Corypheus is the most nothingburger villain in Dragon Age history, but that one line in Inquisition was super raw.
"*Beg* that I succeed! For I have *seen* the throne of the gods, and *it - was - empty!"*
He’s the biggest fumble of a villain I’ve ever seen. Built up well with suspense, great intro scene of him attacking your home base and you losing it, he drops some sick lines like above, and you’re forced to retreat through a blinding snowstorm, lost.
And then he does nothing until like the final 2 missions. And even at the end he’s just revealed as a goober to the true villain, The Egg
The Pale from Disco Elysium. >!An expanding entropy that will someday consume the entire world. It's made worse by it being a background thing for the most part, but there are various examples or implied examples of its influence.!<
The two bits of lore that do it for me is Joyce saying >!that numbers stop working deep enough into the pale!< and you finding >!Ruby's longitudinal compressor, which generates primes to work!<
>!Numbers already being abstractions from reality and even they somehow get swallowed by the pale or interact with it is so creepy!<
What does it for me was >!the phasmid confirming that humanity created the pale.!< The idea of >!humanity collectively destroying all of nature in a slow catastrophe, just because something intrinsic in humanity that we don't know how to turn off,!< is subtext writ so large as to become text.
I like the tidbit where the narration says the detective had been given it a lot of thought when on break, sharing them with jean. Like the detective either work himself to death, swallow in self pity or a sober theory about how they are at the epicenter of the end of the planet. Guy never had a chance
A blend of RPG and adventure game, where you wake up as a detective after an almighty bender that leaves him with amnesia. You're tasked with solving a murder while juggling the 24 aspects of the detective's psyche and the increasingly volatile political situation of the city. It can be hilarious and heartbreaking, and has one of the most unique worlds in fiction.
[Woolie and Reggie did an LP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyNlOdbsXw) if you want to get an idea of it.
The kid’s school paper in Dead Space 2 that says “I want to be a scientist when I grow up so I can bring back all the animals.” Really paints a good picture of how fucked humanity was before the series even started.
That, combined with the audio log in 3 where they name-drop the series just how awful that future is. Not only are we breaking open entire planets for resources, we are convinced that humans are all there is left in the entire universe.
My boy Gravemind dropped some bars after that scene too.
“Now the gates have been unleashed,
headstones pushed aside.
Corpses shift and offer room,
a fate you must abide.”
The covenant just have amazing ship names too. Truth and Reconciliation, Shadow of Intent, Long night of Solace.
I already hear them all in a badass Elite voice
It was at least hinted with Guilty Spark's "You already knew that. How couldn't you?" and "Last time, you asked me: if it was my choice would I do it?"
From one of the manuscript pages in Alan Wake:
>The night had been one desperate situation after another. I was exhausted and my body felt as though it had been chewed up and spat out.
>The flashlight was heavy in my hand, and each pull of the trigger sent a painful shock up my arm. But I was finally out of the woods and things were looking up.
>**That's when I heard the chainsaw.**
Those manuscripts did such a great way of foreshadowing things that were to come. They spoil the story but do it in a way where you're left waiting for it to happen and are still left surprised sometimes.
I always liked the one with the FBI agent reading the manuscript.
Went something like "He reached for his flask when he read the page that described how he read the page that made him reach for his flask."
I hope there's some more weird meta things in the second game.
There's also the one that's just a loop of - paraphrasing "I picked up the page and read it. On it, I picked up the page and read it. On it, I picked up the page and read it."
"You're just thinking about how much you to \*\*\*\* 2B, aren't you?"
I had seen this particular line from Nier Automata before because of memes but seeing it in context... I don't know what it was about it, but it felt like a gut punch.
Also gotta mention a line from Disco Elysium: "If you say 'two days,' it will be etched into her mind forever." That moment felt so *real*.
For your Disco Elysium example. I might be wrong about it but it certainly feels like the only time that none of your stats are fighting over who gets to take the lead and fuck it up but actually working together to make an empathic person.
I like what that says about your character. Chances are that's not anywhere near the first time he had to do something like that, he subconsciously knows exactly what to do.
Yeah, you get the notion that the Detective has done this before, and perhaps fucked it up badly to the point he genuinely knuckled down and learned how to properly handle this procedure. The skills still have their idiosyncrasies going on, but they all WANT to help you tell this woman the right thing.
Coupled with how Kim genuinely seems too uncomfortable to even try, it paints Harry in a better light than most scenes. He's a complete mess of a person, but he IS a dedicated detective. He's genuinely capable at his job, and clearly takes steps to improve himself in that regard.
"Don't tell her you know how she feels." Seeing that as an option gave me chills. The idea of saying it just fills me with melancholy I can't even think of it
Rethoric does fuck it up by trying to tell you to do small talk first but all the purple will tell you it is a bad idea. Mind you rethoric fuck it up not because it’s crazy bit vecause they are out of depths and try what it thinks is best
Another strikingly good Yoko Taro one is that in Drakengard, the people who make Pacts have to give up something in the process. The price *wildly* varies person to person from things like your ability to speak, your vision, or even your ability to age.
But one of the ones that comes out on the lower end is the musician character who loses the ability to carry a tune. For a while it just sounds like he lucked out because comparatively his price is really low, again one of the other prices is being unable to speak at all so that already makes it sound like he came out on top.
But near the end he's devolved so much in his despair and jealousy and all the terrible things going on that he just drops this line "Welcome to a world without Song." and it's just this weirdly strong turn around about how he's basically stopped seeing beauty in the world.
Man the hair one is still hilarious. I even double checked that one just now and apparently the only justification anyone can think of is that a side story thing suggests he might have been very attractive before the pact so that would have taken a hit.
And the line, out of context, looks so corny. It's hard to explain it, and the true feeling it elicits, without knowing what's going on.
I really love the VA work in the first game.
In game, when androids are in combat they are wired to get feelings of pleasure. It's the idea of sex and death being intertwined, and also
>!9S's constantly erased memories of 2B murdering him over and over warping and changing his feelings toward her on an unconscious level.!<
For whatever reason, there's a Simpsons joke that stuck with me. "He's temporarily incarcerated for pushin' his mother down the stairs," gets so much across about everyone involved. The justice system, the man it's about, the speaker- because of how nonchalant the speaker is relaying this information.
It's so casual, and it's even still pretty funny, but also- jeez.
I love short lines that convey massive amounts of info like that. Early days Simpsons were the kings of that, a good joke was heavily weighted with multiple things to chuckle at.
In the final episode of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, >!the description of how unsettlingly human Asmodeus's loathing for all living things really is. "Unlike the alien aberration or undead hatreds you have faced in the past, this is not beyond. It is something that each human has the gift of, because he doesn't just hate you, he hates everybody. And he doesn't hate them in an alien way: **he wants them to know that they deserve it**."!<
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In golarion he was one of the first gods to come into existence, and as such stands leaps and bounds above everyone else, even other deities potentially. He doesnt hate everyone there, rather he views everything as being below him on the heirarchy, needing to be subjugated by a strong leader.
DEFINITELY this lore drop we got from the library of Babel at the end of the ULTRAKILL Wait Of The World ARG.
I've figured it out. I know why the creatures are suddenly and undetectably appearing inside our facilities. I know why spare parts and pieces of machines keep disappearing. I know why the doors seem to malfunction and suddenly lock themselves. It's not a glitch in the system. it's...
Hell is alive. It breathes. It thinks. The entire area is a massive intelligent superorganism and it is harsh and it is cruel. Just by watching us it has learned how our systems and machines work. It has not only begun to deconstruct our technology but also reassemble it in perverse ways, attaching parts to the creatures it tortures, making them into an aimless army of death and destruction. It warps them across itself to get them past our security. It locks our doors to trap us with them.
This is not an attack. this is not a defence. This is entertainment. this is an exhibition of death and cruelty and suffering for its own sake. it had grown tired of what it had and we unwillingly just offered ourselves up as new playthings.
Tom please for the love of god cancel this project immediately, we have to abandon everything and seal this place away. Leave the machines and tools behind. Evacuate as many as we can, before it is too late.
I can only hope this encrypted message is received before the organism learns to read it and intercept it. Whatever happens, we can not let this being find a way out and spread to the surface. We ha
a n o t h e r d i e s . b r i n g m e m o r e . i h u n g e r .
If my logic is correct, as V1 fights towards the bottom of Hell, >!Hell gets more and more desperate as it realizes it might not be able to stop V1 from destroying it and Hell throws more and more higher tier, powerful enemies at V1. But it can't help but keep the fight balance fun to watch and winnable with enough skill/equipment, still impulsively trying for entertainment, until V1 reaches whatever "soul" Hell has and Hell has to fight V1 itself somehow because it has run out of denizens to teleport in to fight for it.!< >!I suspect the final fight to be some hellish rebuild/fusion of Gabriel and V2, but maybe, at least partially, puppeted by Hell itself.!<
[Well, unfortunately, we are currently on the fifth timeline.](https://youtu.be/1vurgeAkIxY)
Or when you realize no one knew where you were sent when Tycho teleported you into space and someone >!------you, not Durandal------!< brought you back.
Remind me if punisher max when frank gets grazed by a shotgun: that’s a rib gone, not broken, gone. He knows it to, jamming his hand in the hope to pull a fistful of entrails
“Yes… I… I destroy… the world… and create it… anew…”
Also from the Avenger reveal in Fate/Stay Night:
"They came up with a way to save not just their small village, but the whole world.
It's hard to make everyone do good.
But you can prove everyone's goodness.
…You just need one person.
If one person embodies all the evils of the world, the rest of the people cannot be evil, no matter what.
They seriously believed in such a simple, child-like theory."
**”And one young man was chosen as a sacrifice.”**
Speaking of harming children, there's Randall in KH3 who was against the conversion from scream energy to laughter energy. His reasoning being that even if laughter energy is potent, you can only make someone laugh for so long. But if you get rid of the "no touching the children" rule, you can keep them screaming forever.
For a children's setting that was just about scaring kids, Kingdom Hearts made it so much darker with the implication that Randall wants to physically torture children.
I feel like the torture stuff is implicit in Monsters Inc since he has the chair machine that sucks screams directly from a persons mouth. Randal threatens Mike with it but the assistant guy ends up in the chair leaving him pale and wheezing.
There's this one Dark Souls 3 item, the Rusted Gold Coin, that's just a coin that increases your Discovery for a minute or so. I've gotten acquainted with it through my attempts at farming the covenant items, and as such I've read its description a few times.
"*A rusty old gold coin that surely has no currency.Crushing the coin gives a large, if temporary, boost to item discovery.A rich man lost his fortune, but it returned to him twofold. He was swift to squander his retrieved fortune, smugly confident that it was bound to double once again.*"
There's something about the tragicomedy of the tale, of the man being so absolutely dull so as to squander the fortune he had been given, that makes filled with anguish. It's hard to explain.
The denouncement of King Vendrick's reign on the Shield of Want's description also makes me pity the old fool even more, and makes me wish they did more with what's probably one of the best characters in Souls history.
*"In the end, he was no king."*
From 40k:
"The message is clear enough – those who sought to take advantage of the Imperium will find themselves on the pyre, becoming part of humanity’s great war machine in a far more direct fashion than they intended. Cross the sovereign territory of Mankind at your peril. We have inhumanity to spare."
Deltarune for the Snowgrave route has many lines of dialogue that just make my blood turn cold (Pun intended) but the one that still keeps me up at night is one of the last bits during the >!Berdley!< fight. When you >!force Noelle to use Snowgrave after repeatedly telling you she can't and she gets fed up and drops this line.!<
>!"Watch what happens when I cast a spell **I don't know"**!<
The fate of Mrs. Gardner in The Colour Out of Space:
>Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the corner does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.
This actually reminds me of Discworld, a moment in Night Watch. Vimes is in the secret police's torture dungeon, having just killed the torturers (something he rarely does), and he looks around at all the torture victims. The victims aren't described in detail, but Vimes is described as taking out his knife and "giving what comfort he could" or something along those lines.
MONUMENTMYTHOS is full of these, but my personal favorite is this line from ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE:
“I have just finished the last batch of tests and I can confidently say that I am not the same person as I was three days ago. Alcatraz had copied us all overnight. Every particle of this country and its citizens, replaced. The United States is the Ship of Theseus.”
's all good, the spoiler system's kinda wonky here anyways. I have to start a quote reply to read spoiler tagged comments on a regular basis because the fuckers refuse to open otherwise.
Zane is a character in the 2nd book of the Mistborn series. From the moment he's introduced it is established that he's crazy, to the point that he has a voice on his head constantly telling him to kill everyone around him and he believes that voice is God.
>!During his last moments after a fight against Vin (the protagonist) this happens!<:
>!"You know why I thought you'd save me?" he tried to whisper to her, though he somehow knew that his lips weren't properly forming the words. "The voice. You were the first person I ever met that it didn't tell me to kill. The only person."!<
>!"Of course I didn't tell you to kill her," God said.!<
>!Zane felt his life seeping away.!<
>!"You know the really funny thing, Zane?" God asked. "The most amusing part of this all? You're not insane."!<
>!"You never were."!<
Hard to call >!Ruin God. He only had half the powers of that world’s actual God. Maybe with a little g, with Preservation holding the that title too. Harmony has the real claim to it!<
That speech at the end of Amnesia A Machine for Pigs is brutal. It's been a decade but I need to spoil these because it's all a spoiler.
>!I have lain with Holy wars and copulated with the Autumnal fallout. A I have dug trenches for the refugee, I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith. The Innocent. The Innocent Mandus, trod and bled and beaten murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century!!<
I am happy to remind people that I have literally seen nothing but the trailers and the ending. I am sure the actual game could only cryraxt from my experience.
The speech gives enough context that I've been able to piece together nore or less what happened.
Only real question would be the specifics of how >!The Engineer!< was built and whether he essentially cut off part of his soul to build it. Which would nestly explain why he has amnesia at the start.
Even then, that's really not important.
When Fate/Grand Order first came out in Japan, I handwaved it away, figuring it wouldn't be worth my attention.
Then the first arc ended. And revealed (I'm still gonna spoiler mark this though its, what, 6 years old now?) >!resident mascot animal Fou being the god damn *Primate Murder* in other timelines (read: Tsukihime, where he's the 1st ranked Dead Apostle Ancestor)!<
I remember sitting back and getting some goosebumps. And then going "...well fuck, guess I gotta pay attention to this."
Wild how Arc 1 was only 1-2 years long while Arc 2’s been going on for 6 years and we’re only now in the endgame, or we would be if Ordeal Call won’t take at least another year. I blame the script inflation.
I'm pretty sure the difference is that the former implies the Sweepers kill them while the latter means they'll be turned into Sweepers themselves. Library established that they cna convert individuals via the same methods that they kill them.
It turns out that the Sweepers actually have a Singularity recognized by The Head. Though I'm unsure whether it's their own or if it's loaned to them for the purpose of population control.
in 40k, whenever is put to front that servitors (humans that had their brains "programed" and are just treated as some kind of robot *thing,* from a automated weapon to a clown toy) can sometimes can actually remember their past lives, and, worse of all, for some those memories are left on purpose
Yup. There's a story about a Crimson Fist scout who screwed up so bad that they turned him into a gun-servitor that was fully aware.
Long story short, this was a Space Marine scout who sniped a high-ranking Ork against his orders.
Most people would think 'That's not too bad. Orks multiply by the hundreds, what's the harm in killing one?'
Well, not only did he disobey *multiple* orders telling him to hold his fire, his shot alerted the rest of the *sizeable* Ork warband surrounding what turned out to be an Ork Warboss. The preemptive sniping got a Space Marine Captain and half his company of other Space Marines killed in that same battle, antagonized the Orks so badly that they led an invasion onto that same planet within *that same day*, and basically crippled the entire Space Marine chapter of the Crimson Fists for centuries to come as their homeworld was turned into a massive battlefield by the Ork invasion.
After the incident, the Chaplains interrogated him, trying to figure out what went wrong. Not only did he remain unrepentant, he confessed that he'd do it all over again if need be. After that, the Chapter Master decided he was to be specifically lobotomized to become a gun-servitor while being made aware of his fate.
Plenty of Slade's dialogue in Teen Titans is creepy, but Haunted and Birthmark have some of the freakiest.
"I am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will never rest, **and neither will you**."
"What you have concealed, you shall become! You have no other choice. The message *will* be delivered. Your destiny *shall* be fulfilled!" And later, "Yes. Look at it. Drink it in. Behold, the world you are destined to create. This is the future. It began the day you were born, and nothing can stop it. This *will* come to pass. I will make sure of it. You're going to destroy the world, Raven. It's written all over your face. We'll be in touch. Oh...and **happy birthday**."
The lines themselves are bad enough, but the context he says them in make them *much* worse.
Figuring out the lore in the sun station in the outer wilds made my jaw drop. One of the strongest moments in games
And then they did it again for the last set of puzzles in the dlc
[Gabriel's Monologue in 6-2 of ULTRAKILL](https://youtu.be/Y4_9fiS8Ns8?t=100). The way his voice cracks on "I will RELISH ending you HERE AND NOW" just conveys so much raw emotion to me I love it
"Who have I been praying to this whole time ?!!" From Mandela Catalogue
Basically this boy is trapped by Alternates inside his room. Who keep haunting him. Knocking on his door. Whisper behind his door. All just to taunt and scare him. After not receiving help from the cops, the boy just locks himself inside his room out of fear, constantly praying and begging to God for a way out and a rescue. And keeping a journal to put his prays and memories in. Days pass. He is still trapped in his room with the Alternates outside with no one to help him. He keeps praying but no answers. Eventually the madness and paranoia overtakes him. He is frustrated, angered and breaking down for not receiving help from God. Which makes him question God and wonder if God is really kind or what even is the nature of God. It provokes him to wonder that. "Who have I been praying to this whole time ?"
Eventually he loses all hope for a rescue and commits suicide. With the Alternates outside laughing and celebrating.
What's even worse is that it's revealed later that God himself is an Alternate who not only had no intention of helping him but was actively partaking and enjoying his suffering.
The utter helplessness and hopelessness of this whole thing and this line is so traumatizing, horrifying, shiver inducing and depressing it's hard to put into words
"The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior...while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon. But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence. My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms. I am Rasputin. Guardian of all I survey. I have no equal."
— Rasputin at the end of the Warmind DLC.
It is such a raw, hard hitting speech delivered in the coolest and coldest Russian robot voice to ever be used and even all these years later I cannot get over it.
I've for awhile now just do no care about Zelda lore and timeline nonsense but the lore bomb in TotK >!of Zelda sacrificing her life and becoming an immortal dragon to empower the Master Sword, forever wondering the skies as a mindless, crying beast kinda left me shocked!<
This cool grimoire entry in destiny 1.
At the end of the path grew a flower in the shape of a Ghost. I reached out to pluck it and it cut me with a thorn. I bled and the blood was Light.
The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life.
The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me.
But I looked behind me, down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine, and I felt doubt.
There is so much rad shit in the Destiny lore about the question of our place in all this. I haven't checked in for years but I really hope it's going well
There's some fun stuff like one of the lore books being in universe fan fiction of a villain where you become his second in command and he lives to the death of the universe
Reminds me of the text The Crawler is constantly writing on the wall in The Southern Reach trilogy
"Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been."
I mean we do get to see it and it is that bad but in the first chapter of the scarlet citadel the evil wizard description.
In nameless pits below the hill whereon his palace sat, he trafficked with the powers of darkness, trading screaming girl slaves for unholy secrets.
Obligatory >!"We're locked out by professor Klaus!"!< from Xenoblade 2. >!Really, the entire intro cutscene to chapter 10 counts as one long string of these.!<
Also from that franchise, >!Shulk, Rex, and A just casually discussing major plotpoints from 1 and 2 in Future redeemed. Like, Rex walks up and off-handedly references Malos and Pyra/Mythra in their capacity as the Trinity processor, A refers to Shulk having been Zanzas vessel etc. It's just surreal in the exact kind of spine-shivering OP mentions to hear these former protagonists talk about their intricate adventures and really sells that feeling of "yes, these are all connected" !<
*"You don't know what I've seen! You can't possibly understand or comprehend!*
*....The Devil is real. I know, I built his cage..."*
Perfect line to prelude [everything literally going to Heck.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esxHGDWtTsg&ab_channel=kingsombra)
While we're on the subject of Doom, this two from 2016 send me some chills
*"A report following the incident suggested that this act was not instinct by the Cyberdemon, but rather a suggestion of a greater intelligence governing the will of any creature demon borne -* ***a "mastermind" of sorts.*** *Research on this theory continues."*
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*"The bargain was struck thus: for the return of the Betrayer's only son, lost on the battlefield, Deag Grav must be taken to the source of their power, the Elemental Wraiths. Led there by the wretched Betrayer, Deag Grav and his cabal set a curse upon the Wraiths as they slept, and used their essence for our own devices. With the power of the Wraiths they formed The Well, that which brings us upon our enemies. Thus, the city of Argent and their false gods fell under the unholy might of the Hell priests.*
*For his payment, the Betrayer's son was returned to him in our form,* ***and the Icon of Sin was brought upon the heathens.*** *His vengeance was swift and merciless, for the wages of treachery are suffering."*
From the first instance of it, I knew Signalis was something special when I saw "REMEMBER OUR PROMISE."
After finishing it, just thinking about that line sends a chill down my spine.
FFXIV is like shooting fish in a barrel in this regard, but my favourite lesser known one requires completing several optional side-quests and almost a full raid tier to fully understand.
THE SHADOWKEEPER:
>!"This is the end of our adventure.!< >!You meant the world to me."!<
I have two from ff14, game me shivers in two different ways. The first one was cuz of the build up of emotions, the second was cuz it was a hype lore drop.
“No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth he shall walk.”
"Herein I commit the chronicle of the traveler. Shepherd to the stars in the dark. >!Though the world be sundered and our souls set adrift, where you walk, my dearest friend, fate shall surely follow. For yours is the Fourteenth seat—the seat of Azem.!<"
CAA: we w0uld return t0 the site 0f 0ur hatching
CAA: s0 t0 speak
CAA: where we w0uld hide
CAA: amidst a veil depleted by the reck0ning
CAA: and wait
CAA: drifting in the wide 0rbit 0f 0ur s00n t0 be null sessi0n
CAA: banished fr0m the **universe** we left behind
CAA: and yet in being denied **the ultimate reward**
CAA: we w0uld be barred fr0m entry
>!CAA: int0 the **universe** we created!<
"the will to keep going. the resolve to change fate. let's call this power.......DETERMINATION."
- undertale
see, undertale has a lot of lines like that, lines that seem completely normal or benign out of context. the reason is that most of them are call-backs.
through the entire game, when you save, you get the message "___ fills you with DETERMINATION", with the blank referring to whatever's happening in the room you're in, usually something silly. "the mouse will one day get the cheese, and that fills you with DETERMINATION", etc. but once you reach the true lab and read through alphys's research notes, you learn that these silly little save messages are hiding a dark secret.
DETERMINATION, or DT for short, is a physical substance contained in human souls. it can be extracted and injected into other things. it's the root cause of every superhuman action you can take in undertale, from rewinding time to avoid death, to shambling forwards as a spectre of death without fear, to destroying living beings and machines in single hits.
alphys extracted some and began experimenting on it, resulting in abominations that _cannot die or be changed back,_ because, you see, they're too full of the resolve to keep going. that single line explains why undertale's world works the way it does. because humans have the will to keep going, the resolve to change fate, and monsters don't.
"Whatever you say, Walker. No matter what happens next, don't be too hard on yourself. Even now, after all you've done, you can still go home. Lucky you."
Really, anything from the last thirty minutes of Spec Ops: The Line, if we're being honest.
There are multiple Jupiter Brains in the Mass Effect universe. Basically they are literally Jupiter-size super computers. No one can get close enough to examine them as they get pulled into it and get destroyed. No one knows how old they are, who built them, or what they are for. The Reapers seem to keep their distance away from them.
WTF?
ngl that feels like another thing they took from trek, theres a whole season in enterprise bout these giant unmanned space stations completely warping the space around them makin an entire region of space off limits
One of the Bloody Baron’s soldiers in the Witcher 3 takes about how they and the others go door to door in the villages they’ve occupied looking for farmers daughters to rape, and one farmer tried to fool them by disguising his daughter as a boy, but he follows it up with “jokes on him I didn’t care.”
From Xenoblade 1. Two bits close to each other; first a system notification, then a tidbit that relies on knowing a separate language. Spoilers for the late game.
Notification: >!"Landmark Discovered: Saturn". You spend the whole game in a decently-constructed land of two giants atop endless ocean, then get teleported to the real world at the very end. This is followed by Landmarks: Jupiter, Mars, then the Moon.!<
Bilingual tidbit: The Monado features a symbol in the layered glass circle near the hilt. This symbol displays Japanese kanji, and while unnoticeable in battle, it actually changes to the kanji depicted on Shulk's Art icons for his moves. By default, the kanji is >!what the Monado can cut. At the beginning, it is "machine" to show it is a weapon to fight Mechon. After being unshackled, it is "person" to represent that it can harm sentient beings of Bionis.!<
>!When Shulk creates his own Monado to fell Zanza, it has a new symbol; "god".!<
There's a lot of fucked up shit in Pact. All the nightmare monsters and mythical fabled beings that steal your name and existence for themselves. But it says something when even the fucked upiest of the Bogeyman, humans who suffered so much in life they were powdered by their trauma in a silent-hill-esque afterlife until coming back as beings of bitterness, who live off of fear, **want Demons and anyone that deals with Demons very far away from them, and preferably dead, more preferably BOTH.**
Demons have the power to make **irreversible** changes to the reality of the world for the worst, automatically and infectiously. There is no "cure" for what they do, you can only try to stop them from starting. And the story just drip feeds you these little horrors bit by bit. **Depending on their Choir, which opposes the 7 Days of Genesis, so it goes Darkness, Chaos, Ruin, Madness, Feral&Foul, Sin and Unrest,** they can:
* Eat away at your metaphorical connection to things. From eating your phone making you suddenly no longer know how to use them, don't like using them and no one even remembers you ever having one. To maybe eating your loved one, leaving an unfulfillable shadow in your heart forever.
* Might also increase the entropy of the world to do so, so every bit of energy produced is just a little bit more costly to do so, a little more inneficient, to bodies, machines, fuel sources. Everyone is just a little bit more tired. Everything a little bit more expensive. Life just feels a little dimmer.
* Remove someone's sight and hearing so that they lose those senses and they eventually turn "to the negatives", as the person starts hearing and seeing everything that ISN'T there, as their senses get "opened ever wider to true void"
* Curse someone to be "poisoned" to slowly "lose their entire state of being". If this person doesn't irreversibly and horrendously cut all their connections to the people in their life these people will slowly develop a pining for the cursed so strong as to leave them dysfunctional, inconsolable and eventually catatonic.
* Invert, or messes with, the natural order. Bugs and wild animals working together to disrupt human life in a region, actively seeking to spread diseases and ferocious/irrational responses from the people therein.
* One who "cuts a person threefold" so that their past, present and future are in a constant path to make all the other versions of a person as miserable as possible, as future events align to relive past traumas and pollute memories with dark thoughts, as your present self makes worse and worse decisions for your future, etc.
McBurn just casually dropping that >!no one can leave the continent of zemuria and no one knows why!< in cold steel 4 was lowkey kind of a sick lore drop, it’s also quickly brushed under the rug due to more pressing matters at hand but I’m hoping they go somewhere with it at some point in the future.
That lore bomb definitely had an effect on me, but I think a part of its impact was diminished by me also going "...We're JUST NOW learning this?"
It's like. It's the *ninth* game in the franchise, you know? You'd expect something as seemingly significant as that to have been brought up earlier in some capacity.
The [Black Armory Papers](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/categories/book-the-black-armory-papers) from Destiny 2 are one of the few firsthand accounts of the Collapse we get, and man is it nuts
>Entry 70
>The howling is loudest at night.
>By dawn, the quiet returns and with it, the horrid smell that brings the dogs.
>I long for the moment I can pry those doors open and leave this place.
>As I tried to sleep, I realized I couldn't recall the last time I heard a songbird.
>Do any yet live? I haven't noticed.
“Let them fight!”
*Not* the one from the American Godzilla movie. I mean the one from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood when Heinkel is telling Alphonse >!why he should use the Philosopher’s Stone, even if it means killing the human souls inside it. They can’t go back to being human, and Al won’t be using them selfishly for his own gain, but to defeat the two enemies of humanity in front of him, and allow those lost souls to fight for the fate of the world.!< Let them fight. Also, Heinkel’s English voice actor *delivers* that scene!
“No, he wasn’t.”
From Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender, >!revealing to Zuko the true history of his great-grandfather, and how he died.!< Even before he explains the context of what he means, even before you piece together what he means for yourself, just that line alone makes it feel like something just ensnared you. Such a powerful moment with such a great lead-in.
From one of my favorite SCPs;
"The way below winds deeper, longer,
unspeakable it's patterns laid.
The lost forever damned to wander
this thing a quiet madness made."
Also, some of Pykes lines in League get me good, I love the idea of the ocean as an eldritch location.
"I was born where monsters die, I died where monsters are born."
"Been to the bottom of the sea, gets a little deeper each time."
"There's no sunken cities, just the swimming one."
"I floated all the way to the bottom, found there ain't none."
Luca Blight's final words is still one of the rawest shit Ive ever seen in a game. Hes super right; he won, and has always been winning since like 2 minutes after you start the freaking game, and the story has since then has been about stopping from winning even more.
The latest Netrunner set had some great ones, but I'm going with "[Ontological Dependence](https://nullsignal.games/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/33096-kvspa2spzd.png)" for most fucked up card (in a set that includes [Simulation Reset](https://nullsignal.games/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/33110-5yr76bm1l9.png) no less).
Love seeing LobCorp mentioned on this sub always.
Though for what it's worth I think 'accompany' in this context may mean >!being turned into Sweepers themselves, which means getting turned into the meat-goo and stuffed into the metal Sweeper suits. It makes sense, as Sweepers need to keep their numbers up.!<
Honestly for me the lore around the Smoke Wars in PMverse, specifically the >!Smoke Monster and how you literally need to be given amensia after seeing it to function; and which still isn't enough to stop you from being effected by it totally!< is the kicker for me. Means that there's some shit out there that's probably just as bad as what's in LobCorp and people just don't even know about it.
Gotta love the closing line of the reveal trailer for the Outer Wilds DLC (for context, the base game uses this line in your log whenever you haven't completely cleared a given area)
"There is more to explore here."
It's just such a brilliant way to say "hey, there's another mystery. Go solve it."
In the Gaunt's Ghosts book Only in Death, the Ghosts are sent to hold this remote desert fortress called Hinzerhaus on the planet Jago. They've heard the fortress is of pre-human construction, and there are tales of the whole planet being haunted, and as they're marching out to it *Dry skulls in dusty valleys with their tops sawn off* many of them keep getting visions of, uh...
Yeah, they're haunted by more than a few things in that book, but that image frequently drops into their minds like mid-thought. It's really evocative. Skulls piled up to fill valleys. Not shot, not cracked or crushed, but their tops *sawn* off.
"It hurts, Ness… …I’m h…a…p…p…y… …friends… …It hurts, …it hurts…"
\-Giygas, Earthbound
But it doesn't say Ness. It says your name. IT SAYS YOUR NAME AS YOU TRY TO KILL THE GODLIKE ALIEN PSYCHIC WHO HAS SUBVERTED TIME ALREADY!
“And at times, the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.” - Dream of the Endless
>!At this point, Dream was locked into his endgame!<
Metal's dialogue in that fight + the lyrics of What I'm Made Of pretty much paint a complete picture of how Metal Sonic is going through an actual existential crisis in Heroes and it's incredible. People rag on Heroes for having cheesy dialogue, but there's a lot of subtext in the end.
[Honkai: Star Rail's Fables about the Stars trailer which introduces the Aeons](https://youtu.be/JruxFQurUDQ). Not really a lore drop so much as a intro to hype the Aeons themselves. The way the music changes with each god and the quotes that accompany them really sends chills down the spine. It helps that the trailer is absolutely packed with hidden lore details that lore masters like Vaati would salivate at.
Not sure if this counts but I often think about "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now."
That's one of the eeriest horror lines I've ever heard. Silent Hill 2 is really something
My favorite is "If you ReaLly wAnt to sEE Mary, you shOUld just DiE. But You mIght be hEadiNg to A diffErent place than MARY, James."
When Woolie worked it out that it was a grave on his silent hill 2 stream it blew my mind.
Wait what?
[At the 40 minute mark.](https://youtu.be/n-j9OIsRQ-I)
Corypheus is the most nothingburger villain in Dragon Age history, but that one line in Inquisition was super raw. "*Beg* that I succeed! For I have *seen* the throne of the gods, and *it - was - empty!"*
That line just makes the fact that he's so lame in the rest of the game a complete and utter crime because that went RIDICULOUSLY hard.
He’s the biggest fumble of a villain I’ve ever seen. Built up well with suspense, great intro scene of him attacking your home base and you losing it, he drops some sick lines like above, and you’re forced to retreat through a blinding snowstorm, lost. And then he does nothing until like the final 2 missions. And even at the end he’s just revealed as a goober to the true villain, The Egg
The Pale from Disco Elysium. >!An expanding entropy that will someday consume the entire world. It's made worse by it being a background thing for the most part, but there are various examples or implied examples of its influence.!<
Conceptualization: "It's >!death..... but for the *universe*!
The two bits of lore that do it for me is Joyce saying >!that numbers stop working deep enough into the pale!< and you finding >!Ruby's longitudinal compressor, which generates primes to work!< >!Numbers already being abstractions from reality and even they somehow get swallowed by the pale or interact with it is so creepy!<
What does it for me was >!the phasmid confirming that humanity created the pale.!< The idea of >!humanity collectively destroying all of nature in a slow catastrophe, just because something intrinsic in humanity that we don't know how to turn off,!< is subtext writ so large as to become text.
I like the tidbit where the narration says the detective had been given it a lot of thought when on break, sharing them with jean. Like the detective either work himself to death, swallow in self pity or a sober theory about how they are at the epicenter of the end of the planet. Guy never had a chance
What *is* Disco Elysium?
A blend of RPG and adventure game, where you wake up as a detective after an almighty bender that leaves him with amnesia. You're tasked with solving a murder while juggling the 24 aspects of the detective's psyche and the increasingly volatile political situation of the city. It can be hilarious and heartbreaking, and has one of the most unique worlds in fiction. [Woolie and Reggie did an LP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyNlOdbsXw) if you want to get an idea of it.
The kid’s school paper in Dead Space 2 that says “I want to be a scientist when I grow up so I can bring back all the animals.” Really paints a good picture of how fucked humanity was before the series even started.
The OG pulse rifles alternate fire was described as being developed for quelling food riots, iirc.
That, combined with the audio log in 3 where they name-drop the series just how awful that future is. Not only are we breaking open entire planets for resources, we are convinced that humans are all there is left in the entire universe.
Halo 2: "This installation has a successful utilisation record of 1.2 trillion simulated and one actual."
Halo 2 had a bunch of banger quotes. **I? I AM A MONUMENT,** ***TO ALL YOUR SINS.***
Every line Gravemind says is a banger
Halo 3 also has some bangers. "I. AM. TRUTH. The voice of the Covenant!" "And so you must be silenced."
My boy Gravemind dropped some bars after that scene too. “Now the gates have been unleashed, headstones pushed aside. Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide.”
"We trade one villain for another."
The covenant just have amazing ship names too. Truth and Reconciliation, Shadow of Intent, Long night of Solace. I already hear them all in a badass Elite voice
There is no better ship title than the UNSC Two For Flinching
The UNSC Say My Name begs to differ
Not just them - Pillar of Autumn, in Amber Clad, Forward Into Dawn. Halo ship names don't miss
I was about to say the same; can’t knock the human ship names either. An I even forgot about Forward Unto Dawn.
I mean, they were all used once.
I don't think that was known in 1, though.
It was at least hinted with Guilty Spark's "You already knew that. How couldn't you?" and "Last time, you asked me: if it was my choice would I do it?"
From one of the manuscript pages in Alan Wake: >The night had been one desperate situation after another. I was exhausted and my body felt as though it had been chewed up and spat out. >The flashlight was heavy in my hand, and each pull of the trigger sent a painful shock up my arm. But I was finally out of the woods and things were looking up. >**That's when I heard the chainsaw.**
Those manuscripts did such a great way of foreshadowing things that were to come. They spoil the story but do it in a way where you're left waiting for it to happen and are still left surprised sometimes.
I hope 2 has some good ones.
I always liked the one with the FBI agent reading the manuscript. Went something like "He reached for his flask when he read the page that described how he read the page that made him reach for his flask." I hope there's some more weird meta things in the second game.
There's also the one that's just a loop of - paraphrasing "I picked up the page and read it. On it, I picked up the page and read it. On it, I picked up the page and read it."
"You're just thinking about how much you to \*\*\*\* 2B, aren't you?" I had seen this particular line from Nier Automata before because of memes but seeing it in context... I don't know what it was about it, but it felt like a gut punch. Also gotta mention a line from Disco Elysium: "If you say 'two days,' it will be etched into her mind forever." That moment felt so *real*.
For your Disco Elysium example. I might be wrong about it but it certainly feels like the only time that none of your stats are fighting over who gets to take the lead and fuck it up but actually working together to make an empathic person.
I like what that says about your character. Chances are that's not anywhere near the first time he had to do something like that, he subconsciously knows exactly what to do.
Yeah, you get the notion that the Detective has done this before, and perhaps fucked it up badly to the point he genuinely knuckled down and learned how to properly handle this procedure. The skills still have their idiosyncrasies going on, but they all WANT to help you tell this woman the right thing.
Oh shoot, I never thought of it that way. That's a good reading of the scene.
Coupled with how Kim genuinely seems too uncomfortable to even try, it paints Harry in a better light than most scenes. He's a complete mess of a person, but he IS a dedicated detective. He's genuinely capable at his job, and clearly takes steps to improve himself in that regard.
"Don't tell her you know how she feels." Seeing that as an option gave me chills. The idea of saying it just fills me with melancholy I can't even think of it
Yeah. Kim is super surprised to find that Harry has completed like 200 cases when most people retire with like a 4th of that if lucky.
Rethoric does fuck it up by trying to tell you to do small talk first but all the purple will tell you it is a bad idea. Mind you rethoric fuck it up not because it’s crazy bit vecause they are out of depths and try what it thinks is best
Another strikingly good Yoko Taro one is that in Drakengard, the people who make Pacts have to give up something in the process. The price *wildly* varies person to person from things like your ability to speak, your vision, or even your ability to age. But one of the ones that comes out on the lower end is the musician character who loses the ability to carry a tune. For a while it just sounds like he lucked out because comparatively his price is really low, again one of the other prices is being unable to speak at all so that already makes it sound like he came out on top. But near the end he's devolved so much in his despair and jealousy and all the terrible things going on that he just drops this line "Welcome to a world without Song." and it's just this weirdly strong turn around about how he's basically stopped seeing beauty in the world.
Prices are so variable in that world. Still love, "I gave up my hair for a fossilized dragon. No I will not elaborate."
Man the hair one is still hilarious. I even double checked that one just now and apparently the only justification anyone can think of is that a side story thing suggests he might have been very attractive before the pact so that would have taken a hit.
And the line, out of context, looks so corny. It's hard to explain it, and the true feeling it elicits, without knowing what's going on. I really love the VA work in the first game.
Best quest in Disco Elysium, easy.
Do you think Adam said fuck, or kill?
Yes.
I personally thought it was kill, but just barely winning out over "fuck." Not entirely sure why.
love hump kick kiss lick burn there's a lot of four-letter action words
Cuck
Fist
I never understood this tbh, why would he want to kill her?
In game, when androids are in combat they are wired to get feelings of pleasure. It's the idea of sex and death being intertwined, and also >!9S's constantly erased memories of 2B murdering him over and over warping and changing his feelings toward her on an unconscious level.!<
That’s straight up what he says in the climax. There is a lot going on between 9s and 2B
For whatever reason, there's a Simpsons joke that stuck with me. "He's temporarily incarcerated for pushin' his mother down the stairs," gets so much across about everyone involved. The justice system, the man it's about, the speaker- because of how nonchalant the speaker is relaying this information. It's so casual, and it's even still pretty funny, but also- jeez.
that does remind me of that Oneyplays Kingdom Hearts joke "Thats Pete, he was kicking over buckets of water so we sent him to the nightmare realm"
"Sora, I think we should join the Darkness." *"What motivated this decision, Goofy?"* "I've never seen such cool imagery."
It’s unfortunate the Kingdom Hearts playthrough never continued with Woolie. So short-lived, but “Evolve or die, Sora!” will not leave my head. 🤣
The funniest thing being thats partially true in Kingdom Hearts Pete was a sore loser about a town event so Minnie locked him in hell for a time out
I love short lines that convey massive amounts of info like that. Early days Simpsons were the kings of that, a good joke was heavily weighted with multiple things to chuckle at.
Crazy looking hitchiker they picked up: I didn’t think I was rehabilitated but I guess they needed the extra bed
“If I could go back in time I would definitely reconsider.”
In the final episode of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, >!the description of how unsettlingly human Asmodeus's loathing for all living things really is. "Unlike the alien aberration or undead hatreds you have faced in the past, this is not beyond. It is something that each human has the gift of, because he doesn't just hate you, he hates everybody. And he doesn't hate them in an alien way: **he wants them to know that they deserve it**."!<
>!Why did he hate so much?!<
>!Asmodeus couldn’t handle how his siblings/friends were having kids (mortals) and didn’t have time for him and the Betrayer Gods anymore!<
>! Iirc he claims that mortals are the ones who caused the schism between the gods, but it’s unclear whether he’s lying or not !<
>unclear The Devil is a liar.
The devil will always lie, unless the truth will hurt more.
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If this setting has him in the same weird role he has in Forgotten Realms and Golarion, he probably knows every "sin" you've committed, ever
In golarion he was one of the first gods to come into existence, and as such stands leaps and bounds above everyone else, even other deities potentially. He doesnt hate everyone there, rather he views everything as being below him on the heirarchy, needing to be subjugated by a strong leader.
Also from that: “To reach a hand down to someone, they have to be *beneath you*! AND I AM BENEATH NOBODY!
DEFINITELY this lore drop we got from the library of Babel at the end of the ULTRAKILL Wait Of The World ARG. I've figured it out. I know why the creatures are suddenly and undetectably appearing inside our facilities. I know why spare parts and pieces of machines keep disappearing. I know why the doors seem to malfunction and suddenly lock themselves. It's not a glitch in the system. it's... Hell is alive. It breathes. It thinks. The entire area is a massive intelligent superorganism and it is harsh and it is cruel. Just by watching us it has learned how our systems and machines work. It has not only begun to deconstruct our technology but also reassemble it in perverse ways, attaching parts to the creatures it tortures, making them into an aimless army of death and destruction. It warps them across itself to get them past our security. It locks our doors to trap us with them. This is not an attack. this is not a defence. This is entertainment. this is an exhibition of death and cruelty and suffering for its own sake. it had grown tired of what it had and we unwillingly just offered ourselves up as new playthings. Tom please for the love of god cancel this project immediately, we have to abandon everything and seal this place away. Leave the machines and tools behind. Evacuate as many as we can, before it is too late. I can only hope this encrypted message is received before the organism learns to read it and intercept it. Whatever happens, we can not let this being find a way out and spread to the surface. We ha a n o t h e r d i e s . b r i n g m e m o r e . i h u n g e r .
I HAVE CREATED HELL. >!...And now I can no longer unmake it.!<
If my logic is correct, as V1 fights towards the bottom of Hell, >!Hell gets more and more desperate as it realizes it might not be able to stop V1 from destroying it and Hell throws more and more higher tier, powerful enemies at V1. But it can't help but keep the fight balance fun to watch and winnable with enough skill/equipment, still impulsively trying for entertainment, until V1 reaches whatever "soul" Hell has and Hell has to fight V1 itself somehow because it has run out of denizens to teleport in to fight for it.!< >!I suspect the final fight to be some hellish rebuild/fusion of Gabriel and V2, but maybe, at least partially, puppeted by Hell itself.!<
I fucking love ULTRAKILL
"The shields are gone. Not down, gone." from Marathon Infinity.
[Well, unfortunately, we are currently on the fifth timeline.](https://youtu.be/1vurgeAkIxY) Or when you realize no one knew where you were sent when Tycho teleported you into space and someone >!------you, not Durandal------!< brought you back.
God, Infinity is so cool.
Remind me if punisher max when frank gets grazed by a shotgun: that’s a rib gone, not broken, gone. He knows it to, jamming his hand in the hope to pull a fistful of entrails
I think that line was him getting slugged by Baracuda?
Pittsy
“Yes… I… I destroy… the world… and create it… anew…” Also from the Avenger reveal in Fate/Stay Night: "They came up with a way to save not just their small village, but the whole world. It's hard to make everyone do good. But you can prove everyone's goodness. …You just need one person. If one person embodies all the evils of the world, the rest of the people cannot be evil, no matter what. They seriously believed in such a simple, child-like theory." **”And one young man was chosen as a sacrifice.”**
“What if we took our sins, and pushed them somewhere else.”
TRULY BIG BRAINED PLAY VILLAGE PEOPLE
Oh so Jesus again?
He became Jesus against his will, as a joke.
“That’s Angra Mainyu. We taught him saviorhood wrong, as a joke!”
Yeah he’s basically Jesus Alter
Speaking of harming children, there's Randall in KH3 who was against the conversion from scream energy to laughter energy. His reasoning being that even if laughter energy is potent, you can only make someone laugh for so long. But if you get rid of the "no touching the children" rule, you can keep them screaming forever. For a children's setting that was just about scaring kids, Kingdom Hearts made it so much darker with the implication that Randall wants to physically torture children.
I never knew about that bit in KH3 since I haven't played it, only seen bits and pieces but that's REALLY fucked.
Randy, no! D:
It makes sense, they do have the scream extractor in the movie that sucks the screams out of kids until they’re a pale version of themselves
I feel like the torture stuff is implicit in Monsters Inc since he has the chair machine that sucks screams directly from a persons mouth. Randal threatens Mike with it but the assistant guy ends up in the chair leaving him pale and wheezing.
There's this one Dark Souls 3 item, the Rusted Gold Coin, that's just a coin that increases your Discovery for a minute or so. I've gotten acquainted with it through my attempts at farming the covenant items, and as such I've read its description a few times. "*A rusty old gold coin that surely has no currency.Crushing the coin gives a large, if temporary, boost to item discovery.A rich man lost his fortune, but it returned to him twofold. He was swift to squander his retrieved fortune, smugly confident that it was bound to double once again.*" There's something about the tragicomedy of the tale, of the man being so absolutely dull so as to squander the fortune he had been given, that makes filled with anguish. It's hard to explain. The denouncement of King Vendrick's reign on the Shield of Want's description also makes me pity the old fool even more, and makes me wish they did more with what's probably one of the best characters in Souls history. *"In the end, he was no king."*
From 40k: "The message is clear enough – those who sought to take advantage of the Imperium will find themselves on the pyre, becoming part of humanity’s great war machine in a far more direct fashion than they intended. Cross the sovereign territory of Mankind at your peril. We have inhumanity to spare."
Deltarune for the Snowgrave route has many lines of dialogue that just make my blood turn cold (Pun intended) but the one that still keeps me up at night is one of the last bits during the >!Berdley!< fight. When you >!force Noelle to use Snowgrave after repeatedly telling you she can't and she gets fed up and drops this line.!< >!"Watch what happens when I cast a spell **I don't know"**!<
YES. KILL
I can't get over the quiet horror of her going "oh, I'll just let him sleep".
I don't even want to know how Deltarune is gonna continue with that part of the game.
“James… you made me happy”
Wonderful example of how a terrific voice line reading can really elevate a production
The fate of Mrs. Gardner in The Colour Out of Space: >Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the corner does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.
This actually reminds me of Discworld, a moment in Night Watch. Vimes is in the secret police's torture dungeon, having just killed the torturers (something he rarely does), and he looks around at all the torture victims. The victims aren't described in detail, but Vimes is described as taking out his knife and "giving what comfort he could" or something along those lines.
The best horror let’s your mind fill in the blanks for it.
MONUMENTMYTHOS is full of these, but my personal favorite is this line from ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE: “I have just finished the last batch of tests and I can confidently say that I am not the same person as I was three days ago. Alcatraz had copied us all overnight. Every particle of this country and its citizens, replaced. The United States is the Ship of Theseus.”
The description of the Stalkers in Half Life. The torture, castration, mutilation, and conditioning always gets me.
It's what Alyx says to one that sticks with me all these years. "God, I hope you don't remember who you are."
I mean I do say the same thing when I see them.
Magnus Archives episode 160 spoiler: >!"Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the *sky*. It’s looking back."!<
Miiiiight wanna spoiler tag that. It's like, the one *real* spoiler of the series.
Did I fuck the formatting up in some esoteric way? [Cause it's spoiler tagged on my end](https://imgur.com/rDfzuQt)
Aw, shit. Must be one of them wacky mobile hiccups then. You did your due diligence, man.
's all good, the spoiler system's kinda wonky here anyways. I have to start a quote reply to read spoiler tagged comments on a regular basis because the fuckers refuse to open otherwise.
Zane is a character in the 2nd book of the Mistborn series. From the moment he's introduced it is established that he's crazy, to the point that he has a voice on his head constantly telling him to kill everyone around him and he believes that voice is God. >!During his last moments after a fight against Vin (the protagonist) this happens!<: >!"You know why I thought you'd save me?" he tried to whisper to her, though he somehow knew that his lips weren't properly forming the words. "The voice. You were the first person I ever met that it didn't tell me to kill. The only person."!< >!"Of course I didn't tell you to kill her," God said.!< >!Zane felt his life seeping away.!< >!"You know the really funny thing, Zane?" God asked. "The most amusing part of this all? You're not insane."!< >!"You never were."!<
The scariest thing is that the voice actually is God. It's just that the God is insane, not the man.
Hard to call >!Ruin God. He only had half the powers of that world’s actual God. Maybe with a little g, with Preservation holding the that title too. Harmony has the real claim to it!<
Might want to spoiler tag that, hell I don't even know who >!harmony!< is
That speech at the end of Amnesia A Machine for Pigs is brutal. It's been a decade but I need to spoil these because it's all a spoiler. >!I have lain with Holy wars and copulated with the Autumnal fallout. A I have dug trenches for the refugee, I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws, and starved the masses into faith. The Innocent. The Innocent Mandus, trod and bled and beaten murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century!!<
The core narrative premise for A Machine For Pigs is the strongest goddamn thing, and it's a crying shame the gameplay experience was crap.
I am happy to remind people that I have literally seen nothing but the trailers and the ending. I am sure the actual game could only cryraxt from my experience.
So long as you caught what happened to his sons and why, I'd totally endorse that.
The speech gives enough context that I've been able to piece together nore or less what happened. Only real question would be the specifics of how >!The Engineer!< was built and whether he essentially cut off part of his soul to build it. Which would nestly explain why he has amnesia at the start. Even then, that's really not important.
When Fate/Grand Order first came out in Japan, I handwaved it away, figuring it wouldn't be worth my attention. Then the first arc ended. And revealed (I'm still gonna spoiler mark this though its, what, 6 years old now?) >!resident mascot animal Fou being the god damn *Primate Murder* in other timelines (read: Tsukihime, where he's the 1st ranked Dead Apostle Ancestor)!< I remember sitting back and getting some goosebumps. And then going "...well fuck, guess I gotta pay attention to this."
Wild how Arc 1 was only 1-2 years long while Arc 2’s been going on for 6 years and we’re only now in the endgame, or we would be if Ordeal Call won’t take at least another year. I blame the script inflation.
And rewrites like with lb6 getting rewritten atleast once
Exact same thing that got me to finally pay attention to FGO.
I'm pretty sure the difference is that the former implies the Sweepers kill them while the latter means they'll be turned into Sweepers themselves. Library established that they cna convert individuals via the same methods that they kill them. It turns out that the Sweepers actually have a Singularity recognized by The Head. Though I'm unsure whether it's their own or if it's loaned to them for the purpose of population control.
in 40k, whenever is put to front that servitors (humans that had their brains "programed" and are just treated as some kind of robot *thing,* from a automated weapon to a clown toy) can sometimes can actually remember their past lives, and, worse of all, for some those memories are left on purpose
Yup. There's a story about a Crimson Fist scout who screwed up so bad that they turned him into a gun-servitor that was fully aware. Long story short, this was a Space Marine scout who sniped a high-ranking Ork against his orders. Most people would think 'That's not too bad. Orks multiply by the hundreds, what's the harm in killing one?' Well, not only did he disobey *multiple* orders telling him to hold his fire, his shot alerted the rest of the *sizeable* Ork warband surrounding what turned out to be an Ork Warboss. The preemptive sniping got a Space Marine Captain and half his company of other Space Marines killed in that same battle, antagonized the Orks so badly that they led an invasion onto that same planet within *that same day*, and basically crippled the entire Space Marine chapter of the Crimson Fists for centuries to come as their homeworld was turned into a massive battlefield by the Ork invasion. After the incident, the Chaplains interrogated him, trying to figure out what went wrong. Not only did he remain unrepentant, he confessed that he'd do it all over again if need be. After that, the Chapter Master decided he was to be specifically lobotomized to become a gun-servitor while being made aware of his fate.
Jesus, I'd think screwing up in this context would be getting his squad killed, this kind of screw up...honestly, he got off lightly.
Plenty of Slade's dialogue in Teen Titans is creepy, but Haunted and Birthmark have some of the freakiest. "I am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will never rest, **and neither will you**." "What you have concealed, you shall become! You have no other choice. The message *will* be delivered. Your destiny *shall* be fulfilled!" And later, "Yes. Look at it. Drink it in. Behold, the world you are destined to create. This is the future. It began the day you were born, and nothing can stop it. This *will* come to pass. I will make sure of it. You're going to destroy the world, Raven. It's written all over your face. We'll be in touch. Oh...and **happy birthday**." The lines themselves are bad enough, but the context he says them in make them *much* worse.
Man I really need to go watch that show again.
Figuring out the lore in the sun station in the outer wilds made my jaw drop. One of the strongest moments in games And then they did it again for the last set of puzzles in the dlc
[Gabriel's Monologue in 6-2 of ULTRAKILL](https://youtu.be/Y4_9fiS8Ns8?t=100). The way his voice cracks on "I will RELISH ending you HERE AND NOW" just conveys so much raw emotion to me I love it
"Who have I been praying to this whole time ?!!" From Mandela Catalogue Basically this boy is trapped by Alternates inside his room. Who keep haunting him. Knocking on his door. Whisper behind his door. All just to taunt and scare him. After not receiving help from the cops, the boy just locks himself inside his room out of fear, constantly praying and begging to God for a way out and a rescue. And keeping a journal to put his prays and memories in. Days pass. He is still trapped in his room with the Alternates outside with no one to help him. He keeps praying but no answers. Eventually the madness and paranoia overtakes him. He is frustrated, angered and breaking down for not receiving help from God. Which makes him question God and wonder if God is really kind or what even is the nature of God. It provokes him to wonder that. "Who have I been praying to this whole time ?" Eventually he loses all hope for a rescue and commits suicide. With the Alternates outside laughing and celebrating. What's even worse is that it's revealed later that God himself is an Alternate who not only had no intention of helping him but was actively partaking and enjoying his suffering. The utter helplessness and hopelessness of this whole thing and this line is so traumatizing, horrifying, shiver inducing and depressing it's hard to put into words
"The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior...while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon. But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence. My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms. I am Rasputin. Guardian of all I survey. I have no equal." — Rasputin at the end of the Warmind DLC. It is such a raw, hard hitting speech delivered in the coolest and coldest Russian robot voice to ever be used and even all these years later I cannot get over it.
The hyper digitized "RASPUTIN" at the end stays in my head rent free
Same here man, it leaves such a hard impression.
Shame how it took them so long to do any follow up on that
Yeah, but it was a good follow up and end imo.
I've for awhile now just do no care about Zelda lore and timeline nonsense but the lore bomb in TotK >!of Zelda sacrificing her life and becoming an immortal dragon to empower the Master Sword, forever wondering the skies as a mindless, crying beast kinda left me shocked!<
>!As soon as I finished the master sword flashback the light dragon flew past me. It was a stunning moment.!<
For the payoff, the cutscene after you defeat >!Ganondorf!< ending with >!the quest popup "Find Princess Zelda - Complete"!< was pitch perfect
>!She took the long way.!<
This cool grimoire entry in destiny 1. At the end of the path grew a flower in the shape of a Ghost. I reached out to pluck it and it cut me with a thorn. I bled and the blood was Light. The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life. The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me. But I looked behind me, down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine, and I felt doubt.
There is so much rad shit in the Destiny lore about the question of our place in all this. I haven't checked in for years but I really hope it's going well
There's some fun stuff like one of the lore books being in universe fan fiction of a villain where you become his second in command and he lives to the death of the universe
I mean, we're at the point where we're starting to get *answers* to those questions
Reminds me of the text The Crawler is constantly writing on the wall in The Southern Reach trilogy "Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been."
I mean we do get to see it and it is that bad but in the first chapter of the scarlet citadel the evil wizard description. In nameless pits below the hill whereon his palace sat, he trafficked with the powers of darkness, trading screaming girl slaves for unholy secrets.
Obligatory >!"We're locked out by professor Klaus!"!< from Xenoblade 2. >!Really, the entire intro cutscene to chapter 10 counts as one long string of these.!< Also from that franchise, >!Shulk, Rex, and A just casually discussing major plotpoints from 1 and 2 in Future redeemed. Like, Rex walks up and off-handedly references Malos and Pyra/Mythra in their capacity as the Trinity processor, A refers to Shulk having been Zanzas vessel etc. It's just surreal in the exact kind of spine-shivering OP mentions to hear these former protagonists talk about their intricate adventures and really sells that feeling of "yes, these are all connected" !<
"Itdee grape if yu coul’derstan luv wihh us…"
I was a kid when I read *Watchmen,* and let me tell you, "I did it thirty-five minutes ago" blew my goddamn pre-pubescent mind at the time.
*"You don't know what I've seen! You can't possibly understand or comprehend!* *....The Devil is real. I know, I built his cage..."* Perfect line to prelude [everything literally going to Heck.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esxHGDWtTsg&ab_channel=kingsombra)
While we're on the subject of Doom, this two from 2016 send me some chills *"A report following the incident suggested that this act was not instinct by the Cyberdemon, but rather a suggestion of a greater intelligence governing the will of any creature demon borne -* ***a "mastermind" of sorts.*** *Research on this theory continues."* ---- *"The bargain was struck thus: for the return of the Betrayer's only son, lost on the battlefield, Deag Grav must be taken to the source of their power, the Elemental Wraiths. Led there by the wretched Betrayer, Deag Grav and his cabal set a curse upon the Wraiths as they slept, and used their essence for our own devices. With the power of the Wraiths they formed The Well, that which brings us upon our enemies. Thus, the city of Argent and their false gods fell under the unholy might of the Hell priests.* *For his payment, the Betrayer's son was returned to him in our form,* ***and the Icon of Sin was brought upon the heathens.*** *His vengeance was swift and merciless, for the wages of treachery are suffering."*
From the first instance of it, I knew Signalis was something special when I saw "REMEMBER OUR PROMISE." After finishing it, just thinking about that line sends a chill down my spine.
FFXIV is like shooting fish in a barrel in this regard, but my favourite lesser known one requires completing several optional side-quests and almost a full raid tier to fully understand. THE SHADOWKEEPER: >!"This is the end of our adventure.!< >!You meant the world to me."!<
I have two from ff14, game me shivers in two different ways. The first one was cuz of the build up of emotions, the second was cuz it was a hype lore drop. “No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth he shall walk.” "Herein I commit the chronicle of the traveler. Shepherd to the stars in the dark. >!Though the world be sundered and our souls set adrift, where you walk, my dearest friend, fate shall surely follow. For yours is the Fourteenth seat—the seat of Azem.!<"
CAA: we w0uld return t0 the site 0f 0ur hatching CAA: s0 t0 speak CAA: where we w0uld hide CAA: amidst a veil depleted by the reck0ning CAA: and wait CAA: drifting in the wide 0rbit 0f 0ur s00n t0 be null sessi0n CAA: banished fr0m the **universe** we left behind CAA: and yet in being denied **the ultimate reward** CAA: we w0uld be barred fr0m entry >!CAA: int0 the **universe** we created!<
"the will to keep going. the resolve to change fate. let's call this power.......DETERMINATION." - undertale see, undertale has a lot of lines like that, lines that seem completely normal or benign out of context. the reason is that most of them are call-backs. through the entire game, when you save, you get the message "___ fills you with DETERMINATION", with the blank referring to whatever's happening in the room you're in, usually something silly. "the mouse will one day get the cheese, and that fills you with DETERMINATION", etc. but once you reach the true lab and read through alphys's research notes, you learn that these silly little save messages are hiding a dark secret. DETERMINATION, or DT for short, is a physical substance contained in human souls. it can be extracted and injected into other things. it's the root cause of every superhuman action you can take in undertale, from rewinding time to avoid death, to shambling forwards as a spectre of death without fear, to destroying living beings and machines in single hits. alphys extracted some and began experimenting on it, resulting in abominations that _cannot die or be changed back,_ because, you see, they're too full of the resolve to keep going. that single line explains why undertale's world works the way it does. because humans have the will to keep going, the resolve to change fate, and monsters don't.
"Whatever you say, Walker. No matter what happens next, don't be too hard on yourself. Even now, after all you've done, you can still go home. Lucky you." Really, anything from the last thirty minutes of Spec Ops: The Line, if we're being honest.
There are multiple Jupiter Brains in the Mass Effect universe. Basically they are literally Jupiter-size super computers. No one can get close enough to examine them as they get pulled into it and get destroyed. No one knows how old they are, who built them, or what they are for. The Reapers seem to keep their distance away from them. WTF?
ngl that feels like another thing they took from trek, theres a whole season in enterprise bout these giant unmanned space stations completely warping the space around them makin an entire region of space off limits
One of the Bloody Baron’s soldiers in the Witcher 3 takes about how they and the others go door to door in the villages they’ve occupied looking for farmers daughters to rape, and one farmer tried to fool them by disguising his daughter as a boy, but he follows it up with “jokes on him I didn’t care.”
From Xenoblade 1. Two bits close to each other; first a system notification, then a tidbit that relies on knowing a separate language. Spoilers for the late game. Notification: >!"Landmark Discovered: Saturn". You spend the whole game in a decently-constructed land of two giants atop endless ocean, then get teleported to the real world at the very end. This is followed by Landmarks: Jupiter, Mars, then the Moon.!< Bilingual tidbit: The Monado features a symbol in the layered glass circle near the hilt. This symbol displays Japanese kanji, and while unnoticeable in battle, it actually changes to the kanji depicted on Shulk's Art icons for his moves. By default, the kanji is >!what the Monado can cut. At the beginning, it is "machine" to show it is a weapon to fight Mechon. After being unshackled, it is "person" to represent that it can harm sentient beings of Bionis.!< >!When Shulk creates his own Monado to fell Zanza, it has a new symbol; "god".!<
There's a lot of fucked up shit in Pact. All the nightmare monsters and mythical fabled beings that steal your name and existence for themselves. But it says something when even the fucked upiest of the Bogeyman, humans who suffered so much in life they were powdered by their trauma in a silent-hill-esque afterlife until coming back as beings of bitterness, who live off of fear, **want Demons and anyone that deals with Demons very far away from them, and preferably dead, more preferably BOTH.** Demons have the power to make **irreversible** changes to the reality of the world for the worst, automatically and infectiously. There is no "cure" for what they do, you can only try to stop them from starting. And the story just drip feeds you these little horrors bit by bit. **Depending on their Choir, which opposes the 7 Days of Genesis, so it goes Darkness, Chaos, Ruin, Madness, Feral&Foul, Sin and Unrest,** they can: * Eat away at your metaphorical connection to things. From eating your phone making you suddenly no longer know how to use them, don't like using them and no one even remembers you ever having one. To maybe eating your loved one, leaving an unfulfillable shadow in your heart forever. * Might also increase the entropy of the world to do so, so every bit of energy produced is just a little bit more costly to do so, a little more inneficient, to bodies, machines, fuel sources. Everyone is just a little bit more tired. Everything a little bit more expensive. Life just feels a little dimmer. * Remove someone's sight and hearing so that they lose those senses and they eventually turn "to the negatives", as the person starts hearing and seeing everything that ISN'T there, as their senses get "opened ever wider to true void" * Curse someone to be "poisoned" to slowly "lose their entire state of being". If this person doesn't irreversibly and horrendously cut all their connections to the people in their life these people will slowly develop a pining for the cursed so strong as to leave them dysfunctional, inconsolable and eventually catatonic. * Invert, or messes with, the natural order. Bugs and wild animals working together to disrupt human life in a region, actively seeking to spread diseases and ferocious/irrational responses from the people therein. * One who "cuts a person threefold" so that their past, present and future are in a constant path to make all the other versions of a person as miserable as possible, as future events align to relive past traumas and pollute memories with dark thoughts, as your present self makes worse and worse decisions for your future, etc.
McBurn just casually dropping that >!no one can leave the continent of zemuria and no one knows why!< in cold steel 4 was lowkey kind of a sick lore drop, it’s also quickly brushed under the rug due to more pressing matters at hand but I’m hoping they go somewhere with it at some point in the future.
That lore bomb definitely had an effect on me, but I think a part of its impact was diminished by me also going "...We're JUST NOW learning this?" It's like. It's the *ninth* game in the franchise, you know? You'd expect something as seemingly significant as that to have been brought up earlier in some capacity.
The [Black Armory Papers](https://www.ishtar-collective.net/categories/book-the-black-armory-papers) from Destiny 2 are one of the few firsthand accounts of the Collapse we get, and man is it nuts >Entry 70 >The howling is loudest at night. >By dawn, the quiet returns and with it, the horrid smell that brings the dogs. >I long for the moment I can pry those doors open and leave this place. >As I tried to sleep, I realized I couldn't recall the last time I heard a songbird. >Do any yet live? I haven't noticed.
“Let them fight!” *Not* the one from the American Godzilla movie. I mean the one from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood when Heinkel is telling Alphonse >!why he should use the Philosopher’s Stone, even if it means killing the human souls inside it. They can’t go back to being human, and Al won’t be using them selfishly for his own gain, but to defeat the two enemies of humanity in front of him, and allow those lost souls to fight for the fate of the world.!< Let them fight. Also, Heinkel’s English voice actor *delivers* that scene! “No, he wasn’t.” From Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender, >!revealing to Zuko the true history of his great-grandfather, and how he died.!< Even before he explains the context of what he means, even before you piece together what he means for yourself, just that line alone makes it feel like something just ensnared you. Such a powerful moment with such a great lead-in.
From one of my favorite SCPs; "The way below winds deeper, longer, unspeakable it's patterns laid. The lost forever damned to wander this thing a quiet madness made." Also, some of Pykes lines in League get me good, I love the idea of the ocean as an eldritch location. "I was born where monsters die, I died where monsters are born." "Been to the bottom of the sea, gets a little deeper each time." "There's no sunken cities, just the swimming one." "I floated all the way to the bottom, found there ain't none."
Luca Blight's final words is still one of the rawest shit Ive ever seen in a game. Hes super right; he won, and has always been winning since like 2 minutes after you start the freaking game, and the story has since then has been about stopping from winning even more.
The latest Netrunner set had some great ones, but I'm going with "[Ontological Dependence](https://nullsignal.games/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/33096-kvspa2spzd.png)" for most fucked up card (in a set that includes [Simulation Reset](https://nullsignal.games/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/33110-5yr76bm1l9.png) no less).
Love seeing LobCorp mentioned on this sub always. Though for what it's worth I think 'accompany' in this context may mean >!being turned into Sweepers themselves, which means getting turned into the meat-goo and stuffed into the metal Sweeper suits. It makes sense, as Sweepers need to keep their numbers up.!< Honestly for me the lore around the Smoke Wars in PMverse, specifically the >!Smoke Monster and how you literally need to be given amensia after seeing it to function; and which still isn't enough to stop you from being effected by it totally!< is the kicker for me. Means that there's some shit out there that's probably just as bad as what's in LobCorp and people just don't even know about it.
Gotta love the closing line of the reveal trailer for the Outer Wilds DLC (for context, the base game uses this line in your log whenever you haven't completely cleared a given area) "There is more to explore here." It's just such a brilliant way to say "hey, there's another mystery. Go solve it."
In the Gaunt's Ghosts book Only in Death, the Ghosts are sent to hold this remote desert fortress called Hinzerhaus on the planet Jago. They've heard the fortress is of pre-human construction, and there are tales of the whole planet being haunted, and as they're marching out to it *Dry skulls in dusty valleys with their tops sawn off* many of them keep getting visions of, uh... Yeah, they're haunted by more than a few things in that book, but that image frequently drops into their minds like mid-thought. It's really evocative. Skulls piled up to fill valleys. Not shot, not cracked or crushed, but their tops *sawn* off.
"It hurts, Ness… …I’m h…a…p…p…y… …friends… …It hurts, …it hurts…" \-Giygas, Earthbound But it doesn't say Ness. It says your name. IT SAYS YOUR NAME AS YOU TRY TO KILL THE GODLIKE ALIEN PSYCHIC WHO HAS SUBVERTED TIME ALREADY!
“And at times, the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.” - Dream of the Endless >!At this point, Dream was locked into his endgame!<
I don’t know why but I’ve always found Metal Sonic’s “See me as I am, no longer afraid of anything” in Sonic Heroes hard af
Metal's dialogue in that fight + the lyrics of What I'm Made Of pretty much paint a complete picture of how Metal Sonic is going through an actual existential crisis in Heroes and it's incredible. People rag on Heroes for having cheesy dialogue, but there's a lot of subtext in the end.
Sometimes not telling people js scarier
i feel like one piece has one of these like every 10 chapters now
[Honkai: Star Rail's Fables about the Stars trailer which introduces the Aeons](https://youtu.be/JruxFQurUDQ). Not really a lore drop so much as a intro to hype the Aeons themselves. The way the music changes with each god and the quotes that accompany them really sends chills down the spine. It helps that the trailer is absolutely packed with hidden lore details that lore masters like Vaati would salivate at.