 2.

You're objectively wrong.

Fucking play the original.

Neverwinter Nights 2

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One of Witcher 2's choices, you mean.

VTMB?

Fuck you, I played Fallout 4 and to say it sucked was an understatement. It felt like a shitty Skyrim mod that was completely lifeless and boring.

New Vegas better be GOAT tier for you to recommend that shit.

The original.

Also, Dark Messiah. Pick your bitch and make another big decision near the end that I won't spoil.

It's best to believe that Fallout 4 never happened, along with 3 actually.

The fuck

This one?

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

New vegas was made by Obsidian, not Bethesda

Age of Decadence.
Go ahead, op.

Dragon Age Origins is understandable because it's actually halfway decent. But I've heard nothing but bad things about the sequels.

Played it, 6/10 too short.


How is it any different from 4?

I've heard good thing about sequels. All from liars though.

That's not the major decision, but yes, that is the game in question.

Also, go sneaky assassin build and kick everyone all of the time.

Dragon age 2 had the best combat actually, and the story was actually quite decent even though your 'choices' only impact your character and his companions.


I dunno, it looks more like a Skyrim-type game.

Fun but not really much choice.

get the fuck out of here
sage

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Were the lies sweet little ones?

It isn't Skyrim-like at all. It's built on the Source engine and is linear, with most all of the levels built around using physics to help you. You'll wonder why so many nobles, goblins, and castles have conveniently-spiked stands on every other wall. The game has a dedicated kick button for knocking enemies off cliffs, into spikes, into the path of oncoming heavy, swinging objects, et cetera.

You're right it doesn't have much choice, but the choices you do make DO matter, and there's no SJW bullshit in the process.

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Top kek, alright I'll give it a try.


Interesting. So it's basically a medieval Taekwondo simulator with a story and spikes?

Downloading.

I don't have the webm, sorry.

Let me help you out here

Honestly, stuff like visual novels are the best choice based narrative.
They offer complex routes and completly change the game based on your choices.

I understand if you want something with more gameplay but hear me out when i say that many japanese games are like a evolution of the visual novel genre.
Corpse party is a very good example, its basicly a VN but with more gameplay and interaction, while still maintaining complexity with different routes and endings.
One step further was taken with the atelier games.
By mixing jrpg gameplay mechanics with visual novel style event/route triggers the actions you perform feel like they have impact behind them and they motivate you to perform trial and error in order to unlock new parts of the game.

In my opinion this is the perfect way of choicebased gameplay

Except that Corpse Party is actually completely linear with only 1 actual ending, the rest being nothing but extended game over sequences.

Granted it was still quite a decent game, the story was actually interesting. It was the first anime-based title that didn't make me fucking cringe 80% of the time. Only 80% of the time though.

You could say that in every game with multiple endings anything but the true ending are extended game over screens since there can only be one proper canon.
Not counting shenenigans like multidimension stuff though of course.
I really liked what they did with book of shadows where they gave the bad ends of the first game more depth.

and the best one is not to play.

I wanted to play book of shadows, but I heard it was more of a porn visual-novel than anything, without the gameplay of the first.

Kind of, the focus is definetly on the text but there are some parts with actual gameplay.
However these segments work with different CG screens you can walk through on a map and sometimes you click on stuff on said cg rather than the spritebased stuff

Not really my style then, sorry.

Honestly, if you just wanna see the suffering and know how the story progresses you could just watch it on youtube, you wouldnt miss out on much.
It's definetly not as enjoyable to play as the first game but im still glad it existsp

actual goon memes for one

Ew.

I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream
It's a kind of old point and click adventure game.

there's not a whole lot of choice in it
just what kind of build you want, and whether you want the evil waifu or the shit waifu

Here's a few more

for a platformer, and a pretty flawed one, Shadow was pretty fucking complex with the ending system

This has choice through the means of maintaining relationships with your squad mates. It's pretty sick either way.

Do not listen to this guy

You are a moron

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It's on PC too.

didnt witcher 3 have some cuck bullshit?

On the subject of Witcher and Mass Effect, it got me thinking. How many series actually do C&C across all the games? Witcher games are good individually for that but the whole series has little to anything carry over and mean something. Same for Mass Effect. I understand it would be quite complex and there is always the suits stepping in and making it so people jumping in at the end of the story can still win/experience it all.

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What consolefaggotry spawned you?

lol, kys fagtron

Both of you faggots need to leave.

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Couldn't bring yourself to shitpost with a smiley, could you?

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You lack a soul.

no


i never said it was good you massive sperg

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I picked the Rookie background for my first playthrough and it really made the game for me. Going from some dumbass smuck expected to die in five seconds flat all the way to being a badass superspy with all the witty one-liners and the sexy Bond girl and all of these things happening because of my actions, not because they were guaranteed to happen was one of my best experiences in a videogame. Fuck do I wish it got a sequel from a competent dev team and the same writer. It's crazy how many of the little choices you make actually change the game in a big way. Even the one scene where the game basically reads out your major decisions like a checklist came across organically because of how well written and dynamic it was.

After about 7 playthroughs I got an ending I was really satisfied with


There's so many great little things about that game.
Leland even comments on whether your characters personality has changed over the course of the game from what you chose at the beginning.

You are the problem, nigger. Get out, and on your way out kill yourself while you're at it.

It's actually trash m8