[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I agree with Parmy - any yearly churned-out sports title is going to be just bad.

I'm going to nominate an Uncharted also but for me it's Uncharted 3. Uncharted and Uncharted 2 were amazing games. 3 felt like a quick cash-in after 2 and had some glaring issues with both the story pacing and the gunplay (in a semi-"realistic" game you should not be able to shoot an un-helmeted human in the head 4 times and still have them shoot back!).

To add a 3rd... not a game that's bad, but one I did find disappointing... Horizon Forbidden West. I absolutely --loved-- Zero Dawn and was hyoe for the sequel but for me it fell short - the story as you got into it in Zero Dawn went to a really quite dark place with the lore and I felt like the sequel needed to carry on that pace... but it felt like treading water with more of the same. I wanted more of an evolution. It was just a bit of a generic "Ubisoft-like" open world... "Assassins Creed: Machine Apocalypse".

I agree with some of your criticisms towards Uncharted 3, although I did find it entertaining to some extent, even if it weren't as good as the first two imo.

And I do agree with your assessment on Horizon: Forbidden West, I personally liked aspects of the Game, but for me the tribal stuff was really boring imo, I've seen cultures like that be done better in other fiction.

And when it comes to Sports Games I find that they're hit and miss for me, I liked FIFA 23 and NHL 16 (I think it was that one anyway) but overall the Sports genre feels like it's on a really long dry spell over the last decade (including most of the FIFA Games) I stand by (although not a yearly released Sports Sim) that Inazuma Eleven is the best Sports Games series over the last decade, I can't wait for when Victory Road comes out in 30 years time.