These might be hot takes, but they’re honest, I just have real specific tastes:
The first big one that stands out to me is Tales of Berseria. This game looked incredible to me, but holy shit do I hate the combat with every fiber of my being. I love action games with strong action combat like a Devil May Cry or a Bayonetta, and I love RPGs like Final Fantasy, Persona, and countless others (it’s ones of my favorite genres), but I basically hate almost any and all hybrid action-RPG systems. I just genuinely cannot understand the appeal, and I couldn’t even make it more than a couple hours into Tales of Berseria before giving it up because I hated every single combat interaction I was in.
My other thought was Civ: Beyond Earth. I’ve heard I might have liked the game more if I had come at from a Civ 5 or prior background, but I game into after spending 500+ hours in Civ 6 and by comparison C:BE felt frustrating and meandering and pointless. I enjoyed exactly zero of my minutes spent on the game.
Hey, if some small set of people enjoyed it, good for them. I did not. I was especially unhappy with it because I had hoped it would be the spiritual successor to Sig Meier’s Alpha Centauri, which I legit like more than any actual Civ game.
These might be hot takes, but they’re honest, I just have real specific tastes:
The first big one that stands out to me is Tales of Berseria. This game looked incredible to me, but holy shit do I hate the combat with every fiber of my being. I love action games with strong action combat like a Devil May Cry or a Bayonetta, and I love RPGs like Final Fantasy, Persona, and countless others (it’s ones of my favorite genres), but I basically hate almost any and all hybrid action-RPG systems. I just genuinely cannot understand the appeal, and I couldn’t even make it more than a couple hours into Tales of Berseria before giving it up because I hated every single combat interaction I was in.
My other thought was Civ: Beyond Earth. I’ve heard I might have liked the game more if I had come at from a Civ 5 or prior background, but I game into after spending 500+ hours in Civ 6 and by comparison C:BE felt frustrating and meandering and pointless. I enjoyed exactly zero of my minutes spent on the game.
You’d still likely hate Civ: BE. I didn’t even play Civ 6 and I hated it.
That’s my impression too, tbh. But when I’ve said that in Civ spaces before I get the “it’s good if you’re not a 6 kiddie” pushback
Hey, if some small set of people enjoyed it, good for them. I did not. I was especially unhappy with it because I had hoped it would be the spiritual successor to Sig Meier’s Alpha Centauri, which I legit like more than any actual Civ game.