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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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] Diotima@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Real time strategy games are not my cup of tea. Nothing against anyone who enjoys them, understand, but they're basically exercises in who can do the clicky clicky faster. Give me a turn-based game any day... where you actually have to out-think versus out-click your opponents.

Oh, and any game that pits console players against PC players. Yes, let's put the 'stock controllers only' console players up against the PC players with $8,675,309.00 of custom equipment and every cheat they can get away with. Sounds like a reasonable plan. Overwatch, I'm looking at you.

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[โ€“] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Sekiro: shadows die twice

I love Japan. I love Samurai, and old times. Fired up the game and found out it has some dark souls mechanic bullshit, that makes it a grinder.

I am an adult. With very limited time for games. I have to have quick saves I can't be grinding shit. I simply don't have the time nor the desire waste time grinding.

Really sucks because the game looks gorgeous and I liked the start of the story...

[โ€“] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I share your opinion on both of those games. I also was not a huge fan of Monster Hunter or GTA,

[โ€“] Konraddo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is controversial for sure. But I dislike all kinds of games that focus on driving or racing or flying a plane. I don't know but driving a vehicle like you do in real life is kind of stupid for a game idea? I want to do things that I can't do IRL, like murdering a bunch of bad guys, or building a village, things like that. Also casting magic spells is better than shooting a gun, so I don't really get FPS games.

[โ€“] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They are all just ways to "do things I can't in real life" though. I have no interest in murdering people but I enjoy driving and 18 wheeler across Europe or flying all around the world.

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[โ€“] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I love Metroidvanias, 2D platformers, and generally even games that came before them that were similar in style but don't meet all the Metroidvanias criteria. But I really really kind of dislike pretty much all of the Mario games. There's a delay in the control scheme that makes timing difficult for me, and I can't seem to get over that. I actually gave away Mario Odyssey because I couldn't really play it well at all after about 10 hours. For me it's not intuitive despite my like for both 2d and 3d Metroidvanias style games.

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