For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk

Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty

The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.

Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.

  • RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today
    18·
    1 day ago

    The Witcher games. Everyone tells me how great they are and I have tried playing them, but it just feels like a chore and it never hooks me.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      While each one of those games climbed mountains mechanically, they started in daggerfall and ended in Morrowind, with less charm.

    • Yaky@slrpnk.net
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.

      (The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)

      • thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.

        Not a huge fan of Gwent myself, but that’s basically the point of the game. The path to victory is using your cards carefully, and to collect more from around the world to have good ones so you need to play fewer to win a round.

        Also, I found that the best way to win is to intentionally lose a round while making the opponent waste as many cards as possible on that.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      TW2’s combat and overall gameplay I could stomach and even enjoy, but for some reason I could never do the same with TW3 (and RDD too, they just felt so slow). Which is a pity cause it looks like a great game if I could just get over its, well, gameplay. 🙃