Soulslikes. I am so fucking sick of hearing about them. Elden Ring and it's jank ass UI did not deserve GOTY.
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idk about popular series but as an rpg enjoyer i got around 15 hours into clair obscur and bounced off.
Don't hear that take very often. Almost everyone is too busy glazing it. I feel that way about Sea of Stars.
What didn't work for you in Clair Obscur?
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I really wanted to like Baldur's Gate 3. I didn't play the prior games in the series, but I know a bunch of people who brim with excitement about it.
I've not really been involved in DnD in any form. I played the original Warcraft RTS as a kid, I've read everything from Tolkien, and I love some of the Elder Scrolls games, but that's about it. I'd always got the impression that a lot of it was a bit hammy and amateur on the writing side, but I assumed BG3 would buck the trend.
...I just didn't vibe with it at all. I found the combat exasperating, I didn't mesh with the character motivations, and I failed to really get immersed. Maybe I really needed more backstory than a couple of lore lessons over beers.
It's obviously a great game, but it was such a miss for me, and I wish that weren't the case.
I think I'm past being mystified by there being a market for stupid, terrible games. I used to find it confusing but the answer for so many confusing things in life is just 'idiots exist.'
Most Bethesda games.
The quality is just so low, the issues so glaring, I can't. It's like reading a fine book riddled with so many typos you give up after 2 pages because you're so distracted.
Okay, to be fair, maybe the latest Skyrim iteration is better! I haven't tried. Wouldn't bet on it, though.
Mods are really the only thing keeping those games afloat. Modders end up doing half the work just to make the games halfway decent.
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Everything with round based battle mechanics.
Animal Crossing.
The thought of it disgusts me. Don't know exactly why.
Same, but mostly as a joke. To me, i like to joke that it's a perfect "non-game."
I can still recognize why others like it, though.
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Assassin’s Creed
I think when I tried it originally I wasn’t into the controls and how they felt. I’m more forgiving these days so I wonder if I’d enjoy the series now? I love a good story.
Black Flag was the 1st I played and the only one I enjoyed. Tried others and they were just 'meh'.
(Why is a decent pirate/sailing game so hard to make? - almost 15 years later and still nothing seems to come close to what Black Flag offers)
If you're in it for the story, stay far away.
Ubisoft fired the creator of Assassin's Creed way back after the 2nd (and best) one released. After that, they've just been milking it and only useful idiots haven't caught on yet.
I still recommend replaying the old ones. They were hit-or-miss depending on the person even back when they released, but I was one of they people that got hit hard.
The first one is one of the few games that actually has something to say for those paying attention.
spoiler
"That war your ancestors started, it never ended."
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I don't have much against any particular game since I can see something that someone would enjoy.
However there are sone things that I actually don't understand how someone would enjoy;
Always Online: all of your time, money, and love could just vanish underneath you
P2W / P2S: Ah yes, let me make the gameplay loop doing a 9-5
Gacha: Gambling is 80% of the gameplay but somehow they make it unfun
Live Service: By itself not bad. However it enables games to be released completely broken.
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Halo. I've been hearing about how cool and just good the games are. How deep and interesting the lore is.
I was visiting old games I heard good things about but never played. I had finished with the Half Life games and enjoyed them.
Then I decided to get the Master Chief Collection.
Started with Reach. Shooting immediately felt bad. The characters started dying off almost immediately after meeting them. Then the game was finished.
That was... Disappointing.
Well alright. Maybe Reach is a black sheep.
Onto Halo CE. Shooting felt even worse. The open areas were pretty cool, but there were a lot of small frustrations with the game. Story wasn't anything special. Certainly none of that "deep lore".
Well... Halo 2 then? Felt a lot like Halo 1. More story, yes, but it was as if the game assumed I was already invested in the story. About two thirds in I realised I was still waiting for Halo to finally become cool or good.
I stopped playing.
Decided Halo as a whole is very overrated.
Personally, I think Halo's heyday was decades ago when Halo first came out. It was a huge success back then, and I'd argue that's half the reason it's enjoyed by some today. Halo 2 was also very excellent. Halo 3 came out on the Xbox 360, so it had a different feel to it since it was on a different platform. The other games (Reach, 4, ODST) couldn't even hold a candle to the literal monumental success that the original Halo was.
I had the same experience.
I kept comparing it with the absolute masterpiece that is Half-Life and it felt boring.
The story doesn't pull you, no characters are memorable, in some areas I felt like I was cleaning the exact same room over and over.
Even compared to something like Doom II, which lacks any real story and is all about playability and fun, it felt lacking.
I guess it's just not for me.
How deep and interesting the lore is.
Could the people telling you that have possibly been talking about the books? There's >20 books telling various storylines from the franchise and they go way deeper than the games.
I will agree that the games are pretty sparse for storytelling. They tend to go more "show, don't tell". The problem with that is that the lore of Halo needs to be told and can't really be shown
Yes, often books and movies are brought up when it comes to Halo, but I don't see the point at all. I have been shown a few "cool" or "epic" clips from the movies by Halo fans but... they looked pretty bad.
When I get interested in getting into the weeds of some lore, it's because the main-line (be it movies, or games) has made me interested to learn more. Halo never made me interested. Stuff just happened in cool alien environments, and it wouldn't be the first time I've played a shooter with little story in cool alien environments (even from the era Halo is from... probably especially in the era Halo is from).
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Hero Shooters, specifically Overwatch and R6 Seige. Really any sort of MOBA too. I dont really get the point of having unique characters with loads of lore and an underlying story if you aren't going to get to experience any of it in gameplay. TF2 gets away with it because the classes arent really characters, they are more like an archetype of that class and the story is just supplemental stuff.
Balatro. There’s just no motivation to keep playing. It’s just uninteresting. Love me some Slay the Spire, though.
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Persona
I don't dislike the series, per se, I literally just find the number of games with similar titles confusing. I have no idea what's what.
I think I would have loved Persona if it wasn't a turn-based RPG. I like the artstyle, and I like visual novel games. I just really can't be bothered with turn-based RPGs.
Perhaps I should just watch the anime adaptation.
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All first person shooters. I grew up with original wolfenstien, doom, rise of the triad, unreal tournament, quake... Modding each was pretty popular.
Now all fps feel like mods of those games.
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