• yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19 days

    “Motorcycle section” puts me off this game more than anything else I’ve heard.

    To my ear, “motorcycle section” screams single-level set-piece on rails with minimal gameplay designed to show off explosions. Just like that level where you man a minigun out the door of a helicopter. You know the one, from every game released in the 2010s.

  • KRAW@linux.communityEnglish
    19 days

    I find it kind of funny that Spider-Man is held up as some sort of golden standard to adhere to in all of this. Spider-Man is also very average game imo. The gameplay is not very compelling, and it’s no surprise that Insomniac’s approach would overstay its welcome after a couple of games. Doubly so when you move from Spider-Man, a character with a more diverse moveset and inherent better traversal abilities, to Wolverine.

    • terranoid@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      19 days

      They literally just got web slinging right and the childhood dream of a game where you fly through building and stop random crimes as Spiderman worked as it did in your imagination.

      that was a big feat but yeah, those games were over hyped when they were basically just really fun to move around in

      • hakase@lemmy.zipEnglish
        19 days

        Spider-Man 2 already did this decades ago, and there was actually a learning curve to that game’s traversal, making it way more satisfying when you got good at it.

      • LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.socialEnglish
        18 days

        It’s not quite that simple. The first game also had THE best story and adaptation of the character we’ve ever seen.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18 days

    I stopped playing Death Stranding because it was nothing but one long cut scene at the start and I still had no idea what the game was about after it stopped. I have rage quite a number of ‘on rails’ games. I can find other things to do rather then watch a poorly made interactive movie.