I enjoyed Far Cry 3 recently on my PS3.
Then I got Far Cry 4 on my PC and it’s kinda fucking awful.
People thought the same going from 2 to 3
FC4 was a stinker. FC5 is the best in the franchise, though
What? Is FC5 good?
IMHO yes. It is among my favorite games of all time.
The plot is of course nonsense (all far cry plots are garbage), but the core gameplay loop is tight, the shooting feels good and there’s a diverse arsenal, you get a large selection of colorful sidekicks and animal companions, the most annoying mechanics of earlier titles in the franchise were fixed or removed in 5, and the entire campaign can be played coop after you escape from tutorial Island.
It doesn’t take itself too seriously but it’s also a internally consistent rural Montana simulator. Stealth mechanics feel great (subjective ofc) but more aggressive strategies work well too. The base game has plenty of content and goes on sale frequently.
It was everything I loved about FC3 but more of it and bigger and polished to a radiant shine, with a kitschy rural US setting.
I got a few of the older FC games when they were like 5 bucks each, launched FC5 yesterday and the first part felt sort of like a return to form.
I hope I didn’t over hype it lol glhf
I kind of like the candles rant, but it’s otherwise pretty forgettable. Even 3 is only really famous for the first half of it with Vargas slowly losing his mind.
I always play them in three stages.
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Sneak around with a bow and a knife.
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Sneak around with what can be best described as a howitzer with a silencer.
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Get bored and clear every remaining base with a ludicrously overpowered pile of solid gold machine guns.
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Or y’know… Play old games…
Rumour has it they’re quite cheap too ;)
Yep, I was getting a bit down on gaming. So I went back to one I love (Horizon Zero Dawn) and started one that’s not usually my type (Hollow Knight). It’s like I’m 12 years old all over again, and now I want to play every indie platformer out there lol
Switch it up when it comes to Metroidvania. I played a bunch and got burned out. All amazing games, of course. But playing that much of the same genre kinda made skip out on some of the recent ones. Ended up going from Shovel Knight to Mummy Demastered to Hollow Knight to Bloodstained to Dread to Sundered. I want to play Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Pizza Tower, and some others, but I haven’t gotten that urge. I’ll play a few minutes then quit and play something else.
Well that’s me anyway. I’m sure I’ll get that want back eventually, but it’s been awhile. I’m just hoping the same doesn’t happen to other games cause I’m still enjoying Deep Rock and Baldur’s.
It’s what happened to me with simultaneously playing 2 or 3 of these huge open worlds that demand 100 hours (I have a job, that takes me forever), I was getting tired of it. So now I’m playing smaller indie games too. And also playing what I actually want to play, not what I feel like I should because it is popular, a classic, or just because it is in my backlog.
Oh and also, it’s ok if I don’t finish a game, I can put 7-8 hours into it and then quit without guilt
Has this even been a problem for a few years? The only real guilty parties I can think of recently was Battlefield 2048 and that came out in 21.
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The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games
Nah, the time spent playing a bad game you pirated will be just as boring as it would be if paid for.
Well, if the game is shit, there is no point in spending time on it, even if you acquired it by means other than buying. I mean, your time is the most important commodity.
Lots of stuff is just… tedious, if not also unforgiving.
That is on top of anhedonia and lack of money (though I pretty much exclusively play free games now, as I regret most purchases anyway).
Surely free to play games are the worst games, they literally have to monetise the gameplay. That’s meant to be the part where you have fun.
I said free, fullstop. Meaning gratis. No microtransactions or even ads (if I can help it… kinda hard to find on Android, though I can ignore mobile/just use fdroid), so that’s not the issue either. Also I typically don’t play multiplayer games.
I often skip over of anything that calls itself a demo or shouts “Check out my new Steam game/crowdf-” etc before I know much else about it.
Thank you for the new word!
Stop playing repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. Especially the battle royale style ones.
Oh you just played another 20 minute match where you died to someone out of nowhere at the end, possibly a cheater, shouted bullshit at the screen, didn’t win and didn’t achieve anything? Better re queue to do it again! Hey while you’re in the menus, do you want a new £15 skin? Do you want the battlepass QUICK BEFORE ITS GONE! THE SKINS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY IF THE CONSTANT LOSSES DONT. I wonder why you’re bored and depressed with gaming.
The most popular steam games? Constant repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”
tbh I’d rather play a game like this where every round is a new experience or a different strategy than play a half baked “RPG” that holds no roleplay, no stakes, no difficulties or no strategies.
Pretty sure the roleplay is what you make it and they provide the environment for you to do it in. But I can understand how it’s not for everyone.
I just feel there is a lack of impactful decision making. The Witcher did this pretty well and I just want more of it
Baldurs Gate ;)
But if I get good at cs:go my parents will finally accept me.
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I mean that’s more of an issue with the horrific monetization of those games, their abuse of FOMO, and shit matchmaking (and/or the player’s shit skill). There’s nothing wrong with the genre itself, some people just genuinely enjoy it. There’s a reason it’s popular.
competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”
Sounds a lot like football, except for the guns. Opposing team has new skins for every game, but the game loop is exactly same for every game, all the game. And the map, oh gods, the map! Notice the singular? Yeah, there’s actually just one map. Some background textures change, but functionally it’s always the same green rectangle with some lines drawn over.
And I find football boring as fuck and repetitive too, so I might be missing your point
My point, if I had one, would be that “boring, repetitive multiplayer games” are so much fun, for so many, that calling people to stop playing them is an exercise in futility.
That said, I find them un-fun, too. Mostly because I constantly get my ass kicked, but also because I enjoy slower, 4x and plot driven games more. To each their own.
See I tend to gravitate toward creative games. Minecraft is a little too open for me, but something like Satisfactory where “Here’s a few square miles. Build a factory in it.” can keep me going for months.
Blah blah blah AAA aren’t the problem.
You are getting old, tired, and have more important shit to do.
N-n-n-o! Getting bored of a hobby that’s a pure waste of time is a crisis!
It’s not a waste of time if you enjoy it.
You never enjoy wasting time?
If I’m having fun escaping the stressors of living life as an adult with two young kids, it serves a purpose, and therefore it by definition isn’t a waste of my time. Just because someone thinks something is a waste of time, doesn’t mean it objectively is a waste of time.
Flip that around. Just because you like to waste time and even feel like you need to waste time, doesn’t objectively mean you’re not wasting time.
Even if people objectively need to waste time, it doesn’t matter how they waste it. The average time-waster such as gaming barely serves any purpose in itself. Someone becoming disillusioned with games isn’t a problem, it’s an opportunity for them to do something better.
When I was responding to you yesterday, I was trying to come up with an example of something we do that would be objectively a waste of time, but it was hard to think of something that almost everyone would agree 1) consumed your time, 2) you would do voluntarily, and 3) provided absolutely no benefit to you or anyone else.
Thankfully you replied and I have a perfect example: this conversation.
AAA games are part of the problem.
When I have a chance to play a game, I’d like to play a game. Not have 2-4 hours of tutorials, 30 minutes of a cool story and then 5-30 hours of pointless side quests.
Blah blah blah blah this game doesn’t suit my taste so the hobby is dead and going to collapse at any second.
I didn’t say that at all.
I think there is a problem with over-tutorializing in AAA games. I don’t think they are going away, or the hobby will collapse. I just think of the opening experience of Elden Ring versus Jedi Survivor. One puts you in the action and has a 30 minute optional tutorial dungeon, the other has tutorials pop up four hours in the game.
I don’t play for long stretches, maybe two hours at a time. It’s not satisfying for me to play a game three or four times and still be in tutorials. For me AAA games are the absolute worst at this.
I had finished Heretic on modern source port lately, and I had a blast, so no, gaming is definitely not dead, lol.
I’m loving the final fantasy combat/ gameplay. What I don’t like is, lack of playable character, lack of a “real” party, and equipment progress. The story on the other hand… I found it to be too dark and taking itself too seriously at times. Some part of the story is similar with FFXIV, and I think the 14 did it better. The game as a whole, has pacing issue. The last third of the game, is moving the plot very slowly. The ending on the other hand, was done well. It was bittersweet, but on the same time, it gave the same ending vibes as the movie Inception. :D. The ending didn’t destroy me like the 15 did tho. The 15’s ending made me cry like a baby…
BG3 is good! I enjoy it very much. I’m still very early as I was remaking my character again and again (I think I made about 8-10 characters until I was satisfied).
Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware
coding ia the new gaming.
I just wait until they’re on sale at hpb or the used section at GameStop. Sure, there’s some major drawbacks but, there’s major drawbacks with buying recently released also.
Or you guys can just admit you’re growing up.
I’m grown up and games have been consistently stellar my whole life, including now. I just happen to be good at choosing games I know I’ll like 🤷
Well then they wouldn’t be here would they.
Everybody plays video games now. I saw a 70+ old lady playing a Peppa Pig themed platformer on a tablet in public. “Video games are for kids” was a boomer take 30 years ago, and now it doesn’t even make sense.
I thought his, but it seems that I’m just not playing the right games. Couldn’t get into anything. Randomly started playing Cassette Beasts because it looked cute. Devoured it and it’s one of my favorite games now.
I think it’s a combination of tastes changing as you get older and a lot of games being shit.
A lot of games have always been shit, that’s not new. It’s easy to look back at the games of old with nostalgia and think “wow, games were better back then”, but really you just don’t remember the mountains of trash games that came out.
Also, you have to reckon with the fact that you may still want to play the same types of titles, but you don’t have the time anymore to dedicate to actually enjoying it. So you have to adapt your game choices. For example, I really love turn based strategy games like Civ, but I’ve bought a few recently that I haven’t played for more than 10 minutes. I realized that I just can’t spend the hours it would take to learn the strategies and controls like I used to when I was a kid.
This is why I keep turning to old games like Alpha Centauri or the original Fallout games: I already know the rules, I know what to do, and I can just jump right in for an hour and not have to spend the first 55 minutes figuring out how that shit works.
Yeah growing up from playing bad games to watching bad TV shows. It’s evolving, just backwards. (The type of media you entertain yourself with has nothing to do with age)
I don’t think you can call yourself grown up because you chose a couple of shitty games and threw your hands up to proclaim ALL GAMING IS DEAD
