1ostA5tro6yne @ chocosoldier @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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... your list is basically all "20+ year old franchise/licensed property". bruh if there's that little that's fresh or origninal then I' argue that's a terrible year for games.

Talos Principle 2 does demand my attention though, the first one was stellar and still looks gorgeous.

I'm glad you're finding content to your taste, but I kind of have the opposite problem: I find RPGs exhaustingly tedious and convoluted, and every genre is infected with its worst parts - grinding and levels and crafting and loot and fetchquests and equipment - because it's the "in" thing to do. everything feels so damn confused about what kind of game it's trying to be and ends up doing nothing well.

This was back when it was new - my thoughts the entire 30 hours I was playing were things like:

"Johnny Silverhand is more annoying than Jar Jar and I will do anything to not hear his stupid fucking voice anymore" "this 'hacking' is one of the worst minigames I've ever seen" "the setting is ripped straight from PK Dick and doesn't feel like it really lends anything to the story besides 'high tech stuff that looks flashy on screen'" "oh the background i spend ten minutes consiering before choosing does fuckall about shit except slightly reword a few dialogs" "my god, every single character is insufferable" "oh wow, my inventory is full again already, and not a single thing in it is worth fuck for shit" "these physics are just as shitty as that Witcher 3 game I wasted money on last year" "this button feels really awkward to press when i need it but i don't feel like editing the config by hand again" "holy shit when will this cutscene be over? There we g- DAMN IT THERE'S MORE? STFU ALREADY"

It was buggy but the bugs were the least of my worries. I came away feeling like I was promised Mexican food and then was given a cold soggy leftover Taco Bell burrito, and frankly after having basically the same experience with the super-awesome totally-finished fully-patched all-dlc-included GotY version of The Witcher 3 I really don't trust CDPR to fix shit.

After Cyberpunk I decided to be done paying $50+ to take up a quarter of my disk with a highly-acclaimed game that turns out to be the same old cookie-cutter 3D game with an expensive makeover. Anymore I mostly just play small indie games that friends recommend, and generally have a way better experience for it.

Pukemon, a Pokemon-style game with a Garbage Pail Kids aesthetic