Shrek 3 on Wii. Finding Nemo on Playstation 2. Binding of Isaac flash. Tribes: Ascend. Starcraft 2. Hearts of Iron 4. Disco Elysium is a wonderful RPG suffering from the most annoying writing possible from Estonian liberal leftoids.
The only game that has ever lived up to the hype was wallace and gromit project zoo on ps2, super smash bros melee and kirby air ride. Also counter strike. Fortnite is very good but is somehow also overhyped. Legend of Grimrock 2 should have been hyped
Runescape and WoW are awful. People should be ashamed of themselves. Using an organization app is literally more fun and mentally active
GTA. Games 3 and 4 were good, 5 was kinda fun, but I’m not really at all excited for the same formula over and over again. Even battlefield feels a bit samey. Only indie games are really taking risks these days. And some of them are fantastic.
AAA first person shooters. At some point new releases are just are a rehash of the exact game mechanics.
New maps! And skins! You can buy them, you know!
Old ones die or dont have friends on em. Ideally everyone would play zombie panic source
Xonotic still has players :)
Undertale. I tried playing it a few weeks ago, but the controls are clunky and the story isn’t really entertaining. It was just boring and annoying.
I think the game’s good side doesn’t really show until you beat it. And with the context that moral choice game systems were a trend and up to this point extremely shallow (infamous series, army of two etc).
I couldn’t get into it either though to be honest, but I enjoyed reading about the lore and the games it inspired.
I couldn’t stand it either, and I grew up with NES/SNES JRPGs and thought it would be right up my alley but for whatever reason the humor didn’t reach me in the slightest and I couldn’t be bothered to finish it.
More recently I tried Afterplace which also has a meta theme but the gameplay is more like a simplified Zelda and I really loved the writing.
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Any game in the Halo series.
Criminal!
Elden Ring. It’s like they just glued inconsistent creature ideas next to each other. Every couple of hundred ingame meters you come across a different biome with different creatures that appear nowhere else and has a boss that visually and equipment-wise completely out of place. It feels like fighting your way through dozens of puzzle-pieces forced next to each other without any explanation why. You have to try to make your own story as to why things are the way they are and any criticism of the game is shot down by the worst stereotypes of gamers.
I thought that was just the point of the game? that it’s a fighting game with some minor open world aspect to it between “levels”
honestly I know fuck all look about dark souls and the videos of gameplay that I see give me this impression
I legitimately feel like ER is one of FromSoft’s weakest titles. It doesn’t come close to the DS trilogy for me, and unironically I feel like Nightreign is a better game in the same vein, as the faster paced sandbox works far better for the fast, clusterfuck bosses ER is known for.
Elden Ring will always be pretty special to me, but as far as being FUN, it’s not in the same league as Nightreign.
Pretty much anything based on collecting cards or deck building.
I also dislike deckbuilders, but slay the spire is the exception. It skips the tideous deck management a lot of games have and you aren’t playing against an other deck which is a big part of what I hate.
I just saw the post about Red Dead 2 becoming the 4th most sold game.
It is 100% not my thing.
Its sad that I enjoyed GTA V, and am semi looking forward to GTA VI too, but the wild west genre is not for me.
This is the one for me. Felt like a string of QuickTime sequences and story that is dull and plodding. Just didn’t click for me at all.
For me, it was the gameplay. I felt like I was walking through molasses or acting in slow motion every time I did something. I know that was 100% their intention, but it was just really off-putting to me personally
Sorry to say but Stardew Valley for me – and it is not for a lack of trying, I’ve put in a bit over 82 hours into it, but a fair amount of that was forced and it quickly got stale. Maybe I just played it wrong or the game simply isn’t for me.
I mean, 82 hours… I’d say you got your money’s worth.
If I may ask, which aspect of it bothered (or bored) you?
I couldn’t exactly put a finger on it but I am guessing it was just the repetitiveness of it. I didn’t feel like there was anything inherently wrong with the game, it’s just that I was hoping for the moment where it would hook me so hard that I wouldn’t be able to stop playing, but this never really happened.
That’s kind of the game’s theme, ironically. Meditative peace.
To be fair, the gameplay loop isn’t the most fun for me either, but I got really hooked by the ambience and characters.
To be fair, I think you were expecting something from it that isn’t part of its core.
I don’t play it myself, but I have several friends and family that do, and they all cite it as their comfy, repetitive (by design) game that they play for a half hour at the end of a day to unwind and shut their brain off. From what I can tell, THAT seems to be the goal of the game, and it sounded like you wanted the opposite from it.
Yeah, that could very well be true. The reason I had this expectation is probably because I’ve seen reviews of other people, some of them having hundreds of hours on it and I probably had the impression that I might be doing something wrong and it’s just a matter of getting ‘hooked’. That’s why I kept playing even though I didn’t find it very fun. While I do remember some slight annoyances about it, I do not think it is overall a bad game.
There are diehard fans of this game with less hours than you lmao
82 hours!
It took me like 3 tries to get into it, and even then, I respect it more than I enjoy actually playing it, these days. If it’s not your thing, it’s not your thing.
Anything Bethesda. I can never play more than a couple hours before I get bored.
There’s definitely some nostalgia glasses.
And I dunno where you started, but I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and couldn’t even get through an hour of Starfield. It played like a upscaled Xbox 360 game, with all the jank, yet none of the charm, more filler, all the loading screens, yet somehow ran like molasses. I have no idea what folks see in that game, despite the premise basically being made for me.
it’s oblivion in space.
Oblivion’s side quests (and into) had charm though. Especially the Shivering Isles, that was great.
They have a bit of a “if you’ve played one you’ve played them all” problem
I think most are carried by their modding communities at this point which can be so involved they fundamentally change every aspect of the game.
COD and most multiplayer shooters. I guess I’m just not competitive.
Same. Though I did love split-screen black ops zombies on the 360.
Any of the Dark Souls. They’re hyped up for being difficult, but the only thing that makes them difficult is the clunky controls.
Like, I could make Pokemon Yellow equally difficult by taping a dish sponge to a Gameboy and requiring the player to operate the buttons through an inch of fluff.
The story’s kinda there if you dig for clues, but it comes off as random bullshit if you don’t.
They are fucking gorgeous, I’ll give em that.
I’ll never understand the ‘git gud’ circlejerk… I 100%'d DS2, and made it a good chunk through Elden Ring (think I was about 80% done before finally saying fuck it). I ‘got gud’… But DS never got fun.
I absolutely love the style, setting, visuals, and music - I really wanted to like DS… but the combat and clunky controls absolutely murder the experience.
For me at least… to each their own.
what’s clunky? I would agree they have some clunky elements, mainly the targetting will sometimes cause problems, but I don’t recall much else being necessarily clunky.
‘clunky’ is the end product, but the biggest contributing factor is the absolute committal nature of initiating an animation. Need to take half a step to the left to dodge an arrow? Fuck you, I’m only one second in to a 2.5 second sword twirling animation! …and actually you double clicked at the start of the animation, so I’m gonna do it again for another 2.5 seconds! …so you die, respawn, redo that fight but this time you know when the arrows are coming so you don’t use the long animations. Clear the fight, wooooo you got gud… but trying to dodge arrows and not being able to cuz your character is busy doing a dance routine is some of the least fluid combat I’ve experienced in a videogame. Any keystroke that comes with an animation is always in competition with other keystrokes that have animations.
Combat boils down to memorizing attack patterns and playing a mental macro on repeat until the enemy is dead. There’s no responsiveness from the player, you just die until you know why you’re dying, and tweak the sequence until it works. Eventually the final boss is dead.
I’ve been told that for whatever reason it feels way less clunky on a controller - I’ve only ever played it on a mouse and keyboard.
idk.
Like I said, to each their own. I’m a little jealous of whatever it is the fanbase is feeling when they play those games, but it’s a miss for me.
I get what you mean, you’re not the only one. There are generations of games that have explicitly trained you on fast twitch button mashing with graceful dodge frames and intentionally engineered safeguards so rng is in your favor to bring about the best experience. And I’m not mocking you…it’s just how it is and it gets me too. Trying to unlearn that is hard.
I also hate the ‘difficult for the sake of difficult’. I know some people get a high over doing something incredible, but I don’t get that from banging my head on the same thing over and over. Any souls, souls-like, souls-lite or weighty mechanics games like MH get a hard pass from me.
However, I really enjoyed Remnant, it’s a mp souls-like - something about witnessing everyone’s shenanigans but still being able to pick each other off the floor is a lot of fun. It feels different and more like what souls should have been (imho).
It’s not so much button mashy vs not; it’s the responsiveness. Take a step back from videogames even: if you were some medieval knight or w/e in a sword fight IRL: your sword is raising as you’re initiating an attack, and you notice your opponent moving his blade toward a vulnerable spot you just left exposed.
So do you just follow through with the attack knowing there’s a blade closing in on your axillary artery, accept your fate, take the blow, bleed out and die? Or, do you abort the attack in favor of a defensive move like lifting your shield or turning a bit so the blade hits your armor instead?
The former is what combat is like in DS (and MH… haven’t tried the others).
It’s unsatisfying flavor of difficulty… again comparable to sabotaging the controls of an otherwise not difficult at all experience (sponge taped to gameboy). Or like… say you need to do the dishes, and up the difficulty of the task by tying a toothbrush to the end of a 5’ stick and scrubbing them with that from the far corner of the kitchen. The task is difficult now, but that doesn’t make it fun, just tedious.
Just pulled up Remnant - I don’t think I’ve ever seen that game before. The Steam pics/vids look pretty great: I’m getting VERY strong Secret World Legends vibes (which is a fantastic game despite having god-awful combat). I’ll throw it on my wishlist and see if I can snag it on a good sale.
okay so I do have the right idea of what the game is, more or less
I understand that some people enjoy that. I do not.
I’d say the only bad thing in the dark souls controls is jumping. Elden Ring has no issues.
Dark Souls and Bloodborne are the only games I prefer to watch other people play. I love the look and atmosphere but can’t stand how they feel to play.
Outer Wilds.
Have you played it?
Yes, though I doubt enough to fully understand the appeal. I think I may just hate vehicle controls in any game ever made.
Oh vehicle controls are definitely a valid issue to have with the game. They are pretty well designed for controller use. However well designed is not the same as saying they are easy to use. True 6 degrees of freedom controls between orbits are definitely complex.
Sad to have that blocking enjoying the story or more accurately solar system spanning puzzle box.
I found the story intriguing, but the time loop is way too short. Every time it gets interesting, the world resets, you have to get back into the rocketship and fly back to the place you’ve been before. It’s an absolutely unneccessary padding mechanic.
I agree! The time loop was okay when I was just exploring more or less aimlessly but it got super stressful when I started finding leads I wanted to follow…
I have played it multiple times and it has never hooked me. I keep meaning to go back, but I don’t know if I will
Firewatch. I liked the visual style but everyone raved about the writing specifically and I thought it wasn’t great. I don’t want to shit on them too hard because they did try, and you can’t control how other people hype your work, but I found the characters really flat.
I found the characters pretty flat as well. Neat atmosphere, though. I’m not really into that type of game so it was something new and interesting to me.
I also finally made the time to play it at a rough time in my life, and oh boy, let me tell you, your personal circumstances at the time of playing have a huge effect on how the game makes you feel if you give in to it. I actually found it pretty helpful, tbh. It helped me process some shit because it gave me the opening to think about some stuff I was kind of ignoring, even though I thought I’d processed it.
anyways yeah that’s how I found myself crying half drunk in my basement alone playing a video game
still. the writing was meh. it was neat, but it was meh, and honestly, the mehness is kind of part of it. it’s not some big crazy thing. it’s just some average people doing average people things, nothing special about them, and it allowed me to think about my own stuff instead of the characters’ stuff.
I appreciate it for its atmosphere and art style, but yeah the characters and the plot a are quite meh.
Undertale. I’m sure it’s a great game, but after a decade of hearing everyone and their mothers shout about it, I’ve oddly been put off by it.
