So you play a game, maybe you have some fun initially but for whatever reason you end up disliking it and you abandon it. Then a few months or even years down the line you feel the urge to play again. So you reinstall and dive back in. Maybe you even have fun again but then before long all the old problems resurface and you remember why you dropped it the first time so you abandon it again. And thus the cycle continues.
I'm talking games you've attempted... let's say... three times or more.
I have several:
Dying Light
It's graphically quite pretty, it can make for some cool emergent moments and the combat is initially fun forcing you to improvise.
Then as you level up the combat devolves into just mashing the basic attack and sidequest exhaustion sets in and you realise you're just playing a sexed up remake of Dead Island. The developers clearly learned nothing from their previous game.
Dark Souls (the first one)
I actually really like the combination of danger and exploration offered by Dark Souls. Venturing into a new area crouched behind my trusty shield and cautiously poking everything is a treat. I'd love to see that imitated in a better game.
Unfortunately the clunky controls, muddy graphics, terrible voice acting and repetitive combat always wear me down. Funnily enough I always end up quiting at roughly the same spot, around Anor Londo. The furthest I ever got was beating Ornstein and Smouge before petering out.
Dragon's Dogma
The game has one of the better character editors I've seen allowing you to make anything from a steroid casualty to a little wizened old woman and the combat had potential with varied enemies, a wide range of abilities and being able to climb around on larger foes.
Sadly, the graphics are hideous, the gameplay quickly gets monotonous, every class except the basic fighter is crap, the story is a joke, the dialogue is outright painful and the world is one of the most generic and flavorless fantasy settings I've ever seen.
And yet somehow I keep forgetting all that and heading back for another brief helping.
...
So yeah, please tell me other people do this.
And somebody slap me the next time I even think about Dying Light.
I'm talking games you've attempted... let's say... three times or more.
I have several:
Dying Light
It's graphically quite pretty, it can make for some cool emergent moments and the combat is initially fun forcing you to improvise.
Then as you level up the combat devolves into just mashing the basic attack and sidequest exhaustion sets in and you realise you're just playing a sexed up remake of Dead Island. The developers clearly learned nothing from their previous game.
Dark Souls (the first one)
I actually really like the combination of danger and exploration offered by Dark Souls. Venturing into a new area crouched behind my trusty shield and cautiously poking everything is a treat. I'd love to see that imitated in a better game.
Unfortunately the clunky controls, muddy graphics, terrible voice acting and repetitive combat always wear me down. Funnily enough I always end up quiting at roughly the same spot, around Anor Londo. The furthest I ever got was beating Ornstein and Smouge before petering out.
Dragon's Dogma
The game has one of the better character editors I've seen allowing you to make anything from a steroid casualty to a little wizened old woman and the combat had potential with varied enemies, a wide range of abilities and being able to climb around on larger foes.
Sadly, the graphics are hideous, the gameplay quickly gets monotonous, every class except the basic fighter is crap, the story is a joke, the dialogue is outright painful and the world is one of the most generic and flavorless fantasy settings I've ever seen.
And yet somehow I keep forgetting all that and heading back for another brief helping.
...
So yeah, please tell me other people do this.
And somebody slap me the next time I even think about Dying Light.
