I’ll give my example and I think I’m going to get a lot of hate for it. I DESPISE Dark Souls 3. It is such a mediocre game when it comes to the actual gameplay. There is like zero build diversity, the combat isn’t indepth and, while the other souls games have at least decent RPG mechanics and exploration can make things easier, DS3 just demands you rolly polly your way to victory. There is no weight to like anything, you feel so floaty and light, and you fold like a peice of paper when you get hit. And so many attacks don’t care about your positioning, and instead only if you mashed the dodge button at the correct time, something Elden Ring kind of does too, but it adds a jump button to retain some offense and I find that I’m able to out position bosses and enemies more often in it without actually dodging.
Dark Souls 3 is such a mindnumbingly boring game for me, I feel zero excitement playing it.
Love DS1, DS2, Bloodborne and Elden Ring though, great games all around.
And the music for DS3 is amazing and I do love the Pontiff Sullivan fight.
It was the first time I played a GTA game.
The dialog and social satire was what sold it for me. As a game, it’s just OK. There’s a lot of mechanics that it trains you to do for one mission, and then it never comes up again. Once you do the first big heist, money is no longer anything to worry about. Which is good, because buying a business for income is almost never worth it unless you’re going to have a very long playthrough.
The torture scene was a bit much. In-universe, even fucking Trevor thought it was a bit much.
The final mission should have been the big three-way shootout between various corrupt organizations. Have Franklin have to make his choice on who to kill during that mission, and then wrap it all up. The story clearly climaxes there, and the rest is dragging things out.
I’m surprised it got so many 10 out of 10 reviews back in the day. I guess having an open world game with draw distances like that on an Xbox360 was a big deal, but once that technical achievement is no longer noteworthy, it’s a 7 out of 10 experience. Which is fine, it’s just not amazing.