This is a followup to @SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net ‘s recent thread for completeness’ sake.
I’ll state an old classic that is seen as a genre defining game because it is: Myst. Yes, it redefined the genre… in ways I fucking hated and that the adventure game genre took decades to fully recover from. It was a pompous mess in its presentation and was the worst kind of “doing action does vague thing or nothing at all, where is your hint book” puzzle gameplay wrapped in graphical hype which ages pretty poorly as far as appeal qualities go.
So many adventure games tried to be Myst afterward that the sheer budgetary costs and redundancy of the also-rans crashed the adventure game genre for years.
I just want to agree. I got so repeatedly told Myst was great, and I just, didn’t like it. I even mostly enjoyed Grim Fandango, and the Monkey Islands, because the humor mostly made up for some awful gameplay moments, but Myst I just didn’t enjoy.
Witcher 3. Every time I try to play it, I get bored within hours. It’s so polished yes, but it’s also so bleak and depressing, slow moving, and not super fun to play.
FF7 is also incredibly overrated.
Witcher 3. Every time I try to play it, I get bored within hours. It’s so polished yes, but it’s also so bleak and depressing, slow moving, and not super fun to play.
The combat is terrible and even fans often admit that, and talk about how great the story is.
I hate the story it tells, especially how it punishes choices if they don’t fit the Enlightened Centrist plot rails, so there’s basically nothing for me.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Online
Yeah I know there were a lot of complaints but there weren’t enough. The Player vs Player part of that game could have been fun, but it’s literally the worst competitive multiplayer I have ever played in my entire life. Holy God how could it be so bad?? Nothing happens, you just get instantly headshot and thrown back to instantly respawn 100 yards back, forever, and ever. I call it Headshot Sisyphus 2
Borderlands. It is so repetitive and boring. The writing is trying to be edgy but only succeeds at being cringe. I lost all interest after 45mn of it
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
The story just did not grab me at all, I found the art style incredibly ugly, and despite liking a lot of games with relatively similar playstyles I did not enjoy that at all.
I feel like people were just really excited to see a cyberpunk game, which at the time was definitely an underserved market.
Mankind Divided had all the problems of Human Revolution and made them worse.
It even did the turbo whitewashing thing of clumsily making cybernetic upgrades into a racism metaphor and then not applying it to the augmented main character because that might be unfun and inconvenient.
