Games you gave up on.
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- Feb 8, 2019
Doom Eternal is overhyped, silly nonsense and I gave up on sheer frustration when one night I thought to myself "alright fine ill give it one more chance just to beat it" and then I had to download an 11 gb update because they added some new skins to the multiplayer mode. The game rides too hard on the doom hype without much real substance, the constant platforming is boring and tedious and the combat just doesn't sit right with me.
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The major fun part of the game is the randomized guns, but you can get so much crap you have to scrap for every halfway decent gun or shield or whatever that it's just a massive grinding slog to get through. That and the spastic lolrandom sarcasm humor the games are full of has been tired and outdated for the past decade or more.
I gave up for a few months after I first played, too, but getting back in made me love the game. It's more fun on further playthroughs because you can speed through the game mowing down demons instead of trying to figure out where to go. But if the combat just isn't your thing in general then I don't think the dlcs will be a better fit for you.
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Damn, I was actually considering playing that one. Wanna get back into gaming. I haven't really played a video game since 2015ish? Whenever the PS4 came out. Any recommendations?
As for me, the Persona games. Played each one but stopped half way through all of them up to three. Then I stopped playing them entirely. I just don't see the appeal and it just seems like tedious bullshit to me.
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I would say at least try eternal when it's on sale or just pirate it. It's a well optimized game despite it's install size.
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- Aug 18, 2020
I was playing Glover recently. The carnival world always grates away at my goodwill towards the game. The pirate world straight after is where I get legitimately mad at the game's awful controls and bad level design.
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- Feb 8, 2019
If you liked the first 4 resident evil games, 7 and 8 are very very good returns to the survival horror format, with much better writing to boot
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- Sep 26, 2019
I didn't get very far into Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. It just wasn't fun, and the gimmick with going into the walls as a hieroglyphic Link wasn't interesting at all.
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- Jan 28, 2018
All of them. I very rarely finish any game.
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I tried to get into and play BOTW because I hadn't played a Zelda game up to that point but kept getting stuck on a divine beast boss fight from lack of good armor or weapons cause I didn't get any of that shit. I restarted the game a couple more times throughout the year but the same thing kept happening.
I'm currently playing Persona 5 just because I have a ps5 and ps plus so might as well. I didn't even have an urge to play the damn thing until I just decided to.
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. To be fair I only gave it an hour or two but I was basically just walking through a creepy house and got bored quick.
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I liked Red Dead 2 a lot at first, played probably 12+ hours. Took my time, explored the world. It was about the middle point of Lemoyne that I gave up on it. Every mission turned out the same, characters started acting like dumbfucks for drama purposes, I felt like I had less and less agency over Arthur given how there were pretty much no more moral choices at that point, and though the gunplay was fun with difficulty mods it just wasn't holding my interest at all. The plot was getting stale and uninteresting and the writing was tanking, not just because of all the SJW shit all of a sudden in Lemoyne but as a whole. By the time I explored Saint Denis and didn't have much else to buy for my guns I dropped it.
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There's a germ of a good game in there, but it's such a slog.
There's a surprising twist near the end, with Guido being possessed by what later turns out to be Nyarlathote. But there's another dungeon after that, and I couldn't take it any more.
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RE2 Remake.
I really don't like how key items take up space or the pseudo stealth mechanics combined with narrow corridors or not being able to struggle out of getting grabbed. Yes, I know the knife can get me out of one, but then I have to go get the knife back. Also, the knife suddenly has durability.
I really don't like how key items take up space or the pseudo stealth mechanics combined with narrow corridors or not being able to struggle out of getting grabbed. Yes, I know the knife can get me out of one, but then I have to go get the knife back. Also, the knife suddenly has durability.
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Was nobody else alarmed by 2make and 3make being named consecutive "games of the year"?
We're cheap whores. No two ways about it.
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I liked 2make well enough but after doing Leon's story I didn't feel like going back to it. Never even touched 3make, looked like shit.
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The tried and true "take away features fans have come to expect" cash-grab sequel.
This is a minor point, but crafting guns and mixing powder was my favorite mechanic, so I'm glad that wasn't cut. A nice reminder that Jill's an ex-cop.
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Recently tried to get into Xenoblade and just couldn't vibe with the combat or the god-awful Bri*ish voice acting.
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That mechanic gets better when it requires some thinking and creativity. I liked the game but I'm also a "I like Zelda 3. Make more Zelda 3" type of person so it was pretty much made for me. Nintendo, do the same thing with Super Metroid.
Personally I've given up on many RTS games, halfway through the game nothing has really changed except now there's more crap to build, which costs more so you have to harvest more stuff which takes even more time to do. The further you get into the game the longer it will take before you are allowed to play with your tanks. Ground Control was great because there was no base building or harvesting.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance, for an EXTREMELY petty reason: I found the main character ugly as sin and couldn’t bear to keep looking at him.
The janky combat didn’t help but I would probably have powered through if I weren’t playing as a potato-faced lump. His voice actor is rather hot, though, so we seem to have yet another Cal Kestis situation where a video game engine renders a good looking person derpy as all hell.
The janky combat didn’t help but I would probably have powered through if I weren’t playing as a potato-faced lump. His voice actor is rather hot, though, so we seem to have yet another Cal Kestis situation where a video game engine renders a good looking person derpy as all hell.