And that statement's general purpose enough that I'm not going to bother quoting Yoss from the last page.

There's always charging across the battlefield to bop them in the face.

Not ‘just’ but about a month ago I put God Of War down and I haven’t had any desire to go back - it’s beautifully made and i can see why people like it, but I just found it all a bit Frankenstein and a bit...boring.

- it’s not doing anything new for me in terms of how it plays. I had a similar issue with Uncharted 4 in that it felt like a really, really shiny last gen game. Every time I walked into an area and saw ‘the shiny thing’ that I had to go and tap on to progress I just got less interested.

- It seems to try to make every effort it can to seem like the most cinematic experience ever - all of which I found to be completely undermined by the unending amounts of loot, upgrades and secret tat - I think that TLOU did a much better job of making finding and foraging feel like part of the struggle personally.

- The kid just feels too synthetic to me - maybe the tech just isn’t there yet but I found the changes in mood and tone as soon as you enter combat regardless of what *just* came before too jarring.

This probably all says more about me and I’m probably not helped by the fact my time to play games is quite sporadic but I just couldn’t get on with it.

Yossarian wrote:

Couple of just given up ons for me:

Alien Isolation: great atmosphere, love the aesthetic, hated the insta-deaths and lack of checkpointing. These things might have bothered me less were it not a stealth game, but slowly sneaking forward for 10 or 15 minutes only to die and have to slowly cover that ground again is not my idea of fun.

i wish id played alien isolation on pc. theres a hack which keeps the xenomorph stuck in a vent for the entire game. that would be ideal. explore the station at my leisure without having to repeat sections as yoss pointed out.

Whoever started this thread has given up on the thread. Pretty fucking meta.

Devs obviously need to put more work into the fidelity of shiny switches.

Which deleted user was it?

danclarke wrote:

Facewon wrote:

@danclarke I felt similar about watching vids of the new tlou. Funnily enough. As the fidelity improves, shiny switches get more jarring.

Exactly - you’ve summed up a lot of my rambling in a single sentence.

I get like this about some games, and then buy right into others that do almost the exact same thing.

I reckon a lot of it is just due to my mood and willingness at the time to suspend disbelief.

WorKid wrote:

This site's search functions.

You persevered longer than most, that must say something.

Jotun, WTF. 
Ponderous walking and controls, a heavy melee that takes an eternity to hit AND is used to trigger buttons and progress which means you are left waiting to progress all the time and, the worst sin, terrible, terrible checkpointing that drops you back at the beginning of the level that you then have to slowly traipse back through waiting forever for the heavy melee animation to play to pass all the buttons again. 

1.5 levels in and I've turned it off.

Yeah, my reaction wasn't as strong, but still, nowhere near finished it and no desire to return.

Hollow Knight. Played for a couple of hours and it's just not clicking for me. Love the style and plenty of other elements but the lack of clarity in navigating levels and a perceived lack of progress in the early hours puts it into that category of 'I really want to like it...'.

There's definitely a good game there but I just don't have the patience for grinding through rough openings to find it any more.

Yeah, a couple of friends also playing said pretty much the same so it's partly my issue but it does seem to be the consensus that the early stages are hard going.

Shame as I do feel like I'm missing out to an extent but I have comparatively little gaming time these days so I don't want to waste it with something that feels like a chore.

No point playing something that isn't floating your boat, especially as it's 30hrs to credits for any sensible first time playthrough.  You are most certainly missing out an a thoroughbred worldie though, it's the best game I've played since Trials Evo.

Skondo wrote:

I'm just about to start Nioh. Given how difficult it is supposed to be I envisage a return visit to this thread fairly soon.

Bloody amazing game, combat thats better than bloodborne. Curtis and Dubs still play it i believe. i have the dlc to finish off, though newborn baby has meant my gaming time has been next to zero.