To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.
Maybe you thinking in “well, you shouldn’t play the second first”. I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn’t get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.
I don’t like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.
That’s my experience in a few words.
What’s the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?
Nier series, expected way more from the stories
I only played Nier Automata after reading a lot of praise about it. I played through it once, but it didn’t really “click” for me. I didn’t play it again to get a different ending.
Hot take I only like the first Nier and playing as old man dad nier not Final Fantasy brother nier. The gameplay is bad but I love the story far more than Automata.
I played up to the tutorial boss, died and then realized there are no checkpoints and all of the dialogue and cutscenes were unskippable and immediately turned off the game.
(Un?)Fortunately I have Ninja Gaiden experience, so only the halfway boss was hard for me, and even that only because I didn’t restock on healing, while the rest of the game was pretty much hitting bullet sponges until they finally die, because I didn’t do any side quests nor grind. One enemy was 20 levels above me and took like 5 minutes to destroy while instakilling me. Only needed 15-20 minutes in total to get through that one.