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The issue was that on the default difficulty the damage scaling against you was massively out of whack so you were always looking for armor while having barely any health.

4 hours into Biomutant and I think I'm done, playing this after Kena does it no favours. Can any EGer give me a reason to keep playing, I have just unlocked the water speeder thing.

Can we expunge that E please? I feel slightly offended for petty reasons.

You like cats. You like guns. You like cats with guns.

The Expanse (SX)

Clunky controls, dated graphics... Yep, it's a telltale game.
The ridiculously minor bit that grated was one of your crew having a cigar and ashtray just sitting on a surface, which seemed totally at odds with the book series I'd just finished reading.

I'll probably give it another chance, but clearly wasn't in the mood and just looking for excuses to drop it.

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Sounds like it's part of the lore and belters smoke wherever the fuck they want, so no points lost for authenticity.

Likely an unpopular opinion, but I've dropped Hollow Knight on Xbox.

It's definitely a "me" thing rather than it being a bad game. Loved it to begin with but Ive made fairly minimal progress and just seem to be tooling around the same areas again and again. I'm not a fan of checking online guides as they tend to spoil a lot, so it could just be that I'm missing something incredibly obvious.

Loved the grim atmosphere of it all. May pick it up again in the future.

Yeah, it's a relatively shallow start. Bit of dungeon delving. A lot of trepidation. A lot of dying. Oodles of confusion. It's likely that the larger loops of the game never revealed themselves to y'all, and that's where the joy is. It's definitely not a "you need to play 15 hours to enjoy it" game, but if it doesn't grab you early on people do tend to bounce off it. You're not alone in this for sure.

I thought that would happen. You're better off not forcing it, because you wouldn't feel any different once the credits rolled.

Interesting world which is also great to look at, bad writing and bad gameplay.

I guess it depends how much you can ignore the last 2 as to how much you will get out of it.

Nah. Just bad gameplay. Honestly. And I’m one of the most forgiving people on the planet. It just never felt good to play.

It definitely looks the part, it looks like all of the effort went into that then everything else is a shit copy of Bioshock.

I bought it at launch (if anyone can recall my conflicted guilt) and played through it all. It really was a frustrating and mainly "meh" experience. The only thing that kept me playing was purely that it all looked so pretty and - in all fairness - ran like a fucking dream. But it was just lacking something in every part of it which, when added up, just made for a not particularly pleasant gaming experience.

Combat was awful with melee weapons that had no weight resulting in no heft to something that was an integral part of the game.

Ranged weapons didn't fair much better, and it never felt like you were doing decent damage.

The Bioshock-esque powers were underbaked and mostly superfluous to the point I forgot I had them.

The open world was a chore to get through with the enemies everywhere. You could deactivate the security for a bit and shit but really, why bother, as that was just a chore as well.

Boss fights were shit.

You could interact with dead bodies but not once did I bother listening to what they had to say, because I didn't give a shit.

Structure and pacing was all over the place and there was FAR too much reliance on these fucking test facilities that went on for EVER and rewarded with some shitty upgrades you didn't need. I felt obliged to do them and I swear they made up half the fucking game.

I have it on my "played a couple of times then forgotten" pile of shame, but plan to return to it sometime in the distant future, once other more compelling games, like Lies of P, Lords of the Fallen, Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Assassin's Creed Mirage, etc. are done and dusted; fuck, that's a huge list, I won't play it at all, me thinks...