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What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? (pawb.social)

submitted 6 months ago by trslim@pawb.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I'll give my example and I think I'm going to get a lot of hate for it. I DESPISE Dark Souls 3. It is such a mediocre game when it comes to the actual gameplay. There is like zero build diversity, the combat isn't indepth and, while the other souls games have at least decent RPG mechanics and exploration can make things easier, DS3 just demands you rolly polly your way to victory. There is no weight to like anything, you feel so floaty and light, and you fold like a peice of paper when you get hit. And so many attacks don't care about your positioning, and instead only if you mashed the dodge button at the correct time, something Elden Ring kind of does too, but it adds a jump button to retain some offense and I find that I'm able to out position bosses and enemies more often in it without actually dodging.

Dark Souls 3 is such a mindnumbingly boring game for me, I feel zero excitement playing it.

Love DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and Elden Ring though, great games all around.

And the music for DS3 is amazing and I do love the Pontiff Sullivan fight.

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[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Red Dead Redemption 2

It's the same old Rockstar formula of having you travel back and forth over the map just to do a normal mission and falls short of giving the cowboy fantasy everyone touts it as being. They added enough detail that your horse's balls shrink in the cold but made it so easy to get money that whilst your merry band of outlaws are complaining about how little they have, I struggled to find more things to buy with immense hoards of cash. And the bounty system doesn't work. And the multiplayer was total ass. And part way through the fantastical cowboy simulator, it adds goofy sidequests of time travel and robots. Rockstar couldn't decide what to make the game so they tried to make it everything, leaving it lacklustre.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Half-Life 1. It's literally the only game I'm aware of from after 1985 that I truly think "aged badly." Doom '93, Quake, and Unreal are still stone cold classics, even Wolf3D is fun in small doses. HL1 is a mess of control oddities and obtuse game design. I dropped it at the end of the train level when it required me to do an absurdly precise jump where getting it was basically luck to finish the level.

[–] trslim@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

I love Half Life 1, more than Half Life 2, infact. Until the platforming. A small amount of platforming is fine, especially if its optional and used to give you more options in a combat scenario. But when you NEED to make precision jumps with the floaty controls, its very frustrating. I usually stop after Surface Tension.

[–] gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I understand theoretically why people love Control... but I think its objectively a very bad game

i dislike the story, voice acting, animation, level design, music, enemy pathfinding, visual identity, sound design

there's better games where you can wield powers and such

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I actually really liked the setting and artstyle, but god yeah I do not understand why that combat system needed to be the way it was. It put me off playing the sequel, because I just didn't want to suffer through the most godawful shooting combat of any game I've played this decade for another 40 hours.

Wasn't this the same studio who gave us Max Payne? How have they been making third person shooters for like two decades and still mess it up?

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