Making peace with liking very few games? - eviltoast

I love my favorite games and have been playing them for years, but I disliked about 99% of the games I played.

I don’t think I have FoMO or anything; I just find it weird because my taste in music, film, or art/media in general is usually fairly broad. I guess I just wonder why my taste in games is aggressively limited.

It’s not for the lack of trying new games; I’ve tried more or less anything I could find, sometimes because it’s popular, other times because it looked interesting, but nothing really hits the mark like my favorite games.

I just don’t like what most developers create, I guess?

I’m hoping, by posting this, maybe I can find others who are having a similar experience, and we can share thoughts.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Personally, I would say:

    • Thief 1, 2 & 3
    • Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis
    • Mafia 1 (not the remake)
    • Gemini Rue
    • Deus Ex (Game Dungeon has a great video on why the story punches so high, link to relevant segment here)
    • Disco Elysium (even though I personally didn’t really care for the game due to the setting, the writing is undeniably high quality)
    • A Mind Forever Voyaging

    All of those games have, IMO, a tremendously good sync between gameplay and story, where everything lines up to the point where you can become fully absorbed into whatever experience the writer/designer crafted. I would say Thief accomplishes it the best, while Mafia’s and Deus Ex’s clunky gameplay hold them back, but I can see what they were trying to achieve, and overall are close enough to my ideal.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        Oddly enough I actually pre-ordered a physical copy of Primordia, and got a ways into it before stopping for some reason. I should really go back and finish it!