To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.
Maybe you thinking in “well, you shouldn’t play the second first”. I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn’t get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.
I don’t like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.
That’s my experience in a few words.
What’s the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?
I’m a busy dad of two kids, so my play time is often fragmented and sporadic, so there is a definite theme to mine.
Red Dead Redemption 2. There is so much I really love about it, but there are just too many systems to deal with. Hygeine, hunger, fashion, random ambush attacks by too many enemies, stealth, tracking, etc. If it was a bit more streamlined I’d probably love it.
New Vegas. It’s the only Fallout I’ve played and I love it, up until inventory management takes more time than actually playing the game.
Skyrim. I really want to love this one as well, but has both the inventory management issues that New Vegas does, and the controls are just wonky.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance I really enjoyed it, up until I spent a precious uninterrupted hour and a half on a mission, only to die to something stupid just before the next save point. I know that it being Teh SupEr HaRdCorE is supposed to be part of the appeal, but I don’t have time for that shit.
I remember a mod someone made for New Vegas that made all your items render in a loose ball on your back. Really shows how silly it is.
I was never able to get mods to work with New Vegas as I run a Linux system, but maybe you could try an inventory mod to help you like the game. I think figuring out how to do that would be worth it, it’s a great game.
I use an inventory mod on Linux, it’s basically like the “store all junk” option in fo4, it doesn’t store all junk, but it takes a huge weight off.
You’d probably enjoy skytim more if you added some mods to help with the UI.
Bags of Holding for Skyrim are great mods
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These days when I play Bethesda games I always end up using console commands to expand inventory space. I’m so done with hyper-limited inventory systems and having to waste stat points to increase them.