• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    Any of the Five Nights games, fortnite, roblox, and basically any sports game that isn’t something like Skate 1-3.

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    Nintendo and Sega’s IP. I did not grow up with them and have never seen the appeal or hype around them.

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    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.

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      I couldn’t stand it either, and I grew up with NES/SNES JRPGs and thought it would be right up my alley but for whatever reason the humor didn’t reach me in the slightest and I couldn’t be bothered to finish it.

      More recently I tried Afterplace which also has a meta theme but the gameplay is more like a simplified Zelda and I really loved the writing.

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    Any AAA game that hasn’t proven it can retain a playerbase for longer than 4 years is overhyped.

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    Firewatch. I liked the visual style but everyone raved about the writing specifically and I thought it wasn’t great. I don’t want to shit on them too hard because they did try, and you can’t control how other people hype your work, but I found the characters really flat.

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      I found the characters pretty flat as well. Neat atmosphere, though. I’m not really into that type of game so it was something new and interesting to me.

      I also finally made the time to play it at a rough time in my life, and oh boy, let me tell you, your personal circumstances at the time of playing have a huge effect on how the game makes you feel if you give in to it. I actually found it pretty helpful, tbh. It helped me process some shit because it gave me the opening to think about some stuff I was kind of ignoring, even though I thought I’d processed it.

      anyways yeah that’s how I found myself crying half drunk in my basement alone playing a video game

      still. the writing was meh. it was neat, but it was meh, and honestly, the mehness is kind of part of it. it’s not some big crazy thing. it’s just some average people doing average people things, nothing special about them, and it allowed me to think about my own stuff instead of the characters’ stuff.

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      I appreciate it for its atmosphere and art style, but yeah the characters and the plot a are quite meh.

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    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.

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    Assassin’s Creed. I was done after Unity. I don’t care for anything later than that. It’s all the same.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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      This is the one for me. Felt like a string of QuickTime sequences and story that is dull and plodding. Just didn’t click for me at all.

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        For me, it was the gameplay. I felt like I was walking through molasses or acting in slow motion every time I did something. I know that was 100% their intention, but it was just really off-putting to me personally