744ba3 No.14898152
Have you ever had your opinion of a game soured at the last second?
I got that "I sense the end is near I'm not stopping until I see the credits" itch playing Dragons Dogma. I beat Grigori at 3am, expecting that to be the end of the game. Then the postgame/true end section of the game starts and I was fucking pissed. I wanted to sleep so fucking bad at this point, I'd been playing for 15 hours straight and thought the game was wasting my time with this boss rush bullshit. But I stayed up another few hours and finished the game out of spite. Of course, 3 days later after I was well rested and had calmed down I picked it up again and beat it 3 times in a row and enjoyed each playthrough more than the last. But fuck me was that a torturous end to a first playthrough, I've never 180°'d on a game so hard before or since except for Dark Souls.
b5f232 No.14898255
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
yeah, the final boss of 40k: space marine was pretty fucking disappointing, genuinely enjoyed most of the game until that happened
I thought I was just in like some sort starter round with some really weird combat and that once we reached the ground we would be doing some actual fighting……………………….
and then it ended……………………………………………………and we get a cutscene teasing for a space marine 2
64f8c5 No.14898287
I played Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 and despite the bad reviews, I somewhat liked it. It wasn't great, but decent enough to satisfy my vampire autism. But the last boss battle along with the ending were the most rushed shitty unfinished and lamest ways to end a game. A shitty unsatisfying boss and a quick shitty ending that didn't explain anything. I hated that game ever since.
93e6b2 No.14898338
>>14898287
That game was pretty great right up until you leave the throne room.
7106bd No.14898339
>>14898152
Mass Effect 3 ending
fcb210 No.14898355
>But fuck me was that a torturous end to a first playthrough
Why?
70105b No.14898359
>>14898152
Why didn't you just stop when the game dumped you back at Cassardis? That was a pretty clear indicator that you still potentially had a lot of shit left to do, presuming you didn't somehow manage to collect a ton of wakeshards before the grigori fight.
744ba3 No.14898435
>>14898355
The game leads you on to believe the whole time that Grigori is the big final boss, the last thing you'll do before you see the credits roll. So when you're 40 to 80 hours in and you sense the end of the game then you get into a certain mindset and expect things to proceed along a certain timescale. I'm not a massive fan of the post game dungeon thing, the bosses inside it were cool but I preferred the main games "explore this huge reasonably detailed world" thing to the post games "explore these copypasted dungeons".
I'll admit half the problem was me not liking the direction the game took and the other half of the problem was me being fucking tired as fuck and on edge because of that. Those two reasons combined ruined the game for me the first time, subsequent playthroughs it was no problem and I even enjoyed it a lot of the time but that first experience was just a mixture of bad mindset, expectations subverted into something I didn't like and just me getting the itch to beat the game that day and the game went "nahhhhhhh fuck you". Which isn't the game's fault, it's just my experience with it.
744ba3 No.14898453
>>14898359
Like I said, spite.
I was tired and on edge and for the past 4 or 5 hours I'd had the mindset of "gonna beat this fucking thing RIGHT NOW". I could've stopped, slept and finished it the next day but right at that moment I wanted to just be done with it all. It's my own fault for expecting one thing, staying up all night to get it then being pissed when the game wasn't actually over yet.
0dc9cf No.14898471
The Magic Circle
>Start with an incredibly cool concept with several cool mechanics, limitless possibility
>Explore world
>Realize that the game didn't actually bother to USE any of these cool mechanics, so there's barely any puzzle solving, most problems can be brute-forced, and the slow-ass movement speed starts trying my patience
>Game ends with none of the characters getting a satisfying conclusion.
Still remains one of my most painful examples of wasted potential I've seen.
c519f4 No.14899307
>>14898339
>stuff is getting retarded but holding it together
>"surely everything will play out and we'll get this nice well explained turnout of events of all the characters"
>I mean, they do it in fire emblem
27e8a6 No.14899343
>>14898339
"Wh-who cares that the ending was bad, it was still a good game throughout before that!" - t. casual normans
c519f4 No.14899368
>>14899343
I can safely say I thought shit was super retarded, but held out a passive hope that somehow the ending wouldn't be shit.
8620d2 No.14899385
Got it when it came out. Thought it was cool at first, a little awkward with the changes to the mechanics. Then I got to the Cordon and the military had an instant death MG always locked on to you which hurt how I felt about it. Got through it eventually and the rest of the game was a fairly smooth ride until I got to the last few areas, after the red forest. I was immediately annoyed. I felt like I was playing Call of Duty, linear levels, no exploration, just shoot that guy, go there, get to the end and repeat. Then there was a fucking helicopter boss fight and finally the reactor. Absolutely awful levels and the game became irredeemably bad. Anyone who defends it has shit taste and is not worth acknowledging.
27e8a6 No.14899404
>>14899368
I've legitimately seen people say that shit, though one of them is the only person in my country to defend the Xbox One who's over 30 and spends his time online screeching at 15 year olds.
24a590 No.14899439
Skyrim
It holds the illusion of being good so well for the first 200 hours, but the second you realise how shallow the game is it all comes down like a house of cards.
5c2683 No.14899460
the post game irritated me because i couldn't fucking see anything. The magic eye picture filter and shrek shit green made me not even want to explore the overworld at all. I knew they changed a bunch of shit but there's no point if it gives me a migraine.
842068 No.14899580
>>14898152
Probably little witch academia: chambers of time, it was already fucking bad but that game crashed a new fucking wall of BAD.
Get this, it was A NIGGER the whole time and you have to play all the stages again, get all the dumb fucking chariot cards and every now and then you TELEPORTED BACK (which may be a good thing or not) to the fucking library, this is straight up PADDING when they pulled the kind of crap where you have to beat THE FINAL DUNGEON TWICE, BUT THREE TIMES + THE OTHER SIX MAIN DUNGEONS ALONG WITH FETCHING CARDS, THAT IS NOT OK. Then the final boss, i cheesed it like always because the game is too easy and the NIGGER HAD TO KEEP TALKING AND TALKING ABOUT HER SHIT BACKSTORY, THE VOICE ACTOR WAS SO SHIT, SHE WAS TALKING SO DAMN CLOSE TO THE FUCKING MIC AND THE QUAILTY IS POLAR OPPOSITE AND HURTS MY DAMN EARS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA , AND AFTER ALL THAT SUFFERING THROUGH MUD AND BLOOD, A CUTSCENE THAT IS BARELY ANIMATED, HOLY CRAP TRIGGER DID NOTHING AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAVE THIS
99078d No.14900796
>>14899460
It just made me depressed, which I guess is the point of it.
6957b1 No.14901015
>>14898152
Yakuza 6. Everything in the finale was absolute bullshit, and I hated the fact that all of Kiryu's efforts of nurturing Haruka, and keeping her away from the criminal life is completely thrown out of the window, and now she has a race mixed child with a triad leader's son.
>>14899580
>anime games made by bamco
You should of known better, but I completely understand your pain. Second pic related was disappointing. All the Joestars except for Jotaro got the short end of the stick, and Jonathan never got the chance of giving Dio the final blow.
b1525c No.14901048
Pretty much all the 6th gen pokemon games
>decent pre-e4
>fuck all post-e4
I didn't even bother to pirate anything from the 7th gen because the 6th gen was so bad
381b5e No.14901154
>>14898339
>>14899307
Is it just me who found the sense of scale completely fucked from pretty much the start? Didn't that strike any of you as shitty?
063183 No.14901156
>>14901015
I've only ever looked up random story clips and the DHAs, but I was extremely disappointed when they introduced Heaven Dio and Johnathan had no lines. There really should have been more fanservice like this.
feb702 No.14901295
>>14898152
A few games.
>Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Had fun playing a crime/heist game, but the stupid flashback dialogue every time you got downed was fucking stupid. Who cares, it's pretty fun, and sleek, and I love urban environments in games.
>the last mission starts in a columbian jungle
>the game turns into fucking call of duty
Trash.
>Grand Theft Auto V
The writing is pretty garbage, but still took my time playing through it. Did lots of fucking around and exploring, probably took me about two weeks to finish the story because of the fucking around in general, and the heists were pretty good.
>Devon Westin is the big bad
>Stretch, Haines and Wei Cheng need to be killed, all are killed in the same fucking mission with zero buildup
>then online happens
Trash.
>Secrets of Grindea
Bought into (((early access))) back in 2014 when this was announced. Fuck yeah, co-op. I bought it and let it sit in my library for about four years before I dove into it with a friend a couple weeks back.
Having loads of fun, enjoying playing arcade and through the story – suddenly we reach the end of the content after about ten hours.
>FOUR FUCKING YEARS
>ONLY TEN HOURS OF CONTENT
Trash.
f04df6 No.14901343
Psychonauts from the meat circus onward
VTMB from the part with werewolf onward
5cea07 No.14901461
>>14898152
Some games where the plot takes a nose dive at the end. It tends to kill my desire to play.
For example, Divinity: Original Sin II.
I never completed it.
07f7ef No.14901505
>>14901015
>>14901156
The worst part about EoH is that the custom, non canonical animations look so much better than the shoddy port they did of the ASB ones.
742f7a No.14901519
>>14898339
Six years later, I'm still fucking mad and haven't touched 1 or 2 ever since.
dc268d No.14902497
>>14901461
>For example, Divinity: Original Sin II.
First game definitely wasn't carried by the main plot and so far the second game isn't either. Combat is pretty good even if it lacks polish here and there with retarded shit happening. AoE boundaries not being completely accurate leading your to damage friendlies fucking sucks, and then you get stuff that you just can't understand, just earlier I battlestomped myself somehow with red prince, no fucking idea why, just battlestomped guy in front of me and both of us went down, nothing in combat logs indicating something else happening. Just play it with a friend and enjoy a tactical experience with constant fuckups of your own doing, that's what I do
b9c7a8 No.14902513
>that boat section in RE7
Jesus. It wasn't even all that hot up until then but that was Dead Aim tier at best.
4c4672 No.14902626
my first playthru of the main morrowind campaign got me pretty pissed. i was expecting dagoth ur to be this huge, challenging, epic fight. he was nearly impossible without destroying the heart, so i run up, equip the special shit, hit the heart of lorhkan a few times, it's destroyed.
then, i go back to fight dagoth ur in what i expect will still be the most challenging fight of the game, and the fucker just falls into the lava and dies. no fight whatsoever.
i wasn't aware that you had to position him a certain spot in order for him not to just fall and die.
kinda pissed me off. some of the fights in tribunal made up for it tho, challenge-wise.
0b9252 No.14902841
>>14901154
Nope, I actually think 3 is retarded as it gets. The whole n-muh Earth plot was forced as fuck. I think Bioware realized that they wrote themselves into a corner and just went with it. Either way its all gone to shit since 3. Not to mention that blatant fan service dlc. ME2 at least felt like a gritty space cop Game.
1630d2 No.14902896
Bravely Default did this to me the worst. I was enjoying it a bunch until the time/ dimension fuckery started. The first time I was fine with, the boss rush and extra content were appreciated, but it didn't end the second time, nor the third time, if you wanted the "true" ending you needed to awaken all the crystals about four times, which got really fucking exhausting, and ruined the game for me.
c519f4 No.14902906
>>14902862
>fighting thugs is pretty simple and it's fun to use your tools to take them out
>titan shit gets introduced and the thugs using it require much more planning and care if you don't wanna get your shit slapped
>oh shit, joker is gonna become a big brute
<he does three moves then goes and stands with his back to you, letting you knock him on his ass
<do this three times and you win
Fucking BANE was harder than that, and all you had to do with him was jump over him so he'd smack his face into the wall.
746e94 No.14902960
>>14899385
>Then I got to the Cordon and the military had an instant death MG always locked on to you which hurt how I felt about it.
Go back to the rookie village, LMAO.
There's a completely save passage to the north, of course you won't find it if you just blindly follow the mission markers and don't pay attention.
e53a6f No.14905403
The bit in FFXV where they force stealth on you with that shitty ring as your only weapon was abysmal. The chapter went on and on and on too.
ae05e8 No.14905419
>>14902906
>mfw when my older brother was playing this shit
>couldn't beat the boss
>asked me to do it
>don't know controls since I hadn't played this trash
>ask where is attack and dodge
>win
I'm mad.
c6e7d0 No.14905495
>>14898152
Undertale.
I was digging the whole bullet hell combat thing, but by the end it's really clear that it's trying to jerk you around emotionally. The whole thing is fucking disgusting because of this.
It sets up the main villain, gives him a sad backstory literally last minute, and refuses to let you save him despite it being well within your power at that point and that being the whole point of the story in the first place, being about forgiveness and mercy.
The whole game pulled it's story structure from Earthbound right down to the villain, but specifically changed parts of it to twist heartstrings very cheaply. Seeing the end of that game was part of the reason I woke up to what SJW culture was really about. It betrayed itself for a cheap twist.
There's better indie games out there.
b9c7a8 No.14905509
>>14905403
Pretty funny how we're at a point where forced stealth sections are met with unanimous scorn anymore.
128ed9 No.14905523
>>14905495
>it's really clear that it's trying to jerk you around emotionally
[spoiler]i don't wanna derail but this is why i abhor that game. all it does is rip at your heartstrings, and doesn't have anything meaningful beyond that. it's why the fanbase is fucking awful because if they would stop for a second to actually put their finger on this instead of refusing to reveal what the game is about (i.e. getting jerked around) they would realize that's all there is.
sage because blogpost[/spoiler]
c6e7d0 No.14905557
>>14905523
welcome to 8chan, asterisks=spoilers is the hint
I've honestly only had a sour opinion at the end of a game once, and only with undertale. I grew up with RPGs so when shit shat the bed at the end I'm tolerant, I expect that shit to happen at the end of most games. I don't like being manipulated, it's seriously the only game I honestly took issue with after i've played it. It's just fucking insidious, i've dealt with people who act like that game's story, it gives me the fucking chills.
128ed9 No.14905561
>>14905557
yeah i fucked up the newlines, i'm dum
09c133 No.14905598
>>14905495
Even for a game that only tries to jerk your heartstrings, LISA does a much more efficient job at making you actually cry.
966aa5 No.14905624
FUCK the ending of this pretentious ass game.
b9c7a8 No.14905630
>>14905624
Wasn't it something along the lines of "your dead wife is your sword" or something?
1dbcbd No.14905632
>>14905624
Enlighten me. I want to be proved right avoiding this shitheap like ebola.
55e581 No.14905649
>>14905523
>doesn't have anything meaningful beyond that
Such as?
6daeb4 No.14905661
>>14898152
Condemned: Criminal Origins. I liked it all the way through, but that final battle is fucking shit. It destroys the atmosphere of the game. I actually quit during the fight, and sold the game.
a3110e No.14905662
Axiom Verge for me. Was really digging literally everything about the game and then the final area + final boss are basically just testing how many health pickups you got. I'm down with difficulty but it went from fair challenge to Nintendo hard in 2 seconds and felt rushed and poorly out together. Axiom Verge is still a solid game, but I was more than a little put off.
ce29b8 No.14905667
>>14898152
>Have you ever had your opinion of a game soured at the last second?
JRPG endings in general.
>>14898339
That goes without saying.
6957b1 No.14905699
>>14905630
I think it's more of your dead husband is your sword, and the girl an heroes in the end.
966aa5 No.14905703
>>14905632
>>14905630
The game is actually fun but the entire time the sword talks to you and you fall in love with it and after you beat the game you find mr swords body and realize you'll never be able to physically bounce on his dick so you kill yourself and find him in the beyond realm, happily ever after. It's like the helios ending but instead of becoming techno jesus you get some dick you met 5 hours ago.
a4d6ac No.14905708
Honestly FEAR extraction point's ending is the dumbest thing that Ive gotten worked up about in a while. In the end, you save no one and change nothing. The fucking hind that has been buzzing around since the opening cut scene in the first game and shot down the other two blackhawks comes back and shoots down the third one as its about to pick you up. Using the same plot device to do the same thing three times in a row is just shitty writing along with the infuriating fact that you never actually fight the hind through both games. It just kinda shows up, drops off replicas and takes potshots at you while you run away. It makes no sense too seeing that the replicas shut down for a solid 12 hours or so between games. So that helicopter realistically would have ether crashed, or if it were on the ground, it should have been captured. Hell, that cobra that went around strafing police stations during that attempted coup in Turkey was shot down within the hour of it going rouge.
c6e7d0 No.14905736
>>14905598
Lisa used shit that was easy to relate to and didn't just stick to the story all the time, most of the game was black humor and it only hit you hard at the end because your character was forced by another character to OD on some really fucked up drugs as revenge, in Undertale you literally can walk into the first room and find the big bad in his natural form, cured of his whole flower bullshit and the game gives you no choice to drag his ass out, you instead are forced to leave him alone instead of dragging his ass out to face what he's done.
Literally half of the fan shit for this game is "what would happen if Asriel actually fucking faced reality and lived outside of the mountain" It's like a violation of common sense, nothing he did even matters because every horrible thing he's ever done before you came in, he literally erased from time. He fucking cries that he has no emotion and yet he gets his fucking original form back and tells you to fuck off.
All for some cheap heartstring pulling. It's an insult. It actually pissed me the fuck off.
09c133 No.14905753
>>14905736
I was talking at the end where brad mows down rando's army just to save his daughter. Not being able to save Asriel for the sake of some bullshit heart twist was notably bullshit, no reasoning as to why you can't just pull him the fuck out with the rest.
c6e7d0 No.14905762
>>14905753
To be fair it's established that Rando couldn't control his goons, and they were likely going to rape the shit out of her.
Even without the drugs you were going to fuck Rando up either way.
459a08 No.14905836
Arcanum, but for a different reason than most.
I enjoyed Arcanum until I had to go to that underground city near the end of the game (it's been a while, can't remember specifics). I ran into a major bug that made me unable to spend more than a few minutes there without the game crashing. It's optional, but I later found out that not going there locks you out of peacefully handling the final boss. That was a little upsetting for me as a speech-driven character.
Not that it mattered since the game would also crash midway through fighting him. I had to go look up the cutscenes on YouTube, and that really took away from the sense of completion. I'd like to go back and do things different (selfish gun-slinging dorf instead of easymode goody-two-shoes magic elf), but I'm afraid I'll run into another bug like those.
edfa95 No.14905849
Used to hate gaylo, now enjoy it for what it is. A relaxed couch shooter to play with friends or shitposting with /v/
71bd65 No.14905857
Yea the end of max payne 3 was fucking shit and essentially buried max payne for eternity and there will never be another game.
The ending scenes just reveal that max payne as a character is a shithouse(yes rockstar kills the character of max payne with jewish deconstructionism max payne is just an archetype and he's portrayed as a dinosaur and a usefull idiot only good for gunning people down)
Essentially everything bad in the game is actually your fault for existing and being good at shooting bad guys(this is from a characters standpoint)
The ending is milquetoast with max finding "inner peace" in some way and it fucked everything up. A max payne ending is supposed to be a cliffhanger or up to interpretation. Max payne 1 and 2 ended in bittersweet tragedy. When you deconstruct the game scene by scene the whole game represents max's funeral might as well be because you know they will never make another one of these games ever again. They should of just killed max if they were gonna bury him first.
Essentially max paynes 3 storyline is just telling you as the player that
"Straight white men with guns aren't cool anymore you are dinosaur faggots and we want you gone go die off in the sunset you fucks and you fans that like this shit well you are fucking stupid"
They pretty much did the exact same thing with john marston and in GTA5
Why does every modern rockstar game storyline a deconstruction of the protagonist? What is the fucking point. It's not subversive. You be subversive in storytelling by making people think that xyz is going to happen but then make it so the reader can't eventually possibly believe xyz will happen but it happens anyway. That is how you subvert expectations not just by deconstructing character tropes and breaking the 4th wall without breaking it and generally just doing random things that make no sense because it "Subverts the story"
b9c7a8 No.14905875
>>14905857
It's pretty obvious they're in bed with Hollywood and perhaps this kind of overly pessimistic writing is seen as a sign of submission to them.
1dbcbd No.14905887
>>14905703
I'm cringing so hard it feels like my skin is trying to give me a full body wedgie into my asshole.
714a3e No.14905934
This thing. I already went into this cautious since it was recommended to me by a friend who otherwise hates any sort of anime and was expecting it to be either a screamer or some meme prank, but surprise surprise, an attempt was made. Shit was pretty good up until the second act. The first act ended with sad pink killing herself. The next act goes full creepypasta with LE SPOOKY GLITCHES and 4TH WALL BREAKS OHNOES. Turns out pic related was trying to literally write the other sluts out of the game so that you could bone her exclusively. I didn't mind it so much until the last scenes of the game. She literally realizes at the last minute that "Hold on nigga this shit is stupid," and bitches out inches from the finish line. If this semen demon could write the other bitches out of existance, why not just write herself a fucking route, or railroad the player into ending up with her. Also I call bullshit on her not having a route. No person would see a quartet of qts in their literature club and not instantly gravitate towards the literal goddess with green eyes, the 2nd best set of udders in the game, and legs that go on forever. Fuck, the whole second half of the game felt like a fucking afterthought.
65014e No.14906130
>>14905934
>he stuck with it past the start of act 2
You have much greater resolve than I, anon
Albeit at the cost of having the worst taste in dokis
2c2cea No.14906246
>>14905703
I'm trying to figure out if you didn't actually play the game or if you were just too retarded to pay attention. Either way, the game was too easy because of unbalanced abilities and the story was pretty boring.
>>14905887
>cringing
Please go back to where you came from.
d6581f No.14906266
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>14905624
>>14905703
As much as I disliked Transistor, there is a bit more too it than that. The game's theme, such as it is, relates to how technology can make human life beautiful (all the functions/dead people you collect through the game had robust lives, and they will be remembered forever inside the sword) but is ultimately harmful (the Process /Camerata killed most of them, and the Process is constantly restructuring the city of Cloudbank, which leads to at least one person's death because the guy who coded it didn't build in a failsafe).
The implication about Red's dead boyfriend is that he was one of the few people in Cloudbank - maybe the only one - who wasn't part of the system. He didn't have his likes and dislikes catalogued, and the function he becomes is just a straightforward energy blast as opposed to the more useful/interesting/specialized powers of the other corpses.
From what little we see of him and from what we hear of him, the implication is that he's kind of a rebel who cares about Red, but doesn't really have life figured out. Rough around the edges with a good heart.
So Red, being the sassy romantic she is, decides she'd rather be with her boyfriend in the Transistor's projections than live dragging him and a hundred other people around the ruins of Cloudbank, which may very well be the last megacity either on Earth or for a huge distance in any direction (to the point "going to the country" is a euphemism for death in Cloudbank).
It's definitely a shock value ending, but it isn't completely without reason. The real problem is why someone like Red, who risked her life and persevered against impossible odds to kill the members of the Camerata would just give up at the end like that.
I'm listening to the few good tracks on the OST now, and god damn it makes me with Transistor had been better. The game and everything about it are so beautiful, but the actual act of playing it or trying to comprehend any specific details are frustrating in a way Bastion wasn't.
1201fa No.14911936
Satellite Reign.
I was fucking livid at the end. I mean, it sort makes sense in-game, but it's fucking shit.
You do all that infiltration shit to gather high-level gear so you can prepara for that balls busting final hard infiltration and take down the teleporting fuckwit (that actually requires some tactics, pretty good boss fight). Finnaly, the corrupt fuck is dead, your team is looking around, atop a skyscrapper, it's all finished and…
Sattelite falls, everyone dies.
I want to shoot the devs for pulling that shit on me.
28a9a1 No.14911954
>>14898152
> You started to hate a game because you are too retarded to sleep.
wew
99078d No.14912237
>>14911954
Frigg off kid
Are you seriously telling me your autism never gets the better of you?
1201fa No.14912323
>>14912237
I did something like that when Minecraft first appeared. Back in the alpha, first contact I had with the game were 2 non-stop days. Missed a bunch of classes too.
338bb9 No.14912399
>>14905495
I honestly liked Undertale when I first played it, before the fandom went full FNAF and then beyond, and I've had this pattern where the more I reflect upon it, having only played it twice years ago when it first released, that I dislike it more and more. If I was to sum it all up in a single word, that word would be "contrived." If two words, "derivative" would be in there too, because it's very obvious Toby Fox wanted to ape Earthbound's style as hard as he possibly could, but I feel like he only ever liked his own surface-level understanding of it.
Undertale's story, characters, and whole world exist solely to yank at your heart strings. The world is designed to make everything attack you but somehow keep all the child-murderers sympathetic enough for "friendship" because no one acknowledges just how fucked up it is. Everything is waved away as "magic." How does a child kill monsters with a wooden stick? Magic. How does food heal you? Magic. Why do monsters shoot bullets at you? Magic. Why does anything? Magic. This is all to hide the fact that the story and setting is built from the ground-up to deliver an extremely hamfisted and stupid moral message and satire of RPGs and video games in general–which is to be expected if you played Toby Fox's shitty Earthbound Halloween Hack which was also entirely about shoddily satirizing RPGs. The guy is pretentious as fuck and utterly transparent about how much of his work is just ripping off his favorite video game as hard (and as poorly and soullessly) as possible.
All while trying way too hard to be funny and quirky, I mean really in-your-face about it, like the game is grabbing you by the collar and screaming in your face "AM I FUNNY LIKE EARTHBOUND!? AM I?!?" also Flowey was absolutely wasted potential, fuck the game for not having more of him
>>14905736
>>14905753
You can't save Asriel because he's fucking dead and his soul is in a flower. The only reason he returned to being a goat was because of (wait for it) MAGIC that was going to wear off. He tells you to fuck off because he's doing that "you can't help me so just leave me alone" thing and the game is written to make him 100% correct in that regard. Because fuck you, it exists to floss with your heartstrings and nothing else.
f07aa9 No.14912415
>>14898339
>>14899307
>>14901519
>>14905667
ME3 was bad from very early on. Even with a great boss fight it would have been a terribly mediocre game.
It's guys like you that allowed the creation of ME;A
65ad54 No.14912431
>>14898339
>Mass Effect ending
<More like Mass Effect beginning
Dont act like that shit didnt give you a bad feeling about the horrors you about to witness.
0c0475 No.14912449
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I thought it was generally okay up until the ending where the game decided to frame burying the truth forever as "letting the public decide for themselves", and posting the confession where the antagonist explains to everyone everything that was going on is the "augs are irredeemably bad and should never be used" ending
It wasn't an amazing game, but I was still invested enough to be salty about that shit.
b1de0e No.14912476
>>14901015
Jonathan should've sacrificed himself by giving Heaven Dio a brohug and turning them both into menger sponges, since Heaven Dio's body is still technically Jonathan's according to the scar on his neck
Would've been a way better ending to EoH imo
338bb9 No.14912498
>>14912476
I was going to say The World Over Heaven would be too OP and would override that but then I remember that menger sponges IS how Jotaro defeated Dio and I realize you are absolutely right. It would have worked so well for the story to end, not with the power of a Stand or a Ripple or a Corpse Part, but with the power of the noble Joestar spirit.
d35d6f No.14912575
>>14912449
For me, it was the sudden realization that the whole aug thing just wasn't as interesting or involved as Deus Ex's social commentary.
Sure, transhumanism is really gay, but it's a much less interesting topic compared to the slow decline of government into tyranny in a world where mankind is so divorced from society that all they can do is sit and watch as people change the world from behind the scenes. I think the lack of real relevance the game had to the world as it is just made Human Revolution another cyberpunk action game instead of the cerebral experience the original was (before it got memed into oblivion by the Recut, at least).
650316 No.14912858
The Last of Us but in reverse. The little girl gets shot for no reason and you realize it's going to be another nihilistic dogshit "Humanity is the real monster." episode of post modernist zombie bullshit. I look at that game and look at NDs roots and it makes me so mad I could cry. Even Uncharted wasn't this depressing and bleak. Now it's all people can talk about is that bullshit game.
b9c7a8 No.14912874
>>14912858
Post modernism's one hell of a drug.
650316 No.14912897
>>14912874
I guess you could say TLOU was an ending where you suddenly hate an entire developer and then drop all of their games forever.
b9c7a8 No.14912910
>>14912897
Maybe the title refers to people with taste and a lingering sense of whimsy.
12282b No.14913853
>>14912449
Agreed.
I felt cheated when I saw that the end of the game was select one of three terminals to choose your ending.
Your choices/actions are irrelevant.
>>14912575
>transhumanism is really gay
Only if you're a literal sub-human that wants to be left behind.
c16053 No.14914541
>Credits
>SPECIAL THANKS TO ANITA SARKEESIAN AND ZOE QUINN
ff9b74 No.14914632
>>14914541
Fuck you dude, I wanted to try that one
199b78 No.14915419
>>14912399
In the same boat, but not the extent that I dislike the game. I really feel that the game peak early on in the ruins. Namely, the game sets up the idea that if you beat someone low enough, you can spare them, al la pokmon.
And then the game gut punches you by criting on toriel, the first arguable boss. Naturally, you'd reset and try again since she is a nice character. After the fight, flowey calls you on your bullshit. Once for thinking you could get away with it, and twice if you had killed someone else prior. The game goes downhill after this, never really exploring this interesting concept of your save files not meaning much.
6e0881 No.14915431
>>14914541
Well,time to remove that from my list i guess
b9c7a8 No.14915553
>>14914541
The color palette kinda gives it away.
a0a9c9 No.14915618
>>14914632
>>14915431
Or just pirate it and enjoy the good things about it without giving your shekels to any cancerous enablers.
6e0881 No.14915627
>>14915618
Now there's an idea.
a0a9c9 No.14915651
>>14915627
Its what i did atleast.
Theres nothing wrong with enjoying something like that if you dont support in any way the shitters.
200dce No.14915667
>>14915627
Get with the times anon.
6b72d6 No.14915670
>enjoyed uncharted 1-3, admit they're pretty casual but they were charming enough and had some cool scenes and didn't feel too blowhard save for maybe uncharted 2 final boss fight,
>play uncharted 4 and now retroactively hate the entire series because it was so fucking abysmal
b9c7a8 No.14915677
>>14915670
I like how they took the one singular thing I've heard literally anybody say positively about the series and then proceeded to shit on it relentlessly.
6e0881 No.14915704
6b72d6 No.14915706
it wasn't so much "the last second" but i started a second playthrough of persona 5 at some point and never bothered to finish it because i started to realize that even though at first i thought properly made dungeons were cool, they were all padded to absolute shit and a lot of the Slinks were inconsequential and really shoulda had the formula shaken up by now. It don't think the game is terrible now but I do think anyone worshiping it is fucking delusional.
6b72d6 No.14915719
>>14915677
>less enemy types
>one solid set piece and it's not half as good as anything from UC2
>puzzles/platforming that stand more for padding than letting you figure stuff out
>NO SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS
>CONSTANT FORCED WALKING
>HORRIFIC YOUNG DRAKE SECTIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN CUTSCENES
they wrote themselves into a corner with the black mercenary lady who'd name i already fucking forgot. Despite being a direct threat to you the whole game she gets to have a change of heart and wander off screen at the end and get off scott free. The fake-premise that drakes brother makes up to earn his trust would have been a better real plot for the game.
56e7f1 No.14915725
danganronpa v3 does this on purpose to the other games in the series
6b72d6 No.14915742
>>14915725
Fill me in, people tell me a lot about that game but I'll never be able to stomach playing it
b9c7a8 No.14915749
>>14915719
I was more talking about the general tone. One of the things people liked about the first three, or at least two I guess, is that they seemed to be rather self aware about what they were. They didn't exactly turn towards the camera and wink every 5 seconds like some people seem to think games need to do but it was better than being up its own ass.
6b72d6 No.14915754
>>14915749
I get you and agree, i just had to list off some more bullshit.
>uc4 literally has a fucking muted dialogue scene because WE WANNA BE MOVIES
i thought my tv was fucking broken
244748 No.14915795
Not that it's amazing or anything but I really don't know how they managed to mess up such a simple plot. Basically nothing gets solve and now have to wait on your Uncle to save you. I think whoever wrote the story fell asleep before the ending was complete.
56e7f1 No.14915823
>>14915742
Danganronpa v3 is pretty good, far better than the first Danganronpa in almost every aspect. The game is, as promised by the creators, set in a new world, as the lore was getting really messed up and weird as the series went on. The new world is a world where Danganronpa is just a multimedia franchise, like the real world. The old games did not happen, they are canonically just games. The mastermind cosplays as characters from the old games, and is a fan turned series director. Danganronpa is on its 53rd incarnation (V is the roman numeral 5). Sometime in the future Danganronpa turned into a 2016 Pokémon Go-tier phenomenon and the Team Danganronpa group created a super reality-tv killing game. When the remaining cast hears this they are completely filled with despair, and at first try to rebel with hope, but then decide it's better just to off themselves because the fans want a happy, satisfying ending, and if they get what they want the series will just continue. Because of that the characters create an ending for themselves that intentionally sucks. And yes, Spike-Chunsoft is currently working on a new entry in the series.
6b72d6 No.14915855
>>14915823
well that's certainly interesting but i can see why it would be frustrating
b9c7a8 No.14915864
>>14915823
>53rd incarnation (V is the roman numeral 5)
Christ.
a20f02 No.14916443
Superhot's an easy example that comes to mind.
>fuck you for playing our game what are you some kind of craven junkie
>ha ha you're playing all the challenge modes how dare you find the game fun you addict
>shill our game to your friends it's part of the "joke" (this is our ending btw)
The perfect convergence of blatant greed and hipster indie game self-hatred.
>>14905857
I thought it was more meta than that, that at the end he accepts his status as "shooter game protaganist", that he lives in a predetermined universe, that the death of his family was predestined to occur, and therefor he can finally accept their passing and free himself of that burden. Sort of a postmodernist play on older writing, where the main character must grapple with his unchangeable fate. They indirectly communicate this whole shift through the song in the air terminal, the change in Max's monologue from noir detective to action movie, and Max finally seeing the sun after it's been hidden the whole game. Still a bit of a wank, but it's certainly not the first time Max Payne's played with the fourth wall by a long shot.
6b72d6 No.14916489
>>14916443
>and Max finally seeing the sun after it's been hidden the whole game
there's quite a few levels during daylight, i mean you could still be right but i dunno about that one
a20f02 No.14916512
>>14916489
Feel free to prove me wrong on this, but I think it's always hidden behind buildings, or by stuff overhead, or it's just low enough in the sky you don't see it.
6b72d6 No.14916574
>>14916512
>Feel free to prove me wrong on this
I can't at least not off the top of my head and i can't boot up the game right now anywho. It makes sense though but I can't help but feel there musta been some point in the game with the sun in the skybox ya'know?
7a184f No.14916671
>have you ever had your opinion of a game soured at the last second
Yes, after playing through bioshock infinite the first time the ending was literally bullshit as it just copied the same theme from bioshock 1/2 just to end the game with a huge twist that makes sense, but is a bullshit cop out for a story. I enjoyed the game right until the ending and then hated that ending.
8eaba5 No.14916693
>>14898339
>ME3
>not 2
I got bad feelings when I found out there was nothing after the Collector hive and the entire game consisted of a gathering party members and two maps that look more like custom maps made by a kid in middle school.
>>14905934
>why not just write herself a fucking route, or railroad the player into ending up with her
That would require the writers to come up with something on their own instead of copying "le ebin scary japanese fourth wall" game.
bdbb37 No.14916881
>>14898471
>starring Ashley Burch
No wonder it was such a disappointment.
b33dbb No.14917353
>>14898152
>so retarded he hates a game because there's more content
Gee anon, have you tried killing yourself?
166637 No.14917409
>>14905849
>a bunch of chill guys with mature voices chatting overrided by an attention whore and a high-pitched lisping autist
epic
3cb405 No.14917471
Silent Storm is thoroughly amazing until the last 3 missions which are such total pieces of shit, I think I'd rather not play them at all the next time I get to them.
>we want the player to have complete freedom when deciding how to approach any mission in the game
>we also want him to be able to blast his way through just about any obstacle
>so let's make the final 3 missions be in complete opposition to this way of thinking, railroad him and ensure he can't destroy almost anything
I don't get it.
b33dbb No.14917650
>>14915823
I don't think the ending was really that horrible tbh. they managed to survive and escape the cell they got trapped in at least. It's been a while since I played so I don't remember much else. I think Kibo was the one who blew a giant hole into the dome with the power of suicide?
4c2e60 No.14917886
>>14915670
>>14915719
What's worse is how they fucking teases some kind of Pirates of the Caribbean shit. Would have been fun hunting down all of the pirate captains to get some key to the treasure instead of what they gave us.