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Is there a game that you've been very patient for, which turned out to be dissappointing when you finally started playing it? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn't really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably Beam.NG drive for me. Highly rated driving/racing game on Steam, and I thought I'd like it because it's like Forza Horizon 4 or 5 but more realistic. Unfortunately, maybe I'm used to Forza but the controls are janky and the UI is clunky. The mods I've tried are fun for a few minutes but gimmicky.

Whenever I get the itch to drive a virtual car with my controller, I just fire up Forza Horizon 5.

Perhaps the game will come around to me down the line if I want more pure simulation or more fun with mods.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, I forgot an entire genre of games: FPS games. The fast paced spinning of your field of view literally makes me nauseous. Even Minecraft has that effect on me sometimes.

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[–] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

SOCOM IV

Waited for a long time for that one and unfortunately they couldn't resist COD-ifying it. It's a shame because they had some cool things in it, loved the bomb defuser escort game mode.

[–] Amro@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@verycoolusername Yes. I waited nine months for "Life!". And it sucks. The levels are to long. The rules are incomprehensible. Other players are getting away with shit I can't because of the rules. And don't get me started on the NPC's or the game mechanics.
Don't recommend.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also the tutorial sucks and is way too long. Plus all the challenges you have to complete to move forward even though it’s the tutorial stage. And the different classes are unbalanced. Why do some classes get so many rolls per turn?

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[–] BeeAteTeenSeaWon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Gran Turismo 7. Only 4 high payout races to earn money. All my friends still play on Gran Turismo Sport because boost doesn’t work in multiplayer. They updated the missions awhile back called the human comedy where if you had it on hard mode it was easy and easy mode was down right impossible. I will never purchase pre-order or digital ever again.

[–] moldoc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Ow2

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

1nsane 2.

So many good memories of dragging my desktop PC, CRT monitor, desktop speakers, and LAN hub over to my friend's house. Pizza, white castle, smoking schwag and playing hours of king of the hill. 1nsane was just the shit to get your friends worked up. Rune was cool, UT was most excellent, but 1nsane was something special.

For so many years we yearned for a next gen copy. Then we got 1nsane 2, and what. the. fuck.

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Carmageddon Resurrection.

Performance sucked on release. It still might
They promised a native Linux version in their crowd funding campaign ...
... and then back-pedalled on that. In stead they made a trailer in which several penguins were killed.
Also: not that fun, as far as I remember.

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