Which is the most mean ( as in average) game?

[Broker]

I’m voting assassin’s creed. They’re so bland, so average. I couldn’t point out anything bad about them but there’s nothing good either. Just a bug in empty nothing.

 

17 hours ago, Benny said:

Not sure where else to put this but watched a little video of the Noclip guys discussing their game of the year picks. One of them picked CODMW2 and I had to suppress the urge to boak when he compared it to Metal Gear Solid 5.

 

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He meant multiplayer but I'm still not sure I entirely understand.

 

 

I’m always amazed when people who play tonnes of games for a living enjoy these bland franchise games. 

[SeanR]

9 hours ago, thesnwmn said:

 

Spiderman. Uncharted. Last of Us. God of War. Horizon.

 

mmm, these games all have one thing in common...

 

[Hello Goaty ♥]

Welll.....  Its Mario Kart 

 

Or it could be Forza Horizon

 

 

[Kzo]

20 hours ago, Benny said:

Not sure where else to put this but watched a little video of the Noclip guys discussing their game of the year picks. One of them picked CODMW2 and I had to suppress the urge to boak when he compared it to Metal Gear Solid 5.

 

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He meant multiplayer but I'm still not sure I entirely understand.

 

 

MW2 has a mode called DMZ which is an extraction survival shooter. It's populated with both AI and other players and playing it solo does yield arcadey MGS vibes as you scramble to get some equipment together, avoid enemy teams and avoid getting swarmed by AI. The map is a similar setting too.

[Kzo]

Double post.

[Giddas]

3 hours ago, SeanR said:

 

mmm, these games all have one thing in common...

 

“story makes me thinky too hard”?

[El Spatula]

10 hours ago, SeanR said:

 

mmm, these games all have one thing in common...

 

 

They're on a different system to the posters preference as mentioned at any opportunity?

[Oh Danny Boy]

Every Kirby game ever. The most unoffensive bland character starring in the most run of the mill  not bad but not good either platformers since forever. 

[Garwoofoo]

Assassin's Creed gets treated a bit unfairly, I think. There's a huge amount of work that goes into recreating each of the historical time periods (this varies by game, admittedly, but when they get it right like with Origins or Unity then the results are spectacular), the central conceit of the Animus is quite ingenious, and they manage to tie everything together well. The central characters, from Ezio to Kassandra, are often quite charismatic. I find the games consistently entertaining as much on the basis of historical tourism as anything else.

 

If you're talking Ubigames then Far Cry is a much more generic set of titles, it's men with guns fighting other men with guns and occasionally someone blows something up. The last few games in that series are essentially interchangeable.

 

@Qazimod nailed it though in the third post, the most average game of all time is definitely Days Gone. It's like someone looked at Far Cry and thought "let's do everything this series does but even more bland".

[ChewMagma]

It is either one or more of the Assassin's Creed or more recent Far Cry games. Acceptable on every level, enjoyable to a degree, quite nice to look at, very familar in almost every way.

[Vulgar Monkey]

If we're going back to 'most modal' especially, then definitely Ubisoft games.

 

And I say ubi generally rather than any specific release because most of what singles them out are regular occurrences not just within franchises, but across every franchise under their umbrella.

[Disgraced Toblerone]

Gamecube's Starfox Adventures.

 

Finished it and immediately forgot everything about it bar a huge feeling of beige.

[Broker]

On 05/12/2022 at 08:06, Garwoofoo said:

Assassin's Creed gets treated a bit unfairly, I think. There's a huge amount of work that goes into recreating each of the historical time periods (this varies by game, admittedly, but when they get it right like with Origins or Unity then the results are spectacular), the central conceit of the Animus is quite ingenious, and they manage to tie everything together well. The central characters, from Ezio to Kassandra, are often quite charismatic.

All of that is absolutely true, which makes it even more impressive that they manage to be so bland and dull. Every few years I get sucked in by the beautiful recreation of a historical place, then play for a bit and remember that what you actually do in assassins creed is hold forward to climb things, engage in terrible combat and watch cutscenes where everything sounds important but nothing happens. 

[Vulgar Monkey]

^ Me with the Valhalla release now it has appeared on steam.