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[Robsoie]

Can't disagree with that.
Lovecraft Untold Stories is the game in which the more i played the more i didn't like it until i just uninstalled.

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Originally i had fun playing with the starting character and his shotgun, the atmosphere was good , though there were some annoyances (the control were "so so" , some rooms are rather cramped making it a pain to fight, the many situation in which you accidentally blow up a chest/container and obtain then nothing ... ) the progression was balanced, new areas were progressively more difficult but still doable and the roll was a good help in some situations.

Then 2nd character is unlocked and things go wrong very quickly : he's weaker than the original character in every ways : he moves slower (as he can't dodge/roll) his weapon is significantly weaker, and his special blue fireball thingy ability can kill him if used too close (and convenientely you'll get nearly only enemies that rush to him from all side).
His starting location is hard but doable, but the second is basically designed to go against all his weakness with enemies that are too resilient to his pea shooter to deliver any kind of fun.
Once you manage to sell everything you acquired in the 2 levels you'll be able to afford his gun upgrade that finally is on par with the  ... non upgraded gun of the starting character, so at least it requires much less shot to kill those bullet sponges but still you wonder why you're still playing.
So much unfun that once you finally manage to unlock the 3rd character you will not want to play with this one ever.

And the 3rd character, lots of fun with this one, escape button even better than a roll/dodge (she basically transform into lighting and move fast to the mouse cursor location, close combat super ability that kill things dead in one or two shots, she resist insanity the best of everyone but her main weapon is short ranged.
What can be unfun ? basically her starting location is again built against her weakness : her enemies in that level are gunners , flame throwers and gun towers everywhere, basically only ranged enemies that can shoot her before she's in range of her weaponry oh and i forgot to mention that she's not very healthy so she can die very quickly to those ranged enemies.

Without mentionning traps everywhere and every single minor hit you sustain (enemy or trap) pull a status effect on you (bleeding, burning , etc...) that takes very long to go away (while your healing items are very fast to deplete their effects).

Managed to find things so unfun that i didn't cared anymore about unlocking 4th and 5th character.  Too bad the atmosphere was nice.

[MCreeper]

Angel stole my temple guards right from a starting temple and killed them by attacking neutral enchanter tower, considerably delaying ant hunt. Turns out, guards' description wasn't joking when it said that they "will follow the first self proclaimed prophet to come along and leave the church undefended".

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Conquest of Elysium 5

[nenjin]

Pulled up alongside the Ghost Fort commando style, full sail, emergency anchor stop, so I could blast it apart before it or the other ships in the Ghost Fleet could do any serious damage to me. Worked like a charm on the first two forts, I was feeling quite pleased with myself. But I overshot the fort by maybe a a couple feet. This means I couldn't blast the fort because my cannons were out of firing arc....which means it blasted me instead. I started to attempt repairs but it was kind of hopeless, because at a dead stop the ships of the Ghost Fleet were perfectly positioned to undo my repairs as fast as I could make them. Caught between two sets of cannons, my boat was sunk in what feels like less than a minute. If I had pulled up anchor and turned the boat and set to shooting immediately, I might have just escaped getting sunk. I honestly thought I could repair through their attacks in time to get back to the guns and finish the fort. Guess not.

So instead I lost everything from that Veil of the Ancients run, and my Athena Emissary Flag Level 5. I should be mad but the truth is I stayed up too late again doing this, I've literally been pushing my luck all night and getting away with it, and I flat out just started getting lazy. Crewing a boat by yourself is kind of demanding in combat, let alone in quest battles where there's tons of stuff firing at you. Still, if I hadn't overshot the fort I'd probably still be playing right now. I made boatloads of coin tonight, so I can't be too mad. Easy come, easy go.

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Sea of Thieves

[Great Order]

I'm very quickly learning that I've either got some really shit luck, or Pokemon Reborn's fudged the way accuracy works to severely affect the PC and not affect the AI much.

I keep using sand attack and severely lowering the enemy's accuracy, and every time (And I don't mean "Sometimes", I mean "Every time") the enemy hits at somewhere around twice the rate I do. As in, I can lower the enemy accuracy four times and it'll hit about as frequently as if I'd had mine lowered twice.

[Akura]

Got smacked around by the first boss of the game. Largely because the combat system isn't quite intuitive, and the camera can be pretty bad during a fight.

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Greedfall. It was on sale. Aside from issues during fights, not too bad. My guy is squishy as hell, but I've got a gun and bullets are pretty common.

[Iduno]

I'm very quickly learning that I've either got some really shit luck, or Pokemon Reborn's fudged the way accuracy works to severely affect the PC and not affect the AI much.

I keep using sand attack and severely lowering the enemy's accuracy, and every time (And I don't mean "Sometimes", I mean "Every time") the enemy hits at somewhere around twice the rate I do. As in, I can lower the enemy accuracy four times and it'll hit about as frequently as if I'd had mine lowered twice.

Yeah, there have been very few times where the debuffs appeared to affect the opponent at all, but they definitely affect you.

[Akura]

Arena challenges 3 through 5. All of the challenges for tier 3 are against bat monsters. Numerous, poisonous, bat monsters. Tier 4 are beasts with massive armor, though little health beneath it. The first fight of tier 5 was large, tough beasts(that were also poisonous), and the second fight was unexpectedly against soldiers of Thélème. The last was one of the local gods. Surprisingly, that last one was actually easy, especially since I nearly smashed my computer in rage fighting a different species of local god in Vasco's personal quest.

My companions are... dumb. There's no way to command them, so they do their dumb thing. Most of the time, they ignore enemies hit with Stasis, but in the arena that part of their brain stops working. The reason this is bad is that one of the upgrades for Stasis is that is burns their armor away while they're frozen. It also, obviously, pulls an enemy out of the fight so you can focus on another enemy. It's actually one of the most useful abilities in the game by far. Some enemies resist, leaving them only frozen for one second, but that's still very useful.

So, after all the fights, watching my companions die stupidly, then myself die because I'm outnumbered, I finally beat the arena sidequest. You only get paid once the entire quest despite the multiple stages of fights, and it's armor I can't even friggin' use because I have nowhere near the stat requirements.

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Greedfall.

[Great Order]

The opponent's Electrode, despite being two levels lower than my team, wiped out all five of my pokemon.

First off, I was doing basically no damage to it for... reasons. I'm genuinely unsure why, but it received very little damage on each attack.
Second, it was using charge beam, a hilariously powerful attack that, once used, then raises the special attack to ensure that once it starts firing, it snowballs.
Third, it was on machinery terrain so electric attacks were buffed.
Fourth, it always went first.

So yeah, that's my little tale of woe.

Pokemon Reborn

[Akura]

I don't know how different Reborn is from the canon games, but Electrode has always been absurdly fast - base Speed of 140 up to Gen VI, 150 in Gen VII and on.

[nenjin]

Merked by a barrel skeleton hiding in a bush.

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Sea of Thieves

I amused myself on the run back by envisioning an animated montage of barrel skeletons ruining someone's life repeatedly. Going to kiss your first date, but when you open your eyes its barrel skeleton, and they explode. Showing up as your boss on the first day, and promptly exploding. Getting pulled over by a cop and seeing barrel skeleton in your side view mirror, at which point they explode. Coming home from a long business trip late at night to find barrel skeleton in bed with your spouse, as they both turn and look at you, your spouse mortified, the barrel skeleton troll grinning and then exploding you, your spouse and your bedroom.

[Great Order]

Game gave me an invasion before it gave me access to military units. Of course, this inevitably meant that I lost because when the enemy has a military and the game literally doesn't let you have one, you lose.

Songs of Syx

[Frumple]

... I remember one of the earlier versions of that, I think I managed to indefinitely stave off an invasion by just feeding it a constant stream of new civilians. Had enough immigration to balance out the steady loss of life.

Was kinda' messed up people kept coming this hellpit of death. Had really nice decorations and housing, though, and plenty of food! You just, uh. Probably wouldn't live longer than a month or two or something.

[Chiefwaffles]

Patriotic citizens will return to the Corpse Wall.

[WillowLuman]

Many, many times in Privateer's Hold

TES: Daggerfall

[Akura]

Was feeling pretty good about finishing a game of darts in 6 rounds, thinking I had the high score. Then I saw that the leaderboard counts total darts thrown, not rounds(3 darts). Which makes the confident fist pump my character did even more humorously awkward.

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake.