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Okay let me start with two heavy hitters right from the get go and don't forget these are only personal oppinions and I absolute understand if you like those games. Good for you!

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.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just like Zelda not a bad game, but imho highly overrated. Graphics and and atmosphere are amazing but the controls are clunky and overloaded, nearly everybody is an unlikable douchebag who I would love to shoot myself at the first opportunity (maybe except Jack and Abigail) but I have to root and care for them. The game is just so long and feels very stretched, you already know that you won't get Dutch because it's a prequel and for an open world game you often get handholded in your weapon selection or things you can do because you have to wait for them to be unlocked by the game. I'm now nearly done with the game, playing the epilogue at the moment and I would say the last chapters are more entertaining than the rest of the game, but I still can't understand why this game was on so many game of the year lists and I really wanted to put the controller down a dozen times.

So there they are, two highly controversial oppinions by me and now I'm really curios what your takes are and how highly I get downvoted into oblivion ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] debil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Last of Us, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, RDR.

I did finish one of the Uncharted series but they mostly go into interactive movies genre which I don't find that interesting. The same with LoU but lost interest and never finished. AC (maybe II) was just annoying, the blending, erratic climbing/jumping mechanics... RDR, I should give them a chance, but the wild west setup inherently doesn't do much for me. The same can be said about the "samurai style" games like Nioh, Sekiro etc. And I say that as a huge Souls games fan.

[โ€“] 1simpletailer@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

God I hate the "Interactive Movie" genre. Uncharted, Last of Us, God of War. Pretty much most of Sony's exclusives. They're all the same boring 3rd person mechanics, and uncultured "gamers" will go off about how "amazing" the story is because they haven't read a book since high school and only watch blockbusters. If you're not going to do anything interesting with the game mechanics or add any actual interactivity to the story then whats the fucking point of making it a game? They just seem like a refuge for hack screenwriters that couldn't make it in film and lazy game devs who are out of ideas.

[โ€“] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Sekiro: shadows die twice

I love Japan. I love Samurai, and old times. Fired up the game and found out it has some dark souls mechanic bullshit, that makes it a grinder.

I am an adult. With very limited time for games. I have to have quick saves I can't be grinding shit. I simply don't have the time nor the desire waste time grinding.

Really sucks because the game looks gorgeous and I liked the start of the story...

[โ€“] Xariphon@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Legend of Dragoon. The game where a main character dies and is immediately replaced with an off brand of himself, and that includes a boss rush mid game that is unavoidable and punishes you for trying to use the game's signature mechanic.

[โ€“] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

The Trails series (Trails in the Sky and Cold Steel).

Some of the worst villains ever, and you're constantly getting blue balled. The series keeps introducing new characters, that don't matter, and just drag things out for hundreds and hundreds of hours.

Zero and Azure are great though, until they connect back to the main story at the end.

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 ๐Ÿคฃ (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.

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[โ€“] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't care how good the story is, 13 Sentinels gameplay looking like a cheap sci-fi movie interface thing just takes me out of the experience, I also don't like tower defense style games and this is the only thing you will do in-between story beats. I was extremely letdown to get this after the first teasers instead of a mecha vs kaiju brawler.

Then some months later it comes out that localizers were also changing things too far, now I have another reason to not finish it.

[โ€“] CoconutKnight@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Not sure if this even a beloved game, but Assassins Creed Unity. The setting has so much potential but the story feels so slow and I find it boring, the controls took some frustrating time to get used to and Paris is just not a very visually compelling place to be at. I used to love AC2 but Unity... idk

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