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Message: [QUOTE="Leifang, post: 131886, member: 5746"] A lot of times with so-so games in franchise, I hear "it's a good GAME but it's a bad [franchise name] game". And usually I disagree. I have arguments for the other way around: Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero is a good Mortal Kombat, but a terrible game... it does everything you want from classic MK (atmosphere, graphics and combat style, lore, cheesy FMVs and characters are top) but it's barely playable. I heard that MK Special Forces was the opposite: actually decent game, but pretty horrible as Mortal Kombat (could have changed Jax to anybody else and get an okay generic third person action). Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness and Legend have the same issue: AoD is a horrible unplayable mess, but it has decent Tomb Raider lore, and style-wise, it's arguably the best-designed Lara and overall vibes are good. Just don't try actually playing it, lol! Even remaster can't save the jank. But Tomb Raider Legend is an amazing... linear action game. It's a good shooter, okay platformer, but there's basically zero exploration or hard jumps (platforming is more Assassin's Creed style). Feels like a generic late PS2 era game with Lara Croft skin. Speaking of that franchise, I heard a lot that modern RPG-like Assassin's Creed would be better with a different name, and I disagree. These games always had roleplaying elements, and there's no universe where I would accept Unity as a better game OR even better Assassin's Creed next to Origins (which feels like playing Ezio trilogy with worse parkour but better combat) or Odyssey (which is Black Flag but in ancient Greece, ship combat is unparalleled). And the hill I chose as last stand is Mass Effect Andromeda: I cannot agree with people who say it would be a better game if it wasn't connected to the franchise! On its own, outside of combat and puzzles, it's pretty bad. Broken on release, buggy and poorly-optimized, with not enough enemy or NPC variation and a lot of copy-paste, rushed areas and quests. But all the exploration, the feel of uncovering the galaxy and meeting people in faraway colonies while bonding with your crew and having a very good dialogue system and style makes for a good Mass Effect experience, or just decent Bioware RPG. It also looks gorgeous. And actually feels closest to the first ME, but with worse writing, even more jank, but amazing combat. [/QUOTE]

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