Dragons are overused!

Dragons are overused in videogames

  • No, they're not, give me more dragons please!

    Votes: 92 57.9%

  • So so. Maybe we can have more variety than the typical 'BIG BAD BOY DINO ROAR DRAGON SPITTING FIRE'

    Votes: 43 27.0%

  • Yes, they are overused. They're literally in every fantasy game setting!

    Votes: 24 15.1%
  • Total voters
    159
BusierDonkey said:
I wish every game had dragons. Any game lacking a dragon immediately becomes a better game with the inclusion of a dragon.

Good recent examples:

- Halo Infinite
This game only got an 87 on Metacritic and I guarantee if it had dragons in it the score would have been closer to 97. Monkey people and Lizard men are neat, but imagine if the Banished had been a race of Dragons! Way cooler.

- Forza Horizon 5
Again, while the game score decently on MC with a 92 lets face it something was missing. Yeah it had shanty towns and literal bags of trash randomly strewn about in an attempt to accurately portray Mexico (but not TOO accurately), but simply putting in a dragon would have raised the score to a solid 100. Don't believe me? Probably not!

- Horizon Forbidden West
Trying to ride the coattails of Forza Horizon by hijacking the name (but for some reason not the cars), this game had a pretty interesting concept, racing robot dinosaurs so that you could face Lex Luthor and his gang of super villains. It worked for Transformers, why not a video game featuring a drunk Irish woman voiced by Tiny Tina? The dinosaurs allowed the game to score an 88 but dragons would have secured a 98.

- Ratchet and Clank
I didn't actually play this one but based on it's paltry 88 MC I'm guessing it didn't have either dragons OR robot dinosaurs. If it did then that doesn't bode well for the game...

Wow all those poorly rated games without dragons. What happens when you have a game with dragons?

- Elden Ring
Look at all those dragons. Despite literally being the exact same game as every other From game ever made, with terrible netcode, a graphical side-grade from earlier games and all the jank (I read it on 4chan) the game got a 96 MC. Thank you Dragons.

- Ocarina of Time
If Volvagia hadn't been in the game it likely would have gotten an 89 MC instead of a 99 MC. Outside that boss there wasn't a lot to this game.

- Mario Galaxy 2
What's that? Another cookie-cutter 3D Mario? How would that merit a 97 MC? Because of the Dragon boss dummy.

- Breath of the Wild
According to many people who either haven't played it or really just want to hate it regardless it's a literally empty, boring game with breakable weapons and nothing to do. Lots of dragons in there though (the long chinese myth variety too!) so the 97 MC was a guarantee.

- Skyrim
This is the single exception to my rule. This game stood solid on it's precise controls, advanced combat gameplay and stellar writing without using dragons as a crutch. Instead of relying on dragons to bolster a high MC this game had you battle Thomas the Tank Engines which was both creative and unexpected. Many people however used mods to put dragons into the game which frankly was a poor fit with the lore.
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A+ would read again
 
depends on the game. skyrim dragons on pc? they're fine. n64 15 fps animation dragons in fallout76? nah
 
The only way I'll concede to you is if we proportionally reduce dragon representation and increase dinosaur representation. And I ain't talkin' about that that feathered shit.
 
You know what'Ss overused? ZOMBIES. How many shitty zombie movies, zombie tv shows, zombie video games. All have the same premise and they all fucking suck

TLOU I'm looking at you too! Just another fucking Zombie game at the end of the day
 
eh, I always thought knights and vikings were overused. If were talking about the more lizard looking dragons with wings I would say yes to those being overused.
 
mansoor1980 said:
95400-saint-dragon-amiga-front-cover.jpg

need a remake
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Thats a blast from the past! (y)
 
Dragons are overused, thats right! Give us more gargoyles.

Also vampires are overused, give us more werewolves!

And zombies are becoming annoying, switch them with goblins!

... and more snakes!
 
StreetsofBeige said:
Yup. In most games they look the same, act the same, can fly despite looking 10 tons, and somehow they all have a similar deadly breath attack.

Would be great for a plot change if an RPG had weak dragons or they are close to extinction. A change of roles. And the big rulers in the game world were goblins or some other weak adversary that rose from being bossed around in every other game.
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FFI & FFV for the win.
 
European based fantasy is overused... all these mythologies and 90% of games stick to one...someone produce an aztec fantasy game...a thai fantasy game...anything that isnt tolkein inspired.
 
The dragons in Elden ring are cool it's creepy when they just stare at you when you get to close. Dragons in Skyrim are nothing more than annoying birds, but still cool.
 
I voted for dragons.. But to be serious this has nothing to do with dragons per se but the execution. Just look at Kingdom Come; It's one of the most interesting "medieval" RPG games I've played despite being more or less completely void of classic fantasy elements.
 
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BusierDonkey said:
- Elden Ring
Look at all those dragons. Despite literally being the exact same game as every other From game ever made, with terrible netcode, a graphical side-grade from earlier games and all the jank (I read it on 4chan) the game got a 96 MC. Thank you Dragons.
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All games are the exact same as from software games, though. As everyone should be aware, Dark souls is what pioneered this concept we call "video games". Every other game is a shameless copy without the soul the original had.
 
eNT1TY said:
Sony tried giant crabs in the past and you see how that turned out.
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The funny thing is, the guy that said it could hear himself, you could tell. It was so hilarious

"it's based on real life, oh btw, here's this giant enemy crab *clears throat*"
 
WolfusFh said:
All games are the exact same as from software games, though. As everyone should be aware, Dark souls is what pioneered this concept we call "video games". Every other game is a shameless copy without the soul the original had.
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Oh you sweet summer child! Yuo drank the Souls kool-aid...

They don't want people the know this, but everything really boils down to being a rip-off of Bertie the Brain (which itself is actually just a fake version of tic-tac-toe) and ever since people have just been either adding dragons or other cool things like simulated lawn mowing to distract from the fact that at it's core all video games are exactly the same game. The government is using them to make us all sterile!

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