Personally never had a problem with Victoria 3. A bit buggy on release but nothing game breaking
Beyond: Two Souls. I think the biggest issue was the marketing. They tried to pretend that it could appeal to a wider audience, but I knew what I was actually signing up for based on who made it. If you didn’t like Heavy Rain or Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit) then you also weren’t gonna like that one. It’s more of an interactive supernatural movie than a game. The gameplay is little more than QTE and wandering, but the story, acting, cinematography, and mocap are all really good or at least uniquely interesting for the medium, especially at the time. I still need to play Detroit too.
I absolutely love games like this. Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, and Detroit Become Human are all fantastic games that really push the boundaries of human emotions through story telling. The choices you make reflect back onto the character.
The telltale games are like this as well, the walking dead game is a master piece in itself even if you don’t like zombies. The batman games are great if you love the comics and really lets you feel like batman. The borderlands ones are OK, the first one is the only one I played, and ties into BL4. the second comes from a different studio and has so so reviews. Avoid the expanse… the most boring and out of touch game of them all and was really disappointed with the lack of actual story, it’s all very streamlined with the choices more black and white vs shades of Grey.
This leads me into the Dark Pictures anthology. I don’t tend to like horror based games but the way these games tell stories are top notch and I believe the only ones you can play with another person, all of these games are phenomenal.
Then theres the wolf among us, that game is amazing at turning a graphic novel based on fairytales into a emotion filled adventure.( The second should be coming out soon but I’m hoping they don’t ruin it with MTX).
Last but not least, the guardians of the galaxy game, while not exactly like these has a very similar conversation tool that some of your choices impact the story of the game, but the game play is more focused on fighting and solving puzzles versus just the story itself.
If anyone else knows more games that I’m missing let me know
Fallout 76. Granted, I played it almost a year after release.
I found it to be a very good game overall. Not as good as New Vegas or FO3, but I thought it was better than FO4.
Elite dangerous. When you look past a lot of flaws, is just a very beautiful game
Remember Me
I guess barely anyone did
Cyberpunk. Played it on Stadia and the only problem I encountered was a freezing phone call and that the main story was so short I beat it in like 3 afternoons
Apart from the disastrous launch, I feel Cyberpunk has reached the legendary status no?
Yeah I feel like most of the negativity came from people playing the poor console versions. If you didn’t try too hard to break it the day 1 PC release was okay. The story is amazing and made more than up for any of the bugs. I had a ton of fun with this game.
it got the, a bunch of people hated it that havent played it situation. I pointed out that the game between launch and up to the anime release was fundamentally the same game, just with bugfixes. it broke Witcher 3’s player count record.
so people are basically insinuating it was never about the game at launch that was bad, at least at a fundamental design level.
Victoria 3 was just boring - I say this as a huge fan of Victoria 2.
I played a few weeks after launch, and - for every one of the 4 countries I tried (Russia, Japan, Denmark, Spain), simply building all the things everywhere and ignoring money made everything trivial.
The economic simulation was super barebones, the entire thing could be bootstrapped just by building. An entire population of illiterate farmers would become master architects overnight and send GDP to the double digit billions in a few decades.
I was 13 and still had a childlike sense of wonder when Spore came out so I have tons of nostalgia for it
call of duty warzone. I was a professional hater until recently, those steam reviews being mostly negative really put me off from trying it. now me and my friends play it every day.
Postal 2. I mean, it’s not a great game by most metrics, but it’s stupid fun. Also the fact that it was basically made as a middle finger to Congress for being blamed for the Columbine shooting because their obscure PC game Postal (that would have otherwise died in obscurity because it was legit pretty lame) happened to feature a gunman in a trench coat. So at the same time everyone was clutching their pearls over the ability to pick up prostitutes in GTA, I was peeing gonorrhea pee on cops and then shooting them in the face with a shotgun on which a live cat acted as a silencer, and getting into machine gun fights with Gary Coleman.
Man, Postal 2 is such a great time. I always start out with the best intentions of being “good”, but by the Wednesday level I’m robbing the bank and breaking into every house that I can.
I read this as Portal 2 and was really confused
Games are bad, they make you mad!
Do you wanna sign my petition?
Back when Spore came out, I was too young to know about most of the hype around it. It was short, yeah, and the end game was odd, but otherwise I remember really enjoying it.
Man I loved Spore!! Some of the later parts are not as detailed as I’d hope for, but the space segment nearly makes up for it!! Never fully finished space though as a kid… Need to go back and finally do it haha.
Hah, I remember the space end game seeming like an endless slog of fighting the intergalactic evil race that occupied all the systems surrounding the center of the galaxy. Rather than spend forever slowly taking each and every system over, I just made a mad dash for the center to see what was there. I think the strategy was to take my ship into a system as I’m being chased by enemies, down to a planet, lay down a respawn point without dying, then leave the system and race closer to the center, and repeat. I eventually made it there with this strategy. I won’t spoil what’s at the center in case you don’t want it spoiled but…I found it underwhelming lol.
Sidetrack: I loved it so much I bought a preorder for Spore: Galactic Adventures, yet my attention span hadn’t grown enough and I forgot to ever redeem it 😔
Maxis games were revolutionary :(
The problem with that one was that they overhyped it so much. It was supposed to be an everything simulator, and it just wasn’t (although I never actually played it).
Yeah that would have been a huge letdown if I had been aware of all that hype.
But man, if only the huge letdowns of today were as good as spore…
Played Cyberpunk at launch, had no major issues with it and really liked the game.
On PC if you had an nvidia card and downloaded the drivers, the game was fantastic since day 1.
CD Projekt Red’s delivers the best plots IMO.
I played city skylines 2 at launch and I thought it was good. After 100 hours though I realized it was complete trash and was a scam.
I’d love skylines 2 if I could just play it above 30fps on low graphics. I know I’d get a higher performance if I wasn’t playing it in Proton, but still. I have an RX 5700xt, it shouldn’t be this bad
I get good fps but sim speed falls off a cliff over 150k pop. But even if it didn’t the assets are ugly and boring to use
IMO it’s just unfinished and will probably shine with time. I got CS1 and played it for 2 years, then stopped in 2019 after reaching about 160 hours. It took me less than 2 months to reach 100 hours in CS2, and it’s so much more fun.
It’s still amazing to me how they fucked that up so badly.
I liked Bullet Witch. It was almost like a proto bayoneta off it’s day. I bit repetitive, but once you got a bunch of abilities, the game really became a blast
There’s another thread just like this one posted 2 hours earlier in this same community, fyi.
Just gonna copy my comment from there:
The Isle is honestly pretty bad in many respects. In fact, it’s such a mess that I need to clarify which version I’m even talking about, because there is an OG version and an on-going complete rewrite, prompted by them having fired their only coder and no longer being able to understand their own codebase.
The OG version was special. It was very simple, quite buggy and in a constant, obvious state of plans-and-hopes (being EA), but it had a unique atmosphere - the only true survival-horror to date, as far as I’m concerned/aware (only rivalled by some of my experiences playing DayZ, back when it was still an Arma 2 mod).
Playing a herbivore, resting/hiding in a bush in the pitch-black darkness of night with only limited night-vision letting me see my immediate surroundings and footprints on the ground, the sound of a massive, rumbling carnivore sniffing for traces of food was quite a thrill. Not to mention the moments after when a pair of jaws around my size suddenly emerge out of the darkness.
That kept me playing.
Then they stopped working on that and began their rework from the ground up. The rework (which they call EVRIMA) has (or had) no day-night cycle (always daytime), went from being set in an arboreal environment to tropical jungle, and had two playable dinosaurs (one herb- and one carnivore) of about equal size. No creepy nights, no asymmetric gameplay, no horror elements, different feeling in both how it feels to play and how it looks, and it also ran like crap on any device.
They’re slowly working on it; it has some more dinosaurs now etc, but last I played, it still didn’t feel the same and it was still buggy and severely incomplete. What emergent horror elements one might get out of the reworked version I feel are but shadows of what could have been.
And yet there’s none other like it.
Edit: I believe the current version does have night-time, but it doesn’t (or didn’t until recently) have night-vision and IIRC the nights are not as horrifying.
Currently playing Redfall coop on Gamepass and am enjoying it. Level design is beautiful and fighting mercs and vampires is good fun. It’s set in a cozy New England seaside town that was taken over by vampires.
Did they ever change or fix anything or is it still in launch condition?
Also wondering this. It looked really cool in concept, was bummed when it didn’t work out.
