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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."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Grezzo 2 (you fight the actual Christian god)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Terraria.

And Calamity mod.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Earth Defense Force 5 ends with you fighting a god. EDF 6 basically starts and ends with this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Most persona/smt games fit the bill

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

You are in a theater group and steal a magical princess. Yada Yada Yada, you find out your twin brother is using magic life mist to build an army of dolls... Yada Yada yada, the princess turns a castle into a giant robot to fight the doll army... Yada Yada yada, you go to your alien space ship to find all of your other clones, yada yada yada your clone brother kills you and the only way to realive is to kill Necron the god of death and then the game ends.

Final Fantasy 9, the pinnacle of FF games doing this.

Another favorite for me though would be Breath of Fire.

You are a man, you become a dragon man, you find out you were always a dragon, find the goddess and have to chose between killing her or becoming a dragon god and killing your friends.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

No one has mentioned Noita yet? In Noita, killing a god is part of exploring the game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Depending on how you define all powerful God, Fallout New Vegas

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Most Final Fantasy games and JRPGs in general.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Loop hero has you trying to rebuild a forgotten world as you traverse round a simple loop...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Nier Automata gets really meta...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a great game...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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.

spoilerI 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much any Final Fantasy game fits this to some extent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Most of the Dark Souls are like that, ain't they? I'm too weak sauce to ever reach those levels, though. Black Myth Wukong has you starting Heaven's entire army, so I guess that qualifies too (I'm assuming you end up fighting a god at the end, but again, I'm not worthy)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Monkey canonically kicks all the gods' asses, but then loses to Buddha, who is not a god. That's because instead of using force, Buddha preys on Monkey's ego by giving him an unwinnable bet. And THEN Buddha drops a mountain on him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I know it's not out yet but I feel pretty confident adding Persona 6 to this list too.

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