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?
Monster Hunter(World & Rise). I have played over 1k hours of Dark Souls 1&2 and my mate has 5k+ hours in the MH series. I gave it multiple tries but I can’t get into the combat mechanics. It feels too slow, while being pretty complex. And then there’s also quite some cutscenes, which is something that quickly turns my dumb brain off. :(
The hardest part for some people is getting through the story because MH games are notorious for “story? There’s a story here?” They try, but it’s never really that engaging. Definitely don’t try Wilds if you don’t like story stuff because that game they actually tried to push the story front an center. I really enjoyed it though, but I just love all Monster Hunter games lol
After the story (basically a long tutorial) it’s all just hunt hunt hunt hunt, there are no more cutscenes to worry about. If you can power through the story, or just chip away at it a little at a time, you might enjoy it more.
As for the combat, maybe you haven’t found the right weapon. Dual blades are really fast, the insect glaive is fairly fast and you can dart around in the air, sword and shield can be decently quick as well.
So the thing that I learned - which really improved my time with World (I haven’t played Wilds more than ten minutes because I play on PC, and it was TERRIBLE there) was that MH’s combat is all about positioning and early reading of enemy tells. You need to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time to get off a good set of hits without getting punished too badly, and you aren’t going to be able to dodge attacks like you’re used to doing in DaS games. Making good use of your slinger and the environment is also way more important than you might initially think.
There is also, however, the fact that it throws a bajillion mechanics at you without good opportunity to absorb them. It didn’t really click with me until I went through it with a seven-year-old.