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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by avater@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Okay let me start with two heavy hitters right from the get go and don't forget these are only personal oppinions and I absolute understand if you like those games. Good for you!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Not a bad game per se, but I don't get the hype behind it. Sure the dungeons are fun but the world is so lifeless, the story non existent, the combat pretty shallow, the tower climbing is very much like FarCry but for some reasons it's okay here while Ubisoft gets the blame...like I said I dont get why the game is so beloved. Never finished it after the 20 hour mark and probably never will.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just like Zelda not a bad game, but imho highly overrated. Graphics and and atmosphere are amazing but the controls are clunky and overloaded, nearly everybody is an unlikable douchebag who I would love to shoot myself at the first opportunity (maybe except Jack and Abigail) but I have to root and care for them. The game is just so long and feels very stretched, you already know that you won't get Dutch because it's a prequel and for an open world game you often get handholded in your weapon selection or things you can do because you have to wait for them to be unlocked by the game. I'm now nearly done with the game, playing the epilogue at the moment and I would say the last chapters are more entertaining than the rest of the game, but I still can't understand why this game was on so many game of the year lists and I really wanted to put the controller down a dozen times.

So there they are, two highly controversial oppinions by me and now I'm really curios what your takes are and how highly I get downvoted into oblivion 😂

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[-] goombakid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Ocarina of Time. It's one of the few Zelda games that I just didn't enjoy. I've had a lot more fun playing Twilight Princess and Wind Waker more than Ocarina. I'd play Adventure of Link more than Ocarina.

Skyrim. Mostly all the RPGs like that. Never understood the hype. I did try to like it, but it wasn't fun for me at all.

[-] Sabin10@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

OOT is ok but most people that played wind waker or twilight princess first will have a hard time getting into it. Most 5th gen games have aged pretty poorly and need a solid dose of nostalgia to fully enjoy.

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[-] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Final Fantasy 7. I've tried to play it multiple times, but the game's story never pulled me in. And with how long of a trek it is between story moments and the slog of combat encounters I usually put the game down.

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Any of the Paper Mario or Super Mario RPG games. Maybe I'm not the target audience, but I've often felt that without the Mario name they would be considered mediocre.

Alongside this, basically every 3D Sonic game. I feel that Sonic has become a thing for furries, and that the 3D games just don't really seem to get what a Sonic game should be. Frontiers was somewhat decent in the open world aspect, but its constant reliance on the homing dash just highlights how buggy those games are.

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Legend of Dragoon. The game where a main character dies and is immediately replaced with an off brand of himself, and that includes a boss rush mid game that is unavoidable and punishes you for trying to use the game's signature mechanic.

[-] Konraddo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is controversial for sure. But I dislike all kinds of games that focus on driving or racing or flying a plane. I don't know but driving a vehicle like you do in real life is kind of stupid for a game idea? I want to do things that I can't do IRL, like murdering a bunch of bad guys, or building a village, things like that. Also casting magic spells is better than shooting a gun, so I don't really get FPS games.

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[-] seliaste 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nier Automata, I thought it was a bad pretentious story with a bad gameplay
The music is good tho

[-] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Same exact experience

[-] cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I liked it a lot, but the story is definitely hit or miss. Gameplay was not as deep as other Platinum games, but still ok

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[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The Tomb Raider remake series.

At their best, the originals were about a hyper-competent adventurer who always had a plan and was unapologetically confident. She was like Xena and Indiana Jones combined.

It was already a pretty tired cliche at the time to make a gritty origin story when the first game came out. We got an uncertain, untrained, and unprepared Lara with a whimpering attitude.

By the third game they tried to act on the feedback about this, but instead of something closer to the original, she became Rambo, covering herself in mud, hiding in the shadows, stealth killing hordes of enemy soldiers.

I think the Uncharted series did what Tomb Raider remake series should have done.

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[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Visual novels. I haven't tried many but as a fan of steins gate series, I didn't find the visual novel fun. Maybe because they were so outdated or because I already know the story but when I played it, I was thinking it would be more fun to just watch as media or watch someone else play while I have my lunch.

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[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

minecraft and games like minecraft. i just dont get whats supposed to be fun about them. i dont hate minecraft specifically its a well made game, but i dont find it and others like it fun at all

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I liken Minecraft to "Digital Lego". That's how I 'got it'.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

It's funny...I bounced right off Minecraft but I like games like Satisfactory and Factorio.

A lot of people play Minecraft as an outlet for creativity; it has an end game with a final boss and a victory condition, but most people don't even try to "win" Minecraft, they want to build cool things. Well between my electronics bench, my wood shop, my 3D printer and my various creative, design and programming software suites, I already build a lot of cool stuff, so that itch is already scratched.

Those factory building games come with a clearly stated goal: "You've crash landed on an alien planet with a hammer and a pistol with 100 shots. Build a rocket." I'll spend months of my life building a gigantic complex of individual factories connected by an intricate rail network to accomplish that goal. I've heard this kind of thing described as "problem solving gameplay" rather than "puzzle solving gameplay."

As you say I don't hate Minecraft, I'm often awed and inspired at the things people have built in it, but it's not for me.

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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would also choose Zelda: BOTW and RDR2.

Zelda: BOTW is a soulless Ubisoft game clone shamelessly inhabiting the dead shell of the Legend of Zelda franchise. It contains little to nothing that makes the Legend of Zelda games what they are. Gone are fascinating cities and towns, no colorful cast of characters, no real dungeons or temples, no progression system so the entire game is just 50 hours of the game exact same copy-pasted things over and over and over with no change in difficulty or approach. It’s like the first Zelda game in history without a memorable score, in fact there’s hardly any music in it at all. Theres no plot to speak of. It introduced some novel systems, and they deserve credit for that, but it’s just not a Legend of Zelda game at all.

RDR2 is a bland on-rails march from shooting gallery to shooting gallery, with an incredibly lifelike and immersive world that… doesn’t really give you anything to do. And what it does give you, there’s no reason to do. The game revolves around your camp and allies but the camp hardly serves any purpose. You can’t customize it in any significant way, keeping everyone happy and supplied does very little besides reduce the amount of audible complaining. And the game shoves so much money in your hands from the word go, that you never have a reason to do any money making activities, and it upends the plot of the whole game “We just need a bit more money” Dutch says as I have $10,000 stashed in my saddlebags. Everyone seems to love Arthur as a character but he’s just such a bland, indecisive milquetoast guy who doesn’t hold his own opinion on anything. He doesn’t have any personality to speak of until the last third of the game, and then they expect you to have an emotional reaction to him by the end. John was hands down a better protagonist and it’s not close.

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[-] Lolors17@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hogwarts Legacy: To be fair it is a big Openworld but it doesn't catch me. The Story is kind of lame the voice sounds a little bit too Much like a crappy TTS. I tried to finish it but I always stop after like 30minutes played.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt I dislike that the Openworld is like a movie. You don't need to think where you want to go, you just follow the little dots on your minimap until your are there. Its so utterly boring. I love the souls franchise, you see an NPC, walk up to her talk to her and write the important things down on your Notepad. To be fair, Wircher 3 looks absolutely beautiful after the recent patch.

Edit: I really really dislike Fortnite. Its highly overrated and it isn't even original.

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

I also couldn't get into the witcher 3, I think it had been over hyped to me. I found the combat a bit clunky and the story didn't grab me. I got as far as the undead foetus mission with the baron, and sort of never came back to it

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