I agree with you OP. I will get a lot of flak for this but that was, Control for me. I thought the games narrative and lore building was fantastic but it felt it it was building to something that just never came. I am happy I didn’t know it was part of the Alan wake universe as I would have never played it as those games aren’t my cup of tea so every silver lining. But ye, what a narrative and then just nothing
Favourite series is, Chorus of Dragons by Jen Lyon’s. I can’t believe I hardly see any fan fair for it online. It’s like ASOIF but with the magic turned up to HP levels. Can get a bit heavy though. I had to do loads of light hearted stuff after the series and I am not usually that effected.
I would say most of them tbh. Then again besides gaming my other major hobby is reading so maybe I have a higher bar. Some games that are touted as having great stories I find to be average. It’s also subjective in a massive way. I like games that have complex, confusing plots. Most story games I like have people complaining they were too convoluted but that’s my jam lol.
To answer your question, Darksiders. I love the dark take on Zelda gameplay, but man was the story basic and cheesy
Final Fantasy. It’s my favourite series and I know people have hated the last couple but I have found a lot of enjoyment in them and tbh XVI was almost everything i want in FF, it was only missing super bosses and I would have been set
FFXVI. BG3 was great but FFXVI was everything I want in FF. I get objectively BG3 is better but I genuinely had more fun with XVI
It’s a popularity contest man. I loved BG3 it was amazing, I do however I had more fun with FF16, Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes. Different strokes for different folks
Games that are so big I get no where in them in my limited play time! This isn’t the games fault it’s a me thing but damn does it drive me insane. I played BG3 for like 3 hours the other day and did nothing but talk to NPCs because I was scared shitless of misisng a quest. I unlocked like 4 quests doing it but it felt like wasted time. The following day when I could actually progress those quests was hella fun but man BG3 isn’t a friendly game if you don’t have hours on end.
I always found him boring and one dimensional. He does some truly evil shit but I can’t consider him too evil because he is just so basic I Duno. I personally feel Ardyn in FFXV was a better version of Kefka but unfortunately was inserted into a shit game. I mean think about it Kefka and Ardyn both have that jester type look to them, both love chaos and have a sadistic sense of humour. They both achieve their goals and destroy the world, becoming god/ruler of their new worlds. They both commit heinous acts; Kefka positions Cyan, experiments on Espers and becomes a god. Ardyn subjugated a god by infecting it, he infects a whole Empire he claims to work for, purely for the shits and giggles, even turning the Emperor he claimed to serve into a skulking monster and he too experiments on humans to clone them and let them turn into demons to become the Magiteck soldiers. There very alike, but Ardyn had a genuine motive and reason. Kefka is just a mad man which isn’t as evil to me. True evil is knowing what your doing is wrong but thinking your in the right and that’s Ardyn. He does not give a fuck what destruction he leaves in his wake as he feels he deserves his ending. Think this would be far more commonly accepted if FFXV didn’t blow balls
I haven’t played it but from what I have heard from friends that have played it was that, “it’s Skyrim in space” which sounds cool. There main gripe was that for the number of years between skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield, gaming has come a long way and Starfield felt like it was stuck in the past. I genuinely worry for Elder scrolls 6. I think Bethesda will be the architectures of their own downfall. There has been that many years between skyrim and TES6 that people will be expecting a big leap forward and I think what we will het is Skyrim but in a new area of Tamriel. Which would be underwhelming
So I played FF7 for the first time in like what 2012 as I was introduced to the series late. Man did I fall in fall in love. I was trying to get the knots of the round materia which if you know, you know. Any way I got it, not just that time but on multiple playthroughs of the game. And it took hours of my life each time. Now there is the W-item glitch which allows you to duplicate items so you can duplicate some expensive items to sell to fund the mini game required to get knights of the round and then people figured out RNG manipulation so that you always get the colour and sex you want for each chocobo it’s saves 10s of hours