OP, you should post the exact opposite of this question, too (unless it already exists and i missed it).

Funky. If they did fix it it took them at least two and a half years to do it.

I really enjoyed the game with 0 knowledge about the lore

You don’t have to, they are very old games and quite hard to play if you are not used to the genre. I believe that practically the only connections are two reoccurring characters whom you don’t need to know anything about beforehand.

Funny for me it was RDR2. I still think I probably would have liked it if I stuck with it, but 20 minutes in I was told that I would have to regularly clean my gun and hunt to feed my camp etc. and it just felt like doing a bunch of chores and I noped straight out.

I use an inventory mod on Linux, it's basically like the "store all junk" option in fo4, it doesn't store all junk, but it takes a huge weight off.

OMG Disco was sooo slow. I'd rather get stoned and watch a walk through that actually play it.

Control. stuck in an office with dull attack options. I played about half way through then looked up my progress and walked away. Way too dull for me. Friends were raving about it.

Any after gen 5 for me. Gen 5 is actually my favourite

I only played Nier Automata after reading a lot of praise about it. I played through it once, but it didn't really "click" for me. I didn't play it again to get a different ending.

I want to play the game after watching the video. It's like a real cat or dog. Just fucking your shit up. :D

Dragon Quest Builders 2 kind of fits the bill for me here. I wanted to play it from the moment I learned about it. I had zero experience with 1, or any other dragon quest games. My biggest issue, and im still quite angry about it, is that the game I wanted to play, and the game the trailers promised actually does exist. Its all functional. The only way to play it though is the campaign, and its so frustratingly hand-holding and text-heavy it actually hurt to play.

"we need to build the BRONZE ROOM. So we'll need some BRONZE. Theres some BRONZE in the cave nearby." [Camera pans over to where the bronze is.] "Okay! We'll go and get the BRONZE!" "I think 3 pieces OF BRONZE should do it."

Head over towards the cave.

Hey! We're near the BRONZE cave! Isn't this where they said we could get the BRONZE that we need to complete the BRONZE ROOM? Let's get the BRONZE!

Head towards the bronze.

Hey! It's the BRONZE that we need to make the BRONZE ROOM! Lets mine some quick so we can make the BRONZE ROOM! You can do this! Let's go!

Mine the bronze

[BRONZE acquired!]

Hey! Thats it! We just mined the first piece of BRONZE that we need! Didn't the quest-giver say we needed 3 pieces? What are we waiting for? Lets mine 2 MORE!

Mine 2 more

Thats it! Weve got all the BRONZE that we need to make the BRONZE ROOM! lets Head back to the base as quickly as we can to make the BRONZE ROOM.

Head back to the base, get talked to by the quest giver for a solid minute about the importance of the bronze room. Then the concept of the silver room comes up. You think 'that was a really really really long-winded tutorial, but they'll leave me alone to do the silver and gold now that I know what to do. No. Go back to the top of that list but replace BRONZE with SILVER. Then gold. Then do it again and again and again until the credits roll and you realise the game never actually happens and you just wasted a bunch of your life and you'll never ever get it back and they could have made an excellent game, and they actually did, they just wouldn't let you play it.

Im still pretty bitter about that whole experience.

Thats where I stopped. I played the prologue and was having a blast, then you get to the first camp and it shows you all the stuff youre expected to do and it just looked like hassle.

I started it way too late. Spent the first few hours having to solo while getting spammed with duel requests, like seriously every second a flag came down. I accepted a couple and got wrecked immediately while they spammed lolololoolol noooooooobbbbbbbbbb stomped rek lol doing the dance emote.

By the time I got to the "real game" and its time to party up to do dungeon runs, nobody would let me join their group because I didnt have full epic perfect-spec'd gear. Which i cant get without doing the dungeon. Which i cant do because I dont have the gear.

Just uninstalled it. Didnt even make it past the free trial. I'm still baffled, because a game like that lives or dies based on its player count, and the players make it as hostile and inaccessible as possible for new players.

I was so hyped for it, to play with my boy, before learning theres no local co-op. Still havent bought it.

Just fyi, if you hate the main characters you can kill then if you want and just have generic NPCs as your companions.

Or you can ignore them full on it you don't want to kill them - you don't need them to join you.

I'm surprised you dislike Karlach though, the most normal/relatable one.

You'd probably enjoy skyrim more if you added some mods to help with the UI.

I couldn't agree more. RDR2 has this aura of "you can do so many things, in any order, all the exploration, etc" and to me it feels like no one stopped to ask "are any of the things fun?"

OOT on the 3DS has gyro aiming. They never mention it and if they did it was brief. I noticed at first when the joystick aiming was just a little shaky. Fighting the forest temple boss was super easy in a computer chair.

Baldur’s Gate 3 for me as well. BG2 is on my top five all time favorite games. BG3 was just a tedious bore.

I think the closest to a disappointment is Skyrim, but it's not the game's fault. I was always looking forward to it. I love the non-linear role-play experience in a rich open world. I watched plenty of Let's Plays. For some reason it took me a long time to get to it. But when I finally got to play it, I realized that the first-person 3D movement in this game made me dizzy and unwell to the point I couldn't continue. I had this problem with some other games, too, but not to this extent. I might give it another try at some point. But maybe something like World of Anterra scratches that itch better.

An honorable mention is Planescape: Torment. I liked it, but having played Disco Elysium first, the writing and story in this game felt over-hyped.

Outer worlds was a first person shooter with unsatisfying gunplay and not a strong enough story to get invested.

I literally got soft locked in disco Elysium. My first ever run I failed so many checks the game actually told me I had to sit around and do nothing for a whole day. Way too slow, felt way too limited in what I was able to do. Talked online about it and people said it's basically a misery and failure simulator. Not what I had in mind.

Persona 5 is a big anime quick time event.

Divinity just isn't as fun as bg3. Sorry stacking physical or magic damage and cycling stuns endlessly just isn't that fun.

People always act like I'm crazy for not liking these games and think I must just hate games that are turn based, are rpg's, have text and rely on statistics to determine outcomes. Admittedly I do hate rpg's where I don't get creative freedom over my character but y'all recommending these boring ass games with no gameplay literally just walking around slowly pressing a button when prompted pokemon type gameplay when you ain't even ever played XCOM terror from the deep.

It's set in the 1800s! Everyone's a racist or sexist, so everyone's a bad guy. Fire away!

God, that game was so damn boring.

Usually I get hooked immediately but Control lost me I think in around 2 hours.

The story didn't do it any service either. I kept finding notes but never understood a damn thing in them even though I read them carefully.

I think it took me getting to act 2 before I started liking anyone besides Gale and Wyll.

In the end I mostly stuck around Shadowheart but at first she was REAAAALLY annoying. I hated her guts lol.

I think you just grew up. People seem to forget that these are games for children. Nostalgia can only take you so far.

Pokemon is games for babies

Have you tried playing it through Steam (as a non-Steam game) and using Steam Input?

These games work best on controller given how you're meant to rebalance as you walk, so I'm not sure how common this issue is...

I basically completely agree with this comment here https://lemmy.world/comment/22443131

I find controls especially for N64 really need their weird controller layout to feel comfortable and the oddball joystick with all the resistant travel and range it has to really handle as well as intended by developers. Tall joystick with a huge gated bowl. Never did translate well to modern controllers. Is it worth buying an N64 to USB adapter and dealing with the grinding plastic flaws of the sticks and bowl if you don't have that past experience? No idea, probably not?

I have the same nausea issue. Once you clear Skyrim's tutorial level, you can switch to over the shoulder camera. But I didn't know that on my first try. Ended up putting the game down & uninstalling it. Only came back to it years later after seeing some videos.

For what it's worth, there are mods that let you skip the introduction entirely. "Live Another Life" used to be the go-to, but I think it's been depreciated. Still would be a good starting point to search.

Trials of Mana is a far better game than Secret of Mana in my opinion but the combat is a slog still. It's especially bad being real time with move cool downs but what really kills me is the game pausing every time a magic spell is cast or opening the item wheel, which is constantly. Idk how anyone playing co-op could put up with that lol it's so tedious already without adding 1 or 2 friends to the mix.

The Mako copy pasted barren planets with the same 3 buildings bullshit is half the fucking game. Soooo much bland padding. The main story I enjoy but ut's actually kinda short by itself. I don't think Mass Effect 1 is very good compared to the older game it ripped off wholesale:

Star Control 2.

Hot take I only like the first Nier and playing as old man dad nier not Final Fantasy brother nier. The gameplay is bad but I love the story far more than Automata.

Like my experience with most remedy games by this point. Cool concept, interesting world, so many things I SHOULD love....but the combat got so damn repetitive and unfun. Same enemy types over and over again. Killed all enjoyment for me. At least I finished it.

Actually just got here with my friend. I felt the same way, I really wanted there to be a world where there was more than a "get improved dodge+ nimble onslaught, get auto revival and guts" for builds. Same thing with the majority of damage stats, there are only a couple that are actually good (big and multiplicative, pretty much just tyranny and stamina) so builds become very restrictive and based on specific sigil drops WAY too fast.

I feel your pain. You kind of HAVE to do perfect dodges to survive later fights consistently. I will say, if you get max Improved Dodge sigil it makes dodges practically twice as easy.

I will say though, endgame is so goddamn grindy. They've almost lost me as well, my interest has only survived because I'm able to AFK farm in the background while doing things on a second monitor.

Sekiro. I do not think its a bad game, I think it's excellent. But it is not for me. It requires rhythm and excellent reaction time, and I have neither. I have zero timing abilities, unless its like RE4 QTEs because i just need to do it a few times in a row at most, but the reactions being so constant and fast, I can not do it, i just cant, its frustrating and makes me feel stupid when I die to normal enemies. And its not like a Souls game, where I can make a build different, or summon someone for help. Again, its just not for me, I do not think its a bad game.

my interest has only survived because I’m able to AFK farm in the background while doing things on a second monitor.

Thats pretty much where I'm at as well lol I just have a full defense and survival build for afk farming the fire dragon and for the light/dark dragon I can't afk, but I have the absurd invincible Lancelot build where you just spam triangle/Y to be invincible forever and let the AI do the heavy lifting lol

That's how I play it now. I tried through the Epic app and still have the same issues.

Yeah fair cop, and tbh, I found the game overrated as all heck, so not missing to much there IMHO

Still doesn't work with Steam Input enabled? Maybe look through the community layouts?

Strike vector. Liked the switching from flight to hover in combat.
Bought it, 2 months later the servers shut down and strike vector 2 was announced for some console no one probably cares about now.

I really want to like Metal Gear Solid games, but after playing a fair way into MGS3... I kind of hate it. The controls and mechanics are so bad.

Witcher 3. Absolutely hated the sluggish movement, only made it a few hours

These days when I play Bethesda games I always end up using console commands to expand inventory space. I'm so done with hyper-limited inventory systems and having to waste stat points to increase them.

i literally gave up on the last boss after 100%ing the rest of the game. just a brutal experience and there's no carrot left to make me grind it out for a couple hours.

The word you are looking for isn't "wish"? Like "I wish that happen again". My first experience with a Pokémon game was with Pokémon Red Fire in a GBA, back in 2006 or 2007. That game itself obfuscate the third gen games. Ruby and Saphire aren't bad games, but something definitively felts off.

I appreciate your effort, but I've been through all of that already. Forum posts across the internet and the best "solution" I can find is to not plug the controller in until the title screen.... Which doesn't always work.

There have been times where I could play without issue for 4 hours or more. There are also times that I load the game and am immediately punching at the air or getting in and out of a vehicle without pressing any buttons at all.

This isn't an issue with the controller layout. This is specific to this game and how it registers controller input.

Bummer. I played them on PS5 so I didn't have any experience with that

One of the things that make me feel in alone in the RDR's world is that you can't interact with any NPC properly, like you does in Fallout 3 or Skyrim. The only times you talk with NPCs is in cinnematics, and is not like you can choose multiple options to interact. In RDR are the NPCs the ones who interact with you by challenging you to a duel, looking for help, ambusshing you, etc. I'm not aware, but I can bet that it's the same in RDR2.