Arc Raiders. By no means a bad game, it's just that the gameplay doesn't really click with me, possibly because some early missions rely on a lot of stealth and the loot system can be daunting at the first go around. One friend of mine really likes it, almost as much as we both like Left 4 Dead 2.
I might find some appeal if I give AR another chance, but I don't see that happening right away.
Game is dead now, the devs introduced aggression based matchmaking because lots of us were sick of pointless pvp, that initially made it better, then sweats figured out how to game the matchmaking and get peaceful lobbies and just kill everyone. Haven't made it through a run in weeks so I just stopped playing, after more than 100 hours. If you like the sweatiest Rust players, ARC is awesome.
You can only game it once, then you get put back in the shit for a while. Only had one game where a team was aggressive in a PVE lobby. They cleaned up because nobody shot back.
This 100%. I bought it as soon as it came out because all of the testing done was PvE, so I assumed it was a PvE cooperative extraction game. I uninstalled after like 20 hours because of the PvP. Then I started playing again when they fixed matchmaking, and after about another 80 hours, I quit again after I kept getting ganked in "friendly" lobbies. My g/f still plays it and is constantly trying to talk it up, and I refuse to touch it until there is an option for PvE, and to turn PvP play off.
Do you ever shoot players or loot players? I am not seeing very much PvP in PvE lobbies.
I killed 1 player. It was at the water treatment extraction point on damn battlegrounds. Everyone said they were friendly. Elevator pops up, and one guy takes out his guns and starts shooting. I managed to be in a spot where I had good cover and a line of sight to his head. I knew I was in a better position. I told him to stop shooting or I would shoot back. He didn't stop shooting. I popped off my trusty anvil and he went down after a single shot to the head. My pack was full, so I didn't bother knocking him out or trying to loot him. Aside from that, I did occasionally find raiders that were already dead, but they were always already looted too.
A lot of players are done playing PVE only and want to PvP to keep playing. This has drastically reduced the pool of peaceful lobbies. Any aggro rating above a 0 will put you into a PvP lobby now. So if you want PVE only, you don't get to shoot back or loot raiders without your next 10 games being PvP. When you go in a mob a care bear lobby, your next 20 games are PvP. In the rare occasion that someone attacked me in a PVE lobby, they wipe out everyone, I mean everyone. Not one of us shoot back. They usually find the players working together to hunt arc and kill them all in one spot. In a duo game, a team killed 10+ all in one spot, without any resistance. On the flip side when I play a PvP game, I would hate going into a lobby where nobody shot back. That is not fun at all. The people mobbing peaceful lobbies are griefers at their core and not actual PvPers.
Sorry, but there are many players that WANT PvE. Most of them have given up and moved on because the devs didn't listen to their feedback.
This is also my issue with the matchmaking system. Because when I defend myself I'm more likely to land in a PvP lobby. So what, my only choice is just let them kill me, or be thrown into PvP matches I already don't want to play in. No, I'm cool with not playing. The Devs could have implemented PvE mode to fix this, but they didn't. Eventually the griefers will drive everyone else away, and the game can die. Worst $40 I ever spent.
Elden Ring yes, I've never in all my years experienced such a mismatch between how amazing everyone said a game was and the actual experience of trying to play it. It's not even about the difficulty, it just feels like I got thrown directly into the 20th hour of the game without any idea of what anything is or how it works or what I'm supposed to do
Playing BG3 a few hours at a time is fine, if your normal gaming sessions last for a day or longer please consult a medical professional
For games I love, I play like 4hrs+ in one session. 12hrs+ do happen but very rarely.
BG3 also, if you're into d&d it's probably amazing. But the learning curve is insane. Just so much niche stuff a non d&der would never think of.
I have never player a TTRPG before playing BG3 (so no DnD background) but I still had lots of fun, though it was kind of annoying seeing people criticise the game for being too easy, while it felt very hard to me.
Yep.
GTAV, Undertale, Elden Ring, and Myst.
ER definitely should have been like...30% shorter so much shit repeating
Any game where the main focus is 'story' or being 'cinematic'. I just wanna play a game. If I want a good story, I'll read a book. If I want a cinematic experience, I'll watch a movie. Games trying to be anything other than games reeks of cultural cringe to me. Stop interrupting my fun with your non-interactive bullshit, games!
Haha, that's the exact opposite of me playing games. Ahhhh fucking endless grinding and fights, I hate it, I just want to know what happens next in the story ffs. This means I don't play story driven games anymore and just end up watching a playthrough videos, basically only sandboxes and puzzles have gameplay I actually enjoy. It's fun how people can be so different!
Yeah, I don't really go for the endless grind either. I gravitate more towards platformers and metroidvanias and so on. I'm currently replaying Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
This was why I loved TLOU 2. It blends both things perfectly. The gameplay was amazing. I look forward to the next fight to test shit out... But also, I really want to see what happens in the story.
Most AAA games. When a game is overhyped even before it's published, you can be sure it'll be pretty but boring and repetitive AF. I always wait at least 6 months to a year after a game is out to see whether it lived up to expectations.
I disagree with Dark Souls haters (old gamer here, I need the challenge, else I'm bored out of my mind and do something else), but I'll agree with them on how toxic the community is. Most male gamers are toxic cunts, especially the online ones who grew playing competitive games. Competitive game culture is a temple of toxicity.
Stardew Valley
Fallout series, just never clicked with me.
Have you tried new vegas (genuine question, as it is the only fallout game I like). If you don’t like it at first try with a melee build, that made it click for me
Halo. Very overrated.
Undertail. Overrated AND cringe fandom.
Ocarina of Time. Surpassed by a number of its successors.
TALE
That's me with Noita. Maybe the whole roguelike genre is not for me. I'm more of a "save, experiment, load" type of person. And in Noita there is a lot of cool stuff, that you get quite late in the game, that can kill you immediately, and sometimes you die when you just test it, and it hits me very hard.
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