cdemares said:
It's funny, people say Bioshock Infinite was overrated, but everybody on the internet seems to hate that game. I loved it. I feel like the only one who did. I also liked Bioshock 2.
In my own browsing experience, Infinite (like The Last of Us later on) was highly praised at launch with love from critics and players alike and there were many cheers to be had at it.
After a few months, the people who heard that it was the greatest thing in the universe played it, and it didn't live up to it. Personally, I didn't like it at first which was a few months post launch, but I actually loathed it on a recent attempt at replaying it.
OT: Apparently Dead Space was well praised when it came out, as one of the few good survival horror games of the Seventh Gen at the time[footnote]In all fairness, Silent Hill Homecoming and Alone in the Dark (2008) did come out the same year, the competition wasn't exactly stellar.[/footnote]. I played it and found its irritating gameplay a detriment to the spooky atmosphere it's trying to create. There's not much else to say here, given that the story seemed deliberately simplistic and standard.
The monsters are the biggest detriment to the game, given how all they do is scream and clumsily strike at me in huge clusters just to truly aggravate me when I'm stuck in dark rooms. Those dark rooms did well to build the atmosphere when I first showed up, but are now claustrophobic and highly annoying when I am forced to backtrack through them.
On the bright side, I have since watched the Alien films and Event Horizon since I played Dead Space. All vastly superior experiences, and ones which might make a revisit to Dead Space a more fanservicey and enjoyable one.
To have some 'likable' protagonist in a GTA game makes no sense considering what this game requires you to do.
