10 Amazing Stories Trapped In Mediocre Video Games

5. Guardians Of The Galaxy

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Eidos

Guardians Of The Galaxy received rave reviews from fans upon its release. While a decent game on its own, a lot of the praise - admittedly - stemmed from it not being the conga line of terrible ideas and live service nonsense that was the ever disappointing Avengers game.

But even after the hype died down, the story presented in Guardians shined through its so-so gameplay.

The gameplay is fine, but it doesn't do anything to stand out from other single-player adventure games from the past half-decade. Meanwhile, the story, and how it presents the titular heroes, is what really draws people in.

Fans of the movies were satisfied by how well they translated James Gunn's style of dialogue and character interaction, while fans of the comics were treated to more comic accurate designs that were changed from page to movie screen.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?