Ridiculously ambitious games that you really want to be great but are probably going to be meaningless and boring

i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way. it's really quite a good thing.

it's not trying to be MEANINGFUL in ways that ppl seem to be eliding it w/? the tone is more tao lin than paolo coelho

i bought mountain twice, and have mainly engaged with it that way.

haha @ how i read this

tbf there's a lot of games i have mainly engaged with that way, largely out of forgetting to check my GOG account before looking at steam sales /:

having tried it over probably six or seven sittings, I think I'm going to have to go with Death Stranding here
for all the concerns you thought of when you realized the reason for this thread being resurrected was probably gonna be death stranding

I’ve beaten it and am still playing it. Everything is meaningless.

I bought the latest God of War because I was looking for something new to play and it was $20. It is silly and not very good so far. The father/son relationship is unintentionally pretty funny at least.

God of War gets better after you sacrifice your son to Leviathan in exchange for a bonus ability on your axe, and your son becomes the final boss

Karl ruthless about spoiling the Big Twist.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

I want to believe but...

Grand Theft Dinosaur

i could see a VR headset + No Man's Sky being a really amazing investment

it's not

waiting for star citizen to come out and fulfill its promise as hot garbage... its wild that there's an army of chris roberts stans who show up in stories critical about the game.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/11/08/an-upcoming-star-citizen-mission-will-let-you-leap-from-ship-to-ship/#comments

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