All GTA games, of course. They're not fun at all. Plus, ironically, driving has a extremely crappy gameplay.
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you should just have fun in gta games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSt1ptsOjL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHtwGpBp8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYupUXYzQig
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Now I'd understand if this was GTA IV, GTA V. But GTA 1, 2, 3, Vice City and San Andreas? They're masterpieces imo. Depends what you wanted to get out of them.
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I've tried Chinatown Wars, which I heard that it looks like the first ones, and the GTAs from ps2. You just travel from place to place to complete quests with a car you can barely have any control. I found them so boring that I didn't dare to touch any newer GTA.
People say they're wonderful open world games with plenty of possibilities, but honestly I only saw games where you can hit and shoot people if you're on foot and knock down people and cars if you're driving. Oh, there's also car music, but that's not even fun for me, since I can listen to music on real life.
Well, that's just my opinion. The first thing I used to do when I got a gaming platform was searching the top-rated games, so I naturally tried them since GTA is always top-rated in literally every platform. I was just trying to find fun games for me, it was not as if I wanted to get out any specific thing of them.
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Wait a second. GTA CW is a mobile game. Did you emulate it on pc with a keyboard? I can imagine controlling a car on a phone screen has to be bad. Also, because a mobile experience was bad for you, you wouldn't even play the 3D ones? Like plenty of people I know didn't like the 2D old GTA's. That, I find reasonable. In that case I think it's totally cool if you don't like GTA 1 or 2, since GTA CW does mostly seem to resemble those, I don't know if it has the exact features, but I'd assume it's stripped to some degree. Not sure if CW has a story too.
Expecting a mobile game to be a indication of what a pc game will deliver however has to be wrong. That's why on pc we always say "mobile port, console port", because we refer to those things like they are bad things that happened to the pc community and we do not like them by default. Mobile games are not a representation of what a AAA pc game is. Since hardware is much better now, they can emulate much older games on mobile or indie games, things like RPGMaker games, visual novels, hidden objects, puzzle games, older tech games that are not that impressive. Not saying they are bad as there are gems across all of those titles, but it's a huge gap in hardware difference.
In terms of gameplay though, that's basically what it is, its a story and you do missions, that involve driving cars and shooting people, talking to npcs, collecting items. You get more freedom in the newer titles as to how you approach the world, how the npc's react, a wider selection of items you can use, multiple paths, mini events you can participate in, getting chased, going to a clothing store, gambling, getting some food, swimming, going to the top of a mountain, stealing a tank or an airplane, parachuting from the top of a building.
I guess you just confused me, if I had a chance to try out GTA, I wouldn't start with a title I never heard about. Until you mentioned it, I didn't even know GTA CW even existed, and probably for a good reason. Also generally a bad idea to start with the oldest title for like any game unless you're a retro fan because you're visually competing with what's out there right now. I would've started with the newest one. But it's likely that regardless this type of game might not be something you like and that's oke.
I would maybe give a chance to the later ones(gta III and San Andreas, if you can get the original editions, from like ebay or something, since the remasters had to remove some of the music and are known to be in general quite a bit worse).
As for the music, basically every AAA game I ever played has some sort of music so there's nothing to say about that.
What about Saints Row? It's a GTA clone basically. Not sure if you tried those.
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Chinatown Wars is a Nintendo DS game. It also exists for PSP. But I played the DS version.
Already played GTA 3, Vice City and/or San Andreas on ps2 (the ps2 games I mentioned). Thinking about them is what makes me say that driving controls are unbearable.
About Saints Row, I don't know.
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It was Northern Journey for me.
I got lured in by it being >97% all time positive when I bought it, and a lot of reviews hailing it as the greatest experience of all time.
All I received was an interesting, but incredibly janky and weird shooter with pretty basic, poorly executed mechanics.
The visuals are unquestionably amazing, despite the graphics being technically bad. The visual style, atmosphere, vistas, it's excellent. That's it for the positives.
The movement is terrible. You float along the ground at mach 2, and hitting a pebble or a small ledge sends you flying into the air. Jumping is multiplied by your movement speed, which makes being precise impossible. I died more to hitting pebbles and jumping than to enemies.
There is no crosshair, only a smudge in the middle of the screen that's meant to represent the weapon's firing arc. Not only that doesn't always show where the projectile will go, their hitboxes are gigantic. Hitting an enemy beside a rock or tree is often impossible because your slingshot stone has a hitbox the size of a beach ball.
And because the story/lore is supposed to be mythical Finnish/scandinavian tales, the characters and lore are weird. Everyone looks like they had a lobotomy and do meth all day. They move like were puppets on a string, underwater. Every now and then something ridiculous happens that makes you go "what the fuck is this", but none of the NPCs react to it. At one point you exorcise a demon of sorts, a vital part of the exorcism is all the NPCs dancing by wildly flailing their limbs and listening to what can only be described as toddlers molesting a drumkit.
I understand that it appeals to some, especially those for whom a bad acid trip is an enjoyable experience, but I was really disappointed. Since then every time I see words like "unique" or "weird" in several Steam reviews for a game, alarm bells ring in my head and tell me to stop.
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Edge of Space, it was said to be more dynamic and cool than terraria/starbound and was abandoned
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Postal 2
I read in a paper gaming magazine how the game is bugged, filled with poor jokes and awful stuff. And also stupid in general.
I believed them and didn't buy the game.
I tried it out years later. And while that guy was technically 100% correct - it's still one of the most entertaining games that I have ever played xD
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This is like the only reverse lie in this thread. You got lied about the game being bad, but it was great. Never trust game critics. Like that guy from PC Gamer or Kotaku or whatever that struggled to finish the Cuphead tutorial and the other guy that had the hardest time with Doom.
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It reminded me about Angry Joe review - when he gave 0/10 to Rambo: the video game. It was like 20 minutes long rant about the fact that game is terrible.. because it was on rails shooter..
I like on rails shooters and it was ok imo.
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I agree. I didn't hate it but it was a solid 7/10 for me. Not enough enemy variety, felt they were spongey even on normal difficulty, etc.
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Yes. It didn't click or me. As a person that normally plays series from the beginning, jumping straight into God of War made it hard for me to click with Kratos. I loved the visuals and cinematics, but I didn't have a connection as much as I wanted with the characters at the time.
I told myself I'll play the old ones before I jump back into replaying the 2018 version.
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I totally agree, I played through all of it and it didn't stand out to me at all, I really don't understand the hype. The only aspect that stood out a little bit for me was the story but I didn't really connect to it much.
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This might be hotly controversial, and I'm coming from the perspective of someone coming into it for the first time in 2023 but... Baldur's Gate 1.
Boring and generic fantasy, quantity-over-quality. It's not just it's age that works against it, as I enjoyed Fallout 1, 2 and Planescape Torment far more. I'm excited to try BG2 as I've heard it feels more qualitative.
I definitely can understand that this was the first big, successful adaptation of a DnD campaign to a video game, but damn.
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I agree. The story is so boring and the maps so generic, oh look another forest area with nothing interesting. Not to mention the terrible pathfinding and narrow corridors.
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huge fan of Baldur's Gate. never got around to finishing it
1st time did about 50 60% and my save files corrupted
2nd save did about 80% of the game and they updated it reworking the class i had chosen making every single save file i had my main character would drop dead.
3rd time trying i did about 60% of the game and they updated it again this time i played as a werewolf, guess what they fucking updated....
none of my save files would load
4th time was right after overhaul update where they introduced a bunch of bugs into the game. worst one is when ever a person used fire it would induce an insane lag!!! the game would move to a crawl neck speed. you could fix this by using a 3rd party program and locking the game speed at 1. never got very far cause the bugs
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Command and Conquer 4. I was in love with the franchise, especially after Command and Conquer 3. The live-action scenes in-between were corny at times, but they helped liven up the story. And no one could forget Joseph D. Lucan's charismatic portrayal of Kane. I couldn't wait to buy the 4th one, so much that I would watch trailers and save up my moola. I bought a copy and would play every morning before I went to school. It was disappointment. The developers ended up adding a lot of exciting content. It was great, until I realized two things: command points now mean no unlimited building. That's fine, it's okay. I could settle. Except, there's no base building lol. Three games before and the devs decided no more base-building. Instead, you get this all-in-one crawler unit that does your entire base's work for you. It's cool, but no base building lol.
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I have plenty. One that disappointed me gravely was Wolfenstein: The New Order. I remember being in a Dutch game-event (think a smaller version of Gamescom) and playing the demo being very impressed.
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I'm really curious why you felt disappointed about the new Wolfenstein series. Was it the story or the gameplay?
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A bit of both, but mainly the gameplay. Unable to backtrack in a level makes finding collectibles a torture, and towards last quarter of the story the game keeps spawning more and more bulletspongey enemies who tank 100s of bullets to the head and multiple grenades to kill.
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HALO, all of it. All the XBone kids way back kept boasting about it and I never had one. Being the gullible individual I am, I believed em. So in a way. it was a lifetime long lie, that I lived until The Master Chief Collection arrived on PC and then some years until I brought myself to play it.
It's a clear as day engineered predecessor to Call of Duty, before they'd figured out the propaganda potential.
Kid friendly, in space, because 'SPASE! COOL!! DUHHH!!!'
Genocide is okay, if you do it to multiple species and races of Alien. Silly and clueless as they may be.
Although, if you take the games away, the 'epic' concert that goes on throughout the whole runtime is neat.
Not my thing either. And more so impressive was the sound quality. It's as if being in a theatre, with the whole place shaking. All that coming through some cheapo headset. Sounds I, didn't think it was capable of producing.
Might just be disassociating, can't be sure these days...
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I enjoyed Halo Combat Evolved, but I haven't played the other ones, except Halo Infinite which I thought sucked. But when I was a kid, I really enjoyed the first game, and even to me, online multiplayer was just a bit of a different atmosphere back then. Nowadays it's a whole different world. Back then it was pretty new and people were having fun, nowadays it's most toxic tryhards. Stats show around 1 in 3 people cheat in a video game. That's like 3 people in every lobby using some sort of cheat. That's insane. Back in the day, people weren't so desperate to pretend they were good.
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For me is Hell Let Loose. I mean I love Red Orchestra 2 and I genuinely thought this would be the same, but the constant arty spawn killing and the try hards made the game more of a chore than anything else . Then again maybe on the PC is different.
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I get that, went into HLL hoping it to be something like Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm or Rising Storm 2. It kind of is, but way more hardcore for my taste.
I enjoyed playing RO and RS just being a grunt, no mic just using voice commands in the game and pinging with the occasional text message. That worked fine even for Squad Leader role. But in HLL that won't work even for a grunt role, due to the way spawning works and the sheer travel distance. There is no voice command system either which makes it even more difficult.
I did like the fact how big the maps are, felt more like a proper war battle since there is even a big part of logistics going on with troop and resource transports.
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Hand of Fate. Reading the description and the reviews I thought it'd be a thrilling RPG with story and choices with combat. I found the "stories" meaningless, the choices undecipherable and the combat... Just another combat. I refunded it. I guess there's a deeper game ahead, otherwise I don't understand the high ratings on HoF and HoF2.
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I don't really have anywhere to take recommendations from, but still, why not complain about some games.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - I wanted to like this one so much. Part of the charm was likely lost on me because I was already spoiled on one of the major beats, but then it just got worse. It has an interesting enough premise that is then ruined by the mega infodump in the final trial. I can only remember wishing it would just end. Then, the existence of the School Mode makes it a tedious grind to full completion.
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 - To this day, I cannot understand what your sense of humor must be to genuinely enjoy this. Neptune is dumb and mean, but her idiocy doesn't just magically make her insults the peak of comedy. The characters are rather shallow and the fact that there is not a single male character that isn't a villain or otherwise unimportant makes this game so male gaze-y that it was a struggle to get through. I was hoping for a cute RPG adventure when I bought most of the series in a bundle, but now I can only really see myself trying one or two of the spinoffs.
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I played and enjoyed the sequel Danganropa: Goodbye Despair but not the first one -- but it was over-long for what it was. Ended up watching the anime covering D:THH, and that was a nice compressed experience.
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Read Dead 2
looks amazing
gameplay wise its ok
was slow paced lootin and shootin.
ran into problems on the steam deck
also could not get mods working on steam deck
if your not gonna mod it, not much appeal
refunded it and purchased Hogwarts legacy, far more fun
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Postal 2. Really hated that game. Edgy humour can be funny, don't get me wrong. But I just didn't see the appeal.
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Ok seeing as how this topic is getting people fighting, I am closing it as of right now.
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Taken from the video of the same title by WhatCulture Gaming.
Video gave me the idea for this topic as it could be a fascinating thing to find out.
One of mine has GOT to be Aliens: Colonial Marines. Mediocre graphics, sub par gameplay and the WORST AI I have EVER encountered in my LIFE!
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