Trope or not, gods just end up being a common target for games about heroes escalating in power while fighting increasingly world-destroying consequences.

So, for each post, name a game and describe it, with the assumption being that every description automatically ends with the phrase:

“…and then it ends with you fighting a god.”

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I do agree on it being a great game, and she fights gods on her way to her final goal but

      spoiler

      she doesn’t really fight any gods though - it is all in her head

      • steeznson@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        I found when they used that same device to explain the ending of Hellblade 2 really unsatisfying.which is a shame because I’d really enjoyed the journey.

        • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          That is a shame, I would have thought that she would have some measure of control after the events of the first game

          Especially, since the burden she was carrying was lifted.

          spoiler

          I guess she has a severe case of the “blessing” that she disassociates with reality regularly and is unable to discern what is real and what is not as she lives a life of what she thinks is real as truth.

          I guess I can see that happening without any form of medication or therapy and only having her own thoughts to live with after the traumatic events of her past

  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
    24·
    4 days ago

    To some extent the majority of JRPGs fit into this trope. It’s a long running joke that it isn’t a JRPG if you don’t end up fighting a god with the power of friendship.

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
    9·
    3 days ago
    • Divinity Original Sin
    • Soul Reaver through to Legacy of Kain - Defiance (Elder God)
    • Titan Quest
    • Shin Megami Tensei
    • Cat Quest
    • Hades
    • Smite
    • Mortal Kombat?
  • mhague@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 days ago

    Fable

    As a kid you get your village burned down but you’re rescued at the last minute by a Hero.

    You’re raised in the Heroes Guild and become one yourself. You help people, kick some chickens, and learn magic.

    And then you fight a god, twice.

    • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 days ago

      There is an argument to be made that neither Dagoth Ur not the tribunal are strictly speaking “gods” by Elder Scrolls’ definitions. They have godlike powers thanks to the heart, but they are referred to as false gods by all the Deadric gods you interact with.

      Heck, the main quest is basically Azura using you as her vessel to expose the falsity of the Tribunal’s claim to godhood.

      Although, if you go one level deeper and you buy into Vivec actually achieving Chim, then it could be argued he is at least as godlike as Talos (who used his understanding of Chim to retcon the actual history of Tamriel). Which is another can of worms, because his godhood is also questioned and the whole reason his worship was outlawed in the white-gold concordant…

      Oh Elder Scrolls lore, how I love your convoluted nature.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    mass effect. Shepard kills many reapers, which are pretty close to eldritch gods in another setting.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      38·
      4 days ago

      Hey hey hey, SPOILERS! I’m only ~8,000 hours into the game and haven’t gotten there yet!

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    15·
    4 days ago

    Bayonetta invents an entirely new god in the last 10 minutes of the game that was never explained or alluded to before, and then has you piledrive it into the sun.