Are you filled with anxiety for playing on easy? Kotaku is. (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Monday, December 04, 2017, 17:41 (2624 days ago) @ Revenant1988

I was in a bit of a snarky mood when I made that first post. FWIW, I don't really care about this (I play on easy all the time, and don't care what anyone thinks about that), and I hesitate to post this, because it'll just be more negative, but I want to at least give an explanation about why I hate Wolfenstein, rather than just making a pissy comment and running.

I also don't begrudge anyone's opinion about Wolfenstein or any other game. I'm glad lots of folks seem to really like it!

But I think Wolfenstein is actively bad. Like terrible and incredibly unfun. I'd rather play the opening of The Order: 1886 repeatedly (ask Korny how much I hate that! :P). The shooting in Wolfenstein feels bad. The aiming sucks. The level design is boring at the very least, and actually bad at the worst. The game gives you almost no indication that you're being shot, so you have to watch your health number like a hawk.

The story is literally the only redeeming factor of that entire game for me, but it's not enough for me to actually continue playing it. I'm basing that opinion off of playing the entire first game, and about two hours of the second (and watching most of the rest of the second on YouTube).

It's a game that feels like it wishes it was even a tenth as good as the new DOOM. It wants to be that fast and fun, but it fails so very hard in actually doing that.

Again, I won't call anyone wrong for thinking differently, but I have heard so many people say "Just put it on easy and plow through it to see the story," and others go as far to tell me to just run past all the encounters, which you can apparently do for most of the game, and I reject that as a good solution, because even that only makes the game not a slog--it's still boring and Anti-Fun™.

It's a game that everyone is raving about, and I just don't understand.