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submitted 1 month ago by trslim@pawb.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

I'll give my example and I think I'm going to get a lot of hate for it. I DESPISE Dark Souls 3. It is such a mediocre game when it comes to the actual gameplay. There is like zero build diversity, the combat isn't indepth and, while the other souls games have at least decent RPG mechanics and exploration can make things easier, DS3 just demands you rolly polly your way to victory. There is no weight to like anything, you feel so floaty and light, and you fold like a peice of paper when you get hit. And so many attacks don't care about your positioning, and instead only if you mashed the dodge button at the correct time, something Elden Ring kind of does too, but it adds a jump button to retain some offense and I find that I'm able to out position bosses and enemies more often in it without actually dodging.

Dark Souls 3 is such a mindnumbingly boring game for me, I feel zero excitement playing it.

Love DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and Elden Ring though, great games all around.

And the music for DS3 is amazing and I do love the Pontiff Sullivan fight.

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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 25 points 1 month ago

Ghost of Tsushima is touted by some as a "game of the decade" candidate when in reality it's just a somewhat more polished Ubisoft open world game, that's also highly monotonous and repetitive for its very long playthrough length.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I had been told to just play Sekiero or one of the AC remasters.

[-] trslim@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

YES thats what I thought whenever someone tried to get me to play it!

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

So you didn’t play it at all?

[-] prole 3 points 1 month ago

So you agree, emphatically, that a game that you've never even played is overrated?

Huh. Ok.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

If only there was a different medium through which you could see what a game plays like without actually playing.

Since it doesn't exist, I think I'll name the concept a "video" - you know, like a "video game" except you're not playing, so you strip out the "game" part. I think someone could get obscenely rich if they created a platform where these "videos" could be shared.

[-] prole 1 points 1 month ago

"YES, I also hate that game I never played!"

[-] trslim@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, I've watched gameplay of it, watched friends play it and it doesn't look appealing to me. It looks like Assassins Creed with somewhat better combat.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I have to agree with this. The game is gorgeous and I enjoy the general setting and plot but I absolutely loath the navigation system that just about everyone and their pet turtle says is amazing and I thought it went on for too long. By the end of the main story (and having done most of the side stuff alobg the way) I was so done with it I didn't even bother touching the DLC.

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