HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Horizon Zero Dawn
I thought this would be right up my alley but I really did not like the protagonist and the fighting and exploring seemed kind of boring.
The Last of Us
This game gets praised all the time but it felt too limited and ‘on rails’ whilst the gunplay and stealth was not for me.
HZD has genuinely some of the best storytelling and worldbuilding in gaming, but the kicker is that you have to play about half the game to get to it and it’s all told in flashback because the actual interesting stuff is what happened to get to this point rather than what’s happening now.
If blasting bits off knockoff Zoids isn’t doing it for you, then you’re going to run out of steam before getting to it.
100% this. I almost dropped it because it took half of the main quest line to do anything interesting. But once I got there I was enamored. My friend and I just played through the game for the first time and we both had the same opinion: the story of what is currently happening is boring. The story of what happened in the past to get to this point is amazing. They did a bad job of making me care about the present day characters.
The Last of Us is definitely about the story. If you’re not invested in that, you’re probably not going to enjoy it. There’s nothing much in the gameplay that sets it apart from similar games.
You seem like a mountain dew game fuel and CoD kind of guy.
Mountain Dew sounds good, but I prefer my multiplayer to be local. Online games are a chore.
I did enjoy the original CoD back in 2003 though.
HZD is unplayable unless you go to the lowest difficulty because essentially the combat is brainless rolling around
I’m so glad I didn’t read about HZD. I got it on sale and saw that it was similar to Assassin’s Creed.
I like the combat (as a person who constantly plays archers). The bows, traps, looting and fighting robot dinos was pretty cool. Figuring out how to take them out and aim at specific weak spots is fun.
The world is still pretty weird and honestly I would have dropped the game after a few hours too if I didn’t like the archery so much. The story as a whole is pretty good after beating it. But the delivery of it all kinda sucks.
Cagi@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 year ago
Lol, I enjoyed the game overall but that really is a perfect description of it’s biggest problem. It could have been so much more if they had been willing to take a risk and make it a little less game-y.