Apparently Awsome Games

[guyy]

I could list enough games for this to get myself lynched, so instead I'll just point out the one that might do so on its own: Portal.

No, really. It's a great game, one of the best I've ever played, but for a large number of people it's the most amazing thing ever invented by humanity. I find that very hard to understand. I'd rather not count all the "laments" over the Companion Cube (which you only had for a few minutes, and it never did anything another inanimate object can't do) or cake-related jokes I've seen.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if so I'm kinda glad not to be totally obsessed with a game.

 

[broadband]

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.

i think all the hype is because it was the first good contact that the west had with the complex anime esque RPG storylines.

i find amazing that halo could have a secuel with the bad designed and annoying it was, and the portal jokes are really annoying

 

[tubtub500]

Bioshock for sure. I got it Christmas and still haven't beaten it. I know I'm close to the end, I just don't find the game that interesting to me.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Assassins Creed.

I just got it for the PC.
The gameplay is repedative, the missions are way too similar to each other, the dialogue is absymal.. at best. The mini-missions are laughable and on top of that the AI is poor.

Either it's me or this game is really not all that fun.

I agree. I'm playing it on the 360. The concept and story is pretty cool, but it's just not that fun. Luckily I just borrowed it from a guy at work instead of buying it. He still got the better end of the deal: I lent him Mass Effect!

And I also agree about the GTA games.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Well I'm not sure that it counts as a hyped game that most people like and I don't, but it's still something I held high hopes for:

Armed Assault.

The spiritual sequel to Operation Flashpoint. I really wanted to love it but I just can't. I realise Operation Flashpoint went through a lot of patches before it reached it's full potential, but that's different, for all it's faults, Operation Flashpoint had a great FEEL from the very start. Armed Assault feels so awkward in comparison, I just can't get used to it.

Also, Operation Flashpoint's single player campaign was fairly well done and somewhat believable, but ArmA's campaign and single player missions feel contrived and buggy as hell.

Finally, Armed Assault screwed up the helicopter physics irreversibly. Some might say they're more realistic, but I honestly think they were fine how they were. In OFP, anyone could keep a helicopter in the air, even with a keyboard and mouse, but it took practice and some skill to fly hard and fast in combat. In ArmA, I literally have trouble even flying in a straight line with the keyboard and mouse. The game seems to randomly pick between turning and banking when you move the mouse left and right... it's just impossible. The early patches were supposed to improve it but I noticed no difference.

OFP is my all time favourite game, but ArmA just can't capture my attention the way it's predecessor did. I'm going to give Codemasters' sequel a chance, because it seems to me like BIS have screwed it up.

 

[Tacroy]

I'm gonna go with Halo. I don't see the appeal of the series; it's like someone who loved Tribes 1 & 2 got drunk, and described their most epic multiplayer matches to a Bungee employee in the middle of a loud bar, who misheard half of it.

(That's another thing I don't understand. Tribes 2 had 60 player CTF matches back in 2001. How come modern FPSes limit the number of players to 20 or so?)

Another series of games I don't understand are Blizzard's RTSes. The key to winning seems to be to act as much like the AI as possible (that is, build everything perfectly, micro like a madman); at that point, why not just let the AI play?

 

[Anarchemitis]

Call me a moron, I can't get Portal to click.
I know.
No one beleives me.

 

[VRaptorX]

FF7, I have the strangest feeling that the only people who love that game are the ones who played it as their first RPG ever (or possibly game ever)

that and FFX. Amazing...the two that were maketted as "huge cutscene graphics" are the ones that got the most popularity. So apparently the number of pixles are more important than quality for FF fans?

 

[Crooklyn Banks]

Yay, somone argees with me.

 

[Gormless]

grand theft auto. yes it's good, but it's not really great.


btw, persona 3 rox

persona 3 is better than a social life

 

[davidboring]

Final Fantasy X. Before that the series had felt so alive, so open, after 30 hours spend milking every single little thing there was to do in Midgar/Balamb I'm suddenly let loose on an entire world! I racked up over 200+ hours on both VII and VIII. X took me down a long road, into a field. Then into a long road, and into a field again. I hated that game with a passion for what it took from me.

I also could never get that into Halo, why it was so loved was beyond me. Same with the DMC series and God Of War.

 

[Baba booey]

grand theft auto. yes it's good, but it's not really great.


btw, persona 3 rox

persona 3 is better than a social life

lol So I guess I should get it?

 

[ComradeJim270]

Mass Effect, I could not get into that game, My FPS side said this is boring and my RPG side said this doesn't have enough depth. I mean done get me wrong, it's a good game but i just could not get into it.

How much fucking depth do you need!? I understand that it's boring for an FPS junkie (my younger brother has trouble getting into it for this reason), but I was astounded by its depth.

Fallout - 1&2.

Played them recently. They're good, and I can see why they were thought of as excellent.

It's not that I have a problem with playing old games now. I still often do. Some old games just have that something which will keep me playing them anyway. The Fallouts didn't

Sure, they are certainly still something different - I really enjoyed the style of the artwork. The gameplay was fun, I like the over-the-top gore and the sense of humour. But, still, I just found myself wanting to get through the games and get them over with. I couldn't quite see what all that damned fuss is about.

I think they may just be too dated for a lot of people. If you aren't big into RPGs, it's very hard to get into one that's as old-school as Fallout. At this point, I think the Fallout games have actually developed a sort of inexplicable esotericism. Either you love them, or you just don't get it.

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.

I have trouble with these, too. I don't play RTS very often due to that problem... either I get my ass kicked, or I win yet again by simply rushing in the beginning, turtling immediately afterwards, then crushing the enemy with the largest army the game allows... gets old fast.

For online things, I get bored with them if there isn't some kind of ongoing goal. I think I may be one of the few people with genuine praise for Chromehounds, thanks to the fact my action in multiplayer actually have some meaning. Things like TF2 and CS:S, I can only play for a short time before I need to take a break... otherwise I burn out on them.

Also, Oblivion. See here: http://3scapism.blogspot.com/2008/01/oblivion-as-it-was.html

 

[Alphavillain]

Where do I start? Recently, "Halo 3" and "Bioshock" stand out. And having replayed the original "Devil May Cry" recently...boy , does that fixed camera suck.

 

[Ownagecake]

WORLD OF WARCRAFT IS THE BEST GAME EVER

nah, I'm just quoting my RL friends here. Dawn of War series if you're a RTS fan

 

[Dalisclock]

Halo.

I bought this game after hearing for years how good it was.

I played it and finished it. It was okay. I think the most fun I had was on "Rolling thunder" when you drove the tank. Actually, pretty much any vehicle driving was fun.

However, I felt Gorden Freeman had more personality then Master Chief(no, I'm not kidding. Gorden's silence is preferable to Master Chief's dialouge). The plot was merely a contrivance to get you from one place to another(and while this isn't a bad thing, nessicarly, there wasn't enough gameplay to balance it out. What plot there was felt shallow).

The set pieces felt like it, well to put it nicely "Borrowed" and to put it not so nicely "Brutally murdered and stole", from the ALIEN movies. This might have been enough if I hadn't already played AVP 1 and 2 for PC, which both pulled it off much better.

The indoor levels were rather featureless and most levels were repetative. I can't be the only one who felt like they just made half the levels for the game and then decided to recycle them by making you go through them in reverse order. Guilty Spark 343(?), was the worst of the lot, annoying the hell out of me because it felt like the level was designed to be as long as possible without having any interesting level design.

So really, I have no urge to replay Halo or play the other 2.

 

[Dalisclock]

Bioshock for sure. I got it Christmas and still haven't beaten it. I know I'm close to the end, I just don't find the game that interesting to me.

I loved the first hour or so. And then I realized that after that you've pretty much seen all there is. I think one of the big things that bothered me was that didn't do nearly enough with the whole "Underwater" setting. I mean, in the first section, you have collapsing/flooding tunnels, the bathscape ride, etc. But for most of the rest of the game being underwater really only seems to be mean that there's a few big puddles at places. It didn't really feel "Underwater".

That and the splicers got repetitive as enemies after a while.

The big daddy thing at the end was interesting, but would have been a lot more interesting if you'd have been stuck like that, or if it had made any actual difference, or if there had been more of a point to it.

Don't get me wrong. I liked the game. But it wasn't awesome like it was made out to me, just good.

 

[Dalisclock]

WORLD OF WARCRAFT IS THE BEST GAME EVER

nah, I'm just quoting my RL friends here. Dawn of War series if you're a RTS fan

A lot of my co-workers play WoW. They think I'm weird because I prefer single player, which is a big reason I don't play WoW.

 

[silentboblives]

god i really dont like oblivion. everyone is like wooooooo. im like......no. ill go back to playing half life now. and portal, thank fuck for portal.

oblivion isnt bad its just not that much fun.

 

[stompy]

Mass Effect, I could not get into that game, My FPS side said this is boring and my RPG side said this doesn't have enough depth. I mean done get me wrong, it's a good game but i just could not get into it.

I suppose that the reason that you didn't get into Mass Effect was the reason I did.

To the OP: I suppose Oblivion. I might be disqualified for hating the game, even though I understand that people like it, but something about it just drives me away from it.