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The Force Unleashed, it's not bad but could have been so much more.
 

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Welcome to the Escapist!

As for let downs, I haven't had many big ones.... Well, not getting into art college seemed like a biggie at the time, I have now realised it was for the best....

So no, no let downs.
 

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Halo 3 and the 360 in general. Though most noteable is the dismally short life span of the console before it decides to die with a red ring.
Yeah, halo 3 was a massive letdown, and the 360 is ok untill it thinks its funny to randomly disconnect ,freeze ,lag, slow loading and of course the red ring
 

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GTAIV.
But only 'cus Itraded in my DS to get it. Turns out it was just more of the same. But with the fun removed.
yeah, gta 4 was so overated, its unbelivable, I have saints row 2 and gta 4 and i can say that even though gta 4 might be the better game, saints row 2 was definately more fun to play, and whats the point playing a game you dont find fun.
 

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the da vinci code movie.
it might have been alright if they had actually made it so you could hear the lines the bad actors were saying.
or superbad. that film sucked so much.
 

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As much as I loved it, FO3 was one of the biggest gaming let-downs in a while.

Actually, its BECAUSE I liked it so much that I was so let down when it ended so quickly.
 

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pvtchunders said:
About 2 years ago, I'd been craving a JRPG, as I hadn't played a new one in a while (slim pickin's.) I turned to Enchanted Arms.
As I put it in my 360, I could've swore I heard the Japanese laughing at me. = /

Wow that game was a lovely surprise for me that I don't regret buying. But for a let down FF:CC,i'm a unsociable bastard so no co-op for me. It was atroius(sp)
 

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Resistance 2
why so? the co-op ill agree with though

Blazing angels, You killed my love of the flying game franchises you fiends!
wow, co-op was the only thing i found remotely good about the game.
Where to begin?
Weapon wheel from R:FOM was removed, CoD crosshairs were added, weapons are boring and no where near as creative as the ones from R:FOM, regenerating health(R:FOM did the impossible by combining the health bar and regenerating health), the fearsome alien race known as the Chimera no longer pose a threat and act like retarded clowns, "superhuman" difficulty is a breeze, the antagonist is a flying octapus (for real insomniac?) who can be beaten in the final mission blindfolded with out ever shooting him, characters are completely unlikable, the protagonist is killed in the end in the middle of the trilogy(oops sorry to ruin that for anyone).

co-op chimera ride the short bus and is far too repetitive

competitive features like 4 maps for any game mode, CTF was renamed Core Control and more importantly you now have to actually carry the core, skirmish=meltdown(which was ruined from R:FOM), maps are unbalnced, gameplay is unbalanced, teams are unblanced, horrible server, start often don't count.

this is why R2 should go down as one of the worst fps of all time
I do enjoy the co-op but they take far too long,

They went halo with 2 weapon select the basterds..
They should bring back the bar health system that was good
Hardly they charge and kick your ass, but then again you are a rumbling can of whoop ass large enough to shame norris himself

the difficutly of the game is a matter of opinion and depends on how the players play the game

i agree with the final boss, but the phycic power was awesome

characters? again a matter of opinion

spoiler warnings, add them to the post now..
and what happened at the end is up for debate, he might not be

i dont agree with that point at all though i agree with the maps

the maps are balanced
gameplay is fine
teams are auto balanced for christ sake
The servers are briliant

this makes it an above average game
the server was good, but update 1.5 was a disaster and destroyed the server for week in which no ones stats counted.

the maps aren't balanced because they're not symmetrical. there's a CC map called Spire battlefield, on one side there is a doom fortress that never loses and on the other your basically spawn in the same place every time and die within 5 secs by the 10 snipers on the doom fortress!

i guess the auto balncing system is crap cuz i always get noobs

ok, competitive featured 2 one-hit kills with the pulse cannon, 2 with the lark, 1 with the splicer, the 40mm is an instant kill, tagging is cheap(your a loser if you use the bullseye), the marksman has a 1 hit kill, theres that suicide charger, a minigun with a shield, a gun that shoots through walls... with a shield, and yeah there's the sniper rifle too.

these gameplay elements jack the BS meter up and make it unbearable to play.

you know what?maybe i hate this game cuz i'm a R:FOM original. overall, R2 is noob friendly and focuses more on god damn casual gamers. before you say i suck at the game,let me make one thing clear, i have just over a 3.00k/d ratiome make one thing clear, i have just over a 3.00k/d ratio so i think it's pretty wierd that someone like me would dislike the game in any way.

No, R2 is alot easier. took me 2 weeks to beat R:FOM on superhuman, i beat R2 superhuman in a day, A DAY!
oh yea that map, i just take the wraith and a lad with the belloc, cleans them out but okay i agree

What the hell kinda of servers are you playing? Custom? Those are customised what do you expect! try the ranking servers they do none of which you speak, those guns are balanced and fit their little niche perfectly depending on what kinda player you are and weakness that can be exploited, find the weakness and you have no problem

and you know what? so am i, but i give credit where credit is due and resistance 2 is not a terrible game it is an above average game that has added some new elements to it, all these things your saying WERE IN THE ORIGINAL!

i wasn't for a minute going to question your abilities for what point in this argument would i achieve? even though you seem to question everyone else's

auto balance doesn't work like that and you know it doesn't
and insulting the casual gamers is pretty damn low, you acting like their coming in and ruining your game, your like one of those stereotypical American rednecks who blame the "IMMGRANTS!"

and so they took a week out of your score raising? so what! it happened to everyone, but these things happen, so what if they made a mistake

I agree with the campaign though the last one was harder, mostly because of the Health system

Resistance 2 is effectively Resistance 2.0 its just the same thing but with added content and better game play, and a better paint job
the bellock is crap, i just snipe and get a *no one is safe* ribbon when i play there, but i still hate it

no i don't play custom unranked games... crap, forget to rant about unranked games. i can't stand searching for a ranked game, no matches, then i go into unranked and see 500 people in the lobby. it's not fair to ppl who actually want stats to count for something.

(unrelated)yes, i'm american, no i'm not a redneck, and it's the ILLEAGAL immigrants who cause problems.

i got about 1,500 kills that week and 7 *no one is safe* ribbons, too bad that didn't count. mistakes like these are inexcusable.
R2 is to R:FOM as RE5 is to RE4, the prequels are arguably the best in their generes but the developers felt they needed to change perfection and add more content that actually makes it worse. yes 60 ppl in a match, but that's a bad thing as the amount of spawn killing is unreal. i prefer smaller 3v3 or 5v5 but i never get those games.

oh, and casual gamers are destroying the gaming industry with their demand for sequels and realistic gameplay. Anywhere i look in R2, i see gameplay elements that have been dumbed down. why is there only a blue team? why are there so many cheap weapons? why does the location of the core carrier appear on the map?

Also note that if maps are symmetrical, there would be twice as many maps
No, these are your opinions and nothing will change your opinions while meanwhile i have my opinions and nothing will change mine

I love the bellock

again how is their fault they are there for thier enjoyment and to lay for others as long as their doing that i see no problem its their copy they are playing not for yours they can do what they wish with it

as for maps they are pretty much like the maps in R1 but larger, remember hanger? its pretty much the same

now hold on their i wasn't asking if you were an american i was using it as a way to drive home my point, i dont care what your nationality is it doesnt effect the argument

again saying the games are getting worse is a matter of opinion NOT FACT. when you reach levels such as resi 4 its very hard to go to another level, their is always a peak and a fall as game developers scrape the scraps out of the barrel of ideas

as for matches you know you can search for smmaler games right? i choce smaller games all the time it is no problem for me, and again your point on large ammounts of players that is a matter of opinion not fact.

cheap weapons? most of these "cheap" weapons were in the original, and they shake up the game play, i am amazed when i see two teams lined up guns blazing sheilds up, men falling, it is a large and ferious image of gameplay at its finest

and again you missed my point that R2 is just a better looking clone of R1

and dont be like that against casual gamers, they are not "destroying" your precious gaming industry, and how many of us with working jobs and families actually have the time to put in all these games, the world is changing friend best change with it, its not the casual gamers its the game publishers who are out to make money, blame them.
i think our definition of "casual gamer" is different, so i'll hang that debate

sorry if my opinions counted as facts,i'll remember to put an "IMO" before every opinion statement

IMO R1 maps were a lot simpler and were better as a result. R2's have to much well... shit everywhere and feature many complex elevation changes

i know you were using that redneck comment to further your argument but i was just assuming your're another british anti-USA activist who calls us cheese burger inhaling yanks

i'm well aware of your abililty to choose the size of the game but i lost my faith in that option when i asked for a small CC match and got a 60p skirmish.

same weapons, new characteristics- M5A2 Folsom Carbine from R2 has a smaller capacity and slower fire rate than the M5A2 Folsom Carbine from R:FOM <---- WTF?
PC, bellock, splicer, marksman, and wraith are all new. The Auger and laark were pumped full of steroids. although that makes sense there's the L209 Laark and the L210 Laark. the 40 and the bullseye were cheap in R:FOM as well but no where as bad in R2.

my precious gaming industry?
i have no faith in the gaming industry, 2008 was the worst year of gaming... IMO. there were only 2 games i actually liked in 2008, deadspace and FO3. the rest were crap IMO. im tired of bashing developers cuz at this point, it's like calling someone with downsyndrome stupid. It's just what they do, and that's make bad games with the exception of bethesda and naughty dog
Agreed on the casual gamers

that would be because their trying to jam 60 players into maps and attepmting to separate them at the same time. what ever happened to each squad gets their own mission?, i was expecting so much more, in this area it seems like they attepmted to make it a great feature but then someone from upstairs rushed them into doing a half assed job (i understand how this could be seen as casual gamers fault but there are many more factors, firstly its the developers or their bosses who started targeting casual gamersl, not that it worked really i mean just because their casual doesn't mean they wont appriciate great games, its a developers myth that casual gamers wont care about well made games, and publishers faults for pushing the developers to rush out games so they can make more profits, R1 get alot more time to be crafted on than R2.

persoanlly i blame kids, why? because when they see a bad game with a snazzy cover ectera they will generally be fooled into buying the game, and then get their parents to buy it, i've seen it happen loads of times and it works because they dont know any better as they grow up this will change (age rating? pah noone cares in this country to be honest, i still think a game has never been banned from irish shores, but im not sure)

we'll have to agree to disagree on the weapons i think

Yea bethusda and naughty dog generally actually attempt to make their games well,and attempt to be different i mean Uncharted could of been a massive failure for the company it was a risk but they had the balls to do it, unlike EA who churn out the same games every year, deadspace was okay i think, brilliant game, but halfway through it really got repetative and boring untill i left it go for a while and came back to it

and no i am not one of those anti-american british, im an irishman with alot of american relatives (a cookie if you guess as to why they moved to america back in the old days)
i'm guessing your relatives moved to the USA to either escape the potato famine or because they though the USA was the land of opportunity
 

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Barry93 said:
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Resistance 2
why so? the co-op ill agree with though

Blazing angels, You killed my love of the flying game franchises you fiends!
wow, co-op was the only thing i found remotely good about the game.
Where to begin?
Weapon wheel from R:FOM was removed, CoD crosshairs were added, weapons are boring and no where near as creative as the ones from R:FOM, regenerating health(R:FOM did the impossible by combining the health bar and regenerating health), the fearsome alien race known as the Chimera no longer pose a threat and act like retarded clowns, "superhuman" difficulty is a breeze, the antagonist is a flying octapus (for real insomniac?) who can be beaten in the final mission blindfolded with out ever shooting him, characters are completely unlikable, the protagonist is killed in the end in the middle of the trilogy(oops sorry to ruin that for anyone).

co-op chimera ride the short bus and is far too repetitive

competitive features like 4 maps for any game mode, CTF was renamed Core Control and more importantly you now have to actually carry the core, skirmish=meltdown(which was ruined from R:FOM), maps are unbalnced, gameplay is unbalanced, teams are unblanced, horrible server, start often don't count.

this is why R2 should go down as one of the worst fps of all time
I do enjoy the co-op but they take far too long,

They went halo with 2 weapon select the basterds..
They should bring back the bar health system that was good
Hardly they charge and kick your ass, but then again you are a rumbling can of whoop ass large enough to shame norris himself

the difficutly of the game is a matter of opinion and depends on how the players play the game

i agree with the final boss, but the phycic power was awesome

characters? again a matter of opinion

spoiler warnings, add them to the post now..
and what happened at the end is up for debate, he might not be

i dont agree with that point at all though i agree with the maps

the maps are balanced
gameplay is fine
teams are auto balanced for christ sake
The servers are briliant

this makes it an above average game
the server was good, but update 1.5 was a disaster and destroyed the server for week in which no ones stats counted.

the maps aren't balanced because they're not symmetrical. there's a CC map called Spire battlefield, on one side there is a doom fortress that never loses and on the other your basically spawn in the same place every time and die within 5 secs by the 10 snipers on the doom fortress!

i guess the auto balncing system is crap cuz i always get noobs

ok, competitive featured 2 one-hit kills with the pulse cannon, 2 with the lark, 1 with the splicer, the 40mm is an instant kill, tagging is cheap(your a loser if you use the bullseye), the marksman has a 1 hit kill, theres that suicide charger, a minigun with a shield, a gun that shoots through walls... with a shield, and yeah there's the sniper rifle too.

these gameplay elements jack the BS meter up and make it unbearable to play.

you know what?maybe i hate this game cuz i'm a R:FOM original. overall, R2 is noob friendly and focuses more on god damn casual gamers. before you say i suck at the game,let me make one thing clear, i have just over a 3.00k/d ratiome make one thing clear, i have just over a 3.00k/d ratio so i think it's pretty wierd that someone like me would dislike the game in any way.

No, R2 is alot easier. took me 2 weeks to beat R:FOM on superhuman, i beat R2 superhuman in a day, A DAY!
oh yea that map, i just take the wraith and a lad with the belloc, cleans them out but okay i agree

What the hell kinda of servers are you playing? Custom? Those are customised what do you expect! try the ranking servers they do none of which you speak, those guns are balanced and fit their little niche perfectly depending on what kinda player you are and weakness that can be exploited, find the weakness and you have no problem

and you know what? so am i, but i give credit where credit is due and resistance 2 is not a terrible game it is an above average game that has added some new elements to it, all these things your saying WERE IN THE ORIGINAL!

i wasn't for a minute going to question your abilities for what point in this argument would i achieve? even though you seem to question everyone else's

auto balance doesn't work like that and you know it doesn't
and insulting the casual gamers is pretty damn low, you acting like their coming in and ruining your game, your like one of those stereotypical American rednecks who blame the "IMMGRANTS!"

and so they took a week out of your score raising? so what! it happened to everyone, but these things happen, so what if they made a mistake

I agree with the campaign though the last one was harder, mostly because of the Health system

Resistance 2 is effectively Resistance 2.0 its just the same thing but with added content and better game play, and a better paint job
the bellock is crap, i just snipe and get a *no one is safe* ribbon when i play there, but i still hate it

no i don't play custom unranked games... crap, forget to rant about unranked games. i can't stand searching for a ranked game, no matches, then i go into unranked and see 500 people in the lobby. it's not fair to ppl who actually want stats to count for something.

(unrelated)yes, i'm american, no i'm not a redneck, and it's the ILLEAGAL immigrants who cause problems.

i got about 1,500 kills that week and 7 *no one is safe* ribbons, too bad that didn't count. mistakes like these are inexcusable.
R2 is to R:FOM as RE5 is to RE4, the prequels are arguably the best in their generes but the developers felt they needed to change perfection and add more content that actually makes it worse. yes 60 ppl in a match, but that's a bad thing as the amount of spawn killing is unreal. i prefer smaller 3v3 or 5v5 but i never get those games.

oh, and casual gamers are destroying the gaming industry with their demand for sequels and realistic gameplay. Anywhere i look in R2, i see gameplay elements that have been dumbed down. why is there only a blue team? why are there so many cheap weapons? why does the location of the core carrier appear on the map?

Also note that if maps are symmetrical, there would be twice as many maps
No, these are your opinions and nothing will change your opinions while meanwhile i have my opinions and nothing will change mine

I love the bellock

again how is their fault they are there for thier enjoyment and to lay for others as long as their doing that i see no problem its their copy they are playing not for yours they can do what they wish with it

as for maps they are pretty much like the maps in R1 but larger, remember hanger? its pretty much the same

now hold on their i wasn't asking if you were an american i was using it as a way to drive home my point, i dont care what your nationality is it doesnt effect the argument

again saying the games are getting worse is a matter of opinion NOT FACT. when you reach levels such as resi 4 its very hard to go to another level, their is always a peak and a fall as game developers scrape the scraps out of the barrel of ideas

as for matches you know you can search for smmaler games right? i choce smaller games all the time it is no problem for me, and again your point on large ammounts of players that is a matter of opinion not fact.

cheap weapons? most of these "cheap" weapons were in the original, and they shake up the game play, i am amazed when i see two teams lined up guns blazing sheilds up, men falling, it is a large and ferious image of gameplay at its finest

and again you missed my point that R2 is just a better looking clone of R1

and dont be like that against casual gamers, they are not "destroying" your precious gaming industry, and how many of us with working jobs and families actually have the time to put in all these games, the world is changing friend best change with it, its not the casual gamers its the game publishers who are out to make money, blame them.
i think our definition of "casual gamer" is different, so i'll hang that debate

sorry if my opinions counted as facts,i'll remember to put an "IMO" before every opinion statement

IMO R1 maps were a lot simpler and were better as a result. R2's have to much well... shit everywhere and feature many complex elevation changes

i know you were using that redneck comment to further your argument but i was just assuming your're another british anti-USA activist who calls us cheese burger inhaling yanks

i'm well aware of your abililty to choose the size of the game but i lost my faith in that option when i asked for a small CC match and got a 60p skirmish.

same weapons, new characteristics- M5A2 Folsom Carbine from R2 has a smaller capacity and slower fire rate than the M5A2 Folsom Carbine from R:FOM <---- WTF?
PC, bellock, splicer, marksman, and wraith are all new. The Auger and laark were pumped full of steroids. although that makes sense there's the L209 Laark and the L210 Laark. the 40 and the bullseye were cheap in R:FOM as well but no where as bad in R2.

my precious gaming industry?
i have no faith in the gaming industry, 2008 was the worst year of gaming... IMO. there were only 2 games i actually liked in 2008, deadspace and FO3. the rest were crap IMO. im tired of bashing developers cuz at this point, it's like calling someone with downsyndrome stupid. It's just what they do, and that's make bad games with the exception of bethesda and naughty dog
Agreed on the casual gamers

that would be because their trying to jam 60 players into maps and attepmting to separate them at the same time. what ever happened to each squad gets their own mission?, i was expecting so much more, in this area it seems like they attepmted to make it a great feature but then someone from upstairs rushed them into doing a half assed job (i understand how this could be seen as casual gamers fault but there are many more factors, firstly its the developers or their bosses who started targeting casual gamersl, not that it worked really i mean just because their casual doesn't mean they wont appriciate great games, its a developers myth that casual gamers wont care about well made games, and publishers faults for pushing the developers to rush out games so they can make more profits, R1 get alot more time to be crafted on than R2.

persoanlly i blame kids, why? because when they see a bad game with a snazzy cover ectera they will generally be fooled into buying the game, and then get their parents to buy it, i've seen it happen loads of times and it works because they dont know any better as they grow up this will change (age rating? pah noone cares in this country to be honest, i still think a game has never been banned from irish shores, but im not sure)

we'll have to agree to disagree on the weapons i think

Yea bethusda and naughty dog generally actually attempt to make their games well,and attempt to be different i mean Uncharted could of been a massive failure for the company it was a risk but they had the balls to do it, unlike EA who churn out the same games every year, deadspace was okay i think, brilliant game, but halfway through it really got repetative and boring untill i left it go for a while and came back to it

and no i am not one of those anti-american british, im an irishman with alot of american relatives (a cookie if you guess as to why they moved to america back in the old days)
i'm guessing your relatives moved to the USA to either escape the potato famine or because they though the USA was the land of opportunity
it was those blasted potatoes!
 

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Is it just games you mean?

FarCry2 is one that stands out. Loved FC1 to death. I played FC2 for about 3 hours and then uninstalled it. It looked great and all but verything else was rubbish. To make matters worse at xmas my bro bought the game for me!

In real life?

Getting laid for the first time. After, I was like whats all the fuss about?!
 

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Haze. trailers made it look so good, and i was drooling over previews and screenshots, and then i bought it... beat it in 3 hours... and traded it the next day, and advised that no one ever touch it...
 

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The really sad thing was spore was easily on track to be a more open-ended sim-type game.
Then they decided to make it kid friendly.

I.
Hate.
Kids.
 

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Haegamonia the Solon Heritage. No new Campaign, only a few new useless units and the most depressing skirmish system ever.