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What's a game that got critically and player acclaimed that you disliked anyway? (hexbear.net)

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This is a followup to @[email protected] 's recent thread for completeness' sake.

I'll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre... in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of "doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book" puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.

So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry Ulysses lol.

Never liked Armored Core, it's not a Mech game to me. Its an FPS arcade shooter with robot skins. Giant robots should not be zoomy-ass evengelion ballerinas engaging in sword combat. They should be unweildy tanks that casually stroll thru one-story buildings and fart artillery.

My first stompy robot game was Mechwarrior 3, and that's set my expectation of the genre ever since.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never liked Armored Core, it's not a Mech game to me.

That's totally fine.

Its an FPS arcade shooter with robot skins.

I was a big Virtual-On enjoyer as a kid so that sounds like a good time to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_82ovMh3fA

Giant robots should not be zoomy-ass evengelion ballerinas engaging in sword combat. They should be unweildy tanks that casually stroll thru one-story buildings and fart artillery.

I was also a big MechWarrior 2 enjoyer so I know what you're getting at and I like that too for different reasons.

My first stompy robot game was Mechwarrior 3

I just said MechWarrior 2. I'm turning to dust. meemaw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mechwarrior 2 was dope as hell. I had a computer teacher in middleschool who had MW2 set up on the school's lab. Used to stay after school like a nsrd to get my ass kicked in videogames and listen to him explain battletech lore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked the later games but MechWarrior 2's music stayed with me. It was trippy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehxoQBF-wG0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pyre Light's bass drop is still burnt into my subconscious nearly 30 years on

Edit: Have some serotonin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3jf3zAOyw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first mech warrior game didn't have a number. It ran on 2 floppies. Sigh. Just you wait, youngin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Crescent Hawks' Inception hours, who up? meemaw