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Tears of the Kingdom took like 3 years of dev time to add a mechanic that fits a zelda game horribly, while fixing none of the flaws of Breath of The Wild.. and the mechanic they added is extremely frustrating and takes forever to use even if it's interesting

Bioshock Infinite is one of the worst games I've ever played in comparison to how well it was received. The gameplay was shit. The enemies are all bullet sponges. The plot is about how Ken Levine doesn't understand the sci-fi concept of parallel universes at all and when slaves violently rebel they are as bad as the people who enslaved them. You can upgrade your weapons but you will use whichever one happens to be nearby since ammo is so scarce except when Elizabeth magically manifests some to throw to you. Songbird is a creature that screams WE WILL HAVE A BIG BOSS FIGHT and it never comes. It's awful.

i don't like any of the soulsbourne series
the controls felt godawful on both mouse and keyboard and controller
and i like hard games too, so it's a shame

Horizon Zero Dawn. Might be a good game series but It didnt catch me. Im also sure I enjoyed the Last of Us more as a show then as a game. Then again I have to admit these arent the kinds of games I really enjoy anyways.

Borderlands. It’s just peak Reddit brain writing tacked onto a looter shooter (yay, thousands of completely identical guns with varying amounts of + 5% crit dmg) and bullet sponge enemies.

RDR 2 is like 3 or 4 great games rolled into one and all negating each other. The story is enjoyable enough with some depth and it's ruined by half of it being told through interactive cutscenes where you have to press W but if you don't magically follow the perfect path it fucks up the pacing.

It has a beautilly crafted open world with mechanics and side-activities, none of which do anything useful for the rest of it or have enough depth to stand on their own and a mission design that straight up fails you if you don't take the 1 path the developers want you to take.

It is a survival game, except set in the big rock candy mountains considering how much loot and money is just laying around.

It's basically The Homer, as a videogame

opening this thread to find my favorite games and getting mad that I found them

Baldur's Gate 3. It's just not a fun game: D&D is mechanically bad and doesn't work at all for a video game that doesn't have a GM on hand to paper over all the serious problems with it, the controls and interface are janky as hell and the camera aggressively fights you, and however much detail they put into it I just couldn't care at all because it's all just bland forgotten realms slop.

Really any David Cage game. The dues a hack, but he gets hyped to hell and back and everybody is so impressed by his games. They always get high scores initially and then just get relegated to mockery after a month or two

God of War. The one where has a son. Boring corridor game with too many upgrades

Dark Souls is too hard for my tastes, as much as I want to just walk around the worlds and see them.

I have 0 interest in BotW, crafting stuff isnt for me. Just lemme find/earn the item.

Street Fighter isn't in my top tier fighting series.

Most point and click/old timey adventure games (like the aforementioned Myst) were boring to me.

The Witcherino 3

I didn't much care for Hollow Knight. I don't think it's bad by any stretch, in fact I can see how it's probably amazing when you like the genre, but I got bored very quickly.

I'm just in this thread to fistfight anyone who dares say Undertale or, god forbid, Outer Wilds.

Doom Eternal. I guess I was expecting more of Doom 2016 but instead it was an abundance of arcade mechanics and parkour.

I also feel like the soundtrack was slightly worse than 2016.

Bethesda games in general. Maybe I will give Morrowind another try eventually (only played like an hour) but my experience with the other ones discourages me greatly. Gameplay is boring, balancing is non existent ( you either steamroll or have to cheese encounters). People always point out the cool quests and lore but they are buried in a mountain of mediocre slop. Aesthetically, apart from Morrowind I find them really dull. I do give them props for the modding support tho, I've started playing the forgotten city and having a blast, and that was originally a Skyrim mod.

Also a link to the past. Maybe it's because it's the most "vanilla" Zelda ever got.

Oh I have OPINIONS.

Undertale is genuinely pretty shit tbh. The humor is okay now and again, the battle system, while I appreciate it trying something different, didn't work for me, and the pseudo-philosophical "u did the thing we designed the game to push you towards doing don't you feel bad u monster lolololol" thing was not remotely as original or deep as people pretended. Genuinely think its just the Homestuck connection that made that game popular. Music is a bop though, can't deny that.

The last 3rd or so of Elden Ring is also shit and I assume all the 10/10 game of the decade reviews never got that far. FromSoft is so far up its own "prepare to die" ass that they forget to make actually fun and fair games anymore.

I thought Breath of the Wild was mid

Also, the grizzled white dude with gun games aren't really my thing. So anything from Rockstar, the Uncharted series, The Last of Us, etc

No shade to anyone that likes them, they just aren't for me. I tend to like over-the-top hammy stuff or baby games.

You dislike Half-Life 2 because it doesn't have regenerating health and superfluous crafting.

I dislike Half-Life 2 because you can't get lost in some giant labyrinth of a level in search for colored keycards.

We are not the same.

I'm also saying Baldur's Gate 3. The writing is juvenile, the combat is a slog, the characters are cliches, it retcons the story and characters of the game it's supposed to be a sequel to, it has possibly a worse UI than the original Baldur's Gate, and the famed reactivity and choice only works if you do things exactly how the developers intended you to do them. Oh, and the music is just forgettable.

Elden Ring. I really tried, but the complete absence of any serious scenario, world building, story or dialogue just made the game completely uninteresting to me. Mind you I never could get into Dark Souls either.

Also here is a link to the thread from Soros you mentioned

Fallout 4. Found the game super uninteresting and it had even more roleplaying mechanics gutted from it like Skyrim before it (didn't like Skyrim either, put about an hour into the game and never picked it up again).

fallout new vegas

not because its bad, but because im bad at it and the mean scorpions always kill me

I like the concept of Doki Doki Literature Club but trying to play it resulted in endless clicking to skip through the text boxes to get something to happen. That video game format is not for me.

Persona 5.

Probably the biggest investment by Atlus in a game; something like 5 years of active development, and nearly 10 separating it from the previous episode; a slew of audacious themes seldom approached by videogames, even less so by JRPGs, at its time, and all that for what? a Persona 3.75 whose writing falls apart before the end of the first arc (making a character say to an antagonist that he treats women like objects after a close-up shot of her jiggly boobs... talk about stupidly tone-deaf, and that's just the beginning), and whose gameplay is now even more dissonant than before from what the game clumsily attempts to say, because it's an imposed marketing constraint and not something thought out to be harmonious... That's a feat. Bravo Hashino.

Couldn't get into Elden Ring. I love Dark Souls and Sekiro, but adding the huge world just made things dull to me. It became too much of a grind rather than a cool experience to have. I don't really understand the hype around it.

I never liked CounterStrike. The entire game is walking into a courtyard and getting shot by someone I didn't even see.

I've never liked Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The writing is incredibly goofy and it's just not as scary as it's hyped up to be. The pacing is dull and the puzzles are just tedious running back and forth. And before it's mentioned it's a game from 2002: it came out a month after the Resident Evil 1 remake, which is a masterpiece to this day. It also came out a year after Silent Hill 2 and the first Fatal Frame, both of which are still very effective at horror.