Good games you don't love - Page 2

*Andrew NDB* · 11-21-2025, 03:44 PM

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Yeah, they incorporated it into Arthur’s back story that he’s celibate because he had a child with a hooker that ended up passing way from TB or something while he was away. He was so guilt ridden that he swore off cooze.

And Arthur gets to go on a few dates with that one breezy but it doesn't even go anywhere. SAD! Compared to something like GTA 3 or 4 where -- if you really want to -- you can juggle about 3 different girlfriends and have sex with all of them.

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But yeah, weird choice. In a game where you’re allowed to choose your own level of morality, no less.

And in Red Dead 1 you're married and same difference.

*Prowler* · 11-21-2025, 03:50 PM

In The Witcher 3, you can have sex with prostitutes in brothels too.

*Andrew NDB* · 11-21-2025, 03:55 PM

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In The Witcher 3, you can have sex with prostitutes in brothels too.

Even the Dragon Warrior/Quest games let you do that. Sort of.

*Prowler* · 11-21-2025, 03:59 PM

Dragon Quest VIII uses a similar joke too

*ToTheNines* · 11-23-2025, 02:53 PM

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And Arthur gets to go on a few dates with that one breezy but it doesn't even go anywhere. SAD! Compared to something like GTA 3 or 4 where -- if you really want to -- you can juggle about 3 different girlfriends and have sex with all of them.

And in Red Dead 1 you're married and same difference.

Yeah it’s such a weird soft-censor.

Nevermind the bad stuff the story requires you to do, just roaming around the map you’re allowed to hurt and kill domesticated animals, kill women, kill minorities, hog tie freed slaves, kill law enforcement and other government officials, commit arson, armed robbery and more. But going to a LEGAL brothel is a bridge too far? When Rockstar’s flagship game lets you do it in a modern setting where it’s highly illegal? I don’t get it.

*CyberCubed* · 11-23-2025, 05:36 PM

Playing the Red Dead games as a criminal doesn't really fit Arthur or especially John's characters, so it's difficult to reconcile. Like John especially was trying to lay down low from the law, he wouldn't go around shooting and killing innocent people.

Not to mention the games actively punish you for breaking the law (sending bounty hunters after you, most stores refuse to sell to you after awhile, etc), so the games steer you away from doing bad things anyway.

*Prowler* · 11-24-2025, 06:12 AM

Perhaps a stretch but:

Street Fighter III: Third Strike

It's objectively speaking, the best Street Fighter game ever made. It's mechanically perfect for an old school 2D fighter, pretty much. But a lot of the cast just doesn't vibe with me. I'd rather have Blanka, Dhalsim and Guile instead of Necro and Remy. And I actually don't dislike Necro and Remy like many SF fans do.

You only get Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Akuma as far as mainstay character go, and Chun-Li was not in vanilla SFIII or Second Impact. Fortunately, she's the best character in the game.

No wonder SFIII was a commercial failure. That and coming out at a time where everyone was moving on from 2D fighters to 3D fighters, of course.

Kold Pizza · 12-27-2025, 09:10 PM

Most modern games past the 7th console generation that are popular I don’t care for. The modern Fallout games and Destiny 2 immediately come to mind. The gameplay easily gets boring and repetitive for me and I usually just go back to older games.

*Prowler* · 12-28-2025, 02:40 AM

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Most modern games past the 7th console generation that are popular I don’t care for. The modern Fallout games and Destiny 2 immediately come to mind. The gameplay easily gets boring and repetitive for me and I usually just go back to older games.

I haven't played those at all. Fallout just doesn't look appealing to me.

*Andrew NDB* · 12-28-2025, 02:43 AM

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I haven't played those at all. Fallout just doesn't look appealing to me.

I've been dabbling in Fallout a bit. I'm really surprised in myself that I didn't play the earliest ones on PC when I was younger as they're a bit tough to get into now (like 1 and 2). I could definitely get into 3, and I'm a bit of the way into 4 but I hit kind of a nasty spot that's a bit discouraging.

*Prowler* · 12-28-2025, 02:55 AM

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I've been dabbling in Fallout a bit. I'm really surprised in myself that I didn't play the earliest ones on PC when I was younger as they're a bit tough to get into now (like 1 and 2). I could definitely get into 3, and I'm a bit of the way into 4 but I hit kind of a nasty spot that's a bit discouraging.

We all miss out on a lot of games. Fallout is just another case for me.

I'll never know if I like it or not but I don't really care to find out either. Don't have time and money to play every single game out there.

11-23-2025, 05:36 PM	#26
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,895	Playing the Red Dead games as a criminal doesn't really fit Arthur or especially John's characters, so it's difficult to reconcile. Like John especially was trying to lay down low from the law, he wouldn't go around shooting and killing innocent people. Not to mention the games actively punish you for breaking the law (sending bounty hunters after you, most stores refuse to sell to you after awhile, etc), so the games steer you away from doing bad things anyway.

12-27-2025, 09:10 PM	#28
Kold Pizza Random Punk Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 20	Most modern games past the 7th console generation that are popular I don’t care for. The modern Fallout games and Destiny 2 immediately come to mind. The gameplay easily gets boring and repetitive for me and I usually just go back to older games.