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Games or story everyone raved about that didnt meet your expectations?
- Thread starter hwarang
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NieR: Automata. I just couldn't get into the game and wasn't really seeing or feeling what so many others were raving about.
Skyrim lacked the sense of fun that the previous two Elder Scrolls games had in it's combat and movement, so I just could never get into it honestly.
Same here. Game was just OK for me. I felt the boss battles were a letdown compared to the first fight against The Stranger (in shear spectacle at the very least).
However, my biggest gripe with the game was that the very end of the story left me feeling as though I'd just finished a very long prologue for the game I actually wanted to play.
80% of Witcher 3's main story was a chore.
I had 0 interest in everything that happens in the present in H:ZD
I did not care for The Last of Us's characters, nor did I think the ending was at all impactful, which is why I'm holding off buying the sequel.
I had 0 interest in everything that happens in the present in H:ZD
I did not care for The Last of Us's characters, nor did I think the ending was at all impactful, which is why I'm holding off buying the sequel.
The Last of Us
They had a good thing going on there... entire sections where you just explore around and try to figure out who lived in that (now abandoned) house. And then they just ruin it with their logs scattered where a person casually writes "oh, no! I hear them outside. What am I gonna do?" Audio logs but written and bad.
And then you have the gameplay itself where Ellie runs around in front of enemies and nobody sees her or that awful section where you stealthily sneak around to cross an area filled with enemies that respawn until Ellie shoots one of them because emotions, I guess.
It is unremarkable really.
They had a good thing going on there... entire sections where you just explore around and try to figure out who lived in that (now abandoned) house. And then they just ruin it with their logs scattered where a person casually writes "oh, no! I hear them outside. What am I gonna do?" Audio logs but written and bad.
And then you have the gameplay itself where Ellie runs around in front of enemies and nobody sees her or that awful section where you stealthily sneak around to cross an area filled with enemies that respawn until Ellie shoots one of them because emotions, I guess.
It is unremarkable really.
To pick some counterparts from my disappointments...
13 Sentinels has impressed me more than I thought it would. Its gross elements aren't nearly as prevalent as I thought they'd be (though when they show up they're still bad) and I get the feeling by the end of it I'll put it up there with Steins;Gate and 999/VLR in the pantheon of high-concept, slightly silly science fiction games. Maybe if NieR Automata wasn't a by-the-numbers action game I'd have been more on board.
Undertale always felt to me like what Earthbound was hyped up to be, in terms of player impact and humor.
Radiant Historia is basically a less simplistic Chrono Trigger, though I need to go back and finish it.
Witcher 3. I bought it because some were saying it's one of the best "story" of all time, and the game of the year.
Expectations were not met about the story. I still enjoyed the gameplay and gladly finished it. Geralt was an awesome character with a great back-story, but relationships were pointlessly superficial, and the main story was so cliche it started to feel like harry potter once we entered the third act. Adding more and more grandiose stakes towards the end just made it feel even more cliche.
Same opinion of Dragon Age, Fallout 4, and pretty much any RPG. Great games, great world building, but the actual story never meet expectations. Maybe it's just me who dislike RPGs mandatory story tropes but still enjoy the game genre.
Expectations were not met about the story. I still enjoyed the gameplay and gladly finished it. Geralt was an awesome character with a great back-story, but relationships were pointlessly superficial, and the main story was so cliche it started to feel like harry potter once we entered the third act. Adding more and more grandiose stakes towards the end just made it feel even more cliche.
Same opinion of Dragon Age, Fallout 4, and pretty much any RPG. Great games, great world building, but the actual story never meet expectations. Maybe it's just me who dislike RPGs mandatory story tropes but still enjoy the game genre.
I guess Monster Hunter World. I can tell it's a good game by having played it but the game it is just doesn't jive with me. I'm usually good at telling if I'll like a game and I was certain I would when I picked it up but I just bounced off it. I never played any MH game or any MH-like game before for reference.
Fucking Bloodborne. Bought it because people around here hype it up to a degree that's borderline unseemly, and ended up hating it.
Another for Nier Automata. The story is hilariously awful and meandering. Soundtrack was killer though.
Gone Home for sure,I had the same reaction in the end,especially when that ending reveals nothing new of what was already clear since the beginning,a few hours wasted of my life.
Super Mario Odyssey is mediocre at best.
Ori & the Blind Forest. It's not a bad game, I really like the dungeons and chases, but the world design just isn't memorable enough to warrant being a Metroidvania. I also think they REALLY dropped the ball with the story.
killing off the adoptive mother is sad and worked really well to get me invested in Ori's journey. So why the HELL did they bring her back to life at the end? It ruined a lot of the impact from the ending, and retroactively the beginningfor me.
Yup, couldn't get past it and dropped the game pretty quick.
Also, the Xenoblade Chronicles series. Outside of enemy design and world building, I really don't get all the "GOAT" accolades. I really don't see anything special about the stories, characters, quest design or combat.
Nier Automata is significantly inferior to NieR's (Gestalt/Replicant) story. I recall so little of the game's plot aside from the cool twins, the dramatic death and ending.
God of War bores the hell out of me (both the reboot and the old series).
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - First Chapter on PSP really did nothing for me at all, especially as I played the superior Growlanser 4 around the same time.
God of War bores the hell out of me (both the reboot and the old series).
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - First Chapter on PSP really did nothing for me at all, especially as I played the superior Growlanser 4 around the same time.
GTA4. I've written far too many times on how I think everything about that game is moldy gutter trash, but the story especially so. As soon as you get to the second island, the game just tank and everything that comes after ruins everything that came before.
I love narrative based storytelling games I support this genre with my wallet .
2 games recently I will be making narrative disconnected videos on are very loved and defended by fans of both games that I thought were just terrible storytelling in all aspects.
A Plague Tale- It's absolutely amateur in it's narrative approach and the gameplay was tedious. I really appreciate the level of detail in the atmosphere but the story was just bland.
Tell Me Why- Life is Strange is incredible in terms of creating character arcs that subvert expectations. Tell Me Why is the weakest Dontnod game since Remember Me. I was so dissapointed that the story is pointless and has ZERO character growth based on your bias towards did the characters have a reliable memory. Playing it feels like someone had a great ideal and walked away with the actual details of the plot and we are left with 3 episodes of you do pretty much nothing till the final hours. I was incredibly dissapointed by the choices provided toward an outcome that makes no real difference
2 games recently I will be making narrative disconnected videos on are very loved and defended by fans of both games that I thought were just terrible storytelling in all aspects.
A Plague Tale- It's absolutely amateur in it's narrative approach and the gameplay was tedious. I really appreciate the level of detail in the atmosphere but the story was just bland.
Tell Me Why- Life is Strange is incredible in terms of creating character arcs that subvert expectations. Tell Me Why is the weakest Dontnod game since Remember Me. I was so dissapointed that the story is pointless and has ZERO character growth based on your bias towards did the characters have a reliable memory. Playing it feels like someone had a great ideal and walked away with the actual details of the plot and we are left with 3 episodes of you do pretty much nothing till the final hours. I was incredibly dissapointed by the choices provided toward an outcome that makes no real difference
Portal 2.
It was boring and I held the voice acting for the little spherical robot in great disdain. That particular voice actor's voice I do find extremely grating.
It was boring and I held the voice acting for the little spherical robot in great disdain. That particular voice actor's voice I do find extremely grating.
Yeah Blind Forest definitely did not have to be a metroidvania at all. The world design and the complete lack of anything desirable to actually explore for in the first place was my biggest issue with the game. I still think it's a good game since the platforming is so much fun, though.
Will of the Wisps is amazing, on the other hand.