Death Standing. Beat sound in it for a bit… The crying baby noise…
There’s an indie platformer called Fallen Leaf that has really good reviews. In the opening cutscene you are told a story about how in the past the world was saved by sealing away a great evil underground. The first level of the game sees you exploring a cave that your main character didn’t even want to be in, at the behest of his sister (IIRC).
Some ways into the cave your path is blocked by a talking bear who politely but firmly explains that it is dangerous ahead and no one may pass. If you attempt to get past them, they gently boop you back.
What the game clearly wants you to do is shoot a stalactite so that it falls on the bear. No, game, I don’t think I’m going to murder this innocent bear just so that I can be the one who releases the ancient evil I will spend the rest of the game fighting against. I will just quit here while the world is still safe and the polite bear is unharmed, thanks.
Every time I try to play a JRPG or some Japanese games in general and they do that thing where they explain the same story beat over and over again or go through gameplay mechanics insanely slowly. Then people say yeah but it gets better after 10 hours, I’m like who the hell has 10 hours to burn on such nonsense.
People complain about the new wolverine game that it plays itself, at least that one seems to have a story that moves on after it told you something.
There are so many popular games like this that I can only reasonably explain by assuming the people glazing them are children or mentally challenged, but then how do they sell by the millions?
It’s always at a point where the game suddenly requires a skill that isn’t part of its usual gameplay. I played a crafting and exploration game that suddenly has a huge platforming element in the late game in a dungeon, and it was even timed! The rest of the game involved no platforming, and it wasn’t even particularly difficult to do but I suck at platforming, never enjoyed it, and I especially did not need the stress of a timer in an otherwise relaxing game.
Another story rich game which was heavy on logistics suddenly turned into a shooter. No, thank you.
Another thing I hate is when I turn the difficulty down and the only option is to do it across the board so I may as well stop interacting with the game. I know I’m bad at fast-paced precision inputs. That doesn’t mean I don’t want cool puzzles to solve or complex systems.
I know, I know: “get good.” I’m old. Shooting and platforming are not the skills I care to be developing at this stage of my life.
Absolutely loved Dark Souls until I needed to get the lord soul from the catacombs. I dunno why but the catacombs pissed me off and I quit. Just so dark. Maybe I’ll try again.
Pick any part of NieR: Automata game play… holy fuck absolutely maddenning…
It’s such a shame for me because I absolutely love the art and atmosphere but I can’t stand the gameplay
resident evil 2, when the crows burst through the windows . i turned off my PlayStation and returned that rental early.
Fallout 4 - when I kept getting the notifications about my settlements getting attacked. I tried setting them up with rocket launcher turrets to protect them but that was just annoying.
The main storyline wasn’t interesting enough to make me want to play it with the stupid grind of base building.
I’m not a very active gamer, and Fallout 4 was the only one I ever played. I got to the end basically, but no faction really seemed like a good choice so I took a break before starting down the final path with anyone. Years later, still haven’t ever gotten around to it.
Love the whole Fallout universe lore though, and I probably watched more hours of gameplay and lore videos on all the games than I spent playing FO4. I at least got that out of giving it a go.
Diablo. Butcher.
To be fair, I was maybe like 13? I should go back to that game.
Satisfactory and copper powder. Fuck copper powder
I find the Copper Alloy Ingot recipe to be the best approach. They’re somewhat less resource-efficient than Pure ingots, but the infrastructure is much more manageable, both because there’s no dealing with fluids and because Foundries are so much smaller than Refineries.
I grew up on Diablo 1 & 2. I could co-op with friends, the grind wasn’t too bad, and the RNG table for loot was acceptable. Then Diablo 3 launched with a real money auction house, it made me realize that GAMETIME = MONEY and it just zapped all of the fun.
LoZ wind waker: the slow af nutshell
Second dungeon? Where you gotta blow nutshells around various rooms?
I fucking adore Wind Waker, but… fair.
Talking to literally anyone in Kingdoms of Amalur.
Each and every NPC is loaded with the most dull voice acting, and they drone on for the longest time about a bunch of worldbuilding muck thats just impossible to care about. I did not like a single character, and could not bring myself to care about saving the world from the mean elves as a result.They were right to wipe out the mortal races.
Honestly though, humanity in Amalur kinda does fuckin suck. So do the elves, tbf.
It’s a fun game, that people probably shouldn’t look any deeper than maybe some of the cutscenes for worldbuilding as it’s just unnecessarily complicated.
the part where it’s made by AAA studios
There was this game called green farm 3 which I kept restarting every now and then. I thought I could manage to progress without/sparingly using diamonds, but the progress just stops at a point. I always left it when you had to unlock the third plot of land.
