Dark Souls just fucked me off. I appreciated the atmosphere and graphics, but the controls were just terrible and it was such an unforgiving game. I can appreciate that in a way especially as I’m a long-time retrogramer, but Christ, I couldn’t get past the second level and got bored of the eternal grinding. It doesn’t help that the Dark Souls community seems to reply to every complaint with ‘lol you just suck’.
I like it, but for me it’s too short, and the Triforce hunting near the end was unforgivably boring and dull.
Ocarina of Time, now - there’s a game that is undeservedly and excessively praised.
I had the same reaction, and when Witcher III opened with a boudoir scene, I rolled my eyes and thought I might quit it the way I quit the first one–but it’s way less smarmy and leery than the first one was. I think it’s worth giving the third one a chance.
As for the OP, I agree with the OP. I love the mechanics of Fallout, and I appreciate what they were going for with the tinny music and the washed-out brown-and-grey color scheme, but I found it unpleasant to play. I finished the first game, tried New Vegas after people assured me it was better, and quit after a bit: it’s not just too grim, it’s too grimy for my tastes. Give me the four-color world of Skyrim or Witcher any day.
Do you mean Fallout 3 when you say “the first one” or Fallout 1?
Get the mod that changed the environment to more natural colors and get the Conalrad radio mod. You are a teacher and these real era appropriate songs will both amuse and horrify you.
How did you feel about wizardry?
I personally liked the first 3 Wizardry games but also couldn’t get into Ultima. Especially the one with the maps where you had to figure out how portals worked based on the phases of the suns or something like that. That was just annoying.
Fallout 4 actually had colors in it which I appreciated. I was disappointed by FO3 when I saw that the Capital Wasteland was visually similar (allowing for the first person aspect) to the original games as I had hoped they’d take the opportunity to show different areas affected/recovering in different ways.
Yeah, the Ultimas are probably at the top of my list too. I mostly couldn’t get over the cumbersome UI, ye olde dialogue and that the king was named Lord British [sic]. Even as a teenager I found that utterly ridiculous.
Liked the first two or three. Another big one that turned me off for some reason was Sierra’s King’s Quest series.
:smack: Fallout 3 – obviously not the first one, but rather the first one that I played. Sorry for the confusion.
I’ve played and loved a lot of shooters, but I’ve never found a single Halo or Call of Duty version compelling. Like wise Dark Souls feels repetitive and pointless to me.
I still have a 5.25" floppy with Akalabeth and Wizardy 1-3 on it.
I also still have my copy of Ultima II, complete with the box and map.
That’s…odd? I mean, that people would recommend Zelda to you because you like RPGs. Or did you just mention the former point to establish a baseline, and the recommendations are independent of it? Because Zelda isn’t…remotely on the list of “games I would recommend to someone because they like RPGs”
What games from the era DID you like? Or are you talking about newer games? Humorously, I am the inverse of some of the posters here - I deeply enjoyed even the early ultima games, but I couldn’t stomach Wizardry for more than an hour or so. The game seemed empty and pointless.
I’ve mostly enjoyed playing the Fallout games (though I didn’t necessarily like finishing them, as two of them had crap endings as released). I can see where you’re coming from, however. One of my nagging immersion issues with the games is that inhabited areas are unreasonably shoddy and debris-strewn. They’ve had centuries to repair and rebuild places, often with large amounts of salvageable building material nearby. It doesn’t seem reasonable to me that they’ve just put up with 200+ years of DC or Boston winters with big holes in their walls.
I like the Bard’s Tale games, the Dungeons and Dragons series, the Might And Magic series(but not Heroes of Might and Magic) and the various Dooms.
I’ve had all the Nintendo systems over the years and all the various versions of all their intellectual properties. Mario Karts, Zeldas, Super Marios, Donkey Kongs, Pikmins, etc.
One that’s extremely popular but I’ve always hated is the Super Smash Bros. series.
Completely lost on me.
I’m not a fan of button smashing beat-em-ups in general but I thought something like Injustice was way more fun than the manic Smash Bros. garbage.
There is a mod which renders much of Boston’s trash invisible. Seems to be a bit buggy, though.
As for winter, there’s never any snow and several people barely wear any clothing so the temperatures can’t be all that bad.
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Sun Tzu’s Ancient Art of War**? Wow - I haven’t thought about that game in literally decades. It was my favorite game back in the long-ago.