I always really wanted to like The Witcher, but just 30 seconds with the shitty movement system makes me quit every time I try to give it another shot.
Yeah. Here’s hoping the feee remaster addresses movement and combat!
Which one?
The game is Night in the Woods. It’s a story about a depressed anthropomorphous cat who quit college and moved back in with her parents. You play day by day and each evening you can chose which of your friends you wanna hang out with.
If you hang out with a particular friend one night, you will visit the woods together. There, you have to play a game where you try to stab each other’s fist with a knife. There are mechanics to stab and retract your fist to avoid getting stabbed. This is considered fun. There is no way to progress the game without stabbing your friend.
I’m sorry, I’m probably too old and soft for this, but no, I don’t wanna stab my friends for fun with a knife.
There’s an indie platformer called Fallen Leaf that has really good reviews. In the opening cutscene you are told a story about how in the past the world was saved by sealing away a great evil underground. The first level of the game sees you exploring a cave that your main character didn’t even want to be in, at the behest of his sister (IIRC).
Some ways into the cave your path is blocked by a talking bear who politely but firmly explains that it is dangerous ahead and no one may pass. If you attempt to get past them, they gently boop you back.
What the game clearly wants you to do is shoot a stalactite so that it falls on the bear. No, game, I don’t think I’m going to murder this innocent bear just so that I can be the one who releases the ancient evil I will spend the rest of the game fighting against. I will just quit here while the world is still safe and the polite bear is unharmed, thanks.
I hate it when games make you do heinous shit like this just to advance the plot. Call me any name you like, I don’t enjoy being a terrible person in a game that I didn’t go into with the expectation of playing the part. It just sucks and makes me not want to play your game.
I’m with you guys on this. I don’t want the plot of a game to hinge on me both being the villain and the hero.
Zelda Breath of the Wind: Weapon durability. Fuck I was so annoyed by that. Even the Master Sword with it’s cooldown. That felt like a really disrespectful design choice for OG Zelda fans.
Will be the last Zelda game I (attempted to) play, although it pains me.
For me it was the cooking system, I got sick of trying to remember what combination of bs mixed together into something useable. The buffs don’t even last that long so you have to constantly be eating and cooking
First time I picked it up I had this same problem but you get far enough into the game and you never really run out of weapons so I eventually just ignored it
at least you didn’t need to keep fusing stuff to them to make them do anything but provide a light tickle to enemies
Regarding to traditional design of Zelda, yes! Yet it’s intentional to keep you detached from your weapons, forcing you to try out everything.
No Mans Sky. I just wanted to fly about and explore new planets. No! You must repair you ship first; find 30 jizz crystals. Ok, there’s some. To mine jizz crystals you need a shart hammer. To create a shart hammer you need 13 arse nuggets. To mine arse nuggets you need a piss laser etc etc etc
Let me fly dammit!You chose the wrong gamemode.
Apparently so! I may revisit it soon
I’m not ashamed to admit I selectively enabled free crafting to skip grinding in that game. I have very little patience for games that force me to spend time doing loads of boring busywork to “earn” the right to enjoy the fun parts. But at least No Man’s Sky allows you to tweak the gameplay experience very granularly to make it suit your taste. More games should be like that.
Can you please go into further detail? Like it looked like a game I’d love but then like the above poster I just walked away from it.
One of the main ways you progress in the game is by obtaining blueprints and then finding the ingredients to craft them. But you also have to craft things like fuel, ammo, etc. and to repair things. It’s fun but can get tedious at times. Luckily the game lets you fine tune the experience at any time (it’s actually probably one of the games that does this best imo) and one of the options is free crafting which lets you craft ending immediately without finding the ingredients first. My rule of thumb was to mostly only use it to skip grinding for ingredients I’d found before but needed more of it finding them would be too annoying, but not to skip searching for stuff I hadn’t seen yet.
The game is worth it imo. There is lots of content and it goes on sale from time to time. And all the DLC is always free which is nice.
It’s always at a point where the game suddenly requires a skill that isn’t part of its usual gameplay. I played a crafting and exploration game that suddenly has a huge platforming element in the late game in a dungeon, and it was even timed! The rest of the game involved no platforming, and it wasn’t even particularly difficult to do but I suck at platforming, never enjoyed it, and I especially did not need the stress of a timer in an otherwise relaxing game.
Another story rich game which was heavy on logistics suddenly turned into a shooter. No, thank you.
Another thing I hate is when I turn the difficulty down and the only option is to do it across the board so I may as well stop interacting with the game. I know I’m bad at fast-paced precision inputs. That doesn’t mean I don’t want cool puzzles to solve or complex systems.
I know, I know: “get good.” I’m old. Shooting and platforming are not the skills I care to be developing at this stage of my life.
I quit Skyrim when they threw a mandatory stealth mission at me and I hadn’t leveled Stealth at all. Granted, most people don’t play it for the underwhelming story anyway…
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC does this, unfortunately. Halfway through the story, Myst-like exploration of an abandoned location turns into horror wandering around pitch black locations with a janky lantern, being chased by creepy-looking aliens. Nope, made me stop playing. (Horror and jumpy enemies are fine if I have a weapon and can control the protagonist. But not if it’s a death cutscene at a single touch in complete darkness. It made me more uncomfortable than Dusk, or Quake, or Blood did)
Did you try the “less scares” setting? I think it makes this part easier, because I was watching someone struggle with this and as soon as they turned it on they passed it on the next try.
Doesn’t that just turn off their screeches or something?
I absolutely loved Outer Wilds, except for our friends in Dark Bramble. But once I had do those parts of the DLC, I installed a mod that lit the place up and made the things in there not know around.
I was in for a puzzle space exploration game, not a stealth horror game.
IIRC no screeches and they move slower. Not sure how much that would help though since in one location, they wander in the dark, and player cannot see them without alerting them.
I played on the Switch, so no mods for me. I would lighten everything up, at least.
Oddly, the Dark Bramble didn’t bother me as much. I got a surprise once without even seeing the guy, then a jumpscare once, but generally, those guys are chill, hang out in one place, and are visible (or have a giveaway, at least).
Loved the original Outer Wilds too.
It seemed like it made there be literally less guards but maybe she just got lucky on the winning run.
This.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ
Fallout 4 - when I kept getting the notifications about my settlements getting attacked. I tried setting them up with rocket launcher turrets to protect them but that was just annoying.
The main storyline wasn’t interesting enough to make me want to play it with the stupid grind of base building.
I’m not a very active gamer, and Fallout 4 was the only one I ever played. I got to the end basically, but no faction really seemed like a good choice so I took a break before starting down the final path with anyone. Years later, still haven’t ever gotten around to it.
Love the whole Fallout universe lore though, and I probably watched more hours of gameplay and lore videos on all the games than I spent playing FO4. I at least got that out of giving it a go.
I have been playing Fallout since the first game barely worked on my parents computer.
The universe is amazing and I would go room by room, reading everything off of terminals and finding all the backstories.
It killed me that I didn’t want to go back and play Fallout 4 because I want the story but the game was just too annoying.
That’s such a shame. I’ve always felt a bit better about it being my introduction, as it didn’t seem terrible going in with no preconceived notion about what it was supposed to be. I could feel lots of cool pieces of an idea, but it never got me hooked on playing. I enjoyed the terminals learning about the world, and the factions were interesting, but none of them were fun or felt like they had too much of a chance to reform the Commonwealth as they were.
After I stopped playing, I still enjoyed watching the lore and the TV show, and some bits of playthroughs since I don’t have anything that will play the other games and I’ve really enjoyed everything Fallout otherwise, so I’m glad I had something to get me interested in the franchise.
Did you go back to the series and play 76? I never learned much about that one as I heard it was even more disappointing and empty at launch, but I’ve heard some story bits since making it sound like they added things eventually, but I’ve never been curious enough to seek it out.
Spec ops the line. White phosphorus.
Can I ask why? That’s where I gave up, but I keep having trouble articulating why.
You’re forced to do something stupid and evil for the story to progress. Even if you try to avoid it, the game won’t let you continue unless you commit an obvious war crime.
Ah yeah, I think that’s it. I was felt mad that I kept trying everything to avoid dropping phosphorous. They take away your agency, and force you to do a war crime. I’m guessing that later they call you out for being a bad person for doing that?
Yes, and worse:
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Immediately afterwards you learn that you fired on civilian refugees, not soldiers.
Ah, that’s dumb. That whole area of the game had strong “Stop hitting yourself” vibes.
Starfield. God awful pacing and dialog that made you go “oh please shut up”. I went to neon and every vendor had a 5+ minute cutscene wah wah side quest story i couldn’t give a shit about.
“Oh somebody fucked my robot and now im sad so let me explain that again with 20 paragraphs” -Shop Keeper I don’t give a shit fuck about your dumb robo bitch i have 20 spacesuits i need to sell so i can fast travel again.
The fact they didn’t bother to add a dialog box first to access a service or buy/sell goods before the vendor starts telling you their life story was enough to make me not play again.
I was on the verge of breaking down and quitting after I did the math on all the
dragon shoutspace wizard powers, and realized that in order to level everything up to max, I would have to sit through eight hours of just the shitty temple minigame. But that just made me stop trying to get dragon shouts.What broke me was another notification saying that my mannequin of a wife had another gift for me.
I grew up on Diablo 1 & 2. I could co-op with friends, the grind wasn’t too bad, and the RNG table for loot was acceptable. Then Diablo 3 launched with a real money auction house, it made me realize that GAMETIME = MONEY and it just zapped all of the fun.
Haha i remember the real money auction house. God what a blunder that was. But glad it’s no longer a thing. Didn’t last very long
At the time people used to buy and sell Diablo 2 items on eBay. I guess that’s why they decided to add it to the game.
start a new game
first we’ll need a crafting table
hit the tree to gather wood
alt+f4
If I had a group of friends willing to play and endless time I would enjoy these games. Unfortunately I have neither.
Life is Strange
The entire premise is that the protagonist can turn back time, and make different decisions.
Except for cut-scenes. As soon as a cut-scene hits, suddenly its “You aren’t able to rewind time right now”, with no narrative explanation. Like, I get that you didn’t want to program that part, but the entire premise is about rewinding time, to try different decisions. Now I’m stuck having made an arbitrary decision, because I thought I was going to be able to go back and pick differently.
The ending makes you want to quit even more Just wait and see.
i usually quit after the ending anyway
The RC helicopter missions in Vice City.
Rage. Absolute rage. My neighbor at the time was really good at it. We all made him do that part for us 😂
Satisfactory and copper powder. Fuck copper powder
IMO there’s a few recipes that are fairly big momentum killers in Satisfactory. Factory games are probably my favourite genre and I love so many parts of satisfactory but I always hit a point in a playthrough that makes me quit (funnily enough, it’s often not the same item that makes me quit).
I almost quit then too. I eventually built a huge copper mine for just producing copper powder and conveying it to my main factory. It still was a struggle until I maxed all my production out there.
I find the Copper Alloy Ingot recipe to be the best approach. They’re somewhat less resource-efficient than Pure ingots, but the infrastructure is much more manageable, both because there’s no dealing with fluids and because Foundries are so much smaller than Refineries.
edit: and I mean way smaller. My Nuclear Pasta factory produces 3,600 Copper Ingots per minute using 36 Foundries at 100% clock rate. To produce the same amount using the Pure recipe, I’d need 96 Refineries.
96 Refineries take up 21,120 m² of space, ignoring pipes and belts. The Foundries take up just 3,240 m².
