Torment If you could unplay an RPG, what would it be?

[Eirinjas]

How bad was Tyranny, and how was the wokeness? I never played it but I was looking forward to it, cause I heard you do bad stuff in that game.

The writing is boring and the game is unfinished, but it being unfinished is hardly a problem when you can't get past the beginning of the second chapter due to the boring writing. The writing is also bad and cringe, yes, but it's a much bigger problem that it's boring and there's a lot of it.

Exactly this. The combat is a snoozefest. The world is lifeless. There are only 3 enemies in the bestiary for the game. Every system in the game is poorly designed. The writing is woke feminist dogshit. And the game literally has no ending. The only thing important enough for the developers to bother fleshing out was the messaging: "men am cowards that suck, but women am great and not suck"

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

OK OK, I have one. Final Fantasy X:2. I got ripped on yeagermister and played it because I couldn't go to a rave with my buddies because my foot was still broken from a motorcycle accident.

Total fucking trash game. Even blitzed.

 

[Daemongar]

I never really hated a so called "rpg" until

• I played Dungeon Siege - I remember playing with a friend and realizing I was just telling the player where to go. I was actually angry on how stupid it was.
• I felt the same way in Dragon Age: Origins when I saw the armor upgrades were just +1 to whatever you had.
• I felt the same when I played Skyrim and they murdered skills and player stats, knowing deep in my heart that it will be so much worse in TES 6, so I should accept things.
• And I also felt bad playing Diablo 3 and realized just how crummy the char building was.
• I felt the same in World of Warcraft when they moronified talent trees.

So maybe I am a prick but things like slowly and grudgingly building your swimming skill in Wizardry 7 over the course of the game is more satisfying (fun?) than most AAA games these days.

 

[Ash]

Every bad RPG gives you greater appreciation of the good ones. But still, my contribution is pretty much any storyfag "RPG" that doesn't actually qualify as an RPG in my book. Bioware games, CDProjeckt games & certain storyfag JRPGs namely. They owe me money and time.

Also ones traditionally gameplay-centric and prestigious that became dumbed down in the modern age such as modern "immersive sims" (DX:IW, Bioshock, Dishonored) and Bethesda-style shit (Skyrim, Oblivion, The Outer Worlds).

Fallout 3 is somewhat gameplay-centric and enjoyable on some level but everything else about it (writing, visuals, level design, OP vats) is so damn bad or mediocre that it gets a dishonorable mention.

OK OK, I have one. Final Fantasy X:2. I got ripped on yeagermister and played it because I couldn't go to a rave with my buddies because my foot was still broken from a motorcycle accident.

Total fucking trash game. Even blitzed.

I actually like this game, somewhat. One of the last gameplay-centric Final Fantasy games. It's not a great game, definitely declined, but shortly after this the series gameplay became FF13-tier. Linear corridors, braindead combat, boring RPG systems, minimal to no secondary yet standard RPG elements (puzzles, exploration/navigation, mini-games etc).

 

[gaussgunner]

Original Sin, even more than the other Codex darling of the time, Pillars of Eternity.

Normally I complain about artsy-fartsy "game designers" who produce pretty but bug-riddled games because they can't code worth a shit. D:OS was programmed perfectly and it had so much glorious turnbased RPG incline, but the gameplay was such an unfun slog I couldn't bear to finish it let alone replay it. And the game world was banal Tolkien ripoff shit, the plot was pointless, and the writing was the cringiest thing I have ever seen since I learned to read.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Damage sponge games that start that way and get worse are cock plagues to gaming libido imho.

 

[Modron]

I am picking two, the OCs of NWN and PoE.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I can’t honestly say any I’ve played I’d want to unplay. Hell, many I’d replay esp with emulation to try other computers/consoles. I’m sure there must be some out there that I’d hate like some rainbow fag porn game. I’m annoyed by language locked games and hope AI someday unlocks them.

 

[Quillon]

there has always been things in RPGs that had prevented me from dying of boredom until starfield. TOW is close second but I still finished it out of curiosity and I like knowing how shit TOW is personally where as I don't care that I do for starfield

 

[VerSacrum]

OK OK, I have one. Final Fantasy X:2. I got ripped on yeagermister and played it because I couldn't go to a rave with my buddies because my foot was still broken from a motorcycle accident.

Total fucking trash game. Even blitzed.

Good one, this game probably represents my point of alienation with the FF franchise

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Witcher 3 & DA:I. Had to take long breaks from all gaming after playing those.

Fallout because I want to experience it again for the first time.

 

[Arbiter]

Fallout because I want to experience it again for the first time.

OP:

To be clear, by unplaying it you would also commit to never playing it in the future, so it's not about games you loved so much you wish you could experience them for the first time again.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Tyranny. What a colossal waste of time. Fucking boring woke edgelord bullshit.

 

[Baardhaas]

Oblivion. I spend way too many hours before grasping how shit it's really systems were. Made me feel empty afterwards.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

But now….. you want to retest that Oblivion theory just to be sure….. right?

 

[undecaf]

Not really sure at this age, but Fallout 2 was for a long time a leading one of those games I’d wish to discover again.

 

[quaesta]

Every bad RPG gives you greater appreciation of the good ones. But still, my contribution is pretty much any storyfag "RPG" that doesn't actually qualify as an RPG in my book. Bioware games, CDProjeckt games & certain storyfag JRPGs namely. They owe me money and time.

Also ones traditionally gameplay-centric and prestigious that became dumbed down in the modern age such as modern "immersive sims" (DX:IW, Bioshock, Dishonored) and Bethesda-style shit (Skyrim, Oblivion, The Outer Worlds).

Fallout 3 is somewhat gameplay-centric and enjoyable on some level but everything else about it (writing, visuals, level design, OP vats) is so damn bad or mediocre that it gets a dishonorable mention.

OK OK, I have one. Final Fantasy X:2. I got ripped on yeagermister and played it because I couldn't go to a rave with my buddies because my foot was still broken from a motorcycle accident.

Total fucking trash game. Even blitzed.

I actually like this game, somewhat. One of the last gameplay-centric Final Fantasy games. It's not a great game, definitely declined, but shortly after this the series gameplay became FF13-tier. Linear corridors, braindead combat, boring RPG systems, minimal to no secondary yet standard RPG elements (puzzles, exploration/navigation, mini-games etc).

One thing that I never liked about storyfag games is that the main benefit of games is that they're interactive. So make the story non-linear or at least give me a lot of choices. Fallout 1/2 is the famous example, you can go anywhere, do anything, and you're unhampered. In non-RPGs you see a bunch of CYOA games like The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, Legionary's Life and Heads will Roll. Even Japs have similar CYOA games like Way of the Samurai. Instead these games you listed make the story linear/not letting ME drive the story, which takes a lot of investment out of it for me if I don't already like the gameplay.
Cut the game's length in half/third but give me new game plus and different routes and I will replay the game over and over exploring the different routes or at least in Fallout case, try out different builds.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Every bad RPG gives you greater appreciation of the good ones. But still, my contribution is pretty much any storyfag "RPG" that doesn't actually qualify as an RPG in my book. Bioware games, CDProjeckt games & certain storyfag JRPGs namely. They owe me money and time.

Also ones traditionally gameplay-centric and prestigious that became dumbed down in the modern age such as modern "immersive sims" (DX:IW, Bioshock, Dishonored) and Bethesda-style shit (Skyrim, Oblivion, The Outer Worlds).

Fallout 3 is somewhat gameplay-centric and enjoyable on some level but everything else about it (writing, visuals, level design, OP vats) is so damn bad or mediocre that it gets a dishonorable mention.

OK OK, I have one. Final Fantasy X:2. I got ripped on yeagermister and played it because I couldn't go to a rave with my buddies because my foot was still broken from a motorcycle accident.

Total fucking trash game. Even blitzed.

I actually like this game, somewhat. One of the last gameplay-centric Final Fantasy games. It's not a great game, definitely declined, but shortly after this the series gameplay became FF13-tier. Linear corridors, braindead combat, boring RPG systems, minimal to no secondary yet standard RPG elements (puzzles, exploration/navigation, mini-games etc).

One thing that I never liked about storyfag games is that the main benefit of games is that they're interactive. So make the story non-linear or at least give me a lot of choices. Fallout 1/2 is the famous example, you can go anywhere, do anything, and you're unhampered. In non-RPGs you see a bunch of CYOA games like The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, Legionary's Life and Heads will Roll. Even Japs have similar CYOA games like Way of the Samurai. Instead these games you listed make the story linear/not letting ME drive the story, which takes a lot of investment out of it for me if I don't already like the gameplay.
Cut the game's length in half/third but give me new game plus and different routes and I will replay the game over and over exploring the different routes or at least in Fallout case, try out different builds.

Story fags are basically just people who think long winding dialogues, cinematics and high production value means a good story. Look at anyone who calls games like Twitcher 3 a masterpiece on this very forum.

They give people who like a good story a bad name.

 

[Lady Error]

Lands of Lore 2 - I remember continuing to play it, hoping there would be at least something good about it. Then just stopped and uninstalled that piece of crap.

 

[solemgar]

If you could go back in time and prevent yourself from playing an RPG that you regret touching, what would it be? To be clear, by unplaying it you would also commit to never playing it in the future, so it's not about games you loved so much you wish you could experience them for the first time again.

For me, it's a tough choice between Pillows of Returnity and Dragon Fag: Cisquisition. I had played Pillows up to the part where you get exiled from the city because of bullshit, and the dullness was more than enough to sour me on the so-called RPG Renaissance, to the point where I still haven't touched most of the other nostalgic entries by Obshitian/Larian/Inexile/etc. Perhaps if I had started with the new Wasteland or Numanuma, I'd have had a different experience, but now I am traumatized for life.

Otoh, DAI (diversity, aquity, inclusion) was always expected to be trash, but I had been hoping for so-bad-it's-hilarious kind of trash like DAII, and instead ended up with a single-player MMO and heavily truncated gameplay mechanics. I had played up to the part where you get your own castle, and the onslaught of terrible dialogue with the abominations that pass for NPCs in this game was too much for me.

Now that I've laid it out, it's clear that I would rather erase Pillows from my memory. In fact, I might give DAI another go and try to finish it this time... maybe if I skip most of the generic fetch-quests, I'll have fun laughing at how terrible it is... it is available on PS4... and I'm a known masochist...

Pillows of eternity was incredible boring for me. And I could not even grasp well the rules system that seemed like a butchered and nonsensic version of d&d

 

[undecaf]

Now that I think about it, perhaps PST would be one also. And M&M6…

 

[Skinwalker]

Story fags are basically just people who think long winding dialogues, cinematics and high production value means a good story.

Storyfag is a fake term used by combatfags to deride those with an IQ above room temperature.

Long winding dialogues, cinematics and high production value has nothing to do with having a good story.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Story fags are basically just people who think long winding dialogues, cinematics and high production value means a good story.

Storyfag is a fake term used by combatfags to deride those with an IQ above room temperature.

Long winding dialogues, cinematics and high production value has nothing to do with having a good story.

Storyfags think that makes a good story its why you have retards claiming writing/story are amazing for games that don't have that (I.e. Witcher 3)

That's different than having story high on the priority list of things you want in an RPG.

 

[Skinwalker]

A storybro is someone who would put up with subpar (though not non-existent) gameplay for the sake of a great story.

A combatfag is someone who skips through all the dialogues coz he can't wait to get back to slaying zombies and grinding for Grand Saintly Longsword of Infernal Doom +10.

 

[Falksi]

• Witcher 3 - Fucking dire, bloated, soulless mong-game with weak-as-piss combat and a horrid experience overall. I took the week off work to go on a lad's holiday and, due to a near-death in the family, had to cancel the holiday and so thought "fuck it then, I'll sink into this "Masterpiece" and take comfort in that instead". But instead I got served up an absolute bag of wank. Worst yet, because I hated it so much first time round and so many people were banging on with shit like "nah man, it's tHe BeSt RPG evar!" I doubted myself and, over time, wondered how much the shit which went on in real life around that time may have affected my mindset and opinion of the game. So like a silly cunt I played it through again in the hope that was the case....nope, it was even worse than I remembered. I did enjoy the expansion packs, but the main game itself it the biggest waste of hours I've ever lost in my life.

• Dragon Age 2 - Even worse than Witcher 3. This time the ex had lovingly bought me this game after seeing that I quite enjoyed Origins. So even though I could tell it was far wanker than the original, I felt obliged to finish the game (she used to sit and watch me play these games a couple of nights a week). We all know it's an utter travesty of a sequel, and a garbage game itself, but the Arishock battle will always stand out to me as one of THE worst fights in gaming, and the ending of the game a proper "WTF?!?" moment. Abysmal.

• EVO Search For Eden - The game which taught me how unbelievably off-the-scale Nintendo fanboys are at hyping utter shite up to "Masterpiece" levels. I added it to my list of "must-play" games thanks to the Nintendrone hype, and it was gobsmacked anyone could call it even average, never mind amazing. It's an RPG with virtually 0 actual roleplaying elements, and where 90% of the game is nothing but grinding, so said grinding is the core focus of the game. But the grinding is BAD, it's not even turn-based; it's clunky, janky, wanky, archaic action-based and doesn't even play as well as some bad old Atari games. A genuine contender for worst game ever, it would definitely be in my bottom 10. The drones literally fell in love with the idea of playing as an evolving creature to the point where they were able to ignore the game itself, that's superetardo to the max.

• Super Mario RPG - I don't hate this game like I do the other 3, I actually think it's got some nice elements and can see why young or beginner players like it. But I'm neither, and I was specifically asking fans of the game "look, I'm a very experienced gamer with a lot of RPGs under his belt....is this for me?" and the Nintedrone response in an over 30's group was "yes! it's amazing! one of the best RPGs ever!". Well it's not, once the charm wears off it's a really simplistic, dull experience which you've got to have an incredible hard-on for Mario to enjoy. Similar to how EVO:SFE hooks Nintendrones with "OMG!!! I'm an eVolVinG creAtUre!!", this shit hooks them with "OMG, I'm MaRiO....BuT iN aN RPG!! Eeek". I fell lucky with this one though, the game crashed halfway through and I ditched it. but I'd still like those hours back.