If bastion doesn't hook you from the start, its not a game for you. The story is amazing, for what it is. The thing is the presentation of the story, music, art, gameplay, is all done properly in the game, it doesn't force you to do anything but try a new weapon when you come across one.
The difficulty is "choose what you want to handle" type, which Dark souls 2 stole well :)
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I actually don't like anything of that. I find the story very boring and uninteresting, like everything else of it (gameplay included) except the music, the only thing I liked (though it gets repetitive because of the short loops).
You don't have to defend it, it's the point of this thread afterall. I know that most people like it, but they are probably not very experienced in gaming and didn't play that many games if they find this one so good.
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So the story of how a soldier continually travels back in time to save the world from his country detonating a nuke on itself, and the personal toll of his losses are so great that he can never speak again, with the parallel that holding on to the past (trauma, losses) does no good for personal well being?
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also most people hate it, never play it, or just like how its kind of cute, with nice music.
the story is about the choice of punishing yourself over the past.
"Gods ain't gonna help you son
you'll be sorry for what you done
them gods gonna hurt you son
when you play with a loaded gun
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you'll be pleading while you're bleeding"
Which is tied to the idols you unlock to choose to make the game harder. It's a burden you choose to carry, like anyones personal baggage.
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I really like the beginning and end of HL2, but there is a large portion of the middle of the game that gets kind of boring and feels dragged out. It took me 3 playthroughs over I think 4 or 5 years to actually complete the game without quitting somewhere in the middle. Once I completed it I found that I really enjoyed it though. I would probably put it in my top 5 favorite games of all time even though I think a large part of it is dragged out.
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Crysis 2. I try and make it a point to complete every game I play, but I was so bored I had to uninstall it half way through.
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BioShock Infinite. I liked BioShock 1 & 2, but I will always think of them as watered-down System Shock 2, and Infinite was watered down even further. It also displayed a complete lack of focus both in gameplay and in the storyline. I won't say I hated it, but I definitely don't like it near as much as other folks seem to.
Halo. Buddy of mine got the first one and dragged me into playing it one day, raving over how awesome it was. I played for about five minutes, went "meh, it's alright," and handed back the controller. Never played any more than that, and nothing I've seen of the rest of the series really makes me want to try it again.
Dark Souls. It isn't even about it being really hard. Well, not entirely. It's about the grinding, going over the same stuff over and over and over and over again. I was absolutely shocked when I went through what felt like at least twenty hours of gameplay, gave up on the game forever, and then checked my playtime to find out I'd only been going for five hours total. Sooooooo duuuuuullllllllllll.
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I agree about Halo. I completed the first 2 games, but it was a chore. Never finished the 3rd one.
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Oh yeah, two more.
Half Life. Meeeeeh. Substandard shooter, even among other games at the time, with an absolutely horrific physics engine. After several hours of frustrating gameplay, determined that I was going to make it all the way to the end for full video game nerd cred, I finally gave up when I tried to throw a box in front of me and somehow it ended up going under and slightly behind me.
Street Fighter. Though this goes for pretty much all 2D fighters ever, honestly. I have never felt like there was any actual strategy to them whatsoever. I was so happy when I learned of the game Divekick, because that is pretty much exactly what any given Street Fighter game feels like to me. Tekken life, suckahs.
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Sorry, couldn't resist replying to a post about the game (Dark Souls) which I think is the best game I played in 10 or more years :)
I don't think 'grinding' is a good word to describe Dark Souls.
Yep, it certainly teaches you to be patient (too many mistakes, too much over confidence and you have to do it again).
"Grinding' on the other hand is doing something over and over again in order to be more powerful so to progress.
In DS you don't have to be powerful to progress.
I'd rather say even if you think you are powerful you won't progress without skills and knowledge.
Or you could be going the wrong way in the beginning (like fighting skeletons? :).
P.S. My first blind (no guides) full walkthrough in DS took me about 140 hours. In DS2 about the same time :)
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Football Manager series, Kerbal Space Program, Portal, Terraria...
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To The Moon... It bored me to tears. I was surprised at how many people said it made them cry but only because the story was so beautiful or something.
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Me neither, I dont understand where is the cry on this game... not appealed to me whatever i tried to do.
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Shadow Warrior.
Edit: I meant the latest one, not the original.
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I can understand not liking a game (whatever game it is) but this I can't:
"........ Finished the game from start to finish 2 times to get all achievements, and didn't enjoy at all. Repetitive gameplay consisting mostly of shoot-out segments and QTE. Close to zero variety topped by dumbed down puzzles..............."
Why did you play it through twice if you didn't like it ???
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+1. I see you played through Alan Wake. How'd you like hunting for all those collectibles? That soured the game for me. It would've been really enjoyable otherwise.
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I got bored with Bastion and Legend of Grimrock very quickly, like in half an hour. To this day can't really figure out why.
I almost never can get into a turn-based RPG like Final Fantasy; the biggest exception being Costume Quest, I just love that game, it has the charm that the "epic" ones lack.
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Well taste differs, I actually loved Bioshock Infinite, one of the best games I've played in a while.
And my girlfriend loves to play Tomb Raider.
Games that I didn't like was the single player of BF4, multiplayer mode of GTA5, GTA4 and Far Cry 3.
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The Walking Dead, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons... actually any super depressing game with minimalistic boring gameplay. I'll never understand the appeal people find in crushing despair and constant virtual punches to the gut. We have enough real depression in real life. I don't want my games to mimic real life, they're supposed to be an escape from it. :/
Minecraft and any other "creativity toy". I just don't see them as games without some proper objective in them. They are more like being given a bunch of LEGO parts that occasionally spawn monsters that try to disassemble the pieces (and some of them don't even have that). At least Terraria has bosses to kill and a constant sense of progression (so it's actually a game and doesn't fall in this category).
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Secret of Mana A game that sells for an insane amount of money on Ebay these days, and which got great reviews at launch. I find the "knockback" system to be a dealbreaker. If you get hit hard enough, you get knocked back and fall down. If you get hit hard enough while on the ground, the game will count it as a new knockback, but your character will get up, only to get knocked down again as soon as that animation is done playing.
Half-Life 2 Alright, so I don't actually think it "sucks", and at launch it was quite something, but I tried to play it recently, and it just was not very good. The level design made it feel very linear (many games are very linear, but I think the problem is when they feel linear).
Neverwinter Nights That main campaign... The story is not good, the characters are underdeveloped, the combat feels repetitive, the level design makes it all feel like "video game levels" and not like some living world, the pacing of the story is worse than that of the stories I wrote in elementary school (when I was forced to write stories), the moment that is supposed to make you invested in what's going on, that should make you hate the bad guys and want to help the good guys was so botched that all it got was a "shrug" from me (the attack on the academy right after the tutorial. As I did not care about any of the characters at that point, their deaths meant nothing). Man was this game a disappointment.
GTA 3 I guess I missed the boat on this one. I played it for the first time this year, and I just could not see what was so special about it. The world did not feel alive, and the main character was so uninteresting that he might as well have been a cardboard cutout on wheels. He had practically no personality what so ever, the missions were boring, and it all felt so disjointed.
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There were some excellent RPGs on the SNES, but the reason SoM stands out to me was that I played it cooperatively with various friends. That made it special. And the knockback works both ways, I spent much more time knocking things than getting knocked :)
Gameplay and plot wise there are certainly better single player RPGs from the time period.
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CS:GO a.k.a. de_dust2-simulator
Too boring for me and I don't understand why so many people spent metric tons of $ to buy skins especially knife which is rarely used. It's used while running but who will see that small knife??
I like FPS games but I prefer the games with larger maps like Battlefield, Planetside 2, Arma
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Hm, this might be touchy topic and might even piss some people off. But I'm pretty sure everyone has played games before that most people seem to like, yet you thought they absolutely sucked.
Mine would be:
Tomb Raider 2013 - 96% overwhelmingly positive. Finished the game from start to finish 2 times to get all achievements, and didn't enjoy at all. Repetitive gameplay consisting mostly of shoot-out segments and QTE. Close to zero variety topped by dumbed down puzzles.
Bioshock Infinite - I wouldn't say it was bad, but it felt quite repetitive, despite the intriguing story. What do you think worth finishing?
And since the other topic is getting less attention, the GA link from that topic is here:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/SS36M/batman-arkham-origins
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