45
submitted 1 year ago by Lunar@lemmy.wtf to c/gaming@beehaw.org

How many and which bad games did you play this year?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

The only one that really sticks out is Starfield. Most other games I played I knew what I was getting into. For some reason Starfield surprised me, probably because it was on Gamepass (so effectively free) and because I trusted Bethesda. Oh well.

Considering the number of great games this year, that's not too bad.

[-] kagrocery@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago

Agreed and Starfield wasn’t even that bad. I just don’t have any time to play a mediocre game when BG3 is sitting right there.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's just me getting older, but since Skyrim, Bethesda games have failed to capture that magic for me. They've been leaning on the creation engine for too long, to the point that so many of the features, not the least of which being the goddamn shouts, are all carbon copies of one another, the base building is literally just a fucking resource sink, the gunplay sucks and the enemies are all bullet sponges unless you dip into late game planets and filch a late game gun, the jobs are 90% basic bitch fetch quests, and the core gameplay loop of "go place --> grab shit --> sell shit" has not evolved since Morrowind.

I stop playing games when they start feeling like a second job, and for me that point in Starfield was about three hours in when I was trying to complete survey data for the homesteading program and I was wandering around this deserted planet, looking for samples of flora and fauna, and I scoot back from my desk as I realize, for 20 minutes, I have done absolutely nothing meaningful or engaging. The closest I've come is, I've pointed a scanner at a bunch of procedurally generated animals hoping they don't land a hit on me because they're too spongy for me to kill, so I can fill a meter, so that when I'm done filling meters I can go back to BDG and tell him this place is suitable for people to live. That's not fun. It barely qualifies as gameplay, and it is an aggressive waste of time.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but since Skyrim, Bethesda games have failed to capture that magic for me.

It is not you. Standards for the genre have been raised since at least 2015, and Bethesda has not kept up, for all the reasons you stated.

this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
45 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

30600 readers
165 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS