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

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Supreme Commander 2. Threw out all the things I respected from the first game and swapped in a bunch of trendy bullshit that I did not. A crushing disappointment.

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Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Overwatxh 2.

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gk99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, but also no.

I didn’t play the Halo franchise until late 2015-early 2016, but I thought 3 and ODST were disappointing, and I stopped one mission into Reach. These days, Reach and 3 are my two favorite Halo games and ODST gets an honorable mention for its campaign. So what changed? In retrospect, it’s because they were running on a 360 with an ass framerate, ass resolution, and ass FOV with a weird crosshair that made me subconsciously raise my head and controller-based controls that I was bad at. They were uncomfortable for me to play on the hardware I had to run them on, and as soon as I had them with all that QOL improved, the experience was completely different.

This experience, along with plenty others, has shown me that it’s often not the game itself and could be several other factors, from the port and the platform to my expectations and my attitude. So while I’ve had a bunch of “disappointing” patient experiences, a good amount of them stopped being disappointing when I gave them another shot

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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Saints Row remake from a few years ago. I loved the first four games, figured I’d love this. It’s a game made for 2010 sold in the 20s. A mile wide and an inch deep.

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- Razzazzika@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That was last year yo.
  
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dualtex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Final Fantasy XVI :/ combat was fun but the RPG elements were pretty bad tbh

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- Unicode13051@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ve been a huge fan of the series for over 30 years at this point. I just wish the last twenty years were as good at the first ten.
  
  I waited to buy every entry after FF10, and everytime (with the exception of XIV 2.0) I’ve been disappointed.
  
  I really feel let down by XVI. None of the trailers made me excited, everytime they showed the gameplay I was betrayed, and when I played the demo I was bored.
  
  All of the post-release feedback was so positive though, so I ended up buying it 2 weeks after it came out.
  
  I still haven’t finished my, despite having it for almost 6 weeks. It’s just so bad. I was able to push myself through XV and I actually enjoyed the XIII trilogy, but this just feels like some Final Fantasy flavored (barely), easy to the point of inducing sleep, action game.
  
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magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yoshi’s Island for SNES is a game I have picked up multiple times but never really finished. It has some of the most beautiful visuals in any SNES game and the music is equally iconic. I always fall in love with it when playing the first levels, but somehow I always grow tired of it about halfway through.

I think the levels are overly long, and the collectathon aspect becomes annoying. It turns more into a chore than an enjoyment. It’s frustrating, because it’s a game I really want to love throughout.

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- WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can’t stand baby Mario.
  
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- CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Huh, same here! I have it on GBA and have been periodically playing it since I was a kid, but I’ve never actually been more than 2/3 or so in. I was never able to put my finger on why - it seems like an amazing game with its charming aesthetic, good controls, it does a lot of things well - but now that you say it I think you’re right, the level design and emphasis on checking every nook and cranny really does make it kind of a slog. I just booted up my last save and played a bit of the next level, and the amount of backtracking, secret side areas, and mini puzzles is kinda overwhelming.
  
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RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Deus Ex: Human Revolution…Man when I saw that first teaser trailer I had tears in my eyes. Another game in my all time favorite series so many years later? AND it’s a prequel!!!

But I was pretty dissapointed. I felt the game was pretty watered down vs Deus Ex, which was also a complaint about DE2 (apart from the console favoring nature of it). The prequel aspect was also pretty dissapointing. A couple characters in the game, Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre, were extremely noticeably mechanically augmented individuals who looked more like mechanical abominations than flesh and blood human beings. Yet in Deus Ex: Human Revolutions you did not become more machine looking as you gained augmentations. You have your limbs put in place at the beginning and that’s the change, a very sleek and stylish augment. I expected to see a more grounded take from the high tech in Deus Ex, but instead was met with an entirely different universe like Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the first of its kind. Deus Ex is still and always will be my most favorite game of all time. I really hope something miraculous happens and the original game is done justice, but as long as Square Enix holds the title I highly doubt they will give the universe enough time, care and love that the original got (as a passion project).

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- NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oooof, this is the first one I find hard to understand. HR is often regarded the best of the whole series, including the OG game. I mean. It just has so many ways to approach objectives.
  
  I will say that if you’re criticizing the story alone that’s fair
  
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BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not sure if this counts, but Path of Exile once in awhile. They release new content patches every 3 months and introduce new league mechanic. Some leagues are great, others are less so. It’s probably the only game ever played and continue to play on release.

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opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For me it was TLOU pt 1. I was so excited for it to come to PC, but it ended up being completely unplayable, and I wasn’t really a huge fan of the third-person cover-shooter gameplay. I played about 3 hours (and 4 hours of waiting on the menu) during the first week, and haven’t touched it since.

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S13Ni@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Original deus ex. Yeah I’m sure the story is very good. But gameplay is just not enjoyable to me no matter how many times I try. Combat is annoying unless you put all skill points to X gun skill, then it is boring. In stealth I have no feel how visible I am and gep gun is annoying to use.

I have tried to enjoy it at least 5 times since I like the new ones but at this point I give up. And yeah I tried with mods and shit.

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julianh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I actually had the opposite experience with Limbo/Inside. With Limbo I felt the puzzles seemed unfair - I died a lot to things I couldn’t see. I quit the game not too far in and haven’t picked it up again.

But I played Inside and absolutely loved it, it’s one of my favorite games now. So idk maybe I should give Limbo a shot again.

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Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wasteland 2 i thought i’m getting a Fallout 2 but better, but instead it didn’t grab my attention at all, have to quit early in the game but still passed the refund period. I tried to get into it again and again but still doesn’t work.

Grim Dawn This one being called a “better Diablo” and i was expecting something that will grab my attention, but really it’s kinda boring and uninspiring. I think it’s much more similar to Torchlight than Diablo, which i also couldn’t get into.

Space Pirate and Zombie 2 it’s very different than SPAZ1 and i don’t quite like the transition, couldn’t get into it.

Dont Starve i’m not sure why i couldn’t get into this one, i like survival crafting stuff but my soul is rejecting this one.

Spec Ops: The Line Everyone want you to play this one for the story, but dang the whole game is just so boring. I have to force myself to finish it, story is okay i guess.

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- Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh man I thought I was alone with Grim Dawn! It was pretty boring.
  
  I didn’t understand Don’t Starve for years. Its constantly rated high for a great co-op experience, so I forced myself to understand it. A few hours in, I get the appeal of why some like it.
  
  As a crafting survival though… It doesn’t feel like you’re building anything of real value, and so you’re clearly crafting things in a particular linear order to solve the next puzzle.
  
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  - Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think i might try it some other time, i bought it just after i finished subnautica so my expectation just isn’t in the right place.
    
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- chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I really liked Spec ops the line’s story, but it doesn’t hook you I can see it being boring.
  
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- lordriffington@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I haven’t played Wasteland 2, but I quite enjoyed Wasteland 3. I’ve played it through a couple of times. Might be worth giving it a go?
  
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whataboutshutup@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010?). Cars felt right due to Criterion working on them to make them like in Burnout, but their Autolog service, plentiful cutscenes, menu, performance issues and a lot of boring lonely sprints on time killed it for me. I loved to drive in free mode, but avoided races like fire.

GTA IV, but it was on me, maybe. They totally shifted the tone of the game, changed so much I felt like I play a different series. While I came to like it more, the first time it just didn’t work for me.

TellTale’s The Walking Dead after S1. It’s either them losing their juice or me and my friends starting to understand the formula and how low stakes it actually is.

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- Mannivu@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  GTA IV is weird compared to the others GTA (it misses the big booms and the big vehicles that are present in the other titles of the series) but it’s a good game taken on his own.
  
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  - Famko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It was made in the era of gritty reboots and dark games which made them use the colour grey way too much. The worst offender of this is probably Shadow the Hedgehog, which went so “realistic” that it became comedic.
    
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- magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I only played S2 after S1 of walking dead.
  
  I remember the best moment of S2 was a flashback to S1. It was just a simple dialogue dialogue between Lee and Clementine, but just that was way more impactful than any other moment in S2. It was a very human moment. That was when I realized how much better written S1 was.
  
  Some of the writers of S1 left telltale to make Firewatch, so that probably explains why S2 and the other seasons didn’t live up to S1.
  
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- lordriffington@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I haven’t liked a Need for Speed game since the original Most Wanted (and that was the first one since Porsche Unleashed.) I’ve played a few since and some were okay, but none of them have grabbed me the way the old NFS games did. I spent more time playing any of the first five NFS games individually than I have playing all of them in total since MW.
  
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IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Donkey Kong 64. As a kid I loved Rare games and couldn’t wait to play DK64. I was so excited that every time the magazines dropped on the mat at home I would immediately search for any news on the game.

When i finally got my hands on the game I was disappointed within a few hours of playing. The constant retreading with different characters made the game feel more like a chore than a fun platformer. It was probably the first game where I felt so disappointed especially since I bought it with my own money. I think I stopped buying Rare games. I didn’t even buy Perfect Dark.

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- rich@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can’t believe I completed the game, like fully completed to 105% or whatever it was as a kid. How?!
  
  There is an awesome ROM patch that gives you the ability to swap Kongs on the fly by pressing left and right on the d-pad. It makes the game significantly better to play. It’s on romhacking.net
  
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- amio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If Rare didn't insanely exaggerate the collectathon thing before DK64, it's definitely the game that completely fucking jumped the shark. It has as many kinds of collectables as other games has collectables in total. The Banjo games on 64 are good, but they pushed it a bit far, too.
  
  Fun fact: DK64 is broken and was published that way. It contains a memory leak they couldn't get rid of in time, which'll eventually cause the game to crash. It requires the RAM expansion doohickey - not because it's an engine requirement or for textures, like Majora's Mask, but to stall the inevitable crash.
  
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  - BarelyOriginal@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Apparently that glitch story isn’t true and they were already using the expansion pack during development. This video goes through all the difficulties the developers had while working on it.
    
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avatar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Final Fantasy 7 Remake. My god, what a disaster over the original.

I can’t bring myself to continue it even though (I think?) I’m half way through the game, because while the Sector 5 reactor in the original is, by good game design standards, just a replica of the Sector 7 reactor with less going on - since you’ve already done the same thing earlier on, in Remake they decided to make it an enormous labyrinth that you can’t find your way out of, just because. I guess they needed to extend the playtime.

That’s just one of many, many things wrong with the game despite an amazing original, but it’s the spot that completely prevents me from loading it up again to continue on. I went and started a new game in the original instead, just to be sure it wasn’t the nostalgia glasses talking. It wasn’t.

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Amro@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
@verycoolusername Yes. I waited nine months for "Life!". And it sucks. The levels are to long. The rules are incomprehensible. Other players are getting away with shit I can't because of the rules. And don't get me started on the NPC's or the game mechanics.
Don't recommend.

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- IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also the tutorial sucks and is way too long. Plus all the challenges you have to complete even though it’s the tutorial stage. And the different classes are unbalanced. Why do some classes get so many rolls per turn?
  
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- FollyDolly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I really hate the perma death too. Graphics are great tho.
  
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Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In the most recent history, No Man’s Sky. I know it’s gotten better over the years, but that initial blandness was rough. Other than that in three days a spiritual successor to jet set radio comes out (bomb rush cyberfunk) and I just have a sneaking suspicion that it’s going to let me down. The devs have been so quiet for so long about it… And in three days I get to learn the truth.

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- abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I keep forgetting how lucky I was to get into NMS late. Not that I’ve put too many hours into it, but it didn’t suck when I started playing it. Which is nice.
  
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- Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So did you play BRC? I finally did and I freaking loved it
  
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  - Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I enjoyed most of it. There are a few minor things that I really disliked, which only got worse later in the game.
    
    The main issues being story and police encounters. The story is definitely a ‘point a to point b’ tale. I order to get his head back, red must go all city. Yes, the story does take some turns along the way, but it feels too aggressive. Compared with the seemingly lighthearted jsr ‘hey man, they started it’ style of territory take overs followed by the absolutely overblown police response was sadly missed. I feel like the tiers of police heat were out of tune a bit, especially late game. Tier one being armed cops was jarring. The ‘one graffiti per heat’ rank also felt bad, especially late game when they intentionally made the ‘escape options’ very rare. It’s weird to write that and mean it when I distinctly remember dying repeatedly in jsr, and only died once or twice throughout the entire story of brc.
    
    Other than those fairly minor nitpicks, everything else was very much on point.
    
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M1st3rM@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Master of Orion 3 Played 1 and 2 all the time as a kid with my brother and my father. We were SO hyped that there was going to be a MOO3 and we bought it blind because that’s what you did back then. We were in for a massive disappointment. They had some good intentions to reduce Mikromanagement but we never understood how to really play it. We tried it again after a while but came to the same conclusion

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mrbubblesort@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Halo. I picked up the collection in the summer steam sale for $10 and it was just ... boring. I guess that's to be expected for a 20+ year old game, the genre has innovated and improved a lot since then.

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- Strafer@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I felt this a bit too. I never played it back in the day so I was playing it fresh as each game released as part of the PC master collection. Playing Halo 1 without nostalgia googles is rough as that campaign has not aged well. It’s starts decent but then reusing the same levels made the second half a mediocre slog.
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yep, same here. I found it really strange when the running was much slower than other games too
    
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- dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Halo is one of my favorite games of all time, and I played the shit out of the first one when it came out. It was absolutely game changing for console shooters. Before that, I hada SNES (skipped N64 era). It absolutely blew my mind.
  
  Unfortunately, I don’t think it really held up. If you played it back then, the nostalgia still hits hard and that’s fun. But if you play it for the first time now, it just won’t hit the same, unfortunately.
  
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  - ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Having just played through the MCC recently the first halo is a bit dated, but 2 and 3 are some great campaigns. Reach and odst have decent stories, but the campaign is more average. The biggest surprise to me was how much worse 4 is than I remember. I knew it was disappointing, but playing it back to back with the others really makes it obvious.
    
    I had played all the games before though.
    
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HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Crysis. I first played it in the mid 10s having heard it was groundbreaking, and… eh. Military shooter where white people go to africa/middleeast and have gunfights in the most boring washed out brown environments imaginable. The suit abilities were kinda cool but I’ve just played that template so many times before, it’s not fun anymore and it wasn’t fun anymore 10 years ago. It was barely fun 15 years ago.

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- Hubi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Military shooter where white people go to africa/middleeast and have gunfights in the most boring washed out brown environments imaginable
  
  Uhh that’s not Crysis. In Crysis you fight North Korean soldiers and aliens on a tropical island. It’s far from “washed out brown environments”.
  
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  - WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Isn’t the main character black, too? Lol
    
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- magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Crysis is a cool tech demo. No other game came close to its visual fidelity at the time. It was groundbreaking that you could put a bunch of explosives in a house and watch it blow up into pieces as you detonate.
  
  Gameplay was always pretty average.
  
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- Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Never understood the Crisis hype, or the “Can it play Crysis” memes of the 2010s. The game was dumb.
  
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  - lordriffington@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The “Can it run Crysis” thing was purely about the fact that it was one of (if not the most) resource-intensive games out at the time. I remember it being a big jump in terms of both visual quality and the requirements to run it well.
    
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morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Conduit 2

The Conduit showed a ton of promise. Then the devs just threw everything good in the garbage for the sequel.

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hyhachi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
diablo (psx) - my brother and i are always looking for co op games when i’m back home for a visit. i’d played d2 til 5am on weekends in highschool and diablo on psx feels more like a game cause ur not just clicking a million times. i dunno what we were doing wrong but we’d done a new game + like 4 times and were still hung up at the same part of the dungeon so we bailed. great game but the curve ramped up in a dumb way. or we were missing something.

coop mentions cause im always lookin

perfect dark n64 double dragon 2 nes goof troop snes river city ransom nes jackal nes gunstar heroes genesis battletoa… nevermind

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- zer0nix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I loved the difficulty of Diablo and wish the newer games were like that - but then they are once you get to the higher difficulties.
  
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WorldWideLem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
SOCOM IV

Waited for a long time for that one and unfortunately they couldn’t resist COD-ifying it. It’s a shame because they had some cool things in it, loved the bomb defuser escort game mode.

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Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Resident Evil 3 Remake.

I knew the new Nemesis was crap but I wasn’t ready for how dull the rest of the game is as well.

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- Hyperi0n@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Resident Evil 2 Remake as well.
  
  Doing away with the fixed camera really kills the vibe of the game. Just being able to hear by not see an enemy has so much suspence.
  
  Gaining lore from the background objects. Another product of the time but walking up to something and interacting to get an indebth text read out on what you are looking at was great in the original but was absent in the remake.
  
  It was great that the Tyrant was able to move around more than the original but it’s extreamly limited and once you figure out the mechanics you realize that he is just teleworking around close to you, it becomes more of a chore than a threat.
  
  I was really hoping for a good remake Ala the first Resident Evil Remake.
  
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  - Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I disagree, I thought RE2R was fantastic although I still prefer RE7.
    
    Those games were the entire reason I went into RE3 with high expectations.
    
    I’ve never played the original though, that might be why I liked it so much.
    
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moldoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ow2

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discusseded@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
1nsane 2.

So many good memories of dragging my desktop PC, CRT monitor, desktop speakers, and LAN hub over to my friend’s house. Pizza, white castle, smoking schwag and playing hours of king of the hill. 1nsane was just the shit to get your friends worked up. Rune was cool, UT was most excellent, but 1nsane was something special.

For so many years we yearned for a next gen copy. Then we got 1nsane 2, and what. the. fuck.

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JackBruh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Elder Scrolls II : Daggerfall

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BeeAteTeenSeaWon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Gran Turismo 7. Only 4 high payout races to earn money. All my friends still play on Gran Turismo Sport because boost doesn’t work in multiplayer. They updated the missions awhile back called the human comedy where if you had it on hard mode it was easy and easy mode was down right impossible. I will never purchase pre-order or digital ever again.

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kid4today@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m gonna preface this comment by saying none of the games I mention below are bad games, in fact I think they’re very good games… they just weren’t for me.

The Outer Wilds:

I’m probably gonna take some flack for this one! I was SO looking forward to this game, I’d heard such great things about it.

I played it for around 10-15 hours, all the while thinking to myself ‘any time now this game will open up and I’ll get to the main meat of the game.’ I slowly came to the realisation that this wasn’t going to happen and that the game wasn’t going to change gear or anything. Ultimately I found the game boring.

The game is about exploration and piecing together a story, unfortunately I found the story dull and consequently didn’t care about piecing it together. Im also one of those gamers that often quick clicks through dialogue, I just want the gist of what’s being said. I want to ‘play’ a game, I don’t want to ‘read’ a game. I have books for that.

I also didn’t enjoy the exploration, I found it tedious. Now that’s strange for me… I love exploration games. I’ve wondered about this and I think the reason I didn’t enjoy exploration in the out wilds is the art style. The ‘cutesy’ art style just left me cold. None of the locations filled me with awe or wonder. I never got that feeling of ‘I wonder what’s over there!’ like I do in other exploration games.

Red Dead Redemption:

I’ve tried to play this game 3 times now. Each time I get so far and just stop…. It just bores me!

On paper this should be exactly the type of game I love, but for some reason I just don’t. I’ve thought long and hard about this game, why does it fail to keep me engaged? I’ve come up with a couple of potential reasons.

Colours. This game can be very mono chromatic. It’s often all dull greys and browns and I genuinely think that does play a part in me finding my time in the game dull also.

Getting around. Travel is tedious in this game and there’s a lot of it. It’s walking or horses.

The map. The map is large, but a lot of it is empty and looks the same.

Missions. I often found them a chore and quite repetitive.

I’m kind of still on the fence about this game, I still wonder if there’s a hump to get over and then the game opens up…. But I fear there isn’t.

Control:

This one is my fault. I don’t like fps games and didn’t realise that’s what this game was. I thought it was more puzzle solving and exploration.

I like the story and I like the art style but ultimately it’s a ‘pew pew pew’ game, which isn’t fun for me.

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- Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, I just played through outer wilds and I completely disagree. I thought each planet was pretty wonder-inducing. The story is pretty standard, I think, but the way it’s presented, non-linearly and requiring some degree of actually putting the pieces together, and the way the story serves new exploration hints to you at the same time it’s giving you clues about the history is pretty masterfully done, o think. And I DON’T usually like exploration games, I thought outer wilds would be a mid experience overall for me. But there’s no such thing as perfect, so I get it.
  
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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Forza Motorsport 7

I skipped from 4 to 7 and it was a real disappointment. I guess that can be said about a lot of series that move up a console generation though.

I even used the weird U-shaped wireless wheel controller thing and Forza Motorsport 4 was definitely the peak for me.
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