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- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 20 hours ago:
FO4 just really didn’t click for me. Maybe it was too over shadowed by FO3 and FO:NV, but the writing/story was bad, the dark humor didn’t land, and the choices you were given didn’t seem have any real consequence. I guess mechanically it was OK, but I think it just didn’t live up to the expectations I had from Bethesda. In fact, I am not sure I have truly enjoyed a game they released since then.
FO4 was also up again a massive list of great games that came out around the same time. Just from memory I know that the Witcher 3, GTA V, Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne, and Shovel Knight came out around the same time. I am not sure which exact game it was, I am positive that I blew off FO4 once one of the others came out.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 20 hours ago:
I did play it, but it didn’t “do it” for me the same way the sequel did. It could still be worth a shot. If you do end up playing Sacred 2, make sure you do the quest chain involving the “concert”. I won’t say more so you can experience the wackiness.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 20 hours ago:
How dare you!
Xenogears is a flawed masterpiece. Even disc 2 wasn’t “bad” so much as they pushed about three discs of story into it as they were not given the time and resources to do it right. From what I read, It was supposed to be a seven game series/story, but they knew they were only given a shot for one game so they picked one of the better chapter in the middle and got a bit overly ambitious.
As far as Xenosaga is considered, I am really surprised you called out episode 2 as I consider that the best one. If any could be called out, it would be ep 3 because it was supposed to be a longer series and they have to change it up to have it make any sense whatsoever. I really enjoyed episode 2, though the censorship issues you mention were hilariously bad.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Yeah, that’s quite true and it wasn’t the only N64 game that was made worse for the same reasons.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Sacred 2 for PC. It is a top down action RPG (Diablo-like) that had dated graphics on release (it was still essentially 2D when everyone else had already gone 3D), it had tons of super cringe voice acting, and jankiness for miles. The game itself was just really, really fun, especially in co-op. The different characters and builds were really fun to play in a way that tend to get balanced out by dev in AAA games. My friends and I had a great time playing it, but it was clearly not a good game.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
I bounced off No Man’s Sky hard at first, I just started playing it again 6+ years later and man what a difference. The game was a buggy shell of the game they had promised, but now it is unironically pretty great. I have encountered far, far fewer bugs now, so they may have addressed many of those you rememember.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
My general rule is that if the game title ends in “64” and doesn’t start with “Mario”, it probably sucks.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
This is a great example in the thread. I also really liked DS3, it was very fun despite (or maybe because of?) the jank.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
No way, FO4 would be mediocre even if I had never played any of the first person Fallout games. Bioshock Infinite just didn’t feel like a Bioshock games, but I honestly thought it was quite good as a stand alone game. It was definitely better, more fun than Bioshock 2 for me.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
I forgot about the “not leveling” thing. I thought I was so clever as a kid when I realized it was better.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Old timey? You are making me feel older than Yoda.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 3 days ago:
We got pushed into having the large wedding that our parents wanted and what we were told we were “supposed to do”. Though it was beautiful, we both regret it. You are being much smarter about it.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 4 days ago:
I had a giant metal ladder fall off of the top of a work van and come right at my windshield while I was driving to my own wedding. i barely braked in time, but it had some serious Final Destination vibes. All things considered, I still think that the scariest thing that day was the final bill for the wedding.
- Comment on Wow! 1 week ago:
This reminds me of when my Dad had me watch Old Yeller with him. We literally had a dog named Yeller that looked nearly identical and was the dad of my puppy. Needless to say I was a very traumatized 4 year old after watching it.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Funny enough I just started playing No Man’s Sky after bouncing off of it hard when it was fairly new. There is a LOT going on in the game now compared to near launch.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
I am probably the biggest Daggerfall fan in the world, but I still probably wouldn’t recommend it to almost than is a fan of the modern games in the series.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
I really couldn’t get into that game. The fact that you had to literally go through quite a bit to get your character to learn to read really put me off. I know it gets better, great even, but I just couldn’t get into it.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Yeah it was a buggy mess for a good while, but it is such a great game now.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Yes, I beat it and only played in Linux.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
It’s quite fun, but very much a work in progress by a single dev. I am not saying don’t give it a try, just know what you’re getting into and have patience.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival Gets February 2027 Release Date And New Gameplay Trailer 1 week ago:
I think it’s called “Revival” because they milked Persona 4 to death and had to perform a resurrection. For fucks sake, let it be. P4 Gold was all it ever needs to be.
- Comment on Valheim 1.0 & Deep North: Sept 9. 1 week ago:
I never bothered with this trick until Ashlands where you really need help taming the spawns.
- Comment on Valheim 1.0 & Deep North: Sept 9. 1 week ago:
By the time you are done with the swamp, greydwarves are so trivial it stops mattering and its just free resources. I was a bit sad when they patched out the greydwarf farming though.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
OG Doom didn’t have autorun, but most of us that were good at it back then played it insanely fast, especially if you used a mouse. You used the mouse for forward and backward movement and when run held down, you could bolt in and out of areas in a speed I don’t think i have ever seen in any other game. The modern ports with autorun and mouselook can also be played very fast, but it still feels slower to me and it is more like a slightly sped up Q3A (which I admittedly also love).
- Comment on Valheim 1.0 & Deep North: Sept 9. 1 week ago:
I definitely makes sense to return, but as far as I know they didn’t nerf it much like they did Mistlands other than to tame down the crazy spawn rate a bit (which was all it really needed).
My friend and I started over about 6 months ago and played through everything and Ashlands felt a lot easier going into it knowing what to expect and what to aim for. Once you get the gear for the biome it gets a lot easier as well as you can imagine, though maxed out Mistlands gears is fine too.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
On re-reading your comment, I should have picked up on that.
- Comment on It has now been a quarter century since Penny Arcade proclaimed that "videogames suck now". 2 weeks ago:
What a coincidence, that is about how long it’s been since Penny Arcade was relevant.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
I am absolutely no one’s alt account unless you count my abandoned .ml account of the same name.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
It hasn’t come up for me either. What a weird coincidence!
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, but the real trick is that some of the sprite’s better spells don’t have a downtime (one example is the main dark offensive spell). You can just rapid fire the spell as quick as the menu lets you. Randi feels silly in comparison.