Games where the first half is way better than the second.
Dark Souls.
>>339743651
Final Fantasy IX
>>339743651
>Try to replay recently, start a 3rd save
>get bored around the part where you get the heat-vision
god damn it.
Basically every game when it gets boring after a whileFar Cry 3
>>339743651
thanks to rushed development. Thank you Activision, god damn it.
Alien isolation, the game is great but it just get tedious toward the end.
>>339743974
Pandora's Tower and fighting out of hell was retarded, and totally killed the majestic and epic tension the game was building in the first 3 hours.
Every survival horror game
>>339744092
After killing Hermes, you get to use his boots, the entirety of Olympus and the Zeus fights thereafter were no where near as satisfying as the siege on Olympus.
>>339743736
All souls games really. Except maybe Demon's.
>>339744197
After Carmine dies in the first game, it's pretty good, and watching Kim die is even better.
Then you go through the bog, through an underground mine, and onto a train, and none of it is nearly as visceral or grim.
>>339744298
Killing the locals was a good start, then the gameplay took a nosedive after you got into the oil refinery, and proceeded to plummet way farther down after you got into the ruins.
>>339743952
Same, always get burned out with the different visors
>>339743651
How about a game that is the opposite, aka, the more you play, the better it gets.
>>339743651
I don't think so. Prime is perfect.
Was really disappointed.
Wish there was some way of prolonging the first part.
>>339743651
I know i'll be in a minority here but I find mapping to be boring very quickly.
>>339744823
Onimusha 2 reporting in, sir!
>>339745329
fite me
>>339743651
MP is the opposite
The first half is dogshit boring and easy tutorial shit. Chozo ruins are a shit setting. It isn't until you get to phendrana drifts when things start to get semi interesting.
The whole game is pretty slow paced and boring anyways so whatever.
>>339744267
absolutely agree. also pic related
>>339743651
>Finish Fuchsia town
Team is pretty much done at that point. Insteresting abilities are also pretty much all unlocked. Whelp, time to reset.
>>339745182
You are not in the minority.
Mapping is a fucking awful excuse for end game, but it's impossible to make end game exciting in ARPG games.
No ARPG end game is fun. Not even Diablo 2 and that's my most played video game of all time and my favorite video game of all time.
>>339745431
The game being so piss easy really made me lose interest in MP.
Played it for the first time a few years ago, there is so much to love about the game but the weak difficulty made the game really unengaging.
does anybody here remember this game? it was kinda cool IMO
>>339743651
Most games honestly. And every single FF game ever.
>>339743651
>Guys I know, lets make a MMORPG with horror stuff, DNA tempering, HR.Giger-like dungeon, shapeshifting into monsters, etc.!
>Wow senpai!
>For the later areas and endgame? Gee I dont know, recycle everything from lower level, even dungeons, and make sure to make it pay2win at that point so free players are utterly fucked
God damn it Requiem Bloodymare, I loved you.
>>339745182
same here man, i never level past 80, act 1 on all difficulties is always the funnest part of this game for me.
>>339745528
I agree it's a drag for the next few gyms, but I always have fun with the Pokemon League because of the absurd level jump and how I refuse to use legendaries.
Games would be better if they were only under an hour in length and cost $20.
>>339745234
>1st half: awesome action-packed setpieces, epic light war story with time travel, main character is kind of a dick but still easy enough to relate to, annoying slut who acts like a toddler constantly gets in the way, gameplay sucks but is something new and innovative
>2nd half: annoying slut who acts like a toddler is now the love interest and a plot device, cutscenes become longer, setpieces become boring, contrived and dragged on for far too long, Squall's feelings for Rinoa out of nowhere after he wanted her to fuck off, gameplay still sucks
Where did it go wrong for this series?
>>339746284
>someone tell this guy about indie games
>mfw limbo was still too long
>mfw limbo was still godtier
>>339744628
You picked the worst possible Zelda game for this thread.
>finally get to play as based Uncle Dante
>he's even more boring and annoying to play as here than in fucking DMC2
>>339745521
>>339744267
These two are perfect examples.
Both impressed the hell out of me at the start and ended on a whimper. They felt like they ran out of ideas after the half hour.
>>339746828
No one actually thinks that
>>339743651
Phazon Mines were amazing though.
I will admit any "ghost" fight sections are almost lame though.
>>339746914
Okay I exaggerated a bit, but playing as him is not as fun as it should be.
>>339747017
No, you're just bad as him
>>339745329
This is more "game where the first and final thirds are way better than the middle" imo.
>>339747075
No I'm pretty sure it has to do with you backtracking the exact same levels and fighting the exact same enemies as Dante.
Metroid Prime is 10/10 amazing until the labs in Phendrana, then it picks up a bit after that, then hits a screeching halt at the Phazon Mines and never recovers.
>>339745801
there isn't really a first half though
there's like the first two missions that make up 1/100th of the game and then a fucking massive open world that makes up the meat of the game
I guess you can get burned out on platforming making the last "half" of the game feel worse, but playing the game in chunks sporadically fixes that issue imo
Pretty much every Final Fantasy except 12 (which has a shit first half but a good second half), 10 and 13 (which were just shit the whole way through.
>>339747219
Why are you moving goalposts? You said he was boring and annoying to play as, not that the levels were annoying to go back through.
the water world is nice but holy balls after the bot boss it gets meh
mine is repetitive, phendrana drifts part 2 and the frigate wreckage are good
>>339746985
Having to fight through all of that shit to the bottom of the mines and back without a single checkpoint was amazing?
>>339744685
Visor switches should be quick, like flicking a pair of lens up and down your nose so you can easily check for clues, rather than clunkily switching everything to one or the other.
Scan mode suits being its own dedicated mode, and should be operational with visors.
>>339747435
Dev high as fuck, doing whatever they want in that game
>>339747451
I disliked Chozo Ruins a lot. The game got better for me the more I played.
>>339746985
the metroid caverns bruh
Halo CE is a prime example
>>339744628
Not a huge fan of TP myself, >>339746627 is on the mark. TP is a starts-crap,-gits gud experience on macro.
>>339745521
I don't see it for Limbo, but Antichamber bored me completely by the 2/3 mark.
>Ctrl + F
>Bravely Default 0 results
/v/, I am impressed.
>>339744628
You meant to post Wind Waker
>>339748104
Who?
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>>339747428
Why are you so quick to assume that just because I don't like a part of a game it just means I suck at it? I never said he was too hard to play as either. Hell if I sucked at the game I wouldn't have made it to Dante in the first place. It's boring because you're going through the exact same motions as Nero except with Dante.
>Guns are rare in Hong Kong because they're illegal
>Every police officer and criminal has a gun in the second half of the game
all of the worlds after the basement and Boo's Mansion are pretty damn boring, to be honest.
>>339747971
I liked TP from the end of the game, but it wasn't nearly as good as the beginning.
The Fire Temple and the Lakebed Temple were some of the best dungeons in the game, after that you have to wait until the Arbiter's grounds to even hope of having a good dungeon. Temple of Time was literally tedious and Celestia had a nice atmosphere, but as a dungeon I don't see what the talk is about, being able to use dual clawshots is cool, but it's still poorly designed.
>>339744823
Solatorobo gets far better after the first half.
>>339748609
t, Henry
>>339748659
I pretty much agree with all you say here. However, consider: THE EXTENDED OPENING TUTORIAL.
Now the table is mostly stacked on the late-game side.
>>339748984
I agree there, sumo wrestling and taking those goats down was pretty tedious.
>>339744456
First half of DaS3 is garbage compared to the second half.
>>339747473
>mfw that's exactly were I dropped and never touched the game again
>>339744461
don't even remind me of this piece of shit it started out so fucking good then what you fight the fucking internet in 1950? what the fucking fuck is that
>>339747165
more like the first 10th and the final 5th are way better than the middle
>>339748609
once yougit gudyou learn to appreciate them. I'm not even shitting, that's exactly how it was for me
I felt after the arena, its all downhill, and builds start feeling samey.
>>339748104
Chapters 1-4 are way more than half the game though.
In after dark souls 2nd half is bad meme
Clear indicator of having been exposed to the game before you played it
>>339750182
They're really not.
Chapters 1-4 are an OK RPG at best.
Chapters 5-8 are an intense, gruelling battlefest with satisfying victories.
>>339750372
I mean in terms of length. You can blast through 5-8 in hours if you ignore the repeatable sidequests.
>>339748609
2nd floor ones are pretty good I thought.
The game was great but I doubt anyone besides autists have the patience to play the game without a guide past the first 4 or 5 bosses
>>339750226
The only good part about the second half is that you can go to Oolacile.
>>339743651
There should be a law against making cleanup in Metroid-type games a mandatory objective.
>>339750226
It's definitely overblown how bad the second half is. It's worse than the first half, but the only actually BAD area is Ruins of Izalith.
>>339750226
compared to the first half it was meh but they were still awesome levels regardless.
The only absolutely terrible level is izalith
