¡Recently, Abandoned; Games!

Bravely Default 2 on the switch.

Oh my god the grinding. 8 hours in and barely moved forward, boss fights are insanely long without going away to level up and it is all just slow. And so many random battles. (Well not random, but just seems crossing every single screen you do 25 fights.)

Pikmin Bloom (Android).

The new mobile game from Niantec, with added pikmin and flowers.

I tried for three days and it's dull. It's also buggy and a battery drain and it wants you to use real money to upgrade storage.

Game involves planting pikmin, walking to hatch them and then feeding them nectar that makes them shed their petals so that you can then plant virtual flowers in your neighborhood as you walk which speeds up your hatching.

That's about it at the moment and I really can't be arsed with it. It's crashed a couple of dozen times in three days and I feel it gets in the way of a walk rather than encouraging me to go on one.

Oh and there are big plants you're supposed to walk around planting flowers so they bloom and do... Nothing. There's supposed to be expeditions your pikmin go off on, bit if mine have they've kept quiet about it.

Thought I'd give Avengers a go seeing as it's now on gamepass. Not interested in the online nonsense but have spent the last 3 hours going through the single player which is OK. I've then gone to have another quick go before bed and for some reason it's not saved my progress since pretty much the start of the game. Really can't be arsed to play through again so it's been deleted. Bollocks.

And Memoria, a Point-and-Click adventure set in the "The Dark Eye" Pen and Paper-setting. I'll probably just watch a walkthrough instead of bothering with these kinds of puzzles. I played through the first game in the series a while back and it wasn't too bad, but in these kinds of games it's still often annoying to waste time only to find a solution that doesn't make much sense and doesn't satisfy me in any way. Or to waste time and then still end up having to use a walkthrough. But since I'm interested in the story, well...

GTA San andreas - shit crappy new dEfIniTiVe edition

As mentioned in the GTA thread, never fully completed it back in the day. Been playing it on gamepass and as loads of people know the game is fucking mess. its like the devs finger painted in their own shit to do the code, no wonder take 2 where taking down mods as modders have done much better job with better and more professional character models. Of course some on the internet, mostly reddit and twitter have jumped to aid of the devs, actually making up lies to defend it. Yeah the dev team is small one but they have history of really poor work and they had rockstar support studios "helping" (some of the new graphics was actually done by them and added typo, yeah some other signs were done by AI upscaling) Rain actually is painful to look at on some missions, enemies melt your health in seconds which is making the forced gang takeover missions. That wanker Sweet will stand next to you and do fuck all to help on missions and the shit new controls some times lock up onto friendlies, or NPC etc, so you can kill mission critical allies. They added checkpoint as soon as another wave spawns and you get killed on one mission

Rain is also very poorly done, he rains around the character and is solid white but does not rain when you are on a boat, it rains around the edges of the land. Take 2 give zeros shit as long as twats buy the 3 pack game (sure some take 2 exec is shouting "ass to ass" at some dumb fanboy) and rockstar is pretty much fucked as now GTA online factory. GTA5 was 360/ps3 game and we have not a new GTA game since that

PS2 era games need a lot of improvements and GTA SA need more than the others due to the fact rockstar at the time was pushing the engine hard as lot of controls and system were rough. Also the game feels bloated, too many missions and some are shit like the take over ones.

GTA games deserve better than take 2 and this shitty mobile port developer

1/10

Love the fact that you’ve gone back to being Ecosse, but your pic is still an Armoured Bear!

Representing a middle aged Scotsman is tricky and a real photo of me would scar the forum for life

That boss sure is annoying, but doable. You just need to time your shield perfectly. Anyway I abandoned this too, but later in the game once I learned the game has a time limit on everything. Can't stand that. 

Metroid dread.

I am stuck on the last boss, but who cares. I loved every second up to that point, and can accept I need to stop here. At least I got my money worth and saw 95% of the game.

Worth playing. Worth persevering. But also worth giving up.

Did that with Ittle Dew 2. The puzzles were good and I enjoyed the dungeons in spite of the slightly wonky combat, but the 'true ending final boss' is just too hard and it's not worth defeating. Still recommend it.

I think this is where achievements and trophies come in. The need to get them outweighs the fun factor if you get hooked on them. I remember getting the 50,000 zombie kills on Dead Rising 2 years ago. That was absolutely joyless. I never played a Dead Rising game again, or cared for achievements in the same way again.

I will still try and 100% complete any game I love, though. Especially a Metroid game.

Yeah my colleague buys games based on the achievements you can get. He'll check each game on PlayStation achievements and if there's too many or too few he won't even consider it.

I hope you gave them a virtual hug

Never really understood the point of trophies for normal progression in games. Your reward for progressing is the next part of the game. I always turn notifications off because a little trophy thing popping up in the corner after a good boss/cutscene or whatever kills the mood