People aren't critical enough about video games being front-loaded because it really is a travesty for the back half of a game to be unfinished, less interesting, weaker, and a worse experience.

It's just youtube reviewer brain that prefers games this way, because then they're done and on to the next review quickly and don't really care about the shitty back half.

What games are dogshit for the entire first half but then suddenly somehow become amazing in the back end?

dumb youtuber opinion

>>712883646 (OP)
That's how it's always been. Read any critically acclaimed book, almost anything anyone talks about is in the first few chapters. It really makes you wonder how many people actually read the entire thing.

>>712886078
That’s exceptionally rare because Devs usually know when stuff is shit, and they also know that the early portions of game are where 95% of reputation comes from. So early game always gets the most effort put in.

>>712883646 (OP)
Catacombs is good, Tomb of Giants is good, Duke's Archives is good, New Londo is good, Demon Ruins is mediocre, Lost Izalith is shit.

>>712886285
The best example of this funnily enough is mein kampf. As an ardent historyfag I actually read the whole thing, and it's very clear that both it's detractors and defenders never did. There's full length academic essays about it that just make you wonder if the author ever even googled a summary, let alone read it himself.

>>712887337
People don't even read the first few chapters of Mein Kampf or they'd be wondering where all the evil white supremacism is. It's a book that's been entirely memeified (in the actual term) into a fictionalized jewish self projection.

>>712886285
>>712887337
I won't deny there's likely instances of fraud but in most cases it's just selective and poor (no) note-taking

>>712887337
Add to that that the English translation cleaned up a lot of the spelling and grammar mistakes of the German original.

The German original is even MORE of an incoherent /pol/ shizo-post rambling. Terrible prose, grammar and tons of typos included. The first major crime Hitler committed was to release this fucking crime against the German language.

>>712883646 (OP)
Anon you posted a boss from the game where YouTube reviewers specifically say the exact opposite of what you’re proposing they like.

>Play a classic or nu Resident Evil.
>The mansion or mansion-equivalent first area is always way bigger and more detailed than the rest of the game's areas, and the obligatory endgame lab or whatever is over in like ten minutes if you know what you're doing.
bugs the shit out of me

>>712887691
thats why its banned in most countries

>>712886078
Xenoblade 2

The second half of Dark Souls is just as good as the first and anyone who says otherwise is an NPC repeating whatever he first hears from streamers.
New Londo/Abyss: Great
Dukes Archives/Crystal: Great
Great Hollow/Ash Lake: Great
Tomb of Giants: Great
The only area that's not great is Demons Ruins/Izalith and even that has parts of it that are good like the temple.

>>712886078
Dragon Age: Origins
Skyrim
Most of Tomb Raider games
Most RTS and 4x games are way better in the late game too. And I'm talking about campaigns not skirmish games.

>>712886078
witcher 1 apparently gets better after the two dogshit first sections where i dropped it

skies of arcadia has this long campaign before it finally unlocks the open world.

wizardry 8 your just fighting stupid shit like bats until pretty much at the half way point you unlock the plot and can start teleporting/nuking shit

>>712886078
roguelites when you finally fully unlock the entire actual game after 120 runs.

>>712883646 (OP)
>op mom vagina

OP pic unrelated, I assume, because Dark Souls 1 is back loaded as fuck with invasions

>>712883646 (OP)
Honestly, this fight is not that bad.