I Hate This Trend In Video Games....

[anotherbob]

Anyone else play a game where the best part is the intro or tutorial. Where the gameplay is tight and exciting and then when the main body of the game opens up it never has anything that remotely is as fun.
One of the first ones for me was The Evil Within. A tight, creepy, scary, and really fun bit that made me think this is a true horror game. Then the rest of the game was Resident Evil but weirder and more confusing.
That last game I played like that was Fallen Order. Good game but the best part in my opinion was the opening sequence.
I never thought I'd miss the when will this intro finally be over and I can get to the actual game.
So anyone else agree with me that this sucks when it happens and anyone else have examples of this.
Oh I've noticed it often happens in more open world type games. Where the intro is a well structured linear type level and nothing as well constructed happens again afterwards.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Haha it must have got to you if you had to come on here and make a thread about it.

Mostly playing multiplayer/co-op games with friends these days instead of the single player AAA stuff. So I don't really experience this.

Played a bunch of Battlefield 6 beta this past weekend and while fun it had its own infuriating negatives. Hopefully they patch it up.

 

[anotherbob]

Haha it must have got to you if you had to come on here and make a thread about it.

Mostly playing multiplayer/co-op games with friends these days instead of the single player AAA stuff. So I don't really experience this.

Played a bunch of Battlefield 6 beta this past weekend and while fun it had its own infuriating negatives. Hopefully they patch it up.

Heard good things about Battlefield. Personally old school either want to play games solo or with friends that are in the room with me.
My experience with online games is I can never find my level. Either everyone against me loses hard or I feel like I just suck.
In shooters high kill count no stress easy peasy so boring or die again and again and am amazed to if I get to let a few rounds off. In MarioKart I either am 1st place and lapping the other players or in the last two spots watching everyone pass me without my rank dropping. Never seem to find that rewarding challenge that I love to have in games.
And yeah the thing I wrote about does bother me. It isn't fun to get that excited and then wonder where the fun went.

 

[sardonicus87]

I haven't done much gaming in a very long time. I played Oblivion on PC after it and all DLC had long been out (around 2013 ish?), the last console I had was a PS2 about a year or two after it was initially released. I played the three Witcher games on PC (Steam) back right before the Netflix series started (whatever year that was), and prior to that sometime between maybe 2015 and 2020 (not sure when), I finally got around to playing Batman Arkham Asylum on PC (Steam).

I pretty much quit when 90% of games started focusing 99.9% on online multi-player, giving you maybe 2 hours of a shitty solo story mode at best. That trend alone killed it for me.

Though I should note I predominantly played RPGs of all types (from lassic JRPGs like Chrono Trigger to action/real-time RPGs like Parasite Eve I and II), and to a lesser extent action platformers (Devil May Cry, etc).

And I get The Witcher III did come out after the boom of the MMO RPG, and the MMO is the only kind I won't play and I hate.

Other games also started to piss me off too like the L4D games where you can get to the very end, but you can't beat it with computer teammates (they always mess up running up the ladder, and this is after you had to deal with the computer teammates CONSTANTLY activating the witches, constantly stealing all the health packs while you dealt with them screwing everything up, etc).

Yeah, solo-only games are still made, but I have no motivation to hunt them out and try them anymore, especially since half of those have this "replay" trend of getting different stories/endings based on in-game choices—that aspect was fine with Chrono Trigger and how they did it because they weren't completely different actual endings (just additional side-character endings) and the choices aspect really only affected possible teammates you could pick up (like whether or not you could get Magus on your team), but how The Witcher III did it I was like: meh, let me just get a guide for the correct choices at correct points for the "good" ending. Most of the time, "choices matter" is just an annoying gimmick (though I did otherwise enjoy The Witcher III).

 

[Sig]

Im just a ps4 disc player.
Tried online multiplayer stuff, but im playing to relax, im too competitive to play nice with others.
A bit off subject, but I can't watch movie trailers because of kinda the same thing.
Trailers show all the good parts. They even show spoilers sometimes.

 

[georged]

Video game... video game...

Help me out, here.

Is that where a small television is kicked around like a soccer ball at a net?

Or people hit one with their fist to see who can create the most fragments with ten strikes, or something like that?

 

[shanez]

Try Minesweeper and experience the opposite!

 

[Beetmann]

I haven't done much gaming in a very long time. I played Oblivion on PC after it and all DLC had long been out (around 2013 ish?), the last console I had was a PS2 about a year or two after it was initially released. I played the three Witcher games on PC (Steam) back right before the Netflix series started (whatever year that was), and prior to that sometime between maybe 2015 and 2020 (not sure when), I finally got around to playing Batman Arkham Asylum on PC (Steam).

I pretty much quit when 90% of games started focusing 99.9% on online multi-player, giving you maybe 2 hours of a shitty solo story mode at best. That trend alone killed it for me.

Though I should note I predominantly played RPGs of all types (from lassic JRPGs like Chrono Trigger to action/real-time RPGs like Parasite Eve I and II), and to a lesser extent action platformers (Devil May Cry, etc).

And I get The Witcher III did come out after the boom of the MMO RPG, and the MMO is the only kind I won't play and I hate.

Other games also started to piss me off too like the L4D games where you can get to the very end, but you can't beat it with computer teammates (they always mess up running up the ladder, and this is after you had to deal with the computer teammates CONSTANTLY activating the witches, constantly stealing all the health packs while you dealt with them screwing everything up, etc).

I came across Unionslots recently - it’s a review page that covers different NetEnt slot games in detail. What I liked is that it actually focuses on gameplay mechanics, visuals, and fair play features, not just flashy bonuses. Kind of refreshing to see a platform that still values quality and licensed content the same way older single-player titles used to.
Yeah, solo-only games are still made, but I have no motivation to hunt them out and try them anymore, especially since half of those have this "replay" trend of getting different stories/endings based on in-game choices—that aspect was fine with Chrono Trigger and how they did it because they weren't completely different actual endings (just additional side-character endings) and the choices aspect really only affected possible teammates you could pick up (like whether or not you could get Magus on your team), but how The Witcher III did it I was like: meh, let me just get a guide for the correct choices at correct points for the "good" ending. Most of the time, "choices matter" is just an annoying gimmick (though I did otherwise enjoy The Witcher III).

Yeah, I totally get that. It’s like games stopped trusting players to just enjoy a solid story without turning everything into a grind or a checklist. I miss when single-player campaigns felt complete on their own - no co-op, no live-service nonsense, just focus and payoff.

 

[HeadMisfit]

few games are meant to be played stand alone. most revenue comes from online gaming. its why we wont see sky rim 6 happem. they dont have staff that can cut out an actual game. they only have 1 sky rim programmer left, and he is too important for the online sky rim stuff.

i have only met 4 people who played the halo game instead of just the multi player

 

[LOREN]

It's like that for games you can load onto your phone. I've tried some that looked like they could be fun. The actual game was very, very repetitive. All I could do was uninstall. I've noticed now when looking ad some ads for games, there is very small print, "not an actual representation of gameplay."