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Games that took you too long to realize they suck.
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QuantumZebra
Member
So true. If there was ever a game company/series I have been a "fanboy" of, it was Final Fantasy. I really hope FFXVI redeems them. They seem to be getting it back together w/ FFXIV.
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cyber_ninja
Member
Oblivion
Assassins Creed
Resident Evil 6
Assassins Creed
Resident Evil 6
Aside from the Ni No Kuni game.
What the last generation (XBO, PS4) opened my eyes to is what I think a lot of this thread is touching on but not exploring. We are of a generation where we are not the targeted audience anymore, probably everyone is over the age of 25. I see a lot of sequels in the hate list, and rightfully so. What I realized is that I hate, HATE, any game that has moved on from me.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Mass Effect: Adnromeda
MGS: 4, 5
Assassin's Creed III and newer
Final Fantasy XV (and most likely XVI because SE cant help themselves)
TLOU 2
Baldur's Gate 3 (not sure yet on this one but I am struggling to enjoy it, not a good sign)
Are all generation-ally a departure from the audience we were when the previous games came out. Now the studios are pandering to the next generation that, in a majority, doesn't think like us or have the same mores as us culturally. Now we latch on to games that bring back that feeling of they-get-me in their presentation.
Witcher 3
God of War (PS4)
Cyberpunk 2077
Mass Effect 1
Dragon Age: Origins ( i still play this)
Final Fantasy 7 (PS1 1997)
Planescape Torment
I am sure that if people were to look at the games they hate and love they would see this gap in lost identity. Where sequels pumped out every 2 years or generation began to become more detached for us identifying with them. It is as though every 5, 10 years or so the studios dump us as used goods and court the newest 18 year old hotness that has just become of legal age. I wish I could better articulate this in a more academic a-ha type of description. I just feel that my taste as I have gotten older have changed and what I enjoy now is becoming more and more rare of a breed of game.
What the last generation (XBO, PS4) opened my eyes to is what I think a lot of this thread is touching on but not exploring. We are of a generation where we are not the targeted audience anymore, probably everyone is over the age of 25. I see a lot of sequels in the hate list, and rightfully so. What I realized is that I hate, HATE, any game that has moved on from me.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Mass Effect: Adnromeda
MGS: 4, 5
Assassin's Creed III and newer
Final Fantasy XV (and most likely XVI because SE cant help themselves)
TLOU 2
Baldur's Gate 3 (not sure yet on this one but I am struggling to enjoy it, not a good sign)
Are all generation-ally a departure from the audience we were when the previous games came out. Now the studios are pandering to the next generation that, in a majority, doesn't think like us or have the same mores as us culturally. Now we latch on to games that bring back that feeling of they-get-me in their presentation.
Witcher 3
God of War (PS4)
Cyberpunk 2077
Mass Effect 1
Dragon Age: Origins ( i still play this)
Final Fantasy 7 (PS1 1997)
Planescape Torment
I am sure that if people were to look at the games they hate and love they would see this gap in lost identity. Where sequels pumped out every 2 years or generation began to become more detached for us identifying with them. It is as though every 5, 10 years or so the studios dump us as used goods and court the newest 18 year old hotness that has just become of legal age. I wish I could better articulate this in a more academic a-ha type of description. I just feel that my taste as I have gotten older have changed and what I enjoy now is becoming more and more rare of a breed of game.
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Hugare
Member
I've just deleted Days Gone from my console for the 5h time
I've tried so hard to like it but couldnt get past the first 3h of the game
Boooring game, holy fuck. 3h in and I was still getting tutorial messages for simple shit, and nothing moved storywise.
Bought a PS4 Pro so I thought "maybe with improved graphics I can move past that section where I always drop the game"
Nope, so mindless boring that I couldnt
I've tried so hard to like it but couldnt get past the first 3h of the game
Boooring game, holy fuck. 3h in and I was still getting tutorial messages for simple shit, and nothing moved storywise.
Bought a PS4 Pro so I thought "maybe with improved graphics I can move past that section where I always drop the game"
Nope, so mindless boring that I couldnt
RDR 2. Arguably the most beautiful game of its generation, amazingly detailed world... but the controls are flat out awful. Fun was sacrificed for a more 'realistic' approach. Riding horses isn't even fun because it's so easy to get knocked off. It's great at simulating real life, but as a game, it was a crawl.
Prey was a worthy follow up. Shame about the story though.
Saint Boot
Banned
first few areas in that game were actually really fun, but it quickly got tiresome. Not even Patrick Stewarts cool voice could make me stick around for it.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
Did you try with Gyro aiming? I haven't played it yet at all.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Fallout 4 for me. I was so excited to play a new Fallout game that I overlooked all of the flaws, mundane story, and uninteresting characters until I was a good 15-20 hours in. I realized I was bored and forcing myself to play.
I was able to salvage much of the gameplay with mods in a last ditch attempt to finish it, but I play Fallout games for the story and NPCS as I do the gameplay, and you can't fix the former with mods.
I was able to salvage much of the gameplay with mods in a last ditch attempt to finish it, but I play Fallout games for the story and NPCS as I do the gameplay, and you can't fix the former with mods.
Hugare
Member
Gameplay is ok, great even. Shooting feels good, easy to do headshots.
But the first 3h are a bore. It tries to make you feel comfortable with the gameplay loop (destroy a nest, take out a bandit camp and etc.) but without no meaningful context. It already feels like work 3h in.
It's like a Far Cry game, you know? Mediocre storytelling with gameplay loop repeating at ad eternum
The Hamburglar
Banned
Rdr2 fucking boring. Sold it at chapter 3. Good job I wasn’t a mug and bought it digitally.
Valhalla - again boring but got it for free
Valhalla - again boring but got it for free
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
GTA 3.
Yeah, I know. Really, really tried to like it for a full week. But I never got any fun from it, not one bit.
Not trying to be edgy here, the game just didn’t click no matter how hard I tried.
Yeah, I know. Really, really tried to like it for a full week. But I never got any fun from it, not one bit.
Not trying to be edgy here, the game just didn’t click no matter how hard I tried.
Cyberpunkd
Member
BlackProdigy
Member
Final Fantasy XV
VictorVectors
Member
A) Pump the breaks there, backwards dracula.
B) I'm STILL having a hard time wrapping my head around how not good the Outer Worlds was. Just weird that they had everything in place for lightning in a bottle and couldn't make it happen...
VictorVectors
Member
OK... but why? In the PS3 days, it was almost untouchable in gameplay.
royox
Member
Final Fantasy XV. During all the game I wasn't paying attention to all the plot holes cause I was 100% everything would be explained near the end with an amazing plot twist....then the game ended and I felt stupid for losing 40 hours of my life in that incomplete piece of shit of a game. And then they announced dlcs and Multiplayer and a Royal Edition to put more salt on the wound. Fuck this game.
TLZ
Banned
Buying into someone else's hype? Or fomo?
Eron
Banned
It seemed great at first but the more I went on the more I realized it was an unfinished game. With lots of rough edges and bad game design choices.
S
Sidney Prescott
Unconfirmed Member
I don't think it sucks necessarily (It was a good time at first) but I felt like my time could be spent better elsewhere after hundreds of hours on Destiny. It just felt like I was a hamster running on a wheel after a while. Replaying the same content over and over again, and I was not having fun anymore.
Sleepwalker
Member
alucard0712_rus
Member
I'm also wondering this. Maybe because it's not open-world game? I've had almost zero interest to explore the map because it felt small, claustrophobic even.
Captain Toad
Banned
Take the top 50 games of all-time. Pretty much all of them have been listed here as games that suck. Y'all dumb.
just_some_nut
Member
Ffxv. Kept waiting for a story to begin and then it was over. The 'hold the attack button to win' combat really kept me going
I recognized RDR2 as being bad almost immediately
Old_and_Slow
Member
The beauty of opinions. Makes for healthy debate.
Brumfieldhm
Member
Death stranding was such a hollow experience it hurt me to get thru the whole thing.
You are quite literally doing the same fetch quest over and over and over and over, always ending in the exact same room.
This should have been a prototype for a more thought out gameplay experience.
You are quite literally doing the same fetch quest over and over and over and over, always ending in the exact same room.
This should have been a prototype for a more thought out gameplay experience.
