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Horizon Zero Dawn has a terrible mid game grind that can catch you out and make you never finish the game.
Battlefield 4 was terrible on release and almost unplayable for the first 3 months before it became one of the best multiplayer online shooters. Battlefield 3 multiplayer was actually quite poorly balanced and people are blinded by nostalgia. Battlefield 2 has some wonky vehicle mechanics and terrible voiceover lines, especially the Chinese voice actor was terrible.
Gran Turismo 4 has a lot of understeer by default in the handling model when using default setups, Gran Turismo 3 has a poorly structured campaign and prize/reward model. Gran Turismo 6 is basically a patch for Gran Turismo 5, with a worse campaign mode. Gran Turismo 5 took forever to release and was still unfinished upon release, the scope was just too massive for a game that came out in 2010.
The final boss race in Need For Speed Underground 2 is a massive dissapointment, it's literally the easiest race in the game, the rubber banding by the bosses in NFS Most Wanted makes certain blacklist boss races almost unplayable (I'm looking at you Earl), and NFS carbon has a mediocre open world map compared to previous installment. NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 released unfinished and the open world functionality was never implemented as intended, open world was just restricted to free roam. NFS Rivals was just Hot Pursuit 2010 with the open world functionality completed and fleshed out, honestly the games should have just been combined and released as a finished single game instead of rushing Hot Pursuit 2010.
For the Uncharted franchise, 1 is good despite it's shortcomings because without it the series would not exist. 2 was the peak, 3 only exists to set up Nathan Drake's marriage to Elana the rest of the game is just average to bad, and 4 despite being a great game, ends the way it does because Naughty Dog wanted to retire the series after the creator left. Which is sad because I would gladly play more Uncharted games.
both times i've tried to play HZD i got to the middle then couldn't finish it
You've just got to ignore all the side quests and focus on the main quests, the story is worth it and the main quests aren't that difficult. The hardest main quest is actually in the middle of the game where you fight the first fully functional deathbringer at the grave hoard (level 18 I think). If you can complete that quest, you can beat the entire game easily. Using mounts and fast travel is vital for the second half of the game too.
I really enjoyed horizon until I found the first giraffe thing and realized it was Yet Another Far Cry game in disguise, making me find radio towers to reveal the map, and lost interest
The first giraffe thing is right at the beginning of the game, and you don't actually have to do them to complete the game, it's completely optional. I think there are 5 total. It's helpful to reveal the map before traveling to an area yourself, but you can just ignore them if you want and travel using wavepoints and the signs in the game world.