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Alara317 said:
TranceformerFX said:

That's funny, because EgoRaptor spent almost a year edititing and producing a video criticizing Ocarina of Time  for its sluggish and half assed 3D implementation and mechanics. Basically the exact opposite of what you just said. It's one of his Sequelitis episodes - look it up.

That's exactly the video I linked him and he outwardly dismissed as 'a hate video' before watching it. That is also why I'm no longer discussing it with him. 

Just skipped through the video to see who that guy is that conviced you. I can only repeat myself, everyting he says is highly subjective. Like dealing with the bats for example. Also, he made it look like he was struggling big time in the game and that he thought it was too hard overall, which is just sad when you look at how easy most modern games are. I wish more games were more challenging, like OoT back in the days. While being challenging, OoT was never too hard or unfair imo



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Errorist76 said:
LuccaCardoso1 said:

Exactly. The gameplay is good enough, but for a GAME, gameplay is the most important feature, so I wouldn't consider them masterpieces just because of the story. Same case for the Telltale games.

It’s hilarious to even put games like TLOU or Uncharted 2/4 in the same sentence as Telltale games, from a gameplay perspective.

I'm not comparing their style of gameplay. I'm saying that both Naughty Dog and Telltale make games with great stories and average gameplay.



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RolStoppable said:
The Gran Turismo series. It wasn't made for people who like racing games.

Troll Rol again



LuccaCardoso1 said:
Errorist76 said:

It’s hilarious to even put games like TLOU or Uncharted 2/4 in the same sentence as Telltale games, from a gameplay perspective.

I'm not comparing their style of gameplay. I'm saying that both Naughty Dog and Telltale make games with great stories and average gameplay.

Which is nonsense and hyperbole. Uncharted 4 has great and varied gameplay and Telltale games have close to no gameplay at all. 



Alien Isolation and Pokemon.

Never played them, only seen Twitch streams of them. Maybe I would get into them if I where to actually play them myself. I really doubt it though, perhaps seeing it Twitch streamed could have ruined it for me. I don't get it.



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BeardedDragon said:
Alara317 said:

That's exactly the video I linked him and he outwardly dismissed as 'a hate video' before watching it. That is also why I'm no longer discussing it with him. 

Just skipped through the video to see who that guy is that conviced you. I can only repeat myself, everyting he says is highly subjective. Like dealing with the bats for example. Also, he made it look like he was struggling big time in the game and that he thought it was too hard overall, which is just sad when you look at how easy most modern games are. I wish more games were more challenging, like OoT back in the days. While being challenging, OoT was never too hard or unfair imo

You really will grasp at any reason you can find in order to not actually counter my points but find a way to disregard what I've said, won't you? 

No, I have said multiple times in this thread already that I've felt this way about the game since it came out, and I've tried playing it multiple times only to find that it had way too many shoddy design decisions for me to suffer through it. Just so happened to be that egoraptor/Arin is a well enough known guy in the gamer community that HIS carefully thought out and well presented argument might show that I'm not the only one who felt that way. 

But still, you go ahead and be deliberately dense. You're only proving my point. 



Errorist76 said:
LuccaCardoso1 said:

I'm not comparing their style of gameplay. I'm saying that both Naughty Dog and Telltale make games with great stories and average gameplay.

Which is nonsense and hyperbole. Uncharted 4 has great and varied gameplay and Telltale games have close to no gameplay at all. 

Uncharted 4's gameplay: Walking, climbing, jumping and talking, with some shooting in between... Oh, and sometimes you can drive a boat or a jeep. Super. Like i said, the game is fun, but great and varied gameplay?? Please...

And i don't think being simple is bad. Take Doom 2016 gameplay for example. All you do is run around shooting everything. But there's a complex system of varied enemies, different kinds of weapons and utilities, and a great sense of movement and speed to support the shooty shooty aspect. The game is great and it doesn't care too much about it's plot to keep it shoving everything down the player's throat, and in turn, compromise the gameplay with it. The main focus is giving control to everything you can do and let you run with it.

Uncharted 4 is all about telling a story, which is nice and fun, but the gameplay bits between each plot piece are just there to keep the whole thing together. They are not the main focus. So whenever you're shooting or climbing, that's all you're really doing, there's not much to it. The different types of enemies (i.e. Heavy armored, snipers, shotgunners) don't change your strategy that much, and whatever weapon you're holding is more than enough to finish the job (i finished the whole thing on hard and auto aim turned off, mind you). Though the game does open up near the end, and shootouts get bigger and give more room to the player, they're still so spaced between the climbing, jumping, talking and sometimes driving, that i cant really say that it redeems the game bloated pacing. The big setpieces like the car chase is fun to play and specially watch, but those comprise a small portion of the game to summarise the gameplay as a whole.

I did have fun with Uncharted 4. Recommend it to anyone who has a PS4 to play at least once. But great gameplay it has not.



RidingMower said:
Alien Isolation and Pokemon.

Never played them, only seen Twitch streams of them. Maybe I would get into them if I where to actually play them myself. I really doubt it though, perhaps seeing it Twitch streamed could have ruined it for me. I don't get it.

You can't say a game is overrated just by watching Twitch streams. I hate watching Pokémon videos, but it is one of my favourite game franchises of all time. Alien Isolation's atmosphere is super important to the game, and you don't get that by watching other people play.



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LuccaCardoso1 said:
RidingMower said:
Alien Isolation and Pokemon.

Never played them, only seen Twitch streams of them. Maybe I would get into them if I where to actually play them myself. I really doubt it though, perhaps seeing it Twitch streamed could have ruined it for me. I don't get it.

You can't say a game is overrated just by watching Twitch streams. I hate watching Pokémon videos, but it is one of my favourite game franchises of all time. Alien Isolation's atmosphere is super important to the game, and you don't get that by watching other people play.

If anything, i think Alien Isolation is quite underrated. I hardly, if ever, see people talking about it, and when i do, they're saying it's boring and too long for its own good. The game's not perfect but i really like it's slow pacing and do believe it's one of the best licensed games ever made. Also one of the best materials to come out of the Alien franchise (a better experience than Prometeus and Alien: Covenant IMO).



HoloDust said:

I'm Zelda fan, and while I find BotW fairly enjoyable, it has so much problems that I rate it bellow any other 3D Zelda (except MM, which I don't rate at all, since I've dropped it after day or two due to annoying time mechanisms) - 3.5 out of 5 stars (though it would be more of 7.5/10 when translated to that scale).

At this point I'm only counting on Anouma being dickhead (as per usual) and going against what most people want (more of BotW) and actually changing formula again quite a bit - cause this one was wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.

@bold:

1- Same here.

2- Sums the game up perfectly as far as I'm concerned. I just thought it was a pretty shallow Zelda game.