The only way to win is not to play.

A strange game.

I'd say it's a... Hot topic.

I can see that, if the style of humor doesnt click with you, then it's got a pretty repetitive mission formula which can get boring.

I think GTA 6 is (and will be) very overhyped. I dont see it living up to the previous titles at all.

It's a momentum from early 2000s. Rockstar (or was it Take 2 by that time?) set a lower moral line in the gaming industry and published games like Man Hunt and GTA III, where you can commit crime without much consequences. The gaming experience was nouveau and a thrill.

Actually spent hundreds to thousands of hours playing gta5 with my friends after school. Getting thrown into a city with your 5 best friends and finding your place amongst the total anarchy of 30 players all fucking around was so much fun. Add on to that the various mini games, heists, vehicles, attire, weapons and customisations for all of those things and yeah. Pretty good game.

I don't really like games that are overly realistic, or a simulation of real life. GTA falls into that group. Like, I'm playing games to get away from reality, not revel in it.

You run over hookers and get your money back.

I really like GTA 5 except most of the plot.

GTA without some greasy greasy plot and without sadism would be great.

I tried to play it like a normal RPG and remember just trying to walk around the neighborhood to find every random person I tried to talk to would just beat me up for getting close to them so I noped out of it

New maps! And skins! You can buy them, you know!

Old ones die or dont have friends on em. Ideally everyone would play zombie panic source

It's like Dota but more accessible!

I really like League and by extension other mobas but can't really say why. I come from an RTS background, so I guess just something about that style of pvp.

I had to stop playing because the matchmaking system is so ass it drained the competitive enjoyment out of me, but if that was fixed I'd be back.

For me, the most boring aspect of Balatro is the first couple blinds. Holy shit am I tired of "you MUST play a flush or straight."

Thank you, this really describes my feelings towards that game well. The first few runs were great with experimenting and stuff but then you try for higher stakes and quickly fall into the optimal strat flow where it's kinda boring unless you get ridiculous runs but i don't wanna wade through meh to get that one god run that's actually fun.

Not that quickly that you dont get your money's worth though. Balatro is a good mobile game honestly, for a quick run when you have time to kill, but I wouldnt find myself sat at my PC playing it.

All games are spreadsheets if you look hard enough

Some people like spreadsheet sims.

Interesting that you say hades has that intuitive randomness, one of my biggest complaints for hades 1 is that you can basically force whatever run you want every single run. It felt like a roguelike for people who hate roguelikes. Isaac otoh I totally agree, its my most played game by far really love it.

Same. Though I did love split-screen black ops zombies on the 360.

I also dislike deckbuilders, but slay the spire is the exception. It skips the tideous deck management a lot of games have and you aren't playing against an other deck which is a big part of what I hate.

I couldn't stand it either, and I grew up with NES/SNES JRPGs and thought it would be right up my alley but for whatever reason the humor didn't reach me in the slightest and I couldn't be bothered to finish it.

More recently I tried Afterplace which also has a meta theme but the gameplay is more like a simplified Zelda and I really loved the writing.

I think the game's good side doesn't really show until you beat it. And with the context that moral choice game systems were a trend and up to this point extremely shallow (infamous series, army of two etc).

I couldn't get into it either though to be honest, but I enjoyed reading about the lore and the games it inspired.

BotW and TotK are such weird games to me

They built these big beautiful worlds, and designed some really cool mechanics

And just kind of did nothing with them.

TotK was a bit better, but still fell pretty short.

Also it's so weird that TotK is clearly a direct sequel to BotW, but there's almost no actual continuity between the games. There's a handful of characters that are missing without much of an explanation, and other characters from the previous game act as if you've never met them before. I get that for gameplay reasons you kind of have to start things over from square one in some ways, but it just felt weird.

And the weapon degradation never really felt fun to me. I feel like at the very least once you get the master sword and recharge it to its full power or whatever you should have that as an option that just doesn't wear down, even if other weapons that do break might be better suited for the task.

And having to go out and farm a thousand different fish and master parts and whatever else to upgrade your armor is just bullshit.

I've always thought that BotW was a good game, but a terrible Zelda game.

That happened to me with halo infinite.

Welcome!

This is what I felt like when Ocarina came out on the 64.

The cycle repeats

Battlefield 6 is just another modern era BF game. They killed the squad mechanic and made the series all about 'Battlefield moments' it's just chaos now.

Arc Raiders, I think is all hype, Extraction shooters are an uncomfortable experience that most players don't enjoy, the honey moon era it's going through at the moment with peaceful single player lobbies is already showing cracks, it'll turn into Tarkov soon.

I legitimately feel like ER is one of FromSoft's weakest titles. It doesn't come close to the DS trilogy for me, and unironically I feel like Nightreign is a better game in the same vein, as the faster paced sandbox works far better for the fast, clusterfuck bosses ER is known for.

I thought that was just the point of the game? that it's a fighting game with some minor open world aspect to it between "levels"

honestly I know fuck all look about dark souls and the videos of gameplay that I see give me this impression

There's definitely some nostalgia glasses.

And I dunno where you started, but I've been playing BGS since Oblivion, and couldn't even get through an hour of Starfield. It played like a upscaled Xbox 360 game, with all the jank, yet none of the charm, more filler, all the loading screens, yet somehow ran like molasses. I have no idea what folks see in that game, despite the premise basically being made for me.

They have a bit of a "if you've played one you've played them all" problem

I think most are carried by their modding communities at this point which can be so involved they fundamentally change every aspect of the game.

This is the one for me. Felt like a string of QuickTime sequences and story that is dull and plodding. Just didn’t click for me at all.

Same. Honestly I’m most excited for when Billie bust up comes out. It’s sort of got a Spyro the dragon feel to it plus some musical elements to the boss fights , it’s cute and light and I don’t care that the target market is children.

They have some promotional demos up on a few sites but it’s mostly been community and word of mouth spreading it. No obnoxious and invasive ads. And it’s super effective to me since I stumbled across it rather than had it thrust in my face screaming “BUY ME!”

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