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I hate how Nintendo feels the need to cram system features into every game just to say that they're supporting said features, the latest gimmick being Amiibo integration to make those $13 paperweights feel like they have a purpose. It was just as bad when Fire Emblem Awakening's spotpass features broke the game's balance and how Smash Bros. 3DS has streetpass features for some reason.
This ties into the above, but I feel like modern nintendo games are lacking a solid identity these days. Whether its forcing every game to have similar feature sets (like how Sakurai rips features from his previous games to shove into his new ones so he doesn't have to come up with anything new), showing characters interacting with the hardware (Bowser holding a wiiu gamepad in the mario party 10 cover looks really stupid) or giving their games some
really generic names.
The dialogue in Nintendo Treehouse localizations make me cringe. Games with selfie modes also do, for that matter.
Demon's Souls is still the best souls game, though Dark Souls has some better boss fights.
I'd never felt physical pain from playing games until I played Kid Icarus Uprising. The worst controls I've ever seen in a game.
Ninja Theory are incapable of making a good video game. Enslaved was the embodiment of all the worst aspects of the ps360 generation. DmC was mediocre game, which is higher praise than I'd give Enslaved and Heavenly Sword, and was only as ok as it was thanks to Capcom's supervision.
Yoko Shinomura music has been incredibly boring ever since she got involved in Kingdom Hearts. She literally remakes the same music for each game, and even FF15's battle theme feels like it belongs in Kingdom Hearts.
Final Fantasy 6 is half-trash. World of Balance is alright, but then the game turns to shit in World of Ruin. Ridculously easy, has the most boring world in the series, a messy un-focused cast where only like 2 dudes get proper character arcs, every dungeon and almost 80% of the dungeons you go to are caves so everything looks the same.
Square Enix is in a great spot to make itself relevant again following the 13 shit-show. A shame that the only smart people at that company are stuck working solely on A Realm Reborn, though Tabata looks to know what he's doing with 15 (and can actually make a game in a reasonable timeframe, unlike Nomura).
I can't stand most dungeon crawlers and roguelikes. I get really bored playing games where I can't actively look at my characters performing actions, even if its as simple as what
7th Dragon does.
The only PS2 mascot series that had a good second game is Ratcher & Clank. Both Sly 2 and Jak 2 are garbage.
Bioshock 2 is the best game of the three. The story quality took a hit (who cares) but it had the most fun gameplay setups, abilities and plasmids. 1 is ok, Infinite is a huge pretentious turd.
Uncharted 1 and Golden Abyss are my favorite of the series cause they focus more on gameplay than story. I could only play 2 and 3 once before shelving them forever, just playing them once removes all the surprise from playing on higher difficulties.
Mega Man 1 is better than Mega Man 2. Mega Man 9 is garbage despite having the best power-ups in the series. The rest are varying degrees of ok.
Mass Effect 2 is shit. The first game wasn't the greatest either, but there was more potential for the franchise coming out of that game than turning it into a corridor based shooter that trimed away every important customization option and whose idea of difficulty was to give everything more armor/do more damage. Obsidian's Alpha Protocol is what ME2 should have been. The developer/media reaction to ME3 being shit was embarrassing to watch.
Ni no Kuni is one of the worst games on the PS3. The art is all it has going for it, the game treats you like a 5 year old, the combat is really basic and boring, traversal is a chore, most quests revolve around fetching stuff or fighting RNG to have one monster drop one item/capture said monster. The second half of the game is a literal rehash of everything the game already did that only serves to exist the game's playtime by like 10 more hours.
