You don't have to like everything: some games leave me cold
You don't have to like everything
I really approached Returnal with the plan to love it.The atmosphere, the story, the grounded character, all of that appealed to me in advance. Oh, and of course the fabulous graphics didn't bother me either!
When I played it, this love was confirmed - for a short time. The gunplay feels really great, I like the world design, the controls are really very successful.
But: It's just a rogue-like. And Rogie-likes and me, we don't like each other.
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1 Live. The. Repeat. 2 Uncivilized 3 Building desire 4 A good reason to sleep 5 But I want to! 6 What do we learn from this? I tried it for a few hours, fought my way to the end of the second biome and thought the whole time: Why, damn it, is all this randomly generated? Why am I not allowed to keep the upgrades I have collected? So where's the fun in doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over?Recommended editorial content At this point you will find external content from [PLATTFORM]. To protect your personal data, external integrations are only displayed if you confirm this by clicking on "Load all external content": Load all external content I consent to external content being displayed. This means that personal data is transmitted to third-party platforms. Read more about our privacy policy . External content More on this in our data protection declaration. Yeah, so I gave up. Although I would have loved to do it, I will never find out what the mysterious astronaut is all about, never find a conclusion for the protagonist Selene's story.
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You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (8) Source: Lukas Schmid Lukas Schmid has been working in various functions at Computec Media and thus at PC Games since 2010 , first as an intern, then as a freelancer, then as a volunteer, editor and now as chief editor for pcgames.de, videogameszone.de, gamesaktuell.de and gamezone.de. He loves action, adventure, action adventures, shooters, jump & runs, horror and role-playing games, you can hunt him with strategy titles, most rogue likes and military simulations. Every Saturday at around 9 a.m. he tells you in his column what is annoying or happy about him. Hate comments and love letters are welcome in the comments under the column, to [email protected] or on Twitter to @Schmid_Luki.Live. The. Repeat.
Before that inevitably happens: No, my premature abandonment of the game is not because Returnal was too difficult for me. It's crisp, but within a bearable framework, so I cursed more with Bloodborne.Read also PC PS5 0
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The team behind Terminator: Resistance is working on a new first person shooter based on Robocop's official film license. var lstExcludedArticleTicker = '1376511,1375947,1375436,1375405'; You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (1) Source: PC Games But just rogue-like! The fascinating thing is, I can even fully understand the appeal of the genre. Always try something, get better, understand the game more than just following a story or a level structure. I don't really have a problem with repetition, I play Ubisoft games after all. So I like the idea, and in theory I enjoy it - but only there.It doesn't matter whether the thing is called Returnal, Hades or Ulfi's adventure in the repetitive dungeon, I'll get out immediately as soon as I've picked up the controller and started.
Uncivilized
You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (5) Source: PC Games That's not the only one Genre that I feel like that. Well, sports games, but my aversion is primarily due to the fact that football, but also basketball or American football, in reality, irritates me about as much as cirrhosis of the liver.But real-time strategy, for example. I find the idea of collecting resources, creating units and / or cultivating or conquering stretches of land exciting. All good, but give me a mouse and keyboard and Civilization 6, and within minutes I am looking for an activity that puts me in a better mood, for example solving math exams on the Internet or light knocks in the soft tissues. You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (6) Source: Nintendo
Baulust
Sometimes it's not entire genres, but individual games that leave me cold. I love level editors, I love to be creative and to see virtual structures arise in front of me. Super Mario Maker, the construction sets in the main parts of the Far Cry series, in the past easy steps in the RPG Maker - great!Minecraft, on the other hand, I just have to look and I feel like going into a slight coma.
No, that is not because of the hype and also not because of the block graphics. What is it then? If I knew I would say This thing, which should be a lot of fun for me, just doesn't do anything for me.
Once again I can fully understand the attraction of it, and when I see any videos of fantastic giant buildings on YouTube, I think often enough about getting on board. This decision sometimes lasts for a good five minutes.
A good reason to sleep
You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (7) Source: Wargaming.net You have to like everything? No of course not. But the examples mentioned and many more are just cases in which I would just like to know what keeps me from enjoying them.There are games and genres, I know exactly why I don't like them . I can be hunted with military shooters because I find this exaggerated patriotic crap full of banal boom effects and really lousy storytelling (in the campaigns) just terrible. Ditto something like World of Tanks, I find it so incredibly boring that I had to start over three times while writing this sentence because I nodded off several times at the thought of the game.
But I want to !
You don't have to like everything: Some games leave me cold (3) Source: Mojang But I WOULD really like to like the games where I can't put my finger on my dislike. Returnal made that clear to me like seldom a game before. I really feel like I'm missing something because I don't like to play it.Just get over it and do it anyway even though I get angry all the time? I don't know, I don't think that's ideal. But I don't just want to look up the story on YouTube or read it, I want to experience it. "Why aren't you just a Metroidvania", that thought was floating around in my head the whole time while playing.
And you can laugh about it, I find Minecrafts' lore somehow exciting. Because experiencing it myself is not as important to me as it is with Returnal, I actually made myself a little bit smart, and I was fascinated by what the fanbase of theories about the Endermen, the meaning of the Nether and co me very much.
Well, it's just stupid that I'm not part of this fanbase.
What do we learn from this?
Is there a moral in the story? Not really, and not a satisfactory solution that I would see. Some experiences, some stories will just be forever denied me - and I cannot blame anyone but myself.How is it with you? Which games, which genre trigger nothing or even negative emotions in you? Please tell me in the comments, I would be interested to know whether there are certain causalities, for example, that certain genres are particularly often rejected.
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