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

[Vault Boy]

A game heavily inspired by sci-fi B-movies, but with the roles reversed.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

A game heavily inspired by sci-fi B-movies, but with the roles reversed.

Destroy All Humans?

 

[Vault Boy]

Destroy All Humans?

That's the one.

A farmer is forced to confront his past to save his family.

 

[Burned Man]

That's the one.

A farmer is forced to confront his past to save his family.

Red Dead Redemption.

 

[Zaryiu]

A man drink his own piss

 

[Vault Boy]

Red Dead Redemption.

Yes. Funnily enough, I'm playing it now to get ready for RDR2.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

A god misinterprets a message about how to save the world, ends up fucking everyone over.

 

[A Witty Name]

A god misinterprets a message about how to save the world, ends up fucking everyone over.

Mortal Kombat 9 (or just Mortal Kombat if you prefer)

 

[Overcast]

A week in paradise doing normal stuff with occasional set backs.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Some delinquent has to improve his life by getting involved with social reform and being a good student.

Giftpia.

If it is, that's digging deep.

The intro is fantastic though.
https://youtu.be/RPCpOkX7geM?t=52

 

[DumbDosh]

A week in paradise doing normal stuff with occasional set backs.

Postal 2?

An old man goes around the world to find his old brother to punch him in the face and give his computer a virus.

 

[Overcast]

Postal 2?

An old man goes around the world to find his old brother to punch him in the face and give his computer a virus.

Yup.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

An old man goes around the world to find his old brother to punch him in the face and give his computer a virus.

Probably a stretch, but Metal Gear Solid 4?

 

[DumbDosh]

Probably a stretch, but Metal Gear Solid 4?

Yep

 

[ContinentalButterchip]

Jung's concept of a dream guide makes a bet with Nyarlathotep, leaving the fate of the world in the hand's of several anime teenagers.

 

[Zaryiu]

Jung's concept of a dream guide makes a bet with Nyarlathotep, leaving the fate of the world in the hand's of several anime teenagers.

Persona 2?

 

[ES 148]

Young man accidentally the entire series by eating his way through the jungle.

 

[SauceRyuKen]

Young man accidentally the entire series by eating his way through the jungle.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
This is a hard one, so feel free to pass on it: Dominatrix woman does the harmful splits on armless man while other abominations fight in the background. Moral guardians are so outraged, the game is banned.

Edit: You missed a "Starts" there, but my brain auto-corrected for some reason. I just noticed after answering

 

[ES 148]

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
This is a hard one, so feel free to pass on it: Dominatrix woman does the harmful splits on armless man while other abominations fight in the background. Moral guardians are so outraged, the game is banned.

Edit: You missed a "Starts" there, but my brain auto-corrected for some reason. I just noticed after answering

Correct. The lack of starts was also intentional, but yeah it looks dumb

Is it maybe Mortal Kombat...?

 

[SauceRyuKen]

Correct. The lack of starts was also intentional, but yeah it looks dumb

Is it maybe Mortal Kombat...?

It's Mortal Kombat inspired, at least. But it's not digitized.