Posted August 25, 2015
... and this time through I'm actually really enjoying it.
A friend on Twitter suggested that it's better approached as a free-form sandbox game rather than as an RPG, so this time rather than doing my usual RPG thing of following the main questline and doing sidequests when I need a break, I just headed off in a random direction to explore. And it's incredible to me just how much better an experience it is that way. It seems all I needed was a little change in perspective to appreciate the game--it sucks as an RPG, but apparently is amazing as a sandbox exploration game.
This is the second game this year I've gone from disliking to loving, just by making a slight adjustment in the way I approached it. The other one was Postal 2, which I originally hated, but ended up having a lot of fun with the second time around when I stopped looking at it as an FPS and started looking at it as (again) a sandbox game.
So has anyone else had experiences like this? Where you go from hating a game to loving it, just by thinking about/approacing it in a different way?
A friend on Twitter suggested that it's better approached as a free-form sandbox game rather than as an RPG, so this time rather than doing my usual RPG thing of following the main questline and doing sidequests when I need a break, I just headed off in a random direction to explore. And it's incredible to me just how much better an experience it is that way. It seems all I needed was a little change in perspective to appreciate the game--it sucks as an RPG, but apparently is amazing as a sandbox exploration game.
This is the second game this year I've gone from disliking to loving, just by making a slight adjustment in the way I approached it. The other one was Postal 2, which I originally hated, but ended up having a lot of fun with the second time around when I stopped looking at it as an FPS and started looking at it as (again) a sandbox game.
So has anyone else had experiences like this? Where you go from hating a game to loving it, just by thinking about/approacing it in a different way?