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The_Jaster
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| Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time?  Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:10 | |
| - JayMoyles wrote:
- The_Jaster wrote:
- anyhow I'm not one to wallow on things I don't like so if any of you do love it then wire in I'll just be sitting here totally confused as to why you do.
Different tastes and all, but...
- SotC Ending Spoilers:
...I absolutely love how it reverses the role you'd played all game. Suddenly you get to experience what it's like having tiny enemies attacking you and see what it's like to be this big lumbering giant. I genuinely don't remember hitting any of those enemies.
Once that big vortex starts sucking you in, your natural instinct is to run away, which you actually can accomplish... for a while. You can bunny hop away to your heart's content, but eventually that vortex will pull you in and end your life. I think that's great because, as you put it Jas, the clichéd ending would be for you to be able to escape the vortex and live happily ever after with your reborn missus. But you don't get to reap the reward because you're the monster that slaughtered the resting Colossi across the land.
The twist about Dormin being evil? Of course that's obvious - it's meant to be clear part way through your journey that what you're doing is a very selfish and ultimately evil act. It's represented by Wander's skin becoming pallid and him looking like a walking corpse by game's end. I love SotC's storytelling as it's the perfect example of how show, don't tell, makes for a brilliant story. The only thing it tells you is that Dormin is an evil entity, but again, that's not a surprise by the finale.
Different strokes for different folks and all, but I love that game to bits. That's certainly the best explanation anyone has given in this thread as to why they like the game/ending rather than going "lol you're mad for not liking it" - I've said countless times on here that when it comes to games the story is bottom of the list of why I play them (there are of course some exceptions) but generally if they don't hook me with their gameplay & SotC didn't then I just won't care for the story it is trying to tell. In hindsight I probably should've stopped playing it rather than seeing it out until the end but with the hype around it and peoples opinions who I trust enjoying it I thought it would eventually click but it just didn't. |
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masofdas
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:21 | |
| Guess that's the difference as I would put story at the top and even though I get why something like Monster Hunter is great, the lack of a story (I know it has one in places) is why I even dropped World. |
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The_Jaster
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:34 | |
| Aye and like I said there are exceptions, two games that spring to mind that are quite story heavy are Ghost Trick and Witcher 3 and I love those to bits. Time to move from it now I think so anyone else got another game they think is overrated? |
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Crumpy Andy
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:35 | |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:36 | |
| Ghost Trick. Nah. Hm... Cave Story?  |
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masofdas
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:49 | |
| Half Life in general, I didn't play either till late mind but felt they were massively dated even after a few years. |
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Crumpy Andy
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:50 | |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Thu 4 Apr 2019 - 18:56 | |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Fri 5 Apr 2019 - 10:11 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
- Ghost Trick.
Nah. Hm... Cave Story? I failed to get into Cave Story when I tried it, although I think that was partly for just not enjoying keyboard controls so much |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Fri 5 Apr 2019 - 20:52 | |
| I think Cave Story might genuinely be my pick, actually. I understand that I didn't get enough into the actual story to enjoy it properly, and that the aesthetic (which I found a bit drab) is my issue; but I genuinely can't understand how other people get past the dodgy platforming, weaponry that degrades when you get hit (which makes the dodgy platforming worse), and one-hit kill red spikes. Even the forum's biggest fan didn't like the latter, if I remember correctly. Also it sounds like the true ending was a bit of a bastard to get, and an easily missable bastard at that. |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Sat 6 Apr 2019 - 5:41 | |
| CAVE. STORY. BUY. IT. |
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| | Subject: Re: What's The Most Overrated Game Of All Time? Sat 6 Apr 2019 - 21:20 | |
| - Crumpy Andy wrote:
- This is not ending this tedious dance lads 🤬
Sent from Topic'it App We'll go back to sitting in silence soon, Andy. Re: Cave StoryI was hooked on it back when it was freeware, but I don't know how I'd have felt about it had I dropped some dolla dolla on it. At the time though, getting something of that quality for free was mindblowing. I loved the clear inspirations from Metroid and Mega Man, the characters were fun, the tunes were ace and it was totally free! I've not played it since as the Switch port pricing is bloody ridiculous, but I've got a lot of time for Cave Story. |
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