Games

FFXVI

I saw the trailer years ago and seemed good, so I wanted to give it a try. I of course looked for online reviews and game journalists were praising it so I bought it.

It's horrible. The only reason I played a lot of hours is because there's an endless stream of cinematics.

The strong point is supposed to be the story. But the story is so fucking stupid. The lore and world building is good, but the story is shit.

I don't know how game journalists are even allowed to exist.

EDIT: mistakenly wrote XIV instead of XVI

I played this Gameboy advance game as a kid where you adopted a puppy and cared for it and all that and then after a certain amount of time your parents in-game made you get rid of it.

I've never felt so fucking betrayed in all my days. I was so mad that I threw the game cartridge out of the car window and my parents weren't even mad because the ending to the game was so fucked lmao

Counter-Strike Global Offensive. Too many cheaters and the skins just ruin the game. I still play 1.6 and Source sometimes. CS2 I don't even bother, because my pc is potato.

Red Dead 2 for me.

I constantly get everything wrong. Never understand the quests or what I'm supposed to do, always making the wrong decisions. Constantly having to retry.

It felt like it was designed by aliens that just read a few books on life on earth and cowboys and made an open world game.

"Hurry you have to do this one thing RIGHT NOW" means you can do that thing whenever you want. Hell. You can even take and 8 year old on a fishing trip but I get tricked into losing sleep on a workday because of appearant lies.. I never knew when I was in a quest or not.

BG3 I straight up refunded because it reminded me why I hated D&D. I just end up save scumming and hating melee combat against ranged targets. I walk 2 steps towards the enemy the enemy also walks two steps and throws a dagger in my face. Repeat. To be fair I hated XCOM for the same reason. I loved Fallout 1 and 2 though.

Rocket League and Rust have each taken thousands and thousands of hours.

I fell in love with RL the very first weekend and bought all the DLC as it came out because I wanted to support an indie developer. I was rewarded by having the thing I loved sold to a corporation who systematically used my love against me until I could no longer tolerate it.

Rust of course decided that I wasn't worth having as a customer anymore and cut me off along with every other Linux user.

Subnautica: Below Zero.

Subnautica is one of my favorite games I've ever played. My understanding is there was enough of a shakeup of crew behind the scenes during BZ's development that it effected the final product, and it's evident that they didn't know what about the first game was so good.

Every single area in the game is a twisty turny confusingly self-similar maze of corridors. The twisty bridges, the sea monkey dens, the icebergs, the glacier, the lilypad caves, the crystal caverns, the wreck, the game is a bunch of mazes. The story doesn't make sense, the characters kinda suck...I've played it through 3 or 4 times, and that's probably it. I've played through Subnautica dozens.

Almost every MMORPG. They start off fun and then the fun becomes grind - tedious quests, upkeep, travel time, hp recovery, crafting, rare spawns, penalties & debuffs for death.

My first experience of all this was Everquest. I quit because Verant screwed up a series of expansion launches leading to crashes and downtime and I questioned why I was playing this thing and realised it hadn't been fun for a long time. But pretty much every MMO is the same.

Solitaire. I found out later that the deck only had 51 cards.

I know I am late to the party here but the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy just didn't work for me. I played the first game and suddenly my guard was up. Some of the combat is cool, and of course the graphics are better. But every story change from the original was worse, all of the new characters were boring and clearly shoe horned in, and the general game seemed to lack direction despite having solid rails to coast on.

Still, I finished Remake and bought Rebirth and just couldn't. In the first town all the flaws of the remake trilogy were on display. Uninstalled, sold the game, and have zero plans to buy Revolutions (is that the last one?)

I do not see SE capturing the spirit of FF again, which is such a loss.

Rogue Legagy. after a while it suddenly occurred to me that if my characters were slowly getting more powerful as a result of how long i played the game, the game wasn't challenging me to beat it, it was challenging me to invest my time until i'd customized the experience to be easy enough for me. so i switched back to playing more traditional roguelikes and roguelikelikes (which is what we called roguelites at the time) where you reset to 0 each play

Blue Prince. After reaching room 46 and realising that the game was just getting started, I immediately gave up. This is probably the game that respects the player's time the least that I ever played.

It has amazing lore and overall feeling but is ruined by the RNG. It's somewhat bearable in the first part but becomes extremely annoying when you know what to do but can't because of unlucky draws or not enough steps left.