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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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For me it's a couple

First is GTA. I played a LOT of Vice City and and San Andreas as a kid, but mostly because everyone else played them at the time and there wasn't really many games quite like it where you could mess around and explore a massive city and find cool vehicles just by exploring. But by the time GTA 4 rolled around other open world games did things just as good and the edgey humor has starting to wear thin on me so I had moved on to things like Elder Scrolls by that time.

Another is Minecraft. Minecraft is the exact kind of game I should be in to, it looks so fun! But I just found the artstyle so damn ugly. It's so rare for me to avoid something for aesthetic reasons, usually low poly art is charming but for some reason Minecrafts style just looks really unappealing to me. This is coming from someone who likes a lot of games people think are ugly.

Lastly are what I'll call "grizzled white guy action games" Uncharted, Red Dead, The Last of Us. They just feel too much like they're trying to be be a blockbuster for for guys that don't want to be made fun of for liking games rather than games. I know that that probably isn't the case, but they just seem too normal to me.

However I respect that these are all good series but they just aren't for me. Are there any game series where this is true for you?

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity why Haze specifically?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Could've been Wolfenstein (2009) for all it's worth, allthough that has decidedly more colour.

Just the first one that came to my mind as the mid 2000s white bald stubbly guy with brown and piss filter on it that just has nothing else going for it. Red Faction Guerilla ticks all the boxes but at least that has an impressive physics going, even if it doesn't manage to prop up the rest of the game. FEAR 2 rides the coattails the first ones before they really nosedived it with 3. But Haze? What's the saving grace for Haze?

EDIT: I'd say Uncharted, RDR and TLOU are regularly called blockbuster games (positive) but I think they should be called blockbuster games (negative)

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

Hey, don't diss Wolfenstein games. Yeah, lame shooter is lame shooter, but dead Nazis is at least funny for a few hours.

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My eyes are twitching at red faction slander, I would have picked gears of war myself.

Haze was actually supposed to be a criticism of gruff manly shoot man game although it was very hamfisted in it's execution. The idea is you start off as the bad guys all acting dudebro cringe excited they're gonna go kill all the bad guys but actually you're all drugged up imperialist goons wiping out the native population. Your drug system breaks and you end up fighting for the natives and see the goons as this grotesque depraved thing. The gameplay ultimately sucks but it was supposed to be a critique of that type of game. I have a vague recollection that the marketing was aimed to appeal to that type of player to then deliver the twist later or something it's been a while.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

My eyes are twitching at red faction slander, I would have picked gears of war myself.

It's not technically the first but it is kind of vibes based the first cover shooter, at least in a way that it started an entire genre of offshoots. Historically relevant I guess.

I don't even dislike Guerilla but having played it a bit recently it just doesn't hold up. The destruction physics are really good and especially for the time that was insane work but outside of that it's a very, very 2000s brown shooter.

I have a vague recollection that the marketing was aimed to appeal to that type of player to then deliver the twist later or something it's been a while.

yeah but it's like far cry 3 levels of botching your satire imo