I'm an old school gamer.... Man I used to game alot....
Anyway I was just thinking I find it a bit funny that I found it absolutely no problem at all to complete Shenmue 3 whereas this year I have played Red Dead Redemption 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider, the new Spider Man and the new metal gear solid and I didn't come anywhere near close to completing them! Honestly sometimes I head scratch when I read some of the reviews about Shenmue?? The last modern game I remember completing was gears of war 1 on xbox....
Anyway I think I'll dabble in Yakuza to try something new. If anyone has any suggestions for other games to try it'd be much appreciated!
Weirdly enough...I’m kind of in the same boat (to some extent)....I’m still very much into gaming...it’s pretty much 90% of my entertainment binge but lately I’ve been REALLY struggling to get into or finish most single player narrative games. I never finished RDR 2 (left it at Chapter 4 — I liked it but just never got around to finishing it), I’m struggling to start Death Stranding...I have it installed to my HDD but for some reason, I just can’t commit to starting it because I just can’t be assed to sit through the tedium of cut scenes that I know I’m gonna have to sit through.
For me, lately, I’ve actually really been into fighting games online. I’ve racked up over 600 hours this year on Tekken 7 online alone.
Yet there are other SP games that get me and won’t let me leave until they’re done —Judgment, Yakuza, Shenmue III, Catherine, FF8 among others from this year alone.
I don’t know what it is but I think a lot of newer games are just becoming too bogged down with telling their story and yanking control away from the player way too often. It’s either long stretches of traversing landscape to get to the mission. Or long sections of in between setting up plot to disguise loading. I feel like most modern day games just either get too bogged down with story telling that they yank away control all too often. And I’m a bit over it.
It’s actually why I’m worried about The Last of Us 2...after Uncharted 4, I feel like TLOU 2 is going to be SOOOO bogged down in telling its story that its going to detract from the actual gameplay.
It’s why I didn’t like the God of War sequel from last year. Way too bogged down with making you feel and little in the way of compelling combat. (that and it neutered the punk rock vibes I loved about the original games in favour of ripping off TLOU)
I don’t know...modern day SP campaigns are more concerned with yanking control from you and telling great story through cut scenes instead of pushing story through gameplay.
And it bugs me. That and I feel like some game directors have a real inferiority complex. It’s like they want to be film directors but got stuck being game directors...and somehow that’s shameful.
So I kind of hear you OP.
. That wasted almost 5 hours of my time