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 have over 50% of the achievements in Death Stranding (can’t find my play time on the stupid Epic site) and am a breath away from stopping altogether due to the control issues.
Trying to play this fucking game with a controller is an exercise in frustration. For some fucking reason, the game can’t handle using a controller without sending phantom inputs after a short time.
If I hadn’t gotten the game for free on the Epic store I’d be pissed for giving my money for broken shit.
I rage quit purely because the UI was giving me a headache. There’s a ton of reading and menus, and it was so poorly designed.
Tried playing it once through Game Pass, the text was way too small to be readable on my TV.
Have you tried playing it through Steam (as a non-Steam game) and using Steam Input?
That’s how I play it now. I tried through the Epic app and still have the same issues.
Still doesn’t work with Steam Input enabled? Maybe look through the community layouts?
I appreciate your effort, but I’ve been through all of that already. Forum posts across the internet and the best “solution” I can find is to not plug the controller in until the title screen… Which doesn’t always work.
There have been times where I could play without issue for 4 hours or more. There are also times that I load the game and am immediately punching at the air or getting in and out of a vehicle without pressing any buttons at all.
This isn’t an issue with the controller layout. This is specific to this game and how it registers controller input.
I haven’t experienced any bugs that I can recall, but I was disappointed with Death Stranding too.
I was so hyped up because I love the Metal Gear Solid games so when I heard that Kojima was creating a new IP and it was going to have a great cast of actors supporting it and it was based on a post apocalyptic world where ghosts are attacking people, I was vibrating with excitement.
Then I found out that it’s a walking simulator about delivering packages.
Ok, maybe it’s still good?
Well it’s all good and great in some ways and check off almost all of the boxes you would expect from a AAA game, except one. It’s just not fun or relaxing or challenging or interesting. I put it down halfway through and I can’t remember who/what/where/why, so now I have to start over or be lost.
It’s just so damn tedious and there’s no sense of satisfaction. Tedious is work and I get plenty of that at work.
You bring up another good point: post-apocalyptic mailman trying to rebuild America isn’t exactly captivating, especially at a time when America is taking actions to prove itself unworthy of being rebuilt, even if only in a fantasy setting.
Just keyboard and mouse it,
Not set up like that on my couch.
Besides, in 40 years of gaming, Death Stranding is the ONLY game I’ve ever had to deal with this in. Plenty of games with bad controls and horrendous responsiveness, but this is the only one that is so supremely fucked in this way.
Sounds like a bad PC port or something. That’s unfortunate.
Both games on PlayStation have zero issues with controller input.
Yeah fair cop, and tbh, I found the game overrated as all heck, so not missing to much there IMHO