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What's a game that got critically and player acclaimed that you disliked anyway? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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This is a followup to @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 's recent thread for completeness' sake.

I'll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre... in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of "doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book" puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.

So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Borderlands. It is so repetitive and boring. The writing is trying to be edgy but only succeeds at being cringe. I lost all interest after 45mn of it

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I like 1&2 but presequel absolutely felt like that for me. Only the gameplay changes for that one kept me going, and the fact I was playing with someone else, if I was on my own I probably would've gave up on it way earlier.