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Far Cry 5

You can hate anything you want without mandating that everyone else should hate it too.

I don't know who decided that pineapples on a pizza were a bad thing. There is nothing wrong with it. Although it is not my favorite type. There are a lot worse things that could happen to a pizza. Like the stuffed crust. If you don't like the crust you don't deserve pizza, snowflake!

NFS Heat would be an OK game if not for the awful way it handles cops. They are indestructible and have infinite catchup. Which means the only way to loose them is by going on designated "cop loosing jumps" on the map. Which I found extremely lame. You can't just outrun them by skill. I swiftly uninstalled the game when I found this out.

What do you mean by use? I have accounts on many for access, but not actively using any of them.

The ability to buy them, is kind of an essential feature, that we don't have currently.

1. The Last of Us Part II - Time Wasted: 27 hours. Sorry for my French but this game just got me by the balls. It was a profound experience one that I rarely have with games. It was an inspiring yet devastating story. I think this game is so perfectly polished in terms of gameplay that it has no peer. The seamless animations, the attention to detail, it was all perfect. By far this was the best game I've played in 2020. 2. Cyberpunk 2077 - Time Wasted: 80 hours and counting. Initially I found the game just passable, but I'm thoroughly enjoying my second play through of it right now. I didn't much like the main story, but the gameplay is very similar to the original Deus Ex. And I think Deus Ex (2000) is the best game ever created. I already spent 80+ hours with the game and each time I start it I end up playing it much longer than originally intended. Most people can't see past the bugs, but I see the details behind it, and really appreciate them. And the game just looks stunning if you have the right hardware to run it as it was meant to. Even after 80 hours sometimes I just have to stop and admire the scenery. 3. Ghost Recon Breakpoint - Time wasted: 85 hours This game was a mess that I quickly abandoned last year, as they took it into the worst direction possible. Trying to turn it into another Division. I gave it another shot after they released a major patch for it, they turned it around well enough. It's still not as good as its predecessor but good enough to give me countless hours of fun gameplay. All the mechanics borrowed from the division are now optional, and can be turned off which makes the game into the immersive sim most players were expecting in the first place. 4. Assassin's Creed - Valhalla - Time Wasted: 64 hours I absolutely loved Odyssey despite its shortcomings, so I started this game with great anticipation. In some aspects it's an improvement over Odyssey but two steps back in many others. It was still fun and would recommend it, but if you skipped Odyssey I'd advise to try that first, it has the better story and better characters, just choose Kassandra, not Alexios, the game works much better that way. But I Digress, in this one the choice between the male / female protagonist is not as important, especially because you can switch back and forth at any point during the game (which I personally find a stupid idea). 5. Control Ultimate Edition - Time wasted: 17 hours. I was interested in this game from the get go, but I don't deal with the epic games store period so I only got it now. The gameplay is fun and unique firearms mixed with telekinetic powers and a weird horror twilight zone atmosphere, but I found the protagonist and story uncompelling. It's not a bad game, and unfortunately that's the biggest praise I can give it. 6. Mafia - Definitive Edition - Time Wasted 11 hours I absolutely loved the original Mafia it's one of my top 10 maybe even top 5 games of all times. And Hangar 17 just went and took a giant dump on the story of it. They have desecrated and disrespected it by rewriting every spoken line, altering every mission just enough to loose its soul, and come out as something inferior. The game's story was perfect as it was. As the age old cliche goes don't tryi to fix it if it ain't broke. Well they tried anyway. What makes this even more insulting is that they got the hard part right, they modernized the graphics and gameplay well enough, and then they messed up the story which was served to them on a silver platter. What a shame. 7. XCOM - Chimera Squad - Time Wasted 17 hours This is a simplified version of XCOM2 that simply has no reason to exist. It does not add anything to the experience, the gameplay is more restricted, less open ended and ultimately lacklustre. But the worst part is the amount of political propaganda they crammed into such a small game. You are constantly barraged with social justice and feminist propaganda through the entire game, like the writers forgot that they are not writing tweets onto their twitter stream but lines for characters into a scifi videogame. Most of it is tasteless and out of context. And the characters themselves are written as annoying and childlike, who revel in violence, and possibly outright psychopaths. 8. Command & Conquer Remastered Collection - Time wasted: 18 hours This is simply a cashgrab, the value added to the games is laughable, yet gamers seem to eat it up. I'm ashamed that they (we) can be bought so easily with a wiff of nostalgia. This is a shameful low effort cash grab that I doubt cost more than a few hundred thousand for EA to put out. And it already made them tens of millions. Of course the original games are not bad, and if you never played them this might be something you want to try, just be mindful that there is nothing really remastered. These are 25 year old games released virtually unchanged. They even have the same bugs in them from 1995. 9. Star Wars Squadrons - Time wasted: more than it deserved This is the Battlefield of space sims, totally worthless as a stand alone single player game. From the poor design choices, the simplistic narrative, the weak and annoying characters to the issues with the controls, it was not worth the time I've spent on it, let alone to pay money for it. Easily the worst game I had the misfortune of playing in 2020.

That most are whiny little loosers, whodon't have their own opinions and only echo the word from the ministry of truth "influencers"

Thankfully rattlecans still exist. Yes I'd go there.

When they are bought out. It is inevitable when if you are suddenly in control of a big corporation committe. A few individuals leaving does not change the identity of a developer in my opinion. Unless the whole company is based around their personal cult. Like say Kojima.

That was a developer vs publisher issue. The publisher of spintires had a falling out with the developer there were all kinds of allegations flying like not paying the agreed upon amount and deliberately sabotaging the game. But they seemed to come to terms behind closed doors as nothing has come out of it and the game is still being updated today.

Just because the rest didn't send threats doesn't mean they wanted another delay. I agree with the notion that new games should not be revealed over 12 months before the proposed release date. I said so myself elsewhere. There is no need to create hype earlier than that. Reveal 12 months, gameplay trailer 6 months before release, this way you cannot go wrong, as the bulk of the development is already behind you when you show the game. And 12 months is plenty of time to hype up the release. CP2077 was announced over 8 years ago. That was the mistake. Everything else comes from there. If it was only revealed at E3 2019 people would not be that on edge about a few months delay once or twice.

I get upset with games myself. But it's not about the difficulty. There are multiple games I play on the hardest difficulty and enjoy them even if I fail a lot. It's when I feel the game plays dirty. As in I fail but I don't think I deserve to fail. I get extremely angry for example when multiple high probability shots miss consecutively in xcom2.

Robocop (the 2014 version) Star Trek Into Darkness Terminator Genisys The entire marvel cinematic universe. Looper A good day to die hard Brake Drive Galveston

Empire Strikes Back Rogue One Return of the Jedi Phantom Menace New Hope Force Awakens Revenge of the Sith Attack of the Clones Rise of Skywalker* Solo* The Last Jedi *I haven't seen these two but I assume they can't be worse than the last jedi, which basically killed star wars for me.

The latest robocop movie with Joel Kinnaman was a crime against humanity. I choose Judge Dredd but not Stallone's but Karl Urban's Dredd.

In reality consumers are pushing for release just as badly. I mean just think of CP2077 devs getting death threats when they announced the last delay. Of course it's an outlier but the rest of the consumers aren't disagreeing they just don't stoop to that level.

Not really, they are rushed because the investors who fund the development want to see returns rather sooner than later. The only thing you can achieve by not buying a specific game is that similar games will have a hard time acquiring funding. So I'd actually advise everyone to buy the games that fall within their interests if they hope to get more games in that genre. Just look at Mass Effect Andromeda, after it's lacklustre launch they put the entire universe on ice, when the real issue wasn't that people didn't want a Mass Effect game, it was that they didn't want a mediocre one.

Worst: Max Payne in Max Payne 3 (or more like from Max Payne 2 to 3) Best: Ellie The Last of Us 1

Back when they came out I said April, everyone thought I was a pessimist. Now April seems more like the optimist's choice.

I don't know of many games that have romance options period, but I do know that both Mass Effect and Dragon Age offer multiple options. Cyberpunk offers 4 possible LIs, but it's based on gender / orientation, so it's not a real choice, more like a given based on your character.

That's an easy one: movies. I haven't seen a truly memorable movie in decades. My favourite movies were all made pre 2000 I think. Jollywoo is a worthless waste of space nowadays, more interested in politics than entertainment. Bread and circuses, you are supposed to be providing the circus part hollywood, have you forgotten?

I never really thought about how much will I play games later. In the mid 2000s there were a few years when I gamed very little, and at that point I thought that I had "grown up" and no longer needed games. But by 2010 I was fully back at it, and that hasn't changed since.

in my opinion the worst game design mistake is putting the player in a no-win situation. The only thing worse than that if the entire game is a no-win proposition. By far the biggest waste of a journey for me was Max Payne 3. It felt hollow and pointless, and not just the end. You don't win a single battle in the entire game. Another one is Cyberpunk 2077, no matter how hard you fight, or what you do you cannot achieve the main goal of the game. But there are 6 different ways you can loose. Utterly ridiculous, would it have been that hard to include at least one scenario where you win? Of course this doesn't mean that a game with a sad ending is automatically bad, it can be done right, for example Mad Max. There is loss, but you achieved a lot during the journey.

I disagree with mafia, tommy wins at the end, and lives happily for two decades. For a mafioso that's a pretty big win imo.