the_milkybar_kid wrote:I dunno, I think a not-insignificant number of adrenaline junkies are a bit like that, as if you're not fully living your life unless you're recklessly endangering it somehow and posting the results on the socials. The pricks. /pours more whiskey |
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Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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lordofdeadside 1,363 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSekiro
For what is essentially a boss run game a lot of them are no fun at all. 20 mins clearing ads or chipping away at a boss to just get killed in two swipes, over and over again for hours and hours is just tedious.
Must be my age, but my reactions aren't quick enough for the unblockable attacks and as you take so much damage I don't even have time to learn a boss's patterns.
The systems seem quite punishing too. I know it's a different game from souls with a more pure approach to combat, but in those they gave you more options around to get around difficult bosses, levelling up, using different equipment or even summoning. Just feels like this is for the very top level players, which I'm very much not.
Got to Genichiro and he and the game can just do one.
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DUFFMAN5 26,891 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMalek86 wrote:
I did go back and complete, last night in fact. Sorry to say overall it was a disappointment.
@DUFFMAN5 Hellblade gets a bit tiring after a while, but depending on where you left, I'd suggest sticking with it a bit longer. It's worth it, and there are some great sections at the end. -
DUFFMAN5 wrote:
\o/ finally someone else who lives on this island with me.
Malek86 wrote:
I did go back and complete, last night in fact. Sorry to say overall it was a disappointment.
@DUFFMAN5 Hellblade gets a bit tiring after a while, but depending on where you left, I'd suggest sticking with it a bit longer. It's worth it, and there are some great sections at the end. -
I didn‘t like Hellblade either. I appreciate the idea and the technical side; but it played terrible, IMO. Neither the combat nor the puzzles were any fun. -
DUFFMAN5 26,891 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@UncleLou
So that is 3 of us on this "island" Just to be clear I don't want any Blue Lagoon shenanigans!!!
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Bambot 2,076 posts
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Registered 6 years agoMonster Hunter World: I did maybe four monsters before I realised life's too short
Red Dead Thingummy 2: I'd done a couple of train heists and we were at the second camp location and I think i've had the first big overnight party, but it"s just so boring, so joyless, and far, far, far too longwinded. -
Bambot 2,076 posts
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Registered 6 years agothe_milkybar_kid wrote:
This was exactly my experience. "How bad can it be?"
Steep.
Tried it after being free on PSN. What the fuck is this supposed to be? Gave up and deleted after half an hour of wondering what the fuck to do, climbing and falling down a mountain, being unable to fast travel after missing a checkpoint and discovering it has a button dedicated to being an insufferable, loathesome, inspirational quoting, fist pumping millennial dickhead.
"This is our world, our time, we got a live in the moment, Woooooohoooooo, yeah"
"Living the dream baby, woooooooo"
Fuck off. This can be activated whilst you're standing still or diving headfirst into the floor after a 1000 foot drop, which was the only pleasure I got. Would love to know who their target audience was for this or if this is how they think view people that do insane shit act.
Followed very quickly by "Jesus Christ why won't they just let me race and stuff? What's all this wandering around trying to identify locations with binoculars? Why is the map SO shitty and hard to navigate around? DELETE" -
JamboWayOh 25,237 posts
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Registered 8 years agoBambot wrote:
/loads gun
Monster Hunter World: I did maybe four monsters before I realised life's too short
Red Dead Thingummy 2: I'd done a couple of train heists and we were at the second camp location and I think i've had the first big overnight party, but it"s just so boring, so joyless, and far, far, far too longwinded. -
Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMajora's Mask (N64)
I wasn't having all that much fun anymore, really, but I wanted to at least finish it because there was only one dungeon missing.
Then it turned out that, in order to even access the dungeon, you first have to complete a big trading sequence where some NPCs will ask you for items that you probably won't have (due to the constant time reset). Which means a lot of journeying back and forth. And that's when I gave up.
I do think this game would be a lot more approachable without the mandatory time resets, but even without, it looks like there's lots of artificial lengthening (a lot of places require multiple trips if you don't have at several bottles, fetch quests are everywhere, etc).
Still a shame, because I wanted to see how it ended.
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Dombat 1,918 posts
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Registered 10 years agoBambot wrote:
I just want a snowboarding game to go back to basics. No bullshit open world to navigate. Just picking a detailed course in a menu, select a character and board and off you go. Like the early SSX games and Cool Boarders etc.
the_milkybar_kid wrote:
This was exactly my experience. "How bad can it be?"
Steep.
Tried it after being free on PSN. What the fuck is this supposed to be? Gave up and deleted after half an hour of wondering what the fuck to do, climbing and falling down a mountain, being unable to fast travel after missing a checkpoint and discovering it has a button dedicated to being an insufferable, loathesome, inspirational quoting, fist pumping millennial dickhead.
"This is our world, our time, we got a live in the moment, Woooooohoooooo, yeah"
"Living the dream baby, woooooooo"
Fuck off. This can be activated whilst you're standing still or diving headfirst into the floor after a 1000 foot drop, which was the only pleasure I got. Would love to know who their target audience was for this or if this is how they think view people that do insane shit act.
Followed very quickly by "Jesus Christ why won't they just let me race and stuff? What's all this wandering around trying to identify locations with binoculars? Why is the map SO shitty and hard to navigate around? DELETE"
What few snowboarding games we've had over the last decade or longer have tried to be more open world and/or realistic, and just feel soulless because of it. -
lordofdeadside 1,363 posts
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Registered 20 years ago@areallyniceman I actually went back to it a week later and spent a lot of hours trying the Genchiro fight, eventually got him down but didn't feel any sense achievement. Felt like I just got lucky with unblock-able attacks.
Since then I've continued a bit and got to another hard boss fight, the Corrupted Monk. I just don't have the will to do another load of hours doing the same thing over and over. Abandoned. (again).
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I couldn't really get into Majora's Mask because it tried so hard to piss me off. Started the game, was in that village, had to do stupid minigame. Chase someone or whatever, more minigames. Then, more shitty minigames. After that, more awful minigames. I spent 2 hours on this game and all of it was dreadful minigames or play tag with some fucking weirdo. That gave me the impression that bad minigames is all MM is about. Does it become a real game later?
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spindle9988 5,222 posts
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Registered 14 years agoareallyniceman wrote:
I absolutely love MHW but I was also a fan of the earlier ones. I wouldn't say this one converted many people but it is a great game for the gamers that already loved it.
FussyDuck wrote:
I bought MHW because of the rave reviews despite never having played the series before.
Bambot wrote:
Bounced off the same two games in pretty much the same places!
Monster Hunter World: I did maybe four monsters before I realised life's too short
Red Dead Thingummy 2: I'd done a couple of train heists and we were at the second camp location and I think i've had the first big overnight party, but it"s just so boring, so joyless, and far, far, far too longwinded.
Monster Hunter is baffling; the menus are a mess, the location is generic as fuck and yet this is the accessible one!
It baffles me as to how people enjoy it. It plays like an utterly tedious Korean F2P phonegame. -
Malek86 12,331 posts
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Registered 14 years ago@DrStrangelove it does get more focused later on, but it also becomes The Legend of Zelda: You Better Have More Bottles.
And even if you can get used to the fetch questing, it's still more focused on sidequests and minigames more than any other game in the series. Plus the assets re-use from Ocarina gets a bit too obvious later on, with some levels and characters that don't really make any sense other than being there because Ocarina had them. Is that Marlon? Oh wait, it's just a clone with a different name.
It's an interesting experiment for sure, and I find the visual and sound design very impressive (Link Between Worlds looked and sounded utterly generic in comparison), but yeah, the game does its best to try and piss you off.
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@Malek86
Thanks. It's just that what I want from a Zelda game is that adventure. Exploring, killing, solving puzzles, clearing dungeons etc. That's why my favourite is LttP I guess. I loved Ocarina when it was good but it could really get on my nerves with its minigame BS. Ocarina duel with some forest gnomes, catching chicken in Kakariko, ultra-slow grave-digging minigame, fishing, chicken catching at Lon Lon Farm, slingshot shooting gallery, horse race at Lon Lon Farm, dumb stealth section in front of the castle, bow shooting gallery, another dumb stealth section in the castle, bombing the rolling Goron, horrible stealth section in Gerudo Fortress, horseback arching gallery in Gerudo Fortress, catching ghosts for the witch, ocarina ocarina ocarina and oh my God just stop it! It feels like half of the game is Wii Party or something.
OoT already did more of this than I could stomach, and if MM is more of it, I'm out. -
Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDrStrangelove wrote:
Sounds like you'd love BotW then, if you haven't already played it (although the "dungeons" in it aren't quite as good as in the older games).
@Malek86
Thanks. It's just that what I want from a Zelda game is that adventure. Exploring, killing, solving puzzles, clearing dungeons etc.
FWIW, I think Majora's Mask is a masterpiece. It's definitely the least accessible Zelda game though, which is why it divides opinion so much, but it's probably also the most rewarding once you realise how well it all fits together. -
Kay wrote:
It looks great, it's just that I'm not buying a console only to play this one game.
Sounds like you'd love BotW then, if you haven't already played it (although the "dungeons" in it aren't quite as good as in the older games). -
Anyone who dislikes hellblade has a micro penis. It's a thing, Google it.
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