The Discussion Thread | The 12th Annual Greatest Games Event

[Runa216]

ARamdomGamer said:

#43 - Pokemon Sword - Nintendo Switch

It's nice to see I'm not the only one who loved Sword/Shield. I think it gets a lot of hate for its Dexit, but I actually prefer not having to start from scratch on almost 900 Pokemon. Plus the raid battles were fun, the breeding was a lot more fun, it was just more streamlined. The only real complaint I had was that the performance tanked if you were online in the wild area. Other than that, it was pretty much exactly what I wanted after what I felt was a weak generation in Sun/Moon. 

The_Liquid_Laser said:

S.Peelman said:

45: Sometimes I feel like guessing the same game of multiple people lists, but Symphony of the Night.

42: Dark Souls 2?

45. Correct!

42. Correct!

Dark Souls 2 is the only Fromsoft Soulslike not on my list. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls III, Bloodborne, and Sekiro are all on my list. I recently started a new Coop playthrough with a couple of friends (with whom I've played Dark souls 1, 3, and Bloodborne with, coop) and within an hour both of them were also on board with me hating it. Like, in the forest of fallen giants, my one buddy was like 'this isn't hard, this is cheap bullshit. It's like the devs were like 'hurrr, this is dark souls' and just decided to throw a dozen things at you at once'. 

My hatred for DS2 is legendary, but I was actively avoiding bitching about it to them since I wanted them to come to their own conclusions and not be biased by my opinions. I just found it so funny that even without prompting they immediately understood why so many people dislike Dark Souls II (or more specifically, Scholar of the first sin.) We've gone on to beat it but every time we played we got to have a smarmy bitch-fest about how poorly designed it is, how bad the UI and interaction is, how hilariously bad the hitboxes are, how lame the bosses are, etc. It's a fun time hate-playing it and roasting it. 

It's a bad game. :P