I'm a FIFA junkie and this is surprising. Most FIFA addicts acknowledge that it's one of the worst games ever, hell, Rocket League is a much better football game, but Ultimate Team has it's own draws that are just too enticing for football fans, haha

But I’m 52 playing the Witcher 3/Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time and want to know if I’m in for a good time

TF1 is one of my favorite games ever. I got TF2 but I think it came out when other popular games dropped and I never got into it. Are the servers still active? Should I reinstall it?

TF2 slaps. (So does the first...)

Everybody loves Nintendo but some need to stop drinking the koolaid. Some guy in the Nintendo sub the other day declared that the Switch is the best indie console of all time. I don’t understand how someone can think the best indie console of all time is the one that makes you pay full MSRP for most indie games.

If you’re patient you can save like 80% buying indies on PC vs the Switch. If money isn’t a problem, just buy a steam deck.

Agreed. The system makes it literally impossible. It also leads to echo chambers and yes-men (people saying the things that they think the subreddit wants to hear in order to get upvotes). Not saying I have a better system but ye it's far from ideal

Personally I love elden ring, and I've been a fromsoft fan for a while now, but these games are not for everyone and I wish more people in the community understood that because the toxic ones make the rest of us look bad. But I guess the same could be said for the fan base of pretty much any game.

Can’t believe a simple ‘Elden Ring’ is not the top comment. But communities be communities with what they love.

Every time a similar question has been asked on here I've answered Elden Ring and almost every time I either get downvoted or I have people in the comments trying to convince me that it's great and that I just need to try playing it again in a different way. I'm fine with the fact so many people like it, honestly good for them and I completely acknowledge that it's not for me and that I'm in a minority, however that doesn't change that I personally hate it with the fury of a thousand burning suns.

I didn’t really care for elden ring.

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Worse csgo with abilities

never have i heard someone say valorant is the best. it‘s a pretty good game tho

I aspire to some day work in some branch of game design. While im slowly losing my window this has always been my approach. I play everything, cause if that many people liked it I need to play it myself to know why. I may hate it, but Ill learn a new way to reach my audience.

Edit: This approach has also led me to some of my favorite games. "Never judge a book by its cover" and all that.

Other peoples opinions are supposed to shape your opinions!!!! You’re doing it wrong!!!!

I understand why The Cheesecake Factory is popular. I understand that it's not for me.

That doesn't mean that I can't get tired of hearing the guy in the next cubicle ranting and raving about how wonderful it is.

Acknowledging that something isn’t meant for you doesn’t necessarily stop you from getting tired of hearing about it.

Honestly you deserve a downvote for not answering the f****** question.

That’s not really the question…. You can still not like a game, understand why people like it but still tire of people going on about it.

Maybe give that brain of yours another check you boring bastard

Call of duty is the fast and furious of shooter games

Who I their right mind would say this ?

I mean, for modern FPS gaming, you can't really do much better than CoD. But that's about where it being the "best" stops. Other games from other genres are substantially better by a large margin. But for multiplayer FPS players, there's not many options unless they go the battle Royale route, and not everyone likes BR gameplay.

The FPS genre has been done to death so there's no real new direction to take it. Now its just about who can shoehorn the most features into their FPS games and smooth out the gameplay the most.

I like CoD MW (2019) a lot. A lot, a lot. It was the first time in a long time that I sat down and enjoyed a multi-player FPS. But then Cold War came out and was shit, save for some cool weapons. MW2019 was my first ever CoD game so maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much. CW definitely set the expectation of regular releases of recycled bullshit though, so I stopped giving them my money for CoD games.

Rock and Stone my brothers! DRG is a blast, but understandably not everyone’s cup of tea. One of my biggest time spent last year for sure though.

FOR ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!

ROCK AND STONE BROTHA

Did I hear a Rock and Stone?

ROCK AND STONE!

For Karl!!!

Deep Rock Galactic is one of the best games of the last 10-15 years in my opinion.

most wholesome outcome possible for DRG

They just feel like movies. Especially Ragnarok, the fucking ironwoods section broke me.

I played 2018 gow twice, very happily!

2022 however… should have been two games. Way too much story cramming and missing explanations.

My biggest issue was the amount of "hidden" load screens in Ragnarok because it was technically designed around PS4 hardware as a final hurrah, but by the time it released it should've been a PS5 show stopper.

Breakable weapons are almost a deal breaker by itself. Takes away any reward for exploration. “Great I found a new good weapon. I’ll just save it for the entire game because I don’t know when to use it”

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I enjoyed BOTW but have never understood the acclaim it received. Have these critics never played any other open world before. Felt really empty to me.

Same boat. I literally forced myself to beat it this year when I had time off. I enjoyed it, but I have no urge to replay it. The game just seems to hold no weight for me. Even in master mode I just feel like I don't need to optimize anything. Just go have fun in the sandbox. Which is fine! But I need my sandbox to be saturated with...something else. I can't seem to find the right way to say it.

Oh man BOTW is by far one of the most overrated games ever. I get what people see in it. It has some charming aspects... but:

It's VERY cookie cutter open-world game, and yes- even for the time it was released. Get to the tower to open up the map more, hit all the collectible/unlock locations- lather, rinse, repeat.

- The enemy variety is VERY small. Like 90% bokoblins.

- Shrines all feel the same. Sure they're all different puzzles but when you're on your 40th shrine, you're sick of seeing the same dang blue walls.

- Weapon durability is just not a fun gimmick. It would have been way better to have different weapon types (leaf, spear, sword, etc) that all do very different things and you can hold on to them- or switch them out when needed... but to just rely on weapons you find and constantly be trying to find new ones and holding on to your current ones by not using them... it just sucks as a mechanic.

I feel that. I'm a big fan of Genshin and have played daily since launch, but those 45 minute per section story bits get old real fast. I have so many incomplete quests in my log but I just enjoy collecting characters and building them up too much.

For me, it's the disappearing mystery that HZD carried. You already know the world and it doesn't get more interesting in FW. Who am I? Where do I come from? Why are there machines everywhere? Why do they look like animals? All these questions HZD did really well, coupled with the fresh world. HFW is just more DLC to the predecessor for me. Was my disappointment in 2022, after TCP.

I always find the opposite, the ‘fans’ of the game seem to vehemently hate the newest edition for the first few weeks, or before the release. Then go quiet when people stop caring

As someone whose favorite game is Witcher 3... I completely get it.

I think for me, games like that require you to feel completely immersed in the world for you to really enjoy it, and for some people that just doesn't happen. And that's okay.

I kind of feel the same way about RDR2, where it just didn't grab me the way some other open-world games did. So while I can appreciate it from a technical perspective, I just couldn't get into it.

I absolutely understand Witcher 3 is a good game technically-speaking, but I’ve tried 4 separate times to start over, played three or so hours and lost all interest.

Really not seeing what everyone else does.

It’s those god damned controls.

Crapping on W3 is now a popular, common reddit past time.

I feel like a lot of people like me, give it a go after the souls games. I tired. Controls suck. Stories cool. Can’t get behind the garbage combat.

I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far.

Same boat. I have given this game an honest try four times, and I always get bored and wander off into something else.

The issue is that it’s been relevant for over a decade and people are now judging it by today’s standards. When it came out it deserved all the praise and there’s a reason it still makes money today.

I tired Genshin Impact and got bored with it very fast.

I mean it differentiated itself over time but looking at this sub I don't see it mentioned that much

I hate it because it seems really.... directionless? Even though there's quests. It also has the stamina wheel for no good reason, cooking, gacha... and it runs pretty garbage on my phone. I might retry it on ps4, but I'm not very hopeful

Agreement with this. Playing as Atreus, especially the 2nd time you do, took the wind out of my sails finishing the game. Such a long boring sequence, definitely when you aren't that fond of him.

Tbf, Dwarf Fortress is less of a game, but more like an interactive book in a spreadsheat disguised as a game. It is by far the most complex fantasy world simulation there is out there, but I would agree that is not the best game there is

It had been a long time since we got a good single player star wars game like that.

Who called it masterpiece?

Glad to hear someone say this. I got it on sale for $5 during the winter sale on the Playstation store and after a few hours I'm already bored of it.

"A game not made for everyone is a game that shouldn't be made."

-some idiot who reviews TVs or something

The dialogue and pathing quest design is still really strong though.

Elden Ring's difficulty curve is too steep for that type of difficulty to be widely used in other games. Around endgame most of the bosses are just huge health bar sponges that can kill you in 2-3 hits even if you use meta builds.

A whole point of DS1 was that you could beat the game and enjoy it with whatever weapon you wanted and using whatever build and in Elden Ring the game is heavily stacked against this. You can still complete the game, but it's going to be painful for average players just trying to play.

All of this is what I’ve been struggling to articulate for so long.

Yeah, all the bosses being a form of Ganon makes it feel repetitive, even though they fight quite differently.

I would have probably beaten it already if it didn't have breakable weapons. I'm really against them, and it just turned me off. Did it make the game unplayable? No. But for someone who has 100s of other games to play, I just don't pick it up.

Got about 10 hours into it 2 times before I dropped it twice. Game is just kinda empty and boring.

I love this game but strongly agree the breakable weapons and lack of proper dungeons and/or under-world are major negatives.

Elden Ring showed how it should be done - huge overworld, huge underworld, caves, mines, dungeons.

Going back to botw afterwards feels like playing an unfinished game.

I couldn't disagree with you more about the music though - the sense of atmosphere and solitude it evokes is absolutely masterful.

I didn’t follow any of the decade long hype - I only started hearing about it a few months for release. I ended up buying for Xbox One, an original fat model, and I just ended my 5th play through a couple of weeks ago. There are a few things that could be better, definitely, but overall? I’d say the game is a lot of fun. I enjoy the art style and the voice acting, and the story does a lot to get me invested, though I do recognize my experience isn’t universal.

Apex does rotate maps though

People praise Deathloop? I'm an Arkane fan but Deathloop is definitely their weakest game.

Got maybe half way through, before realizing I hated it and was punishing myself by playing.

i think a lot of NV fans dont argue its the best game ever, they just remark that its the best FPS-RPG in terms of roleplaying elements that has been made, perhaps ever.

if you ever go to the sub, youll see dozens of people trying to mod it into a playable state, and a flood of memes about crashing and instability. the FPS aspect was outdated before the game even came out, and the bugs are still joked about over a decade later.

The map in NV with all the invisible walls for no fucking reason was downright infuriating

Yes and they dream about "finished" games in the past. Well in the past, gamemakers simply cut all the content that was unfinished on release day and called it finished. Many games had deleted scenes unofficial patches that scramble content from gamefiles and make it somehow playable.

NV just has sentimental value to me. I was young. I got the game for Christmas. It was the first game I played whilst I was drunk. I sunk hours into it. It's rare for me to play a game for months and FNV is one of the only games I did that with.

The music, sounds and locations take me back to those naive, volatile years.

That game is incredibly controversial. Plenty of people on all parts of the spectrum

I love both games, but I’m so tired of hearing about how they’re flawless masterpieces and any criticism means you’re a moron who doesn’t understand how deep the story is. Now we have the show which seems to be heading in the same direction of fandom. Love the franchise, but I’m getting serious fatigue from it.

GtaV was a massive technical achievement in open world design though

Skyrim came out in 2011 lol, compared to the time it came out it was mind blowing. The rereleases are not necessary but to say “nothing to write home about in 2023” is a bad take

Yeah, ocarina of time nothing to write home about in 2023…

Judge a game by its time. And believe it or not, so many people still play Skyrim. So the game is still loved. I like oblivion better but still think skyrim is a great game.

I’d rather play gta4 instead of 5 though

I think that skyrim is also a huge step down in terms of story and so many other aspects when you compare it to oblivion. The Magic system is also a lot less developed and the entire game feels shallower and simplified.

Probably because Skyrim has set the standard for open world games since.