ImNotABotScoutsHonor@reddit

Halo 5 was a game I played a lot in my childhood

Dear fucking god.

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RegularlyClueless@reddit

Late childhood, I would've been like around 9 when it came out

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ImNotABotScoutsHonor@reddit

Late childhood is 18 in most medical and psychological circles, homeslice. Which is to say, adolescence is part of childhood.

I'll reiterate: dear fucking God

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RegularlyClueless@reddit

I consider childhood and adolescencd to be separate but alr

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ImNotABotScoutsHonor@reddit

Doesn't really matter what you consider what. I cited medical and mental professionals for a reason.

Reach multiplayer was good as well imo, but that was definitely where you can see the gameplay getting faster, and it didn't have the impact that Halo 3 had.

It had enough of that Halo 3 formula to hook me though.

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LilXansStan@reddit

Mental_Jeweler_3191@reddit

Yeah, I don't know anything about the books.

IdioticZacc@reddit

Infinite is has my favourite campaign, the development of Master Chief was amazing, and the gameplay made me feel the closest to lore accurate Master Chief flying around with the grappling hook, pulling items towards me and throwing explosive barrels

Such a shame I make up the few that sees it this way

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ktsb@reddit

the development of Master Chief 🤮

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Suban33@reddit

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My eyes ain't so good, that mining pick looks mighty like a gold club.

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TheCommissarGeneral@reddit

oh fuck dude

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Shill4Pineapple@reddit

Holy fucking rage bait lmao. You got me good. More power to you if you genuinely believe that.

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Simpsanit@reddit

So... the whole time?

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Final_Campaign2617@reddit

ye

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JuiceManOJ@reddit

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Interloper4Life@reddit

Half-life 1 - the Xen level is a bit off....

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GordonLettuce@reddit

Alien Isolation, games sweet till 5 fake endings

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Blasteth@reddit

game's sweet but is double the lenght it needed to be. really hope they change the lenght issue with the new game.

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I have played it. I loved every second and was pleasantly surprised each time the game kept going.

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The dynamics change a lot with the flamethrower, androids are annoying and at that point you aren’t really thrilled with the station itself. The game really falls hard during the final hours.

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Aurora428@reddit

People who just divide playtime by the game price to determine how "good for the value" it is are ruining gaming

You spend the entire game looking forward to the space stage

Once you're there, there's nothing else to look forward to

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QueenSylvy@reddit

Normalize never playing space stage and ending in civ or tribal

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GEDDUH@reddit

I usually never left creature stage as that was the most interesting to me personally. Oh, and I spent an immeasurable amount of tice just making creatures, buildings and spaceships, i even used and tried a shit ton of mods specifically for creation.

How it feels to be a Space stage enjoyer

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driku12@reddit

Also funnily enough can apply to the actual development of Spore. The demos showed at cons were amazing. The hype was so real. The evolution was originally supposed to be more realistic, underwater civilizations were a thing, the space stage was going to be this hard sci fi galactic adventure, and they had all this programmed and ready. They were showing it off. But EA thought it was too high concept and forced the team to dumb the game down at the last second and remove a bunch of content to focus mostly on the creature creator. Seeing it on launch was profoundly disappointing, but the fact it's still fun even after that just shows how good the original would have been.

I love spore as well but it was a steaming, messy pile.

Still wicked fun though.

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Tokipudi@reddit

That's because you don't play as a pacifist.

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manny011604@reddit

Resident evil 8 the factory area

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Ngu idle (probably the most elaborate and greatest idler ever made imo)

Trimps (I don't like it personally but it has a very long term and dedicated fan base)

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StuntHacks@reddit

I don't think it's fair to say any game that has any sort of micro transactions will inevitably be designed to be less fun without them. I've played several that said MTX were completely optional, and didn't lie about it. AD and USI come to mind.

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userbrn1@reddit

what are those abbreviations for?

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pitline810@reddit

Cookie clicker

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StuntHacks@reddit

Unnamed Space Idle, undisputed king

If you're down for some more raw numbers, Antimatter Dimensions

If you're into RuneScape, Melvor Idle

Evolve Idle and CIFI also supposed to be very good but I haven't played either

Any gacha game

Because they're gambling disguised as a game.

I use spellsword until I can enchant my armor with -100% destruction spell cost then I just run around toasting everything, it’s very nice.

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cynicalPsionic@reddit

Yeah I always found that going heavy into archery eventually left you feeling bored, destruction magic and one handed means you got range and melee and a fun special effects budget while you're at it

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Ensvey@reddit

I found my people. In general, skyrim magic was so mid, but this playstyle still felt more engaging than stealth archer.

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ToumaKazusa1@reddit

Switch Destruction for Restoration and add in shield.

Restoration perks give you infinite stamina pretty quick and infinite stamina shield bash is a nice combo. You have no good ranged options but with infinite stamina you can just sprint over to them

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joethecrow23@reddit

One handed is the best because the vast majority of cool specialty weapons are one handed.

Having spell bar mod like WoW helps a ton with on the go spell changing without favorites menu break.

But good lord it has way too many requirements and dependencies

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AMadHammer@reddit

What is the most fun skyrim build

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durfenstein@reddit

Hmm care to elaborate?

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tearans@reddit

Positive feedback loop that takes all fun from the game. No risk, no change

Not seen > can take first shot > heavy dmg or outright kill > go back to not seen step > repeat

But beeing aware of the stealth archer blackhole makes you kinda semi-immune, because you recognize the moment you are falling in.

Its like with addictive mobile inapp purchaces, knowing lets go whalin makes it easy to see the pattern and avoid or not fall in

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AstroBearGaming@reddit

....and yet every time I replay the game.

"I'm going to go full magic this time"

The Crucible is a McGuffin, but that's honestly not only the ME3 teams fault. The previous games did basically nothing to set up a weapon against the Reapers. Any solution would have felt like a McGuffin. That said there are aspects to the Crucible that I like, such as it being this collective effort by all the cycles.

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RambunctiousGhost@reddit

Yeah, that's never going to happen. Bioware is barely holding on as it is. No way big daddy EA would allow a risky project like that. I don't necessarily disagree with you, though. Mass Effect is one of my favorite game series of all time. A chance to get a proper ending to it would be amazing.

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cmdr_scotty@reddit

I put off finishing me3 for the longest time, until my bro in law challenged me to finish it in something like two days and he'd buy doom eternal + any DLCs that came out.

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megahornet@reddit

Playing the wrong modpacks

Single parent home?

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driku12@reddit

Yeah, it was just shit. At least now I've gotten used to the taste and have figured out some pretty nice ways to cook the shit to make it palateable. When you're a kid, you have no coping mechanisms yet and no freedom or autonomy to figure any out, so it's like you get full force diarrhea straight into your cerebral cortex courtesy of life itself.

I do sometimes both envy and pity the people who had diamond childhoods. On one hand it was probably a lot harder emotionally to go from diamonds to shit. On the other, at least you had some diamonds and I'm sure that gives you a level of hope and compassion someone who's been buried in shit the whole time may not have.

Idk where I'm going with this

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Niasny@reddit

Yeah, i think my Mom pressed me directly into the shit tank

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digidado@reddit

Yup

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JuiceManOJ@reddit

Was there supposed to be one? I guess i missed out, too

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cyberstealth999@reddit

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slayerx1779@reddit

Some real talk for you youngins:

I was talking with my doctor, since this was my first physical after turning 30.

And it's really weird how often I hear from people who dislike how they spent their 20s, or insisted that 30 was when you really start being who you are, and start living your truth.

I've got a bunch of other small anecdotes, but they all tl;dr to say "It's true, what they say: life is truly what you make of it."

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Karceris@reddit

??? :Dddddddd

True that is actually much more enjoyable. Just try wacky builds and pop off or int.

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AnDanDan@reddit

*is to not grind ranked

Every single person I know who hates the game burned out on ranked. The people I know that enjoy the game play it casually. Something something dont let your hobby become your job.

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Sultahid@reddit

I mean you can just... not grind ranked regardless of your skill lmao. I started playing after Arcane came out, am now level 500+ and pretty good at the game, and have yet to touch ranked once. Playing normals and Mayhem with friends only.

The game is so incredibly fun

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occasionallyacid@reddit

Solo/duoqueue is a hellscape. Playing alone is a hellscape (I'm a jungle main...)

But playing with friends in normals and ranked flex? So much fun tbh. Like the feeling of when you and your friends come together and achieve a great game together is amazing.

... And then there's the opposite type of game where everything just goes to fucking hell where you're stuck in it for at least another 15 minutes.

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snippiercarrot@reddit

The key is to just not play ranked

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Dartmouthest@reddit

Did you lose friends because you lost touch or because of conflict from playing the game?

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browsk@reddit

Because you didn’t become a chad ARAM enjoyer

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StandardN02b@reddit

Lol is great when you are fooling around. It's awfull when you take it seriously.

Sphinx87@reddit

Should try Dota next, it's heaps better.

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Physical_Noise123@reddit

Lost friends in the process

How did you lose friends? lol. My friends and I tried it, a few of us just found it boring after a few weeks and the other 2 kept playing in their spare time but would still play other games with us.

Couldnt imagine losing friends over a game

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ansibleloop@reddit

I'm happy they added that disgustingly invasive anti cheat to it

jishieus@reddit

Imagine caring how someone else plays a game lmao

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TheChannelMiner@reddit

Yeah just a weird lack of social awareness and being a control freak that hates when other people dare to enioy things in a different way than themselves.

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TheChannelMiner@reddit

Just feels like shit after the honeymoon period after a wipe

Legit just never see a fucking PMC in PvP ever so i cant do tasks that need me to kill people

when i finally find a player it's just a pscav

it's miserable on Australia server but lag makes it awful to play on Asia

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cle4rr@reddit

I play on asia from oce, worth going through the ping just to have full raids.

or just dont play the game, probably a better option

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It's been ass for over a decade - Black Ops 2 was the last fully good one IMO

BO3 and cold war were good for zombies and that's about it

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I just saw someone on COD Zombies post how the game isn’t safe to play on PC? That even with a legit Steam install, the dude faced hackers online that messed with their game and panicked cause they thought the hackers could have more access to your computer.

Zenless zone zero

What the fuck do you mean we get another op girl with sad backstory? Again?

Why is the protagonist so incompetent?

Why is the outfit for Lycaon in the Collab isn't obtainable???

And lore problem. Why the fuck are all the people here are stylish? Like, isn't this the last place where people can live a "normal" life? Ts so bullshit tho and honestly it just feels like they are going for more fanservice than designs that speaks for the character...

And finally, If we have all these powerful competent dangerous women here. Why can't we just use them to massacre a entire population of ethereal (enemies in game who are reanimated magic corpses) in each hollow?

Mind you, we basically got walking nukes as our agents. SO WHY ARE WE STILL STUCK AS THE "last city gang! We can't do shit!"

YOU CAN! YOU LITERALLY CAN! IT ONLY TAKES A CONCENTRATED EFFORT!

AND EVEN THE SMALLEST GIRLS CAN PARRY TONS OF HEAVY METAL GOING AT MACH SPEED AT THEIR DIRECTION! THEY ARE DANGEROUS! THEY ARE NOT TO BE MESSED WITH! SL WHY CAN'T WE JUST BUTCHER THEM ALL!?!?

10.3? I rarely go above 6.7

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Jade8560@reddit

you think that things bad, it’s gonna get worse lmao. T-15-57, K-16, B-17 will all be even more horrendously broken when added to war thunder

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Tast3sLikePanda@reddit

B17 will never be broken unless you mean in the useless sense, unless gaijin completely reworks the role and function of bombers in the game

well you don't have to play top tier. I miss the days of Mig15 vs F86A Sabres ... then they started adding the CL13 and for me it went downhill from there...

I don't understand why more people don't just play realistic battles with props... a lot more fun than getting shot at with missiles from everywhere

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iAyushRaj@reddit

Destiny 2 but you get equal amounts of shit mixed with those diamonds and then whole load of shit

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Tokipudi@reddit

Destiny 2 is one of the best FPS I've ever played, but once you get to high level content it just feels like an awful grind.

It's a shame because the game in itself truly is a masterpiece.

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Nyxot@reddit

It's also pretty bad that they removed some gold tier content for awful grindy activities. Content you paid for, as extra DLC too. Fuck them.

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Yeah, it's the best game I ever uninstalled and will never touch again. Nice ending point at The Final Shape and then "they all lived happily ever after" is how I treat it.

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Petermitnemmeter@reddit

I always feel like it's weird that people complain about that

Grinding for endgame content is part of every mmo

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iAyushRaj@reddit

I didn't really care about the grind but Bungie as a whole never respected their player's investment into their game. Hypocritical whales kept them fed for a long time

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Tokipudi@reddit

I get that, but it is the first game I stopped because it started feeling like a real job.

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Silentmatten@reddit

Don't forget to pay 100$ to have access to that shit for a singular year

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iAyushRaj@reddit

Thanks to regional pricing I never paid $100.

The deluxe version costed me $70 at max if directly converted.

saketho@reddit

The unskippable videotape in the Ship is a straight line annoyance. But I agree that Mia’s present day is a proper RE section, and the crawlers are great enemies there.

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Hyperversum@reddit

Oh yeah, the tape is a bit meh, but it goes smoother than some other sections because you get a new gun (even if it kinda sucks it's fun to use an automatic gun recklessly lol) and the bombs, so you get some new toys to play with.

As soon as you get back to present time Mia, you have a multi-layered area you can traverse in different ways, some optional loot to work towards and the crawlers are an actual threat rather than an annoyance you can solve by popping on shotgun shell.

This is kinda my criticism towards some other parts of the game in general. Lucas section is fun but linear and Marguerite old house is made annoying by the fucking bugs being the single most obnoxious this franchise ever had.

I am particularly pissed about the Marguerite section because the house is creepy and fun to explore, but the bugs are simply way too fucking boring to deal with. She is also a lot of waste potential. Good concept to have a "weak" boss that relies on ambushing and deploying minions but good fucking Lord how much health does she have and why the fuck does she spend more time scuttling around the walls than actually ambushing you.

k_GOBL1N@reddit

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. Actually had story, characters, variety, and actual exploration. Then it goes into shitty MMO RPG grinding mode and it’s not even a MMO RPG. At least in those, there’s other people to hang out with while you grind.

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Fuzzy_Wheel_4565@reddit

Wow classic

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broniesnstuff@reddit

I played so much classic up until before they dropped Burning Crusade in.

I loved it. But raiding and guilds absolutely killed my desire to ever play the game again. Ever.

It's solved content. Why in the fuck are we stressing out over spreadsheets?

People pulled dumb bullshit over loot, friendships ended over guild drama, judgements made purely based on values from a spreadsheet.

10 man Raiding might be the most fun I've ever had playing a video game. I've raided from Wotlk classic and we're about to start Siege of Orgrimmar in MoP now.

In 10 man heroics you can't afford to carry anyone's weight so every person is important and every person has to contribute strategically. Calling out cool downs, trying to figure out what optimizations your class can make to make the fight easier for everyone else, and mastering your rotation to do the most dps or healing you can is just so much fun. Nothing beats killing the boss you've been stuck on for weeks. The people I play with have become some of my closest friends. It's amazing.

I will say, that it's a lot less fun when you play with people who treat it like a job. You've gotta find a guild that has the right balance of hardcore raiding with casual mindsets.

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Okaoka_12@reddit (OP)

Aw man you're right, i'm a big fan of warcraft and it sucks how they did it like that

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AmericaninShenzhen@reddit

Is this the front page?

This is my impression. I replayed Borderlands 2 enough that I got the sidequests I did down to a science. Have no clue what they are, I just know on playthroughs I've had since that a sidequest would appear and I intrinsically know whether or not I need to do it to stay on level with enemies.

To be fair, I feel like the story of Bl2 uses urgency to add tension. Great for the atmosphere of the game, but bad for people who think they're under a constant timer. Once you realize you can take your time and Bl2 isn't like a choice-based game or a time-gated game, it gets a lot easier. I could absolutely see someone new to the game rushing through the main story by accident

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OddNovel565@reddit

Maybe you're just that good?

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Dont_Touch_My_Nachos@reddit

Nah, it's just not that hard. Especially if you use the right weapons and get a well synergized build. You also don't have to grind gear that much. Also, you don't have to grind to get the perfect gun, whites and greens are more than enough to beat the game most of the time. If you don't mind me asking, what class did you play as?

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Rubmynippleplease@reddit

Probably not? I recall doing a good couple side missions here and there which maybe constitutes grinding? But I dont consider that grinding.

If they had dine what the division did in their sequel and just made it less bullet spongy it would have been great

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Ok_Independence_2630@reddit

I never even got to the end ngl, I played it when it first came out and jusy saw it as a 3rd person destiny clone with a story that was very difficult to follow

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afuckingpolarbear@reddit

I got close to the end bit never fully finished it

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Burritozi11a@reddit

Assassin's Creed 2

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DanteThePunk@reddit

Red Dead Online

Mass Effect 🥲 first game I played on the 360.

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snakeoildoc@reddit

I really liked AC shadows at first but then got in to the meat of it and put it down

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Friend-Boat@reddit

Another crab’s treasure. In a game full of bright colors and happy music, the last few hours are the opposite. Pitch black silence at the bottom of the ocean while you dodge your way through way too many giant laser crabs.

Call of duty modern warfare 2019 I will never buy anything from that fucking company again

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Anariel_Elensar@reddit

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damn OP i feel the same way. IMO Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma were peak Genshin. Sumeru and Fontaine were still pretty good all things considered. Then Natlan came and I just completely lost interest and still haven’t finished it.

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danteas14@reddit

Holy shit take Everything from mondstand to Inazuma was literally trash(plotwise). It only started to pick up on sumeru, and since then Every update has been pretty much better than the last

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Previous_Air_9030@reddit

Weird because I have the exact opposite experience. The first 3 nations were swell but felt a little dry in terms of personality and overall story, but Sumeru - especially with the sidequests - were really enjoyable. And Fontaine? The ocean exploration was so fun I'm sad we've never returned. Natlan and being able to play as different saurians was close, but not quite as fun. I will say its story and most of the characters were kinda dull, but meh, it's a game with like 5,000 hours of content I'm not gonna cry if there's a few misses here and there.

I disagree partially. I found Mondstadt’s story to be quite basic, which is understandable since it’s the first chapter, but I was still bored. Liyue and Inazuma were great, but imo Genshin peaked with Fontaine. Personally I found the story to be the best as well as exploration and side quests.

I stopped playing after Natlan though, we agree on that. Will probably start again when Capitano comes back

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Masuku68@reddit

Different take for me on Genshin and gacha games as a whole.

Genshin is great at the start of any update since there's a huge map to explore, stuff to find... But that's like 2 days. Then it devolves into doing your dailies, doing the event... Essentially a second work to get the crumbs they give you to roll characters. Gameplay itself in the end is essentially looping the same skills and ultimates and even the events often have a gameplay that's shallow at best but let's face it the goal isn't friction with the player. It's to make you feel good and give you the feeling that you achieved something so that you come back playing every day until the day you snap and start putting money in the game thinking "well I've played for free for so many hours, I can give the game some money". Realized recently I'm not "playing" these games to truly play them but to get paid with some free currency.

The thing with Minecraft is that there’s effectively no good progression system to keep you engaged with it. The game is almost designed to catapult you to near-endgame as quickly as possible, with everything added on top of that basically acting as prestige gimmicks. Enchanting is a ridiculous grindfest if you do it meta-properly and not very interesting if you do it as intended.

You make one wood pickaxe to make one stone pickaxe to get iron and then you’ve effectively skipped 3/4ths of the gear tiers like that. Copper is pointless because it’s no harder to get than iron. Basic enchantments on diamond makes netherrite irrelevant.

ProRomanianThief@reddit

Counter Strike. Fucking loved Global Offensive. Tried a bunch to get into 2 and I just can't. It's genuinely such a shit game.

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Aggressive-Egg-2710@reddit

FF7 REBIRTH