Okay let me start with two heavy hitters right from the get go and don't forget these are only personal oppinions and I absolute understand if you like those games. Good for you!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Not a bad game per se, but I don't get the hype behind it. Sure the dungeons are fun but the world is so lifeless, the story non existent, the combat pretty shallow, the tower climbing is very much like FarCry but for some reasons it's okay here while Ubisoft gets the blame...like I said I dont get why the game is so beloved. Never finished it after the 20 hour mark and probably never will.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just like Zelda not a bad game, but imho highly overrated. Graphics and and atmosphere are amazing but the controls are clunky and overloaded, nearly everybody is an unlikable douchebag who I would love to shoot myself at the first opportunity (maybe except Jack and Abigail) but I have to root and care for them. The game is just so long and feels very stretched, you already know that you won't get Dutch because it's a prequel and for an open world game you often get handholded in your weapon selection or things you can do because you have to wait for them to be unlocked by the game. I'm now nearly done with the game, playing the epilogue at the moment and I would say the last chapters are more entertaining than the rest of the game, but I still can't understand why this game was on so many game of the year lists and I really wanted to put the controller down a dozen times.

So there they are, two highly controversial oppinions by me and now I'm really curios what your takes are and how highly I get downvoted into oblivion 😂

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[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Nier Automata, I thought it was a bad pretentious story with a bad gameplay
The music is good tho

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Same exact experience

[–] cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I liked it a lot, but the story is definitely hit or miss. Gameplay was not as deep as other Platinum games, but still ok

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Same here as well. It's the first game that came to mind.
It doesn't help that there was so much hype about the storytelling.
Maybe the story's great compared to sports games and Calls of Duty? I finished it, more out of confusion than anything else.

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[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Slay the Spire. I could not get into it at all. Bought it because I love roguelites but this one is not for me.

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[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

Team Fortress 2. Too different in contrast with TFC, which I feel like I played for ten years straight.

[–] jesta@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

GTA 3 ->
Fallout 3 ->
Skyrim
Souls series and most games like it
Halo

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

Anything made by guerrilla. Beautiful, boring tech demos

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Any of the Paper Mario or Super Mario RPG games. Maybe I'm not the target audience, but I've often felt that without the Mario name they would be considered mediocre.

Alongside this, basically every 3D Sonic game. I feel that Sonic has become a thing for furries, and that the 3D games just don't really seem to get what a Sonic game should be. Frontiers was somewhat decent in the open world aspect, but its constant reliance on the homing dash just highlights how buggy those games are.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I want to go back to RDR2 but I'm not a fan of how slow moving the intro is and I don't want to do loads of bullshit before having fun.

For my answer.

Super Mario Bros Wonder... I'm playing through it now. It's a bit shit. They've definitely tried some stuff here which isn't bad but very little is landing for me. I don't like the new kingdom, I don't like the map experience or aesthetic and I dislike some of the level building.

When I played Mario Maker 2 I saw the reason behind the success for the franchise in that there was a secret sauce to how a level is made and it is apparently missing from a lot of these. On top of that the castle battles are fairly lackluster with no sign of Bowser.

I'll finish it but it's miles behind the previous entries, all of them I think

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[–] CoconutKnight@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Not sure if this even a beloved game, but Assassins Creed Unity. The setting has so much potential but the story feels so slow and I find it boring, the controls took some frustrating time to get used to and Paris is just not a very visually compelling place to be at. I used to love AC2 but Unity... idk

[–] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

The Trails series (Trails in the Sky and Cold Steel).

Some of the worst villains ever, and you're constantly getting blue balled. The series keeps introducing new characters, that don't matter, and just drag things out for hundreds and hundreds of hours.

Zero and Azure are great though, until they connect back to the main story at the end.

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