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Okay let me start with two heavy hitters right from the get go and don't forget these are only personal oppinions and I absolute understand if you like those games. Good for you!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Not a bad game per se, but I don't get the hype behind it. Sure the dungeons are fun but the world is so lifeless, the story non existent, the combat pretty shallow, the tower climbing is very much like FarCry but for some reasons it's okay here while Ubisoft gets the blame...like I said I dont get why the game is so beloved. Never finished it after the 20 hour mark and probably never will.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just like Zelda not a bad game, but imho highly overrated. Graphics and and atmosphere are amazing but the controls are clunky and overloaded, nearly everybody is an unlikable douchebag who I would love to shoot myself at the first opportunity (maybe except Jack and Abigail) but I have to root and care for them. The game is just so long and feels very stretched, you already know that you won't get Dutch because it's a prequel and for an open world game you often get handholded in your weapon selection or things you can do because you have to wait for them to be unlocked by the game. I'm now nearly done with the game, playing the epilogue at the moment and I would say the last chapters are more entertaining than the rest of the game, but I still can't understand why this game was on so many game of the year lists and I really wanted to put the controller down a dozen times.

So there they are, two highly controversial oppinions by me and now I'm really curios what your takes are and how highly I get downvoted into oblivion 😂

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Deep Rock Galactic.

Yeah I said it.

I wanted to like it, but the gun play was underwhelming and gameplay kind of boring.

Worst of all was the progression. Upgrades were tiered in ways that made 1 a clear best choice. Perks were uninteresting passives or actives with bizarre activation requirements. No way to upgrade flares or pickaxes. And I’m not a guy that cares about cosmetics, so it just didn’t work for me.

I’m happy for everyone else that got a GOAT experience though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Definitely disagree with the clear best choice one. Our group regularly switches things around. Of course to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My IrL table top group will meet online to game every now and then. Half of us really dig DRG, the other half do not. You are certainly not alone.

I only ever play it in a group, and even then after 4 missions I’m a bit over it. It’s just such a lonely slog solo…

That said, I really like the dumb cosmetics, goofy built in antics, and group play.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Giving a hearty "Skal" with a mug of beer in your hand, while kicking barrels through the hoop is pretty fun, ngl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

that and any other single player game with a multi player option, where the single player part is clearly balanced around having multiple teammates.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This one hurts deep. But to each their own ofc.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dude's just straight up wrong, if you could upgrade flares it'd defeat the purpose of gameplay and atmosphere for one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think it depends on how you upgrade it though, slight time increase, colors just for the fun of it, range on how far you throw. None of that Crosses over with the flare gun too much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

For rock.... And... Stone... ⛏️🥹