Final Fantasy 7. I’ve tried to play it multiple times, but the game’s story never pulled me in. And with how long of a trek it is between story moments and the slog of combat encounters I usually put the game down.
Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that’d do it.
I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.
I’ll pile on and say there’s no way I’d enjoy it now but my younger self totally agrees.
I think the thing to remember about games from that era is that we had so fewer options and so much more time on our hands. Feels like I ditch games much quicker now if they’re a slog or repetitive.
The other two are obviously good, but seriously try Captain of Industry! Nothing like watching your mining operations slowly but surely terraform the face of your island lol
I mean it’s actually fair and it’s not the game’s fault.
Hell I bet if we dug into a deeper it turns out to be age gap as much as anything else.
When I grew up, video game consoles were hard for the sake of being hard because the games didn’t have enough storage and ram to be that long. Back then I hated dragon’s lair because it was so f****** pretty and I really wanted to play it so bad, but it was just a coin eater and I was too young to have disposable income
I moved into first person shooters around the time of Quake. I was decently skilled but not amazing, but I was making enough money that I could afford a really nice rig and a really fast connection. Slowly FPS started turning into military combat which I really didn’t care for.
Many years later I got into mmorpgs, I spent thousands of hours playing in guilds, running raids, and grinding equipment. I still hated the same things but didn’t really focus much on them because the only thing I did was MMO.
Years later I start a family, now I hate anything that’s not casual. If I can’t pick it up play it for 30-40 minutes and put it away it’s going to do nothing for me that cost me pain.
I mean games are pretty homogenized anymore. There’s strong trends and bandwagons giving rise to new genres and subgenres everywhere. The OP asked for games but I don’t think there’s a problem replying with genres.
The last of us was a boring shooter with unlikable characters who continually did things i wouldn’t do so i couldn’t invest myself in their story. The gameplay didn’t save it.
What I find most interesting about the game is experiencing the characters stories and their reasoning for their actions. The gameplay is fine enough to keep it interesting for me.
I want to go back to RDR2 but I’m not a fan of how slow moving the intro is and I don’t want to do loads of bullshit before having fun.
For my answer.
Super Mario Bros Wonder… I’m playing through it now. It’s a bit shit. They’ve definitely tried some stuff here which isn’t bad but very little is landing for me. I don’t like the new kingdom, I don’t like the map experience or aesthetic and I dislike some of the level building.
When I played Mario Maker 2 I saw the reason behind the success for the franchise in that there was a secret sauce to how a level is made and it is apparently missing from a lot of these. On top of that the castle battles are fairly lackluster with no sign of Bowser.
I’ll finish it but it’s miles behind the previous entries, all of them I think
I had fun playing Wonder, but it was just really easy with the exception of the bonus world. Another case of dumbing down in the name of “accessibility”.
Breathe of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are at the top of that list for me. The “old” style Zelda games are objectively better in terms of pacing and exploration. And I absolutely hate the weapon durability system in the better ones. I’ve read their reasoning behind it, but they’re wrong. It sucks and makes the game more about hoarding the good weapons and avoiding combat whenever possible, which is boring as shit.
I never really got into 3D Zelda (but had some fun with most of them) and Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom are a absolute low for me mostly because of the ugly as hell art. Both games have the worst cell shader look I have seen in a very long time and it makes both games unplayable for me. I get kind of sea sick playing them (I tried at a friend’s place who loves both games).
I hate that I cannot follow the quests and progress in the story without looking up how to. If your world wasn’t built for a player to figure out by talking to NPCs, you built a crappy world.
I really think the weapon durbility system is a mindset problem. It’s the same problem with any rpg where at the end of the game you have hundreds of unused potions “just in case”. Don’t get me wrong, it is still on the designers to change a players mindset about items.
But I found myself enjoying BotW and TotK waaaay more when I switched to: “I don’t care about my weapons, everything is expendable”
I swear every game now is about punishing the gamer. I just want to feel immersed in it and possibly feel powerful depending on the story. I am already punished enough with real life.
I wouldn’t mind a little clarification, because I was interested in this game, but I’m skeptical about it.
It sounds like it’s actually kind of frustratingly not fun - the way a precision platformer is? But then you go on to say the streamer rage quit because it’s too easy? I’m just a little confused but maybe I’m misreading.
I hope it’s not one of these ridiculously punishing games, if it is I’ll just flipper myself right past it.
Any of the Paper Mario or Super Mario RPG games. Maybe I’m not the target audience, but I’ve often felt that without the Mario name they would be considered mediocre.
Alongside this, basically every 3D Sonic game. I feel that Sonic has become a thing for furries, and that the 3D games just don’t really seem to get what a Sonic game should be. Frontiers was somewhat decent in the open world aspect, but its constant reliance on the homing dash just highlights how buggy those games are.
Undertale is a decent enough game, I guess, but whenever I think about it, I think about all the crazies that call themselves fans of it. It’s exhausting just thinking about it.
For Honor got me interested, but it made a few very bad choices. Magnet hands and slow attacks meant that you could react to attacks, and never had to worry about whiffing. It’s so dull to have basically no concept of interesting movement play in a game about fighting.
For Honor was once my favorite game. As players got better the design of the game tried to account for it and the game went from a slow paced, gritty fighter to a very fast paced beat em up, focusing less on mind games and skill and more about getting the right combos and abusing safe attacks.
I still come back and play every now and then but it’s very arcady compared to when it first came out.
I tried to get into that game so many times but it was such a bloody slog!!! I’ve since found Torchlight I & II scratched that simple dungeony-DnD-ish itch.
I love the idea of bar but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to play seriously. The learning curve is just massive and there’s not enough time in the world among my other hobbies. Instead I’m getting my mechanized battles and explosions kick from mechabellum. 😁
Bar is what I call a lifestyle game. It’s the hobby to take over all your hobby time
Huh, never considered it a lifestyle game. I’ve played games previously like Eve online that I just couldn’t keep up with so I understand what you mean. I only really have played like one match a day with the rest of the time it’s videos in the background catching me up on the mechanics while I do other hobbies or chores around the house. I get your point though and I’m probably underplaying the importance of the time I’m dedicating to learning everything about it. I suppose it’s a double edge sword, more varied units means more types of strategies that can be implemented which is something I’m loving about this game but at the detriment of the learning curve being more intense for late game play.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Not a bad game per se, but I don’t get the hype behind it. Sure the dungeons are fun but the world is so lifeless, the story non existent, the combat pretty shallow, the tower climbing is very much like FarCry but for some reasons it’s okay here while Ubisoft gets the blame…like I said I dont get why the game is so beloved. Never finished it after the 20 hour mark and probably never will.
Maybe you are missing, or ignoring the context that this was like the big jump from conventional Zelda to… Well BOTW.
I don’t consider myself a Zelda guy, but I have played several games, and I find BOTW a very good open world, yeah, it might feel empty, but at the same time it feels like you can do lots of things, kinda like making your own adventure, so I guess it needs commitment from the user side.
That aspect made me understand the context of the game and I have been having a lot of fun with it, if you see something you must likely can interact with it, or has a meaning.
This is very impressive for a Wii U/Switch game if you ask me, and also I feel like if I don’t play BOTW before Tears of The Kingdom I would never go back to try it 🤣 (that is why I’m paying it).
My only real issue with it is that its soundtrack on the field is so dull, some people like it and say that it is to be ambient or subtle, but screw that, give me my epic tracks! I need something that moves my feet lol, there must be a reason why many RPGs (which are with us before open world games and provide a lengthy experience) have catchy tracks.
Breathe of the Wild is a great tech demo, but a terrible game… I feel like a total boomer playing Ship of Harkinian… but… sadly 3D Zelda has a worse fucking track record than 3D Sonic…
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