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?
1000% agree. My friends badgered me into WoW back during the Burning Crusade era. Gods that shit was boring AF. And beyond being boring to play it was even more boring to look at. I don’t require top graphics in a game. But the oversimplified flat colors and design of everything was just so damn boring. Like at one point (last night I played actually) I was in an area and it was just like looking at a series of flat gradients next to each other. A brown gradient next to a blue gradient that faded into a white gradient. Fucking snoozefest. And there was zero exploration in the game. Don’t understand why there were big open areas when you have no point in exploring off the established beeline path. Fuck WoW.
I’ve played other MMOs since then. Some are better than others. ESO was fun for a bit but mostly because I like TES and really wanted to see Black Marsh, once I finished that area it wasn’t as fun. And once they dropped the skyrim expansion I quit. I’m not going back to skyrim. Spent enough time with the main game. FF14 was fun till it wanted me to get into groups. Dungeons sucked because I wanted to watch the stories and explore the dungeon but the randos all bitch about it and are annoying. Not to mention them losing their shit if you don’t attack exactly as they want so their minmax order of operations is just so. Lost Ark was actually pretty enjoyable too until I caught up to the current content. Then it became grindy and boring. I don’t mind some grind. But MMO grind is usually untenable for me.
Sorry, bitched about MMOs more than I intended. I mostly only play them to be with friends. But every one of them ends in the same disappointment for me. Not to mention the weird ass fucks I seem to find. I try to be nice but that seems to pull in even weirder ones.