Popular games and series you just don't get
This is not about popular games that are actually bad. This is a thread about all those games that are super popular but you just stand there and watch and don't get the hype.
For me it's definitely Ace Attorney. I mean, I don't think it's bad, it's pretty lighthearted and nice enough, but I never understood why it blew up the way it did as I just see nothing special about the series and a lot of its elements annoy me to death.
Metal Gear Solid 3. It's by no means bad...I actually like it a lot. But it got so tiresome years back hearing "god, 2 was an abortion, but 3 is the best thing ever.' Plus, so many think it is far and away the best MGS game and I just can't agree.
Obligatory mention of Valkyria Chronicles. I really want to enjoy this game but it just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.
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Disgaea. I love what the series represents, but good lord that grind... I have no idea how people manage to stomach hundreds of battles just over and over..
Lots of them. BlazBlue, Ace Attorney, Super Mario RPG, Street Fighter, Secret of Mana. Not bad games but I'm just like "eh"
I definitely second Disgaea. It's funny and all, but I just . . . can't get behind the series.
Originally Posted by Vyk
I just got burned out by Disgaea. I really enjoyed the game but I can't bring myself to play the sequels despite enjoying the characters and humor.I definitely second Disgaea. It's funny and all, but I just . . . can't get behind the series.
I just realized that the Tales of franchise is another for me. Though I think the real issue is that I'm just very particular about Action-RPGs as I can easily get behind Mana and Kingdom Hearts but Star Ocean and Tales of just kind of bore me after awhile.
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on white And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
Can't think of any, really. I love all video games.
Master of the Fork
Cid's Knight
The weird simulations like Truck driving sim.
why?
You can stop the game after the main story
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Dead Space is the first thing that comes to mind.
I put some time into the first one, and one of the things that did it in for me was the fact that everything required battle grinding. The kicker was for equipment. You had to enter that equipment and fight a battle. 10 battles, minimum I believe. To unlock an exit where your progress was kept for that item and it got a level up. If you want to level up your equipment, you then have to fight 10 battles for each piece of equipment. So if you want like level 2 equipment for your party, you then have to fight 100 non-essential battles. I'm sure I've forgotten some of the specifics, so this is likely not entirely true. But the issue itself still stands. You have to grind inside equipment, a lot. No thanks...You can stop the game after the main story
Well yeah because Phantom Pain now exists, so not even a game as great as MGS3 is best in the series anymore.
2 was hilarious because Kojima just smurfing trolled the entire fanbase who had waited years for an MGS sequel on a next-gen console, the demo was Full Snek, no sign that Raiden even existed, etc., and then lol you're playing him for 90% of the game.
It's okay though because RULES OF NATURE made Raiden goddamn awesome.
Anyway to the thread's topic I've never really got on with Zelda, Metroid, or Castlevania games. I can totally see why people like them and I don't dispute that Zelda, especially, has some entries that are truly timeless classics (OoT is smurfing incredible, all personal opinions aside), but I can just never get into the damn things.
I want to stress I'm not trying to say you should enjoy them or anything, but for a lot of people they are really comfy, relaxing games which are relaxed enough that you don't really have to concentrate, but require just enough attention that your mind isn't going to easily wander and dwell on all the stupid bulltrout in real life.
Plus they can just be inherently satisfying, same as making a Tetris.
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