LOL it's "JUST" an underdeveloped story? it's also a copy pasted collection of only about 5 or 6 different locations, it's an excercise in how much can we railroad players in what was touted as an RPG into situations and choices they either dont care about or actively disagree with. it was the poor bastard child of a really fun game and i hope bioware learnt alot from it.ghost whistler said:
Bad games that got GOOD reviews
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Castlevania: Order of Esscellia. That game got like 9.5 reviews and it was the worst game in the series. Lame plot, bad combat mechanics, poor weapon (or glyph) drops and a poor system in general. And some genius decided to remove the awesome "metroidvania" style of world exploration. Not to mention they decided to keep the RPG elements but put every boss fight at the start of the level. I thought the point of putting the boss at the end was so you could grind on the way to the boss so you're strong enough to face him and you feel like you actually accomplished something!
*cracks fists*GeorgW said:
Hey, hey. inFAMOUS 2 is my most favourite game for the PS3 right now.
But hey, I digress. Counter-Strike; seriously, Its considered to be one of the best online shooters of all time. I found it repetitive, cheap, retardedly hard, and I've played much more enjoyable online games in my life. Its kinda insulting for me know a piece of garbage like this was made by the mighty Valve.
haha, sorry, I just got an "arson, murder, and jaywalking" vibe from what you said, just wanted to let you know.TheKasp said:
No, actually it didn't do so well because of a lot of bugs and physics glitches...OhJohnNo said:
Although, I disagree with you because I was a fan of the game.
Dude, relax. as long as you're defending your opinion and defending your opinion on The Escapist, we're not going to eat you alive!CrimsonBlaze said:
The F.E.A.R. games. People always say that the second and third games were no where near as scary as the first, and while I can agree to that (in the sense that F.E.A.R. 2 was the most ridiculous attempt to squeeze in a few moments of frontal nudity at the cost what most fans found scary), I never found the first game that scary either. The first few times anything happened It was kind of creepy, but by the end, the game was getting so predictable that I was just saying "Guy's gonna jump out of that, lights will flicker up there, little girl will walk across hallway in front of me, etc. etc."
What happened to games like Condemned and Blood, Monolith? While reboots can flop, I wouldn't mind a current-gen reboot of Blood. That sort of game has a lot of potential on today's market, as long as you don't do what you did with Blood 2 (shudders at the thought of boring gameplay, stupid ending, and flimsy weapons)
What happened to games like Condemned and Blood, Monolith? While reboots can flop, I wouldn't mind a current-gen reboot of Blood. That sort of game has a lot of potential on today's market, as long as you don't do what you did with Blood 2 (shudders at the thought of boring gameplay, stupid ending, and flimsy weapons)
The halo and call of duty games, and i would say battlefield to but I have honestly never experience any battlefield game. I don't hate them because hating them is popular and what the cool kids do, because loving them and being obsessed with them is just as (if not more) prominent. I think Halo is bad because its really not that fun and at all and neither is call of duty.
pretty much me2. dat's shite.
for the opposite: deus ex: invisible war. I love that game sooo much.
for the opposite: deus ex: invisible war. I love that game sooo much.
I'm with you on this one.Xeraxis said:
I started playing it 2 years ago and left it thinking "i'll come back to it later"
2 years later, I've clocked in 320 hours of Left 4 Dead 1+2 and haven't touched Dead Rising once, i think the concepts of a game about killing hoards of zombies in a mall was hot shit in 2006 but not since the two L4D games and so many zombie games that are much more refined gameplay... well who cares about Dead Rising?
But does that make Dead Rising a bad or over-rated game? Or is it just a case of it ageing incredibly poorly incredibly quickly? Did it earn the score in 2006 but only relative to the lack of competition? It had a unique selling point that it lost.
See, now that is very subjective, because I liked what they did with it. It was more a small unit tactical game rather than a sort out your build/economy game. The use of cover was implemented very well and added to the depth of tactics rather than the general RTS select all and rush. It reminded me of Syndicate, and X-Com. I agree that the campaign was too short, but I didn't pay full retail for it so that didn't upset me.R4ptur3 said:
Hmm... For me, World of Warcraft would be the biggest example... other than that, I'm not really sure. I mean, there are plenty of games that I dislike that get excellent reviews (I'm looking at you, CoD and Gears of War), but they're solid games and I can't really call them bad...
For anyone that disagrees with me on WoW, I'm NOT talking about Cataclysm. I haven't played that one. I'm talking about one of the old WoWs that had massive landscapes with no content for miles and miles, and for the first 20 hours were INCREDIBLY BORING with very dull quests, repetitive combat, and just... well, not much to DO. I don't accept "it gets better later" if I've actually taken that much time to play the game with unfavorable results...
For anyone that disagrees with me on WoW, I'm NOT talking about Cataclysm. I haven't played that one. I'm talking about one of the old WoWs that had massive landscapes with no content for miles and miles, and for the first 20 hours were INCREDIBLY BORING with very dull quests, repetitive combat, and just... well, not much to DO. I don't accept "it gets better later" if I've actually taken that much time to play the game with unfavorable results...
Dead Space 1 and 2 and the fear series. Mostly because of their attempts to be all scary when they are not...
Though I will admit out of the bunch Dead Space two did have a character I liked ad wasn't all that bad, I just hate that nearly every character in those games die so you don't care about them because you know they will at some point.
Though I will admit out of the bunch Dead Space two did have a character I liked ad wasn't all that bad, I just hate that nearly every character in those games die so you don't care about them because you know they will at some point.
For me they'd probably be Oblivion and Portal 2. There are games that I don't like that get really good reviews but those two games are ones that I honestly can't understand how they get so good reviews as they do.
Oblivion, for obvious reasons. Being completely broken and designed by a retard monkey.
Portal 2 for... Well... Portal 1 was amazing. And Portal 2 is just more of the same, in a bad way. Same "clever" puzzles. Same "funny" jokes. Annoying "witty" characters. It's not the worst game around, but I just don't think it deserves the amount of hype it gets.
Oblivion, for obvious reasons. Being completely broken and designed by a retard monkey.
Portal 2 for... Well... Portal 1 was amazing. And Portal 2 is just more of the same, in a bad way. Same "clever" puzzles. Same "funny" jokes. Annoying "witty" characters. It's not the worst game around, but I just don't think it deserves the amount of hype it gets.
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You're both wrongAtmos Duality said:
Share IDEAS! Ideas are what can inspire opinions in others. Use facts to back that up (X game has Y aspect and not Z aspect)
OP is wrong too, mere opinion is not enough, and frankly hate wagons lead no where.
People can blast "opinions" at each other all day, but it's ideas that really matter. Ideas can be as broad, narrow, abstract or definite as you like, such as the idea that such and such isn't really good and may only be considered good (now, here,) for irrelevant reasons.
Yet opinions are valuable, as you cant have ideas in a vacuum of opinion, without the factor of persona human preference, your opinion is your guide, your homing device on what to think about. To explore your feelings towards a given game, do you love in in ways you can really expect others to love it?
Well, if you're describing something that's both an arbitrary ("Good/bad") and qualitative measurement, it's going to be an opinion. Supporting evidence is nice where you can get it, but that isn't going to change their experience with something.Treblaine said:
GTA 4. I just didn't find it fun.
Spore. While I did like the Space Oil Tycoon and the creature levels, the rest of it was boring and poorly done.
Fable 2. Read GTA 4, also playing fallout 3 right after getting the sword and stopping might have attributed to this for me.
Deadly Premonition. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but the controls are kinda dated, and it feels like a last gen game. It just isn't a game I would expect getting better than a 6.5. I feel it falls kinda into the So Bad It's Good Category for me.
Spore. While I did like the Space Oil Tycoon and the creature levels, the rest of it was boring and poorly done.
Fable 2. Read GTA 4, also playing fallout 3 right after getting the sword and stopping might have attributed to this for me.
Deadly Premonition. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but the controls are kinda dated, and it feels like a last gen game. It just isn't a game I would expect getting better than a 6.5. I feel it falls kinda into the So Bad It's Good Category for me.
I found Awakening to be MUCH more interesting than Origins. Plus, i had a mage and i wanted to kill things with my swords so, Battlemage and Arcane Warrior seemed like natural choices for my specializations... Considering you only get those in Awakening (maybe you get Arcane Warrior in Origins, but i never managed to find it). Also, Mage had the best combat. Rogue and Warrior get damn frustrating when you run out of health potions or lose your healer (fuck you, Wynne).death525 said:
OT: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dead Space (good hell was it not only not scary, it was outright boring), and Oblivion (and yet i preordered Skyrim... Call me crazy...).
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Every Kingdom Hearts game since Chain of Memories (which, funny enough, got negative press where it wasn't deserved.)
These are just games I'm qualified to talk about, really, I mean, half of the current damn generation confuses me with how well-received it is, and not just the shooters.
Oh, and, for the fuck of it, Judas Priest's British Steel.
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Every Kingdom Hearts game since Chain of Memories (which, funny enough, got negative press where it wasn't deserved.)
These are just games I'm qualified to talk about, really, I mean, half of the current damn generation confuses me with how well-received it is, and not just the shooters.
Oh, and, for the fuck of it, Judas Priest's British Steel.