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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't understand this take. I played the original twice and I never do that unless I really, really enjoyed the game. I legitimately did not enjoy playing this one as I fully agree with one reviewer that aptly called it "Misery Porn". The game itself is very polished as are the production values but it wasn't fun and a chore to play for me. Even if you take out the story's bleak focus on how inherently bad humans are a lot of the gameplay is centered around moving from empty building to empty building searching for items, running into a few zombies and humans, rinse and repeat as there wasn't a lot of variety in the gameplay. If you are going to dismiss my opinion as stupid then I suppose I have to dismiss yours as stupid for liking it.
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Basically what Pepsi said, but basically I'd highlight it as the reasons many felt they were going to rate the game as a 0/10 was stupid just as some of the disregarding of certain aspects to say 10/10 were also seemingly stupid.
Overall, I did enjoy the game, but there were minor things that kinda irked me that I agree with you made certain segments feel like a chore. IMO a huge change that would have gotten rid of the chore like feeling of certain parts of the game would have been a simple reordering of the chapters. IMO a reordering of the chapters could have garnered a 9.0-9.5/10 in its own right, but without that reordering, for me it feel like a 7.0-8.0/10 because of the fact the ordering of the chapters causes some self spoilering of the game and makes you want to rush past certain segments.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don't think he was dismissing your opinion (or my opinion, which matches with yours) as stupid.
I think people are sill stuck on taking the extreme opinions (complaints about a LGBTQ story, about a "trans" character, about certain characters dying, or just tanking it because sky high expectations were not fully met) and suggesting that encompassed most of the criticism. That likely comes from the fact that biased reviewers set that stage early on for people, writing articles suggesting the only people who didn't like the game were bigots or gamergate bros or whatever. When the fact is the vast majority of criticisms have been completely reasonable.
For many people, myself included, it just wasn't very good, or at least not great. There are many valid reasons for why that is, but for me it was technically beautifully and forgettable in almost every other way. The pacing/story was poorly constructed, the gameplay was repetitive and predictable to a fault, the characters and relationships were about as believable as in a B horror movie, and it just wasn't enjoyable.
I don't think people who loved it or wrong, I just find it weird why they dismiss most of the people who didn't love it.
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Yeah, I was mainly addressing the wait many were stretching certain aspects of the game to put out a plethora of 0/10 reviews. The whole thing was more than just garden variety polarizing, it went as far as to have two sides try and negate each other at levels I haven't seen before which was bizarre as hell.