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CH3DD4R_G0BL1N, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works avatar

Deep Rock Galactic.

Yeah I said it.

I wanted to like it, but the gun play was underwhelming and gameplay kind of boring.

Worst of all was the progression. Upgrades were tiered in ways that made 1 a clear best choice. Perks were uninteresting passives or actives with bizarre activation requirements. No way to upgrade flares or pickaxes. And I’m not a guy that cares about cosmetics, so it just didn’t work for me.

I’m happy for everyone else that got a GOAT experience though.

SendMePhotos,

For rock… And… Stone… ⛏️🥹

GreenAlex,
@GreenAlex@kbin.social avatar

This one hurts deep. But to each their own ofc.

astral_avocado,

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  • Marly_Sorcha,
    @Marly_Sorcha@lemmy.world avatar

    I think it depends on how you upgrade it though, slight time increase, colors just for the fun of it, range on how far you throw. None of that Crosses over with the flare gun too much.

    Delta_V,

    that and any other single player game with a multi player option, where the single player part is clearly balanced around having multiple teammates.

    BravoVictor,
    @BravoVictor@programming.dev avatar

    My IrL table top group will meet online to game every now and then. Half of us really dig DRG, the other half do not. You are certainly not alone.

    I only ever play it in a group, and even then after 4 missions I’m a bit over it. It’s just such a lonely slog solo…

    That said, I really like the dumb cosmetics, goofy built in antics, and group play.

    Zahille7,

    Giving a hearty “Skal” with a mug of beer in your hand, while kicking barrels through the hoop is pretty fun, ngl.

    Poik,
    @Poik@pawb.social avatar

    Definitely disagree with the clear best choice one. Our group regularly switches things around. Of course to each their own.

    Konraddo, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    This is controversial for sure. But I dislike all kinds of games that focus on driving or racing or flying a plane. I don’t know but driving a vehicle like you do in real life is kind of stupid for a game idea? I want to do things that I can’t do IRL, like murdering a bunch of bad guys, or building a village, things like that. Also casting magic spells is better than shooting a gun, so I don’t really get FPS games.

    BURN,

    Racing games for the most part are because it is something I can’t do irl. There’s no way I’m going to get to be one of 12 drivers running the brand new Prototype race cars, but I sure can get almost as close in a racing simulator.

    B0NK3RS,
    @B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

    They are all just ways to “do things I can’t in real life” though. I have no interest in murdering people but I enjoy driving and 18 wheeler across Europe or flying all around the world.

    Miphera, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    As a huge SoulsBorne fan, Elden Ring.

    I was really excited for “open world dark souls”, but I feel like this turned out to be a bad combination. The difficulty is all over the place, so you fight enemies that are really strong (which is fine), but then other areas become completely trivial as a result.

    And with how many bosses they put into the game, the quality of each individual fight suffered immensely imo. I think the bosses in previous games were just a lot better designed (on average, there are of course stinkers in Souls games and good ones in Elden Ring).

    There’s also a ton of gank bosses, which is just lazy. You could use the summons, of course, and it almost feels like a lot of the difficulty was designed around players having that extra strength, but at the same time, the enemy AI and movesets are designed around fighting a single person, so it breaks the combat.

    All around, it was just a huge disappointment for me personally, and I uninstalled it right after I beat it, whereas I have hundreds of hours in DS3.

    ZombiFrancis,

    Fromsoft had to fix a security vulnerability in all their games that got advertised in the final months before release. All Fromsoft games went offline for like a year and it really short circuited how Elden Ring got finished.

    Souls games are particularly crafted series of levels. That kind of gameplay has to either be condensed in between stretches of empty, or spread out thinly over a large area.

    Elden Ring has some condensed areas with good classic Souls level feel, but they’re often quite short. There is also a lot of very empty areas with little to no significance. A lot of the game feels like placeholder content that had cancelled plans.

    zaphod, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    Absolutely agree on Red Dead Redemption 2. Another point considering it’s an open world game it plays extremely linearly and sometimes in missions it tells you that you can’t leave a certain area for no reason.

    dantheclamman,
    @dantheclamman@lemmy.world avatar

    I really enjoyed it, and will return to it. But I put it down because it felt like doing chores. I will try again and try to focus on the scenery and story, which I do like a lot

    jesta, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    • GTA 3 ->
    • Fallout 3 ->
    • Skyrim
    • Souls series and most games like it
    • Halo
    Neato, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    @Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

    Skyrim. I dislike most everything about this game. It’s not a “bad” game as in it doesn’t work and it’s not exploitative, I just think it’s quite average.

    Combat is pathetically simple. There are some interesting support spells but by and large magic is either bolt spamming, beam spell, or you summon golems. Melee is even worse just having basic and strong attacks. This is exemplified by the meme that you can make your character however you want…as long as it’s a stealth archer. But even then the Stealth Archer gameplay is pitiful. Archery has the same boring attacks as melee and stealth is just watching a little icon.

    The story is garbage. Besides a few side quests, the main campaign is just awful.

    The open world is pretty decent, but is waaaaay too small and jam-packed. Skyrim is supposed to be a remote nordic province. But Skyrim does a terrible job at having places feel remote and like wilderness. Every time you turn a corner in a mountain pass there’s another cottage or bandit tower, etc. It feels like a theme park whose theme is nordic wilderness.

    The progression is mostly boring. The skill tree is almost entirely passive bonuses. Do X% more damage, Attacks have a chance to do bleeding, increased range, etc. Very few skill trees have an effect on what you can do; just how well you do it.

    Again, Skyrim isn’t a terrible game. It’s competent at what it does, but not good at it. The only caveat is that there weren’t many open world RPGs before Skyrim that were as large or became as popular. Plenty of games who did every aspect of Skyrim better; but I struggle to find one that did them all at the same time. /rant

    weeahnn,
    @weeahnn@lemmy.world avatar

    The open world is pretty decent, but is waaaaay too small and jam-packed. Skyrim is supposed to be a remote nordic province. But Skyrim does a terrible job at having places feel remote and like wilderness. Every time you turn a corner in a mountain pass there’s another cottage or bandit tower, etc. It feels like a theme park whose theme is nordic wilderness.

    That’s exactly the reason why I like the game. That and how moddable it is lol

    Adulated_Aspersion,

    Skyrim came out on 11/11/2011.

    When did you play it?

    Neato,
    @Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

    Release.

    rikudou,
    @rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

    Well, the last release I know of is from 2022. You gotta expect people judging it by 2022 standards, many people will pick it up for the first time.

    cloudless,
    @cloudless@feddit.uk avatar

    The things that you dislike about Skyrim are the things that I enjoy.

    I like the simple combat. I couldn’t get into most other action RPGs because of complex combo/quick reflex based combat.

    The open world size is perfect for me. I love finding new attractions everywhere.

    Krudler,

    Thank you, this is a truly mediocre game at best, and no amount of modding is going to change that.

    It wasn’t good from launch day and it has never improved.

    Omegamanthethird,
    @Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

    I loved that game when it first came out. I tried starting a new character and realized I had already done everything of interest.

    Hyperreality,

    Combat is pathetically simple.

    That's what I like about it.

    Mod the shit out of it, create an incredibly overpowered character, cut through a dungeon while drinking a cup of tea or eating a sandwich.

    callouscomic, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    Third-person is objectively superior to first-person.

    tiredofsametab,

    I have the exact opposite opinion, heh. Sniper elite drove me crazy when I'd carefully line up a shot and be just too far inside cover and shoot a wall I couldn't see because my freaking character was in the way

    Dark_Arc,
    @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

    Ah yes, I love nothing more than to have my screen obstructed by none other than … ME!?! I was the villain all along!?

    slurpeesoforion, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    Team Fortress 2. Too different in contrast with TFC, which I feel like I played for ten years straight.

    B0NK3RS, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    @B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

    In general anything with crafting and/or excessive loot. I find it very boring and especially when a game is advertised as “survival” when in reality it is just a crafting game with no real threat.

    midnight,
    @midnight@kbin.social avatar

    I agree in general, although I think Subnautica is still great despite being heavily crafting based.

    B0NK3RS,
    @B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

    Subnautica is almost an outlier to the rule but the ocean triggers a phobia so I can’t play it. The Long Dark is probably the best example of a survival game with crafting that I do really like.

    Rai,

    Maaaan I looove crafting and survival games and HATED The Long Dark hahaha.

    VindictiveJudge,
    @VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

    That trend of shoving crafting into literally everything for a while was really irritating. Even with the great big empty MMO world, Dragon Age Inquisition would have been much more fun if I didn’t spend a good half hour after every expedition looking through the giant mountain of crafting-based loot I inevitably acquired.

    Dark_Arc,
    @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

    Yeah, crafting for Gotham Knights made the game considerably worse. It added basically nothing over procedurally generated or designed loot.

    It’s not like Gotham Knights was ever going to be a game where you really need that level of min-maxing.

    Omegamanthethird, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    @Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

    Uncharted. Dislike might be a strong word. But I don’t particularly like them.

    The story is serviceable. Fine if you gameplay is great.

    The fighting mechanics are serviceable. Fine if the story is great.

    The climbing and puzzle mechanics are annoying. It constantly feels like you’re not doing what the game wants you to do, even if it should work.

    The characters/character interactions are the highlight of the game. But it’s not enough to make the game great.

    cloudless,
    @cloudless@feddit.uk avatar

    Uncharted made me feel like being the protagonist of a movie (something like Indiana Jones). The production value was much higher than other games at the time.

    Omegamanthethird,
    @Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

    To be honest I got that more from the old Tomb Raider games. To me, Uncharted was like if Indiana Jones got superpowers.

    Dariusmiles2123, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    I was also disappointed by red dead redemption 2.

    The universe is great but why would I feel bad about bandits not being able to be bandits anymore!? Still there is a lot of potential in that wild west universe.

    GTA5. I loved the 4th one but not really liked the 5th one. I guess I can’t understand why you have to be a bad guy in these games and I’m getting too old for that.

    Assassin’s Creed after the second one. The plot lost me and I don’t think there is a plot anymore.

    MGSV. I loved the first 4 MGS and hated that one as it had no good story…

    grayhaze,
    @grayhaze@lemmy.world avatar

    You can’t understand why you need to be a bad guy in a game called Grand Theft Auto, where the main focus of the series is stealing cars and building a criminal empire?

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    To be fair, in many of the GTA games, you’re not a bad guy. Sure, you break the law; but in almost every instance, the law is super corrupt anyway and you almost always end up working for said corrupt cops at some point because they have you by the balls.

    Vice City is the only one I can’t really find any justification for the protagonists actions other than greed; and that one’s story is basically Scarface where you’re playing as Tony Montana.

    snooggums,
    @snooggums@kbin.social avatar

    To be fair, in many of the GTA games, you’re not a bad guy.

    I've played Vice City, 4 and 5 and every one of them started out with the main character(s) being a bad guy who is just a little less evil than the people around them, but still willing to kill to get what they want.

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    4: Niko grew up as a child soldier and has basically been under the thumb of mob bosses his whole life. It’s also the ONLY game where you actually have choices in many cases to not kill someone as part of his revenge story (he wants to find and kill the man who sold out his unit in some war and got all his friends killed).

    5: Franklin used to be a car thief, and has since gone straight as a repo man. His dumbass friends, along with Micheal and Trevor, get him caught up in all sorts of bullshit he doesn’t necessarily want to do, but doesn’t really have much choice. Micheal is also an ex-criminal trying to go straight, but having a much harder time at it than Franklin. His hot headedness is what got them into major trouble prior to Trevor’s arrival. Trevor is not only a bad guy and a psychopath, he could be considered the main villain of the game. Most of the plot revolves around Micheal trying to hide the truth from Trevor, because he knows Trevor is a fucking maniac and will possibly kill him and his entire family because he sold him out to the cops when they were bank robbers and Micheal wanted out of that life.

    San Andreas: CJ is an ex-gang member who comes home to attend the funeral of his mother who was recently murdered. Things start out with him simply wanting to bring the killer to justice, and gets swept up in more gang violence, police corruption and even government conspiracies.

    They’re as much bad guys as John Wick or John McClane or Arnold Schwartznegger in pretty much any of his 80’s and 90’s action films.

    snooggums,
    @snooggums@kbin.social avatar

    Being an ex criminal who is trying to reform after armed robberies, but still committing new crimes, is still being a bad guy. Choosing not to kill people doesn't make someone not a bad guy when they still continue to commit crimes as part of the game.

    Painting the targets of their crimes as worse doesn't make them not bad people.

    Dariusmiles2123,

    I also said that I might be getting too old and be looking for too much sense in games😅

    For instance I now feel bad if I try to kill an innocent pedestrian in cyberpunk 2077 when I didn’t mind killing them for fun when GTAIV was new.

    trslim,

    I totally agree with MGS5. I just could not get in to the game, I barely felt like I was playing an MGS game. It felt like Ghost Recon or some Ubisoft collectathon game, with just such a lackluster story.

    Dariusmiles2123,

    Now, in my head, I’m trying not to think about that game at all when I’m thinking about the MGS saga but it kind of ruined it.

    RogueBanana, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    Visual novels. I haven’t tried many but as a fan of steins gate series, I didn’t find the visual novel fun. Maybe because they were so outdated or because I already know the story but when I played it, I was thinking it would be more fun to just watch as media or watch someone else play while I have my lunch.

    memo,
    @memo@feddit.it avatar

    It makes sense, but I highly suggest to try and see visual novels as reading material with mixed media (e.g. music). Many are very mid, but some do excel: Higurashi and Umineko are a great example of that.

    Couldbealeotard, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world avatar

    The Tomb Raider remake series.

    At their best, the originals were about a hyper-competent adventurer who always had a plan and was unapologetically confident. She was like Xena and Indiana Jones combined.

    It was already a pretty tired cliche at the time to make a gritty origin story when the first game came out. We got an uncertain, untrained, and unprepared Lara with a whimpering attitude.

    By the third game they tried to act on the feedback about this, but instead of something closer to the original, she became Rambo, covering herself in mud, hiding in the shadows, stealth killing hordes of enemy soldiers.

    I think the Uncharted series did what Tomb Raider remake series should have done.

    technomad,

    The enemy ai in those games was so bad that i couldn’t get into them. Especially after coming off of playing the last of us. That game ruined a lot of other games for me. Lol

    Nipah, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
    @Nipah@kbin.social avatar

    For games that are in genres that I'd actually play:

    Final Fantasy 6 (3): I grew up with the NES, and when we got a SNES I got whatever games I could from the $20 bin at Toys R Us. I had some friends who were a bit better off that loaned me some games, and I eventually managed to get my hands on a copy of Chrono Trigger (as well as other RPGs like Breath of Fire), but when I borrowed FFIII from one of them I was just... underwhelmed. I didn't really care for the characters, it felt pretty slow initially, and I remember getting to a bit with a bunch of moogles in the party and I just put it down and never went back.

    I've since tried to play it a few times here and there, but it never really manages to hook me... but people sing the praises of it high and low and I just don't really get it because I can't get over the hump.

    The Witcher 1/2/3: I just really don't like the combat, honestly. I've tried playing all three, and managed to get enough time into them to appreciate the good bits (voice acting, story, quest lines) but the main meat and potatoes for me in a game are exploration and combat, and only one of those really works for me in those games. I had a better time in the first game, all things considered, because I guess I was willing to allow a bit of jankiness from an older game, but I bounced off Witcher 2 pretty quickly combat-wise, and didn't manage to get more than many 1/3 to 1/2 way through Witcher 3 before I just admitted that I wasn't having fun.

    Persona 3: I got into the games with P4G on my Vita, so part of this is 'going backwards is hard' in terms of QoL improvements and what not. But I also played the PSP port of Persona 2 (whichever one was actually ported in English) and had a good time (not so much with the PS1 version of the one that didn't get the English PSP port... that one was rough) so I guess its just the game didn't resonate with me as much as the other ones did... Maybe it was the characters or maybe it was the cuts that were made for the P3P version of the game, but it just didn't hit the same.

    Otherwise, a lot of military-style FPS games (stuff like Halo or Destiny or Timesplitters or even Goldeneye 64 are/were fun), the more recent sports titles (up to the Dreamcast/PS2 I was fine with them, but more realism doesn't do anything for me), and stuff like MOBA or visual novels or 'walking sims' or battle royale or whatever those asynchronous horror games just don't tick the boxes for me in terms of what I want from a video game.

    cloudless,
    @cloudless@feddit.uk avatar

    FF6 is my favourite JRPG of all time. I like it more than Chrono Trigger. I loved the characters and the soundtrack.

    frickineh,

    Ugh I feel the same way about The Witcher. I tried 2 and 3 and just couldn’t get into it. The combat was not enjoyable and it felt really clunky to me. I actually tried 2 a couple of times because everyone raved and I thought maybe I was just missing something, but it wasn’t for me.

    tigeruppercut,

    I’m with you on FF6. The leveling system for abilities was interesting (but slow), but there were too many characters. The previous one on SNES (called 2 in the west but I think it’s 4?) had a better balance with number of characters to story.

    tiredofsametab,

    FF6 is still my favorite.

    AnonTwo, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?

    First person games

    I think Portal is the only one I'm fine with, probably because there's not as much action. First person puts me on edge and not in a way that I really appreciate. I also really like to be able to see the character in general.

    To that end I also don't really like horror games, but I don't think that's as divisive an opinion.

    dumpsterlid,

    I’m the opposite, I just don’t stay immersed in third person games, I despise third person peeking in multiplayer games, and I find it disorienting and claustrophobic when going into buildings or confined spaces in third person. I also just can’t walk up close to something in 3rd person and look at it in detail which I like to do.

    Different strokes for different folks…

    tiredofsametab,

    Heh, exact opposite for me; I hate 3rd person games and feel frustrated most.of the time (sniper elite comes to mind)

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