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what game?
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Mario Sunshine
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saints row 4
MGS V
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Deus Ex: Invisible War
Thief 3
Fallout 3/NV
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Who cares, people who say this are faggots who love to complain.
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Deus Ex: Invisible War
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Fallout 4
Fallout New Vegas
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obligatory Doom 3 post
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Diablo 3
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Total war: Warhammer 1,2,3
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No such thing. If it isn't a good *series name* game, then it's not a good game.
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Explain how DmC a bad game then
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>>728953926
You like it, so it's certainly a trash game
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Deadspace 3
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>Asscreed black flag
Dogshit assassins game but cool pirate game
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The 3rd Birthday Parasite Eve.

Universally hated by parasite eve fans, but as a game it is way above average.
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Age of Empires 3
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Dark Souls 2
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The one and only DmC
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GTA IV
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Breath of the wild
Three houses
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No finer example of this than Dark Souls 2. It's a shame because it really does some things great but there's just so much that falls flat and especially inbetween ds1 and ds3 its really glaring.
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Guilty Gear Strive
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Crime Boss: Rockay City
Bought it on sale, but so far core Payday 2 is just better
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Banjo Kazooie N&B is unironically a good vehicle-building game. It just shouldn't have been a Banjo-Kazooie game.
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Red Dead Redemption

It didn't need a sequel.
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Engranaje metalico solid V
Zelda Twilight Princess
Doom 3
DmC
Sonic Lost World
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DaS2 isn't what I think of but that's because when I think of the quote in OP I think of "game that's good for what it's trying to be but disappoints by being too fundamentally different to capture the essence of the other games associated with it."
Mechanically and thematically DaS2 does a fine enough job expanding upon the original, it's just a bad Souls game because the game's quality just isn't as high as anything that came before or after. It's less "Good game but bad Souls game" and more "OK action RPG that's disappointing compared to the other games in its series".
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I will stand by saying that N&B would have been positively received if Banjo didn't look so fucking ugly in it.
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Font image threads are fucking shit
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MGSV
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Doom 2016
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Arcania: Gothic 4
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Resident Evil 4 is the clear poster child of this. It cut down on like 2/3rds of the RE formula - horror and adventure - to go absolutely ham on polishing up the remaining third - action. Very good action game, very lacking Resident Evil game.

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This is another very good example.
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Twilight Princess is arguably the last Zelda game that stuck to convention before the series started completely losing its way. I'd say Wind Waker is a better nominee - they wanted to make a seafaring game but were rushed into making a lackluster OoT clone. At least with TP, coloring within the lines appeared to be the general point of it.
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I wish the tears gathering wolf parts weren't so fucking shit and the color palette wasn't so fucking brown
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That was OoT. Majoras, WW and TP alike are flawed big time when it comes to be the core of a Zelda gameplay; all too easy at the very base of them.
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KCD2 is a terrible KCD game.
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I swear this game started the trend of it in the first place. I loved it, thought it was a dogshit Splinter Cell
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FFXVI
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The tears parts aren't well conceived but the first two are probably shorter than you remember. Arguably shouldn't have been there at all but they cumulatively take maybe an hour and a half to work through.

Color palette's not really brown so much as it is muted and a bit rustic. The whole of the game looks fine, if not a bit limited by the hardware. Definitely an overuse of bloom in the twilight realm for sure, they had too much fun with that shit.

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Majora's Mask is fine in the same way Link's Awakening is fine - more linear than what came before it, but in a way that isn't downright insulting. It's also verifiably harder than OoT, plus I'm not about to discount the Oracles duology. Zelda was damn solid up through 2001. WW wanted to innovate but didn't have the time, and MC/TP at least tried to stick to convention on purpose. After that, it is what it is. At least ALBW was pretty good out of nowhere.
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Majora's Mask
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Fallout 3.
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fallout 4 or 3
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>Majora's Mask is fine in the same way Link's Awakening is fine - more linear than what came before it, but in a way that isn't downright insulting
Time limit is not a good thing in zelda as general design. Let alone being side quest the game
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Jak X
Liberty/Vice City Stories
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Maybe if the game hadn't used the time limits to push some of the more experimental overworld ideas in a Zelda game then sure. As I see it Majora's stuck its neck out to try something different, and did so in a way that was more respectful of the foundation than, say, Skyward Sword or Breath of the Wild. It was a risk, and one of the better executed ones in the series IMO. Maybe the length of the dungeons took a hit for them, but they make up for that in having some of the best concepts and bosses in 3D Zelda. I dunno, I have no issues with MM's time limits but I can see it being a "good game, but a bad Zelda" because of them I guess.
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You know it.
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Fallout 4
it's a great game if you pretend it's a Borderlands rip off made by no-name devs. It's fucking awful if you treat it like it's a real Fallout game
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Fallout 1/2
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NPCs
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Paper Mario Sticker Star, unironically.
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>>728963194
It should have been one instead of both. I'd say being sidequest driven was a far better choice than apllying a time limit to it

>As I see it Majora's stuck its neck out to try something different, and did so in a way that was more respectful of the foundation than, say, Skyward Sword or Breath of the Wild
I have to disagree; SS appealed to the crowd that thought TP was objectively the way to go making mre focus around combat. Turns out they were wrong and Zelda wasn't about combat at all, let alone the way to evolve the series Meanwhile BotW chose to trace back to be an adventure, more free type of game like it used to be with the first game, and they were right. If anything the latter was far more respectful despite the execution of it leaving a trail of seething
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>>728960817
I've said it a million times and I'll say it again
If Conviction was a Jason Bourne game then it would be one of the most well-loved licensed video games ever made.
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We see things very differently. I see SS as a giant puzzle game almost devoid of actual combat and completely devoid of an actual overworld, with Skyloft effectively being a slightly less good Clock Town. Great if you want everything to be a dungeon puzzle but a complete betrayal of everything else, and I say this as someone who ultimately loved TP. BotW is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, the formula needed updating but if SS went too far in turning everything into a puzzle then BotW went just as far in the opposite direction turning everything into the overworld. Like 90% of it doesn't matter and it struggles to establish a memorable sense of place and identity like every Zelda before it did quite effortlessly. It's a mechanics-driven sandbox. Fine, but it misses the mark of Zelda as much as SS did in my eyes, but for very different reasons.
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>Ocarina of Time fan hates every single other Zelda game except Ocarina of Time
Why is this so common?
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super paper mario
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Based. Majora’s Mask is one of those games that aged into a masterpiece. At launch people whined about the time loop and sidequest focus, but now we realize it was Nintendo experimenting in a way they never would again. The atmosphere, the existential dread, the insane NPC scheduling-all of it hits harder than any other Zelda. It’s not a traditional entry, but it’s easily one of the most honest and unique.
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Super Paper Mario
Metroid Prime 4
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Fallout Shelter.
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Honestly, yeah.
One of the few good Asscreed games specifically because of all the parts that isn't Asscreed.
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Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
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max payne 3
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>>728964721
Stop projecting
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New vegas is dogshit game and meh fallout game.
4 was full of flaws, only level design was good.
3 is the one that is "Good/decent game" but bad fallout (although you can see that bethesda really tried to capture the spirit of fallout, they fell just short of good)
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Skyrim
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/thread
If only they removed the connection to that shitty series. And no. Not like Skull and Bones where they proceed to monetize every fucking thing
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killing floor 2. it's a good game but it's not killing floor. 3 is neither a good game or a killing floor game
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Vtmb 2 (not even a good game but once you ignore all connections to Bloodlines 1 it gets easier to swallow)
Spider-Man 2 (2023)
Dues Ex Mankind Divided
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Etrian Odyssey Untold Story 1
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Mass effect 2
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Having never ever played a Donkey Kong game I can say DK Bonanza looks like a dogshit Donkey Kong game but everything else is fine.
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>>728968487
Probably true. I don't play many RPGs but I loved 1, yet dropped 2 in a matter of hours. It removed damn near everything I liked about 1.
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by your logic ds3 is shit because ds3 is shit and it's shit and uhh ds3 is shit lol
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O Lord the great collapse
Won't be our end
When the world falls into the flames we will rise again!

We will Rise again
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Kirby's Epic Yarn, but only if you play for 100% completion. Does not apply for a single percent less.
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>>728968487
Mass Effect 2 was the best Mass Effect game, and one of the best games ever made. Try again.
>>728968687
Nigga you gay.
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And if an actual Banjo game had come out near it.
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Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
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Seconding this. Nintendo has no fucking clue how to manage it'a IPs, and to a lesser extent pokemon. When your IPs have such a resonating impact on the general public you need to keep producing to their strengths. Instead, they would rather shoehorn ridiculous gimmicks and dilute the brand to the point of a slow, whimpering death. We needed more 2D platformers for DKC, not another sandboxslop like breath of the wild. This is why nintendo and even pokemon will die out in the next 30 years when their core fanbase loses interest and their frankenstein corpse of an IP will have no relevance with the public.
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Still hilarious that Black Flag, an Assassin's Creed game trying to be a pirate game, was a better pirate game than Skull & Bones, a deliberate pirate game. And both were made by the same fucking studio!
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Dark Souls II, 100%
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Edgy devil may cry
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>>728968487
this
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>>728969375
You can call me whatever you want. It's the game that kickstarted my lack of faith in AAA. Haven't budged in the last 15 years on that, not starting now.
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Hitman Absolution. It's one of the best stealth action games/third person shooters I've ever played yet when it came out faggots and retards could not handle that it was more action-oriented than previous games, also I genuinely don't understand why the killer nuns upset people so much, there was practically rioting in the streets from deranged WRONG faggots like Totalbiscuit because god forbid there's silly sexy bdsm nuns in a game.
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Pokémon Legends Arceus, it's the only great Pokémon game released since bw2 but It doesn't have the core Pokémon gameplay loop that I enjoy. I'm more of a battlefag then a catchfag. I enjoyed Z-A slightly more because of this ignoring that fact that Arceus is a much more well made game.
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>3 is the one that is "Good/decent game"
>you can see that bethesda really tried to capture the spirit of fallout,
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DXHR and MD
DXIW is just straight up trash, it's only technically better in the story as it's a sequel to the original good DX
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DmC is pretty fun but its place in the series and the way it spits all over the history of the series up to that point makes it deserving of its reputation
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Anno 2205
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The nuHitman games also fit this decently I think
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That's just a bad game
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Doom 3 and 4 are barely Doom games and don't work at all as successors to the first two games, but I enjoy both of them
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MH Rise/Sunbreak
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>>728968487
Somebody else gets it. I missed having an engrossing story like 1, I wasn't a fan of the sidequest simulator. It felt like one of those games where the little things were better, but the broad strokes weren't as good and it was less soulful than 1.
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the moment people realized the fact that "your ship has stamina", it was already over for S&B. AAAA game, everyone.
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Are you guys actually retarded or just pretending to be retarded?
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I am actually retarded thank you very much
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Assault Horizon
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Someone with adequate brainpower wouldn't feel the need to even ask this
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No, we understand the topic.
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bg3
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extremely true
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hmm.........
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hmmmm............... nyo
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Metroid Prime Hunters
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>didn't read the rest of the post
you are the nigger.
I didn't say they did, I said they tried.
Go look the old E3 and IGN videos from before the game came out, with the devs talking about what they were working on. I would say that if Todd wasn't fucking everything up F3 would have been a great game AND a great fallout.

Dunno why I am even replying, you are probably mad because of my Troon Vegas opinion
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There is no such thing as good series name game, its either a good game or a bad game, if its different from its prequel that doesnt mean shit, as long as its good.
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Likely more examples, but the three that come to mind immediately are Halo 4, Star Fox Adventures, and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

Halo 4 is a decent generic Sci Fi FPS, but it's a TERRIBLE Halo game (literally only Cortana was the highlight).

Star Fox Adventures is not a bad Action/Adventure, just an awful Star Fox game.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts isn't a bad kart-building game, just a dreadful Banjo-Kazooie.

This is the part where I would say "Killzone: Shadowfall!" but no, that's a bad game by itself and an even worse Killzone.
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Silent Hill 4: The Room.
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hey pikmin
chibi robo ziplash
botw
halo odst
halo reach
kid icarus uprising
ff xvi
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how was it good? super paper mario or origami king i can see
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Ootsnoys
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>Kid Icarus Uprising
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Mercenaries 2
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DmC is an OK DMC game and an OK game
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this used to be the poster boy
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Bayonetta 3
Metroid Dread
Ninja Gaiden 4
Demon's Souls (but in this case it's because it's better than any other souls game)
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>>728973187
Debatable on the "good" part. It's very 50/50.
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Pretty much every single Nintendo 64 game
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This complaint was always stupid. Niggas are still seething about Resident Evil 4 (2005) for ruining the series til this day.
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Exploration in Metroid post-Super has so far lost the plot that Dread can be argued to be a step back in the right direction relative to its release.
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anything new DooM related since 2016
but they're not even good games
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DS2
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chrono cross
shit sequel, great game
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>>728974163
You can argue against how it's applied at times but the complaint itself is fundamentally indisputable
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>>728974329
pfft
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>>728974363
It's "disputable" if you have no respect for the identity of a series. If you can remove any worth in that concept then the problem doesn't exist. Basically, turn your critical assessment skills off and it's nothing to worry about.
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If you remove any grounds for you to raise a dispute then it becomes disputable however in doing so you've rendered the dispute meaningless, returning to indisputable
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>>728974895
Not really the takeaway I meant for anyone to get out of that observation, but I guess if you want to see it that way you can.
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FF16
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>>728974210
That's actually a good take
Attempting to replicate the inimitable qualities of SM has produced so many shit ass Metroidvanias in general, let alone Metroid mainlines. Dread is alright in comparison.
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Too bad the sequel sucked
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Sex with Hitler 2. It was a good game but I felt like they lost a lot of what made SWH1 a great game
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Resident Evil 6
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Bayonetta 2
I would say 3 but I have yet to play it
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Paper Mario: The Origami King
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>ziplash
even looking at it as a platformer it's painfully generic and not well designed at all
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>>728977321
3 is better than 2 but even less similar to 1 so it's a good candidate for this thread. Bayo Origins is also a great candidate since it's wildly different in gameplay AND tone but it's also the second-best game in the series after 1.
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ALL sequels
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banjo kazooie nuts and bolts
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Doom 3, Eternal and Dark Ages.
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>>728977686
Classic Megaman would like to have a word with you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an obvious one.
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>MM7 and MM8
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>>728977897
Notice how you had to skip 2-6 to try to make your point?
I did.
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>>728978010
But 2 is the quintessential good megaman game and 6's flaws aren't that bad in the big picture with some autists being triggered about the slide frames
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>>728977749
>Dark Ages
>good game
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Botw
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Trails into Daybreak
good JRPG
but doesn't reach the heights of the Trails series
though I am happy it makes queers on /v/ and r/games seethe so I look forward to the replies ;)
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>>728977897
Still generally better than 1.

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2's not even one of the better ones, but it too is better than 1.
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cope mindset, no one would ever bother to defend half of the games listed here if they weren't part of a famous series already
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>>728978010
2 is not a real megaman game because they completely removed the old cast and replaced it with their quirk chungus OCs
no cut man
no guts man
no ice man
no bomb man
no fire man
no elec man
fuck you man
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Dying Light [spoilers] the first one
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>>728978306
>Still generally better than 1.
MM1 is the literal foundation; there's nothing inherently wrong with it and its formula. Unlike MM7/8 bringing a store and grind prospect to it

>2's not even one of the better ones
MM2 is the best, until 9 came around
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>>728953050
Who cares, people who complain about these threads are faggots who love to complain
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>>728952909
All games are going to be bad if you hold them to artifical standards.
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I actually like Bioshock Infinite if you look at it as a more linear shooter than as an immersive sim like the first two games, though I can understand why people take issues with the different gameplay style and some of the writing. Still think it's the weakest out of the trilogy though.
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>>728978579
I'm not saying anything is inherently wrong with it. I'm saying that almost every game after 1 improved on the foundation.

>MM2 is the best, until 9 came around
9 is the best and it absolutely blows 2 away. They are foundationally similar, but one is a much better overall game. The only ones I'd say I like less than 2 are 1, 5 and 7. At the absolute minimum, 4 also leaves it in the dust.
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>>728954805
This
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>>728978779
Your post reads with more sincerety if you take the word "artificial" out of it. What an inane thing to assert.
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>>728978835
>I'm saying that almost every game after 1 improved on the foundation.
I think MM1 is above all because only 1 had the boss rush/robot master rematch properly applied. MM9 came to be to appeal to the MM2 crowd, 9 being the best is only proof why MM2 is extremely good/too tier entry. They're bound in the same vein as MM3 and 10
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>>728952909
Max Payne 2
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>>728978996
1 doesn't have my least favorite levels but it's definitely rough. You can see how many ideas 2 added AND removed from it in refinement, and it still had its rough patches despite that. 9 doesn't excel because it's "just like 2", that doesn't mean anything. It excels because its level designs and special weapons are truly exceptional. 9 hits you hard and you can hit back even harder.
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>>728964193
Didnt Bourne get his own game?
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Dragon Age 2.
It was a good hack n slash
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>>728980949
yeah but it sucked
Conviction captured the Bourne vibe and was a much better game
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>>728981029
I don't think it really did.

A big part of Bourne is that he's doing things of his own volition. Following his own lead. Telling the government to fuck off and leave him alone. Always two steps ahead.

Fisher in Conviction is the opposite of that. He's being lead around by the nose. Immediately falling back into the government fold. Always two steps behind.

All it had that you could call "Bourne-esque" is take downs.



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