huey_m comments on What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?

[+] huey_m@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I disagree on the falling off point. Act 2 has that funnel, pulling you into the final showdown at the end of the act. It is cinematic, epic, and such a great ending to the act that it feels like an ending to the game (which it technically is, since there's an optional ending at the end of the act). The problem really begins with act 3, since the tight narrative choices at the end of act 2 primes you for a tight, claustrophobic narrative for the third act as you race against the clock to the finish and instead... it's the biggest act in the entire game, with the most amount of side quests, most of which aren't optional if you want all of the origin characters to have good endings. You'll even stop leveling up about halfway through act 3, so the reward feedback loop really dies off in this act. Makes the ending so incredibly hard to complete.

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[–] Charzard4261@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

I agree with this so much - the end of act 2 was such a narrative high I was excited to see how they topped it!

And then they didn't. And then I stopped levelling. It wasn't the climax to the story I was expecting.

I always struggled to describe what was so disappointing but you hit the nail on the head. Starting act 3 felt like I was sent in time back to act 1 - aimlessly wandering around the map until finally stumbling across the next main story point.

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

Act 3 is like half the total game. If you didn't even make it halfway through the game then I don't think you played enough of it.

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[+] huey_m@piefed.social 0 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I'm not saying you need to play the entire game, but you said you enjoyed act 1. Act 3 is more open, like act 1. Act 2 is just a short interlude that plays differently than most of the game.

It's also just a huge part of the game and feels like it's what the game as a whole is meant to be.

You're entitled to your opinions, but the question at hand refers to a game you sunk a lot of time into, and you didn't even get halfway through this one.