Which Video Game do you just not get?
It gets good Steam reviews, good "journalist" reviews, but you just do not get the appeal.
What's her name Ganker?
Hardmode: No FoTM such as ER, BG3, Starfield, Cyberpunk etc
For me it is Dead By Daylight, I just fundamentally believe horror games cannot be scary if the "monster" is controlled by another person, pic related was basically the face I made when something """scary""" happened.
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Smash. Especially Melee.
Have you played melee?
Even if he has, you have to play for a while for the controls to not feel clunky. He probably played 15 minutes with a friend, get fricked by the lack of buffer, and called it shit without a second thought
Genshin Impact, even though its a household name on Ganker.
Mostly played and worshiped by chinks. 70% of the audience is chinese trash.
Classic Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Onimusha. I don't understand why anybody would subject themselves to tank controls with fixed camera angles.
Zoomie detected
I'm 35.
They work much better in games where the camera is behind the player's back like RE4 and much of Silent Hill.
but fixed camera angles are the only situation where tank controls work
you lack spacial awareness
you just have to not be moronic thats all.
come on you get used to the controlls after 10 minutes, are people really this bad at adapting?
Idk man. I love the original Silent Hill to death and have played it multiple times, but there are STILL times when my brain gets confused and I frick up movement with the tank controls. And I fricking grew up with them too. It's just the least intuitive movement scheme ever made. I don't blame Zoomies for not being able to handle it.
dont get me wrong that happens to me too when i replay resident evil but after 10 minutes i get used to it, like i said i guess not everybody adapts easily
Anything by Bethesda or Blizzard
DotA/LoL
Unfun micro and macro, games are decided within the first few minutes, and the rest is playing on autopilot for the next half hour, spent waiting for it to end, or b***hing at your teammates in comms crying about your rank. Its the only game I've played several hours of and legitimately can't figure out why people would voluntarily play it
Because it’s free, runs on toasters, and tricks you into thinking that getting good is meaningful
if you want to become better get a team going with mics you will win a lot more.
anyone who actually likes far cry past 3
FF14 and WoW are just hundreds of people standing around doing nothing in the main city while loading in and out of braindead instanced content, you can't even chat with other players because you might get xher pronouns wrong and they'll report/ban you. I don't get why people eat it up like sloppa and ask for more.
Counter-Strike. I only like Gun Game. Who wants to play a shooter where you see your opponents for 0.5 seconds before someone dies and then you sit around waiting for the next round
Play it with its a hide and seek puzzle game in mind
Okami. It's just a Zelda clone with a shitty instanced combat system.
Games with dial combos and lockon combat the only exception is dmc
Pretty much all of Resident Evil.
I like horror when it makes you think and when it explores the reality of horror as a sort of self-concept and turns it into some kind of terrifying physical presence. Things like Detention and Silent Hill that deep dive into not just things that are outwardly scary but the terror of what people are capable of.
Resident Evil has a zombie alligator chase sequence.
if you treat them more like a action/survival game I think you'd enjoy them more
Xcom. Thought that it was right up my alley, but something about the combat made it feel very unsatisfying and me just wanting to get through the levels as quickly as possible.
Which xcom? Theyre all wildly different and 1 is great but unless you have patience it will frick you, also try out the roguetech mod for battltech or advanced, genuinely great comlikes if you're into that sorta thing
Specifically Enemy Unknown, never played the older ones. Thought about getting the newest one because it looks cool but if I cant even finish EU I really shouldnt bother I guess
2 or more specifically wotc is very different from EU,you can also play Barbie with your soldiers/mechs using mods, 1 is the all time champ though
Roguelikes. Pointless glop
Hades. Everyone praises it to hell and back but the gameplay is so lackluster
DBD isn't about being scary at all. DBD is essentially just tag with some added mechanics.
The real horror in DBD is the matchmaking
It's actually the community
It's mostly a rape fantast aimed at female players. Men play it because women do.
Redditvenias, those games are all the same
undertale
its pretty boring and I don't get how people like the characters
bullet hell games
Soulsborne
They literally took kingsfield and made the combat worse and hyper balanced everything so theres no rpg powercurve. They also removed the incredible music.
Biggest downgrade in gaming, demon souls was the equivalent to pokemon going 3D, but its far worse because nobody played the superior earlier games unlike pokemon.
Kingsfield 3 and shadow tower deserve the same praise as castlevania SoTN and FF7
King's field is abysmal. Take the fedora off.
Theyre 10/10 games, you didnt refute shit, dumb zoomer
you are probably a soulsgay that was expecting to play "the first souls game" because some gaytuber talked about it
>no rpg powercurve
Elden Ring tried to address it, but then the fans complained that it made the game too easy, even though they could beat the game with minimal exploration/level/loot if they wanted to.
Dont max ng+ crabs do like 60% hp damage to a max hp character? That shit ruins playstyles, all that matters is rolling
king's field and the souls games are nothing alike what the frick are you talking about
Genuinely never understood why so many people praised this shit
I do not fricking get the appeal of EA Sports games type after like the first one you play.
Goofballs, lmao. Anyways, they are only good if you are looking to compete in E-Sports for whatever reason.
Sports games are like drugs if you ever got obsessed with them. They're awful and full of blatant scripts that are carefully designed to manipulate your dopamine and stuff. It's like when food companies use stem cells from to find out what flavor/recipe is the most pleasurable to most people, but with neurochemicals instead.
The elder scrolls, not any game in particular just all of them. I forced myself to try to like them but I just can't I have no idea what people see in these games and I like plenty other rpgs.
Resident Evil 4 and Shadow of the Colossus.
I just beat RE4 recently after like 10-12 years ago when I first beat it. I still find the experience to be meh at best.
I tried Shadow of the Colossus til I reach the point where you fight that giant whose sword you can climb on. I just lost interest by then.
Modern WoW on a non-RP realm.
Modern WoW has become an antisocial game over the years. The only excuse to interact with other players is if you're on a roleplay server.
I don't understand why people who are playing a singleplayer MMO. You play MMO because there's other people, and the majority is not going to force themselves to interact unless there's some sort of gameplay reason to do it.
In my games I'm going to strong arm the players into roleplaying and interacting. I do not trust players to make the game fun for themselves.
Given the possibility, players will optimize the fun out of the game. I remember planetside 1 had repeated periods of downtime, whether waiting for the bases to flip sides, or taking a transport to a new front. In planetside 2 they just streamlined those processes. The obvious result is there was a lot less interaction between players.
Of course these days you probably can't let players do entirely nothing while they wait, look at how DRG made their lobby into a real place with all sorts of things to jiggle around for no gainful reason. It's a place for waiting, but you don't exactly get bored.
Skyrim, the combat is just pants on head moronic, and the story is just awful
>inb4 the combat isnt the focus of the game/it's an RPG so it's ok if the combat sucks
90% of your playtime will be wasted on a combat system so awful most people will make builds based around avoiding it
Any Zelda game.
>Aliens Infestation (the DS game)
This used to be recommended like a decade ago. Mediocre Metroidvania that doesn't feel particularly great to play, all the various marines you can encounter are only really just extra lives with different palettes and dialogue at given moments. There's some jarring cuts that take you elsewhere after killing key bosses as well, even the damage sponge of a final boss cuts to the credits with no real fanfare. Think it mostly gets given a pass because WayForward.
>Borderlands 2 past TVHM
Exponential gear scaling that makes your gear outdated the instant you level up while enemies scale to your level with bullet sponge HP that requires you to abuse a broken as frick element even harder, all also in a significantly narrated game that becomes even more repetitive for each playthrough all seems antithetical to the concept of a looter shooter. Sure you've always got a reason to replace your gear with better shit, but if even if you do find the good shit it's generally only relevant for so long. Not even Krieg can save this kusoge himself.
Trying out the old armoured core games and having just finished last raven I gotta say, barring the ps1 games this franchise is utter dogshit with some of the most dated and limited AI I've seen in a while.
Couple this with the constant reuse of assets/ideas and extremely basic/lazy level/mission/encounter design.
I can firmly say AC drones are braindead gays will swallow whatever is put Infront of them, legit worse than bargain bin shooters from the 90s
Hollow Knight, I've tried playing it 2 different times and both times I got bored after about an hour into it. I'm sure it gets better later on but holy shit I just can't get into it
Hollow Knight clicked for me after I beat the first real boss and made it to Greenpath.
And then when I got to the City of Tears.
City of Tears is where it really clicked for me as well. At that point you're past the more tutorial portion of the game and your exploration can branch off into several different directions, enemies generally get more difficult, more upgrades become available, and it's the point where the story takes off.
I agree early game is rough to get into though, and I think that's why you see this huge disparity of posts between people claiming HK is shit and those praising it like the second coming. I'm not in either camp, but I do think it's a great game and I think people complaining about exploration just didn't give the game enough time to open up.
Its a batman QTE grudge match brawler with a kung fu theme that's well implemented. Its rather unpolished though so I get your complaints.
Baldurs Gate, Diablo, and all other games that look like League of Legends and Dota
aka following industry standardized digital artwork rules.
I just don't like the weird, top down, side angle, controlling a whole party rather than a single player model, 3d games should be either first person or behind the back, nothing else works, you can't see the scenery in games with camera angles like Dota and Diablo, it's cheap.
> Plays CRPGs based on Tabletop Gaming Experience.
> Complains.
Why are zoomers like this?
I don't play these games though, I'm complaining because I don't think Baldurs Gate and Diablo deserve to be popular.
That's just like your opinion man, you must be only playing CoD.
>You can't see the scenery
You perspective gays are as bad as dudes who insist on playing as coomerbait third person games
>you can't see the scenery
You can if the artists who made the game were competent
It's like that for gameplay. Behind the back third person is terrible for party based game, it's why KOTOR and Dragon Age are so limited compared to older titles. You can only keep track of so much when your camera is stuck behind a character instead of up in the air overlooking the battlefield. You can change the camera in Dragon Age on PC, but it's still designed to be beatable on an Xbox 360, so it's a dumbed down experience either way.
I hate behind the back 3rd person view.
I don't like playing a female character, and I hate seeing a guy's ass (Mass Effect, for example).
I like games to either have free camera top down (like DA:O and the Sims) or first person.
so you want every single game to feel and play the same? i seriously dont understand people like you, is it a zoomer thing?
no its a millennials thing just look at cod and assassin creed in the early 2010's
Any game with a score system. It's a fundamentally shit and lazy design I don't know how people stomach it.
you just ignore it anon. Like learn to laugh at yourself when the game tells you you got a stone trophy instead of a pure platinum one. Score system is just something for 100% autists to go back for on later playthroughs.
sekiro
it's a textbook example of how to implement parrying wrong
True, but it's the only Soulsborne game I genuinely liked. Maybe because of the weeb appeal, I don't know.
It's the grappling hook bro, it's fun to have that much verticality in the level designs.
The verticality is fun for sure, but it's a shame that the exploration is extremely unrewarding. You explore some hidden nook and cranny, and what do you get? Most of the time it's something useless like a balloon item or a sugar to give you a temporary buff, or maybe even a pouch of gold.
Sadly, the satisfying feeling of discovery like finding the axe prosthetic at Hirata Estate very early on in the game is very rare.
Most of the time you explore a high path so that you can sneak attack an enemy. this isn't some open world game, you're not supposed to be "rewarded" for every single step you take off the obvious path with some trinket. Just having a new approach to the next section of the level is reward enough in a more traditional action game.
thats because is not a souls game, its sekiro
Definitely counter strike. Twitch shooting is as unfun as it gets for me, and the community of tryhards going kys noob for going 1-10 on the first match seals the deal.
Final fantasy 9. I’m baffled 8 gets shit for its bonkers plot after the first disc and its weak characters (besides squall), but 9 is fricking worshipped for doing the exact same thing, but vivi is the only worthwhile character instead. ffs, it’s gameplay is genuinely horrible with 20+ second establishing shots for almost every fight and slow ass atb in a game with RANDOM ENCOUNTERS
I don't really get war simulators. Whether it be 4x ones, hearts of iron, war thunder, world of tanks, whatever. I just don't understand the military autism with these games. And I'm american so its not like I'm in some third world shithole with no military. I think the military is kind of cool even, but no military game has ever appealed to me. I see some people spend a shit ton of time on games like hearts of iron and I tried it out and just quit out of hatred for the game. Maybe it's just because I don't care about politics or something, I don't know.
2D platformers.
Minecraft. I've never played it, but what the hell would I even do?
you gotta fight
Metal Gear Solid 3.
Its just rubbish. MGS was always silly arcade stealth and then they made it all slow jungle shit with a bad camera. All the menu bloat to just change shit and doubling down on the garbage "lethal only to be the best!" with a whole boss built around punishing you for killing. I just don't get why people hype it up to be so good when its so awful to play.
Factorio. It's adjacent to things I like, on paper I should enjoy it. I just don't. I don't care at all. I'm not engaged by it in the least.
I don't get GaaS games where the game expects you to grind and do daily quests. It feels less like a game and more like a job.
There's a constant sense of progression and that draws in people.
Probably has to be the original Fallouts. I grew up on Fallout 3 and I liked the setting but when I tried to get into the original Fallouts it just didn't click with me.
I got as far as going into the irradiated vault at the beginning of the game and left it there. It's not that I don't like the game, it's just that the combat is boring to me.
I like shooting people in the face and seeing awesome blood and shit and having an immediate reaction.
The combat in 1 and 2 leave a lot to be desired, but for me it's all about the atmosphere, writing, world building, interactivity, etc. I think that combining those aspects of the old games with the first person perspective of 3 is why everyone rides NV's dick so hard.
>animal crossing
>smash bros
i like the original N64 game but thats it
>survival games like conan and stuff like that
I just never really got those survival crafting games like 7 Days To Die & shit like that
The entire Total War series is slow as dogshit and utterly boring while requiring next to 0 skill or input from the player in anything.
Not even the Warhammer paint could salvage that disaster.
I even let the Overwhelmingly Positive trick me into trying to like them twice.
Didn't see your response before I made
post, but yeah I feel pretty much the same way
Mario in general. I have no idea why anyone above the age of 10 would play these games full of non-characters and an oversaturated aesthetic designed for literal kids. The gameplay? I doubt it's ever good enough to tolerate the rest.
Same with SSB to an extent, but there I can see the appeal at least -- crossover garbage for autists and casual party gameplay for normalgays. That's 95% of its audience covered.
As far as Mario goes, the gameplay is actually the reason people above the age of 10 play Mario. Most of the games have solid platforming mechanics that are easy to learn and hard to master and as the titles go on, the level designs get more and more complicated to accomodate and reward those who are good with the platforming mechanics. Like, kids can still easily play and beat the game, but for adults there are decent challenges if you're willing to dig into them. I'm not saying they're the best games or even the hardest platformers, but I've played enough to understand why people adore them.
Total War
I've tried to play and like it for years, because I do like the RTS battles a bit but everything else around it just seems like so much work for so little payoff;
winning a campaign just feels like nothing to me; I can only really appreciate the individual battles; the strategic map gameplay does absolutely nothing for me. Its weird, because I generally like tactics games and RTS, as well as 4x games, but Total War just sucks the life out of me.
Maybe I should have given MP a shot?
I don't know
I've played both Rome 1 & 2 and Shogun 1 & 2, for the record; at least beating one campaign on each.
The startegic gameplay in Total War sucks for sure. You snowball way too hard once you consolidated a decent sized kingdom and nothing can stop you anymore. Frick Paradox, but their grand strategy games feel actually grand and at least have some systems to stop you snowballing too quickly
>Which Video Game do you just not get?
Snoy games aka ots tps
Modern horror games where you just walk down a linear path while spooky shit happens to you. I can see why this shit is easy to make but the fact people were priasing Five Nights at Freddies: Ruin for removing the actual vague stealth elements and open ended anture of Security Breach is disgusting. Now it's jsut the same as Poppy's Playtime, or whatever slop is out there.
Unfortunately, you can blame Amnesia and Outlast for this, which is a bit unfair since Amnesia is a legit great game (and I think Outlast is too, but that's a controversial take on this site). The problem was that Twitch and Let's Players popularized that game with shitty over the top, "scared," reactions to shit happening in the game and developers saw this trend and thought all they had to do to make popular horror games was make a walking simulator with jump scares. Now, we have this current market of garbage.
I'm hoping the combination of Alan Wake 2, Alone in the Dark/Silent Hill 2 Remake can right the ship a bit and make companies realize there's a wide variety of good horror templates out there, but I don't have much hope for that.
>no FOTM like [major AAA releases]
You are such a fricking homosexual holy shit. I hate people that seeth and cry at the mere existence of a release cycle. People like to play things that are new and other people are playing.
It's an easy answer that OP doesn't want the thread to be flooded with.
Troubleshooter. I love tactics rpgs, I love build autism and customization. I don't even mind generic anime stories. I really should like this game but the first few hours are just so boring and linear that I couldn't get into it. I appreciate that they tried to have some kind of gimmick in every stage but none of the gimmicks thus far were fun at all, they were mostly just annoying or irrelevant.
It also takes way too long to get a second unit. Temporarily getting dudes in missions isn't fun.