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Anyone looking to buy splatoon, I’ll sell you my copy for $30. Never clicked with me.

 

Currently playing through Bayonetta for the first time. I love the gameplay but cringe at the humor. I'll be trying to complete 1 & 2 before 3 comes out, but I don't think I'll succeed.

 

This is what I don't understand. Regardless of whether or not I think BOTW is a masterpiece and my own levels of enjoyment I experienced when playing the game, I don't understand this feeling. I adore and cherish a few games and would consider them fantastic/must plays, but none of them ever make me feel that all other games pale in comparison. I really do wish I could understand how BOTW is seen as this game that's just an infinite well of content and enjoyment that people can keep going back to and taking sips from all the time.

I think I may just not be one of those people who really has hard favorites/comforts such as listening to the same album every month or watching the same show 1000 times. I don't really dig back into stuff multiple times over unless there's been a great deal of time between each experience. I've never been a person who goes out and buys a lore book or wants to know how everything in a game world operates. Part of me is disappointed I can't ever get that invested. It makes me kind of jealous of people who love something so much they want to embrace they can from it. People who go out and buy Halo books or take part in N7 day if you know what I mean.

Is anyone else like this? It's starting to make me feel a little bad actually.

 

I know some people like that. It's like wine, really. Some people hate it, some people enjoy it but can spend months without drinking any, some people are experts and treat it like the gods' nectar.

People dissed Bloodborne on the last two pages. I like the game a lot but haven't finished it. My best friend however is a huge Soulsborne fan and has completed all From Software games at 100%, has gone through all Dark Souls builds possible, knows everything there is to know about the game really, and is a monster at PVP. Aaaand... he's looking for that Dark Souls feel in every game.

 

I don’t really have that in terms of video games, once I’m done I’m often done for good, but a game can change the way I look at successive (or somewhat contemporary) games of the same “genre”. After BotW and to a lesser extent AC Origins, a lot of open world games now feel horribly confining and clumsy to me. So I won’t be thinking “I’d rather be playng game X”, but rather “I wish this game was more like game X”.

 

Speaking of Assassin's Creed, I think I'm the only switch owner excited to play AC III remastered on the go. It has undeniable short-comings but also some strong qualities. Can't wait to walk in the snow, jump from tree to tree, rebuild my ship, etc.

 

I didn’t finish it on WiiU because I got annoyed at some mission, but unlike others I enjoyed what I have played. I don’t think I can go back to AC3 after Origins and Oddyssey though, it’d feel so weird.

 

It's cool that AC will be on Switch, I just wish it was almost any other AC lol

 

Also I imagine it'll be ridiculously overpriced

 

I kinda wish it was AC II tbh. The story was at its best with Ezio and Desmond in my opinion. I was playing because of the plot, so I dropped the series entirely after III. I couldn't even finish Unity.

 

That's too bad because the two best ones imo came right after Unity

 

Unity is the second worst one, but the 3 after it are all great.

 

I've said it before but I think Syndicate is by far the best "City AC" and Origins the best "Larger Open World AC". Plus with Origins they finally changed their combat.

 

Skyrim was an “i’d rather be playing” for a couple of years after release for me personally.

 

AC3 is so bad, only AC1 is worse honestly

 

Unity is worse than AC3, but that's easily the bottom 3

 

*Whispers* Unity was a good game

 

Nah

 

Post-patches, Unity was a lot of fun and much, much better than 3. 3 was a mess. Connor could've been a very great protagonist but they completely blew it with him. Missions were mediocre, the story was so boring, and overall it was just a complete disappointment.

 

I only played Unity a year or two ago, so post-patches, and I found it really boring.

 

I thought the patches made it worde because they reduced the crowds and so on and I was lucky enough to encount no bugs on release

 

The thing that annoyed me about AC3 more than anything else was how fast travel through the woods worked. There were these long loading gates between areas, and you couldn’t fast travel directly between areas. You could only fast travel to the end of the area in front of the loading gate. So if you wanted to move like 2 areas south through the woods, you had to fast travel to the end of the area you were in and get this long load time, then walk through the gate and get another long load time, then fast travel through the next area with a load time, then walk through the gate with another load time. It was so tedious to do anything in that game, and the gameplay changes from the Ezio trilogy weren’t good enough to justify it.

 

I feel like they used that engine in a way it wasn't meant to be used. In Black Flag they just hid it via the ocean. Either that or they were crazy.

 

Exactly this. I didn’t play through Unity until the May or June after it was released, post-fixes, and I enjoyed it a lot. AC3 is easily the worst game in the series if you’re not considering Unity in its launch state. So many technical problems, lifeless-feeling world, weak protagonist, and the worst-written/most disjointed and poorly-paced story in the entire franchise. Such a disappointment and waste of the setting.

Syndicate is amazing though. Probably my second-favorite in the franchise after ACII.

 

AC1 is easily the worst