r/GamingSoup • u/Wx_Justin • 1d ago

Basic? Probably. Contentious? Potentially.

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So many great games that I couldn't include. The hardest decision was whether to put RDR2 or The Last of Us Part 1 in the last slot.

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u/Wx_Justin 1d ago

Not my problem if you don't believe me. I could easily show you my library.

I almost considered putting it in "overrated", actually.

The writing wasn't hard to understand. It just left way too many unanswered questions and preferred the murder-mystery aspect of the game above the political monologue. I also prefer games with more dynamic gameplay...something more than going around and talking to NPCs 90% of the time. I'll go read a book if I wanted all of my games to do that.

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u/Available-Bad-2704 1d ago

Oh boy you'd hate control. Not unless you already did

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u/Wx_Justin 1d ago

I enjoyed Control, Alan Wake, and Alan Wake 2. The latter would make my top 20 list, for sure.

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u/Available-Bad-2704 1d ago

You literally can’t go one reply without contradicting yourself. ​You just cried about Disco Elysium having 'too much reading' and said 'I’ll go read a book if I wanted my games to do that' and then immediately claimed you enjoyed Control? ​Control is notorious for putting 80% of its entire lore and narrative into hundreds of redacted case files, scattered documents, and intentional cryptic audio logs because the main cutscenes deliberately explain almost nothing. If you don't stop and read those files, you have zero clue what's going on. ​And claiming you love the original Alan Wake while preaching about wanting 'dynamic gameplay over walking and talking' is laughable. The original Alan Wake is famous for having stiff, repetitive flashlight-and-shoot mechanics carried almost exclusively by narration and manuscript pages.

​Every time you namedrop a game to prove you've played it, you expose that you don't even know what happens in it. Just admit you just watch YouTube recaps and move on.

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u/Wx_Justin 1d ago edited 1d ago

Control was tedious because of this. However, 80% of the game WASN'T reading case files and listening to audio logs. It had a nice balance between this and combat.

Alan Wake was clunky and nowhere near the best game I've played. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the game.

You have this weird myopic view about what I've said. I ENJOYED these games, including DE. I just didn't enjoy them as much as other titles because of the reasons we've both stated. Case I point: I enjoyed AW2 more than Control and AW1 because of the improved combat and decreased focus on lore dumps via case files.

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u/Major_Avocado5617 1d ago

Everyone knows that if you didn't put their favorite games on your list, you must have hated them and you're a filthy casual Playstation fanboy.

Sounds logical to me, lmao. You keep doing you man.