Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Loved the graphics in the trailer and intro. Then hated it immediately after the first battle.
Not a game specifically, but Seekers of the Storm DLC for Risk of Rain 2.
They didnt haven’t to break Loader like that. :( I still miss that game. Refunded and stopped playing it. Gearbox sucks.
RoR2 used to be one of my favorites. I have not touched it since Gearbox took over and it’s incredibly disappointing to see that my hunch about them taking over was correct. They completely broke what wasn’t broken and soured an incredible indie game and its legacy with one shitty update.
They’ve fixed the issues since, and there’s easy to install mods to revert all the questionable tweaks they made. I’m not a particular fan of giving my money to slime incarnate Randy Pitchford, but to pretend the entire game is ruined is silly.
Honestly, the QoL improvement from auto-sprinting alone is worth the modding scene. I’m still having a blast and can easily lose 3 hours whenever I boot it up.
It’s been fixed since the disasterously buggy release, and there’s a very strong modding scene. I’m sure there’s something to “fix” loader for you.
Cyberpunk 2077 only because it was busted as fuck on PS4.
Now it’s a great game that I have over 1000 hours in but when it released holy fucking broken, batman. It’s the only game I ever refunded in the PS store.
Weirdly enough, Halo: Master Chief Edition
I’d only ever played the demo for the original Halo and a few multiplayer games on other peoples’ consoles, but I’ve absorbed enough of the Halo lore from various sci-fi YouTube channels, trailers, cinematics, etc., that I found it pretty fascinating.
But the gameplay? Extremely not my cup of tea. I found the weapons very unsatisfying to use, (I grew up around Unreal Tournament’s rocket launcher) the enemies too bullet-spongey, and the environments and encounters too samey and uninteresting.
Honestly, I just want a walking simulator that takes me through the story lol
RDR2
Explain
The exploration part was ok for me, they’re some interesting points to find but that was it. When I’ve tour the map one time every biome start to look blend.
Shooting (which is the most part of the main story) is blend, unimaginative and frankly easy as opposed to hunting a squirrel that you need for a satchel.
Arthur didn’t resonate with me, he’s blind of Dutch who is clearly the bad guy at the start of the game. Playing 10h (iirc) a guy who follow blindly a fucking asshole wasn’t a great gaming experience
Dutch basically raised Arthur, but in a way that made Arthur believe that the world would always be against him. They were outlaws, and outlaws they would always be. They were treated poorly wherever they went, so they have no trouble doing bad things, which made people treat them poorly. So yeah, Arthur blindly followed an asshole.
But when the game starts we meet them at an infection point in society. Outlaws are less tolerated than they’ve ever been, their way of life is disappearing, and Arthur is forced to examine whether he really is a bad man, or whether circumstances have made him that way. And whether there’s a difference anyway.
This was actually my first thought too! Every time I buy a Rockstar game, I am immediately reminded how big the hype is compared to how bad the core game mechanics are.
I regretted buying RDR2, GTAV, and GTA4 when I first played them. I think I liked Vice City, but I expected it to be more of a visual upgrade than it was.
For RDR2, you get to slowly slog through snow… then play 40+ hours of poorly-designed quests and waves of dozens of enemies to slow you down so you can move the story forward.
The core gameplay mechanics are designed as a way to slow the story down rather than making the game fun. I would rather skip every single stupid gunfight. It’s so pointlessly repetitive.
None of these games really need 40 hours of padded story content, but people think they’re getting a “value” by spending their time playing mediocre things.
For GTAV, it’s honestly hilarious how bad the first driving mission is. People are straight-up delusional about these games.
Me too, which is crazy because RDR is an absolute blast. I know understand how rockstar screw up the pacing so badly
Spore
nothing like advertised
