They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Elevator7009@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨patientgamers@sh.itjust.works⁩

Feel free to replace “friends” with “anyone you know in real life” or even online groups you trust or are close with.

“They”:

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don’t run the place.

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chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I hate Mario. The physics of the game sucks.

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RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
There’s a lot of games people recommend me based on cozy things which is good cause I do like them.

Then they get confused when I’m going deep into the Warhammer or the rogue likes/lites cause those are not very cozy.

And I do not like visual novels despite being in the demographic.

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pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dark Souls 2. A coworker gave me a steam code for it after I told him I wasn’t really a big fan of games where you just have to memorize opponent movesets. He said he’d gift it to me if I gave it an honest try, and I did.

And I didn’t like it. Didn’t understand the hype, didn’t have any idea what was going on with me dying and transforming or something, or why there were weird ghosts of other players all over the map. Maybe it makes sense if you know the genre but I didn’t like the gameplay and didn’t get any lore/story, so I ditched it.

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AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Btw everyone check out expedition 33. It’s the only game that should even be considered for goty and it’s not even close. Don’t @ me.

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mohab@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got one! The very first Assassin’s Creed when it came out!

My childhood friend would NOT shut up about it! He would talk over and over again about the lore, show me extended cutscenes, videos, sent me lore theories, it was a whole thing!

Years later I finally get to play it and holy shit, what a disappointment… the entire game is just the same 3 missions over and over again… like no effort into hiding anything… literally the same 3 missions copied and pasted ad nauseum with different enemy names. I’m still shocked he sat through all of this bullshit to get to the awesome lore he went on and on about for weeks.

Bonus story with the same friend: we were talking about Devil May Cry and he said “I wish I could find another game like it…” and I noticed he said “game” and not “games” or “franchise” so I asked “Did you play the sequels? DMC3 is incredible!” and he goes “What sequels? I’m sure it’s only one game…” and I swear I screamed at the realization he’s talking about the reboot DmC: Devil May Cry and had no clue the original franchise even exists 😂 That was right after DMC5 came out too, which’s wild.

I recommended starting with DMC5 because the story isn’t great anyway and DMC1 or even DMC3 may feel a little dated. He ignored my advice because he wanted to experience the story from the beginning, picked up the HD collection, hated both DMC1 and DMC3 because they felt too stiff, and never touched the franchise again.

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- rhel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I agree, but the main problem is the “years later” part of your experience. Assassin’s Creed had many gameplay innovations with (for the time) amazing graphics that shaped certain game mechanics for years to come, but gaming has evolved…
  
  That’s why many of these former “innovations” have lost their shine and sometimes even became annoying (e.g. climbing a tower to unlock parts of the map).
  
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  - mohab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “years later” does not matter in my case because it wasn’t that many years later l—probably only 3 or 4 years after release, and I don’t play western action RPGs or stealth games. I think the first Assassin’s Creed is the only Ubisoft game I played, for example, and it surely did not influence any of the games I actually play: Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101, Hellsinker, or Guilty Gear.
    
    Pretty sure I would’ve had a problem with it on release because it’s shitty repetitive design.
    
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Deus Ex.

I never even owned a legit copy untill it came out on Steam like a decade later.

Kid at middle school just burned it onto a CD-R, gave me a post it note with the install key.

He kept saying this game wasn’t like anything else, it was a ‘roleplaying shooter’.

I just had to provide him the blank CD-R to burn, and I think a brownie, or cookie, at lunch.

So uh yeah, that’s how I originally played ‘the most important videogame of all time’.

Beyond the gameplay and game mechanics, uh, wer are currently now more or less living in a world that more and more resemble’s its canon storyline everyday.

Back in 2001, it was a wild sci-fi/cyberpunk concept for… the entire internet to be routed through a centralized system for surveillance and archiving.

Now that building just exists in Utah and is run by the NSA.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

It was a wild concept for a prototype AI to tell you:

“The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”

“God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.”

“The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.”

“You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.”

So uh, yeah, that’s… basically currently happening, we sure are at least really trying to build AI, and more and more people are falling in love with AI bfs/gfs, tiktok/instagram/social media are the precursor data-mining algorithms that most people these days are addicted to, to feel observed and be judged, more and more people relinquish their cognitive abilities to some kind of ‘AI’ to just do all their thinking, their critical evaluating for them, their judgement formation.

Anyway, 9/10 game, pretty good but kinda janky in spots, lol.

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caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The only one I can currently think of is Gris - and I say that because I can’t recall buying a game that made me want to get my money back.

Gris is very highly rated across the board, so clearly there’s something I’m missing as to why. I enjoy walking sim games every now and then, but it’d be hard for me to even call this one a game. People point to the story as being beautiful and deep, but it felt like nothing new and, for me, a bit trite. There was nothing engaging about this game to me. The worst part? It’s like 3 hours long.

Sorry if whomever reads this really likes Gris. I’m glad you could enjoy it. To me, it’s one of the worst recommendations I’ve ever received.

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- hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Gris is a hard game to recommend because, while it is a game, it doesn’t really do anything particularly unusual for a game. The platforming is passable and there really isn’t a narrative in the sense of the game telling you what is happening. If you go into it expecting a game it will be disappointing or at least just ok.
  
  Instead, if you go into it expecting a visual and audio journey through the emotional prossessing of grief, and growing to move forward, it is incredible. Especially if you happen to play it while working through your own grief.
  
  People who recommend it need to provide a caveat that it is less the game mechanics and more the emotional journey.
  
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- Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It was recommended to me not as a game, but like an interactive movie. As more art than game. Going into it with those expectations is probably why I loved it so much. I can definitely see how someone might get a very different experience with very different expectations.
  
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  - caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I can definitely see that if you’re not expecting it to be a game, it’d be a lot more enjoyable. It’s been a couple of years, so I think all I really knew about it was that it was highly rated and a platformer.
    
    All I can say is that I’m glad I got it on deep sale, as I’d be even more furious if I paid the local price of $20 for this game.
    
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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I agree with you, the game seems mediocre at everything it does (platforming, puzzles, etc.) and there are much better “games as art” out there.
  
  www.gorogoa.com always comes to mind (although it’s definitely a “harder” puzzle game).
  
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- fulg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I have good memories of Gris, but it is a game about grief. It was kind of janky but I was in the right mood for it I guess, having lost someone earlier. I completely agree that it is not for everyone. I enjoyed it but I certainly did not have fun (what a weird thing to say about a game!).
  
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Stray.

Like, it looked cool and the whole concept was great.

It ends up just being a game of “go here get this come back”. Yawn fest.

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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I agree with you, it was too much walking Sim for my liking.
  
  Little Kitty Big City is a much more fun cat game in my opinion. Slight mix of collectathon, platformer, puzzle game that does a good job of making you feel like a cat.
  
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- klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fuck you, meow.
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I mean I still beat it, meow.
    
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- zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you’re yawning, there’s a great bookshelf in a library in the game that you can curl up and take a little nap in. Being a cat was great and made me want less of the rest of the gameplay. ฅ⁠^⁠•⁠ﻌ⁠•⁠^⁠ฅ
  
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muxika@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dark Souls

It’s not for me, honestly. I want to feel freedom from a game, but Souls-like games make me feel trapped.

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- AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Interesting. How far in did you get? I think maybe if you looked up a getting started guide you might be able to assuage that trapped feeling, because Dark Souls and Elden Ring manage to feel like some of the most “free” games in my experience. But there’s definitely a crushing learning curve.
  
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rozodru@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Last of Us.

When the first one came out everyone was ranting and raving over it so I picked it up for my PS3. Granted the beginning of the game was an absolute gut punch and I thought I was hooked, I was not. I found the rest of the game so damn boring. I didn’t like the story, I felt it was forced fed to the player, and honestly I just never bothered finishing it. for me it wasn’t fun.

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- fishos@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  For me is suffered from “show, don’t tell” problems. There are numerous weeks long skips between scenes and you’re just supposed to understand that Joel and Ellie became close during that time. But as a player, you’re basically being asked to babysit someone you’ve known for 10 minutes. It was basically one long escort mission and the “OMG SO AMAZING SCENE” is… giraffes walking by. Like really? That’s what it takes to wow people? Some giraffes walking outside the building???
  
  The world was a generic apocalypse setting, the “story” can be described in a few bullet points, and the big “emotional gut punch” at the end is so cliche.
  
  I’ll die on the hill that it didn’t do a single groundbreaking thing. Nothing about the game wasn’t already done before and better. It’s the equivalent of a summer blockbuster movie: a fun mindless take on an idea but otherwise generic.
  
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Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
KotoR. It doesn’t matter how great the story or characters are if I have to grind terrible gameplay to get to them.

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- iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Upvoting because this fits the thread perfectly, but a little bit of me died inside reading this, you heathen lol ;)
  
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  - commander@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    These days I feel like an outlier saying I love kotor combat. It’s like Disgaea games to me. The joy is watching the animations and building your character to see big damage happen and/or make your character a defensive/health monster. Like on rare occasion I’ll play an ARPG like Victor Vran solely just to mow down monsters at ease. That’s the joy by the end of kotor 2. In the academy just force jump mowing down enemies
    
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  - Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    On the other hand, the graphics can be ASCII if the gameplay and story are good enough.
    
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- mohab@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  OMG, it’s so boring 🫠 I got like halfway through and concluded nothing could make me keep going.
  
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- Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Life’s too short to spend on grinds that aren’t fun. Cheat in a 1-shot-kill gun, and it becomes a good Star Wars movie.
  
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- mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I very much enjoyed both KotOR games, but I agree with you. That’s why whenever I recommend it to my friends I flat-out just tell them to cheat with a save editor to max out your character off the bat. Trivialize the combat so you can enjoy the world and character interactions
  
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HansBambel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Friend of mine who doesn’t play much recommended this poker game called Balatro to me. Damn is it fun. This was well before all the hype around it.

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caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For me it‘s Darkest Dungeon. I just don‘t enjoy „scraping by,“ I like to take care of and connect with my party, and that‘s just not the kinda game it is. It‘s just bleak everywhere, by design and fully intentional; and just not my thing.

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- pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah that game was just too much of a grind for me. I really wanted to like it but there was just something that didn’t catch me about it. Super popular, highly recommended by my friends, just not my bag, baby
  
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I often watch other people play games and they look like a lot of fun but then I buy them and try playing them myself and don’t like them. For example:

Kerbal Space Program

Baldur’s Gate 3

King of Dragon Pass

Subnautica

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- mohab@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Man, this is nearly every mainstream game for me: Fortnite, Minecraft, RDR, GTA, God of War (2018), Horizon Zero Dawn, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Valve’s The Orange Box, Insomnia’s Spiderman, any From Software game except maybe Bloodborne, and I could keep going.
  
  And I’m not saying any of these games are bad, they just never grab me enough to want to beat them or play them for extended periods, so I concluded they’re not for me.
  
  If it’s not for the immense joy I get out of Japanese action games, fighting games, and shmups, I’d probably not touch video games at all.
  
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  - hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I don’t have a term for it but it sounds like you fall into a specific group of gamers. They enjoy gaming but they thrive on the difficulty curve. The curve is the draw no matter what it’s wrapped in.
    
    Fighting games, easy to pick up, unbelievably hard to master.
    
    Shmups: easy to pick up but unbelievably hard to master.
    
    Certain rage games like Bennet Fodey or the Trials series or musical games like DDR which, again, have a crazy difficulty curve.
    
    I’m in the same boat although I do enjoy the other games. They just aren’t nearly as good as people hype them up to be if not outright bad. In my experience, it is entirely the difficulty curve that drives our obsessions with these types of games.
    
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Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hotline Miami.

Frustrating and tedious. I generally don’t take gaming recommendations from people I know because I’ve been burned too many times.

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- orochi02@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I loved the fast and rather unique gameplay but it definitely isnt for everyone. For me personally I didnt mind the trial and error and really liked how the Game presentation.
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Probably not entirely on topic, but I ignored Dark Souls for a long time even with tons of recommendations from people I know share my tastes because the main thing they all said was that it was super hard.

It wasn’t being hard that made me ignore it but that from watching it, I knew it was just pattern recognition, which isn’t all that hard.

But now it’s my favorite genre. Because, yeah, it is pattern recognition in a 1v1 fight; but the layout of a room, the placement of the enemies and traps, and what those enemies snd traps are make so much more of a difference in the difficulty. It’s so much more satisfying somehow to learn the whole game and conquer it than just memorizing when to dodge and attack bosses.

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- rozodru@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was the same with the Dark Souls games. I just had no interest in them because they just looked way too punishing.
  
  Then I discovered the lore. I’m a huge lore nerd. I mean I absolutely love Warhammer 40k and I’ve never played it and don’t know how to play it. I don’t have any of the minitures but man the lore for that is awesome. It was the same for the Dark Souls games. I just stumbled across a video by that VatiiVidya guy and I was hooked. Now I wanted to play and just pick up everything and read the tiny bits of lore attached to every item in the games and then piece together this universe.
  
  Dark Souls 3 being my favourite. That story once you discover what’s REALLY happening is amazing. The lore for DS3 really turns the whole playing experience on its head. Suddenly you go from thinking you’re the good guy trying to save this fucked up world to realizing that “wait, am I the baddie?” Like you have to return these guys to their thrones but you begin to understand WHY they don’t want to sit on their thrones and in the end you honestly don’t blame any of them for abandoning their task.
  
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- yakko@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “It’s just pattern recognition!” Bestie, you just described the only thing the neocortex does.
  
  …I’m being real sarcastic for a guy who couldn’t beat DS1 without playing a sorcerer.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Try big hammer. Lizard brain and monkey brain meet.
    
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recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The Witcher 3 felt very sloppy to me, controls wise. I felt like combat had me sliding all over the place. Blocking, parrying, and dodging didn’t feel satisfying or responsive.

Just couldn’t get into it at all because of it.

I ended up running around and talking to everyone I could, then realize there’s a ton of combat stuff to do and nobody else to talk to and I just turned it off

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Tahl_eN@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Half Life 2. Wasn’t a big fan of the first one, but the second had tons of hype, so I gave it a shot. The physics stuff was cool, but the gameplay, story and characters were boring and flat. And the “revolutionary” storytelling method of locking you in a box to talk at you rather than making a proper cutscene still sucks.

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- sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Because I can’t help myself from countering:
  
  HL2 has better, more realistic and detailed and believable mouth and facial animations than many current AAA games, they just have higher res textures and fancier lighting.
  
  That’s not to say no game has exceeded it, thats not what I mean, some clearly have.
  
  But… the other side of this is that a lot of modern AAA games, with 20 years of improved/new tech… still can’t figure it out.
  
  AAA games that market themselves as being very graphically detailed/realistic/immersive.
  
  I’m not trying to say waaagh how can you not personally have thought HL2 was amazing!
  
  I’m trying to say that the technical advancements its made which you do not find compelling, well, a good deal of game devs still haven’t even reached that level from 20+ years ago, when they say they are trying to.
  
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- Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Damn, that is a hot take.
  
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  - dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Honestly impressive for a 20+ year-old game to still inspire hot takes.HL2 remains undefeated.
    
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greenskye@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My cousin’s talked me into giving CoD ‘one more try’ like three times now. It’s never worth it. The game is always worse and my cousin also tends to just not play for months after a handful of gaming sessions, so I don’t even get the benefit of hanging out.

Generally stopped trying to game with him anymore. Just too flaky.

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psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Grim Dawn. “hey remember Diablo 2,the best ARPG ever? This is that but better!”

No it’s not. It’s not bad, but it just doesn’t click.

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- AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Have you tried Path of Exile?
  
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  - psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes! I played Grim Dawn for about 8 hours before i quit, and according to Steam, i dip in a whole 30 minutes before i uninstall it. I can’t remember about the game at all and why i quit, i assume it has the same issue with Grim Dawn.
    
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- Rudee@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  TBF a good portion of the appeal is finding the combination of skills and equipment that tickles you the most at the moment
  
  The rest of the game is pretty much just the xp you need to level up and the training dummies to determine how effective your build is
  
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  - psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, i remember being so bored of it because i literally just click the enemy and everyone explode, and only occasionally spongy enemy. I also remember i can’t progress much in that 8 hours i put in, thing feel and play the same for that long. It just wasn’t my thing.
    
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unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m not a console gamer, so the day Horizon Zero Dawn was released, I bought Mass Effect: Andromeda. It was meh.

When Horizon came to PC and I played through it for the first time, I was stunned: the graphics, story, and gameplay were so much better than Andromeda’s. I’m still not a console gamer, but Horizon had me considering a PS4 (and later 5) for a while there.

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- orochi02@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Thats Not a very high bar that andromeda set though
  
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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I legit got a used ps4 for to play WipEout Omega, Gravity Rush 1/2, Horizon ZD (also later FW), God of War (also later Raganrok).
  
  All three are some of my most beloved games. For the hundred bucks I paid for it, amazing deal.
  
  Still waiting for Omega and Gravity Rush to come to PC…
  
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Renacles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everyone seems to love Alan Wake. I played it recently, but didn’t enjoy it.

I feel like I’m missing something.

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- caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think artificial scarcity in survival horror is kinda annoying. A flashlight burning through batteries as if it was a battery-powered oven is just an eyroller to me, the dude having the stamina of someone who‘s just woken up from a decade long koma doesn‘t help my enjoyment either. It just makes it annoying to me to play. I know it’s meant to make me feel weak and scared but I’d prefer if they could realize that in other ways.
  
  The story was alright though IMO. I enjoyed the town sections the most.
  
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- caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Alan Wake is a game that should be right up my alley.
  
  Unfortunately, the gameplay left me wanting. I enjoyed the story for the most part, but the pacing of the game overall was strange, and other than getting light grenades, the gameplay doesn’t really change much or shake anything up from the beginning to the end.
  
  I enjoyed the world a lot more than the actual game, but I’ve been told it’s sequel fixes some of my issues with the first game.
  
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SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Everyone kept praising Baldur’s Gate 3. I even watched gameplay of it.

It was buggy on the supposed release, especially with a quest that had been part of the beta FOR YEARS rendering itself incompleltable and stealing my items in the process.

Then I got sucked into a party wipe, and a fight I had beaten earlier suddenly became an impassable slogfest.

$90 AUD for 3 hours of gameplay and a piss poor character creator. Because orcs had fuckall compared to the other races.

I am never trusting popular opinion again.

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justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got several, I’ve found that some people really think about what I like in a game and nail a recommendation and some people just recommend things they liked, regardless how I feel on them.

The big ones would be Breath of the Wild and Helldivers 2.

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klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Assuming the (not) is optional, I loved both Soma and Subnaitica. Two great recommendations

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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The not was absolutely intended as optional! I’m wondering if other people are seeing it as required judging by the count of responses talking about negative experiences I got…
  
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ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dragon’s Age Origins. Had a friend tell me how it was their favorite franchise and that specifically was the best game, such amazing lore, gameplay, etc.

Couldn’t even make it past the first quest before I hung it out.

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- Drewmeister@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When did you play it? I liked the game when it came out, but I tried to replay it recently and the mechanics did not age gracefully. It’s pretty clunky by modern standards.
  
  I’m sure that to a lot of people this is likely sacrilege lol
  
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  - AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hi, me, I’m a lot of people.
    
    I cannot agree with it being clunky, at least not any more clunky than any other game in the genre. What are you referring to specifically? The combat or something else?
    
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- Elevator7009@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m your reverse. Friends with some big Dragon Age fans, they wanted me to join, it worked for me too! The Dragon Age train crashed when I had to free up space on my PC for more important real life things sadly, but when I finish that I’d like to finish my playthrough and maybe replay with fight-skipping cheats, or hit up the rest of the series.
  
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RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Man, I put a good 20 hours into that game and the gameplay loop just wasn’t for me.

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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When you want a trpg and end up with a weird school Sim.
  
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radix@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve had games purchased for me, but I’m not really into first person shooters, especially competitive ones, and especially especially on a console where I’m stuck using a controller.

So Black Ops III and the Master Chief Collection may be awesome for lots of people, but that’s not my jam.

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danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Witcher 3, rdr3. I know they are popular games and all my friends who also like single player rpgs love them but I just can’t with the fixed personality main characters who act in ways that frustrate me. I mean last of us was good but that was more where the player character being forced to be a dick is the main plot point, instead of a thing we are meant to ignore.

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BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Don’t crucify me, but Control.

I absolutely love creepy atmospheric games that aren’t outright horror. If you’ve ever played the Playdead games (Limbo and Inside) you know what I’m talking about. BioShock does it a bit too. Anyway, due to this being my absolute favourite type of media to consume, and not at all knowing how to find more of it, I made a post on here a couple years ago asking for advice, as well as a few friends and other communities, and Control was the overwhelming majority suggestion. So obviously I gave it a shot, but I just didn’t enjoy the way it, ahem, controlled. Not sure how well to describe it other than that, but movement just felt off to me. Maybe I’ll have to give it a try again in the future, but I couldn’t put in more than an hour or two without getting annoyed. It looked pretty neat, and I’ve seen screenshots of later points in the game which look pretty awesome, but for whatever reason I couldn’t get past the movement. It’s not an issue I’ve had in any other game and I’m not sure why it bugs me so much in this one.

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