>second half of the game dramatically drops in quality and

RE7 felt pretty consistent

>>387979802
FFXV

>>387981147
Consistently a piece of shit

very nice pepe and wojak OP i wonder where you got such a quality image huh

>>387979802
Dark Souls is the Eternal God Emperor of this. If you disagree it only means you haven't played the game after Anor Londo.

>>387981290
Accurate. Demon Ruins is fucking awful.

>>387979802
Crash Twinsanity

Fable 3

>>387981290
Reminder that if after Biggie and Smalls, a passage opened up to the Kiln of the First Flame, Dark Souls be 11/10 GOTYAY

>>387979802
Titanfall 2
Those last levels were probably my favorites

>>387981428
I love Dark Souls but I don't disagree that the second half isn't ass of the highest order. But the first half is that much fun, I think that's a testament because what other games can boast that their first half is so good people over look the other 50% being shit. Gwyn's fight is good though.

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>>387981290
Dark Souls was so fun but I got stuck in Smough & Ornstein and have never gotten gud enough.

>>387981579
Hit them with your weapons

>>387979802
Far Cry 1 and Crysis

>>387981627
fuck is that how you do it

>>387979802
Xenogears

>>387979802
>Xenogears not the first reply
It's the prime example. It's also one of my favourite games.

>>387981697
did you know that not getting hit helps too

Pokemon XY's pacing goes into overdrive after the third gym and it hurts the game. Super Mystery Dungeon's pacing is fucked from the start but at about the two thirds point the story just becomes completely retarded.

>>387979802
The last part of the map in Just Cause 3. The least they could do was copy pasting some towns here and there.

>>387979802
>I cant think of any game from this gen that doesnt do this
DOOM 4, although being the length of half a game probably had something to do with it.

>>387979802
Halo 2, the clifhanger and the final boss fight didn't feel quite right, it was better to just finish the game with the chief and not in a cutscene and cut black.

MGSV

>>387981428
But then we wouldn't have had the Amazing Chest.

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I think Doom 4 gets continually better with all the weapons and monsters.

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>>387981579
just don't get hit

>>387979802
God of war 3

>>387982106
Nah, chapter 2 isn't the "second half" of the game, rather it's pretty much the endgame - not to mention it has Shining Light, Even in Death among other good missions. Much can be said about MGSV but at least it's relatively consistent with it's missions.

>>387981756
Xenosaga 3 is worse.

>>387979802
DXHR

>>387981147
I loved re7 but the salt mines were way worse than the rest of the game

>>387979802
Bravely Default

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Apparently DaS3 spend almost 70% of their effort on developing Aldrich scenario and From couldn't keep up their breath.

>>387979802
FFXV

>>387981404
Fuck if the start of the game is 'good' I never want to see the second half.

xenogears is the correct answer

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Boring thread, how about the opposite?

Pic related

Arc the lad 2 if any /v/ here still remember it.

>>387979802
Dark souls which is also the reason why demons and bloodborne are better.

>>387979802

red dead redemtpion

everyone praises the last third of the game but it felt rushed to me, it has far fewer missions than new austin/mexico and it feels like it hardly uses the landscape at all

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Darksiders 2 is like the epitome of this

Jet Force Gemini is both better and worse. Worse because of the stupid tribal hunt and lack of bosses. Better because you can go wherever the fuck you want with any character.

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I know it's mainly a multiplayer experience, but I still feel like I need to talk about it. Splatoon 2's single player takes such a nosedive after the 3rd world, it's actually quite ridiculous. It starts off strong and gives you a good tutorial on how the game mechanics work, and then you reach The Experimentorium (level 19), and you're greeted with this complete garbage. Then it's all downhill from there, with only the bosses being enjoyable, even if the final one would've been more interesting if it wasn't the first game's but in an arena, this time around.

Arkham asylum Joker fight. How could they spoil at such climatic situation.

>>387979802
KOTOR II

Bloodborne shits the bed after Rom

Witcher 3 after big battle for Kaer Morhen.

>>387983129
>>387981174
>FFXV
This.
I can't remember the last time a game's second half so furiously shat itself.

>>387982817
Pretty much this, final level is just boring.

>>387982762
Why did they even include a "chapter" screen at all? It makes the game even seem more lack luster than it already was. At the end of chapter one they show all this hype stuff for chapter two, but that's literally all it is, like 3 missions of all that cool stuff they show

VtMB, DMC4

>>387979802
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy

>>387979802
Bioshock is my favorite game, but I'll still admit that the game loses a lot of it's quality after Ryan's gone

>>387979802
The Game of Thrones.

>>387984117
I dunno. I agree that you get a tad pigeonholed as soon as you have to go after Nihilus, but the conclusion on Malachor V is the best part of the game imo

Ironically, one of the very, very few games that dramatically increases in quality towards the end of the game, at least in terms of graphical prowess, is Deadly Premonition.

Deadly Premonition (originally called "Rainy Woods" I believe) was meant to release on PS2, but of course no publisher would touch it. Thus, the conclusion of the game was created with Xbox 360 in mind, hence why both final bosses look so much better than all other characters.

The 5:20 mark of this video onwards shows it, and is also one of my favorite pre-fight banters in any game. https://youtu.be/aB3Fbbus-8c?t=5m20s

>>387979802
nier automata gets better and better

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>>387979802
I think I would've preferred Gravity Rush 2 better if they didn't collapse the ending right on my head and held it off for a third game. I'm not about to cry betrayal because the gameplay was still really good for much of the game, but the story completely lost me after the second Act.
The DLC was legit lazy garbage though and I felt my brain cells dying as I played through it all in one sitting. And I didn't one-shot the trophies either, so I'm eventually gonna have to go back again.
Here's to hoping a concluded story doesn't mean a concluded series, Gravity Rush has serious potential going forward.

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>>387990002
This

>>387983108
The fuck?
HOW?

>>387990293
This

Developers need to start designing their games backwards starting from the final boss like writers do a lot

That way you spend the most time on the most climactic moments and feel more obligated to actually 'finish' the game since you haven't even started it yet

>>387979802
>what are some games that does this?

MGS2

Drops in quality every time the location changes (from Tanker to Big Shell to Arsenal Gear)

>>387990772
I swear there's some famous developer who said to always do the beginning of the game last.

But I can;t remember who said it.

>>387990205
I guess I never noticed because the game still looks worse than PS2 games

>>387979802
Persona 5 after the Kamoshida arc

>>387990993
>famous
Yoko Taro said it but I wouldn't call him famous

>>387991006
That's true, I fully admit that. Just the game even releasing was a complete stroke of chance.

>>387981147
Lol half of the game is shit

>>387981290
I think aside from Lost Izalith, the rest of the second half was serviceable at least. And even the area leading to Izalith (Demon Ruins) was kinda cool.

>>387981290
MGSV is more egregious than Dark Souls, at least DS actually has new content for the second half

>>387983108
To be honest, the entirety of DaS3 felt like the Quasimodo half-brother of DaS1.

>>387990002
Yeah, they really should've inverted the order in which you deal with Atlas/Ryan. Ryan was clearly the more interesting character by far.

>>387982147
Gwynevere boss fight as a secret, perhaps?

>>387991710
what would you want for new content for the second half?
we got a fight with sahelanthropus, a new biome, new bases to infiltrate like the airport, and if it's your first playthrough of the levels, you'll obviously unlock new technologies until you finish the game.
the story also progresses at around the same pace.
I'm not saying the ending wasn't jarring and early, because it did feel like that, but what would you realistically want that you didn't get?

>>387979802
Xenogears, albeit more than rushed it was cut due to budget losses that Square lovely sucked to give to Final Fantasy VIII (and we know how that turned out).

Same goes for the first NieR: it still stands on its own, but barely, if you even slightly wanna know the ramifications of the plot twist or of some characters like Weiss, tough luck, get the supplementary material. The entire backstory of Kainé told via text also was jarring, i'm really hoping either in a remake with actual cutscenes or in a side game that will fill in the gaps.

>>387989927
This. The story was fucking enthralling, but then that all goes to shit when that old lady turns into some kind of AI hologram. Then you had the homeless guys, and that scene etween Lucas and Carla...it's like they didn't give a shit anymore.

>>387990993
Doom 1 was designed like that.

>>387979802
rage even though the game in general is great if you can look past its flaws. it's a sad story 'cause there's so much potential.

>>387979802
>I cant think of any game from this gen that doesnt do this

Did you just get into gaming yesterday and only play 3 AAA games?

>>387979802
Halo CE

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VTM: Bloodlines

>>387979802
Bloodborne.
Everything after Rom drops off hard.

Silent Hill 4 is actually pretty good until you hit the halfway point and they just make you do every level again except with some new bosses and an escort mission

>>387992106
New missions and a conclusion to the story that wasn't just audio logs

>>387993191
;_; it's still my favorite game

I don't even really mind the latter part of the game now since I know when to start pumping up combat stats, and how to quickly get through the sewers. Didn't enjoy it as much the first time though.

>>387981579
Just shoot it until it dies

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>>387979802
Hi.
Dhuran fight + Dread World is pretty tight though

>>387979802
world of warcraft

>>387982106
Came here to post this.

Dark Souls
Persona 5
Sonic Mania
Mega Man 3

>>387990772
>>387990293
>Route B is mostly identical to Route A
>Route C has barely any new areas and most of the bosses are made out of reused assets
Maybe you're talking about the story, but I don't think Automata really escapes from having a kind of shitty latter half.

>>387994784
Holy shit, this. Where the hell did the plot go after Murdaw?

>>387985860
This.
I had to force myself to finish it, it became so linear and boring after that fight

>>387979802
New Vegas

>>387979802
Persona 5 the last little bit and RE7 after Lucas' trap.

>>387996160
New Vegas is the other way around. The second half is significantly better. Fallout 3 on the other hand...

>>387981290
I only had a problem with demon ruins and lost izalith

Archive was one of my favorite zones