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There are real-time RPGs out there, such as Dungeon Siege.fix-the-spade said:
Also, Akuma, I salute you for having a PC that can run Assassin's Creed.
Halo. How it became an award-winning super-game is utterly beyond me. The enemies are generic, repetitive and wholly uninteresting, and while the outdoor levels are pretty good, some of the indoor environments (you know what I'm talking about) are just torturous. I never finished it; I forced my way through it as far as I could go but eventually reached the point where I just couldn't stand it anymore.
LOL.Gormless said:
Well that clears it up. Anyway I liked Mario Kart 64 and still do, just would rather play MKDS.
Final Fantasy X and X-2
I just couldn't get into them really, I pefer the games from FFVIII back to the original.
I can only hope that FFXIII, when it finaly comes out, is not so disappointing.
I just couldn't get into them really, I pefer the games from FFVIII back to the original.
I can only hope that FFXIII, when it finaly comes out, is not so disappointing.
Rogue Squadron II. I kept hearing how is was incredible (I believe X-Play gave it 5/5), but when I played it, it made me miss the old X-wing, TIE fighter games.
Ditto Halo, It felt like every other Sci-Fi FPS I had played with less distinct guns.
Ditto Halo, It felt like every other Sci-Fi FPS I had played with less distinct guns.
I can't really think of any right off.. While I'm not a casual gamer, I still find most games at least a little fun, enough to keep playing. The only games I seriously cannot play are games based on movies. They are all terrible, and always will be. It's just the law of game physics section 2, paragraph 5.
I guess if there were any though, it would go to all the Grand Theft Auto's.. They are OK. But that's it, just OK. Mediocre even. I enjoyed them, but they were nothing special.
I guess if there were any though, it would go to all the Grand Theft Auto's.. They are OK. But that's it, just OK. Mediocre even. I enjoyed them, but they were nothing special.
half-life 2. i pretty much enjoyed the game, love all the characters and in retrospective, i find it a good game..... but somehow, while playing it, i always had the FEELING that i was playing just to get to the good part, which never came.
Maybe it was because of all the hype? Everyone around me treated the game like a Da Vinci masterpiece!
Also shadow of the Colossus. The game felt so empty! All Alone in a gigantic place, + 16 giant monsters. Not my cup of tea. I prefer zelda (and here i am, beating the zelda subject again...)
And wow. omg wow was the biggest disappointment i ever had. Everyone in the uo server where i play was leaving coz "WoW is da shit d00d". Tried it, hated it. Ultima online is 2d, and was released 10 years ago, but god dammit UO>>>>>>>WoW
I guess most of this happened because of all the praise given to these games (except for wow. that game is so flawed compared to my good old uo).
Maybe it was because of all the hype? Everyone around me treated the game like a Da Vinci masterpiece!
Also shadow of the Colossus. The game felt so empty! All Alone in a gigantic place, + 16 giant monsters. Not my cup of tea. I prefer zelda (and here i am, beating the zelda subject again...)
And wow. omg wow was the biggest disappointment i ever had. Everyone in the uo server where i play was leaving coz "WoW is da shit d00d". Tried it, hated it. Ultima online is 2d, and was released 10 years ago, but god dammit UO>>>>>>>WoW
I guess most of this happened because of all the praise given to these games (except for wow. that game is so flawed compared to my good old uo).
I understand the RPG bashing,it's just a gui on a poncey excel sheet, purely about the numbers, but it works...VERY well.
Again, with Shadow of the Colossus, sounds utter shit on paper but again, a triumph in my eyes.
Now for my own personal hate...*drum roll*
ANY RTS on MULTIPLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY?
Again, with Shadow of the Colossus, sounds utter shit on paper but again, a triumph in my eyes.
Now for my own personal hate...*drum roll*
ANY RTS on MULTIPLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY?
Civ IV.
I nearly lost my third year of university to the original Civilization. Somebody could probably have developed a sexually transmitted cure for cancer in the time I spent playing that game. Never bothered with Civ II, and was terribly disappointed by Civ III.
Played Civ IV and liked it quite a lot. Better interface, clever design choices, nice visuals, decent AI. I have no criticisms for Civ IV. It's an excellent piece of work.
I never finished one game. Just couldn't be bothered. I've never quite understood why.
I nearly lost my third year of university to the original Civilization. Somebody could probably have developed a sexually transmitted cure for cancer in the time I spent playing that game. Never bothered with Civ II, and was terribly disappointed by Civ III.
Played Civ IV and liked it quite a lot. Better interface, clever design choices, nice visuals, decent AI. I have no criticisms for Civ IV. It's an excellent piece of work.
I never finished one game. Just couldn't be bothered. I've never quite understood why.
Same here. I think it was almost *too* polished. Something about spending lots of time on the old ones felt like a guilty pleasure somehow. But with the great presentation and improved gameplay elements it's like "Hey now, you're trying too hard". It kind of took away from the original feel... one of those intangible elements.Razzle Bathbone said:
The only fun I ever got out of The Sims was when my mate made a character of himself, which proceeded to wet itself in front of a lady he was trying to befriend. "Haha, even a digital representation of you is socially inept!". So it was downhill from there. I just never saw the point of it personally, but hey ho, each to their own.
You're not alone. In the first few hours I was meserized by the new world that sprawled out before me. They did a fantastic job of taking you out of a comfort zone by dropping you into this big empty world where there's no one around for miles except a few lizards and a handful giant lumbering beasts. The archiecture and landscape around you were massive and you felt small and alone. Unfortunately I began to fall out of that state of total absorption because the bosses just weren't that epic.Selka said:
For the game to gel as a whole the battles had to be as memorable as the world. After you got over the fact that they were big and you were tiny all it took to defeat them was one or two steps and if you took more than a minute to figure it out the game gave you the solution. To be fair the concepts behind some of the battles were fascinating, but defeating them just wasn't compelling.
There are 2 classes of games that I really wish I could enjoy, but just could never find the magic for myself.
1) RTS: I love turn based, but can't abide RTS games. I always felt that the AI had a huge advantage, since it can look at the whole screen at once and I can't.
2) Online PVP style games: (shooter, strategy, etc.) I never could bring myself to care about winning or losing vs a person that I don't know.
1) RTS: I love turn based, but can't abide RTS games. I always felt that the AI had a huge advantage, since it can look at the whole screen at once and I can't.
2) Online PVP style games: (shooter, strategy, etc.) I never could bring myself to care about winning or losing vs a person that I don't know.
Gears of War. It was the #3 in my personal list of "games-that-I-hear-about-too-much."
Halo, CoD4, GoW. Mmhm.
Anyway.
As far as Gears of War goes, the idea of hiding behind things and blind firing with absurdly overpowered lasers from the sky didn't appeal to me. And I enjoy seeing a reticule to fire from. And first person. And being able to see what was in front of me, instead of seeing totally disproportional fake buff men in two tons of brown tinfoil cover up half the screen.
Halo, CoD4, GoW. Mmhm.
Anyway.
As far as Gears of War goes, the idea of hiding behind things and blind firing with absurdly overpowered lasers from the sky didn't appeal to me. And I enjoy seeing a reticule to fire from. And first person. And being able to see what was in front of me, instead of seeing totally disproportional fake buff men in two tons of brown tinfoil cover up half the screen.
I don't what it is about Final Fantasy 7, but everyone single human being loves that game more then Texans do guns. That's the only game which I don't go with the hype.