thats not a random encounter and was always in the game i think. its when you drop to low in standing with a faction.
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thats not a random encounter and was always in the game i think. its when you drop to low in standing with a faction.
The Outer Worlds. The actual gameplay/combat itself was just not rewarding at all. Fallout 4 did a better job making the combat feel good, whether it was a small animation that played or the "pop" of firing a shotgun and blowing someone's head off. There was none of that, shooting or hitting didn't feel good at all. Also was a serious lack of weapon variety and enemy types, you can see all the enemies bar one on the first planet. Even though this is meant to be a "choices" game, it means nothing if the fighting parts, which makes up most of the game, feel unsatisfying.
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Demons Souls. I love the Souls trilogy but I would say Dark Souls 1 is 'rough around the edges' which I think the most radical Souls autists that have played NG+500 would admit to that at least a little bit. But playing Demons opened my eyes. No, Dark Souls 1 isn't 'rough around the edges' Demons Souls is fucking "ROUGH around the edges."
I hated it. I hate that there's 4 way directional rolling like Dark Souls 1 BUT the invincibility is half of Dark Souls 1. Dark Souls 1 has that issue where when your'e in tunnels or whatever your weapon will hit a wall while the enemy can hit you. That happens a handful of times in 1 and very rarely in 2 and 3. But in Demons, holy fuck.
See that guard rail to the right? That fucking thing can get in the way of your sword. Why? Fucking why?
Also, I accidentally hit Patches. I didn't mean to, I didn't know it was him, you could target him and when you attack him. Fuck you. He's perma aggro'd and you cannot get stronger versions of the Grass in the Nexus. What a fucking cruel design choice. You fuck up one time and that's it. Now go grind in some other area killing enemies for 10-20 minutes for healing items. Fuck you Demons Souls.
INB4 "Boomer Mattei is just a casual fag." I've played the trilogy till at least NG+5-ish? And I use a Strength build and two-hand everything. Suck my nuts, Souls Autists.
I hated it. I hate that there's 4 way directional rolling like Dark Souls 1 BUT the invincibility is half of Dark Souls 1. Dark Souls 1 has that issue where when your'e in tunnels or whatever your weapon will hit a wall while the enemy can hit you. That happens a handful of times in 1 and very rarely in 2 and 3. But in Demons, holy fuck.
See that guard rail to the right? That fucking thing can get in the way of your sword. Why? Fucking why?
Also, I accidentally hit Patches. I didn't mean to, I didn't know it was him, you could target him and when you attack him. Fuck you. He's perma aggro'd and you cannot get stronger versions of the Grass in the Nexus. What a fucking cruel design choice. You fuck up one time and that's it. Now go grind in some other area killing enemies for 10-20 minutes for healing items. Fuck you Demons Souls.
INB4 "Boomer Mattei is just a casual fag." I've played the trilogy till at least NG+5-ish? And I use a Strength build and two-hand everything. Suck my nuts, Souls Autists.
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I really hope you never try to play Alien:Isolation then. You think RE2 Remake is bad then you are in for a treat.
I have actually played Alien: Isolation. I found RE2 remake scarier.
I really want to like Dragon Age: Origins because it's got some fantastic writing and I enjoy talking to the characters. Thing is the combat system is hit and miss for me because it's a giant clusterfuck. Half the time when I lose, I don't even know what happened except things just happened to not go my way. Plus some areas turn into giant slogs, like the climb up the lighthouse early in the game.
The other thing is the whole approval rating system. I like the idea of it because it tackles an issue that crops up in way too many RPGs, namely why would a character keep following you when you actively keep insulting them or doing things they don't like (Mass Effect was really bad in this regard). It's just that I'm a horrible perfectionist when it comes to RPGs, especially on my first playthrough, so I get so neurotic about what choices affect which character. Eventually I realized I didn't like dealing with it so I kinda stopped. Maybe I'll pick it up again when I'm more used to the system.
The other thing is the whole approval rating system. I like the idea of it because it tackles an issue that crops up in way too many RPGs, namely why would a character keep following you when you actively keep insulting them or doing things they don't like (Mass Effect was really bad in this regard). It's just that I'm a horrible perfectionist when it comes to RPGs, especially on my first playthrough, so I get so neurotic about what choices affect which character. Eventually I realized I didn't like dealing with it so I kinda stopped. Maybe I'll pick it up again when I'm more used to the system.
I wanted to like wolfenstien 2 and the game itself isn't all bad (aside the whole bj is in a wheelchair with almost no health in the beginning) it's more the toxic culture that formed around the game. As soon as the first trailer evoked the maga slogan I knew people would be politicize the game to no end. And it never stopped right up until it finally launched.
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Corrected that post. Even AFTER the game launched, the "fanbase" that formed continued their equation of MAGA with Nazis.
I wanted to like Big Pharma because I like conveyor belt and optimization games. But the game just never feels challenging and the economy feels backwards - supply driven rather than demand driven and it made the game so boring
Dragon Age Inquisition was the first game and Christmas present I ever returned. Only Cole is good.
Much as I love Obsidian, The Outer Worlds is really fucking weak. Maybe I had the wrong expectations going into the game; I expected something akin to New Vegas in Space. What I got was more like an older Bioware game made on a shoestring budget. The main storyline is alright. The companions were all interesting but other than Black Minigun Woman I didn't find any of their personal questlines to be very fun or rewarding. You just do two, maybe three things and they're done. Simple as that. A lot of the game feels like that, the scale feels too small and the story seems too short. Also the final mission of the main story is broken as fuck and I hate it.
Much as I love Obsidian, The Outer Worlds is really fucking weak. Maybe I had the wrong expectations going into the game; I expected something akin to New Vegas in Space. What I got was more like an older Bioware game made on a shoestring budget. The main storyline is alright. The companions were all interesting but other than Black Minigun Woman I didn't find any of their personal questlines to be very fun or rewarding. You just do two, maybe three things and they're done. Simple as that. A lot of the game feels like that, the scale feels too small and the story seems too short. Also the final mission of the main story is broken as fuck and I hate it.
Dwarf Fortress. I mean, I thought I should like it because I have a soft spot for indie life simulators. Yet I can't quite get into the nitty gritty of running a city. I eventually decided it's not the game, it's me.
Could be explained by the fact I prefer character-based life sims over city-based ones.
Could be explained by the fact I prefer character-based life sims over city-based ones.
Titanfall 2. It's too fast and chaotic and gets to the point where everything's a blur and I don't even know what happened when a match is over.
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Alien Isolation is 'stressful' because you appear to be controlling a walking fridge. Ripleys an absolute arse to control on console and it kills the entire game for me.
Also Nier Automata; wanted to enjoy it, but the combat bored the piss out of me and I couldn't even bring myself to finish the first level if the whole game was like that.
Everyone was gushing about how awesome "Bioshock" was back in 2007(?) when it first came out. Nobody would shut up about it and so I decided to ask for it for Christmas. So I played it and after I got past the Medical Pavilion level I was bored to tears and frustrated because the difficulty, especially on hard mode, felt utterly unfair and uninteresting most of the time. That gun that ripped enemies like tissue in the Pavilion? Well tough shit, it only tickles them now. So many times I would shoot an enemy only to do little to no damage and I would be the one caught with my pants down despite the fact that I had the upper hand. Even on paper, the idea of scaled health makes no sense in a first person shooter because you already have to line up your shots and strafe.
Everyone was also gushing about how the scenery was amazing and spooky and how the world was so immersive, but as a science geek back in the day, and this game was toted as being all scientific and stuff, there were a lot of things that killed my suspension of disbelief. We still don't have the technology to make even a small living space under the ocean because pressure built up can make even the strongest glass shatter and this game takes place in the 1940's... got it. Even worse is the reproduction implication and the sheer insanity and deficiencies that would arise from living in the dark ocean (which surprisingly enough wasn't the main reason why Rapture went to hell in the first place) would already cause a downfall some time or another in probably a decade or less. Even graphically the game failed to impress me. Everything looked exactly the same throughout. Same unnecessarily dark corridors, same dark ocean shading, same color pallet, sameness all around. This also made traversing levels difficult because there was never any iconic area or place that I could memorize so constantly I had no idea where the hell I was.
Did I mention the game was boring? Throughout I'd be utterly bored because either nothing was happening in the story or there weren't any characters that broke the monotony of having to listen to a guy on a walkie-talkie tell me what to do. I did however really enjoy Sander Cohen's presence. Fort Frolic was probably my favorite area because you got a sense of the culture Rapture had and the 1940's signage and advertising really added a lot to the game. After that, it's back to the same old shit with greys and browns and nothing happens in the story up until you meet Andrew Ryan.
Everyone was also gushing about how the scenery was amazing and spooky and how the world was so immersive, but as a science geek back in the day, and this game was toted as being all scientific and stuff, there were a lot of things that killed my suspension of disbelief. We still don't have the technology to make even a small living space under the ocean because pressure built up can make even the strongest glass shatter and this game takes place in the 1940's... got it. Even worse is the reproduction implication and the sheer insanity and deficiencies that would arise from living in the dark ocean (which surprisingly enough wasn't the main reason why Rapture went to hell in the first place) would already cause a downfall some time or another in probably a decade or less. Even graphically the game failed to impress me. Everything looked exactly the same throughout. Same unnecessarily dark corridors, same dark ocean shading, same color pallet, sameness all around. This also made traversing levels difficult because there was never any iconic area or place that I could memorize so constantly I had no idea where the hell I was.
Did I mention the game was boring? Throughout I'd be utterly bored because either nothing was happening in the story or there weren't any characters that broke the monotony of having to listen to a guy on a walkie-talkie tell me what to do. I did however really enjoy Sander Cohen's presence. Fort Frolic was probably my favorite area because you got a sense of the culture Rapture had and the 1940's signage and advertising really added a lot to the game. After that, it's back to the same old shit with greys and browns and nothing happens in the story up until you meet Andrew Ryan.
Red Dead Redemption 2 I'm sorry to say.
There are aspects of the game that I do love, the world design is second to none, it's one of the best open world maps ever, the characters are interesting, Arthur Morgan is an interesting protagonist.
But the story just drags, it just goes on and on and on and just meanders, the first RDR had the conceit of you tracking down your former partners in crime, which gave the story a good propulsive element, 2 lacks that and it suffers greatly for it, it's not even that much of a story, more of a "series of things that happen" type deal, which considering just how absurdly long the game is wears thin by the end.
I don't hate the game, but I can't quite bring myself to love it, Rockstar had all the pieces but weren't able to quite make it gel into a great whole.
There are aspects of the game that I do love, the world design is second to none, it's one of the best open world maps ever, the characters are interesting, Arthur Morgan is an interesting protagonist.
But the story just drags, it just goes on and on and on and just meanders, the first RDR had the conceit of you tracking down your former partners in crime, which gave the story a good propulsive element, 2 lacks that and it suffers greatly for it, it's not even that much of a story, more of a "series of things that happen" type deal, which considering just how absurdly long the game is wears thin by the end.
I don't hate the game, but I can't quite bring myself to love it, Rockstar had all the pieces but weren't able to quite make it gel into a great whole.
The Last Of Us. The story did nothing for me, I'm more of a gameplay guy than a story guy which might be a contributing factor to my game experience. I felt more impact from Detroit: Become Human than The Last Of Us which has worse writing according to most game critics. The gameplay was pretty similar to Uncharted from what I remember but I hated the narrative. The guy and a kid/girl character alone is a narrative I just can't get attached too. I've seen it too many times. I know the game has won multiple awards and heard it was really good but just couldn't get into it. Heard the sequel was the exact opposite though.
Really, really tried to get into Witcher 3. I really did. Tried it once, no dice. Installed it again months later and got further this time, that Bloody Baron sidequest i found very well written and pumped me up for what was yet to come, but i just couldnt get the interface, the mechanics... Might've been me not having the patience to learn them, might've been that i'm a dumbass, but i gave up shortly after that Ciri flashback where you fight a werewolf, i think.
Story wasn't exactly compelling me, either. Liked Geralt enough, but didn't get far enough to get invested in Yennefer or Ciri, found the bloody baron guy more intriguing in his short run lol
Still want to like it, in a way. I can see why people love it, but i guess it's just not for me.
Story wasn't exactly compelling me, either. Liked Geralt enough, but didn't get far enough to get invested in Yennefer or Ciri, found the bloody baron guy more intriguing in his short run lol
Still want to like it, in a way. I can see why people love it, but i guess it's just not for me.
Final Fantasy 8: Spoony was right about a number of problems this game had, not to mention that I wanted to smack Selphie across the head. Though I will admit that it got my younger self to no longer find the cowboy look silly and could look good.
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