RDR2
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This was actually my first thought too! Every time I buy a Rockstar game, I am immediately reminded how big the hype is compared to how bad the core game mechanics are.
I regretted buying RDR2, GTAV, and GTA4 when I first played them. I think I liked Vice City, but I expected it to be more of a visual upgrade than it was.
For RDR2, you get to slowly slog through snow… then play 40+ hours of poorly-designed quests and waves of dozens of enemies to slow you down so you can move the story forward.
The core gameplay mechanics are designed as a way to slow the story down rather than making the game fun. I would rather skip every single stupid gunfight. It’s so pointlessly repetitive.
None of these games really need 40 hours of padded story content, but people think they’re getting a “value” by spending their time playing mediocre things.
For GTAV, it’s honestly hilarious how bad the first driving mission is. People are straight-up delusional about these games.
Explain
The exploration part was ok for me, they’re some interesting points to find but that was it. When I’ve tour the map one time every biome start to look blend.
Shooting (which is the most part of the main story) is blend, unimaginative and frankly easy as opposed to hunting a squirrel that you need for a satchel.
Arthur didn’t resonate with me, he’s blind of Dutch who is clearly the bad guy at the start of the game. Playing 10h (iirc) a guy who follow blindly a fucking asshole wasn’t a great gaming experience
Weirdly enough, Halo: Master Chief Edition
I'd only ever played the demo for the original Halo and a few multiplayer games on other peoples' consoles, but I've absorbed enough of the Halo lore from various sci-fi YouTube channels, trailers, cinematics, etc., that I found it pretty fascinating.
But the gameplay? Extremely not my cup of tea. I found the weapons very unsatisfying to use, (I grew up around Unreal Tournament's rocket launcher) the enemies too bullet-spongey, and the environments and encounters too samey and uninteresting.
Honestly, I just want a walking simulator that takes me through the story lol
Cyberpunk 2077 only because it was busted as fuck on PS4.
Now it's a great game that I have over 1000 hours in but when it released holy fucking broken, batman. It's the only game I ever refunded in the PS store.
Not instant, cuz I bought it long before playing it, but I was one of the dumbasses who preordered No Man's Sky.
After hours of "maybe this is just a dud planet" I finally accepted that 90% of what they advertised was a massive and very deliberate lie.
They've come a long way to make it right since then, but that doesn't excuse their initial deception.
Lesson learned: do not pre-order, ever. Wait for at least a month or so post-release and make a purchasing decision based on reviews.
Spore
nothing like advertised
It started off ok but then just quickly became a grindy strategy game
The first stage is the only good one.
Not a game specifically, but Seekers of the Storm DLC for Risk of Rain 2.
They didnt haven't to break Loader like that. :( I still miss that game. Refunded and stopped playing it. Gearbox sucks.
It's been fixed since the disasterously buggy release, and there's a very strong modding scene. I'm sure there's something to "fix" loader for you.
RoR2 used to be one of my favorites. I have not touched it since Gearbox took over and it's incredibly disappointing to see that my hunch about them taking over was correct. They completely broke what wasn't broken and soured an incredible indie game and its legacy with one shitty update.
They've fixed the issues since, and there's easy to install mods to revert all the questionable tweaks they made. I'm not a particular fan of giving my money to slime incarnate Randy Pitchford, but to pretend the entire game is ruined is silly.
Honestly, the QoL improvement from auto-sprinting alone is worth the modding scene. I'm still having a blast and can easily lose 3 hours whenever I boot it up.
Elden Ring. I knew I shouldn't have. I already knew from playing DS1 that I did not like these games. But it was different, they said. It's the most accessible yet they said. The lore is great, they said. And that's mostly true except for the last one, it's lore and story is dogshit. Hell, they couldn't even translate correctly what very little was there in regards to Ranni, and she has the best ending. Speaking of endings, holy fuck, what a shit show those short and recycled endings are. Anyways, I paid full price for this... thing, and that's what I really regret. Slap a 50% off sale on it, and, sure, it's totally worth it. But I won't ever be buying the DLC or doing another playthrough.