Undertale. I tried playing it a few weeks ago, but the controls are clunky and the story isn’t really entertaining. It was just boring and annoying.
I couldn’t stand it either, and I grew up with NES/SNES JRPGs and thought it would be right up my alley but for whatever reason the humor didn’t reach me in the slightest and I couldn’t be bothered to finish it.
More recently I tried Afterplace which also has a meta theme but the gameplay is more like a simplified Zelda and I really loved the writing.
Hoo boy! This is a hot take. Personally I love the game so I’m curious: what specifically did you find annoying about it, like was it just the controls for you, and did you end up finishing it or did you give up?
GTA. Games 3 and 4 were good, 5 was kinda fun, but I’m not really at all excited for the same formula over and over again. Even battlefield feels a bit samey. Only indie games are really taking risks these days. And some of them are fantastic.
Assassin’s Creed. I was done after Unity. I don’t care for anything later than that. It’s all the same.
Balatro.
After I finished the first run, I was like “cool, now the number I need to beat is higher. So what?”. Which is strange, because I love deck builders, I like beating higher numbers like e.g. Brotato. But for some reason I could not be bothered with Balatro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GTA. All of them, but especially 5.
Gta2 was hella fun. Went downhill from there.
Pretty much anything based on collecting cards or deck building.
Assassin’s Creed
Anything Mario
I’ve only played the OG Super Mario Bros on an emulator, and it was pretty fun imo. Short and sweet.
Haven’t played anything else
Undertale. I’m sure it’s a great game, but after a decade of hearing everyone and their mothers shout about it, I’ve oddly been put off by it.
COD and most multiplayer shooters. I guess I’m just not competitive.
Outer Wilds.
I found the story intriguing, but the time loop is way too short. Every time it gets interesting, the world resets, you have to get back into the rocketship and fly back to the place you’ve been before. It’s an absolutely unneccessary padding mechanic.
I have played it multiple times and it has never hooked me. I keep meaning to go back, but I don’t know if I will
Have you played it?
Yes, though I doubt enough to fully understand the appeal. I think I may just hate vehicle controls in any game ever made.
Oh vehicle controls are definitely a valid issue to have with the game. They are pretty well designed for controller use. However well designed is not the same as saying they are easy to use. True 6 degrees of freedom controls between orbits are definitely complex.
Sad to have that blocking enjoying the story or more accurately solar system spanning puzzle box.
AAA first person shooters. At some point new releases are just are a rehash of the exact game mechanics.
Old ones die or dont have friends on em. Ideally everyone would play zombie panic source
Xonotic still has players :)
New maps! And skins! You can buy them, you know!
Hollow Knight. Didn’t click for me. Don’t think I really like Metroidvania games generally, it just often plays out as lazy game design to me.
I just saw the post about Red Dead 2 becoming the 4th most sold game.
It is 100% not my thing.
Its sad that I enjoyed GTA V, and am semi looking forward to GTA VI too, but the wild west genre is not for me.
This is the one for me. Felt like a string of QuickTime sequences and story that is dull and plodding. Just didn’t click for me at all.
Anything Bethesda. I can never play more than a couple hours before I get bored.
They have a bit of a “if you’ve played one you’ve played them all” problem
There’s definitely some nostalgia glasses.
And I dunno where you started, but I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and couldn’t even get through an hour of Starfield. It played like a upscaled Xbox 360 game, with all the jank, yet none of the charm, more filler, all the loading screens, yet somehow ran like molasses. I have no idea what folks see in that game, despite the premise basically being made for me.
it’s oblivion in space.
Oblivion’s side quests (and into) had charm though. Especially the Shivering Isles, that was great.
