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?
The Mako copy pasted barren planets with the same 3 buildings bullshit is half the fucking game. Soooo much bland padding. The main story I enjoy but ut’s actually kinda short by itself. I don’t think Mass Effect 1 is very good compared to the older game it ripped off wholesale:
Star Control 2.
If you do a 100% run, it’s probably a bit more than half. If you just bum rush the story, the Mako stuff might be around 30%? But you can’t say it’s copied and pasted, all the story worlds are individual. I think there were 3 of them you had to do, then there was the one with the beaches, and then after that the jungle planet, so, five? But only the lava planet had significant Mako parts. The rest were a mix of on-foot, Mako, shooting, and conversations.
The real magic with ME1 was the stuff that carried over to 2 and 3. ME2 was better in every way.