I’ll start. pokemon. doesn’t matter if the game’s old or new I just can’t get into how it plays. idk the gameplay just gets old to me pretty quickly, palworld is an upgrade in every way tbh

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    RDR2. Played, but didn’t beat the first one. Some other game pulled me away from it. Tried the sequel and was disappointed by the gunplay.

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    GTA. It just seems really boring to me, I dunno. A lot of shoot em up and not so much substance. To be honest I feel like that for a lot of open world games. It may be wide as an ocean but it’s deep as a puddle. That’s not ALWAYS bad but I generally would prefer a more linearly running game that’s a lot deeper.

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    Dark Souls and any of its copycats. Grinding a boss for hours on end just to learn it’s patterns is not how I like to spend my free time. Aside from that: why is that whole genre so bleak? Apart from maybe “Another Crab’s Treasure” they’re all dark and gray/brown and unrelentingly depressing. Does the gameplay lend itself to that particular aesthetic? Or is everyone just copying Dark Souls that hard?

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      Plenty of Soulslikes that don’t have that bleak look to them. I think many of them do because the genre takes place in apocalyptic settings.

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      That decayed aestethic is immemsely popular and it works fine in making you feel like a survivor.

      That said, i like jolly things and grimdark stories, and I tend to like the bizarre. Maybe grimdark games lack the bizarre and the occasional bit of fun. I personally say this is the byprpduct of the success of a specific subgenre of games in the 2020’s.

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    Anything Bethesda sadly. I want to like them, something about the control and movement is just so janky it’s not fun.

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          I always thought it was because they tried for an “anatomical” perspective and it never worked. Like I think the goal was supposed to be you could look down at your own character model but it was never really inplimented, leaving a janky forward and back motion to the vertical tilt. It’s just enough to make some people a little motion sick.

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            It’s like the controller is reacting to your inputs after they are pressed, rather than your inputs reacting as you press them. It’s a very very small difference, but it just feels clunky.

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        Fallout 4 is a surprisingly good colony builder though. Shame that’s literally the only thing it has going for it haha

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    Almost all of them. The only real thing that I played with pure joy was Minecraft, Cities Skylines, Planet Coaster and Sims series. I think its pretty clear what games do I like.

    Anything with story/ending I find them unbearably boring and tedious. I’ll play Cities Skylines for hours though.

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    Monster Hunter, Persona, Dark Souls, Witcher.

    I did get a good 30-40hrs out of Elden ring but felt I saw what I needed to from the genre and moved on.

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    Bioshock. I tried the first game and liked the story and atmosphere, but got bored of the gameplay every time I’ve tried it

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      I love the first BioShock but couldn’t get into the other two because it didn’t feel like they took the gameplay anywhere new.

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      I’ve tried 2 and 3 and just can’t really get into it. Story wise I see what people like, but everything seems a bit more clunky than it should be and it’s just more frustrating than enjoyable.

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    Basically any SRPG but if I had to choose one I would say Fire Emblem; this gente always leaves me bored with how long combat takes.

    Though I am powering through, on easy, in Hundred Line Last Defense Academy because the story is that good.