recent: tears of the kingdom, or as i like to call it botw 1.2, its the same thing all over again just with one or two added gimicks, the open world is dead, npcs are boring and nintendo just got away with it like that

not so recent: i cant stand persona 5, joker and his entourage are annoying teenagers, the time management is a horrible gameplay addition and the artstyle is just a visual overstimulation

with that being said,~~ plz dont kill me~~

  • Biotic@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    Don’t crucify me but I’ve tried HZD and did not like it. I also tried God of War (2018) and I didn’t get very far. Maybe I was not in the right headspace but both of them felt the same to me like a game forcefully trying to make me feel something but I could not connect to either.

    • schnapsidee@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      Might be my bubble, but I don’t think disliking HZD is a particularly unpopular opinion. Personally, I really enjoyed it, but I can definitely understand why someone wouldn’t. Aloy can be both boring and annoying and the story didn’t really live up to its potentia. I can see why it would be difficult to get into it.

      For me, the gameplay more than makes up for those shortcomings. Fighting robot dinosaurs with bow and arrow is right up my alley. Also the latest DLC for the sequel made Aloy actually interesting for the first time, so I have some hopes for story in the third game.

    • Synthclair@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      For me same with both! I found them greatly over hyped, but that is fine - plenty of other great games to play.

      • Biotic@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, plenty of other games around. Although I do tend to just replay my older favourite games. Hogwarts Legacy is the only new game I’ve played this year and I enjoyed that greatly. Now looking forward to BG3.

    • notun@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Of all the Sony exclusives to come on PC, Days Gone has actually been my favourite.

    • Pigeon@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      The intro area of Horizon Zero Dawn was fun and felt so promising, but then a)

      spoiler

      All the characters they just introduced enough for me to be interested in were killed off.

      and b) you leave the intro area and… the game “opens up” into a completely boring, bog standard, empty motherfucking blandfest of an open world stereotype. It was so disappointing. Also those

      spoiler

      Tall robot dinos they made so much fuss about in the marketing… that are just used as Far Cry towers that walk in circles and do nothing else. Such as waste.

      Edit: the story, including the “what happened in the past” story, felt like it was going in an incredibly predictable direction too. People say it’s good but tbh I don’t believe them at all.

    • Extrahammer@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      God of War also wasn’t my cup of tea but I loved HZD. Although it took a while. The first 5-10 hours were a bit rough because the game is quite cagey about giving you the tools to actually have fun with the gameplay. After that the game just got better and better for me. Which is kind of rare for games of that size for me usually. Most of the time I’'m just burnt out at the end and happy for it to be over.

      God of War looked impressive but I just could not bring myself to care about any of it. To me the whole father-son dynamic and entire story just tried way too hard and felt somewhat flat as a result.

    • Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com
      0·
      1 year ago

      First time I tried HZD I didn’t like it either. Found the 1st hour or so extremely boring.

      The 2nd time however I really liked it.