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Okay let me start with two heavy hitters right from the get go and don't forget these are only personal oppinions and I absolute understand if you like those games. Good for you!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Not a bad game per se, but I don't get the hype behind it. Sure the dungeons are fun but the world is so lifeless, the story non existent, the combat pretty shallow, the tower climbing is very much like FarCry but for some reasons it's okay here while Ubisoft gets the blame...like I said I dont get why the game is so beloved. Never finished it after the 20 hour mark and probably never will.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just like Zelda not a bad game, but imho highly overrated. Graphics and and atmosphere are amazing but the controls are clunky and overloaded, nearly everybody is an unlikable douchebag who I would love to shoot myself at the first opportunity (maybe except Jack and Abigail) but I have to root and care for them. The game is just so long and feels very stretched, you already know that you won't get Dutch because it's a prequel and for an open world game you often get handholded in your weapon selection or things you can do because you have to wait for them to be unlocked by the game. I'm now nearly done with the game, playing the epilogue at the moment and I would say the last chapters are more entertaining than the rest of the game, but I still can't understand why this game was on so many game of the year lists and I really wanted to put the controller down a dozen times.

So there they are, two highly controversial oppinions by me and now I'm really curios what your takes are and how highly I get downvoted into oblivion 😂

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Monster Hunter, it's just so clunky and boring.

Edit: Also the multiplayer is god awful, why can't my friend and me just team up and play, instead you have to jump through all types of hoops to play together.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Surprised this hasn't been said more in this thread, to be honest. All it seems to be is Breath of the Wild and Soulslikes.

I've tried 3 different Monster Hunter games, I've really tried to see what people enjoy about them. But the controls are so awful, the loop is tedious, and I could never find anything good to say about them. This series truly confuses me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Installed it. Spent two hours in unskippable tutorials and dialogues learning about a million different mechanics. Sent out into wild; collecting mucous for 45 minutes. Find monster, hit it a bunch. Monster runs away. I chase it for 10 more minutes, then Quit and uninstall.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I so wish I could like Monster Hunter. I mean there are huge monsters, what's not to like about it. But the rest just isn't fun or enough to me so I get bored really fast. It's a bummer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Agree. This was exactly my experience too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah. This is what I come here to see.

I love all monster Hunter games. I’ve played since the first PSP game.

They’re jank and clunk and that’s why I love them. The new games aren’t as clunky and I like the old ones more hahaha