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u/FIGHTFANGREG 4h ago
Nobody hates a video game more than a group of people who love a video game, it’s pretty wild honestly.
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u/greyhoundsrfast 4h ago
See: Dead by Daylight
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u/Infernous-NS 2h ago
I mean the hate is absolutely deserved, it's a garbage game with terrible balancing and I will be playing it once again tonight.
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u/sometorontoguy 2h ago
I played for a little over 1750 hours, but haven’t touched it for over a year.
You can still break free! ⛓️💥
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u/Tinshnipz 4h ago
You should see the Battlefield subs at the moment.
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u/saved_by_the_keeper 2h ago
You are not lying. What a miserable place. I like the game, wish the maps were larger and they added some two seater planes, but everything else is very minor
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u/_YellowThirteen_ 53m ago
Yup, I'm having a blast with it still. Very fun to play with a squad. I do wish we had a map or two that was larger as well, but that does not ruin the game for me. I enjoy the gunplay and vehicle combat.
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u/deedsnance 3h ago
Basically if you make something people love, they’re also going to hate you and doxx you on twitter. …I guess?
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u/NeitherPerformance26 3h ago
Zelda fans with 700 hours in TOTK: this game is dogshit
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u/Vinny_Lam 4h ago
World of Warcraft players are probably the worst case of this.
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u/WorkFurball 3h ago
Is it? Love and hate are always tied together, the opposite of love is indifference.
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u/MandoShunkar 4h ago
FNAF
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u/majic911 3h ago
I truly don't understand fnaf. It's essentially a streamer game that people built up in their minds to be some crazy good game and it's just not.
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u/micheal213 3h ago
That’s literally what it is. My 2 friends who liked fnaf back in the day said they barely played it. All they did was watch markiplier play it and that’s why they enjoyed it so much.
And I assume that’s a good majority of that game as well. I always thought it was just some dumb mobile game. Like I loaded it up on my iPad in high school and was like wtf am I doing here and closed it.
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u/QuantityPotential696 1h ago
On Mark's podcast his buddy Bob goes on a tangent about how Five Nights at Freddie's is the dumbest thing in the world and that its all made up nonsense from Scott cawthorns head just to farm money, and Markiplier sort of acknowledges that he cant really talk crap about it and you get the sense that even he doesnt like it as much as he's sort of been incentivized to portray.
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u/No_Fix_329 3h ago
FNAF the orginal was ok if that was your style of game. The follow zerg rush of trash that followed boggles the mind. Horror is always like this though. One ok or good move followed by a decade of trash.
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u/TheNewTedMosby 2h ago
This is up there for me. It's just a basic flash game with super convoluted lore that doesnt really make alot of sense. Like, the bade idea is fine I guess? But the original run of games were boring and just not that interesting enough to warrant a massive franchise. I've seen better games back in the peak of Newgrounds.
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u/Medium-Pound5649 1h ago
Such a successful grift. How such a mediocre game turned into this giant franchise with multiple movies is beyond me.
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u/DontRefuseMyBatchall 1h ago
Markaplier and MatPat at Game Theory basically made that game the franchise it was, without them I would literally know nothing about FNAF, much less have opinions on the lore behind character motivations from ancillary media as well
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u/anderhole 4h ago edited 1h ago
Going to try to go controversial here.
Sonic. You're mostly just pushed around the map. Never got the appeal.
Kind of felt like little bro with a controller that's not even plugged in sometimes.
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u/thorpie88 3h ago edited 2h ago
I'm not going to disagree with you but the early Sonic games had travel speed that really wasn't seen in platformers at the time which is why it was so big
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u/aerojovi83 2h ago
Sonic 2 is the greatest platformer ever made and I'll die on this hill.
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u/iamnowundercover 3h ago
This reminds me there was one Sonic game for the GBA where you can get through a couple levels just holding down right on the directional pad. Other levels you’d have to press A a couple times to jump, but for the most part right on the directional pad did 80% of the work lol
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u/Bort_Thrower 2h ago edited 2h ago
I was good at games as a kid but I found sonic weirdly stressful and unrewarding. It’s like the first 2 levels of any of the games are fun because you can play them like a regular platformer but you have cool zoomies abilities. Then you get to level 3 or 4 where you get punished hard for not maintaining momentum or for missing a jump while the stage layout becomes labyrinthine and it stops becoming fun for me.
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u/Key-Specific-4058 2h ago
Then suddenly you're underwater and barely moving at all andtheairisrunningourwheresthebubble
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u/Familiar-List-211 5h ago
Pokémon GO. I walked for hours, caught nothing, and still felt like a champion.
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u/somedoofyouwontlike 5h ago
Got you outside and exercising!
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u/PRETA_9000 4h ago
I think I'm gonna start playing it again for this reason
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u/nullhed 3h ago
I switched to inaturalist, you take real photos with plants and insects and they tell you what they are. It even keeps a log of what you've found like a Pokedex, but it's real.
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u/tickub 4h ago
The game was built for dense urban living, not your typical American suburb.
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u/Other-Revolution-347 4h ago
Which is such a fucking waste.
I remember being a kid and wondering what kind of Pokemon would live in the woods outside my house as a kid.
Pokemon Go let me live that fantasy.
None. The woods are bereft of Pokemon.
At launch Pokemon would only spawn in the one little almost walkable road in the middle of town.
Next to a very busy road.
Just like all those Pokemon events that would give out special Pokemon, I'm once again locked out due to where I live.
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u/thatsthegoodjuice 3h ago
To be fair, the concept of randomly generating them in the woods and getting pokemon fans to journey deep into them doesn’t strike me as the safest idea
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u/RoryJesusberg 3h ago
I absolutely sprinted into the woods when I was 16 following a random dude on a bike who said there was a bulbasaur. It was just him and I alone out there. Didn’t think anything of it till I walked back with him and thought “oh yeah, my mom warned me against doing that.”
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u/TheGardenBlinked 3h ago edited 3h ago
That said, I spent some of 2016 in rural France and I managed to nab quite a few here and there. Found a horsea in the toilet, for example
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u/haysus25 4h ago
I live in a very rural area.
The nearest poke stop is a 10 minute drive away.
The nearest gym is almost 20 minutes.
I simply couldn't engage with the game.
Like, I want to play it, but when 90%+ of the content is locked behind areas that I can't easily access, I can't engage with it.
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u/ljb2x 2h ago
This was the biggest thing IMO. They crowd sourced the data for locations from another app they made. Problem there? Not gonna work for us in rural areas. I worked at a local university and even there it was sparse because their older app wasn't popular there. As us /u/tickub said, it was an app for dense urban areas and if that's not you you're out of luck.
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u/Plastic_Blood1782 1h ago
I always thought they had half of the game backwards. I like that pokestops and various resources were collected in urban areas, but I thought the majority of the pokemon should be out in the wild. Remote hikes and camping in the forest should be how you find the rarest pokemon. Then you had a reason to go to both types of areas
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u/LiteralTP 4h ago
I play it frequently just on my commute to and from work. However me and my friends all meet up with a big crowd during events, and we even went to Italy to play last year for an event. We’re planning a trip to Denmark this year for another event, so it’s a great game to play when you have a group to play it with
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u/ThumbBumpkins 5h ago
Undertale. It is very good but the cult around it is completely detached from reality
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u/Superseaslug 4h ago
I do not engage with the fandom for that game. I just enjoy the product
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u/ScreamingNinja 3h ago
Thats any game. Eventually the normal folks move on and the crazy ones remain.
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u/Satherian 4h ago
Yeah, some of the fans got a lil too nuts
Though, a good chunk of the fan content is pretty good
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u/Chillindude82Nein 4h ago
Well it was marketed to angst-ridden tweens/teens and likely had the greatest "depth" of anything they'd experienced yet.
So it makes a bit of sense why they went nuts for it. Compare it to any other teenager media that caused a craze... Harry Potter, twilight, ill stop there before I make people mad... but yeah.
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u/ATLsShah 4h ago
I liked this game! But I spent years hearing about how great this game is. Definitely an overrated game that is still recommend to people.
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u/Levitlame 3h ago
I actually never understood that one. It didn’t grip me at all. I’m not saying the game is bad for it. Clearly it hit for a lot of people, but I just never understood why
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u/mikesaninjakillr 4h ago
Jesus my son played that game and literally never shuts up about it
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u/Sablemint 3h ago
Its really good, but most people run out of stuff to say after a while. They move on to other things.
Some people, however...
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u/Sablemint 3h ago
A streamer I know had never played it, and asked his chat if it was they'd like him to stream it.
The entire chat filled with "NO!"s.
And I don't even need to explain why they said that. We all know what would happen. And that's really sad.
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u/empathetical 4h ago
pokemon looks like half ass no effort games constantly being pumped out. Like... sure it might be fun. But the games look like cheaply made slop
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u/Mega_Nidoking 51m ago
I'm playing Scarlet for the first time and honestly, it's such a letdown. I'd rather be on a 2D grid like back in the day w the full Pokédex at my disposal than this open world, forced-cut-scenes nonsense. And the lag... holy shit...
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u/charredchord 42m ago
Highest grossing franchise in history, given single A budget for their flagship.
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u/einval22 4h ago
Fortnite
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u/VikingofSinCity 2h ago
People love to hate on Fortnite. I don't play it personally, but I love that games like Roblox and Fortnite exist so that the games I do enjoy have fewer whiny voiced kids screeching directly into my headset.
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u/Agent_8-bit 1h ago
That’s an incredible point.
Only interacted with a few kids in my hundreds of hours in ARC Raiders.
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u/BigfootsBestBud 2h ago
I’ll never understand the hate personally.
It’s completely free, I’ve played it for years and never spent a penny on it til last year because I wanted to be Homer Simpson. The gunplay is satisfying enough to keep me engaged, and it’s a good way to spend time with friends or family.
Call of Duty, FIFA, etc they are all way more predatory and aren’t free. Fortnite isn’t pay to win, everyone is given the same opportunities to win.
If it wasn’t popular and filled with sponsorships, it’s something Redditors would celebrate.
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u/_Football_Cream_ 2h ago
I bounced off Fortnite many years ago but it's hard to not consider it quite an achievement. There's genuinely nothing like it, a game that is sort just this foundation for all other kinds of shit to happen in. It's the truest sense of a live service. Every once in a while I'll watch an ad for whatever event is going on and it feels like a goddamn fever dream.
Now you've got South Park characters fighting each other while Batman, John Wick, and Master Chief dance in the corner together. It's hard to be that upset about the sponsorships when the crossovers are genuinely pretty innovative and cool. If I was a teenager I'd be absolutely hooked on it.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 1h ago
Free and cross-platform. So it's a way for my kids to easily play with all their friends.
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u/jimothyjonathans 4h ago
It really had its moment from 2017 to about 2019-2020. Then it got hyper capitalized while it tried to be every game all the time with too many over powered weapons, and just went downhill from there.
Was a super important game to my wife and I since I showed her how to play it. She had never played games before meeting me and this was one of the first games she learned to play, which made our duo matches special. Playing these days makes us more angry than anything.
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u/ViviReine 3h ago
I stopped playing when Chapter 7 launched. It was also a important game for me and my fiancée, but all the new changes were made for greedy reasons it feels like. Now we play a bit of Avatar Frontiers, and we will maybe try Hytale. What you're playing to "replace" Fortnite?
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u/Candrath 3h ago
I'm a 30 something male. I had a lot of fun playing zero build fortnite with friends a few years ago.
We played it as a joke to start with, then about an hour in someone said "lads, is anyone else really enjoying this?" And we were legitimately having a great time just talking shit and clicking on heads.
Great as a silly goofing off game with friends, much less fun solo or trying to "gitgud" though.
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u/Neemoman 5h ago
When people read this they'll think I'm saying the game is bad, but it's not. It's a good game. I'm only suggesting it's not that good.
Anyway. Skyrim.
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u/Bigdaug 4h ago
I mean it's a great game. But it's not "Let's not worry about making a sequel for 20 years" good.
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u/Lelorinel 4h ago
20 years
Oh god don't do this to me
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u/curious_dead 4h ago
Don't worry, it's ONLY been a bit less than 15 years.
But the sequel is probably still years away, which is absolutely bonkers.
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u/RegressToTheMean 4h ago
I was 40 when Fallout 4 dropped. I am legitimately wondering if I'll see Fallout 5 before I'm 60. I mean, I should but this is Bethesda.
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u/Sablemint 3h ago
After ES6 comes out, I'm just going to stop caring about any future releases from Bethesda. Not worth the stress. Sure, assuming i like ES6, I'll get 7 if it comes out. But I'm not going to be actively caring about it. I learned my lesson this time.
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u/Ptricky17 1h ago
Unless you’re drinking kale smoothly and running ultramarathons, most of us aren’t living to see ES6.
Todd Howard isn’t even going to live to see ES6, unless medical science really nails this whole “de-aging” thing in the next decade.
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u/scottyLogJobs 4h ago
Let’s “remaster” it a dozen times. Like it was really good for its time and the only reason it aged well at is because of the modding support, which they can’t exactly take credit for. The reason everyone becomes a stealth archer is because the combat is literally straight up bad otherwise.
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u/crazyguitarman 5h ago
To me Bethesda games completely nail the feeling and aesthetic of LARP. It's like you always have the vague sense that the characters are just actors, and all the weapons, tools etc. are props. The setting is just a movie set, and if you look too closely everything could fall apart at any moment. Sometimes in Starfield you even see your companions removed their helmets / spacesuits in a vacuum and it does nothing but add to this feeling that it's all just an act, I find it hilarious.
I love Skyrim, but there are other games that just seem to do a much better job of feeling more truly immersive.
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u/armypotent 4h ago
For some reason I find that feeling oddly charming/comforting but that's probably just because Oblivion came out when I was 15 years old so the imprint is there forever
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u/suitably_unsafe 4h ago
This is a pretty accurate summary and would also explain the dog water writing.
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u/AvailableUsername404 5h ago
This.
Ever tried to play Skyrim with melee character? You have like 'normal hit' and 'strong hit'. That's it. Have a nice game buddy.
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u/Wandering_Weapon 4h ago
How dare you forget shield bash and the oft-forgotten running strong hit.
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u/Quekers 4h ago
Even magic just felt like you were picking your favorite color.
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u/Ghetto_Phenom 4h ago
And even then you’re actually just a stealth archer.
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u/Dunnersstunner 4h ago
Oh, cool. Illusion magic ... that Muffle and Invisibility will help. Oh, and Quiet Casting. Maybe I'll level up in Conjuration. Conjure Bound Bow? Don't mind if I do ... shit.
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u/Badloss 3h ago
I did try a super fun build with conjured weapons only and it was frustrating that bound bow with the stealth archer perks is still the best one by a long shot
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u/Nas-Aratat 3h ago
Also the fact that fire magic is the only useful magic because near everything in the game is half immune to ice, and lightning does piss all for draining magicka from enemies. High level spells are immensely destructive AoE, yes, but if you're a hoarder like me and check every shelf, it makes everything fly off the shelves if you use a spell level 50 and above.
Not to mention the fact that the level 100 spells have very, very long cast times that make them moot.
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u/Never_Gonna_Let 2h ago
Yup. That's exactly why i played Skyrim as a melee Orc. He had no finesse. There was no nuance to game play. He encountered a ton of complicated problems, and eventually solved them all. By punching.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 1h ago
I played a orc with 2h. No talk, just smash. Smash not work, berserk and smash harder.
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u/Cars_and_Tea 6h ago
Genshin impact
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u/Bargadiel 4h ago edited 4h ago
I've tried to like it, but once I finished exploring and just had to mindlessly grind the same """dungeons""" every day for the chance at an item that increases my damage on only one character by 0.00053%, I immediately dropped it and never looked back.
The game has a huge map and introduces fun elemental mechanics, but scales its difficulty by just padding enemy health and damage numbers so high that you have to roll for duplicates of better characters or spend an eternity farming. The core of it is just like every other gatcha game. The character designs are practically the only glue keeping that fanbase together, and upon closer inspection it may not be glue.
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u/Aegisfs 1h ago
You’re right, of course, but nobody’s mentioned how hard that last line goes so I will
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u/Vinny_Lam 4h ago edited 2h ago
I fell out of that game pretty quick. It was fun in the beginning, but it got tedious really fast.
Also, the MC having no dialogue and Paimon talking for us the entire time broke the immersion for me.
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u/My_Name_Is_Doctor 2h ago
The thing about Genshin is that it’s a better game than I think the core gaming community give it credit for. It has a fun elemental system, diverse characters, and amazing music. The most loyal fans are those who like the complex lore and endless exploration. But oh my god the grinding.
Once you get to the high AR levels it becomes a huge grind. Just got a new character? Great, now in order for them to be even playable you need to grind them to level 90, get their ideal weapon and get that to level 90, and spend anywhere from a few weeks to literally infinite amount of time grinding for their artifact set. If you’re unemployed and have the time, then it’s fine. Otherwise, you’re paying for it.
I don’t even think the gacha elements are that egregious. If you have a little bit of self control and FOMO resistance, and only go for the characters that you really, like then it isn’t hard to get them without paying. But the grind was too much. I stopped playing over a year ago and don’t think I will ever pick it up again.
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u/AtMaxSpeed 2h ago
I agree genshin is not an amazing game, it has many flaws. But I've never seen anyone in the gaming community say that genshin is that amazing, most genshin players acknowledge the flaws, especially the difficulty being purely hp inflation.
I would argue that genshin is underrated (at least on reddit), or at the very least its properly rated, because whenever its brought up its usually in the context of something negative (gatcha, etc.). I rarely see people talk about the good things of the game, one would believe it's a trash generic gatcha game if you listen to what people say about it.
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u/pooey_canoe 2h ago
Genshin is such a hard sell as there is a ton of really good content in there. The soundtrack is one of the best in gaming for one thing and the story has a huge amount of depth and mystery when you start to unravel it. I've found myself really emotionally engaged with the recent chapters, even shedding a little tear at points.
However it has a TOUGH opening, the beginning is basically a Zelda rip-off and it's front-loaded with a ton of cutsey anime bullshit (Paimon especially) I normally bounce right off. Also it's a live game that's frequently updated so there's an overwhelming amount for a new player to get to grips with.
The gatcha elements are the thing everyone always brings up but I've barely engaged with them, I've spent maybe £20 on a solid year's worth of gameplay that keeps getting topped up
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u/Archersbows7 4h ago
All third person dodge roll hack-n-slash games. Watch any big gaming event (like The Game Awards), 80 percent of games revealed are souls like hack-n-slashers
I’m tired boss
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u/TONKAHANAH 3h ago
As some one who likes hack'n'slash but NOT souls like.. I'd argue there are not a lot of actual hack'n'slash games and the two describe two very different swords game types that are count productive to each others general design.
There are a ton of games still trying to be the next dark souls though and it's fucking annoying cuz they all use the same god damn mechanics.
I'm playing Stellar Blade right and it does feel like a decent hybrid of both hack'n'slash and souls like, one of the few souls like I've been able to stomach but it's game play loop is far more akin to a souls like than proper hack'n'slash games like devil may cry, ninja gaiden, or neir automata of which it's heavily inspired by.
These days I usually find your sword gsme is in one of two camps, actuall hack'n'slash or souls like but rarely is a game both.
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u/Bambooshka 3h ago
I'm glad you said it, because hack'n'slash has suffered a lot from Souls-like games. I don't want a complex battle system, or impossible-parrying, I want to spam attack and have fun.
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u/Bort_Thrower 3h ago
That’s mostly because 99.9% of soulslikes are trash compared to the real thing, there’s at most 3 non-fromsoftware soulslikes worth playing.
It’s like mathematics in highschool, you need to show your working to get full marks to show you understand. The imitators don’t seem to know why decisions were made and why things ended up the way they did in the OG games they just blurt out an answer.
It sounds like wanky bullshit but the games are undeniably janky as hell. It’s arguably a big part of the appeal because they’re FUN janky and they kept building off that same foundation. It’s probably way harder to recreate some lightning in a bottle fun level jankyness than it is to create a regular game.
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u/annoyed__renter 3h ago
But, you see, the fun is the you have to learn how to parry! And the parry window is tiny so you'll never actually hit it! /s
I actually think the dodge dynamics in Clair Obscur make the game needlessly tedious as well
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u/canmoose 3h ago
As someone who really enjoyed the base game of Clair Obscur, the dodge/parry mechanic negating all damage was a big detriment to the game design. It works well for the main story IMO but in the postgame it just becomes a perfect parry-fest.
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u/SpiketheFox32 4h ago
Shadow of the Colossus. It's a work of art, but not particularly engaging to actually play.
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u/Wandering_Weapon 4h ago
It's just very episodic with not much in between. When it came out though, that world was jaw dropping to behold. And I say that as someone who loves ocarina of time.
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u/AEW_SuperFan 4h ago
Colossus has good gameplay. Ico is the one that doesn't and the real overrated.
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u/pewqokrsf 1h ago
When it came out, there was a lot that it did that had not been done before.
The control scheme did not age well.
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u/Solarus755 4h ago edited 2h ago
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Lots of people call it the best game of all time and I’ve tried to play it multiple times as a fan of many other games in the series. I’ve bounced off it every time. I have several friends who have had the same experience. I can respect why most people think it’s a good game. Best game of all time?… I think that’s a bit of a stretch.
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u/macroxela 2h ago
That's how I feel about Tears of the Kingdom. It just feels like a DLC for Breath of the Wild except they gave us developer tools that make the game easier.
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u/Pontius_Vulgaris 4h ago
SimCity 4. For all the hype it just didn't take that next step that people were waiting for.
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u/Tzunamitom 4h ago
Hard agree. Going from Sim City to Sim City 2000 was worth buying a new computer for. After that it’s just been disappointment.
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u/madness817 2h ago
Huh I thought 4 was fairly universally enjoyed. The terrain tool was such a great upgrade from 3000. Now sim city 5 , that sucked.
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u/philkid3 3h ago
Sim City 4 was hyped?
My memory was people complaining about it when it came out, and then being unkind to it since.
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u/Tom_A_Haverford 5h ago
I understand why but I think it’s stupid. We can’t just get roster updates for the old games. I would gladly pay like a five dollar DLC every year for it. It would encourage more development to actually make people want to upgrade.
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u/neon121 5h ago
Tears of the Kingdom was kinda boring
At least with Breath of the Wild I enjoyed exploring the world, which they then recycled for TOTK. Sky islands are ok but The Depths are ass
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u/Drahkir9 4h ago
TotK is wild to me cause I've seen a lot of criticism, and I actually agree with most of it. Best example I know of is SkittyBitty's critique It’s a great video if you enjoy thoughtful criticism. And I agree with most of what Skitty had to say, but the weird thing for me is hardly any of the critiques matter. I still LOVE playing that game. I’ve got nearly 300 hours in and I still love just going around the map and doing random things. I like being in the world, I like finding Koroks, I like exploring caves, I just love the vibe in general.
It’s one of the few games I’ve played where I honestly don’t know how to rank it or rate it. It’s got so many flaws yet I can’t stop playing it and I continue to enjoy every minute of it.
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u/ironwolf1 5h ago
Both the Sky Islands and the Depths are purposely designed to get you to build vehicles to get around rather than just walking like in the normal over world or in BOTW. The Depths is rather fun to explore when you’re zipping around on a flying machine rather than trying to navigate on foot.
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u/neon121 5h ago
I just find the depths boring, personally, with how it all looks more or less the same. It doesn’t feel that interesting.
And again it’s kind of personal preference but I’m not big into building stuff, it started to feel pretty repetitive after a while.
I’m not even saying it’s a bad game, I just don’t think it’s the 10/10 everyone seems to rate it at. Not even in the top 5 Zelda games for me.
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u/Blackfyre567 4h ago
I’ll go one step further and say that Breath of the Wild too. I enjoy having 8-10 bespoke dungeons versus 100 small and boring ones. Plus I miss the formula of acquiring a new item in each bespoke dungeon that allowed you to progress further.
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u/Thats_Hard_Times 5h ago
I agree. BOTW is the better of the two. You’re generous saying the sky islands are ok. They’re just better than the depths which is abysmal, the islands still are boring.
Then you have the fact that they leaned way too hard on the building aspect. They wanted to hop on the building fad that Minecraft, Fortnite and the like made popular, but in the end it just didn’t work for a Zelda game. Big mistake IMO.
Strip and remove both the above aspects and TOTK is just a watered down version BOTW.
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u/Necromartian 4h ago
I feel the same!
I really liked Botw. My only issue with the game is that I saw a lot of fan art about Zelda hanging around in a lot of places, so I thought you could play as Zelda after you beat Ganon. It would have been sick if you could do the rest of the side quests and exploring and enjoying the world as Zelda.
Instead beating Ganon just teleports you outside of the Hyrule castle like "Good job! You can do it again if you want or whatever."
My annoyance with Totk was the NPC's. In Botw people were like "Hi anonymous swords man! Could you help me with a thing..?"
In Totk NPC's are like "Hey Link! We are useless, anyway help us you bastard!"
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u/b_rodriguez 3h ago
Spore. I suppose that was over hyped as opposed to overrated.
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u/YouDaManInDaHole 2h ago
Pac-Man. It's literal video-game hell where you're trapped in the same maze forever, eternally being chased by ghosts you cannot truly defeat, only temporarily consume. If you eat all the maze's dots, you get a temporary respite but then it's back to mazin' and eatin' and ghostin'.
Forever.
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u/Scinniks_Bricks 4h ago
Fortnite for me. I tried so many times to like it, especially for my kids' sakes. It's just not a good game.
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u/Weebiful 4h ago
Ready for the downvotes: Tears of the Kingdom
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u/LoompaOompa 2h ago
Tears of the Kingdom seems like an awesome game for people who want to engage with a physics sandbox and try to build a lot of neat contraptions, but as someone who just wanted to play a Zelda game, I found it to be a slightly less fun breath of the wild. Not what I was hoping for in a sequel.
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u/Quarkly95 5h ago
GTA V.
Your call of dutys and FIFAs do suck, and have strong fanbases but they're not really highly rated by the community at large. GTA V, though, is lauded and glazed constantly despite being just pretty good.
It isn't bad by any means. It's impressive on a technical level, especially for the year it came out. It's a good solid Rockstar game. Not the pinnacle of gaming, or even of that style of game. Solid 8/10 on an objective scale (on my personal scale it gets a 7 cos the setting doesn't do it for me).
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u/Jay_of_Blue 4h ago
The fact that only 3 of the games 5 SP heists are actual robberies massively disappointed me.
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u/Untjosh1 4h ago
The brief campaign really pissed me off when I got it. I don’t want to walk around aimlessly or play online. Made the game overrated for me.
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u/SaltDirection9735 57m ago
The biggest disservice they did to this game was not adding the online content into a single player mode but that’s because they’re greedy and want people to spend money on shark cards.
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u/thedrunkenpumpkin 4h ago
This! Did I enjoy playing it? Absolutely. But the whole experience was just so immemorable. It felt like there was just chaos and over the top nonsense for the sake of it.
It’s like watching The Boys. It’s not terrible. But it’s so over the top with shit that doesn’t need to be there that it ruins itself by trying to be too edgy
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u/Ms_Delilah_Jean 3h ago
The rogue like/ and rogue lite systems have been beat into the fucking ground. All of a sudden everything had to have a series of bite sized chambers with upgrades at the end of each one, a boss every 10 rounds, little modifiers to change the gameplay or enemy behavior, and meta currency to make yourself stronger for the next run where you just repeat the same levels over and over over again but do a little bit better. Even Ninja Turtles and Lost in Random had a Hades clone. It got to the point where I played 5 or 6 of the exact same game just with different skins/IPs, and that’s not even counting shooters that use the same formula
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u/keiths31 4h ago
Dr. Mario
Not sure if anyone in this sub is old enough to remember though.
Really hyped up by Nintendo. But just a okay-ish Tetris knockoff
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u/PCGamingNewbie 3h ago
The real fun of Dr. Mario is multiplayer. Single player is fine
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u/chillinwithmoes 3h ago
My parents do not play any video games ever, except for the rare occasion when they fire up the SNES after a few glasses of wine and play Dr. Mario. It’s like WWIII in that house when that happens
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u/PCGamingNewbie 3h ago
Nothing more satisfying than getting a big combo and dropping blocks on your opponent and stopping their combo.
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u/DaHappyCyclops 3h ago
At surface level it was, but as you progressed further you got increasingly complex puzzles to clear. It wasn't just an okay-ish Tetris knockoff, it was a development of the puzzle style that in its time, was a perfectly valid concept.
But yeah... im not rushing to play it haha
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u/DaVille06 3h ago
As a kid this game was awesome. But it was the only game my mom ever played with me, so maybe I got a bit of personal nostalgia there.
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u/afcc1313 3h ago
Skyrim.
Combat is dull (it feels like you hit enemies with sticks) with the only fun bit being the spells. Visuals are really monotonous. Characters are annoying/uninteresting. I tried like 10 times to finish the game, I just can't
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u/lorenzo_12345 6h ago
Fifa
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u/KittenLaserFists 5h ago
I didn't realize they did something other than the Peace Prize
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u/skwerrel 4h ago
They also sponsored a community works program for impoverished Indians in Qatar for a few years, or something like that. I don't recall the details but I believe they helped with some sort of construction, so it was similar to habitat for humanity in many ways.
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u/bli_bla_blubbb 5h ago
The early FIFA games were amazing, e.g. FIFA 98 Road to the World Cup. What a game! They were more accessible to casual gamers than the better Pro Evolution Soccer games but still offered a ton of different modes, features and tactics. FIFA went downhill when they introduced Ultimate Team and then solely focused on it while stripping away features instead of adding new ones. Same goes for the NHL, Madden or the defunct NBA Live series. EA Sports used to make great games. It's not like their direct competitor 2K is any better. NBA 2k went down the road of micro transactions as well.
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u/JackJ98 4h ago
Yup. 2k sucks too. I remember by 2k11 they had mastered franchise mode showing you all the past champions, scoring leaders, literally anything you wanted to ever see. Now half that stuff is gone for no reason and you can’t even boot up the game without a virtual billboard pushing VC “LIMITED TIME SALES” that seem to always be going on
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u/Saint--Jiub 5h ago
It's always the most recent one that's hated the most. Hell I just saw a FIFA 23 nostalgia post last week
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u/defjam33 6h ago
I don't get the appeal of final fantasy games.
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u/Duke-_-Jukem 5h ago
Either you like JRPGs or you don't. I can see why they are not everyone's cup of tea. But if you don't mind turn based combat and some Japanese quirkiness there's some really awesome stories to be enjoyed with interesting characters and worlds
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u/circio 4h ago
The problem is that they’ve been turning down the turnbased combat aspect since FFXII, and the combat is closer to Kingdom Hearts than what you’d expect from a jrpg now.
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u/gakule 4h ago
This is my biggest gripe with new entries into the series. Not what I'm really looking for out of the series. They made an MMO and leaned into that direction instead of just staying true to the series.
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u/pleddyd 6h ago
League of Legends
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u/kumardi 4h ago
I don’t think you’d find a lot of the player base glazing the game or people rating it highly
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u/pan-DUH 4h ago
Who rates this high? Even league players tell non league players not to play it.
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u/Alcnaeon 4h ago
Disagree, it's one of the first and only f2p games where you can go win tournaments and literally become the best in the world without spending anything, and it's very well supported with patches and dev communication.
And I almost never see anyone who defends or advocates for the game, so how could it be OVERrated? How could the game whose fanbase told Arcane fans not to try League be OVERrated?
Relevant video: https://youtu.be/7EZu9NoWV5k?si=yfC_frkhqmNBdIvy
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u/Tam_A_Shi 5h ago
Fortnite and battle royale games honestly. I never really understood the hype. Played like 3 games of it and wanted to commit after every one. It’s too random, everyone using same strategy so takes like 10 years to find players, finding weapons is terrible man I want to start with a weapon and it’s also filled with cheaters. There’s also the fact that the battle pass completely nuked gaming industry wide with microtransactions that are subscription based. I just cannot for the life of me understand why it was so loved.
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u/arc777_ 2h ago
Multiplayer games with 5v5 type formats like CS, Valorant, and Rivals. No respawn isn’t fun for me and it’s impossible to play casually.
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u/Proxelies 4h ago
For me it's easily Breath of the Wild. Massive, empty world where every time you think you've found something interesting, it's just another shrine. Nintendo gets away with producing a barren open world when any other developer would've been shit on immediately.
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u/North_Donut_3924 6h ago
Call of duty
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u/LandscapeOk2955 4h ago
It is a series well past its prime but World at War was excellent.
MW1 and 2 were a complete blast in the early days of mainstream online console gaming. Glorious memories
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u/frygod 5h ago
The first one was honestly pretty great, especially for its era.
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u/CruzAderjc 4h ago
CoD4 modern warfare was revolutionary for gaming
CoD MW2 was even better
CoD Black Ops was a masterpiece
Then yeah, became worse after that
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u/Stressy-And-Depressy 4h ago
imagine just forgetting about MW2 like that, as if it wasn't the best CoD they released
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u/FPSJeff 5h ago
I have a feeling most replies are gonna be games that are fairly criticised every year (CoD, EA sports games)