Finished (playing): Bloodborne
Playing: Rage 2
I'm officially done playing Bloodborne now, and possibly forever. Not just because the bosses are tough, but because I think that I've reached a point in gaming where I require them to have entertaining stories and interesting characters to keep me engrossed and make me want to keep pushing on to see what's going to happen next. With a game like Bloodborne there's barely any story except for obtuse snippets here and there, and you play as a generic voiceless avatar that makes their way through environments trying to survive countless enemies that want to kill you eventually reaching a really big enemy that wants to kill you and impedes your progress until you defeat it. Lather, rinse and repeat for its entirety without anything else really happening throughout the game. You play it strictly for its gameplay, combat and to see more of the world and the enemies that inhabit it which is perfectly fine for those who don't need more than that from the games that they play, but I do.
I'm probably going to quit playing Rage 2 for pretty much the same reason despite playing it for 20 hours. I've pretty much been doing the same exact things in it for 20 hours, and I've reached a point where I'm getting burned out since there's not much of a feeling of progression despite putting so much time into it. While there's a story and characters, both are paper thin and just there enough to give a reason to shoot ****. Neither are entertaining or interesting enough to want to see to the end. While I've been enjoying the gameplay and combat, it starts to grow stale after a while when the game doesn't really offer anything else beyond it. I'm still sticking with it for now since I've played so much of it, but I'm reaching a point in it where I'm losing interest in playing it.
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