I gave up on MGS4 after 45 minutes of cutscenes interspersed with bare-ass Raiden crawling around a hospital room.

Nooo, don't tell that, hahaha. This is one those games that I really want to play! I loved Ico and Shadow of The Colossus. I'm going to see if I can emulate PS3 now.

Someone already did. https://lemmy.world/post/43801635

I've played MGS1 in Gamecube and MGS2 in PS2. The only reason I haven't played the 3rd it's because to me it's one of those games that you need to be in your couch like 8 hours straight to get everything that it's happening and learn to play properly. If you play like one or two hours it's to alike that you forget things like CQC.

Something similar happened to me with F.E.A.R. Online. I don't know if are servers now, but back then I only was able to play like to weeks.

Ys 1 & 2. I love the Ys games. But I really only play VI through X. There are remakes of some of the other older ones for the PSP and Vita, I have played through those, too. They are very well done, IMO. But I cannot get into the first two. The mechanics are just too weird. I have the remastered for the DS, I am going to give it a try again, but I'm pretty sure it is largely just visual changes and I am still going to hate it.

Despite my best efforts, I never got to a point where I felt like I wasn't fighting against the controls and mechanics. As somebody who has played a fair share of other stealth games, they just are really bad.

I'll talk about the boss fight that was the final straw for me.

The whole thing was an exercise in annoyance and frustration. After getting past it, it made me realize how hard I had been trying to ignore the way these things had been annoying me throughout the entire game. I couldn't ignore it anymore. Just hate it, the games are not for me.

I played up to the tutorial boss, died and then realized there are no checkpoints and all of the dialogue and cutscenes were unskippable and immediately turned off the game.

It's just an incredibly soulless game, towns are filled with cardboard cutout npcs, there's generic guard, wandering peasant, blah blah blah

Fighting, even on Blood level, is trivial

"Searching" around with witcher senses is an absolutely pathetic mechanic

Yes, that detail is exactly the same in 2.

Oh, I gave it about an hour before giving up. I expected more.

Would you recommend the other games in the series?

I haven't played any of the others but was assured it was no problem. My real controversial opinion is that I didn't think the voice acting was that great either

Oh no, they get worse the older they get.

I'm not into "dark" games so I'll just accept that this one isn't for me

Same I've tried 3 times to get into it, but after a couple of hours I quit.

I never wanted to play any specific games but I did avoid playing Dave the Diver for months thinking it was boring. I could bet money that I would hate it.
Gave it a try one day out of boredom and could not sleep until I finish it a week later. 70 hours. (yes I have a full time job)

fucking great game

I'm still unclear on your opinion.

I partly agree. I'm at the final boss in the 3 remake, and I spent nearly the entire game yelling at it. But I really enjoy his bonkers and clunky storytelling. The escort mission near the end must be the worst escort mission ever made. Waiting at the end checkpoint while she just stands there as her hunger meter drops rapidly, and you have no food, and soldiers keep spawning endlessly.

I'm also really confused why the Russian military troops continue attacking you as their general is actively slaughtering them.

Gun cleaning, hunting, feeding camp, doing chores, etc are all optional in that game. You can just do missions to get to the end of the game with no problem.

I rage quit purely because the UI was giving me a headache. There's a ton of reading and menus, and it was so poorly designed.

Wizard of Legend 2 was the biggest sequel let down in my eyes. What the fuck man. Shoulda been in the bag easy.

Nier: Automata and Outer Wilds both lost me with their absurdly boring opening sequences.

Tried playing it once through Game Pass, the text was way too small to be readable on my TV.

It's been a while since I played it, but doesn't Automata open with you fighting a mecha kaiju oil rig?

Final Fantasy VIII. Loved VII as a kid and thought this would blow my mind and be even better. I think mentally I set the bar too high and it didn’t stand a chance.

Yeah the N64 came right at the transition from games being primarily 2d to many groundbreaking 3d games coming out. And they really struggled with the controls and other aspects of the games.

Like I was obsessed with GoldenEye when it was new. Perfect Dark made it irrelevant before GameCube was even a thing, just on the gameplay side, since the controls were pretty much the same. I have no interest in going back to either game at this point. Partially because of the controls, but even the more recent GoldenEye remake for PC wasn't very fun IMO, despite the move to the best fps control scheme (mouse and keyboard).

They had it more figured out during the GameCube era, at least to the point where I can replay Metroid Prime despite the controls (that game is still on my top games ever list).

Brink.

God I was so excited for Brink. What a let down.

I feel similarly. I can do the rhythm and timing stuff, but I just kept wanting to do something different each time and there's just no room for that in Sekiro. You play Sekiro's way and that's kind of it.

That and the grappling hook parkour kept giving me light vertigo.

Breath Edge. I was looking for a new subnautica-like experience, having given up on any expectations from the sequel currently in development when the new owners got rid of the original devs (imo just pirate the original so they don't get money from owning that, too).

Maybe I dropped it too soon, but Breath Edge didn't give that sense of making progress. I was stuck having to go back to the same starting point after every trip. Those trips are longer, but I found progressing and exploring to just be annoying and frustrating rather than fun and rewarding and what you do find underwhelming. I stopped when it looked like it wanted me to set up "path extenders" for kms with effects that frost the helmet to 0 visibility. There's probably some mechanisms I'm about to unlock that will make those easier but I just don't want to.

Maybe I'll try looking at a walkthrough to see what the next steps are and decide if it's worthwhile (maybe I'm missing something important that makes the rest of it much less of a pain), but there's plenty of other games to play so I'm not worried.

To be fair, Elden Ring is pretty damn easy. Sure, it requires you to pay attention some, but all of the main bosses don't put up that much of a fight, and traversing the world is trivial compared to earlier games.

I don't know what remake you are referring to unless it's the Xbox 360 cancelled remake leak with the Xenia emulator mouse+kb hacked build, but I can relate with the Perfect Dark decompilation PC port. Even with good frame rate and mouse+kb the game is too simplistic to hold my attention anymore. I can play Timesplitters 2/3 and 007 Nightfire instead if I want an old console FPS for some reason, they hold up better.

Trying to look for it now, I can't be sure what the specific project is called. It wasn't official, might be the same team that did the PD one. It only had multiplayer maps, extended versions of them, too, like that soviet library one was fully open when only a part of it was open in the OG game.

Sonic CD.

For years and years it was a mythical sonic game, a rare golden-era game hardly anyone had got to play. And I’d slightly mis-remembered it appearing way more advanced and fluid than a mega drive game.

After being obsessed with Sonic in my youth, after finally getting to play it, it just felt like a less enjoyable Sonic 1.

I’ve never even bothered to finish it.

The two that come to mind are Goldeneye Source or the Goldeneye X project perhaps? I am curious regardless of what you find lol.

Cyberpunk - great environment but gameplay was boring and certain events were downright horrible, like the one were you watch/examine a past event.

Megaton Rainfall. The game billed itself as having you fly around like a demigod stopping an alien invasion. I bought it like 2 years after release, hyped as all hell. The unskippable intro is boooooooooooring and takes way too long. Time to blast some aliens! Only they end up as some sort of fucking puzzle, where each one has to be beaten the correct way. To make matters worse, you have to avoid destruction at all costs, if too much civilian infrastructure gets blown up, you fail the mission. Of all the (limited) powers you unlock, exactly one can protect civilians, and it fucking sucks.

(Un?)Fortunately I have Ninja Gaiden experience, so only the halfway boss was hard for me, and even that only because I didn't restock on healing, while the rest of the game was pretty much hitting bullet sponges until they finally die, because I didn't do any side quests nor grind. One enemy was 20 levels above me and took like 5 minutes to destroy while instakilling me. Only needed 15-20 minutes in total to get through that one.

My personal experience with the Mega Drive Sonic games was always "fun first 2 stages, not so fun afterwards"

At least the music was really good.

Dragon Marked for Death. I waited so long for it to come out and it's clearly balanced for multiplayer only. HUGE disappointment.

Sports Story. Also waited a long time after loving Golf Story and it just...wasn't good.

Metroid Prime 4. 'Nuff said.

Pretty sure you can go 3rd person as soon as your hands are untied, when you enter the first building after either the Imperial or Stormcloak soldier

I couldn't afford subscriptions either, which is why 99% of my WoW playtime is in private servers, most of which are now long dead. I think my account in Firestorm might still exist, I first played there when it had Warlords of Draenor, then gave it another go during BfA. I should check it again someday.

Mewgenics. I just couldn't squeeze any fun out of it. Wish there wasn't 10 minutes of busy work every time I want to start a new run. Wish items were game-changing like in Isaac.

The trailer looks so technically impressive. That is a LOT of destructive environment. Sad if it's not so good though.

It does have a certain shift once you reach a certain checkpoint, but it is so long to get to that point. The progression curve is just not right.

Got that in a bundle not that long ago. It's essentially the same game as 1, but worse. Very disappointing.

GTA V. Bought it on sale only within the last few years. Played maybe 2 hours and never touched it again.

Oh also RDR2. It's not my idea of a good game whatsoever. Made it likewise 2 maybe 3 hours before I realized it wasn't fun. It's hardly a game. Interactive story, but shitty game.

Heavy Rain was one of those for me. I sometimes enjoy a cinematic game. Even if there aren't any 'choices that matter' in it, it can be nice to just go through a cinematic interactive story game. But Heavy Rain fell into the same hole so many others do: bad interaction UI. I hate any game that gives you the option to say 'I agree,' 'I disagree,' and 'What?' but makes selecting 'What?' the option to fly off the handle because 'What?' is actually short for 'What should I insert into your nostril, you filthy worm?'

GTA V.

I liked all the previous ones, but this was just more of the same on a bigger generic map and a more convulted and stereotypical story.
Online never worked for me either. Too buggy.

Vice City and San Andreas were the best of the series.

Map size/design is just more important than size.
Same problem in Just Cause.

It had a playable release a few years ago, though it wasn't in a polished state. I'd have to fire up my old windows machine to see the install. For all I know they got killed off by DMCA or something (GoldenEye could have been targetted by either Rare/Nintendo or MGM, whereas PD would only be the former, maybe MGM is even more aggressive than Nintendo).

Apparently there is/was a GoldenEye decompiled that was way behind the PD decompiled project, too.