Played a few hours of Steamworld Dig 2 on Switch and while I found the exploration and loot gathering fun enough I couldn't shake the sensation that I was playing as the damn Crazy Frog.
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Your most irrational, ridiculous reason for bouncing off a game?
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I bounced off every post Medieval 2 Total War because my eyes sort of gloss over the world map - it's way prettier than say, earlier games, but I look at say Warhammer and go I don't know where one territory ends and one begins. Which is super petty because it's not really all that relevant to gameplay and you get a highlighting thing during most of it, but...ehhhhhh something about the asthetic I just don't like. I just prefer the old somewhat toy looking campaign map. Looks like shit in comparison but it feels a lot more comfortable to my eyes.
I did the same thing. It's just a fundamental part of a 3D platformer that you need to get right (or at least working decently), so I dropped the game quickly when I felt the jerkiness too.
I can't stand Akira Toriyama's art for some reason. It's an unreasonably strong reaction, too. It's not something I realized the full extent of until I tried Chrono Trigger, but constantly seeing those portraits made me less and less eager to keep playing. I haven't played a game with his art since.
Two of the main reasons i stopped playing Horizon Zero Dawn:
- For some reason every few seconds the camera will slowly move to the left and stay in that awkward position until you start aiming again.
- The UI in the game is absolutely horrendous and there is way too much shit on the screen at once. Who needs that much information?
I dropped Metal Gear Revengeance because it didn't have a dodge button. I usually don't care much for blocking in character action games, and it was a major part of the combat in that game.
Destiny 1 - Can't turn off auto aim/aim assist.
Aim assist is for people who can't fucking play and I don't want to be treated like one.
Aim assist is for people who can't fucking play and I don't want to be treated like one.
I just started playing base Destiny 1 for the first time recently and that shit is egregious. The cursor will straight up follow enemies without me doing anything! Lol
Which is why I don't really consider Destiny a shooter, there's no aiming or skill involved in that game. You just spam L2 (LT) and R2 (RT).
You can dislike it and that's fair but don't look down on people like that. It's just not possible to play a game on a controller fluidly without aim assist unless the game mechanics itself are designed to consider it (like Siege). And Destiny is not the kind of game that is designed in a way that it'd be fun to play without AA.
You are constantly moving, jumping and shooting at a high speed in Destiny with lots of reaction based shots where you just think of hitting a target and do it rather than spending time fine tuning your aim. There is also a lot of verticality in the game due to those things....all of that is a very unusual thing to see in a modern console shooter and it's only possible due to the absurd amount of aim assist. You also spend a lot of time shooting in the game due to the nature of it, infact the reason why AA in Destiny is so high is also part of why the PC version when played with KB/M has little to no recoil. Not because it's scrubby but because when you play a game like this you don't want to spend as little time as possible on fine aiming or constantly dragging your mouse down to control recoil because there's just so much shooting, split second responses, time based mechanics and constant movement going on. The gameplay in Destiny is about making quick decisions where you just "feel" something and translate it into an action in the game rather than about raw aiming skills.
In short the game just simply won't play the same without AA (or in KB/M case without the reduced recoil) and it'd totally change a major component of the gameplay. And I'm sure pretty much anyone who's played Destiny properly would agree with me regardless of whether they play on PC or console.
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I ditched RDR2 for a similar reason. I just found player movement was too slow.
Witcher 3, going to force me to play a game of cards are we? I don't care if "it's only once" we're fucking done.
Edit: Blue Dragon.. that fucking voice.
Ni nu kuni.. I fell asleep during the intro and my lad took over and played it for 30 minutes, could never be arsed to start again to watch the intro.
Call of Duty: World at War.. first level I shot a guy in the head, felt like it was going to be that for the next 6 hours so turned it off.
Edit 2: Metal gear 5.. open world lol fuck off.
Edit: Blue Dragon.. that fucking voice.
Ni nu kuni.. I fell asleep during the intro and my lad took over and played it for 30 minutes, could never be arsed to start again to watch the intro.
Call of Duty: World at War.. first level I shot a guy in the head, felt like it was going to be that for the next 6 hours so turned it off.
Edit 2: Metal gear 5.. open world lol fuck off.
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xenoblade 2's blade gacha
in JRPGs, one of the things I enjoy the most is trying to have an optimal set up for any given point in the story, so the gacha system is a total deal breaker for me. besides, who really wants to use a generic blade?
I'm sure i would've enjoyed the game if it didn't have the gacha system
you can actually buy a move really early on (as soon as the 2nd level i think) that functions as a dodge
in JRPGs, one of the things I enjoy the most is trying to have an optimal set up for any given point in the story, so the gacha system is a total deal breaker for me. besides, who really wants to use a generic blade?
I'm sure i would've enjoyed the game if it didn't have the gacha system
you can actually buy a move really early on (as soon as the 2nd level i think) that functions as a dodge
They fixed the camera. There's a free camera you can turn on now.
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That sonic rpg on the ds had to use the touchscreen to navigate and for battle i peaced out after the first battle
The protagonist of Hitman: Absolution is so abnormally bald and I just couldn't stand it.
When Chucklefish changed Starbound's hotbar system a month before leaving early access, I bounced out hard. I kept trying to get back in, but couldn't stand the new interface long enough to build up a tolerance.
That slow walk level in Destiny 2. Killed my interest in the game dead so I walked into a fire and uninstalled the game.
I just thought that he is uncomfortably bald while trying the Hitman 2 demo...
I bounced off Gears of War because it was too brown.
I bounced off Fallout 3 because it was too green.
In short: I'm not a fan of color filters/bland color designs.
I bounced off Fallout 3 because it was too green.
In short: I'm not a fan of color filters/bland color designs.
some might say my holy crusade against the animus fuckery within asscreed games is a bit too crazy but i know im right so fuck it.
since black flag to date i just cant stand it, pure fluffy unnecessary shit to me
hell i would be happy and buying day one their games if they made it optional sequences that you have to actually bother to select and play! i hate it how they shove it inbetween the main stories and shit of the game breaking the flow
since black flag to date i just cant stand it, pure fluffy unnecessary shit to me
hell i would be happy and buying day one their games if they made it optional sequences that you have to actually bother to select and play! i hate it how they shove it inbetween the main stories and shit of the game breaking the flow
You should revisit it.
There is a dodge, it just doesn't have a dedicated button. And the blocking system is more like a fast paced parry/counter system when used properly. You're not meant to stand around and block a lot. MGR is a dynamic game.
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Here's one nonsensical enough I think I can tick a bunch of people off: So I put 130 hours into Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, loved every second of it. But the fantasy ride was over and I wanted more. So I picked up Dragon Age: Origins for a few pennies online. Popped it in, got started...but the colors of the world were so comparatively bland to Amalur I couldn't get with it. Nevermind the MMO-esque combat. Didn't even finish the tutorial areas. The first trip through the Fade bored me to tears, dropped it and never looked back.
Oh, yeah. I am planning to at some point. I didn't give that game a fair try, and it looks so much fun.
It was just in the spirit of this thread, as in a pitiful reason to drop a game.
That camera drifting back to the center was very annoying, I agree.
That good. I'm sure you'll enjoy MGR once you get used to its quirks. The game is an amazing ride and its combat system is a lot of fun.
I bounced off of Her Story because I thought it was a stupid idea to chop up all this video. From what I saw, they chopped it up because if put into order or did something different you'd see how paper thin that plot was.
This was one I hadn't played and only watched LPs of, but Welcome to the Game. I'm a sucker for video game horror, but what put me off so hard was that red rooms couldn't possibly exist. You just can't stream over Tor because the data loss is so big that it'd be worse than scrambled porn over an antenna. Usually I love watching janky horror games but I couldn't drop my disbelief.
This was one I hadn't played and only watched LPs of, but Welcome to the Game. I'm a sucker for video game horror, but what put me off so hard was that red rooms couldn't possibly exist. You just can't stream over Tor because the data loss is so big that it'd be worse than scrambled porn over an antenna. Usually I love watching janky horror games but I couldn't drop my disbelief.