Shadow The Hedgehog
The game is short, so you can use it to kill an hour or two, but it still has enough levels for some decent variety and the branching path structure lets you stick to playing levels you like
Also, it's trying so hard to be edgy and serious within the constraints of an E10+ rating that it's honestly kind of adorable
he does also kill cops
"That's good!"
Gotta play that someday. I skipped it back when because of the bad reviews, go figure.
I played the new and ever-living fuck out of No Man's Sky, starting on release day and continuing all the way through until after they made it a video game. It was pretty, it was atmospheric, it was super chill and I was listening to a podcast for most of it anyway.
Lichdom Battlemage
Even I critically pan it, it's shit, don't play it. Yet I keep coming back to it every few years because I have a brain disease that makes me obsessed with over-complicated spellcasting systems
I will always maintain that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was a good game, and would have been received much better if it just wasn't marketed as a Banjo-Kazooie game. Nuts & Bolts walked so Tears of the Kingdom could run.
This is me with some of the older Dead or Alive games. It's basically a dumbed-down Tekken with some genuinely amazing arenas. I don't play it for the boobies. If that were my reasoning I'd be playing more Soul Calibur or even pick up Rumble Roses.
I love DOA on the dreamcast. It's pretty deep tho with the counters and juggle strings.
The juggling truly is ridiculous.
But as a horny teen I was so there for it.
I don't know if it was critically panned, but people complained about Bioshock 2 when I thought it was a great follow up to the original.
Wasn't that the one that went all enlightened centrist with the message of "Actually socialism is bad too (also we got our definition of socialism from Ayn Rand)"?
It was Bioshock Infinite that played the enlightened centrist card. At least the first game was very anti-Randian
Bioshock 2 also had like, "Ooooh we did individualism in the last one but now this villain wants to do collectivism instead!!!"
I don't play videogames for good politics. I just enjoyed having a drill hand and also shooting lightning from my hands. It's been a decade since I played it I couldn't even tell you what the message was.
I wonder if I'd been less tankie if I hadn't played anti-communist propaganda "Command and Conquer: Red Alert" as a kid. shrugs
Really? I thought it was considered a good sequel, hm.
Probably? I think people really had high high hopes for it. I just remember people being harsh on it because it didn't capture the magic of the first game and the multiplayer felt tacked on. Which it definitely was tacked on, but I enjoyed it just the same.
I liked it too
I enjoyed Back 4 Blood's little campaign mode and card collecting/deck building. Apparently others didn't. :/
Fallout 76
For all the egregious monetization, dearth of NPCs, and hamfisted live service gameplay, there is a good ~20-30 hour Fallout game in there with the Wastelanders update
Glad at least that game was salvageable.
Does DmC: Devil May Cry (With millennial/zoomer dante) count?
That game was sick.
Music was cool af, I liked the character designs, combat was dope, virigl in the dlc was brokenly strong.
I adored it anyway.
Came here to post that lol.
It was my intro to the franchise and the accessibility people ragged on it for “dumbing down” mechanics was why I was able to get into the other entries.
The edginess was over the top in a hilarious way.
Combichrist and Noisiadid an awesome job on the music!
People ragging on the "accessibility" need to get a fucking grip. There's difficulty settings for a reason and Dante Must Die difficulty is hard to get S ranks on so like chill.
I played 5 and honestly just didn't enjoy it like I did DmC. The arm grabber on Nero felt like the angel and devil pull in DmC which was nice though.
What I loved about DmC was the pause combos where you'd switch weapon mid combo and create these insanely satisfying cinematic moments. Like yeah it's not as hard as the others on standard difficulty but like omg it was so much fun to play I can't not stan it.
Lmao everyone kicked off call it edgy and cringe but like neo classical metal isn't also incredibly camp and has an edgier outfit? I get its not what the fan base wanted but it's what I wanted so ha ha 😈
The music was so good omg, vigils theme how it slowly builds as they are arguing before the fight starts and how the whole boss theme just feels like tension, grit and suspense. Dmskdmwkfkwfk3kgkekg I'm such an emo still clearly lmao.
People ragging on the "accessibility" need to get a fucking grip. There's difficulty settings for a reason and Dante Must Die difficulty is hard to get S ranks on so like chill.
hard agree
I played 5 and honestly just didn't enjoy it like I did DmC. The arm grabber on Nero felt like the angel and devil pull in DmC which was nice though.
have you tried 4? Nero is the MC and he has grabby stuff in that one too.
pause combos
agreed, it feels badass. If I wasn't a fanboy for edgy twinks Dante's combos would have been my favorite part of 5.
Lmao everyone kicked off call it edgy and cringe but like neo classical metal isn't also incredibly camp and has an edgier outfit? I get its not what the fan base wanted but it's what I wanted so ha ha 😈
lol, I admit to liking the "donte" memes but yeah...the series never took itself seriously and thats a good thing.
The music was so good omg, vigils theme how it slowly builds as they are arguing before the fight starts and how the whole boss theme just feels like tension, grit and suspense. Dmskdmwkfkwfk3kgkekg I'm such an emo still clearly lmao.
I still listen to combichrist when I'm lifting lol. All that emo edgy shit just gets the blood pumping. I don't think I'd like 5 as much if the character themes weren't so far up my alley. I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING (Virgil, my ultimate problematic fave. He can have a little nephilim supremacy as a treat)
I did and I dunno it was different which is why I can appreciate DmC wasn't what the main dmc fan base wanted. Like none of the other games feel remotely similar in mechanics and I liked that lmao.
We love our hot edgy Nero in 5 😍
Micheal Jackson dance routine doesn't take itself seriously lmao. There's that moment all DmC fans have where they try to explain the campness to someone who's like wtf?
https://youtu.be/GBkaETCOgmg?si=r_zpZx_1TzOd8JtV this was the MVP of the soundtrack alongside virgils theme. As soon as it came on I just played better.
5s virigl theme is incredible, like genuinely one of the reasons I caved and bought the game eventually. Its sooooo good.
So full disclosure, first time I saw the 5 devil trigger trailer I was like "lmao if they hated DmC this cringe is going to incite them to violence" and it was adored and I realised having only played and liked the black sheep of the IP, I am not who they are making DMC games for lmao.
Driver 3. It's a broken mess of a game, but it was really impressive for the PS2 and Xbox, the way the cars broke and crash. Too bad the on foot stuff was broken and weird.
When I was a kid I spent so much time on Driver 3 and Shrek 1. Definitely not good games but there was a glimmer of something in them. I also liked the music in both of them but more so Shrek 1.
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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