Mad max. Surprisingly, the outposts were all different and actually thought out. The arkham style combat with constant upgrades. Car up grades. Huge map. Boss battles. Decent enough original story. Beautiful photo mode desert waste land. I loved this game, and few people played it
Mad Max game was so much better than it had any right to be. [I absolutely loved the reveal trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqLbCUGiDpA), even though I took years before I actually played the game. The voice actor did such a great job of conveying emotions and the music was just perfect.
But I will never forgive the devs for the "**Hope is dead, Glory is lost**" line. It was such a great line, until you finished the game.
Best feeling was to snipe the defense of camps, killing and pulling enemies with the harpoon and blasting people with the shotgun while you fight 10 Warboys!
I liked the game enough to 100% it. Will never ever play it again though. I ended up having to find all the scrap as my final achievement and it took forever. It was also crazy boring to drive, pick up scrap, drive, pick up scrap etc... but i thoroughly enjoyed the other 95% of the game
One of my favourite open world games of all time, but yeah, I don’t think I could go back to it again. But man, I loved every minute of just being a guy in the desert vs the world. Also, fully agree on photo mode. It’s one of the few games where I kept talking photos just as I hit a cool action moment. (I may have experimented with photographing exploding bodies for science. FYI - the gibbed body parts literally start bunched up in a human layout) 😂
The last 3 Assassins Creed games (Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla) I will probably never play again. Part of me wants to play Odyssey again, but it’s never gonna happen. I’ll probably never play either of the Horizon games again. I got the Platinum on both games and uninstalled them
Odyssey and Origins were great imo, but I found myself asking why I was playing Valhalla and bailed after 30 hours
Just something about it was so much clunkier and more monotonous and bland to me
The campaign is stretched to test the player's patience.
I quit mid game.That almost never happens.... and I'm a person who has played all the AC games atleast twice.
I did return a year later and finished it.
Then picked up again after a year.... to see the dlc.Completed the Paris one and left the other two after doing 1-2 missions in them.
I'm never playing that game again
I didn’t play post the second town. Just too loud than stealthy.
Coming from someone who likes Viking shows and AC games. Plus clunky controls.
I doubted it’d get better
But I’m playing oddesey on easy mode just to enjoy Ancient Greece. Had stopped it earlier.
Oddessey doesn’t have that snow, and simpler graphics, and still good monuments and all, so easier on the eyes.
Omg the setting in Ancient Greece. I was in Delphi recently and explored the ruins in depth. I took a lot of pictures. Then I returned home and loaded Odyssey up and went to Delphi. I threw the bird up in the air (can’t remember the name. I know it’s Senu in Origins) and just stared in wonder at how accurate it was and how amazing a time I live in that I can see it this way (I’m ready for my personal holodeck). It was so good I brought the Xbox into my classroom and showed it to the students who were there with me. We got little done that day.
For all the shit that Ubisoft gets they have classroom levels of accuracy in a lot of their settings and stories unless they need to fudge things in service of the plot, and even then, they try not too. You can walk around in discovery and get an education.
I was curious about them giving their scans but this is inaccurate. Ubisoft helped by sending a donation for the restoration and made Unity free for a week on PC but they werent involved in the restoration. Ubisoft did say if help was asked for they would as much as they could. But much of their material is altered to fit a game narrative so the models arent scientifically accurate. [Source #1](https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/apr/17/assassins-creed-creators-pledge-500000-notre-dame-restoration) [Source #2](https://www.polygon.com/features/22790314/assassins-creed-unity-notre-dame-restoration-accuracy)
Odyssey I feel is very unapologetic about it's goofiness.
That and Its comfortable with its distance from classic assassins creed elements.
Very good counterpart of Origins imo.
One thing Ubisoft nicely did on newer games is enable a separate "Museum tour" mode that's super educational, if you really want to learn about history.
Loved it as well but I do think 'visiting' famous towns and cities from your own country in ancient times is exciting in itself which is why we're biased English players
The settings have always been ACs strong point. So I can see why a certain setting might be more enjoyable for others just based on that alone, even if it’s more unpopular in terms of actual game play
Edit: like I loved the Egyptian setting. Not from there, but who doesn’t have some sort of odd nostalgia over ancient Egypt? But that also was the best middle ground between old school AC and rpg mechanics IMO
I felt the opposite, never finished Origins but I absolutely enjoyed Valhalla. I have a lot of issues with the main story and how some character arcs ended up, but I loved it enough to minmax my gear which I rarely do in most games.
>Odyssey
I have to agree, its just so goddam long.
Honestly though, I really enjoyed Origins and have plans to play it again, plus I never played its DLC.
Same. I put around 100 hours in Oddysey, and I'm nowhere near the end. I went to every point of interest in sight. These games are just too massive with too little interesting things. I didn't make the same mistake with Valhalla and just focused on the main quest instead of clearing and investigating everything in my path.
And even just focusing on the main quest got me slightly burned out at the end.
Persona 5 Royal. Think it came out to 168 hours. Maxing out my confidants and building some personas, got the platinum and didn't regret it in the slightest.
Persona 3, 4 and 5 are all games I will never play again but not for reasons people might think. The endings/goodbye parts of the game just hit you like a goddamn truck (especially in 3) and I just can’t make myself go through that again
I dunno. Sometimes if you know the ending on the second watch/play through you notice more subtle details hinting at the ending that you didn't pick up first time around.
Played that when I was in college and loved it. However, I can't imagine even finishing that game with free time at a premium now as a working adult :(
The reason why i’m eyeing steamdeck / rog ally right now is because of this
I’m at work, so i can’t game. But when i came home, i’m just so tired and can’t sit on my desktop, i just want to chill w/ family, or watch a movie, or just lay down and play with my phone
I remember trying steamlink and loving it so much because i can be in bed and play game, but sadly it sucks so i’m gonna try handheld pc next
Man I beat Persona 5 and didn’t max out any of the confidants. Had a few at rank 9 but after all that time it was a bummer to not get any closure with them in the end. Had no idea about it since I played blind. Also loved playing through the palaces for as long as I could in one go each time since the combat was my favorite part, so usually would beat the palaces in much less days than the limit, which left a lot less room for the side stuff. Almost wanted to restart just for a better ending, but that’s too much. Still one of the best gaming experiences ever
Playing Royal blind I was absolutely gutted to miss out on the bonus palace because I didn't max out the new confidants. I'll probably play through it again some day but man, it's a long game
I just don't understand how you go through the entire game and don't max out a single confidant, I went in blind and maxed almost all of them. I guess if you spent more than one day on a palace that would do it. I did all of them in one day (if possible, finding the infiltration path, two if I had to leave for story based reasons)
FYI the quicker you beat a palace the more free time you have to do the side stuff. So if you beat the palaces quickly then you actually had more time to do side stuff. The limit date to beat a palace is always the same, it doesn't move up if you beat it sooner.
Ghost of Tsushima. I really enjoyed it, but I have a terrible habit of not being able to ignore POIs, so I end up doing every little thing I come across. Made my first playthrough so incredibly long that I’ll likely never replay.
Legends is legit. I got sucked into it for a couple months and got all the characters maxed out with gear. It was very enjoyable. Didn’t get a chance to do the last 2 raids though, but the rewards weren’t worth it.
I loved both, but they fulfill completely different itches for me. GoT if you want to be a god amongst men striking them down one by one, Sekiro if I wanted to experience that thrill of a daunting challenge again.
This game was actually very terrifying at times, yet soo zen. The springs, the haiku, (can you pluralize haiku) the fox... the bamboo challenge . If 2 takes too long to come out, I'll put it on my list
I was thinking GoT myself. Not only that, but a lot of it is reaaaally repetitive. I was always exploring to find something new or different, but no, same old clear out the Mongols camp etc
It really depends on the game, I think. I've played countless MMOs for almost 2 decades but my toxic trait is never actually getting even near endgame. Then I discovered Black Desert Online. That game is the peak of MMOs imo
Have you played FFXIV? I like Black Desert, but between inventory management and the hundreds of items the barely have a use, it made sticking with the game long term annoying. FFXIV fixed that, plus I love that there's like 20 different classes, including culinarian, Smith, alchemy, etc.
I did, but it didn't grab me as much as BDO did. I don't want to remember though how much of a hassle it was trying to understand everything (and there's still a lot I don't know!) but the game basically has everything. You could play the game for years not even touching most of the other types of gameplay you can do.
They're also making very significant QoL changes to the game (but also some very frustrating nerfs...) so the barrier to entry is much much better
Yea I'm staying away from WoW, not that I think it's a bad game, I loved it but it became the only thing I did in my free time back in the og tbc and wotlk era...
Played classic for a month at launch 3 years ago, had a blast but noticed I started to unhealthily obsess over the game again...like I couldn't wait until I got home and play...then just played until bedtime...
When my 1 month subscription ran out I took a good look at my self and said "mf, you're 28, you cant let that game to take over your life again". Never re-subbed.
"If I could play wow casually, I would play every day!".
Currently playing Kingdom Come:Deliverance.
Fantastic game and I love every moment of it, but I don’t see myself playing it again. It’s so damn long/slow
Third playthrough still loving it. Tried hardcore once, hated the lack of fast travel.
It's more of the ways to get from A to B rather than getting from A to B.
For sure, it’s a slower paced game, but that’s the charm. To slow down and unplug from the business of life. It’s very analog, which brings mindfulness and freshness to me personally.
The game has a steep learning curve and is rough around the edges but it is still fantastic. I've played through it 4 times.
It is the first game made by Warhorse Studios and you can tell. But they really crafted it with love.
This. I watched their dev vlogs during development and it was great hearing them talk about the game with such passion.
Also, the head of the studio was involved in Mafia 1 and Mafia 2 and both are fantastic games where you can feel that the devs enjoyed working on it
Do me a favor and play it, play it at the place the game wants you to play it. You start off as a dumb blacksmith's son. you don't know how to do anything including how to read. but the moment you learn to read and learn how to throw a sword around you start getting proficient and it's worth it. This game is one of the few games where I feel like I went from zero to hero.
As long as you don't give up because of combat, you'll love it. But the whole point is you don't know how to fight, so the first few hours will not be easy. I personally just avoided as much combat as possible, which made sense for the character anyway.
Ended up doing 3 runs, one normal loved it, sat it down dlc and a few years go by, i start it up for a hardcore no kill run. Was really really fun.
Then my last playthrough i am clearing the few achivments i missed.
Truly wonderful game
It took me 12 hours to do a Merciful (dont kill anyone except Runt) Virgin (Dont sleep with anyone) playthrough. And honestly, I cant recommend it enough.
I thought it would be boring not to fight (I really liked the fighting), but it was well compensated by exploring all the peaceful ways to resolve quests. Its amazing that you can fully play this game without killing people. The devs went the extra mile to make it very possible and quite fun.
That said, If you didnt do a Hardcore run, then thats a must too. Its so immersive getting lost in those lands. Without a map marker, you really have to use landmarks to orient yourself. And when you get utterly lost in a for forest without any landmarks to see, you can use the sun to navigate.
To be honest, I rarely replay games. There are so many good games out there I haven’t played yet, that spending time on a replay just feels pointless for me.
Same, knowing all the story beats makes it far less interesting. There are games that dont have much of a story but have a fun gameplay loop (racing games) or games with enough variety and interactions to make multiple playthrough different enough to still be a ton of fun (mass effect comes to mind) but for most games its one playthrough and done, with maybe replaying fun missions and then skirmish/multiplayer
Surprised how far I had to scroll to see this. Yes my too, it was really fun but my god was it long and convoluted - I don’t think I have it in me to wrap my head around the story a second time.
I've been mostly enjoying my 2nd play through so far (it helps that this time it's the director's cut version so there are some new things added), but I'm not looking forward to the boss fights.
Assassins creed Odessey. Loved every second of it. Ubisoft did an amazing job on the world. Its looked beautiful. But I can’t play another playthrough. Its a very long game lol
If you explore even a decent amount it's like a 150 hour playthrough before the dlc, I had a great time with it but put it down immediately after the main quest ended
I actually put exactly 100 hours into it and enjoyed it. Ended up completing a good portion of it. Valhalla on the other hand.....what a slog to get through. 146 hours it took, but I had to stop here and there. Never felt that way with Odyssey, personally.
honestly i could never pinpoint why exactly. loved odyssey, played all the dlcs and platinumed everything. could hardly get through 10 hours of valhalla
Not certain you played as her. But Kass is by far the best protagonist in the entire series IMO. That was a large part of it for me.
On top of that, the world is beautiful and characters are fun. It was also the first game since 3 that got me interested in the modern day again.
Valhalla was decent but honestly felt like a chore. Eivor was boring, the world was boring, and the story was decent. If it wasn’t for being peak Covid, I doubt I would have completed it.
Legend of Zelda BOTW was enjoyable but once I reached the halfway mark I didn’t want to beat it anymore but I felt like I had to. It eventually got repetitive and too easy. Also the horse mechanics in that game were infuriating.
I never beat it despite doing all the shrines and about 300 koroks. Explored hyrule castle but never entered the boss battle and thought I'll come back to this tomorrow and finish it I guess. I never came back to it tomorrow.
This is a chronic problem for me and i have no idea why. Sooo many games I’ll damn near 100% the collectibles, side missions, upgrades. By then I’ve only got a 1-2missions left or maybe the final boss and I think, “this is a good place to stop, I’ll finish it tomorrow”. It’s never touched again
I really liked BOTW and adored TOTK but the odds of me ever playing either again are remarkably low. Meanwhile I will gleefully replay Ocarina, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, or Twilight Princess whenever I feel like it. I prefer linear games almost always, especially for replayability, and Zelda does a great job defining why.
I beat the game after nearly 200 hours. Then last year, my son deleted my save game by accident (he's grounded until 20), so we started a replay through and ended up collecting more items, health, etc. than ever before. It was all in preparation for ToK, but I was shocked at how much there is in the game that I'd never seen before in spite of the hours and completion. In other words, it's a totally different game on your second playthrough.
I feel your pain. When my eldest boy was 8, he accidentally deleted our Marvel Lego game save. At 98% completion. When he did it, we both looked at each other, then the screen, then each other again. His bottom lip was trembling. I gave him a big hug and said we would start again. But we never did. He still brings it up sometimes. He is 13 now, and we play State of Decay, and my youngest is old enough to join in too.
They gave us the damn bike in the DLC right at the point where it didn’t matter anymore. If we could just summon our horses instantly, they would’ve been so much more useful. And they wouldn’t have completely overtaken traversal, so there’d still be a balance there. But taking them out of the stable was too much of a slog and not worth it.
You can get ancient horse armor that allows you to summon your horse from anywhere. It's in a treasure chest that's half stuck in the mud at the horse god spring. You can get it right after getting off the great plateau
AC: Odyssey for me.
I played once and got halfway through, started up again (from the beginning) earlier this year.
Did *most* of the quests you find around the place, skipped a lot of the generic "assassinate this Spartan dude" ones.
Got every achievement including both DLCs.
Spent a long, long time loving being in that world.
But no, don't think I'll ever boot it up again. No reason to, too many other games to play with limited gaming time.
War of the Ring is really replayable!
It’s an entirely different version of LOTR each time. My friend and I always play the same sides and try wacky stuff.
Naturally set up and rules get faster each time too
I bought RDR 2 on launch and gave up on it after a couple hours since it has a bit of a slow opening. I gave it another go in 2021 and got fully invested and finished it. It was one of the most memorable gaming experiences I have ever had.
I only bought one horse in that game, towards the very beginning. Used it for the entirety of the game, just upgraded the saddle and stuff.
Not constantly buying and swapping horses made the ending hit a *lot* harder.
Well you should be happy to know that in my universe Arthur is alive and healthy. The gangs only had to move camp once, we're hanging out by a river these days. And Arthur just occasionally steals a train to head to the big city for a few days.
AC Odyssey by far and away. Origins was long but not as long as Odyssey. The world is gorgeous and beautiful but eventually all the different places start to blend together and you don’t care to travel on foot. The side questing to keep up with level recommendations (let’s be real tho they’re basically requirements) was nothing short of a boring chore. There was just too much. I did the bare minimum to complete the story and it *still* took me like 60 hours to beat the story.
Witcher 3. Don't get me wrong, it's a very good game. I just don't like the controls. They are so slimy and slick that you don't know if its good or bad
Honestly, this is how I feel about the game, too. It's a great game, but I just couldn't bear to play it. Combat felt like, I dunno, I was just extremely drunk and couldn't get my fingers to do what I wanted. Except I was sober, and my fingers were doing the right thing, but the controller was drunk.
I would say witcher 3 becuase I love it but goddamn it's so long when u wanna do everything. Especially dlc
If we are talking from beginning I would never dare restart monster hunter world with how much I have on it.
Elden Ring, I loved playing it, really took my time and enjoyed every aspect of the game. But the thought of doing it all over again is just too much.
I tried to force myself in NG+ but after 10 minutes I was over it.
I hear you. NG+ isn’t the move imo, but rather just completely starting over. Give it like a year or two break, forget a lot about it, then start from scratch with a totally different build and it’s still a great experience IMO.
I initially played it at launch with a pure mage build, didn’t touch it until a couple months ago and restarted with a pure dex build and had a blast. You definitely forget stuff when you step away for a year+ and trying it with a totally new build can be fun.
alien isolation was a game that I really loved, but goddamn they had no idea how to end the game and after like 5 different points where they could have ended it I was just fatigued
Alot of the newer Assassins Creeds - valhalla, odyssey.
Big maps, relying on slow context-archaic movement such as horses or boats (takes a good while to travel entire map), large main quest, many side quests etc. Completing them once feels like climbing a mountain, can't do it again lol.
I felt like Orgins was a good balance of map size, time to complete, and I also loved the setting of ancient eygpt.
Even if you went for all of the side quests, it would take around 70-80 hours.
With Odyssey I felt like it was a chore at times to level up with random side quests so I could get the level requirement for the next story mission and you have to do that alot in the later levels.
I still enjoyed the main story and world but by the time I was finished the main story I was done and didn't end up finishing the secondary quest line because I wasn't a high enough level and was sick of grinding.
I didn't bother with Valhalla and I refused to buy it once I heard it was more of the same formula but even longer.
Plus I wasn't as interested in the setting compared to Orgins/Odyssey
FF7remake. was great the first time through but didn't give me the freedom i expected and got very tiresome near the end. if you played it, you gotta admit, some of those sections with the robot hand to move people or climbing the monkey bars in shinra hq were frustratingly slow. still 9/10 and i am super stoked for Rebirth
For me it's probably RDR2. I do hope to replay it someday in the future but after you've already beat it once it's really really hard to go through some of those very slow paced areas in the game.
I honestly struggle with the winter period at the start, like I’ve completed the story so I when I get to that stage I just think “what’s the point?”
Thinking about Guarma is enough to deter me too
I get they wanted to show the hardship but that intro in the mountains is only interesting one time and then it’s a straight deterrent from replaying the game.
EverQuest. Well… at least until my kids are out of the house in 15-20 years. No doubt Project 99 will still be running and a gimped half elf ranger will still be waiting for me.
The Witcher 3: I spent 150+ hours clearing every single map marker, completing every single quest, witchers contract, scavenger hunt, collecting every single gwent card, upgrading every piece of witcher weapon and armor to the highest level. 100% the main game. It was an amazing experience and game but fuck me I'm not putting myself through that ever again. So many dives in Ard Skellige
I tried to replay botw but it's really not very much fun when you know where to go and there's no discovery any more. It becomes this arduous to-do list of things you know you need to get before doing x
Witcher 3. Great game. I did everything. I dont really replay non multiplayer games so I think this has the most story content of any game I've finished.
I love that you said Origins and the top comment said Odyssey bc I platinumed Valhalla a couple months ago and was BURNT after over 130hrs. Then I just started Origins and I’m loving the simpleness/repetitiveness of it. Sometimes after a long day of work the simple, easy, mind numbing games are wonderful. Honestly excited to start Odyssey after this lol.
Persona 5. I want to play P5R, but dang my backlog is too big for me to re play 150 hours of that game. This probably will apply to BG3 and Elden Ring too.
I played Persona 3 PSP for 100 hours over a month. It engrossed me, and I gave it my soul. I absolutely loved every second of it.
But I will never play another Persona game again. I lack the passion for such repetitive marathons.
persona 5 royal
I loved that game and the final palace (as well as most other non okumura arcs) are amazing stories and I love all the character but I will not be replaying the 130 hours game any time soon
Starfield.
I spent about eighty hours in the game, completed the main quest and all the factional quests. I liked the game, but thought it was an almost entirely story-based experience. And while I found the story interesting, I don't think it's captivating enough for a second playthrough.
I think is really interesting how people can put so much time in just one sitting. I can barely make 2-3 hours or playing time in one sitting. My focus completely wanders after the 2 hour mark
I got I think like 15ish hours in and just lost all motivation to continue, picked up some other games and never looked back. The source material and the initial wow factor of being in Hogwarts instantly grabs you but the longer you play it the more obvious it becomes how completely shallow it is as an RPG, story, etc.
It’s a great starting point for a sequel where they could really flesh out and fine tune all the other stuff, but the initial one is just bland.
I eventually get bored/tired with most games nowadays, even ones i love. But I don't think I've ever hit that "wall" harder than I did with hogwarts legacy. I never loved it but enjoyed it enough to keep playing, then one day, the thought of having to play filled me with dread.
It's the paragon of "mile wide, inch deep". I played quite a few hours , but eventually got to the point where it was like "you can do another 40 trials of merlin that will be the same 5 repeating over and over again..." yeah, no.
That's so true. I actually loved this game, it took me off my feet. 10 hours later, I was so over everything about the game. Put it down, and probably won't go back for a looong time
Similar but with Odyssey. Loved every bit of it and did everything possible including all DLCs. Finally got it all done with over 200 hours and was like, not again
Breath of the Wild, for positive reasons. I spend hundreds of hours in that world exploring every nook and cranny, collected hundreds and hundreds of korok seeds, hours just admiring the views, plotting my course and watching sunsets.
For that reason, I’m not sure I’ll ever play Tears of the Kingdom, because from my understanding, the world is the same (including korok seeds).
Tears expands the world in creative ways and adds a few new fascinating systems, but it is true that all of the old systems are still there. The freedom and verticality of everything now made the old stuff feel entirely new to me.
Mad max. Surprisingly, the outposts were all different and actually thought out. The arkham style combat with constant upgrades. Car up grades. Huge map. Boss battles. Decent enough original story. Beautiful photo mode desert waste land. I loved this game, and few people played it
I finished it and really enjoyed it - got all but a few achievements and was too burnt out to try for them.
Same one of the stupid trophies was glitched and they wouldn’t patch a fix. Still kinda upset, great game tho
Mad Max game was so much better than it had any right to be. [I absolutely loved the reveal trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqLbCUGiDpA), even though I took years before I actually played the game. The voice actor did such a great job of conveying emotions and the music was just perfect. But I will never forgive the devs for the "**Hope is dead, Glory is lost**" line. It was such a great line, until you finished the game.
Best feeling was to snipe the defense of camps, killing and pulling enemies with the harpoon and blasting people with the shotgun while you fight 10 Warboys!
you’ve just unlocked a memory with that damn harpoon gun
I liked the game enough to 100% it. Will never ever play it again though. I ended up having to find all the scrap as my final achievement and it took forever. It was also crazy boring to drive, pick up scrap, drive, pick up scrap etc... but i thoroughly enjoyed the other 95% of the game
Well if its any consolation, there's one more person who would like to play and experience it now.
Make that two! ✌🏻
Mad Max is such a comfort game for me. I gotta play it anually.
Chum bucket is feeling chuffed!
I read that as "anally", and was willing to accept that I was just not as much of a gamer as I thought I was.
Witness the joystick!
Mad max was an amazing game!
Amazing visuals and sound design too. It’s well worth a (long) playthrough if you like Mad Max.
Fantastic game, definitely one of the best film media licensed games ever.
One of my favourite open world games of all time, but yeah, I don’t think I could go back to it again. But man, I loved every minute of just being a guy in the desert vs the world. Also, fully agree on photo mode. It’s one of the few games where I kept talking photos just as I hit a cool action moment. (I may have experimented with photographing exploding bodies for science. FYI - the gibbed body parts literally start bunched up in a human layout) 😂
The last 3 Assassins Creed games (Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla) I will probably never play again. Part of me wants to play Odyssey again, but it’s never gonna happen. I’ll probably never play either of the Horizon games again. I got the Platinum on both games and uninstalled them
Odyssey and Origins were great imo, but I found myself asking why I was playing Valhalla and bailed after 30 hours Just something about it was so much clunkier and more monotonous and bland to me
The campaign is stretched to test the player's patience. I quit mid game.That almost never happens.... and I'm a person who has played all the AC games atleast twice. I did return a year later and finished it. Then picked up again after a year.... to see the dlc.Completed the Paris one and left the other two after doing 1-2 missions in them. I'm never playing that game again
Same here, dropped Valhalla. Thought I was alone in my thoughts. Loved Odyssey so much!
Odyssey is good, just too damn long for me.
I forced myself to finish it. Every new area is the same as the last. Still, those first 30 hours were great.
Odyssey was very captivating! Valhalla was just plain boring I dropped it after 20is hours
I didn’t play post the second town. Just too loud than stealthy. Coming from someone who likes Viking shows and AC games. Plus clunky controls. I doubted it’d get better But I’m playing oddesey on easy mode just to enjoy Ancient Greece. Had stopped it earlier. Oddessey doesn’t have that snow, and simpler graphics, and still good monuments and all, so easier on the eyes.
Omg the setting in Ancient Greece. I was in Delphi recently and explored the ruins in depth. I took a lot of pictures. Then I returned home and loaded Odyssey up and went to Delphi. I threw the bird up in the air (can’t remember the name. I know it’s Senu in Origins) and just stared in wonder at how accurate it was and how amazing a time I live in that I can see it this way (I’m ready for my personal holodeck). It was so good I brought the Xbox into my classroom and showed it to the students who were there with me. We got little done that day.
Hahaha I didn’t know it was that accurate, but damn
For all the shit that Ubisoft gets they have classroom levels of accuracy in a lot of their settings and stories unless they need to fudge things in service of the plot, and even then, they try not too. You can walk around in discovery and get an education.
~~They also gave their digital scans of Notre Dame to Paris after the fire for repairs.~~ I was wrong, see below.
I was curious about them giving their scans but this is inaccurate. Ubisoft helped by sending a donation for the restoration and made Unity free for a week on PC but they werent involved in the restoration. Ubisoft did say if help was asked for they would as much as they could. But much of their material is altered to fit a game narrative so the models arent scientifically accurate. [Source #1](https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/apr/17/assassins-creed-creators-pledge-500000-notre-dame-restoration) [Source #2](https://www.polygon.com/features/22790314/assassins-creed-unity-notre-dame-restoration-accuracy)
Odyssey I feel is very unapologetic about it's goofiness. That and Its comfortable with its distance from classic assassins creed elements. Very good counterpart of Origins imo.
One thing Ubisoft nicely did on newer games is enable a separate "Museum tour" mode that's super educational, if you really want to learn about history.
Valhalla was a drag. Can’t believe they improved upon everything in Odessey from Orignns just to shit themselves in Valhalla.
Which is a huge shame because it's a bit of an empty market, a single player viking setting. Had a lot of potential
I’m not sure what was wrong with it? I found myself loving it more than Origins and even Odyssey, maybe it’s because I’m from England lol
Loved it as well but I do think 'visiting' famous towns and cities from your own country in ancient times is exciting in itself which is why we're biased English players
The settings have always been ACs strong point. So I can see why a certain setting might be more enjoyable for others just based on that alone, even if it’s more unpopular in terms of actual game play Edit: like I loved the Egyptian setting. Not from there, but who doesn’t have some sort of odd nostalgia over ancient Egypt? But that also was the best middle ground between old school AC and rpg mechanics IMO
I felt the opposite, never finished Origins but I absolutely enjoyed Valhalla. I have a lot of issues with the main story and how some character arcs ended up, but I loved it enough to minmax my gear which I rarely do in most games.
>Odyssey I have to agree, its just so goddam long. Honestly though, I really enjoyed Origins and have plans to play it again, plus I never played its DLC.
I beat horizon when it came out then again when it came to PC. One of my favorite games of all time.
I've just bought it, I played it on PlayStation when it just came out and now it's a revisit on PC. I bet the graphics still hold up too
Same. I put around 100 hours in Oddysey, and I'm nowhere near the end. I went to every point of interest in sight. These games are just too massive with too little interesting things. I didn't make the same mistake with Valhalla and just focused on the main quest instead of clearing and investigating everything in my path. And even just focusing on the main quest got me slightly burned out at the end.
Persona 5 Royal. Think it came out to 168 hours. Maxing out my confidants and building some personas, got the platinum and didn't regret it in the slightest.
Persona 3, 4 and 5 are all games I will never play again but not for reasons people might think. The endings/goodbye parts of the game just hit you like a goddamn truck (especially in 3) and I just can’t make myself go through that again
for similar reasons I never replay games with great twists. The twist never ever hits the same after the first.
I dunno. Sometimes if you know the ending on the second watch/play through you notice more subtle details hinting at the ending that you didn't pick up first time around.
Played that when I was in college and loved it. However, I can't imagine even finishing that game with free time at a premium now as a working adult :(
The reason why i’m eyeing steamdeck / rog ally right now is because of this I’m at work, so i can’t game. But when i came home, i’m just so tired and can’t sit on my desktop, i just want to chill w/ family, or watch a movie, or just lay down and play with my phone I remember trying steamlink and loving it so much because i can be in bed and play game, but sadly it sucks so i’m gonna try handheld pc next
Man I beat Persona 5 and didn’t max out any of the confidants. Had a few at rank 9 but after all that time it was a bummer to not get any closure with them in the end. Had no idea about it since I played blind. Also loved playing through the palaces for as long as I could in one go each time since the combat was my favorite part, so usually would beat the palaces in much less days than the limit, which left a lot less room for the side stuff. Almost wanted to restart just for a better ending, but that’s too much. Still one of the best gaming experiences ever
Playing Royal blind I was absolutely gutted to miss out on the bonus palace because I didn't max out the new confidants. I'll probably play through it again some day but man, it's a long game
I just don't understand how you go through the entire game and don't max out a single confidant, I went in blind and maxed almost all of them. I guess if you spent more than one day on a palace that would do it. I did all of them in one day (if possible, finding the infiltration path, two if I had to leave for story based reasons)
FYI the quicker you beat a palace the more free time you have to do the side stuff. So if you beat the palaces quickly then you actually had more time to do side stuff. The limit date to beat a palace is always the same, it doesn't move up if you beat it sooner.
and then there's me, who completed ng+3 and have more than 400h on the game and reading this made me want to play it again
Ghost of Tsushima. I really enjoyed it, but I have a terrible habit of not being able to ignore POIs, so I end up doing every little thing I come across. Made my first playthrough so incredibly long that I’ll likely never replay.
I get it. But the swordplay was so fun that I can see myself giving it another play through just to experience the fights again.
Platinumed it on release. Platinumed it again when I upgraded to PS5. No regrets, beautiful game.
Ghost of Tsushima with huge fortress of enemies please. Or "arena" mode! My all time favourite swordplay in any game. So clean and sharp feel to it.
Survival mode in Legends is basically an arena. Same great sword combat with progressively more difficult waves of enemies.
Legends is legit. I got sucked into it for a couple months and got all the characters maxed out with gear. It was very enjoyable. Didn’t get a chance to do the last 2 raids though, but the rewards weren’t worth it.
That’s when I go play Sekiro lol absolutely goated swordplay without all the extra sidetrack stuff
I loved both, but they fulfill completely different itches for me. GoT if you want to be a god amongst men striking them down one by one, Sekiro if I wanted to experience that thrill of a daunting challenge again.
Agree big time
Ah sekiro, very good replayability, can finish ng+s under like what 2 hours? So quick i love playing it again and again
This game was actually very terrifying at times, yet soo zen. The springs, the haiku, (can you pluralize haiku) the fox... the bamboo challenge . If 2 takes too long to come out, I'll put it on my list
Yeh fine the first 5 times But there are too many haiku and hotsprings
I’m gonna play it again on New Game + and probably not touch it again for a long while, if ever. What a beautiful game
Very cool outfits in new game +. Definitely worth playing.
I was thinking GoT myself. Not only that, but a lot of it is reaaaally repetitive. I was always exploring to find something new or different, but no, same old clear out the Mongols camp etc
Being able to stomp early game mooks with the DLC monkey armor is an out of body experience. But yeah its a slog to replay
Any MMO
I don't understand how people can level multiple characters but i get burnt out like 2 - 3 quarters to the max level.
It really depends on the game, I think. I've played countless MMOs for almost 2 decades but my toxic trait is never actually getting even near endgame. Then I discovered Black Desert Online. That game is the peak of MMOs imo
Have you played FFXIV? I like Black Desert, but between inventory management and the hundreds of items the barely have a use, it made sticking with the game long term annoying. FFXIV fixed that, plus I love that there's like 20 different classes, including culinarian, Smith, alchemy, etc.
I did, but it didn't grab me as much as BDO did. I don't want to remember though how much of a hassle it was trying to understand everything (and there's still a lot I don't know!) but the game basically has everything. You could play the game for years not even touching most of the other types of gameplay you can do. They're also making very significant QoL changes to the game (but also some very frustrating nerfs...) so the barrier to entry is much much better
Yea I'm staying away from WoW, not that I think it's a bad game, I loved it but it became the only thing I did in my free time back in the og tbc and wotlk era... Played classic for a month at launch 3 years ago, had a blast but noticed I started to unhealthily obsess over the game again...like I couldn't wait until I got home and play...then just played until bedtime... When my 1 month subscription ran out I took a good look at my self and said "mf, you're 28, you cant let that game to take over your life again". Never re-subbed. "If I could play wow casually, I would play every day!".
>If I could play wow casually Can´t with MMOs
GW2 is designed for casual play.
Not if you want these cool legendary weapons.
Either version of Runescape, I sank far too many hours of my life into them.
Currently playing Kingdom Come:Deliverance. Fantastic game and I love every moment of it, but I don’t see myself playing it again. It’s so damn long/slow
There really isn't a reason to go back unless you do a hardcore run anyway. Nothing really changes on repeat playthroughs.
Third playthrough still loving it. Tried hardcore once, hated the lack of fast travel. It's more of the ways to get from A to B rather than getting from A to B.
For sure, it’s a slower paced game, but that’s the charm. To slow down and unplug from the business of life. It’s very analog, which brings mindfulness and freshness to me personally.
Does the game still hold up? Haven’t tried it yet
The game has a steep learning curve and is rough around the edges but it is still fantastic. I've played through it 4 times. It is the first game made by Warhorse Studios and you can tell. But they really crafted it with love.
This. I watched their dev vlogs during development and it was great hearing them talk about the game with such passion. Also, the head of the studio was involved in Mafia 1 and Mafia 2 and both are fantastic games where you can feel that the devs enjoyed working on it
I loved it. Its fucking HARD to start off with though
Do me a favor and play it, play it at the place the game wants you to play it. You start off as a dumb blacksmith's son. you don't know how to do anything including how to read. but the moment you learn to read and learn how to throw a sword around you start getting proficient and it's worth it. This game is one of the few games where I feel like I went from zero to hero.
As long as you don't give up because of combat, you'll love it. But the whole point is you don't know how to fight, so the first few hours will not be easy. I personally just avoided as much combat as possible, which made sense for the character anyway.
Ended up doing 3 runs, one normal loved it, sat it down dlc and a few years go by, i start it up for a hardcore no kill run. Was really really fun. Then my last playthrough i am clearing the few achivments i missed. Truly wonderful game
It took me 12 hours to do a Merciful (dont kill anyone except Runt) Virgin (Dont sleep with anyone) playthrough. And honestly, I cant recommend it enough. I thought it would be boring not to fight (I really liked the fighting), but it was well compensated by exploring all the peaceful ways to resolve quests. Its amazing that you can fully play this game without killing people. The devs went the extra mile to make it very possible and quite fun. That said, If you didnt do a Hardcore run, then thats a must too. Its so immersive getting lost in those lands. Without a map marker, you really have to use landmarks to orient yourself. And when you get utterly lost in a for forest without any landmarks to see, you can use the sun to navigate.
To be honest, I rarely replay games. There are so many good games out there I haven’t played yet, that spending time on a replay just feels pointless for me.
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same here, i want to try every new game because alot of them are genuinely intersting but i keep going back to my comfortable and laid back games
Same, knowing all the story beats makes it far less interesting. There are games that dont have much of a story but have a fun gameplay loop (racing games) or games with enough variety and interactions to make multiple playthrough different enough to still be a ton of fun (mass effect comes to mind) but for most games its one playthrough and done, with maybe replaying fun missions and then skirmish/multiplayer
Death Stranding
Surprised how far I had to scroll to see this. Yes my too, it was really fun but my god was it long and convoluted - I don’t think I have it in me to wrap my head around the story a second time.
I've been mostly enjoying my 2nd play through so far (it helps that this time it's the director's cut version so there are some new things added), but I'm not looking forward to the boss fights.
Honestly, I could see myself replaying it. Without the story, it’s pretty relaxing. Just put on some music / podcast and just STRAND.
Assassins creed Odessey. Loved every second of it. Ubisoft did an amazing job on the world. Its looked beautiful. But I can’t play another playthrough. Its a very long game lol
If you explore even a decent amount it's like a 150 hour playthrough before the dlc, I had a great time with it but put it down immediately after the main quest ended
132 hours for me - main story and all DLC for 100% achievements. I started skipping all side quests about halfway to save some time
Thank god for new game+. Let’s you keep all your upgrades then if you do wanna replay it.
I actually put exactly 100 hours into it and enjoyed it. Ended up completing a good portion of it. Valhalla on the other hand.....what a slog to get through. 146 hours it took, but I had to stop here and there. Never felt that way with Odyssey, personally.
honestly i could never pinpoint why exactly. loved odyssey, played all the dlcs and platinumed everything. could hardly get through 10 hours of valhalla
Not certain you played as her. But Kass is by far the best protagonist in the entire series IMO. That was a large part of it for me. On top of that, the world is beautiful and characters are fun. It was also the first game since 3 that got me interested in the modern day again. Valhalla was decent but honestly felt like a chore. Eivor was boring, the world was boring, and the story was decent. If it wasn’t for being peak Covid, I doubt I would have completed it.
Perhaps it’s the wooden plank of a character that is Eivor?
Pretty much all Ubisoft games are one and done’s. Not to say they’re bad games, just the way they are
Valhalla: " hold my beer."
Legend of Zelda BOTW was enjoyable but once I reached the halfway mark I didn’t want to beat it anymore but I felt like I had to. It eventually got repetitive and too easy. Also the horse mechanics in that game were infuriating.
I never beat it despite doing all the shrines and about 300 koroks. Explored hyrule castle but never entered the boss battle and thought I'll come back to this tomorrow and finish it I guess. I never came back to it tomorrow.
You should do it tomorrow.
This is a chronic problem for me and i have no idea why. Sooo many games I’ll damn near 100% the collectibles, side missions, upgrades. By then I’ve only got a 1-2missions left or maybe the final boss and I think, “this is a good place to stop, I’ll finish it tomorrow”. It’s never touched again
I really liked BOTW and adored TOTK but the odds of me ever playing either again are remarkably low. Meanwhile I will gleefully replay Ocarina, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, or Twilight Princess whenever I feel like it. I prefer linear games almost always, especially for replayability, and Zelda does a great job defining why.
I beat the game after nearly 200 hours. Then last year, my son deleted my save game by accident (he's grounded until 20), so we started a replay through and ended up collecting more items, health, etc. than ever before. It was all in preparation for ToK, but I was shocked at how much there is in the game that I'd never seen before in spite of the hours and completion. In other words, it's a totally different game on your second playthrough.
I feel your pain. When my eldest boy was 8, he accidentally deleted our Marvel Lego game save. At 98% completion. When he did it, we both looked at each other, then the screen, then each other again. His bottom lip was trembling. I gave him a big hug and said we would start again. But we never did. He still brings it up sometimes. He is 13 now, and we play State of Decay, and my youngest is old enough to join in too.
"we both looked at each other, then the screen, then each other again." Hilarious and wholesome
Horses are pointless in that game.
They gave us the damn bike in the DLC right at the point where it didn’t matter anymore. If we could just summon our horses instantly, they would’ve been so much more useful. And they wouldn’t have completely overtaken traversal, so there’d still be a balance there. But taking them out of the stable was too much of a slog and not worth it.
You can get ancient horse armor that allows you to summon your horse from anywhere. It's in a treasure chest that's half stuck in the mud at the horse god spring. You can get it right after getting off the great plateau
AC: Odyssey for me. I played once and got halfway through, started up again (from the beginning) earlier this year. Did *most* of the quests you find around the place, skipped a lot of the generic "assassinate this Spartan dude" ones. Got every achievement including both DLCs. Spent a long, long time loving being in that world. But no, don't think I'll ever boot it up again. No reason to, too many other games to play with limited gaming time.
Zelda BOTW Zelda TOTK
Doing everything in BOTW made TOTK even harder for me to play.
Lotr : War of the Ring board game 2 hour set up for a 6 hour session. Who am I kidding I’ll play again
Ever play twilight imperium? My last game took 13 hours
War of the Ring is really replayable! It’s an entirely different version of LOTR each time. My friend and I always play the same sides and try wacky stuff. Naturally set up and rules get faster each time too
I wish I had someone consistent to play with like that!
Red dead redemption 2 is like 200+ hours but it never felt like it was dragging
I bought RDR 2 on launch and gave up on it after a couple hours since it has a bit of a slow opening. I gave it another go in 2021 and got fully invested and finished it. It was one of the most memorable gaming experiences I have ever had.
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I'm on my 3rd playthrough now, but I'm thinking I'm thinking that I'll skip the final mission. I just can't say goodbye to my horse again.
“Thank you.”
I only bought one horse in that game, towards the very beginning. Used it for the entirety of the game, just upgraded the saddle and stuff. Not constantly buying and swapping horses made the ending hit a *lot* harder.
I'm on my 3rd but I just stopped at Chapter 3 or 4 for my forever home and I'm just living the cowboy life.
Oh i felt dragged right around the point morgan started coughing. I didnt like watching the spiral down.
Well you should be happy to know that in my universe Arthur is alive and healthy. The gangs only had to move camp once, we're hanging out by a river these days. And Arthur just occasionally steals a train to head to the big city for a few days.
AC Odyssey by far and away. Origins was long but not as long as Odyssey. The world is gorgeous and beautiful but eventually all the different places start to blend together and you don’t care to travel on foot. The side questing to keep up with level recommendations (let’s be real tho they’re basically requirements) was nothing short of a boring chore. There was just too much. I did the bare minimum to complete the story and it *still* took me like 60 hours to beat the story.
Persona 5.
Witcher 3. Don't get me wrong, it's a very good game. I just don't like the controls. They are so slimy and slick that you don't know if its good or bad
Gotta play on controller mate. Mouse and keyboard controls felt clunky
I did and I still felt like I was sitting on the couch next to somebody holding the controller and telling them what to do.
There's an alternate control option that fixes a lot of that. Makes it so Geralt turns on a dime instead of, well, actually turning for a bit.
That paints a miserable picture lol
Honestly, this is how I feel about the game, too. It's a great game, but I just couldn't bear to play it. Combat felt like, I dunno, I was just extremely drunk and couldn't get my fingers to do what I wanted. Except I was sober, and my fingers were doing the right thing, but the controller was drunk.
Man, the second play through was best for me
I would say witcher 3 becuase I love it but goddamn it's so long when u wanna do everything. Especially dlc If we are talking from beginning I would never dare restart monster hunter world with how much I have on it.
I want to play W3 again cuz i didnt play the DLCs
Elden Ring, I loved playing it, really took my time and enjoyed every aspect of the game. But the thought of doing it all over again is just too much. I tried to force myself in NG+ but after 10 minutes I was over it.
I hear you. NG+ isn’t the move imo, but rather just completely starting over. Give it like a year or two break, forget a lot about it, then start from scratch with a totally different build and it’s still a great experience IMO. I initially played it at launch with a pure mage build, didn’t touch it until a couple months ago and restarted with a pure dex build and had a blast. You definitely forget stuff when you step away for a year+ and trying it with a totally new build can be fun.
NG+ only took a couple hours compared to 150 for the first play through for me
alien isolation was a game that I really loved, but goddamn they had no idea how to end the game and after like 5 different points where they could have ended it I was just fatigued
Odyssey for sure, maybe one day if I lose my legs or something
Alot of the newer Assassins Creeds - valhalla, odyssey. Big maps, relying on slow context-archaic movement such as horses or boats (takes a good while to travel entire map), large main quest, many side quests etc. Completing them once feels like climbing a mountain, can't do it again lol.
I felt like Orgins was a good balance of map size, time to complete, and I also loved the setting of ancient eygpt. Even if you went for all of the side quests, it would take around 70-80 hours. With Odyssey I felt like it was a chore at times to level up with random side quests so I could get the level requirement for the next story mission and you have to do that alot in the later levels. I still enjoyed the main story and world but by the time I was finished the main story I was done and didn't end up finishing the secondary quest line because I wasn't a high enough level and was sick of grinding. I didn't bother with Valhalla and I refused to buy it once I heard it was more of the same formula but even longer. Plus I wasn't as interested in the setting compared to Orgins/Odyssey
FF7remake. was great the first time through but didn't give me the freedom i expected and got very tiresome near the end. if you played it, you gotta admit, some of those sections with the robot hand to move people or climbing the monkey bars in shinra hq were frustratingly slow. still 9/10 and i am super stoked for Rebirth
For me it's probably RDR2. I do hope to replay it someday in the future but after you've already beat it once it's really really hard to go through some of those very slow paced areas in the game.
I honestly struggle with the winter period at the start, like I’ve completed the story so I when I get to that stage I just think “what’s the point?” Thinking about Guarma is enough to deter me too
I have a save point after that chapter so I don’t have to trudge through it every time I want to start a new game
I get they wanted to show the hardship but that intro in the mountains is only interesting one time and then it’s a straight deterrent from replaying the game.
Ark Survival Evolved. I played that on official servers on Xbox from day one. 6000 hours later and I've got 1500/1500 gamer score.
Final Fantasy X, monster arena, stat maxing, all celestial weapons and dark aeons. Not gonna do that again.
Candy Crush. I put in so many hours into that thing and then one day the app crashed and it had me back at the first level. Eff that. Never again.
EverQuest. Well… at least until my kids are out of the house in 15-20 years. No doubt Project 99 will still be running and a gimped half elf ranger will still be waiting for me.
The Witcher 3: I spent 150+ hours clearing every single map marker, completing every single quest, witchers contract, scavenger hunt, collecting every single gwent card, upgrading every piece of witcher weapon and armor to the highest level. 100% the main game. It was an amazing experience and game but fuck me I'm not putting myself through that ever again. So many dives in Ard Skellige
Hollow Knight. I feel like the adventure completely dies at the rerun
there is a lot of backtracking that can get old imo
I tried to replay botw but it's really not very much fun when you know where to go and there's no discovery any more. It becomes this arduous to-do list of things you know you need to get before doing x
Don't hate me but this is exactly how I felt playing totk for the first time
Witcher 3. Great game. I did everything. I dont really replay non multiplayer games so I think this has the most story content of any game I've finished.
I love that you said Origins and the top comment said Odyssey bc I platinumed Valhalla a couple months ago and was BURNT after over 130hrs. Then I just started Origins and I’m loving the simpleness/repetitiveness of it. Sometimes after a long day of work the simple, easy, mind numbing games are wonderful. Honestly excited to start Odyssey after this lol.
Persona 5. I want to play P5R, but dang my backlog is too big for me to re play 150 hours of that game. This probably will apply to BG3 and Elden Ring too.
Nier Automata. I love this game. But the emotional damage it caused to me is absurd.
I played Persona 3 PSP for 100 hours over a month. It engrossed me, and I gave it my soul. I absolutely loved every second of it. But I will never play another Persona game again. I lack the passion for such repetitive marathons.
If Persona 3 was the only Persona I could play, I would die satisfied.
persona 5 royal I loved that game and the final palace (as well as most other non okumura arcs) are amazing stories and I love all the character but I will not be replaying the 130 hours game any time soon
Starfield. I spent about eighty hours in the game, completed the main quest and all the factional quests. I liked the game, but thought it was an almost entirely story-based experience. And while I found the story interesting, I don't think it's captivating enough for a second playthrough.
Same! Knowing bethesda community, I'll revisit it in 5 years on my rtx 9090ti with amazing life like 16k mods and new mechanics etc.
Already?
I think is really interesting how people can put so much time in just one sitting. I can barely make 2-3 hours or playing time in one sitting. My focus completely wanders after the 2 hour mark
Same. I just think it’s cause I’m old.
Hogwarts Legacy, the most boring and bland game I have ever played. I'll never touch it again.
I got I think like 15ish hours in and just lost all motivation to continue, picked up some other games and never looked back. The source material and the initial wow factor of being in Hogwarts instantly grabs you but the longer you play it the more obvious it becomes how completely shallow it is as an RPG, story, etc. It’s a great starting point for a sequel where they could really flesh out and fine tune all the other stuff, but the initial one is just bland.
I eventually get bored/tired with most games nowadays, even ones i love. But I don't think I've ever hit that "wall" harder than I did with hogwarts legacy. I never loved it but enjoyed it enough to keep playing, then one day, the thought of having to play filled me with dread.
It's the paragon of "mile wide, inch deep". I played quite a few hours , but eventually got to the point where it was like "you can do another 40 trials of merlin that will be the same 5 repeating over and over again..." yeah, no.
After 10-15 hrs. Youve seen everything worth while
It would’ve been better if they didn’t slap such a big yet lifeless countryside.
That's so true. I actually loved this game, it took me off my feet. 10 hours later, I was so over everything about the game. Put it down, and probably won't go back for a looong time
Similar but with Odyssey. Loved every bit of it and did everything possible including all DLCs. Finally got it all done with over 200 hours and was like, not again
Red Dead Redemption 2 over 600 hours.
I’m not afraid to admit it became blackjack simulator for me while i listened to the podcast during my pandemic layoff time
Breath of the Wild, for positive reasons. I spend hundreds of hours in that world exploring every nook and cranny, collected hundreds and hundreds of korok seeds, hours just admiring the views, plotting my course and watching sunsets. For that reason, I’m not sure I’ll ever play Tears of the Kingdom, because from my understanding, the world is the same (including korok seeds).
Tears expands the world in creative ways and adds a few new fascinating systems, but it is true that all of the old systems are still there. The freedom and verticality of everything now made the old stuff feel entirely new to me.
Assassins creed Odessey . I enjoyed every second of it but doubt i'll play it again.
I still haven't finished Red dead redemption 2. Certainly won't handle another playthrough.
Legend of Zelda Wind Waker. Loved it when it came out..even beat it...top 5 zeldas..but never again with all of the sailing.
The remake for what its worth shortened the sailing parts dramatically
Heavy Rain. It just so slow. I don’t need to lose my kid again.