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Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn't really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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[–] HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Horizon Zero Dawn

I thought this would be right up my alley but I really did not like the protagonist and the fighting and exploring seemed kind of boring.

The Last of Us

This game gets praised all the time but it felt too limited and 'on rails' whilst the gunplay and stealth was not for me.

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horizon is my answer too. I was expecting an open world that felt alive, but instead it was a jam-packed theme park. You don't hunt, you go to the right exhibit and kill everything within it. The entire herd is within a 50 meter radius, go nuts. Go away and come back later and it'll be full again, exactly where it says so on the map, jammed between other points of interest with extensive, contrived looking plarforming challenges connecting it all. It's like a zoo and a vending machine had a baby but we're supposed believe it's a big open natural world. Great concept, garbage execution. I felt like Bobby Hill hunting at La Grunta.

Lol, I enjoyed the game overall but that really is a perfect description of it's biggest problem. It could have been so much more if they had been willing to take a risk and make it a little less game-y.

[–] lordriffington@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The Last of Us is definitely about the story. If you're not invested in that, you're probably not going to enjoy it. There's nothing much in the gameplay that sets it apart from similar games.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm so glad I didn't read about HZD. I got it on sale and saw that it was similar to Assassin's Creed. Being thrown into it without any expectations definitely helped.

I like the combat (as a person who constantly plays archers). The bows, traps, looting and fighting robot dinos was pretty cool. Figuring out how to take them out and aim at specific weak spots is fun.

The world is still pretty weird and honestly I would have dropped the game after a few hours too if I didn't like the archery so much. The story as a whole is pretty good after beating it. But the delivery of it all kinda sucks.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem like a mountain dew game fuel and CoD kind of guy.

[–] HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mountain Dew sounds good, but I prefer my multiplayer to be local. Online games are a chore.

I did enjoy the original CoD back in 2003 though.

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