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

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨verycoolusername@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨patientgamers@sh.itjust.works⁩

Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout ehich I didn’t really get. New Vegas did rhe cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
RDR2, I eventually caved and bought it after months of friends telling me how good it is. But the movement and control scheme are just so bad it instantly ruined the game for me. Even qwop has better controls.

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- CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same here! It seems like a great game otherwise, but I just couldn’t get immersed in it because of the controls. Didn’t feel like I was playing as Arthur so much as watching him and hoping he’d do what I want.
  
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- abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That tops my list. I started out maybe 4 or 5 times and then decided I had better things to do with my time. Like housework or getting a root canal.
  
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- discusseded@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think this was why I started playing it for a while but just dropped off and never went back. I was always fighting the controls.
  
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- c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If the controls are even remotely close to the first game (or GTA:IV) I totally understand what you mean.
  
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Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Cyberpunk 2077 CD project red was the golden boy after Witcher 3 and the dlcs. They could do no wrong. Of course their next game was gonna be critically acclaimed GOAT right? Nope. Dumpster fire. Couldn’t play it for more than 30mins without it crashing. Unimmersive and confusing. That’s when I learned corporate greed has no limits

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- JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Honestly the worst about CP2077 wasn’t even the bugs. I also pre ordered it and while the performance was kinda shit and there was a bug or two, it was still playable. Yes we shouldn’t let it slip but unfortunately it’s also kind of the standard these days.
  
  However the game was shallow af and not at all matching what we had been told for years. The whole, create your own story from scratch? Yea you choose some background option, have a 1 min cutscene and then that’s basically it. We had been told that would be hours of gameplay depending on the option and it was a short cutscene.
  
  The whole city was supposed to feel completely alive and you were told that you would be able to do whatever you wanted. That wasn’t close to true either. Plenty of stuff like that.
  
  Luckily I had bought it on GOG to support CDPR because I had loved the Witcher games. Was able to refund it entirely and never locked back. Not even looking to play it anytime soon and maybe ever.
  
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- Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  God I hope I don’t add starfield to this list!
  
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  - Fluid@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s a modern bethesda title. Not to be pessimistic, but you should probably lower expectations for it. It has a high chance to be 1. Buggy. 2. Shallow and derivative in both mechanics and story. 3. Full of DLC and shady monetary models. Bethesda succumbed to corporate greed and formulaic design principles a long time ago.
    
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- RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was hoping Cyberpunk 2077 would be an answer closer to Deus Ex than what we got with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. But the skill tree and upgrades weren’t doing it for me. Not to mention the game running like shit and being rushed out the door.
  
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  - ramble81@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Still salty that we lost out on the conclusion of the DeusEx trilogy because Eidos Montreal ended up doing the Avengers game that no one even remembers or talks about now.
    
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- muni197@szmer.info ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  To me it was immersive af, except the Johnny Silverhand levels, even though I played on a weaker rig that I have currently and the framerate wasn’t great. What I did was focus on the story and largely ditch the open world aspect, since I hadn’t been fond of this type of games for some time anyway. I played it almost a year ago and don’t remember it notoriously crashing, or at all tbh, but maybe I was just lucky.
  
  I’m very curious about Phantom Liberty, although being a patient gamer, I’ll probably wait a bit before buying it to see if it’s any good.
  
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Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Outer Worlds… Hyped so much for it… Even snorting through my nose at the outer wilds… Thinking they use to similar name just clicks

Now the outer wilds is one of my favorite games of all time. And the outer world is currently sat in my steam library with less than 10 hours. Just couldn’t engage me.

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- westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How did they manage to take many of the elements that could make a good game and just make it… forgettable? I played it to the end, because I like walking around shooting things. I think that is about it.
  
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- NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Outer worlds shines in the party banter and dialogue. But yeah it’s missing that je ne sais quoi
  
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  - abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Quite literally the best description of it. I enjoyed it. I played it through 1.5 times. I’ll probably never touch it again.
    
    When the only thing I remember fondly of it is “It’s not the best choice… it’s spacer’s choice!”… eh. I think they tried to be Fallout in Space but failed because of imperfect mechanics and (of all things) not taking itself seriously enough. I’m waiting for slapstick when I see a brand advertised as “we suck, buy us”.
    
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  - Kyrgizion@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can’t quite explain it either but it felt like the devs were totally unfamiliar with the engine and its capabilities. It felt like a very polished fanproject rather than a full fledged Obsidian title.
    
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Master@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m going to call it now and say Starfield…

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- aesopjah@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That demo thing they did a while back looked pretty lack-luster.
  
  “make any ship you can imagine” while they cycle through like 5 premades, 2 of which have the exact same cockpit…
  
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  - WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Stiff character models again, too. The lead animator must be the bosses nephew or something.
    
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- lorez@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep…
  
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Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not disappointed at the game but on myself.

I patiently waited for Elden Ring to go on sale, excited to play it. But the reality is i don’t have enought time to play.

So what happens is I die a few times, restart my progress, die a few more, then my IRL game time has ran out. And I’m still where I started, no progress made,.

If i consistently I evade enemies just to get fat on the map, then what I’ve done is stunt my character progression and just horse around the map. I mean that’s not playing, it’s being a tourist inside the game.

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- okmko@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  May I offer some unsolicited advice.
  
  Your damage output is as important if not more important than “getting gud”. The more damage you do, the fewer attacks you have to dodge. That’s kind of the secret to all these Souls games.
  
  Damage and damage mitigation come from stacking many small, incremental bonuses and upgrades. The most important upgrade for damage is upgrading your weapon with ores. Pick one weapon (eg. Longsword) and invest all ores into it.
  
  It’s possible to suicide-run into dangerous areas for upgrade and powerful items since you don’t lose items that you’ve picked up upon death. You can collect mid and high-tier ores this way even at low level.
  
  It’s perfectly okay to farm exp from non-bosses. The best places are higher level areas (relative to your character) where common enemies give as much exp as early game bosses, yet who can be killed near save points. There are various areas for early, mid, and late game, just Google them.
  
  If you’re still having trouble, do each step in the following video as you feel comfortable. youtu.be/GYI5Z3jhKB4
  
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  - Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thank you so much! I’ll try this on my next play through.
    
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- Brocken40@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A lot of them you are meant to run past, you don’t get meaningful xp from mobs until you get to late game secret areas, early game just Google where dungeons are, ride torrent to them and kill bosses for levels
  
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  - Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You mean, grinding on mobs won’t give me meaningful xp? So it’s the bosses that I need to kill.
    
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- Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I can agree wholeheartedly. I found Elden Ring to be a very boring game.
  
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  - Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not at all what they said lol
    
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- abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  More unsolicited advice. Consider an easy mode mod (if you have it for PC). There’s a few good ones that rebalance it to be a “normal” dodge-and-hit action game instead of a full on soulsborne. I also like a “keep runes on death” mod to take away that terror of actually leaving your little stomping grounds and exploring the beautiful world.
  
  The game is so much more fun when it isn’t forcing “play it this way” down your throat.
  
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  - Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thank you for the advice, but my 9 year old son has now marked the computer as his territory and I’m now exiled to the Playstation.
    
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Nemo@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spore. 'nuff said.

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- electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bro!
  
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- BraininaBowl@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I pre-ordered that game 😞
  
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Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fallout 4…

I was patient on it. Mostly involuntary, but patient still. It was incredibly disappointing. So many amazing features from 3 and NV was gone. Speech is a joke. So you want to agree, agree but be an ass about it, disagree, or disagree and be rude about it.

Those are your options in every single encounter.

It’s a good RPG game overall. Just not a good Fallout game.

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- IronRain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was coming to this thread to answer the same. New Vegas was probably my favorite game of all time, with it’s unique charm and creative blend of stories and character mechanics. I couldn’t make it past 5 or 6 hours of the FO4 (I really wanted to give it a chance), before I dropped it for good. Bethesda wanted to make an action shooter with a twist, and they did a good job of that, but it lacked the creative “it” factor that made me sink 600+ hours in NV across multiple playthroughs. Just talking about it makes me want to boot it back up right now!
  
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- discusseded@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sorry, between the wine and your reductionist overview I have to respond.
  
  Unless you want to fondle their balls, lick their butthole, or just fuck off and 69 with yourself, agreeing or disagreeing are essentially the only options one is given in conversation. Or you could just listen and not reciprocate, but that’s not interactive.
  
  If you want something deeper or more varied just hit up ChatGPT.
  
  I played F3, NV and F4 and I don’t see anything so lacking in F4 that I have to return to the previous games. It definitely wasn’t limited to “I agree”, “I agree, you clod”, “I disagree”, “I disagree and you smell bad” as you seem to make it out to be.
  
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- abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ironically, this is my “I don’t get why everyone is so disappointed in it” game. I have more played hours in Fallout 4 and Skyrim than I do any of the earlier games in either franchise. Don’t know why, and it’s not that I came into them recently. I have nostalgia for the others, but I just can’t be bothered playing spreadsheet simulator even against Mr. House.
  
  With F4, I know I can dream a build and it happens, even if as I reach higher levels the builds start to blend a bit.
  
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- NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I agree but with mods it can be one of the best games of all time.
  
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Sordid@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Elden Ring

It’s just Dark Souls 3.5. Which is not necessarily bad if you really liked DS3 and just want more of the same thing, but I considered DS3 by far the weakest in the series to begin with, and playing the Nioh series after it opened my eyes to just how much room for improvement there was in the DS series as a whole. From Soft has basically followed the same path as Bethesda - they used to make varied games until one of them randomly became wildly successful, and from that point onward they haven’t had the balls to deviate from the winning formula and have just been remaking that same game over and over with a slightly different coat of paint each time. Which makes sense from a business point of view, I guess, but after this many repetitions, it’s become clear to me From Soft is totally creatively bankrupt. Hell, it’s been more than a decade since Demon’s Souls, and they still can’t even figure out a better counter to the “roll behind them and stab them in the butt” strategy than making enemy tracking ever more effective and their movements ever more spasmodic and unreadable. The end result is that despite being expertly crafted, Elden Ring feels very by-the-numbers and utterly soulless (if you’ll pardon the pun).

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- geno@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I often describe Elden Ring with the following sentence: “If you gave me this game with no title and told me it’s Dark Souls 4, I would have no reason to doubt you”.
  
  It’s great for everyone that wanted more Dark Souls, and ER is arguably a good starting point for anyone that hasn’t played any of the Dark Souls, but it’s still Dark Souls. If someone had tried Dark Souls in the past and realized that they don’t like the game, I really wouldn’t expect Elden Ring changing that.
  
  For me personally: Elden Ring is pretty much my favourite game of all time. I feel like it’s the “culmination of Dark Souls design”, and just happens to be exactly what I was personally looking for in DS games - but even with this in mind, I don’t feel the need of getting more of the same.
  
  But hey, as for the repetition - Armored Core VI coming out next week, and that’s quite different. :D
  
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  - Sordid@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Elden Ring is pretty much my favourite game of all time. I feel like it’s the “culmination of Dark Souls design”, and just happens to be exactly what I was personally looking for in DS games
    
    I’d probably feel the same way if I hadn’t played a few other similar games while waiting for ER. Nioh and especially Nioh 2 showed me how much more Dark Souls could do. Their combat system is much richer and deeper, and I find it baffling that From Soft hasn’t tried copying even a few of their ideas. I hadn’t realized anything was missing from the Souls formula until I played them, but now I can’t unsee it. Maybe my expectations are excessive. From Soft seems incapable of copying even its own good ideas. Dark Souls 2 made quite a few good (if relatively minor) changes to the formula, all of which were erased the moment Miyazaki took back control of the series.
    
    I also recently replayed Blade of Darkness, which I consider the forgotten true originator of the souls-like genre. Being more than twenty years old, it’s much simpler than its spiritual successors, but it showed me that Dark Souls also does a bunch of things it really doesn’t need to do, such as bullshit artificial difficulty. I used to think BoD was really hard back when I played it for the first time more than two decades ago, but after several thousand hours in Souls and Nioh, it feels easy. And you know what? That makes it great fun. Enemy attack patterns are quite basic and easily readable and predictable, there are no surprise ganks and no spoiler enemies (which is what I like to call annoying enemies specifically added in order to spoil what would otherwise be a fun combat encounter). Hell, there’s even friendly fire among enemies, so it’s much harder for them to gang up on you and you get none of that toxic and abusive encounter design based around ranged enemies shooting you through melee ones that From Soft seems so very fond of. Nioh showed me what the Souls series is missing, and BoD reminded me that sometimes less really is more.
    
    Seeing that ER is just more of the same has really sapped my motivation to play, and I haven’t gotten very far in it as a result. I’ll probably finish it someday, but I’m definitely not going into the NG+ cycle and PvP for hundreds of hours like I used to do with previous Souls games.
    
    as for Fromsoft just doing the same thing over and over - Armored Core VI coming out next week, and that’s quite different. :D
    
    Ah yes, the sixth game in a series. Such innovation. ;)
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The original Fable. I wasn’t yet aware of Moleyneux’s reputation as a liar and bought into all the neat shit that was supposed to be in the game. Like at one point he said you could cut a tree and then adventure for years in game and the scar would still be there. Outrageous to think now, but he also said there would be a dragon fight and even back then this wasn’t difficult to make happen, yet it didn’t even have a dragon.

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- discusseded@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was getting pretty sick of the chicken chaser bs until I was doing battle with town guards for shits and giggles. I parried an attack and the game loaded a different zone and auto-saved over my file. There was no way to go back because manual saving and loading were not a feature of the game. It completely ruined the whole thing and I never returned.
  
  I liked Oblivion but I loved Morrowind. The ui and controls were substandard but the atmosphere and pacing of that game were amazing. Oblivion was Bethesda’s turn to mainstream and love for money.
  
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BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When I finally played Red Dead Redemption 2. I insist don’t play this type of big budget game, but my friends loved it and kept talking it up. I waited for years for a steam sale until it was finally about $20. Also, I loved outlaws (1997) and was pretty keen for another cowboy game.

An hour of listening to guys walk through the snow and I was out.

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- dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I finished the prologue because I was told the prologue is slow. But the whole game is slow. I think people just get used to it. But I couldn’t. It’s too slow. I was chasing a bear and I was so bored that I put it down and never touched it again.
  
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- lom@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  People complain about slow games?? I love that in not just rushing from A to B and to do stuff in the open world
  
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  - NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s just needlessly overly realistic in how tedious everything is lol
    
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- Sparkega@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This resonated with me. The prolog is so long I didn’t finish either. I also tried Red Dead Online which was quicker to getting to the action, but just didn’t take with me.
  
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Pechente@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me it’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. After Breath of the Wild I was super hyped for a successor. When they announced they were gonna reuse the same exact game world I was a bit worried but thought it could work if they do it well.

Well here we are with like 90% of the content being reused. The gameplay is more interesting than Breath of the Wild and the dungeons are better and so is the story. But my main draw for Breath of the Wild was exploring the world. All this fun is missing TOTK. The new parts of the world like the sky and underground are pretty bland and not quite a much fun to explore as an entirely new game world would be.

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- astrsk@artemis.camp ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I really wonder what it is about TotK that makes for such wildly different opinions. Everything about TotK was a vast improvement over BotW for me. Up to and especially including revisiting the same locations to see how they’ve changed and exploring all 3 levels of the map to their fullest extent. I stopped playing BotW the moment I beat it after ~90 hours of play time. But I’ve continued to return to TotK nearly 300 hours in now, after beating it in about the same 90 hours originally. It’s just endlessly interesting wandering and getting sidetracked and finding / figuring out side quests.
  
  I have a couple friends who beat it for the sake of beating the next Zelda game but the majority of my small circle continues to play, some even putting off beating it just to explore more. It’s very interesting seeing such different approaches, hearing what people focused on and how they tackled the openness. I’m not sure I witnessed the same phenomenon with games like Skyrim. Something about this one feels different at least. Hard to describe.
  
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  - theragu40@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think what confuses me most is that the majority of posts knocking TotK say things like “it’s exactly the same as BotW” or say it’s using the “exact same map”.
    
    Having poured over 100 hours into each I just don’t understand this take. It’s objectively untrue. Yes, the core topical map is largely the same, but the content of it is extremely different. Having put so much time into BotW I’ve been very surprised at how few things are the same and like you have enjoyed seeing what has changed and where.
    
    And that is to say nothing of the sky or the depths. The sky is somewhat limited but has such a sense of verticality and focus on flight that BotW didn’t have. The depths are gargantuan and chock full of things to explore, including some fun ties to the upper world if you can find them.
    
    I’ve also found the enemies to be more varied, and more difficult to defeat across the board. This has been a fun challenge for me as well.
    
    So yeah. I don’t know. It’s just a much, much larger game. If people simply don’t like it, or played BotW too recently for the core mechanics to feel fresh, then I kinda get it. Similarly if you are more into discovering more and more map and don’t care what’s in the map, then I can see how it could be a bit boring also. And overall maybe the open world style just isn’t for you. Fair.
    
    But I don’t understand the criticisms I see most often about limited new content vs BotW because that is just very untrue.
    
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  - julianh@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally, a lot of the “content” in totk feels like busywork for me. With botw I didn’t know that to expect so I was willing to explore. But now, I know there’s only so many things I can find - a shrine or a korok seed. Totk just adds more of those tiny rewards (like bubblefrogs) and it just doesn’t feel worth it. At best, you sometimes get an armor piece but I barely even used any of those. There was one interesting side quest I found on the great plateau and I kept wondering what I would find, and it was just a heart container.
    
    If any of the exploration lead to something other than a marginal reward, I think I’d enjoy my time a lot more. Maybe it’s just because I played outer wilds between the games, and find story to be a much more interesting thing to find than an item.
    
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- dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Lmao, thank you. I said this yesterday and had people screaming at me. It’s a glorified standalone expansion. I thought the game was really good overall, but the fact that it was so similar to BotW really detracted from how good it was. If BotW didn’t exist and it was only TotK, it would have easily been a 9.5/10. But the fact that I had literally just played BotW made it feel more like a 6/10.
  
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- Ejh3k@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  While I am currently enjoying the hell out of this game, I don’t know why it took 6(?) years for this to come out. The sky stuff isnt that expansive, the depths are pretty basic, and the main world isn’t changed all that much.
  
  After about 50 hours I realized that I was only going to play this game once, so I better try and get the most out of it.
  
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Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mirror´s Edge. 9/10 on Steam. I bought it during the last sales. The gameplay is playing again and again and again the difficult jumps until you make it. It’s boring.

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- dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion is probably my best answer. Remains the only Elder Scrolls game since the release of Morrowind that I’ve only played through once with no desire to return to.

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son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was so tedious to get through the opening area that by the time I got to the first dungeon I was getting tired of it. It did get better after that dungeon and the game opened up a lot more, but it one of my least favorite Zelda games.

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NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wasteland 2 is an outstanding example of disappointment. I think the worst thing about it was how you never knew when you were going against a faction until they all suddenly started attacking you and you were forced to reload. Wasteland 3 was very good at least.

Personally, my most disappointing was Red Dead Redemption II. It’s a game that requires an insane amount of patience but there are so many things to do that you begin to stress about the lack of progress. And ultimately the fact you have to do everything a very specific way to satisfy the conditions of quests makes it frustrating. Everyone talks about how the world building is second to none but I guess that means you’d have to want to live in the wild west and for me I get more satisfaction installing a hunting mod in Skyrim because it’s less restrictive over what I can do and where I can go and genuinely has fast travel.

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dewritochan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
there’s one i’m currently under nda for that’s still in testing and man. idk. hoping the next test flight feels better. theoretically close to release atm. sorry for vagueposting.

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HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s so many but the I think the biggest disappointment award has to go to Death Stranding.

A brand new by the creator of Metal Gear without the shackles of a publisher looking over his shoulder, it had the makings of an epic game.

What did we get? Amazon Prime simulator with such a convoluted and nonsensical story it barely makes sense.

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FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Outer Wilds. I just don’t understand why everyone loves it so much. I thought it was boring.

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Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Diablo 4

Really loved the first cinematic and enjoyed the Beta. But I’m already bored after reaching lv 30. Haven’t played it in weeks. I don’t know, the MMO aspect kinda ruined the expirience for me and the combat isn’t fun enought to keep me engaged.

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thelsim@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Torment: Tides of Numenera
But I think I’m mostly disappointed in myself for not sticking with it. I joined the kickstarter, followed all the updates and was genuinely excited to explore the world being described.
When it finally came out I only played it for a few hours before losing all interest in it. Too much text and everyone seemed to have their life story to tell. Which is odd, because usually I love text heavy games with tons of lore.
Every so often I tell myself to give it a second chance, but never seem to be able to muster the energy to follow through.

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anakin78z@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hollow Knight. Finally bought this after getting the stream deck. I just remember thinking: This is it? This is what everyone has been raving about? I think I played it two or three times, then completely forgot about it.

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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh, quite a lot over the years, but to pick a few I can readily think of:

Cyberpunk 2077: My one big prepurchase the recent few years. And it turned out to be laughably bad. I mean I was expected it to be fairly buggy, but even given that it far outdid even my worst imaginations. Not only was the game insanely unbelievably buggy on release (and frankly it still is, they only patched the actual breaking issues not the constant barrage of weirdness), but it is just… not very good? It has pleny really good components, but the sauce sticking it together is devoid of any design or soul, leaving it to feel like a can of ravioli with too few actual ravioli in it.
Doesn’t help that the main quest was, IMO, bad to the point of caricature. At least the handful of amazing secondary quests more than made up for that one. Still, overall one of my biggest disappointments of my 30 years of video gaming, especially in how underdesigned it is even ignoring all the bugs.

Divinity Original Sin 2, specifically co-op: I don’t know. This got hyped so much for that particular feature. Yet while the combat moment-to-moment gameplay is hilarious in co-op, following the actual story - basically why I play these kind of games - felt supremely irritating, more so because of how frequently characters get forced into conversations the other player then has to opt into no matter where they were at the time or what they were doing. In a lot of ways I wish co-op would have been more restrictive, to more readily support co-op story consumption.
But it’s also weird, because like I said, combat-wise the co-op is amazing. Still, was quite disappointed overall.

Overwatch 2: Feels like a cheap pick, but wow was this a disappointment. Between the dropped PvE, the frankly insulting replacement they’re now rolling out for it and their complete unwillingness to acknowledge the switch to 5v5 in hero reworks and balance changes - and hence how half-arsed the entire balance feels - this makes me long for an OW1 clone that really just freezes OW1’s state, as clearly trying to modify it didn’t work out.

Ultima IX: I don’t know how many here are old enough to remember this. It was so hyped. It looked so gorgeous. It was so amazing to see it all in this 3D. And then when it came out, not only could it at best run at glorious 10FPS on my machine (and I had a beast of a PC for the time), it was also buggy and underdeveloped enough that I figure it might just have been CDPR’s inspiration for how they worked on CP2077. Plus, in U9’s case, there’s the extra insult that the story and dialogue is quite inconsistent with the previous games, which was a real head-scratcher. Just a disappointment all around. A really big one.

The Dig: This is a weird one to remember. Because in a lot of ways, I also would say The Dig is one of the best point&click adventures ever made. But it was so bewildering and disappointing to younger me, I just came off the supremely accessible and clever Fate of Atlantis having played it late, and there was so much hype for The Dig, so naturally I got it. I was so disappointed.
Now to be fair, looking back upon it now I can recognize that a mix of my hype and the way FoA went against a ton of industry standard for the time was priming me for said disappointment. It’s a good game in a lot of regards, in particular in selling the actually alien vibe of it. But it also has “logic” that would make Sierra Games proud. At least I didn’t have to use a necklace on the moon (IIRC) 😂.

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CycloneWolf@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Elden Ring. I was looking forward to a more mainstream Dark Souls with a story written by GRRM, but it turns out I just don’t jive with those games at all, no matter how polished they are.

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basskitten@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Cyberpunk 2077. I waited a year for the bugs to be sorted out, got it for half price, and it was just a very blah game. The Ascent is a way better game both in terms of being cyberpunk-y and also just being a fun game.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t really understand the premise. The point of being patient imo is to avoid the hype.

So I’ll just answer the question if disappointment in games generally:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It knew it was different, but it still didn’t feel like Zelda to me, so it didn’t scratch that itch I had. I’m enjoying Skyward Sword much more than BotW, the first dungeon just feels like I’m back in Ocarina of Time, the forest feels like Minish Cap somehow, and the premise reminds me of the original The Legend of Zelda (get the sword and go off on an adventure without knowing where you’re headed). BotW is my least favorite Zelda game, mostly because of disappointment. When I heard Tears of the Kingdom was much the same, I didn’t bother getting it. Maybe I’ll get it eventually, but I have no desire to play it.

Borderlands. I had avoided the game so successfully that I knew nothing about it other than that it was a shooter RPG, but I knew it was popular among friends. I missed the window when it came out, so I figured I’d give it a shot. After about 15 minutes, I realized it was just a looter shooter and noped right out. For some reason, I absolutely hate the genre and was disappointed that’s what my friends were so hyped for.

Lords of the Realm III. I loved Lords of the Realm 2 as a kid and played the original at a friend’s house and enjoyed that too. So when Lords of the Realm III came out, I naturally wanted it. However, they threw out pretty much everything I liked about the previous games (strategy around county/resource management) and doubled down on everything I didn’t like as much (sieges) and it just felt like a worse version of the Total War games. Because of this game, one of my life’s goals is to remake Lords of the Realm by preserving the good parts of each game in the series, essentially to make the Lords 3 game I wanted.

So these days, I watch gameplay footage before diving in to a game, because that would’ve avoided my problems with each of the above. There isn’t really a game I’m waiting for, I just have a big wishlist of games that looked interesting at one point that I’ll review when I’m looking for a new game to play.

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GreneArwe@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Assassin’s Creed III. I know it’s considered one of the weakest entries in the series, but I absolutely love the time period it’s set in. That alone had me excited. Decided to finally give it a try recently and quickly found out that all the criticisms are valid. It’s not very fun, the story is extremely bland, there are multiple glitches throughout, and the modern day sections are just the absolute worst. I don’t ever expect much when it comes to the AC series (especially the titles from that time) and can usually find something enjoyable in them. Not the case with III.

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ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, unfortunately:

Horizon Forbidden West

God Of War Ragnorak

I was extremely excited for it on PS5, however when playing them - I felt bored after a few hours. Quit playing and never went back.

Don’t know whether it was just overhyped for me or just not my type of game anymore.
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retrieval4558@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
(don’t hurt me)

So far it’s been Baldurs Gate 3. I’ve found it clunky to play and it doesn’t run well on my machine despite far surpassing the recommended hardware.

I’m definitely going to do some trouble shooting and give it a much more in depth try, but it’s way easier to just play another game than figure out why this one is broken lol.

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Vengefu1Tuna@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Dead Cells. I played for ~60 hours, but could not get the final boss down. It’s a tiny stage with a huge boss that has very quick combos that can 2 shot you. I tried a dozen times to figure him out in the training area (where you can practice boss fights) and I still couldn’t get it. It’s probably me though, my reflexes aren’t quite what they used to be.

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