GTA

I just don't get it.

I am fully ready to be down voted for, but Cyberpunk 2077.

I finally got around to trying it out a little after Phantom Liberty came out and the game itself had all of the updates, so I thought it would be the best time to try it out.

I just couldn't get into it. I got so tired of the constant stopping my progress for dialogue and that God forsaken fast forwarding mechanic that I feel they just put there to mock me.

The game itself is just fine, but I don't understand why everyone is now calling it one of the greatest games of recent times.

Balatro. It becomes a spreadsheet sim very quickly, in my opinion. I think part of the reason Binding of Isaac and Hades feel much more timeless to me is that every run has this sort of intuitive randomness vs this just full rng you have to counter with math. Balatro feels solved, and while I guess you could count Hades max heat run as “solving” the game, the replayability of it feels much higher because builds feels more dynamic than “make number go up faster”.

Breath of the wild. I loved Zelda games up until then, and everything after is so fucking boring. I don't get it.

Global Thermonuclear War.

Elden Ring. It's like they just glued inconsistent creature ideas next to each other. Every couple of hundred ingame meters you come across a different biome with different creatures that appear nowhere else and has a boss that visually and equipment-wise completely out of place. It feels like fighting your way through dozens of puzzle-pieces forced next to each other without any explanation why. You have to try to make your own story as to why things are the way they are and any criticism of the game is shot down by the worst stereotypes of gamers.

Any of the Dark Souls. They're hyped up for being difficult, but the only thing that makes them difficult is the clunky controls.

Like, I could make Pokemon Yellow equally difficult by taping a dish sponge to a Gameboy and requiring the player to operate the buttons through an inch of fluff.

The story's kinda there if you dig for clues, but it comes off as random bullshit if you don't.

They are fucking gorgeous, I'll give em that.

I'll never understand the 'git gud' circlejerk... I 100%'d DS2, and made it a good chunk through Elden Ring (think I was about 80% done before finally saying fuck it). I 'got gud'... But DS never got fun.

I absolutely love the style, setting, visuals, and music - I really wanted to like DS... but the combat and clunky controls absolutely murder the experience.

For me at least... to each their own.

AAA first person shooters. At some point new releases are just are a rehash of the exact game mechanics.

Sorry to say but Stardew Valley for me -- and it is not for a lack of trying, I've put in a bit over 82 hours into it, but a fair amount of that was forced and it quickly got stale. Maybe I just played it wrong or the game simply isn't for me.

League of Legends

I just saw the post about Red Dead 2 becoming the 4th most sold game.

It is 100% not my thing.

Its sad that I enjoyed GTA V, and am semi looking forward to GTA VI too, but the wild west genre is not for me.

Anything Bethesda. I can never play more than a couple hours before I get bored.

Outer Wilds.

COD and most multiplayer shooters. I guess I'm just not competitive.

GTA. Games 3 and 4 were good, 5 was kinda fun, but I'm not really at all excited for the same formula over and over again. Even battlefield feels a bit samey. Only indie games are really taking risks these days. And some of them are fantastic.

Pretty much anything based on collecting cards or deck building.

Undertale. I tried playing it a few weeks ago, but the controls are clunky and the story isn't really entertaining. It was just boring and annoying.

Zelda or pokemon

Undertale. I'm sure it's a great game, but after a decade of hearing everyone and their mothers shout about it, I've oddly been put off by it.

Most recently Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders.

I think Battlefield 6 is basic enough to capture the stray call of duty crowd, but it's very dumbed down and not at all a Battlefield game.

And Arc Raiders, as I have said in another thread, is incredibly bland. I think thats hyped and popular because it's the first real taste of an extraction shooter for consoles.

Pretty much every flash in the pan game that the whole gaming sphere seems to obsess over for a few weeks and then never talk about again

Almost every single major AAA game. For example: GTA, CoD, Battlefield, The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, FIFA, Madden, ~~Silksong~~, Ghost of Tsushima/Yotei, Mario and Zelda (any of them), etc. If it's a AAA game, there's a decent chance I have no interest in it.

Edit: Correction.

Most of them. The quieter ones are often better.

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