Games Worth The Hype - I can't believe it's not streamer bait.

[Mrs. Sai Moon]

Balatro for sure. Kept hearing about it at work and thought it was just a stupid card game how good can it be and god damn how can a stupid card game be so fun.

I know I'll get shit for this but DRAGON'S DOGMA 2 FITE ME. Loved the hell out of it and if they release a dark arisen-esque DLC it'll be even better. Was the story worse than the original? Yes, somehow, considering Dragon's Dogma wasn't even fucking finished and heavily cut. Loved DDDA and loved DD2. Mystic spearhand was so crunchy, so much fun.

 

[Double Taps]

or outright bad (Binding of Issac,

It's a shame you feel that way, Isaac has come a long way especially with Rebirth. Cool game modes, being able to break the game or hit massive power spikes, each run being different. I can understand if the art style is a bit much with the grotesque themes though.

Slay the Spire was fun for awhile, Monster Train (I'm not autistic, I swear!) was one that I found myself playing more of despite it looking like a fucking mobile game with its animations. The concept just felt like it was delivered better.

Loop Hero got quite a bit of coverage on YT but flew completely under my radar, it ended out being one of my favorite games. The pixel graphics are super nostalgic of early pc/console games. You use cards to build up the map on a run to create enemy camps, which can transform depending on the card combinations brought. Has some pretty interesting meta progressions with farming materials to build up the town. Definitely a recommend (its also on sale often).

Dead Cells lived up to it's hype.

Valheim is also one that has been insanely fun, but I might be biased because I like Norse shit and building structures/base defense. The game is somewhat in development hell, released 3 years ago with insane sales yet drip feeds minor updates and patches. Very atmospheric.

Deep Rock Galactic. Yes, it's a reddit game, yes, rockpox is and always will be fucking cancer, yes, the devs are making every excuse under the sun to work on literally anything else. There's nothing quite like ruining a clenched butthole run by purposefully accidentally blowing up your team with the satchel charge.

With Rogue Core on the way, I'll be surprised if season 6 ever gets released. S5 took a whole fucking year...not to mention getting them to rework some of the unused OCs is like pulling teeth.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

I feel like everyone knows this too, but, terraria. High amounts of content, lots to do, explore, collect, seasonal events, easy multiplayer setup, and thats all without mods
But its also one of those games which was released and got CONSTANT patches for a decade, so it BETTER be good.
Assuming you don't have it, easily the BEST bang for your buck purchase I could suggest frankly

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

At the end of the game. You're playing as a guy on drugs. Each fight is some hallucinated monster based on the masks. So the goose twins is a hydra looking thing.

Oh, I see. The only memorable moment story-wise was the nuke imo. I actually see a lot of praise for the stories, particularly HM1, but I find it to be one of the weaker elements.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Emxf_GOaKgY:204

Supposedly there are rogue-likes in UFO 50, but I've only played one so far, and it's more blaster master than spelunky. I've never played spelunky, though I know of it.

I can't get over the Tumblr art, but it does look interesting otherwise.

Scott Pilgrim was lost media for a while. I remember it being delisted from XBLA a while ago. I guess technically all XBLA games are lost media now.

I think lost media refers to inaccessible media, stuff nobody can watch/play anymore. An example would be...tons and tons of old phone games, especially Japanese ones, like a Pokemon one called Pokemate.

I feel like everyone knows this too, but, terraria. High amounts of content, lots to do, explore, collect, seasonal events, easy multiplayer setup, and thats all without mods
But its also one of those games which was released and got CONSTANT patches for a decade, so it BETTER be good.
Assuming you don't have it, easily the BEST bang for your buck purchase I could suggest frankly

I liked it well enough but I think it's overrated. It was fun exploring and discovering secrets for a while, and playing with my friends and family was cool even though it didn't really seem to add much to the game, but it didn't have much staying power.

Then again, I feel that way about Minecraft but apparently nobody else does (and MC is even worse).

 

[Hateocracy]

Old games? Pick one. It was probably worth the hype. The list would be endless.

Newish:

• Stalker. All of them. Even Clear Sky.
• Sifu. The game borders on art.
• Metro series. Almost Stalker spinoff.
• Divinity
• Pillars of Eternity (2nd is pyrate kino)
• Dead by Daylight in beta was honestly great fun
• Dying Light. The first one.
• System Shock 1 Remake (Nightdive as a studio is incredibly faithful)
• Father Forgive me. Art style is kino.
• Cult of the Lamb. Fun, simple.
• Space Station 13 for the deep tism stims
• Zero Sievert. Amazing pixelish rogue extractor Stalker-esque isometric shooter
• Coin Game. Just do it nigga don't ask
• Nightmare Reaper. Took Doom 2016s game and went pro with it.

If we're talking newer games...Selaco is nearly shooter perfection. You can't say enough good things about how the game plays and even in its' unfinished state it is leaps beyond NuDoom.

Project Zomboid is an incredible game (with a steep combat curve but the combat feels very satisfying when you grasp it). It's also damn near an unintentional continuation of The Sims in its realism and detailed systems. The modding community behind it is also monstrous, beating out any other modding scene I've witnessed short of Fallout and Skyrim.

Space Marine 2 was good as well. Just not a high replayability to it. It faithfully captured the Imperium of Man.

 

[Idiotron]

Hotline Miami.
Especially the first one is just amazing.
I wanted somebody to make a game like that since I first played GTA1.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Outerwilds, it one of those game where the hype is so astronomically high its debatable if any games could live up to it but I personally think the game a masterpiece.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I feel like everyone knows this too, but, terraria.

I never got into Terraria. Tried playing it solo, didn't see the appeal. Tried playing it co-op, and I was handed a bunch of items, then a giant monster appeared and killed me over and over. My guess is you had to be there when it was new and nobody had any gear and played each update as it released.

It's a shame you feel that way, Isaac has come a long way especially with Rebirth.

I played it when it was fairly new. Iirc there was only one game mode and one character. For a game that is supposedly skill based, everything seemed like luck and trial-and-error. I got up to what I think was a last boss and died, and was told that the problem was I didn't have the bible. I gave up at that point, since a game that already felt like mostly luck now required me to roll a specific item or you lose? Shit like that is why I hate roguelikes.

According to steam I last played in 2018, though that's surprising because I'd have guessed 2012 or so was when I played it. I want to say it was before the DLC.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Games I bought purely on hype and enjoyed:

Faster Than Light
Outer Wilds
Fallout: New Vegas
Tooth and Tail
Portal

Games bought on hype that were disappointments:

Firewatch
Hardspace Shipbreaker
Psychonauts 2
Red Dead Redemption 2
Space Engineers
The Forest

 

[Tomboy Tuti]

For me this applies a lot to older games, "pre internet" games if I can call them. Most of them are retrospectively overhyped while a large chunk don't deserve it. Some I get the appeal of and some clicked really well with me.

System shock 1 is one, the enhanced edition streamlined the controls making it very good to play albeit a bit easy if I'm perfectly honest.

Mgs3, recency bias on my part cause I'm playing it right now but for a ps2 game it's phenomenally good. Again it has to be played via subsistence, the og is terrible in comparison with the lack of QOL improvements.

Doom and blood are considered the goat of 90s fps games and I'm inclined to agree, if doom is run through gzdoom and blood is run through a source port.

Dark souls 1, I personally like 3 more cause it has better gameplay but 1 is a better experience and overall package. Other from games are for obsessive from fans and aren't as potent for casual players. Normies who blindly praise elden ring or sekiro or whatever are just blind. Bloodborne I have not played so can't comment.

A lot of the older zeldas are very good, oot mm ww and tp are probably the best of what zelda is. Botw in retrospect falls slightly short in the traditional Zelda experience of linear game with hub world, atmosphere and side activities.

I can't think of others, there's probably one rockstar game in here I just don't know which. Caught between rdr1 and San Andreas.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

There was a game I downloaded on XBL that was a rail shooter. It was a complete parody of every 80's action film. I cannot remember the name of it but I'd really like to play it again.

 

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Cross section of "I encountered hype for this somewhere" and

• "I had a great time":
  Prey (2017), Earth Defense Force series, The Outer Wilds, Zero Escape series, Antichamber, Borderlands (only the first one, I hated everything after), DiRT 2, Sleeping Dogs, Mount & Blade (OG&Warband), Psychonauts (1), Burnout Paradise, GRID (1), Hollow Knight, Just Cause 2
• "I disliked it":
  Spec Ops: The Line, Undertale, Life is Strange, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Danganronpa series, Borderlands 2, Binding of Isaac, Dark Souls, FTL, L.A. Noire, Balatro

 

[Dipshit]

Outerwilds, it one of those game where the hype is so astronomically high its debatable if any games could live up to it but I personally think the game a masterpiece.

I totally agree. I feel the same way about Return of the Obra Dinn. Both games sorta scratch the same itch, and are so unique and creative that I can say without a drop of hyperbole they are both all time greats. They also have basically zero replay value, but as one-time experinces they are without peer.

 

[Judge Dredd]

For me this applies a lot to older games, "pre internet" games if I can call them. Most of them are retrospectively overhyped while a large chunk don't deserve it. Some I get the appeal of and some clicked really well with me.

Collectors really hype a lot of games simply based on value. I don't remember Gotcha Force being particularly good, but now it's a rare collectors item. I had never heard of MUSHA before it became a collectors item.

Some haven't aged well. Goldeneye was great back in the day, but even with modern enhancements like a stable framerate and modern controls, it lacks the community and mystery around it at the time.

There was a game I downloaded on XBL that was a rail shooter. It was a complete parody of every 80's action film. I cannot remember the name of it but I'd really like to play it again.

Was it Splosion Man? Not an 80s parody, but one of the DLCs was a FMV lightgun game that was a parody of Sega CD games.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

One game i never see talked about Kena Bridge of Spirits. Really beautiful adventure game fairly linear the combat wasn't awful i think it got drowned out with the Epig store exclusivity deal. Cult of the Lamb wrangled my autism pretty hard it was a nice mix of dungeon crawler and horror with cute animals.

most games i just wait until they are on sale because it's all hype nonsense bullshit.

 

[Asian tech support]

Prey (2017)

They really should have called this game something else. Tbh, I don't remember that much hype surrounding it. Don't get me wrong, I like this game a lot despite its shortcomings and have done quite a few playthroughs over the years, but I think there was a lot more hype for that bounty hunter Prey 2 game that never came to be and people seeing something called Prey that wasn't that and wasn't more of the first was a turn off for many. Ironically, now in the current year, there are so few people who either played the first Prey or remember the cool Prey 2 trailer that they could get away with it, but whoops, Microsoft closed the only Arkane branch that ever made a halfway decent game.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

A Link to the Past certainly lived up to the hype.

This one is controversial but COD4:MW because there wasn't that much hype other than marketing. Really. It was the fourth Call of Duty yet it turned out to be the first of a new thing, that's something that rarely if ever happens. Only thing that comes to mind is GTA3 but that had some real hype behind it and a real mix-up in what the game was like.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

metal gear solid 3
ruiner

 

[Calandrino]

"Popular Opinions about Video Games" well ok

In Autumn, I bought Vampire Survivors on sale for £3, and it's fantastic. I put almost 50 hours into it. Highly recommend. I'm still not done with the base game, and I'm tempted by the DLC. It's a simple but addicting formula and I can see why it's been cloned so much.

I want to play Vampire Survivors solely to complain about how much I hate it. I try not to be that guy that does stuff like that but the urge is very strong. I did one run of Brotato before uninstalling so I feel like I've got the gist.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

Dave the Motherfucking Diver
Balatro
Bloons TD 6
Slay the Spire

Taste is subjective but I really can't see how anybody could play any of those games and go yeah, this sucks. Dave the Diver differs from the others in that it's story based but all of the gameplay elements are fun and keep you engaged throughout, and the game doesn't overstay its welcome. 20-ish hours is what you're looking at. One could argue that the whole gathering fish for your sushi bar is tedious but there's a way to make it not be a burden in the form of a fish farm. It's a great game all around and it's never really repetitive, new and interesting things are a regular occurrence. The others are fun as shit and and you don't need to set aside 2 hours for a gameplay session. Easy games to play for hours on end, or play for 20 to 30 minutes and come back to it again later. Of them all though I'd say Balatro is a must play and more than worth the hype it receives.

Hard disagree about Dave the Diver. I found the minigames to be boring with little replayability, hated how the game would force you out of your flow into some story sequence (that fucking waifu dream rhythm game, I should have quit it right there), the boss fights were tedious, the sushi restaurant aspect was shallow and underdeveloped and the fish farming was even more tedious than hunting. I'll never trust "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam ever again.

Balatro is fun for a while but is severely flawed and turns into a startscumming simulator at high difficulties.