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A game so amazing it spoils others games
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RespectThySole
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The Witcher 3. Several months passed before I really enjoyed anything else. I had to lower my expectations.
Bayonetta did this as well.
Bayonetta did this as well.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
Man, no rpg even comes close to this games combat.
And I didnt even show the magic yet...................
MAX PAYMENT
Member
The witcher.
And definitely not last of us.
And definitely not last of us.
TriangularDuck
Member
And everything else is pretty bad (especially right now with the new Crucible matchmaking) so I'm stuck playing this game that makes me mad all the time.
Fuck Destiny.
Neoleo2143
Member
For as much criticism I give it, Fire Emblem Awakening's UI kinda destroys most SRPGs.
Planescape: Torment has made it hard to play other games honestly, RPGs especially. Never have I felt so invested in a game's story, the superior writing featured elevated the overall quality of the game to the next level. Characters felt more fleshed out and interesting than in other games, the dialogue options were extremely rich and rewarding, the overall narrative felt incredibly compelling, and the atmosphere was so well defined that I became completely immersed in the world of Sigil. Witcher 3 and Sunless Sea are the only things I've played since I beat Planescape in 2014, that have scratched that same itch. And still, they fall short of what Planescape delivered through pretty much it's writing alone. Story can drive a game alone, that's what Planescape taught me, and I am very appreciative of that fact.
I had the opposite effect.....xenoblade only made me want to go play old school JRPGs.
Witcher 3 fucking ruined every open world game out there.
LegendofLex
Member
Yeah. I can tell FFT is a great game and I'm glad I'm finally trying it, but I'm so spoiled by the FE:A UX that I don't know if I'll ever get through it.
HoodWinked
Gold Member
titanfall movement and traversal did this at the time
other fps games just felt slow as fuck and tank like but other games pretty much followed suit just like every true infinity ward game tends to do.
other fps games just felt slow as fuck and tank like but other games pretty much followed suit just like every true infinity ward game tends to do.
PaulExcellent
Member
Life is Strange.
Haven't really resonated with any other game since.
Haven't really resonated with any other game since.
El-Pistolero
Member
SpiceMelange
Member
Monster Hunter ruined combat satisfaction for any other action rpg, save perhaps the souls games (but they still aren't in quite the same league as MH)
actually, this is a great answer. I had this with Dead Space 2 actually. Changed A LOT from the first game, but I still felt it was a more competent game. First Dead Space is still great tho
roadrunn3r
Member
After Dark Souls I can't play driving games anymore.
Am I doing this right? 
Pretty much this. I played Bloodborne DLC right before TW3 and the combat felt horrible. Like, really horrible. Never went back to it after that.
But no other games inmerse me like the Souls games. They've ruined everything else for me. I'm pretty much obsessed with them.
This. The game is perfection, there is no racer that even comes close to it in how good it is.
Super Metroid as well for the genre it's in for exploration.
Bayonetta games for the action, though at least Platinum is getting a lot of work so we can get the itch scratched in other games.
BouncyFrag
Member
Mass Effect 2 made other third person shooters dull with the wide variety of powers and classes it has. This considerably hurt the Uncharted games for me which I didn't play until late last gen.
JetBlackPanda
Member
Last few years Destiny.
Currently The Division beta has me on my knees.
Currently The Division beta has me on my knees.
You don't like Generations as much? Loved the Day stages of Unleashed to death, and found Modern Sonic in Generations to be just as fun.
reelbigtink
Member
I've been a huge Nintendo fan since I was a little kid but then Bloodborne came along and now that's the only kind of experience I want
Randy Monk
Member
Story : Planescape Torment
Combat : Bloodborne
T&A : DOA
Combat : Bloodborne
T&A : DOA
Monty Mole
Member
Unravel. All other 2D platformers look a bit shit now, Ori aside. What a beauty.
Lys Skygge
Member
Agreed with TLoU. It reignighted my love for video games while at the same time I found myself comparing every game after to it. I've learned to accept that most games aren't TLoU. Playing Tomb Raider 2013 after was a laughable experience.
Also, The Witcher 3 has ruined open world gaming for me by raising the bar so damn high.
Edit - I will add that Bloodborne nearly spoiled Witcher 3 for me. Going from Bloodbornes perfect combat to W3 took awhile to get over. In the end I feel like I mastered W3s combat and I actually enjoy it now
Huelen sometimes you still manage to amaze me.
Primethius
Banned
The Last of Us: Pretty much my standard for narrative driven and TPS games.
The Souls series and Dragons Dogma: Raised my standards for combat in RPGs far beyond the typical trash you usually see.
Persona 4: The perfect JRPG for me in a lot of ways.
The Souls series and Dragons Dogma: Raised my standards for combat in RPGs far beyond the typical trash you usually see.
Persona 4: The perfect JRPG for me in a lot of ways.
snickothemule
Member
Dark Souls. I became engrossed with the lore and spent so long exploring everything I could to try and understand everything. As a result, everything else became uninteresting.
OPs example of comparing Witcher 3 to TR seems like trying to compare a game of type X with a game of type Y (Unless the new Tomb Raider is really that much different than the first game). Takes me back to when Witcher 3 came out and the OT was full of people complaining about how it wasn't playing as smoothly as Bloodborne, and it's kinda mindblowing how many people say things like, "Souls games totally ruined [insert game that isn't even in the same genre as Souls games]".
With that being said, Witcher 3 has definitely raised the bar for what I expect from an open world RPG going forward.
With that being said, Witcher 3 has definitely raised the bar for what I expect from an open world RPG going forward.
I know very few agree, but GTA IV + Episodes really got me through a lot. I even can appreciate the fact that games like Vanquish and Max Payne 3, hell even Red Dead had better gunplay by a mile. That GTA V offers a much more expansive open world and so much more freedom. It ruined driving for me in any other open world title. I love the heaviness.
But nothing hit me like GTA IV. It's to the point now that I'll load it up on the 360 just to drive around even with a gigantic backlog. The last game that captivated me like that in any fashion was Hitman Blood Money. Yakuza 2 ruined a lot of open hubs for me because it felt so dense and so alive. But GTA IV, I never put down.
But nothing hit me like GTA IV. It's to the point now that I'll load it up on the 360 just to drive around even with a gigantic backlog. The last game that captivated me like that in any fashion was Hitman Blood Money. Yakuza 2 ruined a lot of open hubs for me because it felt so dense and so alive. But GTA IV, I never put down.
ctrl+f "vanquish" and nothing
Not that I was a huge fan of shooters before, but vanquish made me realize why I wasn't a big fan, and angry that no one else would do it right. For a while I was hoping that Titanfall or CoD:AW would reach for those heights, but they didn't even come close.
Not that I was a huge fan of shooters before, but vanquish made me realize why I wasn't a big fan, and angry that no one else would do it right. For a while I was hoping that Titanfall or CoD:AW would reach for those heights, but they didn't even come close.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Killer Instinct has sort of ruined other fighters for me too.
Every other fighter now just seems a bit slow and cumbersome in comparison.
Every other fighter now just seems a bit slow and cumbersome in comparison.
It was hard to play Witcher 3 and that gameplay when I could just boot up my Bloodborne digital copy any time.
That's what ended up happening every time I tried playing TW3 so I sent it back to Gamefly and kept playing Bloodborne.
Sadly I think Resident Evil 6 is the closest thing to it.
That's what ended up happening every time I tried playing TW3 so I sent it back to Gamefly and kept playing Bloodborne.
Sadly I think Resident Evil 6 is the closest thing to it.