I’ll give my example and I think I’m going to get a lot of hate for it. I DESPISE Dark Souls 3. It is such a mediocre game when it comes to the actual gameplay. There is like zero build diversity, the combat isn’t indepth and, while the other souls games have at least decent RPG mechanics and exploration can make things easier, DS3 just demands you rolly polly your way to victory. There is no weight to like anything, you feel so floaty and light, and you fold like a peice of paper when you get hit. And so many attacks don’t care about your positioning, and instead only if you mashed the dodge button at the correct time, something Elden Ring kind of does too, but it adds a jump button to retain some offense and I find that I’m able to out position bosses and enemies more often in it without actually dodging.

Dark Souls 3 is such a mindnumbingly boring game for me, I feel zero excitement playing it.

Love DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and Elden Ring though, great games all around.

And the music for DS3 is amazing and I do love the Pontiff Sullivan fight.

  • SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago
    • Tomb Raider (2013) - I want to like that game and even tried the mindset of “Try treat it as just a standalone game” like I did with Resident Evil 4 but unlike that game, the game is boring. The constant hold-handling which the combination of the reboot trying to be cinematic feels jarring. “Survival” mechanics feels like a gimmick and felt in late-game, it went just being generic shooter game.
    • Doom 3 - I only putting it here as there’s fan saying it underrated but to me, it feels like a tech demo at best (a really good one as love the shadows) and at worst, it’s a poor-man’s Half-Life. It was at first, scary the jumpscare but that’s more just emeries’ placement which felt there for cheap scare which ruins the atmosphere a bit they just set up. Personally, I think Dead Space is everything what Doom 3 wishes it could of be. One thing I do like is you can listen to logs and read emails to try find out PINs for various lockers around the place which I thought that was cool.
      • SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        Trust me, I know. Like I said, I only added it as there’s ton people saying it underrated and act like it’s a universal liked game and TOTALLY not disliked by many and said why it isn’t good.

    • trslim@pawb.socialOP
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      1 day ago

      I love Doom 3, but I totally get what you’re saying. Dead Space is for sure like a better version of Doom 3. But I have a soft spot for personally and I love the sci fi environments and world building.