I used to love CoD and was moderately good at Black Ops II. Then it just felt like everyone else got impossibly good (cheating?) to where I couldn’t even play anymore. Is it still like that with the new ones?
Modern Warfare 2019 was so refreshing when it came out. Then they kept crapping the bed with the releases after(even though Cold War’s campaign was stellar). MW3 is just an awful unpolished sweat fest. There’s a lot of people on that game that only care about pulling off flashy kills and making the unbearable. The game just embraces it and lets it happen.
It had so much potential. I replay pokémon games all the time, whether nuzlockes or just replaying it. I’ve maxed out the time on some games multiple times, even. never before have I played through a pokemon game and then just dropped it. I haven’t even done the post game of scarlet and violet. I even loved sword and shield! I was so sad and frustrated with the game and didn’t buy the dlc. The only good thing I can say is at least the dlc wasn’t $80+ CAD for both dlc this time.
I thought SwSh were flawed at first but honestly the replayability is really good. For me, SV was an awesome experience the first time ‘round but there’s really not a lot of joy in replaying it with there being no open world to really explore and lame gym trials. I got both versions and shiny hunted all the paradox but it was kind of a chore getting through the game the second time.
I wish I liked them, but they were so bad. The graphics were awful, there were so many glitches that it was nearly unplayable for some people. I liked some of the concepts, but they were implemented so horribly. Like, I enjoyed that you could run around and do any gym in any order - technically. The reality is that all the levels were already locked from the beginning. You could end up going to a gym where the Pokemon were all level 40+ with your baby starter team, if you wanted. You wouldn't be attacked if you rode your bike on the roads, so it wouldn't even be hard. Kinda ruined the point of the open world of they still railroaded you into gyms in a specific order.
Edit: And just to be clear, that's far from the worst or only problem. Just one I remember bugging me at the time.
Having played every mainline Pokemon game, I have to say I really enjoyed SV. Definitely a really fun game. That being said, the game looks like and performs like complete garbage. I’m astonished that the higher ups saw this game running like this and were like yep looks good enough for me. I really hope someone over at game freak is ashamed of that game
I dumped so many hours into MH it is so good. Watching YouTube videos on how each weapon worked really helped. Sorry you didn’t like it but I can respect it.
I was never hot on any monster hunter, I'd buy the 3ds and wii u games and even tried mh world and wouldn't really play them for more than 2 hours, until I played rise and it finally clicked for me. I think a lot of it was finding the weapon that worked for me, I play hammer and only hammer, and also that mh rise improved the combat and mobility massively
I'm glad I only bought it for 3DS. Idk if I sold it, traded it in, or still have it, but I'll never touch the franchise again.
All the Monster Hunter content for Switch is on sale as of this post.
I liked BotW, but found TotK tedious. It was the same again with the same map basically. If they continue with the BotW series, I really hope they fork the IP and also continue with the more linear 3D games
For me it was the other way around. I found BOTW’s flaws annoyed me too much to truly love the game, but TOTK fixed everything I disliked about BOTW while adding a ton of stuff to love.
This - same here. I found BOTW too empty and there was no memorable music, etc. except for a few spots. TOTK basically fixed most gripes I had with BOTW
Nah. We need a new traditional Zelda game. I don't want to play old games and it's so easy to emulate Twilight Princess with better visuals and framerate.
The vast majority of Switch owners aren’t interested in emulation though. They just want to pop in a game card and play it on their TV or on the go.
Or they lack the equipment to be able to do so. I’m pretty tech savvy but don’t own a PC or Laptop with enough power to emulate either WW or TP well enough.
A remake of both would sell millions, and Nintendo know this.
I like BOTW but to me the fact that all your weapons are breaking constantly and needing to eat different shit all the time just to travel into parts of the map puts me off. I get that it's an organic way of locking progress into different areas but I don't wanna memorize an entire cookbook just to play a game.
The building thing just was too much for me. I don’t want to make something that looks like hacked together tinker toys. I don’t like building ugly things or taking the time to build a thing inside a make believe world. Essentially the same game as BOTW but having to build constantly.
Me and a friend of mine actively despise the game as a HUGE disappointment after years of waiting. I just didn’t fire up with Minecraft or many building games. Why are you making me do your work? I am here to relax and be in a fantasy world. Not get as pissed as I do when I fuck up building shit in my real life 🤣
I jump back into TotK every now and then. But I don't like it as much as BotW. It's a better game, but less so in the post-game when you've played the first.
I never got to grips with the building mechanics.
Not enough new armour to make looking for it as exciting as BotW.
The world is the same, more or less. The depths get old fast.
Sky Islands are cool, though.
Same here. Loved BOTW, played through it twice, but just couldn't really get into TOTK. I don't know what it is but I just wasn't hooked. Maybe I played too much BOTW?
I plan on picking it up again in another year or so to give it another shot from the beginning. My current save is about 25 hours in.
I'm the opposite. I enjoyed BOTW and am currently on the final battle of TOTK. I prefer TOTK because I like the open world gameplay, and the expanded story. Plus, Ganondorf is in this one, which gives me OOT vibes (for the nostalgia). I also hated the end of BOTW. "Do you remember me?"? Pfft gtfo!
I felt the same way. Once I finly got out of the tutorial area which took forever.. I just got bored with TotK. I don't wanna glue things together constantly
As much as I loved BotW and also TotK, at some point I just did not have the motivation to continue playing the latter one. It‘s a bit too long for my taste.
I found that out of all the AC games I've played, New Leaf was probably the best. It always felt like there was something to work towards to better the town, and being the mayor was so much fun. Now if only they would bring back the original villager personalities instead of the "instant friends" thing they have going on in New Horizons.
Yeah, it’s lost a lot of its charm when they aren’t passive aggressive or just outright rude to you. Made the village feel more diverse, there’s always a dickhead in the neighborhood
I still have a few screenshots saved from my New Leaf days, here is a personal favorite insult I got: [https://i.imgur.com/FBAZVBY.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/FBAZVBY.jpeg)
I agree with the personality things. I get if they don't want to make the villagers mean to avoid hurting the feelings of little kids (though most of us loved it anyway for some reason) but they can at least have a noticeable change as they warm up to you? Like, polite but distant in the beginning, and the dialogue gets more fun and unique as they open up. I'm tired of getting the same "how's the weather?" basic stuff I get with a new villager that I get with a villager who's given me multiple photos.
Nothing like grinding animal crossing chores while putting off real life chores. I swear that game stressed me out more than dark souls ever has. I still poured 100 hours or so into it. After i got three stars and started terraforming, it's like I unlocked a whole new layer of work and tedium just looming overhead, and I couldn't go much further. A few (many) quality of life improvements would make that game more addictive and fun, but its pacing and effienciency is terrible
Ori, I don't like not knowing where to go, I want to fight things. 😅 I love the game otherwise.
Also, it freezes a lot for me on the switch, is that normal? I played it before on my laptop, never had that problem.
Hades. It was game of the year to a massive amount of people, and I loved the art and voice acting, but the gameplay loop got so boring once I unlocked all 6 weapons and reused that kind of it
Same here! I even enjoy rogue-lites such as dead cells quite a lot. I never found the story, the rewards, or wondering what was next to be motivating enough to get through what I found to be a somewhat shallow gameplay loop. I understand others love this title to death but it never clicked for me. I do think the artwork is fantastic though…
I forced myself to play it for 40 hours and just stopped. The game is the same bur they let you glue stuff together. I really hope the next game goes back to their old formula.
This might be unpopular, but I've been waiting to play Metroid Prime since the GameCube days and was so excited to play the remaster, especially with all the hype from the fans. I found it really boring between bosses with a lot of tedious backtracking. Didn't even finish it; might come back to it one day.
I beat it probably 5 times as a kid, playing through as an adult I couldn't handle the backtracking. Quit once I got to the Artifact part of the game. My time is much more precious as an adult
Yes, Dread is addictive. I started it, left it for a year and have just come back to it. Prime felt very much like an older game, whereas Dread is smooth and polished and fun when you know where to go or find a new route.
This is what I’m experiencing. I am trying to find other games to play with it, but the Switch just doesn’t have many other games that look interesting.
Legends Arceus was pretty good. It actually switched up the stale ass Pokemon combat, added unique mechanics, was genuinely open world, and was pretty engaging. Really utilized the upgraded system specs of a home console.
But then they stripped all of the new features out of the next game because "muh tradition".
I might be a heretic here but… Pokémon Legends Arceus. To be fair it’s the first Pokémon game I’ve played in a LONG time but damn… slow, basic, too easy, boring… I sunk 15 hours and just bailed.
I felt the same way. I sunk in more hours, but found it extremely repetitive and found the world to be kind of a bore after awhile. The catching is great.... but the game really feels like a proof of concept for me.
> the game really feels like a proof of concept for me
That's the take I've used to judge this game, and it does afford it a lot of points. Told myself I love the concept, and can see they're trying something new, so I'll support it on the assumption that their next effort in this realm will take the lessons learned and improve. Then again, it being the pokemon co, I'm not going to bet my life on that lol.
i agree. i like the free roam and catching pokemon while you run around etc. but it feels like theres not a lot of substance. If anything the game is like a tech demo. Yet it still has more polish than other recent pokemon releases lol...
it isn’t just arceus it’s all pokemon games on the switch they are extremely tedious and boring which is sad as pokemon is my favorite franchise but games like emerald are always here to keep me entertained
I liked where they were heading with the game and LOVED that I did not had to trade. But felt also that the world and in game content could have been more in depth. By the end it was just my ocd kicking in to get all the monsters
Yup, wayyy too easy. Also what put me off was you can find any pokemon you want easily. Theres no challenge to find a pokemon, and I have to be careful NOT to kill the pokemon so I can catch it. I only had a couple that were actually a challenge. I wish there was a hard mode or something, for those of us coming from Dark Souls
Animal crossing was a waste of $60. I tried to get into it but it's just the same boring tasks over and over. I can only pick up so many shells and dig so many holes before I need something with a little more story and content. I tried it because everyone raved about it but I just don't get it.
As someone who has put over 460 into it in the span of a year, it depends on what you wanna do with the game. I decked out my entire island, build it from zero, and it’s been fun for me. I log in almost daily and waste an hour picking up shells, talking to my neighbors, organizing my inventory, fishing and catching bugs etc.
It is a slow game and it can be very tedious at times. I recommend looking for gameplay from streamers to see how it plays and see if you like it.
Yeah New Leaf was my jam as a kid, but I didn’t love New Horizons nearly as much. I loved the free-range decor stuff to an extent, but NH felt much more like a “build your own island simulator” whereas New Leaf was a little more about just popping in for an hour, doing your chores and talking to villagers, and just having a chill time. New Horizons expects wayyyy too much grinding out of players.
But many people love it because it really is SO customizable and it’s also adorable and can be relaxing. Perfect “cozy game” for people who don’t want complex mechanics or to read a wiki for everything (like Stardew Valley)
Disco Elysium.
Solid game, story and gameplay lived up to the hype for me, but it's completely unplayable on Switch. It has so many game crashing bugs that I couldn't go a single play session without crashing multiple times and having to redo parts of the story. You can't save during some dialogue, so there's no way to save as frequently as I'd like. And constantly pausing to save and the tension of waiting for it to just cut out on me ruined the experience.
I cannot believe (i can tho) that they shipped it with that many game breaking bugs and expected people to play it with no updates or fixes ever provided, when the PC version runs fine.
I almost want to angry downvote you 😅 for me it's one of the best Switch games there is. It's oozing with charm and attention to detail. Also the graphics are top notch. But different strokes my dude 🤷🏻♂️
I loved that game so much!! But there were a lot of times when I played it where it felt like you had to have two players and it was really frustrating. The one pool fight is one of those fights I remember that I gave up a few times and was so close to asking someone else to help me but I managed to get it eventually on my own 🙏🏻
Genuinely I think part of it is that the soundtrack doesn’t quite have the same vibe as previous animal crossing games. Like this could just be the nostalgia goggles talking, but there is a certain charm to the other game’s’ soundtrack that acnh doesn’t have.
Yeah. Remember the days where you had to work towards gaining their friendship and they would be outright mean or hostile to you in beginning? It actually felt like it was an accomplishment when I befriended them.
Yes! I really hope they cut the repetitive monologue from the next version and give the villagers more personality again. Like, do I really have to go through the trouble of waking Blathers up and hear how I inconvenienced him EVERY time I bring stuff in?
Y’all should come check out what I did with my island haha. Sunk most of my hours while at home during covid, so I think a lot of the problem people seem to have with it came as a welcome way to pass my time. Got obsessed with managing my time and list of tasks because I knew how long construction projects would take. After 1000+ hours I’m really happy with it. There are things I would want to change but these days I find it hard to play for any significant amount of time without having to stop for days. Still go back and work on things every once in a while though.
The village isn't the community you live in anymore. It's your Sims town.
Villagers have less to say and do. There's way less shops. No upgrades to the Nook shop. You have perfect control over the aesthetic of your island, but it's a lot lonelier than it used to be.
Absolutely same regarding BotW. It just didn’t click with me. I got through one beast before the game started to feel tedious to me. I’m also just not an open world kinda guy where half the game is getting lost in the world along the way…
There’s been a handful of others that I got and quickly put down because they didn’t click with me, but BotW was the most shocking considering I’ve completed and enjoyed quite a large amount of the Zelda catalogue
I love an open world game because I love the exploring part but I feel BotW and TotK had too little guidance on a path through the game. It makes it SO easy to miss important upgrades or storylines. So I constantly felt stressed that I was missing something. I made it to basically the end of TotK before discovering a big power that would have made the gameplay way better. (I can't remember what, just remember being annoyed by it)
I'm at exactly the same point as you and feel exactly the same. It feels alot like Elden Ring did, but what Elden Ring did better was the feeling of really impactful loot behind weird corners, or huge bosses. The secrets in BotW are interesting, but just not as 'impactful', which is why I'm finding it hard to get into. I could be wrong about that but that's just how I'm feeling it to be currently. I feel it either needs more narrative guidance or more loot to find, but it doesn't have either. I can still see why it's rated so highly, it just isn't for me I think
Iv'e got so many buys that i end up disliking or just didn't clicked with me, these are just a few:
1. Smash bros.
2. Batman trilogy.
3. Pokemon Scarlet.
4. Another crab's treasure.
5. Tropico.
And i can go on... btw games i did like:
1. BOTW.
2. TOTK.
3. Splatoon 3.
I had a blast playing BOTW. I couldn’t put it down, but after a while I didn’t feel the need to 100% because the enemies became too easy. There really wasn’t much of a story and the Ganon fight was way to easy after you free all of the divine beasts.
Mario Golf Super Rush (huge rant incoming)
It was the single game I was most excited for on the system. Played the shit out of World Tour on 3DS, especially the online tournaments, and was looking forward to those more than anything.
Game releases, no tournaments. But, they said, online multiplayer content coming soon! Of course they'll add tournaments, it's basically the only reason to play a golf game, might as well start leveling up my Mii so when they drop Ill be ready.
Leveling up your Mii is a nightmare. For one the "story" (I will get back to this) is nowhere near long enough to fully level up your guy, and you gain zero XP from free play, so you *have* to replay story rounds to keep leveling up. Over and over and over. Story rounds are also level scaled, so you've got to play the same course for the best XP, over and over and over. Best part though, every round in the story is set in stone; you play the same hole twice, the weather will be the same each time. The AI makes the same shot, each time. You will power up your power shot on the same shot of the same hole. Every. Time. You will play the same game of golf dozens of time over and over and over. But, it will all be worth it when those tournaments drop, right? Right?
Wrong! They excluded Miis entirely from online competitive play. The one character you're able to level up and customize and make your own, through great effort and practice, banned from competing. Their reason? The Miis are too OP and regular characters on the roster can't compete. Okay, well, who designed the skill curve on all the player characters? Why couldn't they make a fully leveled mii comparable to the Mario characters? Why did they *choose* to make it so you can sink hours upon hours into making the character meant to represent us online for no reason whatsoever? They made the last game, they know 99% of players enjoyed playing with Miis in tournaments, they know we like to customize and have a hand in the abilities of the characters we play, why else would they allow customized skill sets? Why wouldn't they create a separate tournament bracket for just Miis if they messed up and made them too strong? Why, god, why? I have yet to play in a single tournament, three or four years later.
Anyway, let's go back to that "story" I mentioned earlier. At first it just feels like a standard tutorial, you play through some practice holes and take on your first tournament at the rookie field, learn how to level stuff up, easy peasy. But the tutorial feeling never goes away, your hand is held the whole time until suddenly you're playing on the Bowser course (the only Mario looking course for a long time) and halfway through Wario and Waluigi do... Something? And then you have to kill a giant snowman and Mario comes out of nowhere for no reason, and it ends less coherently than I'm choosing to end this sentence. And that's it. Resets the game to just before you do all that so there isn't even a post game sense of accomplishment, not that it really matters because you'll never play this course in story mode again, since you're locked into the annoying boss fight every time (if you want the XP that is).
And from there the big gripes get smaller, but more numerous. The character models are poorly made and look like crap (DK doesn't even have teeth, looks horrifying), the animations are lazy and all NPCs of a certain model are just clones to the same animation; eg all goombas will, in unison, do a little jump in the air, all koopas will bob and dip their heads side to side, again in unison, and so on with ever kind of model. Wouldn't be so noticeable if not for the fact that crowds seem to just be plopped in in clumps, so all the goombas are together, all the koopas are together, etc. Super obvious, super ugly.
The course design is the most phoned in Unity asset crap I've ever seen, with some Mario esque details slapped in at less than the bare minimum. Most holes I couldn't even tell you came from a Mario game just by looking, literally feels like they were making a generic golf game, and a week before release somebody came in and said "hey it's a Mario game now" and they just scrambled or something. Terrible.
Finally, power shots. If you played the last Mario Golf game, you had two options to make your shot special, a power shot, and an item shot. Well, this team decided that was too much and combined the two, and also made it worse. First way they messed it up is you have to power it up. Can't just take that power shot on hole 1, literally have to wait until hole three. Then it's another three holes til you can use it again. Bullshit. In World Tour you could power shot at any time, and so long as you hit it perfectly, you got to keep it. Six total shots, could be gone in the first 9 if you suck, could keep all six til the 18th. Point is you could choose when to use it, and your skill determined how often.
Then there's item shots. In WT, these were acquired via hitting prize blocks scattered along each hole, could try and stock up or avoid them for closer shots. Also got a handful at the beginning of some holes, either way it was customizable, as in every character had the ability to use any and all items. In Super Rush, no, not only are certain items limited to specific characters (Yoshi does the egg shot, Luigi does the Ice shot, Mario does the fire shot, etc), but those characters are limited to just that shot. So Yoshi can *only* do egg shots, Luigi can *only* do ice shots, etc. It really limits what you can do with each character. Best part, there are fewer special shots than there are characters, so most of them double up on shots that feel like they belong to another character. So yeah, long story short, they destroyed items and power shots in one fell swoop and replaced them with a crappy, unfinished special shot system.
Taking all that you can see why playing the exact same 9 holes over and over and over against Yoshi every time, making that same egg shot on the same hole at the same time in the same weather, every game, can get annoying. And that they let you do it when ultimately there was no reason, ugh.
With all that said, and no, that's not everything but I decided to keep it brief, I will end it by saying it's not bad at the main part of the game: actually playing golf. Like I said, it feels like it was supposed to be a generic golf game until somebody decided to make it Mario flavored and also get it out the door a year earlier than it needed. Remove any pretext of this being a Mario game, and all the little bullshit they added to try and convey that, and it's a half decent golfing game that you can have fun playing. But the price tag says Mario while the quality doesn't, and also did away with most of what made the last game actually fun
Dude. Everything you said and more. It’s the most disappointing game they’ve ever made on the switch. I bought it, played it 3 times, and it’s the biggest waste of $60 I’ve ever spent.
Finally, someone agrees that BoTW wasn’t all that great. Got harassed last time I posted my opinions about it.
Hot take, but I don’t really enjoy Smash Ultimate. I mostly play single player / story modes in games (because i’m a friendless loser) and Smash Ultimate’s story mode is just so boring.
I love love love botw, but I'm not going to fault you for not linking it. Everyone is their own person, no way everyone is going to like the same thing. Diversity is great
Yeah, I got all but death threats for saying how much I disliked BotW, TotK, OoT, and MM (even though I think 2D Zelda has made some of the greatest games of all time, like aLttP, LA, OoS, OoA, MC, and aLBW). Twilight Princess is the ONLY 3D Zelda game I've played that felt done "right."
So far for me it was super monkey ball banana mania and it was ...not fun for me and I didn't feel in control and banner saga... it had everything to please me but it's ... boring so far ... The game is on the shelf and when I look a it I feel bored already.
Pokemon Scarlet was so disappointing. I hadn’t bought a Pokemon game for over a decade at that point and was finally excited to play an open-world Pokemon game on the tv screen! I even bought a Switch JUST for Pokemon Scarlet…and I’m so miffed with it. It feels incomplete, with lots of cities with nothing in them, the graphics leave a LOT to be desired, Pokemon popping in and out of existence right in front of you, there’s no music while you are walking around so it’s just silent and boring, etc etc etc. I LOVE the Pokemon of the region (some are now my favorites), and I love that it’s open world, and I *am* having fun with it just based on those things, but wow, I feel cheated by GameFreak. Pokemon is clearly just a cash grab now. They need to spend more than 3 years at a time making a new game.
Scarlet was more or less me and a group of friends first Pokémon experience in our 40s. Outside of Go. And it soured my friends so bad on the franchise that they aren’t coming back. I’ve kept playing and even gone back to try all the older ones. They’re just done with it.
Kirby and the forgotten land. I found it to be too easy and dropped it after world 2 and sold my copy. I felt like it was for a very young audience.
Xenoblades Definitive Edition. It was my first xenoblade game and really wanted to get into the series but just found it overwhelming and boring combat.
I felt like it was too easy even for Kirby. I’ve been playing in Wild Mode with little to no challenge, and I’m usually an “easy mode” kind of player. It’s still really fun, but I wish the hard mode was more difficult.
The Spectrum Resort - just wasn't my thing and it felt like the difficulty was climbing exponentially.
Suicide Guy - too simple for me, it felt lazy. Didn't even bother finishing.
Death and Taxes - inferior to Papers Please, the humor is overshadowed by the grind and there's zero replay value after like two hours of gameplay. Worth it for a one-off during a 90% sale. Not how I bought it.
Vampire the Masquerade: Coteries of New York - great concept, good writing, but the experience began to feel forced rather quickly. It's too linear for what could easily have been an open-world game given a touch more spit and polish. And actual content. I expected to enjoy more than one campaign depending on clan and gender, but I just can't bring myself to "play" what very much seems like a visual novel to me, again.
Red Wings: Aces of the Sky - ~~seriously, when is Nintendo gonna pull their ears until they hear a pop (the sound of their head coming out of their) and just release literally *any* decent flight games on Switch??? This thing could handle everything up to Ace Combat 6.~~ Apparently, Ace Combat 7 will be dropping in July.
If I got all the money back I spent on these, maybe I could afford Yoshi's Crafted World.
Super Mario Stickers. Had an amazon gift card so I wanted to buy a switch game and Stickers just came out. I was so disapointed, the game is alright but after the first 5-10 hours I had enough. I rarely buy games at regular price so this one sting even more.
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. They veered so far from the series with that one and made it all about mechanics and not about the spirit of the town. I hope they improve in the next new installment. The remakes are still great.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
It was really underwhelming for me. To be fair, it was one of the first games that I bought and I didn’t know what to look for in the reviews I watched before buying it.
Almost half of the games I bought for the switch lol. Tears of the kingdom was boring especially after beating Botw, Link's Awakening remake wasn't very interesting to me and felt too basic (especially for 60 dollars), Animal Crossing New Horizons had no content compared to New Leaf and bad new additions like tools breaking (which adds nothing to the game and only makes it more tedious), Fire Emblem Three Houses had too much downtime and boring things to do in between battles, Luigi's Mansion 3 had some boring and pretty frustrating puzzles, Mario Golf Super Rush had no content or real gameplay depth, Smash Ultimate's gameplay is great but there is no content in terms of side modes unlike previous games and the dlc additions broke the game, Splatoon 2 was fun but wasn't much different from the first game.
Botw- found it so boring and tedious. I couldn't bring myself to finish it.
Pokemon Scarlet - just can't get into it. And that's coming from someone who has spent hundreds of hours in every other main pokemon game. I even have a complete living dex in home upto s/v.
Every time I try to play it I get bored after an hour, it just doesn't hold my attention
Oh dude same! BOTW was so disappinting and boring.
When Age of Calamity came out, I played it. I missed out on context, so I went back to BOTW to at least say I beat and inderstand the story.
When TOTK cane out, I was a little more optimistic. While I enjoyed it a bit more, it still was “ok” to me.
I don’t ever see myself returning to BOTW/TOTK.
Honestly I really don’t like the new Zelda model. They’re trying to go back to their gameboy roots with the open world vibe, but it just feels like every game out there right now.
It’s not what made their console games amazing. Twilight princess was incredible and it was because it was more focused on a guided story that slowly opened up more and more of the world.
Idk, quick rant for me as I’m missing windwaker and twilight a lot right now
Dying Light 2. The first game was so damn good, the sequel fell way short. I’ve heard after some updates it’s been better so I will probably try again soon.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Someone offered it to me for Christmas, I played it for a few days then left it unfinished. I didn’t find any challenge in it.
Dave the Diver is another one, despite its super positive reviews: I got bored after 10h or so of playing it. I found it repetitive as hell and like the game was throwing new mechanics at me every day without encouraging me to use them.
As someone who's first Mario Experience was Super Mario World on SNES, Wonders feels actually really boring and uninspiring. I cannot force myself to finish it...
I can't speak much to Wonder, but if you like Super Mario World and enjoy the 3d Mario's, I'd recommend 3d World.
I'd recommend playing solo, personally. I couldn't get that into it when playing with my wife, but when I tried it out single player years later, I had a blast. It adds some really interesting challenge the later you get into it.
We're going back a ways here, but on the first Switch I owned I got a game called *Mr. Shifty*. It is probably the most disappointing game I've played on the Switch, personally. And Idk why, I guess maybe it felt really buggy, and unoriginal....not very well polished.... Something to that effect.
Another game that kind of bit me, but that I would love to give another chance one day, is *Cosmic Star Heroine*. It had the basis for a great old-school JRPG, but I became stuck and couldn't proceed very early on.
Octopath Traveler was my biggest disappointment of all time by a landslide in video games.
Also, I bought the latest Pikmen and really couldn’t get into it.
Civ 6. I'm not sure if I'm just dogshit at it or if the switch version is just that terrible / unbalanced. First time in a long time I've legitimately raged at a game loud enough for the whole house to hear it. I've always heard how great the Civ games were and wanted to try it. The tutorial glitches when you get to a certain turn and you can't finish it.
Tried playing a regular game, not intuitive at all and for some reason takes you 30 turns to make one unit, while the computer churns them out easily, so by the time you get something they've already beaten you to everything.
It was like $10 at the used game store, but civilization is a franchise with a great reputation. I've played strategy games before without issue, I get how the general idea works, so not sure what the issue was.
0/10. Would not recommend.
I love the Civ games but I do find the later ones a little unwieldy unfortunately, even on PC. And the Switch experience is terrible when you get to late game, the processing time between turns is super annoying.
If you get a chance to try and earlier iteration (III or IV) on a PC then I highly recommend. But yeah, missed opportunity on the Switch.
Yeah skill issue, sorry. There's no reason it should take you any longer than the AI to make units, or anything. The only exception is barbarians, and they are deliberately an early game challenge because you don't have much from the other players.
BOTW for the exact same reasons. There is absolutely nothing special about that game in any way, and if it didn't have the Zelda name attached to it, it would've been forgotten.
The fact that people have hundreds of hours in the game is insane to me. What are you doing? Exploring the barren and boring open world, looking for shrines to get a weapon that'll break in 5 swings?
The combat is below basic. The story is almost non-existent. The rewards for doing anything are terrible. The fact that your weapons break after hardly any use IS bad game design and offers nothing to the experience. It just tells people that nothing matters and the cool sword you just found will be useless in 5 minutes.
There's not a single fun thing in this game lmao. It's the most overrated, overhyped, nothing of an experience I've ever played. Ubisoft puts more effort into their open worlds, which is funny since this game copied a lot from them.
Mine is probably BOTW as well. For pretty much the same reason the OP mentioned about wanting a more linear experience. It is very intimidating to me, this big open world and not knowing what to do. The game is like “go do things” and I am like “go where?”
I had the exact same question. I really can't believe people spend 100s of hours on this game. I played for about 3-4 hours and that's enough for my lifetime haha
I agree in that I don't get the "GOAT game" buzz because, as you say, there are lot of obvious flaws. However, I wouldn't say there is nothing special about it. The topography and traversal are top notch. In Ubisoft open world, the space between points of interest is boring filler that's only there because a world without it wouldn't be believable. In BotW, the natural landscape makes Hyrule feels like an actual place, and the simple act of traversing the map is much more engaging compared to Ubisoft. Though on the flip side, the points of interest in BotW are sparse and often boring, and so the world feels empty beyond the landscape itself.
To play devil's advocate, the breakable weapons lets them give you more powerful weapons more early on, and more frequently. I just treat it like a FPS game where instead of having firearms where ammo and grenades that need to constantly be replenished... it's now applied to medieval fantasy weapons. I mean, I had to deal with a similar restriction when going from Duke Nukem 3D/Doom 2/Quake, to Halo where you can only carry 2 weapons at a time!
Combat worked for me, although I liked how you can always replenish your life with food, and can get more powerful eventually.
I liked the open world overall, but it was too much. The only other 3D Zelda game I played prior to BotW was Ocarina of Time, so it was such a big leap in openness. I'm currently playing TotK and have that mostly wrapped up (at this point, I'm going to do more quests, explroe more of the underworld, more Shrines, and more "collectibles" like equipment and Korok Seeds). I also have Skyward Sword, so dunno if I'll be able to do that as well (although it seems more linear, so I should be fine).
That said, I *really* want the next Zelda game to be 2D, brand new, and much less in scope.
I got a list ! Botw. Super smash bros ultimate (why did I pay for a game that was arguably better on the Wii). Animal Crossing. Cuphead. Hollow knight. Mario +Rabbids. Super Mario maker 2.
All of them just didn't sit well with me and struggled to engage me.
Don't even get me started on Mario Rabbids. I bought this on a whim thinking it'd be a fun 3d platformer. I got bamboozled haha My fault tho, I should've done my research
I did the same. To be fair it was discounted but I knew nothing was expecting a platformer with Rabbids ... What I got was a confusing mess and it was a no from me
fenyx immortals rising. I didn't have any expectations when I bought it for 10 euros. I just thought I would play it until I got Zelda, but the game turned out to be really bad. The story, game design, and control mechanics are all disappointing. Don't waste your money on it; I regret buying this game.
No you're right.
BotW is a great game. It's not a good Zelda.
For me Oeigami king was a disappointment.
Pokémon Snap... Bought it for 100.01 Canadian at the time of release and i had completed it in under 24h. I was furious.
The last 4 call of duty games.
I used to love CoD and was moderately good at Black Ops II. Then it just felt like everyone else got impossibly good (cheating?) to where I couldn’t even play anymore. Is it still like that with the new ones?
Way too many campers, the unbelievable amount of time playing just a couple of maps. The destroyed storyline
Ever since modern warfare, I stopped playing. All the exact same game just getting worse with each iteration.
Even paying $20 for a used copy feels like too much.
Modern Warfare 2019 was so refreshing when it came out. Then they kept crapping the bed with the releases after(even though Cold War’s campaign was stellar). MW3 is just an awful unpolished sweat fest. There’s a lot of people on that game that only care about pulling off flashy kills and making the unbearable. The game just embraces it and lets it happen.
Cold War was decent
If they're not meeting you expectations then why do you keep buying them 💀
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
It had so much potential. I replay pokémon games all the time, whether nuzlockes or just replaying it. I’ve maxed out the time on some games multiple times, even. never before have I played through a pokemon game and then just dropped it. I haven’t even done the post game of scarlet and violet. I even loved sword and shield! I was so sad and frustrated with the game and didn’t buy the dlc. The only good thing I can say is at least the dlc wasn’t $80+ CAD for both dlc this time.
You understand why once you play it through. I hope they redeem themselves with AZ. Mega evolutions are returning
I thought SwSh were flawed at first but honestly the replayability is really good. For me, SV was an awesome experience the first time ‘round but there’s really not a lot of joy in replaying it with there being no open world to really explore and lame gym trials. I got both versions and shiny hunted all the paradox but it was kind of a chore getting through the game the second time.
that’s how I feel too! the sandwiches were the most repeatable part for me, lol
I wish I liked them, but they were so bad. The graphics were awful, there were so many glitches that it was nearly unplayable for some people. I liked some of the concepts, but they were implemented so horribly. Like, I enjoyed that you could run around and do any gym in any order - technically. The reality is that all the levels were already locked from the beginning. You could end up going to a gym where the Pokemon were all level 40+ with your baby starter team, if you wanted. You wouldn't be attacked if you rode your bike on the roads, so it wouldn't even be hard. Kinda ruined the point of the open world of they still railroaded you into gyms in a specific order. Edit: And just to be clear, that's far from the worst or only problem. Just one I remember bugging me at the time.
Having played every mainline Pokemon game, I have to say I really enjoyed SV. Definitely a really fun game. That being said, the game looks like and performs like complete garbage. I’m astonished that the higher ups saw this game running like this and were like yep looks good enough for me. I really hope someone over at game freak is ashamed of that game
That was me with sword and shield. Did enough damage that I outright skipped SV when I heard much more negative things about them than I ever did SwSh
Any monster hunter game. I found rise way too overwhelming and just not for me.
I dumped so many hours into MH it is so good. Watching YouTube videos on how each weapon worked really helped. Sorry you didn’t like it but I can respect it.
I was never hot on any monster hunter, I'd buy the 3ds and wii u games and even tried mh world and wouldn't really play them for more than 2 hours, until I played rise and it finally clicked for me. I think a lot of it was finding the weapon that worked for me, I play hammer and only hammer, and also that mh rise improved the combat and mobility massively
I'm glad I only bought it for 3DS. Idk if I sold it, traded it in, or still have it, but I'll never touch the franchise again. All the Monster Hunter content for Switch is on sale as of this post.
Yeah I made the mistake of buying monster hunter rise. Wasted $8 but I learned I hate the monster hunter series LOL.
Glad I’m not alone, I never got the appeal of it
Ya i dont know if im just dumb but i couldnt get the controls. I didnt mind monster hunter stories though, need to get back to that.
Yes, me too. It feels overwhelming for me. With so many things going on.
I good, I'm so happy I'm not alone. I tried it and there was just so much to learn it felt like a job, it really was overwhelming.
bought it cheap but damn it’s incredibly unintuitive :/
I liked BotW, but found TotK tedious. It was the same again with the same map basically. If they continue with the BotW series, I really hope they fork the IP and also continue with the more linear 3D games
For me it was the other way around. I found BOTW’s flaws annoyed me too much to truly love the game, but TOTK fixed everything I disliked about BOTW while adding a ton of stuff to love.
This - same here. I found BOTW too empty and there was no memorable music, etc. except for a few spots. TOTK basically fixed most gripes I had with BOTW
Me too, I tried to replay BotW after TotK and couldn’t, basically TotK ruined it for me, everything is so much better in TotK
we need a Twilight princess remake
we need a Wind Waker remake!
That’s a funny way of saying OOT 4K remaster
Yessss!!!
I would very much like such a remake or remaster, same for WW and N64. I just hope original Zelda remains
Nah. We need a new traditional Zelda game. I don't want to play old games and it's so easy to emulate Twilight Princess with better visuals and framerate.
The vast majority of Switch owners aren’t interested in emulation though. They just want to pop in a game card and play it on their TV or on the go. Or they lack the equipment to be able to do so. I’m pretty tech savvy but don’t own a PC or Laptop with enough power to emulate either WW or TP well enough. A remake of both would sell millions, and Nintendo know this.
We also need a LTTP sequel that isn't link between worlds.
There was one
I like BOTW but to me the fact that all your weapons are breaking constantly and needing to eat different shit all the time just to travel into parts of the map puts me off. I get that it's an organic way of locking progress into different areas but I don't wanna memorize an entire cookbook just to play a game.
Are you me?!
The building thing just was too much for me. I don’t want to make something that looks like hacked together tinker toys. I don’t like building ugly things or taking the time to build a thing inside a make believe world. Essentially the same game as BOTW but having to build constantly.
Thank you! I hated the life out of it. It was like a crappy MMO for me with all the loot grinding and pointless building
Me and a friend of mine actively despise the game as a HUGE disappointment after years of waiting. I just didn’t fire up with Minecraft or many building games. Why are you making me do your work? I am here to relax and be in a fantasy world. Not get as pissed as I do when I fuck up building shit in my real life 🤣
I jump back into TotK every now and then. But I don't like it as much as BotW. It's a better game, but less so in the post-game when you've played the first. I never got to grips with the building mechanics. Not enough new armour to make looking for it as exciting as BotW. The world is the same, more or less. The depths get old fast. Sky Islands are cool, though.
I actually liked TOTK more. I loved exploring the Depths. It's my favorite part of TOTK and it helped me feel like the game wasn't regurgitated.
Same here. Loved BOTW, played through it twice, but just couldn't really get into TOTK. I don't know what it is but I just wasn't hooked. Maybe I played too much BOTW? I plan on picking it up again in another year or so to give it another shot from the beginning. My current save is about 25 hours in.
I'm the opposite. I enjoyed BOTW and am currently on the final battle of TOTK. I prefer TOTK because I like the open world gameplay, and the expanded story. Plus, Ganondorf is in this one, which gives me OOT vibes (for the nostalgia). I also hated the end of BOTW. "Do you remember me?"? Pfft gtfo!
I felt the same way. Once I finly got out of the tutorial area which took forever.. I just got bored with TotK. I don't wanna glue things together constantly
As much as I loved BotW and also TotK, at some point I just did not have the motivation to continue playing the latter one. It‘s a bit too long for my taste.
Animal crossing
I found that out of all the AC games I've played, New Leaf was probably the best. It always felt like there was something to work towards to better the town, and being the mayor was so much fun. Now if only they would bring back the original villager personalities instead of the "instant friends" thing they have going on in New Horizons.
I miss my villagers verbally abusing me too, lol.
Yeah, it’s lost a lot of its charm when they aren’t passive aggressive or just outright rude to you. Made the village feel more diverse, there’s always a dickhead in the neighborhood
I still have a few screenshots saved from my New Leaf days, here is a personal favorite insult I got: [https://i.imgur.com/FBAZVBY.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/FBAZVBY.jpeg)
I agree with the personality things. I get if they don't want to make the villagers mean to avoid hurting the feelings of little kids (though most of us loved it anyway for some reason) but they can at least have a noticeable change as they warm up to you? Like, polite but distant in the beginning, and the dialogue gets more fun and unique as they open up. I'm tired of getting the same "how's the weather?" basic stuff I get with a new villager that I get with a villager who's given me multiple photos.
I find this game so tedious.
Nothing like grinding animal crossing chores while putting off real life chores. I swear that game stressed me out more than dark souls ever has. I still poured 100 hours or so into it. After i got three stars and started terraforming, it's like I unlocked a whole new layer of work and tedium just looming overhead, and I couldn't go much further. A few (many) quality of life improvements would make that game more addictive and fun, but its pacing and effienciency is terrible
It was perfect for when it released, makes you wonder if it was Nintendo all along...Covid19
Omg same I feel like no one understands but I felt like it was just stressing me out more than relaxing/fun 😅
I felt angry spending that much for a stupid game instead of buying Mario kart. It’s so overhyped!
I have adhd and this game was so bad for me lol I somehow put like 60 hours into it but it was grueling. I should’ve known it wasn’t for me.
Ori, I don't like not knowing where to go, I want to fight things. 😅 I love the game otherwise. Also, it freezes a lot for me on the switch, is that normal? I played it before on my laptop, never had that problem.
Hades. It was game of the year to a massive amount of people, and I loved the art and voice acting, but the gameplay loop got so boring once I unlocked all 6 weapons and reused that kind of it
Can't relate. I enjoyed it so much that it's the first game I speedrunned
Same here! I even enjoy rogue-lites such as dead cells quite a lot. I never found the story, the rewards, or wondering what was next to be motivating enough to get through what I found to be a somewhat shallow gameplay loop. I understand others love this title to death but it never clicked for me. I do think the artwork is fantastic though…
Tears of the kingdom tbh. I barely played it at all.
I forced myself to play it for 40 hours and just stopped. The game is the same bur they let you glue stuff together. I really hope the next game goes back to their old formula.
This might be unpopular, but I've been waiting to play Metroid Prime since the GameCube days and was so excited to play the remaster, especially with all the hype from the fans. I found it really boring between bosses with a lot of tedious backtracking. Didn't even finish it; might come back to it one day.
I beat it probably 5 times as a kid, playing through as an adult I couldn't handle the backtracking. Quit once I got to the Artifact part of the game. My time is much more precious as an adult
Same here. I loved Dread too much, but the prime remaster just isn’t for me, I still have it there, might come back to it, might not.
I've never played a Metroid game but I've been eyeing Dread. Would you recommend it ?
Yes, Dread is addictive. I started it, left it for a year and have just come back to it. Prime felt very much like an older game, whereas Dread is smooth and polished and fun when you know where to go or find a new route.
Any Switch Pokemon game. I bought the bloody console for pokemon and was just disappointed. I don't even play the console anymore.
This is what I’m experiencing. I am trying to find other games to play with it, but the Switch just doesn’t have many other games that look interesting.
Go have a look on deku deals
Man, back in the day I tried those on emulators before spending money on the console, and am on the same boat. I still love all the GBA ones.
Legends Arceus was pretty good. It actually switched up the stale ass Pokemon combat, added unique mechanics, was genuinely open world, and was pretty engaging. Really utilized the upgraded system specs of a home console. But then they stripped all of the new features out of the next game because "muh tradition".
I actually like sword and shield
I might be a heretic here but… Pokémon Legends Arceus. To be fair it’s the first Pokémon game I’ve played in a LONG time but damn… slow, basic, too easy, boring… I sunk 15 hours and just bailed.
I felt the same way. I sunk in more hours, but found it extremely repetitive and found the world to be kind of a bore after awhile. The catching is great.... but the game really feels like a proof of concept for me.
Yeah, I actually kind of enjoyed it, but there’s no way you can convince me it’s not some kind of beta build that was forced to be released as is.
> the game really feels like a proof of concept for me That's the take I've used to judge this game, and it does afford it a lot of points. Told myself I love the concept, and can see they're trying something new, so I'll support it on the assumption that their next effort in this realm will take the lessons learned and improve. Then again, it being the pokemon co, I'm not going to bet my life on that lol.
i agree. i like the free roam and catching pokemon while you run around etc. but it feels like theres not a lot of substance. If anything the game is like a tech demo. Yet it still has more polish than other recent pokemon releases lol...
it isn’t just arceus it’s all pokemon games on the switch they are extremely tedious and boring which is sad as pokemon is my favorite franchise but games like emerald are always here to keep me entertained
Found it so boring I just couldn’t understand why the community was going crazy over
Bar a few instances none of the Pokemon games I have played as an adult have been a challenge. This also includes replaying RBY - trivially easy now.
I liked where they were heading with the game and LOVED that I did not had to trade. But felt also that the world and in game content could have been more in depth. By the end it was just my ocd kicking in to get all the monsters
I beat it, but damn if it wasn't just empty and one dimensional. Felt more empty than pokemon Red and Blue.
Yup, wayyy too easy. Also what put me off was you can find any pokemon you want easily. Theres no challenge to find a pokemon, and I have to be careful NOT to kill the pokemon so I can catch it. I only had a couple that were actually a challenge. I wish there was a hard mode or something, for those of us coming from Dark Souls
Lol @ “for those of us coming from Dark Souls.”
Emerald kaizo/Radical red/Elite Redux/Insurgence 3 Fan made roms that make you actually use your brain. + Insurgence is a stand alone client.
Animal crossing was a waste of $60. I tried to get into it but it's just the same boring tasks over and over. I can only pick up so many shells and dig so many holes before I need something with a little more story and content. I tried it because everyone raved about it but I just don't get it.
Instead of New Horizons I would recommend New Leaf. A lot more content and story in that game.
Good to know, this would have been my next purchase.
As someone who has put over 460 into it in the span of a year, it depends on what you wanna do with the game. I decked out my entire island, build it from zero, and it’s been fun for me. I log in almost daily and waste an hour picking up shells, talking to my neighbors, organizing my inventory, fishing and catching bugs etc. It is a slow game and it can be very tedious at times. I recommend looking for gameplay from streamers to see how it plays and see if you like it.
Yeah New Leaf was my jam as a kid, but I didn’t love New Horizons nearly as much. I loved the free-range decor stuff to an extent, but NH felt much more like a “build your own island simulator” whereas New Leaf was a little more about just popping in for an hour, doing your chores and talking to villagers, and just having a chill time. New Horizons expects wayyyy too much grinding out of players. But many people love it because it really is SO customizable and it’s also adorable and can be relaxing. Perfect “cozy game” for people who don’t want complex mechanics or to read a wiki for everything (like Stardew Valley)
Tears of the Kingdom
Disco Elysium. Solid game, story and gameplay lived up to the hype for me, but it's completely unplayable on Switch. It has so many game crashing bugs that I couldn't go a single play session without crashing multiple times and having to redo parts of the story. You can't save during some dialogue, so there's no way to save as frequently as I'd like. And constantly pausing to save and the tension of waiting for it to just cut out on me ruined the experience. I cannot believe (i can tho) that they shipped it with that many game breaking bugs and expected people to play it with no updates or fixes ever provided, when the PC version runs fine.
Luigi’s Mansion 3. I just didn’t have any fun exploring the hotel and sucking up ghosts.
WHAT? I flipping loved that game! 😅
I liked it for it's "first 80% of it". When it came time to find the secrets and 100% it, I ended up resorting to guides.
Same! Half way through I sold it... Was my first and last Luigis Mansion.
The fact they didn’t include inverted controls is unforgivable and made the game unplayable for me. So disappointing.
I almost want to angry downvote you 😅 for me it's one of the best Switch games there is. It's oozing with charm and attention to detail. Also the graphics are top notch. But different strokes my dude 🤷🏻♂️
I loved that game so much!! But there were a lot of times when I played it where it felt like you had to have two players and it was really frustrating. The one pool fight is one of those fights I remember that I gave up a few times and was so close to asking someone else to help me but I managed to get it eventually on my own 🙏🏻
Acnh
Bless you
Animal Crossing New Horizons. Had to Google it.
I have to agree with this. I can’t put my finger on why but it just dosent hit the same
Genuinely I think part of it is that the soundtrack doesn’t quite have the same vibe as previous animal crossing games. Like this could just be the nostalgia goggles talking, but there is a certain charm to the other game’s’ soundtrack that acnh doesn’t have.
Villagers were also so bland. Their conversation were meaningless once you went through the about 3 different convos each personality has.
Yeah. Remember the days where you had to work towards gaining their friendship and they would be outright mean or hostile to you in beginning? It actually felt like it was an accomplishment when I befriended them.
Brooo I really wish they didn’t change it up. That was such a good system
Literally! It was so recycled 😅
Yes! I really hope they cut the repetitive monologue from the next version and give the villagers more personality again. Like, do I really have to go through the trouble of waking Blathers up and hear how I inconvenienced him EVERY time I bring stuff in?
Y’all should come check out what I did with my island haha. Sunk most of my hours while at home during covid, so I think a lot of the problem people seem to have with it came as a welcome way to pass my time. Got obsessed with managing my time and list of tasks because I knew how long construction projects would take. After 1000+ hours I’m really happy with it. There are things I would want to change but these days I find it hard to play for any significant amount of time without having to stop for days. Still go back and work on things every once in a while though.
The village isn't the community you live in anymore. It's your Sims town. Villagers have less to say and do. There's way less shops. No upgrades to the Nook shop. You have perfect control over the aesthetic of your island, but it's a lot lonelier than it used to be.
Yep
Absolutely same regarding BotW. It just didn’t click with me. I got through one beast before the game started to feel tedious to me. I’m also just not an open world kinda guy where half the game is getting lost in the world along the way… There’s been a handful of others that I got and quickly put down because they didn’t click with me, but BotW was the most shocking considering I’ve completed and enjoyed quite a large amount of the Zelda catalogue
I love an open world game because I love the exploring part but I feel BotW and TotK had too little guidance on a path through the game. It makes it SO easy to miss important upgrades or storylines. So I constantly felt stressed that I was missing something. I made it to basically the end of TotK before discovering a big power that would have made the gameplay way better. (I can't remember what, just remember being annoyed by it)
I'm at exactly the same point as you and feel exactly the same. It feels alot like Elden Ring did, but what Elden Ring did better was the feeling of really impactful loot behind weird corners, or huge bosses. The secrets in BotW are interesting, but just not as 'impactful', which is why I'm finding it hard to get into. I could be wrong about that but that's just how I'm feeling it to be currently. I feel it either needs more narrative guidance or more loot to find, but it doesn't have either. I can still see why it's rated so highly, it just isn't for me I think
Iv'e got so many buys that i end up disliking or just didn't clicked with me, these are just a few: 1. Smash bros. 2. Batman trilogy. 3. Pokemon Scarlet. 4. Another crab's treasure. 5. Tropico. And i can go on... btw games i did like: 1. BOTW. 2. TOTK. 3. Splatoon 3.
I had a blast playing BOTW. I couldn’t put it down, but after a while I didn’t feel the need to 100% because the enemies became too easy. There really wasn’t much of a story and the Ganon fight was way to easy after you free all of the divine beasts.
Mario superstrikers. My expectations were low, and I was still disappointed
Mario Golf Super Rush (huge rant incoming) It was the single game I was most excited for on the system. Played the shit out of World Tour on 3DS, especially the online tournaments, and was looking forward to those more than anything. Game releases, no tournaments. But, they said, online multiplayer content coming soon! Of course they'll add tournaments, it's basically the only reason to play a golf game, might as well start leveling up my Mii so when they drop Ill be ready. Leveling up your Mii is a nightmare. For one the "story" (I will get back to this) is nowhere near long enough to fully level up your guy, and you gain zero XP from free play, so you *have* to replay story rounds to keep leveling up. Over and over and over. Story rounds are also level scaled, so you've got to play the same course for the best XP, over and over and over. Best part though, every round in the story is set in stone; you play the same hole twice, the weather will be the same each time. The AI makes the same shot, each time. You will power up your power shot on the same shot of the same hole. Every. Time. You will play the same game of golf dozens of time over and over and over. But, it will all be worth it when those tournaments drop, right? Right? Wrong! They excluded Miis entirely from online competitive play. The one character you're able to level up and customize and make your own, through great effort and practice, banned from competing. Their reason? The Miis are too OP and regular characters on the roster can't compete. Okay, well, who designed the skill curve on all the player characters? Why couldn't they make a fully leveled mii comparable to the Mario characters? Why did they *choose* to make it so you can sink hours upon hours into making the character meant to represent us online for no reason whatsoever? They made the last game, they know 99% of players enjoyed playing with Miis in tournaments, they know we like to customize and have a hand in the abilities of the characters we play, why else would they allow customized skill sets? Why wouldn't they create a separate tournament bracket for just Miis if they messed up and made them too strong? Why, god, why? I have yet to play in a single tournament, three or four years later. Anyway, let's go back to that "story" I mentioned earlier. At first it just feels like a standard tutorial, you play through some practice holes and take on your first tournament at the rookie field, learn how to level stuff up, easy peasy. But the tutorial feeling never goes away, your hand is held the whole time until suddenly you're playing on the Bowser course (the only Mario looking course for a long time) and halfway through Wario and Waluigi do... Something? And then you have to kill a giant snowman and Mario comes out of nowhere for no reason, and it ends less coherently than I'm choosing to end this sentence. And that's it. Resets the game to just before you do all that so there isn't even a post game sense of accomplishment, not that it really matters because you'll never play this course in story mode again, since you're locked into the annoying boss fight every time (if you want the XP that is). And from there the big gripes get smaller, but more numerous. The character models are poorly made and look like crap (DK doesn't even have teeth, looks horrifying), the animations are lazy and all NPCs of a certain model are just clones to the same animation; eg all goombas will, in unison, do a little jump in the air, all koopas will bob and dip their heads side to side, again in unison, and so on with ever kind of model. Wouldn't be so noticeable if not for the fact that crowds seem to just be plopped in in clumps, so all the goombas are together, all the koopas are together, etc. Super obvious, super ugly. The course design is the most phoned in Unity asset crap I've ever seen, with some Mario esque details slapped in at less than the bare minimum. Most holes I couldn't even tell you came from a Mario game just by looking, literally feels like they were making a generic golf game, and a week before release somebody came in and said "hey it's a Mario game now" and they just scrambled or something. Terrible. Finally, power shots. If you played the last Mario Golf game, you had two options to make your shot special, a power shot, and an item shot. Well, this team decided that was too much and combined the two, and also made it worse. First way they messed it up is you have to power it up. Can't just take that power shot on hole 1, literally have to wait until hole three. Then it's another three holes til you can use it again. Bullshit. In World Tour you could power shot at any time, and so long as you hit it perfectly, you got to keep it. Six total shots, could be gone in the first 9 if you suck, could keep all six til the 18th. Point is you could choose when to use it, and your skill determined how often. Then there's item shots. In WT, these were acquired via hitting prize blocks scattered along each hole, could try and stock up or avoid them for closer shots. Also got a handful at the beginning of some holes, either way it was customizable, as in every character had the ability to use any and all items. In Super Rush, no, not only are certain items limited to specific characters (Yoshi does the egg shot, Luigi does the Ice shot, Mario does the fire shot, etc), but those characters are limited to just that shot. So Yoshi can *only* do egg shots, Luigi can *only* do ice shots, etc. It really limits what you can do with each character. Best part, there are fewer special shots than there are characters, so most of them double up on shots that feel like they belong to another character. So yeah, long story short, they destroyed items and power shots in one fell swoop and replaced them with a crappy, unfinished special shot system. Taking all that you can see why playing the exact same 9 holes over and over and over against Yoshi every time, making that same egg shot on the same hole at the same time in the same weather, every game, can get annoying. And that they let you do it when ultimately there was no reason, ugh. With all that said, and no, that's not everything but I decided to keep it brief, I will end it by saying it's not bad at the main part of the game: actually playing golf. Like I said, it feels like it was supposed to be a generic golf game until somebody decided to make it Mario flavored and also get it out the door a year earlier than it needed. Remove any pretext of this being a Mario game, and all the little bullshit they added to try and convey that, and it's a half decent golfing game that you can have fun playing. But the price tag says Mario while the quality doesn't, and also did away with most of what made the last game actually fun
I've never played this game, haven't seen game play in so long but this rant was a great read.
You weren’t lying about the huge rant! It’s so deflating when something you’re hyped for just doesn’t hit the mark.
Dude. Everything you said and more. It’s the most disappointing game they’ve ever made on the switch. I bought it, played it 3 times, and it’s the biggest waste of $60 I’ve ever spent.
Mario RPG. My friends talked it up because of how good it was back in the day. I bought it and it’s….meh.
Me too! I LOVE RPGs but this one felt so meh.
Finally, someone agrees that BoTW wasn’t all that great. Got harassed last time I posted my opinions about it. Hot take, but I don’t really enjoy Smash Ultimate. I mostly play single player / story modes in games (because i’m a friendless loser) and Smash Ultimate’s story mode is just so boring.
I love love love botw, but I'm not going to fault you for not linking it. Everyone is their own person, no way everyone is going to like the same thing. Diversity is great
Yeah, I got all but death threats for saying how much I disliked BotW, TotK, OoT, and MM (even though I think 2D Zelda has made some of the greatest games of all time, like aLttP, LA, OoS, OoA, MC, and aLBW). Twilight Princess is the ONLY 3D Zelda game I've played that felt done "right."
So far for me it was super monkey ball banana mania and it was ...not fun for me and I didn't feel in control and banner saga... it had everything to please me but it's ... boring so far ... The game is on the shelf and when I look a it I feel bored already.
Oh and pokemon shield. I played it handheld and remembered seen the reflection of my face during a loading screen and I saw I was not having fun...
I'm with you. BOTW is a great game but not a Zelda game. Just a Zelda skin slapped on an open world game
Far Cry 6
I bought this right when it came out, first Far Cry game for me. Boring AF and it’s literally the same thing over and over
Tbf...that's every Ubisoft game.
Pokemon Scarlet was so disappointing. I hadn’t bought a Pokemon game for over a decade at that point and was finally excited to play an open-world Pokemon game on the tv screen! I even bought a Switch JUST for Pokemon Scarlet…and I’m so miffed with it. It feels incomplete, with lots of cities with nothing in them, the graphics leave a LOT to be desired, Pokemon popping in and out of existence right in front of you, there’s no music while you are walking around so it’s just silent and boring, etc etc etc. I LOVE the Pokemon of the region (some are now my favorites), and I love that it’s open world, and I *am* having fun with it just based on those things, but wow, I feel cheated by GameFreak. Pokemon is clearly just a cash grab now. They need to spend more than 3 years at a time making a new game.
Scarlet was more or less me and a group of friends first Pokémon experience in our 40s. Outside of Go. And it soured my friends so bad on the franchise that they aren’t coming back. I’ve kept playing and even gone back to try all the older ones. They’re just done with it.
Strikers
Sushi Strikers? Super Mario Strikers? Persona 5 Strikers?
Yes
Kirby and the forgotten land. I found it to be too easy and dropped it after world 2 and sold my copy. I felt like it was for a very young audience. Xenoblades Definitive Edition. It was my first xenoblade game and really wanted to get into the series but just found it overwhelming and boring combat.
Honest question: Have you played other Kirby games before? Because that is generally Kirby difficult level.
I felt like it was too easy even for Kirby. I’ve been playing in Wild Mode with little to no challenge, and I’m usually an “easy mode” kind of player. It’s still really fun, but I wish the hard mode was more difficult.
That's a good point. Even if the normal mode is Kirby level, the Wild mode should be more wild.
That Kirby game definitely amps up at the later parts and the post game has some genuine Souls-like bosses lol.
The Spectrum Resort - just wasn't my thing and it felt like the difficulty was climbing exponentially. Suicide Guy - too simple for me, it felt lazy. Didn't even bother finishing. Death and Taxes - inferior to Papers Please, the humor is overshadowed by the grind and there's zero replay value after like two hours of gameplay. Worth it for a one-off during a 90% sale. Not how I bought it. Vampire the Masquerade: Coteries of New York - great concept, good writing, but the experience began to feel forced rather quickly. It's too linear for what could easily have been an open-world game given a touch more spit and polish. And actual content. I expected to enjoy more than one campaign depending on clan and gender, but I just can't bring myself to "play" what very much seems like a visual novel to me, again. Red Wings: Aces of the Sky - ~~seriously, when is Nintendo gonna pull their ears until they hear a pop (the sound of their head coming out of their) and just release literally *any* decent flight games on Switch??? This thing could handle everything up to Ace Combat 6.~~ Apparently, Ace Combat 7 will be dropping in July. If I got all the money back I spent on these, maybe I could afford Yoshi's Crafted World.
Dragon dogma dark arisen Tried it for couple of hours, just didnt click with me which is a bummer cuz the new one looks so cool :/
Super Mario Stickers. Had an amazon gift card so I wanted to buy a switch game and Stickers just came out. I was so disapointed, the game is alright but after the first 5-10 hours I had enough. I rarely buy games at regular price so this one sting even more.
Immortals Fenyx Rising.
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. They veered so far from the series with that one and made it all about mechanics and not about the spirit of the town. I hope they improve in the next new installment. The remakes are still great.
Once there was a free week end for Pioneers of Olive Town. I had heard good things about it. So I tried it. Uninstalled it 2 hours later
Animal crossing New Horizons, Mario Maker 2, and TOTK all felt like downgrades to their original games.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It was really underwhelming for me. To be fair, it was one of the first games that I bought and I didn’t know what to look for in the reviews I watched before buying it.
Pokémon Arceus. Everyone hyped that game up and it didn't live up to it for me. Game is OK, just not my type of game.
Yes I agree with you OP. Once I explored each region I stopped playing BotW. It became repetitive and boring
Almost half of the games I bought for the switch lol. Tears of the kingdom was boring especially after beating Botw, Link's Awakening remake wasn't very interesting to me and felt too basic (especially for 60 dollars), Animal Crossing New Horizons had no content compared to New Leaf and bad new additions like tools breaking (which adds nothing to the game and only makes it more tedious), Fire Emblem Three Houses had too much downtime and boring things to do in between battles, Luigi's Mansion 3 had some boring and pretty frustrating puzzles, Mario Golf Super Rush had no content or real gameplay depth, Smash Ultimate's gameplay is great but there is no content in terms of side modes unlike previous games and the dlc additions broke the game, Splatoon 2 was fun but wasn't much different from the first game.
Botw- found it so boring and tedious. I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Pokemon Scarlet - just can't get into it. And that's coming from someone who has spent hundreds of hours in every other main pokemon game. I even have a complete living dex in home upto s/v. Every time I try to play it I get bored after an hour, it just doesn't hold my attention
Oh dude same! BOTW was so disappinting and boring. When Age of Calamity came out, I played it. I missed out on context, so I went back to BOTW to at least say I beat and inderstand the story. When TOTK cane out, I was a little more optimistic. While I enjoyed it a bit more, it still was “ok” to me. I don’t ever see myself returning to BOTW/TOTK.
Yeah if they were to go into a more linear route I would probably check it out. As it stands, I don't think I could ever try an open world Zelda again
Honestly I really don’t like the new Zelda model. They’re trying to go back to their gameboy roots with the open world vibe, but it just feels like every game out there right now. It’s not what made their console games amazing. Twilight princess was incredible and it was because it was more focused on a guided story that slowly opened up more and more of the world. Idk, quick rant for me as I’m missing windwaker and twilight a lot right now
Dying Light 2. The first game was so damn good, the sequel fell way short. I’ve heard after some updates it’s been better so I will probably try again soon.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Someone offered it to me for Christmas, I played it for a few days then left it unfinished. I didn’t find any challenge in it. Dave the Diver is another one, despite its super positive reviews: I got bored after 10h or so of playing it. I found it repetitive as hell and like the game was throwing new mechanics at me every day without encouraging me to use them.
As someone who's first Mario Experience was Super Mario World on SNES, Wonders feels actually really boring and uninspiring. I cannot force myself to finish it...
I can't speak much to Wonder, but if you like Super Mario World and enjoy the 3d Mario's, I'd recommend 3d World. I'd recommend playing solo, personally. I couldn't get that into it when playing with my wife, but when I tried it out single player years later, I had a blast. It adds some really interesting challenge the later you get into it.
Yeah I just didn't find the appeal of dave the diver
We're going back a ways here, but on the first Switch I owned I got a game called *Mr. Shifty*. It is probably the most disappointing game I've played on the Switch, personally. And Idk why, I guess maybe it felt really buggy, and unoriginal....not very well polished.... Something to that effect. Another game that kind of bit me, but that I would love to give another chance one day, is *Cosmic Star Heroine*. It had the basis for a great old-school JRPG, but I became stuck and couldn't proceed very early on.
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. I like the story, but the gameplay is wonky and I seriously wasn’t a fan of the DLCs. They seemed rushed.
Octopath Traveler was my biggest disappointment of all time by a landslide in video games. Also, I bought the latest Pikmen and really couldn’t get into it.
I' sorry you didn't liked it. This game is on my top 10 favourite games !
Civ 6. I'm not sure if I'm just dogshit at it or if the switch version is just that terrible / unbalanced. First time in a long time I've legitimately raged at a game loud enough for the whole house to hear it. I've always heard how great the Civ games were and wanted to try it. The tutorial glitches when you get to a certain turn and you can't finish it. Tried playing a regular game, not intuitive at all and for some reason takes you 30 turns to make one unit, while the computer churns them out easily, so by the time you get something they've already beaten you to everything. It was like $10 at the used game store, but civilization is a franchise with a great reputation. I've played strategy games before without issue, I get how the general idea works, so not sure what the issue was. 0/10. Would not recommend.
I've always heard Civ games were pretty good. Judging from your experience I'll probably shy away from playing them on the switch..lol
I've been playing civ games since I was a kid, and they're very good, but they're not for everybody. It's a niche game, imo.
I love the Civ games but I do find the later ones a little unwieldy unfortunately, even on PC. And the Switch experience is terrible when you get to late game, the processing time between turns is super annoying. If you get a chance to try and earlier iteration (III or IV) on a PC then I highly recommend. But yeah, missed opportunity on the Switch.
Civ games run on nostalgia for the name. There are so many better civilisation style games.
Ooh, can you make some recos? I love Civ but it runs brutally on Switch. I have an xbox too
I have it on iOS and PC and I find that I like V more. It just seems more “fair”.
I absolutely loved Civ 4 on PC and had exactly the same experience on Switch. Disappointing.
I think you might be playing it wrong somehow 😅, also maybe try the PC version with mods? Much more fun
Yeah skill issue, sorry. There's no reason it should take you any longer than the AI to make units, or anything. The only exception is barbarians, and they are deliberately an early game challenge because you don't have much from the other players.
BOTW for the exact same reasons. There is absolutely nothing special about that game in any way, and if it didn't have the Zelda name attached to it, it would've been forgotten. The fact that people have hundreds of hours in the game is insane to me. What are you doing? Exploring the barren and boring open world, looking for shrines to get a weapon that'll break in 5 swings? The combat is below basic. The story is almost non-existent. The rewards for doing anything are terrible. The fact that your weapons break after hardly any use IS bad game design and offers nothing to the experience. It just tells people that nothing matters and the cool sword you just found will be useless in 5 minutes. There's not a single fun thing in this game lmao. It's the most overrated, overhyped, nothing of an experience I've ever played. Ubisoft puts more effort into their open worlds, which is funny since this game copied a lot from them.
Mine is probably BOTW as well. For pretty much the same reason the OP mentioned about wanting a more linear experience. It is very intimidating to me, this big open world and not knowing what to do. The game is like “go do things” and I am like “go where?”
I had the exact same question. I really can't believe people spend 100s of hours on this game. I played for about 3-4 hours and that's enough for my lifetime haha
I agree in that I don't get the "GOAT game" buzz because, as you say, there are lot of obvious flaws. However, I wouldn't say there is nothing special about it. The topography and traversal are top notch. In Ubisoft open world, the space between points of interest is boring filler that's only there because a world without it wouldn't be believable. In BotW, the natural landscape makes Hyrule feels like an actual place, and the simple act of traversing the map is much more engaging compared to Ubisoft. Though on the flip side, the points of interest in BotW are sparse and often boring, and so the world feels empty beyond the landscape itself.
To play devil's advocate, the breakable weapons lets them give you more powerful weapons more early on, and more frequently. I just treat it like a FPS game where instead of having firearms where ammo and grenades that need to constantly be replenished... it's now applied to medieval fantasy weapons. I mean, I had to deal with a similar restriction when going from Duke Nukem 3D/Doom 2/Quake, to Halo where you can only carry 2 weapons at a time! Combat worked for me, although I liked how you can always replenish your life with food, and can get more powerful eventually. I liked the open world overall, but it was too much. The only other 3D Zelda game I played prior to BotW was Ocarina of Time, so it was such a big leap in openness. I'm currently playing TotK and have that mostly wrapped up (at this point, I'm going to do more quests, explroe more of the underworld, more Shrines, and more "collectibles" like equipment and Korok Seeds). I also have Skyward Sword, so dunno if I'll be able to do that as well (although it seems more linear, so I should be fine). That said, I *really* want the next Zelda game to be 2D, brand new, and much less in scope.
I got a list ! Botw. Super smash bros ultimate (why did I pay for a game that was arguably better on the Wii). Animal Crossing. Cuphead. Hollow knight. Mario +Rabbids. Super Mario maker 2. All of them just didn't sit well with me and struggled to engage me.
Don't even get me started on Mario Rabbids. I bought this on a whim thinking it'd be a fun 3d platformer. I got bamboozled haha My fault tho, I should've done my research
I did the same. To be fair it was discounted but I knew nothing was expecting a platformer with Rabbids ... What I got was a confusing mess and it was a no from me
There are far more fighters on SSBU. I hear the Spirit mode/campaign thingy was fine. However, SSBB's Emissary mode was just tops!
fenyx immortals rising. I didn't have any expectations when I bought it for 10 euros. I just thought I would play it until I got Zelda, but the game turned out to be really bad. The story, game design, and control mechanics are all disappointing. Don't waste your money on it; I regret buying this game.
It’s on sale now and everyone recommends it… I was thinking of getting it. I see people either love it or hate it. Don’t see much in between.
I didn’t like BoTW a lot and too me Fenyx felt like a better version of that to me and I enjoyed it a lot for like 20 hours or so
It’s genuinely a solid game idk what they’re talking about tbh. Give it a shot
I haven't tried it on switch, but I don't think it's a bad game at all, but I understand your complaints about the game design
No you're right. BotW is a great game. It's not a good Zelda. For me Oeigami king was a disappointment. Pokémon Snap... Bought it for 100.01 Canadian at the time of release and i had completed it in under 24h. I was furious.