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What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you like space dogfighter sims, try Chorus. You can score it super cheap on sales and I think it's a solid 6/10. Combat is fun and it's nice to look at. Unfortunately the story has terrible pacing and kinda doesn't make sense at times. Also, the missions get kinda repetitive. These two things really held it back for me, otherwise it's a fairly good game.

Another, if you like top down shooters, is Subterrain. Doesn't always go on sale, but when it does it's dirt cheap because it's like 10 years old at this point. It's got some weird survival mechanics that I think are kinda pointless, but the gameplay and story were enough to keep me mildly entertained. I'd call this a "potato chip" type game. Not particularly good, but somehow kind of satisfying if you don't think too much about it. Definitely a 6/10.

On another note, what's y'all's stance on the association that 5/10 = bad? I feel like it's because people equate it to being 50% and associate that with bad due to school grades. I see it as an average score and when I give something a 5 or 6, that means I'm neutral to slightly positive feeling about it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I don't think a 5/10 game is necessarily bad, but it needs to have some kind of - I dont know, character? Niche appeal? - to shine for the players who are going to like it.

I'll throw out Krater as an example. It's not great, but it has a unique setting, great atmosphere, and some interesting ideas driving it. I kinda love it for its eccentricities in spite of the overall experience being a bit meh.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I remember Krater! I played it for a while and I liked the atmosphere, but I only got so far before I saw how... 1-dimensional it was?

I don't know how exactly to put it into words, but some games that aren't so good I have a "see behind the curtain" moment. Once that happens I tend to quickly get turned off to a game because I feel like it's not fun anymore. In Krater that happened when I realized that all the fights were essentially the same and equipment was all stat sticks with no unique qualities.

Pretty much what your characters did at the beginning of the game was what they did at mid game with no noteworthy changes. There were other characters you could sub in and that changed things up a little but the repetitiveness of it all really ruined it for me.

I agree that's a really good example of a "meh" game and I think 5/10 is a very fair assessment.

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