Depends on the decade, honestly.

I seriously thought I was the only one who thought this.

Insane take, the stories are so fucking good i creamed all over the tv

They are rich in story, lore, and world exploration. I love them for this. But! I hate having to revisit locations for new quests. It all feels like “Crap! Forgot the milk!” aaand, back to the store. “Crap! Forgot the eggs!” aaand back to the store. There aren’t many games with full, deep stories, but it’s the grind that wears me down.

I tried to replay 2077 and there was just tons of dialog and all the action was over so quickly. I basically just drove around. Listed to dialog. Fought for a few minutes. Listened to more dialog and repeat.

I feel this way about all open world/map slop. I liked the first couple i played but after the novelty wears off it’s an entire genre that sacrifices focus for a lot of lower quality content

i enjoyed cyberpunk but was never able to finish witcher 3

Hard disagree on Cyberpunk, that game is fun as hell. But I agree with you about Witcher 3. Tried at least 3 times to get into it throughout the years but quit like an hour into it every time. Just not for me.

The main problem with Witcher 3 is that it’s way too long. Was a real slog to reach the ending. Didn’t even bother with the addons. Cyberpunk was great in my opinion.

I agree on Cyberpunk, though I still played like 20hrs.

I finished a mission and just realised I couldn’t be bothered driving to the next one and blah blah blah and just closed the game for the final time right then.

First time I’ve been playing a game and that had happened.

I guess the game might still be worth it’s sale price at 50% off if you can get 20 hours out of it, but it’s still disappointing in my eyes that It wasn’t able to keep me engaged.

Did you remember to great power comes with great responsibility?

Which one?

Do people rate that highly, or just play a lot of it?

The original and the expansion are honestly flawless multiplayer games. Modern Warfare and its sequel perfected the bombastic cinematic war movie style campaign and addictive multiplayer progression loop.

There is no reason to play a call of duty game beyond the first black ops (maybe MW3 just to see the conclusion of the story) but there have been, what 16 games since then?

I remember people hailed this game as the game where “an addictive game with no MTX like other mobile games!”. But, that’s the problem too people had with mobile games, was addiction and this game had that too.

There are only 5 games in that category of Zelda game in the first place.

• ocarina of time
• majora’s mask
• windwaker
• twilight princess
• skyward sword

Breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom are totally different formula and the rest are not 3d.

For me it kind of goes windwaker -> oot/majora/skyward -> twilight. So I’d say it’s up there, and the fact it’s so foundational should give it some extra points. I’m amazed they haven’t done a remake to up the graphics and give it modern controls tbh

Agreed. I just don’t like that type of game myself.

This is a reasonable take, though I don’t feel the same way.

OoT felt like an open world game at a time when those largely didn’t exist (some did, but not really on console). The gameplay was still somewhat linear, but it felt like there was a lot of freedom compared to a lot of other games at the time. As a kid, I spent hours just exploring. I’m guessing this has something to do with its popularity at the time.

You’re getting one upvote from me.
I also fully agree with everything said in brentalfloss’ song
and I played it when it came out.

Worst thing about the game was the owl that kept the game from being an open world.

It was a step back from Mario64 and it came out something like 2 years later.
Majora’s mask was the expectation. Ocarina of Time was what I got.

I prefer ALttP

the modern doom trilogy is awesome if you like shooters and is bored by the cod clones and battle royale.

disco elysium is more of a book than a game. it’s a great book at that, but an ok game.

Oof. Elden ring is my top 5 for sure. But hey, that’s why we got choices and preferences.

I don’t think X4 would fit as overrated, since even the fans are quick to point out how much jank and questionable design you have to put up with in order to play

See but ghostbusters always crashed on my c64. So it was like the forbidden fruit. I never got to lay more than 5 minutes of it, but in my head it was the best thing ever. Lol. Human brains just suck.

C’mon, weren’t you blown away by the (at the time) novel digitized voice? “He slimed me!”

Of course, escape from Castle Wolfenstein did it even earlier (“was ist los, was ist los” and “ach, mein leben!”).

I checked out Miner 2049er, because I never had an Atari.
I see ladders, the ability to kill the creatures, no keys and no exit.

And the whole fun of manic miner was whatever was going to try and kill you next,
penguins, ball-balancing seals, toilet seats, kangaroos, steaming balls, fluff balls, bunnies, rotary phones, a flying eye, a credit card,
and then you end up in the intro screen as the last level.

Tried it many times just so boring with clunky combat.