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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn't really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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[-] RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Deus Ex: Human Revolution...Man when I saw that first teaser trailer I had tears in my eyes. Another game in my all time favorite series so many years later? AND it's a prequel?!?!

But I was pretty dissapointed. I felt the game was pretty watered down vs Deus Ex, which was also a complaint about DE2 (apart from the console favoring nature of it). The prequel aspect was also pretty dissapointing. A couple characters in the game, Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre, were extremely noticeably mechanically augmented individuals who looked more like mechanical abominations than flesh and blood human beings. Yet in Deus Ex: Human Revolutions you did not become more machine looking as you gained augmentations. You have your limbs put in place at the beginning and that's the change, a very sleek and stylish augment. I expected to see a more grounded take from the high tech in Deus Ex, but instead was met with an entirely different universe like Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the first of its kind. Deus Ex is still and always will be my most favorite game of all time. I really hope something miraculous happens and the original game is done justice, but as long as Square Enix holds the title I highly doubt they will give the universe enough time, care and love that the original got (as a passion project).

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[-] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

Conduit 2

The Conduit showed a ton of promise. Then the devs just threw everything good in the garbage for the sequel.

[-] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Resident Evil 3 Remake.

I knew the new Nemesis was crap but I wasn't ready for how dull the rest of the game is as well.

[-] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 3 points 2 years ago

Resident Evil 2 Remake as well.

Doing away with the fixed camera really kills the vibe of the game. Just being able to hear by not see an enemy has so much suspence.

Gaining lore from the background objects. Another product of the time but walking up to something and interacting to get an indebth text read out on what you are looking at was great in the original but was absent in the remake.

It was great that the Tyrant was able to move around more than the original but it's extreamly limited and once you figure out the mechanics you realize that he is just teleworking around close to you, it becomes more of a chore than a threat.

I was really hoping for a good remake Ala the first Resident Evil Remake.

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[-] avatar@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Final Fantasy 7 Remake. My god, what a disaster over the original.

I can't bring myself to continue it even though (I think?) I'm half way through the game, because while the Sector 5 reactor in the original is, by good game design standards, just a replica of the Sector 7 reactor with less going on - since you've already done the same thing earlier on, in Remake they decided to make it an enormous labyrinth that you can't find your way out of, just because. I guess they needed to extend the playtime.

That's just one of many, many things wrong with the game despite an amazing original, but it's the spot that completely prevents me from loading it up again to continue on. I went and started a new game in the original instead, just to be sure it wasn't the nostalgia glasses talking. It wasn't.

But I guess it looks really pretty.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Probably Beam.NG drive for me. Highly rated driving/racing game on Steam, and I thought I'd like it because it's like Forza Horizon 4 or 5 but more realistic. Unfortunately, maybe I'm used to Forza but the controls are janky and the UI is clunky. The mods I've tried are fun for a few minutes but gimmicky.

Whenever I get the itch to drive a virtual car with my controller, I just fire up Forza Horizon 5.

Perhaps the game will come around to me down the line if I want more pure simulation or more fun with mods.

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[-] Amro@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

@verycoolusername Yes. I waited nine months for "Life!". And it sucks. The levels are to long. The rules are incomprehensible. Other players are getting away with shit I can't because of the rules. And don't get me started on the NPC's or the game mechanics.
Don't recommend.

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[-] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

SOCOM IV

Waited for a long time for that one and unfortunately they couldn't resist COD-ifying it. It's a shame because they had some cool things in it, loved the bomb defuser escort game mode.

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