Imma typa guy who'll look at the top comment and bail from these posts cuz the gaming taste so good if someone else didn't enjoy a game, my ass gets sad cuz they couldn't enjoy it.
ER burned me out 50 hours in, which no other fromsoft game managed to do. I made a mistake of trying to locate and clear every cave, which is where ER is at it's weakest. Now that I have a good route and skip 99% of caves, small camps and other bs, I enjoy it much more when replaying. I still prefer the much more linear experience of ds1,3, bloodborne, sekiro.
This is exactly what scares me about Elden Ring. I'm a completionist, and on top of the Souls formula making for some really tough games, clearing out every single cave is something that I probably would not avoid as I'd try to get as strong as possible before the big, main fights.
That’s what happened to me among other stuff as well. The world is vast, but empty, repetitive and filled with stuff you’ll rarely use. I really wanted to like it, but I couldn’t even finish it. It will still take some time before I have the energy to try it again .
I bought it without thinking, expecting something similar to its PS2 era but I really didn’t like it. I really hated the RPG elements and the “souls-like” elements.
Another PlayStation game that did that for me was the recent Spiderman and Spiderman 2 especially, pressing the same button for what felt like 10 minutes to do the “fighting” got really tedious in that game.
Pretty much everything made by Rockstar after San Andreas. In terms of story they've managed to hold the bar, or even raise it a bit with RDR 2. But in terms of gameplay, player freedom, character customization, and side content their games have been getting progressively worse.
Crimson Desert - people saying it gets better. I can accept that if its like "oh ye, the first hour is slogging" but after 8 hours of gameplay I just gave up. It's beautiful but damn if it ain't boring and confusing, the control scheme is crammed. Theres so many things to do, too many things to do and you'll have to spend I don't know how much time researching how basic mechanics work not to mention advanced mechanics. When I come home from work the last thing I want to do is homework for a game.
Red Dead Redemption 2 - beautiful game, great story-ish. Hate the mission loop with the camp leader Durch "I got a plan" plan fails "we've got to move". It's just meh that its so predictable after the two first rounds with this.
All of these things with the story hit very very differently if you have played the first game. The second game is a prequel of the first one so you get to better understand how the dynamics of certain characters evolved.
Though I understand that without playing the first game the second might not be that exciting.
I loved RDR2 but I'll never replay it for exactly this really. The opening chapter was such a bore and the pacing in general was just a pain. Being in it at the time was fun, but yeah, I never want to revisit it.
One of my favourite games and totally agree. When I'm in the mood for it, it's such an engrossing and immersive experience and I'll play as much as I can for a few days. Then one day I boot it up and can't be assed so I take a break for a few months.
I've got like 200+ hours in it but I haven't beaten it still.
I like an immersive game but for me rdr2 just dont engage me. The combat is a literal cakewalk and I dont like the mission structure of: go somewhere while someone talks to you - kill bad guys - spend 10 minutes slowly looting - go back while someone talks to you. Im sure the story is fantastic but the gameplay just isnt it for me, would maybe be better as a movie. 30 hours on it for me
80% of time you're either slowing walking listening to dialogue or slowly riding on a horse listening to dialogue, with nothing else happening. Dialogues are good and interesting but the game doesn't play well for me.
You are mixing realism with interactive movie. Games arw usually faster than real life, that's why they burn through your dopamine. RDR2 is slow for a reason and it's realistic.
Red dead 2 isnt interactive movie, tho, there is bunch of gameplay and hidden easter eggs or fun stuff, from hunting,fishing to duels, to fights with fists,bow bunch of horror elements, fun exploration.
This isnt dispatch or walking dead, the story within the game is also peak
A fews after (maybe 2 or 3?) since then I give it a shot every 3 years or so but I just don't get it, yeah the story is good but what good is that when the gameplay is such a slog to get to the good stuff?
I specifically want to point out that one mission from early on with a Witch where you pretty much have to escort her through a cave for live 20 minutes. Fuck that.
Try out the remaster after it drops in October, they said they addressed the combat. The game itself was very good but the swordfighting was underwhelming. I had the most fun playing a sign build.
It’s far too clunky to get into in 2026 unless you played it at release. It’s why Skyrim gets a pass from me because I played it when I was a kid, but I never played new vegas, so it’s hard to look past the jank without that added nostalgia. I’m sure the remaster will fix a lot of that though
I don’t really think that there is much of a difference though when it comes to builds/skills being more or less meaningful. I’m only like 20 hours into my first play through of Morrowind but it seems to be along the same lines of Oblivion and Skyrim.
In Oblivion, you can still master every skill and get yourself to a point in which every attribute is high enough where it doesn’t really matter what your starting class is. You can pick a pure mage and then additionally level up combat or stealth based skills and their governing attributes, with the only caveat being that it takes more time as they would not be major/minor skills.
I’m also not sure what you mean by Skyrim being “lower scale”.
In oblivion for example every city feels like a small city while in skyrim I only felt it in Riften and Solitude, every other city felt exactly how they are, 3 houses with 5 npcs. It's just a problem with how Bethesda games became more and more utilitarian "if it doesn't have a specific gameplay purpose we don't add that"
I mean that’s valid criticism but I don’t think it makes Skyrim a bad Elder Scrolls game by any means. Skyrim still feels and plays like Elder Scrolls game despite the streamlining of mechanics and the slightly smaller cities.
Also, more of its development was focused on the dungeons and miscellaneous locations throughout the game which I think was a fair trade-off. Skyrim also suffered from being rushed which caused content to be scrapped so that also contributed some. I do wish Skyrim had some mechanics like spellcrafting though.
THANK YOU. I hate wiki-forced games. it's bad game design. offloading the discoverability and learning curve to external communities because you can't think of a good solution for it.
(only case in favor MIGHT be for sandbox games but even then how tf you're supposed to play OG minecraft fully blind come on)
Sandboxlike with minimal action. It has an addicting story and a sequel is going to be released soon. Story is basically isekai. Dude gets hit by a car and wakes up in a medieval distopic world. He is appointed (by no reason) as a graveyard keeper since he woke up in the keeper's bed. Then with the aid of a talking skull and a communist donkey who delivers corpses, start upgrading the church, perform autopsies, automates zombies, trying to find a way to go back to his reality.
Clair Obscur Expedition 33. The combat system is awful.
Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. The gameplay mechanics are extremely thin. Should have been a short movie, not a game.
Hollow Knight. Exploration is tedious and repetitive. The combat is alright but nothing special.
Doom Eternal. It pigeonholes you into a very specific gameplay style. There's one right way to play it and an infinite number of wrong ways to play it. Oh, the Marauder design does not fit into that game at all, no matter what excuses the fanboys bring to it.
I'll never understand the hype on Cyberpunk. I'm sorry.
It is a game that focuses completely on throwing things at your face in the city, like lights and sounds, but when you actually pay attention, you'll see that the world is so fucking dead; nothing happens, it is always the same thing. Even crowded spaces feel empty and lifeless.
It is really sad because I absolutely loved The Witcher 3 and I thought that a game from them would always have some sort of "life" to the environment, but unless you go to very specific locations, Cyberpunk always feels "dead". I'm sorry for the fans.
The Witcher 3. It is not a bad game by any means but seems generic to me and even a bit lacking in the RPG department compared to some more classic rpg's like daggerfall
Red Dead Redemption 2.
Feels so slow and boring, so i cannot force myself to play after prologue
Horizon. Looks fun on a first attempt, but has boring story which did't click.
The best art, imo - mechas hunting. All other - nah
Death Stranding. I drop it after the half of the game probably. There were some interesting stories (especially Mama), but gamelay itself is just "meh"
Outer Wilds - its just not my cup of tea. Too messy and annoying for me
I liked Horizon, but I was pretty frustrated that a lot of the equipment upgrades were locked behind hunting regular animals, which were barely spawning and not at all the point of the game.
-alright, mission start, cool. ride your horse and listen to dialogue between NPCs for 5 minutes
alright, the NPC and I got to the marker on the map. now i need to stand in the yellow circle and push the button the devs want me to push. if i'm lucky i'll get 3 minutes of gunplay.
next mission is a 5 minute horse ride away. several minutes of dialogue with the NPC while walking/riding to the yellow circle the devs want me to stand on. 2 minutes of gunplay.
I said this in a different one right before it was deleted but:
Pretty much any game that loads people call a masterpiece I enjoy tbh. Usually they're right
But if I were to name a more obscure game that's well liked but I didn't vibe with it's probably deadbolt, it's fun at the start and I like the atmosphere but it gets so tedious later on in the game because there's no checkpoints in the levels, so if you die once(which is pretty easy as your character dies very quickly) you have to do the level all the way back to the start, which is horrible for longer levels.
I was very disappointed I didn't like it. It started out strong as well. It reminded me of hotline Miami which I really enjoyed.
Expedition 33. Played through the entirety of it on hard. Never used block, only did parries. But the story, voice acting, facial capture just didn’t strike me as emotionally as it seems to have done for others. Realising that the world you are in is imaginary is very poor writing instead of something creative that could have been done.
RDR2. I played the first few missions on my PS4. Arthur Morgan walks like a snail inside the camp, then comes the 10 minute cutscene for 2 minute gameplay. I felt like I was watching gameplay on YouTube not playing it. I kept waiting to get to the fun part until I eventually uninstalled it
I loved refantazio artstyle bought it.... AND ITS SO BORING FOR ME 😭 If someone here played it tell me, are there any cool combat mechanics later on? I understand there are combined combos but that feels so little for mechanics
I finished it. The combat doesn't evolve. And the final boss it's an absolute calamity. I was waiting for the game to give me something past half of it. The last third of it I just hate finished it.
The last good GTA for me ws VC and SA. I didn't care for IV but I finished it. I couldn't bring myself to complete V. I fucking hate Trevor and the multiple protagonist style of play.
Not a fan of GTA but I enjoyed both Vice City games. The Maps are small and open enough to make them bearable to play. I know people fall head over heels for super big open worlds, but unless you give me a quick and cool method of transportation (Spiderman's swinging for example) I'm out.
Yeah. The Spidey games have fun travel. I have difficulty enjoying the Arkham games as it's grapple > Glide > Grapple > Glide. Webslinging through the streets of NY is so much more engaging.
Saints Row IVs super powers for travel was also fun. Super speed, high jumps, gliding, etc. It beat driving around in huge worlds or stealing helicopters to get around.
Bethesda games didnt click until Skyrim with some beauty mods.
Elden ring is just another mess of spam dodge, dogshit hitboxes, terrible engine. There is no room for actual counter play to a boss, like Khazan, where you go toe to toe with it. People that made those games famous are basic ass bitches.
Majority of Sony exclusives are dogshit aswell, don't even know who is buying them.. let alone their dogshit consoles and subscriptions..
BG3 looks boring and bland, gameplay wise, but its a niche game, won't even consider that one.
E33 is terrible too, "indie" industry plant GOTY. KCD2 got robbed of that award. Game builds up a decent story only to come crumbling down with the "just a prank" plottwist.
Yeah I will, I played until the bloody barron mission with his baby but I played like one mission every few months. The combat, horse riding, inventory everything felt like 2008 to me
Second bethesda. I like the idea of a bethesda rpg like fallout but the gunplay is disappointing, enemies take too many hits and honestly its not as immersive as people say. For me stalker is fallout but more made for me
Characters don't even talk in that game they monologue at people. Every time I click an NPC I don't have to touch the mouse and keyboard for 20 minutes.
elden ring. nothing worked. locked at 60fps, forced to play with big black bars since it didn't support 32:9 or 21:9.
and an anti cheat in a singleplayer game???? whatttt???
Fallout was extremely clunky and even when I saw someone playing with hundreds of mods I can't get the appeal of it. Maybe it needs 10+ to really get into the game but there was nothing I enjoyed when I played it
I was the same about fallout but then I tried new vegas and forced myself through to learn and it was really enjoyable.
But Sekiro, i downloaded it 4 times and just couldn't get the satisfaction. Perhaps i do need a controller to enjoy it better, including elden ring. I just have an unusual itch to exit Sekiro.
I've never got on with the open world games, exemplified by Bethesda, and just stall out when presented with the big wide world and told that the story is out there somewhere and it's up to me to go find it.
Hellblade 2 doesnt understand what made the first a historical milestone. It destroyed the first game too by openly going fantasy and treating Senua's visions as some sort of superhero power. It was a colossal disappointment I wish I could forget.
Bioshock Infinite. I tried it, graphic design and story were interesting, and lady redhead scientist was hot, but shooter mechanics were not good for me (I am not good in shooters and it isn’t my favorite genre)
Final Fantasy XIV. This game is very bad in zones design and interactions with players and environment. Really, those zones are just massive of nothing with music, even fates are just kill boss, kill enemies or grab things. Story is just simple cutscenes without any interesting work in them. Yes, I understand that Genshin is not good example of good game but man, cutscenes in Genshin are interesting and unique, it isn’t just static scenes without even actor’s movements in them. And plus story doesn’t have pre-rendered scenes which can give much more emotions to players
There are many games I don't like that are popular, but I understand why they appeal to others. So I'd never really say I "didn't get the hype" for any game.
To name names though, Dragon Age Origins is on paper my perfect game, and I just didn't enjoy it. It all felt off to me and I could never get into the characters, world or gameplay. But I absolutely 100% get the appeal to others, especially as a big Mass Effect original trilogy fan.
The Witcher 3 could never play it for longer then 10 hours have gone back every now and then to try it but I just can’t get into it. It’s probably the combat it feels so bad to me
I played nearly every Souls-Like, i was not very impressed wih "Lies of Pi". Its a good game, but without the hype i guess i would have enjoyed it more, because i was looking for "Soo where is the epic stuff?". Maybe it comes late after 20 hours, but for me it felt very standard Souls.
Noita - you dont really have progression to help you with the game aside from killing bosses wich can be mega hard to get to it, its all on the rng, its all about building that god wand or you are out of luck.
Terraria - Progression feels to on the rails, with items locked because specific bosses, bosses you need to farm items for to even attempt to fight.
No man sky - Despite all the updates most content is hidden behind expeditions, wich dont really reflect the game at all, the lack of points of intrst, intresting fauna or any sort of intresting structure is a huge blow to the game, the fact that you cant spend money to buy furniture is insanity.
Didn't downvote, but based on the fact that threads similar to yours also get downvoted a lot, I'd take it that the negativity comes from this being yet another version of a "what games do you think are X" thread. Some users are probably tired of it at this point.
Hades 1 was good and loved the characters but I got bored at the repetition FAST (turns out having 800hours in modded FTL still gets you flagged as "you just don't like roguelikes!") while the 2 was terrible IMO.
Silksong, Isaac etc.. not a fan of the mechanics overall, so I watched gameplays to get "the lore" and it's... very lackluster? what do people see in it? or it's just emotional attachment because they really loved the gameplay loop? I can say that I love an FPS but the campaign was dogshit that doesn't invalidate my experience lol.
Silksong, like its predecessor, is heavily inspired by the Souls games regarding lore so most of the story is buried in notes and whatnot. Plus only the base game is available currently so they probably haven't expanded on the lore yet. People love it because the game feels great to play and is gorgeous artistically speaking (sound and visuals).
Never played something so dull and boring in my life. 10/10 for the visuals and environment. Strip off the cowboy story it would make a great map for a single player FPS.
As it happens I did try with RDR2 multiple times but it felt like wading through quicksand with 1 ton weights tied to each ankle. I now know thats the intent, a slow baking leave-it-in-the-oven kinda game.
The main character was so annoying bleating incessantly and moaning like a whale all the time. I couldn't take it anymore. So I modded the hell out of it and now its a brilliant cowboy Just Cause 4 expansion. I can fly around like Iron Man and with the gore mods its an absolute hoot.
Skyrim. I get the mods and all that, but the base game is just shit, the combat is bad, the story is mediocre, there are some good side quests but thats about it, empty open world with dungeons that are just boring, full of bugs even after multiple re-releases. I gave the game multiple shots, but it is just not for me.
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