Mafia. The story is good, but you are basically watching a movie with driving and shooting in-between cut scenes. The player has zero choice or influence over the game.
Which one? If you mean the first one, then it’s because it is basically a person telling the story, and you as a player is reenacting it. It’s basically a movie you can somewhat play.
It’s also old as fuck lol. Personally loved it, as a proud Czech.
then it’s because it is basically a person telling the story, and you as a player is reenacting it.
So is 2, isn’t it?
Yep. It didn’t bother me except when the handsome guy (Henry Tomasino) set Joe and Tommy up on what was clearly a crap deal. It might have been better if he was trying to kill me off so he could take my job, but no, Tomasino was just stupid.
Having Joe Barbaro accompany me on every mission was a good set up for the ending.
There’s a moment that really worked for me, Tomasino asks if Tommy can kill people on command, and he noted he killed a whole lot for President Roosevelt in Sicily. Tomasino says (I paraphrase) Yeah, but those were enemy. These are civilians. Tommy doesn’t respond.
I was specially referring to “the definitive edition”, which is a remake of the first game which was released in 2020.
Starfield. I love some Bethesda games, and I don’t hate the game, it’s just not worth the price. It would be way more tolerable at $40. I got about 40-45 hours into it, and I don’t know if I’m ever going to complete it. I feel like I’ve seen everything the game offers and there doesn’t seem to be anything new coming along in terms of mechanics or story.
Same, dude.
I got 40hours in and it was tolerable with the ship building but questing was uninspired loading screens suck and the progression tree was a massive turn off. You’d think they’d take a few cues from fallout nv
I mostly hated that the skill trees are still mostly % increases. Cyberpunk retooled their entire skill tree because of that.
It’s a type of gameplay progression that just isn’t that fun - but Bethesda loves it.
They took quite a few cues from NV if you compare it side by side with NV and Skyrim. There’s a lot more Roleplaying in Starfield than Skyrim, for example, it’s just extremely dull world-wise in Starfield.
I’m not usually into base/ship building, but I’m glad it is there for those that are into it. I can’t imagine how poorly the game would have been received without it though. Skill tree is bullshit. Can’t modify weapons or armor because I’m not high enough level, even after 40 hours. I can’t modify a damn scope? WTH?
Same boat.
I don’t exactly hate the game, but the planet-hopping has segmented it too much and exploring a thousand empty terrains each with 3-4 generic caves/camps grows old quick. I don’t know if the main story would have picked up speed any time soon (I retrieved 3 or 4 of the thingies they collect), but I haven’t launched the game for a few weeks now.
Yeah, glad I didn’t buy this. Thought it was hated on a bit too much though.
I enjoyed the combat more than most RPGs and some of the hand crafted environments were nice. Found the ship building quite fun too.
Combat is fun, but not anything special. I feel like the quests aren’t fun enough to bother dealing with all of the non-fun parts of the game, e.g. travel.
Tiny Tina Wonderland but only because my friend has been busy lately so we didn’t start yet, I could do with that money that I bought it on sale though…
Forza Motorsport. Years and years of development for a bug ridden mess that’s shockingly light on content.
Between this and Starfall my expectations for anything coming from Microsoft game studios has plummeted.
None.
Almost always I can tell if a game is for me or not within the first four hours and I’ll just return it on Steam if it isn’t. I’ve done it dozens and dozens of times without any problems.
Now, sometimes I’ll not be entirely sure if those four hours are enough but some reviews left me unsure. Star field was such a case. I procured that through alternative channels and decided after about twenty hours and four times as many crashes that it was indeed shit.
So, starfield then?
I thought steam’s return policy was 2 hrs
If any, then Starfield, although I’d just call it downloaders remorse, I guess.
And I’m pretty sure it’s four hours.
This one might controversial, but Baldur’s Gate 3 for ps5.
- I had plenty of technical issues, like my Karlach questline being glitched out because of some of mission, which was the worst since she was my main companion. I also had to start over earlier as well when I didn’t know that I would get locked out of quests for simply going to a the next area, I didn’t know that was “act 2”.
- I finished divinity os 2 in august and I didn’t really find this game all different other than the crazy production value jump. Which I don’t want to underplay, it’s much much better and ver very good for a crpg.
- the community is very circlejerk-y, when I mentioned in one of the threads about being locked out from doing other act 1 quests because I jumped to act 2 accidentally, they just said that it’s a “skill issue”. Also, the big reason I bought this game was because I kept hearing “I don’t usually like crpgs, but this game is a must play” so I was a victim of hype, that’s on me.
I’ve played through a few times. Before you leave Act I, there is an explicit warning that doing so will close out story-based quests that are incomplete. Having said that, it only closes out the main story quests for the most part; I’ve gone back to do side quests frequently. Act I doesn’t truly lock until you’ve unlocked the end of Act II.
That seems consistent with actual tabletop D&D; ignoring a time sensitive quest may net negative results.
It’s pretty good for telling you things will be locked off, but very bad at telling you what will be locked off. I nearly didn’t go to the creche at all, because the warnings made me think that was Act 2 through that doorway.
Co-op was an absolute bug-fest. Performance was appalling on PS5, crashes all over the place, and worse, players are likely to miss out on any real links with companions because of how reputation is dished out. It’s an interesting mode to have, but it’s objectively a worse experience than single player.
And yet despite all that, it’s still probably the best game of last year. And last year had a lot of good games.
I learned my lesson. I’m used to some crpg and knowing that I would get locked out of quests if I do certain things, but it makes sense contextually. Here I just didn’t get why Halsin would be dead, but later I learned about “time-sensitive” quests and just to be safe I started doing everything before leaving the acts.
Yeah, there was a lot of misinformation about the “time sensitive quests” that lead to me trying not to take too many long rests. Long rests are essential for companion progression because they only do their stuff at night, and only one at a time at that.
I think there’s only one in the game that’s dependent on rests (someone in a cave with poison), and it gives you a warning before it happens. The rest of it is failed by leaving the area, and I think the only one that’s easy to fail (no warnings given at all) is the inn fire in act 1.
Also BG3 for me. I didn’t experience any bugs, I just realized the combat is absolutely not my thing. And I dislike the combat to the point of avoiding the game, which makes me sad because I really like everything except the combat a lot.
I’m in the same boat, I find the combat both boring and frustrating, the worst possible combination. It’s absolutely loaded with RNG. People said this was the crpg for people who don’t like crpgs, but I can say that is not the case.
As someone who has never played DND, BG3 is like I imagine a lot of it. Constant dice rolling and combining attacks in ways that work. It’s way too tedious for me when I want to play.
It’s for DND lovers.
I love d&d and hated the combat in BG3. They made it all flashy and loud, but lost everything that makes D&D combat fun for me.
Same. No bugs, but it just didn’t live up to the hype for me. I dropped it just after starting chapter 2.
I think that’s where I stopped, I might play more but I doubt it. I got to the point everything felt so muddled, I’m never really sure what’s going on because it’s hard to follow stories when they’re out of order and chunks missing plus so many side things the add to the confusion - not to mention all the random things in my inventory or boxes that I might need at some point maybe…
Next time I open it I’d have to sort my inventory and everything which is probably an hours work before I even get to finding the next thing to do…
I got bored, honestly. The combat was a slog and I hated save-scumming to overcome poor design decisions that made gameplay unnecessarily complicated. I just wanted Baldur’s Gate back, instead I got DOS with a D&D wrapper. And I didn’t like DOS at all.
Recent? None right now, but I also rarely buy games nowadays.
If we’re able to go outside of recent times, I’m still pretty salty about buying fuckin RPG Maker 2 & 3 on the PS2 without having a way to connect my PS2 to the internet.
Humble bundle had a bundle of all the Mega Man games for 20 bucks.
I instantly regretted it once I loaded it up and I thought to myself, I could’ve just got roms for these and a better emulator than the one it came with… The emulator doesn’t even let you fuckin adjust the audio levels.
Something is just fucking wrong with the Mega Man collections. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but they just don’t feel right.
Recent? None so far.
Somewhat old? Civilization III. I ordered it like 5 years ago and was trying to scratch the itch left by Call to Power II, but the multiplayer is flaky at best on LAN and the tech tree just isn’t interesting to me. Later entries also have the “tech tree doesn’t interest me” thing and also don’t scratch the Call to Power itch (they don’t have the wacky future tech like hover tanks and eco-warfare) but they also look a lot more visually interesting at least.
I miss when stacking was a thing in Civ. Sure it was relatively unbalanced, but that’s part of the fun in my experience.
/end grandpa rant
By stacking do you mean combining units to form a single stronger unit? If so, Civ 6 has that, albeit only up to three units.
By stacking, I mean adding the units together on a single tile into armies so the units all fight together. Civ VI does have this, but in a very limited capacity (as you mentioned, up to 3 units). Older games had many more stacking possibilities (Civ III actually had infinite unit stacking, which was cataclysmically crazy lol, but I think Call to Power II really struck a good number with a max of 12 units in a tile)
Civ 3 and 4 would be so much more tolerable if the stacks were limited to something like 12. I haven’t been able to go back to those games since 5 changed it up, the stacks of death are too much for me
Hogwarts Legacy on Switch. I should have known better, but my local Walmart had it on sale for $29.99 a few weeks ago and I bought on impulse after reading a few posts about how it’s gotten better after updates. I’ve had glitches galore. Mad pop-in, falling through geometry, crashes, and two save game corruptions, all in the most up-to-date version available. If this is better, I can’t imagine how broken it was at launch. I feel like I got $5 of content out of this. If the glitches were at least amusing, I might be ok with it, but the save corruption is just unacceptable.
I got Super Mario Bros. Wonder day one and it made me realize I don’t like Mario nearly as much as I thought I did. And I already knew I liked Mario less than most people. It kinda made me realize the only games in the series I truly loved were Super Mario World and Bowser’s Fury. If you include the alternate character spinoffs you can add Yoshi’s Island to the list.
It’s definitely the best 2D Mario since NSMB DS, there’s nothing wrong with it and it’s the most creative 2D Mario since World…but it still fails to stick in my mind the way Kirby games, Sonic games, Mega Man games, and more do. It was fun but it didn’t wow me and I thought it was too easy (am I crazy or are 2D Mario games easier than Kirby games?) I’m glad I played it but I wish I picked it up sometime in the upcoming period when the Switch is completely removed from being current but not old enough to be retro.
What I’ve noticed about myself is that I’d pick a Sonic game that’s considered “decent” or “debatable” over a comparable Mario game that people consider a GOTY candidate easily. with very few exceptions. And while Wonder vs. Superstars is an exception, it’s only because of how godawful Superstars’ bosses are.
It was fun but it didn’t wow me and I thought it was too easy
I totally agree. With the exception of BotW (except for the final fight…), I can’t even remember the last time I bought a Nintendo game that actually challenged me. I guess kids these days are less willing to play games that challenge them.
If you want a good 2D platformer I highly recommend looking at Celeste or Pizza Tower. They’re two very different games, but hands down the best platformers I’ve ever played in my life. (Very cheap, too). Celeste is the most mechanically interesting / challenging of the two. But every screen is a checkpoint, so when you die the penalty is losing like, 30 seconds max. It’s a very chill yet challenging game.
And Pizza Tower has pretty typical mechanics (it’s Wario Land but way more refined) but the art and sound design is incredible. It made me nostalgic for old cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and Courage the Cowardly Dog. The characters, sounds, and music are all so expressive I can’t put it into words, you’ll just have to look at the Steam page to see what I mean. It’s also worth noting that there’s no lives or health, so it’s very chill. You’re just playing for points like in old-school SMB. (Unfortunately it’s not on Switch or any Nintendo products like Celeste)
Both games can be very easy or very difficult depending on what you want to achieve. The levels themselves aren’t too crazy but they both have collectables and secrets that really ramp up the difficulty if you want to get them all. Celeste also has “B sides” for each chapter, which are bonus chapters where they crank the difficulty up to 11.
Oh, also, if you’re into 3D platformers SM64 ROM hacks are more alive (and accessible) than ever. Serene Fusion in particular is very good. Dog Collab can be hit or miss with some levels, but the hits are really strong hits. They both have a wide range of easy to very difficult stars.
There’s a ROM manager called Parallel Launcher that integrates with a site called romhacking.com, so you can literally click 1 button and have the whole hack set up for you (after PL is installed and you give it a SM64 ROM of course). No messing with different emulators or messing with compatibility settings, just one and done.
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Starfield was definitely one of my worst purchases in a long, long time. Full price for nothing.
I have the hope that it will be improved and expanded upon going forward, as well as the possibility of mods.
I get that most planets don’t have to be interesting, but if the planet isn’t going to be interesting, fucking just tell me that instead of putting a hundred “points of interest” on it. The fact that every planet has a bunch of random pirate bases on it and a dozen random caves with nothing in them is just …ugh. If it only put markers on things that were actually interesting, that would be a huge step in the right direction.
Yikes. I got it through Game Pass and still wanted my money back
I played it at a friend’s, and I made them apologize.
I rarely bought game lately, so it’s gonna be game from 2020 to now.
Grim Dawn: it’s really a subpar diablo clone and it’s boring, enemy either dies immediately or it’s spongy as heck. Played to the point where i have to get to some manor but thus far the gameplay feels bland, and looking at the skill tree it doesn’t offer much new thing. Not enjoying this one
Black Mesa: Not remorse per se, but i got bored of it and turn my attention to something else.
Call of Juarez Gunslinger: again, not remorse, i got bored of it.
Elder Scrolls Online: i have no idea what i expect from it, and i’m disappointed anyway. I thought it will play like the other ES but it’s really just an MMO. Bought it with other game on sales but by the time i play it it’s already off the refund time.
Forza Horizon 4: it’s pretty good actually, but i feels like it just wasn’t a good kb&m game. I can’t turn well in curved road when in high speed while the bot turn just fine. It’s one of those game that’s meant for race wheel. This and asseto corsa have the same issue, and i was led to believe i can play just fine with kb&m but that wasn’t the case at my end.
Space Pirate and Zombie 2: it’s boring.
Incredible that you got bored with this list, it’s literally some of my favorites.
One thing though, you should play horizon with a controller. It’s not good with a wheel. And racing games haven’t been good on m+kb in ages. You may have a chance if you hook up steering to the mouse, but all the Forza games are really meant to be played with controller.
Ready or not Gameplay is pretty fun with the homies But for a $40USD game some maps are powerpoint slide shows on high in hardware 20-30fps on the house map.
For refrence Pc specs I5-10400 6700xt 32gb of ddr4 Game makes if feel like im playing on a toaster oven
