/v/ - Video Games

God I wish that were me

Any sort of DRM

any german game and most european games

Every Mario game since 64. Sunshine, and especially Odyssey, have phenomenal movement mechanics, but were bogged down by shoehorned shitty gimmicks that detracted from the platforming in these platformers. Odyssey has other issues for certain but the focus on capturing, which simply serves to limit your moveset from being very varied and open to just one type of movement, detracted heavily from the game.

>>16578736

>Like a shitty fanbase surrounding the game

No matter how bad a fanbase is, it should have no bearing on your enjoyment of a singleplayer game. Multiplayer games aren't really my thing anymore, but none of those I'd been heavily involved with in the past were particularly bad.

>or the dev being a tranny

You specifically said that the game was good, which to me would have to mean that there wasn't any tranny shit in the game itself, so in that case I can't see how that would ruin the game for you. If the artist is capable of keeping their mental illness out of the product, surely you can separate the art from the artist. Pirate it and don't give them a cent, but to deprive yourself of an admittedly good game because some schizo worked on it is retarded.

>>16578955

I liked it. It was shorter than I wanted (pre-dlc) and the world/inhabitants weren't very interesting to me for some reason but I loved the platforming and crisp hd visuals,

>>16578955

It's just kind of an average game. Level design bloated with gimmicks and mediocre game play.

The dev being a tranny doesn't ruin a game. If a game is good, it's good. Finding out that the dev is subhuman doesn't make the game not good. A shitty fanbase only ruins games if the online community matters or if you give a shit about what people think about you playing the game.

On the actual topic, warm beer is an example of wasted potential. Something that could be good done right, but presented in a way that doesn't highlight the good aspects the way they should. Usually, it's games with perfect mechanics, control, and interesting possibilities that are never correctly utilized. Nintendo is the king of this problem:

* Zelda: Skyward Sword having good motion control that only services bland cookie-cutter Simon Says combat, beautiful LOD shaders making the distance look like an impressionist painting but only giving you clouds to look at at a distance, and an effectively unused stamina system.

* Super Mario 3D World having tight controls and mechanics and the potentially-interesting cat suit, but 95% of the game is trivial, and only one stage is really very good. The cat suit could be used for interesting climbing puzzles and difficult jump and dash sections, forcing you to maintain memory of the layout of the stage to properly dive in the right direction, but instead just ends up being an overpowered easy-mode powerup.

* Pretty much everything about Breath of the Wild. Big world with nothing to find, the great idea of shrines being a ton of mini-puzzles but end up not feeling like they're even part of the world, destructible weapons with no way of repairing them just becoming an annoyance, limited weather patterns making most areas just either one biome or normal/rain, giant dragons that occasionally roam the world but you can only minimally interact with them in a very specific way, an actual hard mode available from the beginning but turns everything into an endurance contest because the weakest enemies take 10 fucking minutes to kill from the beginning of the game.

* Super Mario Odyssey's capture gimmick in general. It was fun at first, and the worlds are actually great and fun to explore, but capturing becomes an annoying chore pretty quickly, and it becomes clear that most of the worlds would be better and more fun if they were just designed to be navigated by Mario normally.

If you want squandered potential and good games that should have been great, you can always count on Nintendo.

>>16579164

I'll argue that if BotW had potential, so did every other game ever made - within the confines of fantasy. To make BotW good would take the diversity hires that work on modern games at least a decade, probably 13 or 14 years. It's an open world game - they're all shit and empty and they all lack content. Yes, BotW had a great engine and the way the elements work together is great, but the amount of content needed to populate the world they have in it is enough to make at least two entirely new games.

>>16579261

>I'll argue that if BotW had potential, so did every other game ever made - within the confines of fantasy

I'd disagree. BotW had potential because it had a lot of good design, a large diverse world, and the controls were very solid. Not every game made has that.

>>16578955

>Promoting the decline of western civilization

>minor things

>>16578736

>Like a shitty fanbase surrounding the game

If this prevents you from enjoying a game/series, you are a retarded normalfag cow who requires the acceptance of his fellow cows. Return to reddit.

>>16578736

a good majority of games

>>16579164

>wasted potential

Much better way of putting it.

My nomination for that would have to be EYE. It tries very hard to present itself as Deus Ex, and superficially there's a lot of shared mechanics there. The kicker here is that it's not really Deus Ex, it's Serious Sam with some Deus Ex shoehorned into it. It's frustrating because the horde shooter elements are actually really good, with weapons that might be the most satisfying to date in a Source engine game. For me, the clumsy way the story is laid out combined with the interesting but ultimately half-baked mechanics just get in the way of the good shooting. I know anons will argue that the clunkiness adds to the charm, but I think if they had cut the fat and went full horde shooter, the end result would be a great game instead of a 'love it or hate it' game with a cult following.

>>16579384

The issue I can see with this is that sometimes someone wouldn't want to be associated with a shitty fanbase whenever they mention or promote a game. Like if someone said they love starfox but they don't want to be mistaken for a furry. Depending on how bad the fans are, you couldn't even bring it up without people having a shitfest.

>>16578955

The in-game graphics never appealed to me, it looks like one of those "Mario 64 HD Edition" remakes.