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Game you couldn't play... because you compared to a better one

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No copycats will ever dethrone Mario.
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I feel like Sekiro ruined almost every game with melee combat for me.
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Respect opinions, dont be fanboys.

Bloody roar 2 was the best fighting game, nowdays, smash bros and others are for kids without hands.

Duke nukem 3D, fear, were peak...now AAA fps are shit.

Buenout and motorstorm, best arcade racers.
 
I remember playing the original Halo after playing Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, and Halo just seemed like the most uninspiring game with repetitive level design.
 
While I enjoyed it, I think Callisto Protocol got shit on because it wasn't Dead Space 4
Very enjoyable and fun game. Those melee punches and hits are meaty, gory, brutal and genuinely feel so satisfying.

Incredible art and sound design as well and it runs very smooth now.

Gameplay/Guns though is quite basic. Dead Space has a far superior gameplay loop, gives you a bunch of cool tools and weapons to experiment and kill Necromorphs.
 
Every game I've ever played that was inspired in any way by MegaMan X or MegaMan Zero just made me wanna turn off said game and play MMX or MMZ.
 
every God of War clone. some of them weren't even that bad, but if you copy a game so closely, you better do it well, or you'll instantly feel awful to pla due to the direct comparison I have
Even Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death?
It's a short and sweet one IMO.
 
Every hunting game after mh world, even rise and wilds were nowhere as good.

But to not even play them because a previous game ruined the genre sound like elitist fucking bullshit.

I can get my enjoyment even from a game that does similar things a bit worse and maybe some pther minor things a bit better.

Must be sad to be THIS close-minded.
 
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Deadspace Remake because of the original.
I mean I still played it, revisiting Ishimura was nice in its own right, but the game is a just pale shadow of its former self.
 
I couldn't play Dark Souls after playing platinuming Demons Souls , not saying it was better but felt more of the same after trying it
 
This is a really good thread idea.

From-likes have already been mentioned, I can't play them.

The other big one for me that stands out is Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I tried to play this on Switch and whilst it was a decent game, which earned plaudits for being a BotW-like, all I kept thinking was 'this isn't as good as BotW and I'd rather be playing BotW'.
 
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