Alara317 said:
Hirouakan said:
In my opinion, every single Naughty Dog game since the first Uncharted. They are well written for the most part and have superb graphics, but that's it. They're fun to play once but a fucking chore for replays due to it's heavy focus on cutscenes and dialogue. Uncharted 4 first half's pacing was a boring mess and though it picks up the pace near the end, it's not a 10/10 game by any means.
Guess i consider them as good movies to watch once in a while, but almost mediocre games overall. They have everything that makes a movie fun: Great graphics, simple but well written story, good world building and atmosphere. But the barebones and almost on-rails gameplay, which people gloss over because they're so amused by the "spectacle", is what IMO prevents them from being this masterpiece everybody seems to think it is.
Also, Telltales games. How anyone can truly like them is beyond me. Dialogue is forced, there's more annoying characters than interesting ones. Gameplay is pretty much non existant. Story seems to be written on a "we'll think it up as we go" basis, with super contrived situations and choices that doesn't really matter. The graphics are just ugly and lazy. Animation is one of the worse i've ever seen in a game, and since watching people talking is pretty much what you'll be doing the entire game, there's no excuse for them being that bad. Just hire another animator, i've seen SFM videos better animated than these games, and they were not being paid. Then there's the crashes, constant stutters, corrupted saves, graphical and audio issues, etc. Their engine is trash, but i bet it's easy to program and they're too lazy to get out of their comfort zone to try a better engine. Even the latest version looks like shit and have the same technical issues. They're probably not good at optimizing it for different systems.
And i know they're a small studio. That's not a excuse for their laziness. There's a lot of small studios doing great things (like A4) simply because they care. |
Right! How could I have forgotten about those games? Uncharted and The Last of Us are both examples of games that have outstanding production values and cinematic bombast but relatively unpleasant or simplistic gameplay! Definitely on my list, even if I don't think they're bad games. Overrated, for sure!
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Agree. Though what i said may sound like i hated them, i do think they're fun to play and worth experiencing at least once. But masterpieces they aren't by a loong stretch. I'd say they're all a solid 7.5~8
