Comment on Is there a game that you've been very patient for, which turned out to be dissappointing when you finally started playing it?

Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I recently replayed that game after 10+ years. I think I could count the number of difficult jumps that required more than two attempts on one hand. The game is like $1-2 on a sale and you can beat it in 3 or 4 hours. I thought it was fun, but I could see how it would be disappointing if your expectations were higher than minimal.

  Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst was much better IMO. Actual story. Decent characters. Free roam. Side quests.

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ME has some cool first few levels, and then it barely evolves from that.

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  • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah initially it felt really cool, but got old really fast. It just felt like doing the same thing over and over again.

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• lordriffington@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What made me quit Mirror’s Edge was the combat. I was in it for the parkour; I didn’t really like the combat and kept being forced to fight people. Because of that, I didn’t get far enough in the game to get sick of the mechanics.

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  • spartanatreyu@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was in it for the parkour; I didn’t really like the combat and kept being forced to fight people.

    Part of the charm of the game was to make its combat unwieldy to push people into parkour-ing past/out of each encounter. The whole game was made so that you could finish it without ever picking up a gun.

    It sounds like you didn’t get far enough to learn this.

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well… the game is designed so that

    1. Combat is optional

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    2. Combat is so hard you’re more likely to do the parkour thing that you’re supposed to be doing anyways.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree, ME wasn’t for me either.

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