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Deep Rock Galactic. I was really excited to play it and I tried to like it. The colors and graphics were 10/10 awesome, I just found it to be extremely boring and repetitive.

The Elden Ring.

The open world just did not do it to me. I enjoy much more tighter game world like in the previous souls games.

Most of the side bosses were unintresting and if you found them too late you were completely overpowered.

Nine Sols. Played it right after finishing Silksong to keep the metroidvania kick going.

The parrying was some of the worst feeling parrying I've ever felt in any game, the world felt tiny and extremely linear, the narrative was predictable and felt extremely flat, and the final boss is the only time I've ever switched to a story mode difficulty in any game just to get it over with, I love difficult games but that difficulty spike is absurd and the game never remotely prepares you for that.

They advertise this game as a Sekiro-like metroidvania, while it feels like they completely miss what made Sekiro work or what a metroidvania is.

Cyberpunk 2077.

It's okay, but it's a far cry from giving me the feelings of a cyberpunk world in my opinion and I'm a massive fan of blade runner and the like.

Why am i spending so much time wandering at the street level where everywhere just looks and feels the same. Travelling is so boring.

And the voice acting of V (I played female) is so overreacted, it's one of the cringiest performances in gaming, considering it's meant to be all serious and whatnot.

You know, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I'd say Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is worth playing for a lot of reasons, but I think it's got huge fundamental issues in both its combat and narrative design; it's still on the short list for most outlets' game of the year awards this year. Hades just got a sequel, and I didn't even care for the first one. For many people, those two games are just about the only roguelikes or -lites they've ever played, but I don't think they're even good ones of those; the level generation is so limited that you'll have seen all their permutations quite quickly, and the bonuses from boons just about all feel superfluous and interchangeable. Hollow Knight holds this legendary status among metroidvanias, and Silksong followed suit. I thought Hollow Knight was just fine, but I was surprised to find that this was the game with that sort of following. When facing the possibility of playing Silksong this year or about 5 other video games that came out this year, I don't think Silksong is making the cut.

But your mileage will absolutely vary. These games have hype for a reason: a lot of people love them. You might, too.

Space marine 2. You shoot things with guns that don't feel powerful and you die if you don't have perfect reaction timing to do executes. I've never played a game where the world says "oh you're amazing and powerful!" but then makes you feel incredibly weak. Also, the timing for executes is not fun. It would be nice if they were bonuses but they are necessary to survive because they replenish your health. The gun gameplay is just shooting. No strategy. Boring. I'm going back to hell drivers 2.

I love everything about ‘Disco Elysium’ in isolation. Art style? Gorgeous. Grimy noiry mood, right up my alley. I love isometric RPGs, though it's been a while since I played any. Writing is great, from what I've heard. Novel mechanics, probably beautiful.

Only, I get into a couple dialogs and realize I need a second computer on the desk, to type up notes. Ain't no way I'm remembering any of that, especially since I tend to take long breaks in a playthrough. And I just decided in recent years that I need to pay closer attention to stories in games, which I neglected to do back in my youth.

I've put twenty notes into the phone (with swipe-typing, thankfully), and that ended my initial experience.

statisfactory 1.0: the game is pure eye candy there's no endgame. factorio is leaps and bounds better