The QA guy on my team loves these kinds of games in a sincere way. I respect his enthusiasm because he's a good person and he likes that kind of challenge. But if a game has any kind of stealth the game gets mentally downgraded in my mind. This is why I will never finish Zelda: Phantom Hourglass or Ocarina of Time or Wind Waker.

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Posted by NeoGutsman on July 30, 2015 at 02:53:37 EST in reply to I know a guy who loves that though - he likes the "can you figure out and then execute the specific thing I want you to do?" and his answer is "yes, and sometimes a way you didn't think of." I understand that, but it really is not for me. (n/t) from exodus.

The QA guy on my team loves these kinds of games in a sincere way. I respect his enthusiasm because he's a good person and he likes that kind of challenge. But if a game has any kind of stealth the game gets mentally downgraded in my mind. This is why I will never finish Zelda: Phantom Hourglass or Ocarina of Time or Wind Waker.

n/t

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people keep telling me there are good stealth games, but I haven't experienced any.

(exodus)

(14:51:59 07/30/15 EST)

There certainly could be one, but not until they stop getting all their ideas from Metal Gear. That terrible control and the awkward way you get stuck in the cycle of running or walking or reloading and it delays the action of ducking or throwing a guy. I never feel like I'm actually playing an MGS game, just enduring it. I like games where you have freedom of movement. It can be a turn based strategy game or a digital comic or anything, in all genres there are ways to make your game fun and free and there are ways to make it suffocating. Playing MGS is like trying to fold a fitted sheet while blindfolded, wearing cement shoes, and eating BBQ ribs. Or maybe it's like middle management, where your job is to take the blame for shit you have no genuine control over.

(SignOfZeta)

(15:07:08 07/30/15 EST)

ghost recon: shadow wars was nice, but it was basically Xcom. Lots of sneaking, but in a tactics game. There it works for me.

(exodus)

(15:31:29 07/31/15 EST)

There's this Tom Clancy game for GBA that's actually really fun. Ghost Spear or something. It's more like a slow paced Command & Conquer than the tacticool games it was trying to cash in on.

(substance J)