Critically acclaimed games you didn't like.
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Hmm.. well since you asked:
GTA IV
BF: BC 2
Halo Series
CoD: MW 2 & 3 + BO's
Gears of War series
Let's just say it havn't been a good console generation on my part when I play more GC games than I do this generations..
Edit: Oh! I completely forgot!
ME series
Dragon Age series
AC: Brotherhood
GTA IV
BF: BC 2
Halo Series
CoD: MW 2 & 3 + BO's
Gears of War series
Let's just say it havn't been a good console generation on my part when I play more GC games than I do this generations..
Edit: Oh! I completely forgot!
ME series
Dragon Age series
AC: Brotherhood
i agree, it was over-hyped. it was by no means bad, a short charming challenging puzzle game, but it wasn't THAT special.DanielBrown said:
as for me, probably the assassin's creed series as a whole. the first was fun, this is true. the plot was meh, and assassinating people got boring kinda quickly. same goes with AC2, and Brotherhood. i did like the city building thing of AC2, but it all got boring after not too long. Brotherhood is the most fun to dick around in though, since there are so many toys.
same with Red-Dead-Redemption. its fun for the first little bit (so is Farcry 2, but i digress since i dont want to complain about that one right now), but it just got boring messing around, and the story didn't interest me enough to keep me going. it just got repetitive around mexico.
Dead Rising. It just got boring, and when it wasn't boring you were lost, and when you weren't lost, you had to fight some random boss. I killed the clown and the machete psycho, and the convicts in the humvee but the guy in the gun store pissed me off so much I stopped playing and sold the game.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a waste of time and money. It was a repainted Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty.
It's funny because I loved the game for just the reasons you didn't like it. It somehow helped me with the immersion I guess, to start of with the same knowledge as the protagonist had. To be fair though my opinion might only count for BS since I actually adored FF XIII..Truniron said:
Tomb Raider Anniversary. The controls had me in fits of rage. I only got the sodding thing free with my graphics card. Finally finished it yesterday. urgh! hateful
Wasnt that impressed with Mass effect I, havnt tried mass effect 2, but i think i was hoping for KOTOR...
Wasnt that impressed with Mass effect I, havnt tried mass effect 2, but i think i was hoping for KOTOR...
Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy. The former is dull and the latter is painfully easy. I just don't see why they get the praise.
Before I'm sacrificed to Miyamoto for blasphemy, please be aware that I did enjoy 64 and Super Mario World. I'm also small and won't bleed enough to satisfy Shigeru's thirst for vengeance.
Also Professor Layton. Completed Pandora's Box, thought it was pretty good. Completed Village, thought it was pants. Tried to complete Future but I just couldn't.
Before I'm sacrificed to Miyamoto for blasphemy, please be aware that I did enjoy 64 and Super Mario World. I'm also small and won't bleed enough to satisfy Shigeru's thirst for vengeance.
Also Professor Layton. Completed Pandora's Box, thought it was pretty good. Completed Village, thought it was pants. Tried to complete Future but I just couldn't.
Have to say (after donning flame-retardant suit) that I really didn't enjoy Half Life 2. It never really gave me a reason to keep playing after I got frustrated, and as a result was quickly consigned to sit on the shelf, unfinished.
More recently, I was unimpressed with Mafia II. It felt more like a series of cutscenes strung together with fetch quests than an open world filled with different things to do.
/retreats to corner of room with fire extinguisher
More recently, I was unimpressed with Mafia II. It felt more like a series of cutscenes strung together with fetch quests than an open world filled with different things to do.
/retreats to corner of room with fire extinguisher
Mass Effect. The gameplay itself is horrendously linear (at times its practically a rail shooter), with poor gunplay and dull mechanics.
As an RPG the Mass Effect series is SORELY lacking, even in the first game, and everything you do feels limited and linear. No amount of superficial moral-choice systems will change that.
The series is full of plotholes and cliches, the setting and backdrop feel rather lifeless compared to similar sci-fi universes and the characters are more like caricatures (especially in Mass Effect 2. My god Miranda was so badly written).
I have similar gripes with Dragon Age, which again is a perfect example of just how far Bioware has fallen since its prime.
As an RPG the Mass Effect series is SORELY lacking, even in the first game, and everything you do feels limited and linear. No amount of superficial moral-choice systems will change that.
The series is full of plotholes and cliches, the setting and backdrop feel rather lifeless compared to similar sci-fi universes and the characters are more like caricatures (especially in Mass Effect 2. My god Miranda was so badly written).
I have similar gripes with Dragon Age, which again is a perfect example of just how far Bioware has fallen since its prime.
Red dead redemption and GTA 4 probably for the same reasons. fx: tedious side quests and RDR broke the immersion for me so often, when the main character acts heroic in the story an a villian when I'm in control.
Fallout 3 was and ok game just not a very good fallout game, I don't like being a supporting character in my fallout story, however, i liked new vegas and fallout 1 and 2 are among my favorite games.
dead rising 2 was boring and i couldn't get into the whole grinding thing.
Fallout 3 was and ok game just not a very good fallout game, I don't like being a supporting character in my fallout story, however, i liked new vegas and fallout 1 and 2 are among my favorite games.
dead rising 2 was boring and i couldn't get into the whole grinding thing.
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Marrowind
more or less Bethesda at this point: I'll stop thinking they suck when they stop making boring games
Final Fantasy 12
Final Fantasy 7
sad part is, 13 is better then both, not very far into it but I'm already more interested in whats going on then both those games combined
WoW
over rated, it's very boring, hot-key combat is old, the warrior class if all fucked up ( you can't get the most basic class right what reason do i have to think you'd get more complex classes right) and the community was a bunch of jerks.
Fallout 3
Marrowind
more or less Bethesda at this point: I'll stop thinking they suck when they stop making boring games
Final Fantasy 12
Final Fantasy 7
sad part is, 13 is better then both, not very far into it but I'm already more interested in whats going on then both those games combined
WoW
over rated, it's very boring, hot-key combat is old, the warrior class if all fucked up ( you can't get the most basic class right what reason do i have to think you'd get more complex classes right) and the community was a bunch of jerks.
I actually really enjoyed Deus Ex; Human Revolution, but I see where you're coming from. It is in many ways a vastly inferior entry to the series that spawned it, though I wouldn't be so hard on it if they had made their boss battles something that could be won using methods other than "shoot until mother fucker 1-4 is dead"...neonsword13-ops said:
Mass Effect 2 just didn't do it for me in the long run, it was meh on the first run through and on the second I stopped playing before the end of the tutorial and traded it in.
Baldur's Gate also bored me to tears, and I usually love games of that genre.
Morrowind and Oblivion were both just so blah. Played them both to completion, and came away feeling very disappointed.
Metal Gear Solid (Series) I've played them all at my friend's house, and I honestly could not get into them.
Resident Evil {Series) I guess they just aren't my kind of zombie games, played 5 recently for a bit with a friend, and it just didn't feel right. Also played the earlier titles and came to the same overall conclusion.
That's about all I can remember right now.
Baldur's Gate also bored me to tears, and I usually love games of that genre.
Morrowind and Oblivion were both just so blah. Played them both to completion, and came away feeling very disappointed.
Metal Gear Solid (Series) I've played them all at my friend's house, and I honestly could not get into them.
Resident Evil {Series) I guess they just aren't my kind of zombie games, played 5 recently for a bit with a friend, and it just didn't feel right. Also played the earlier titles and came to the same overall conclusion.
That's about all I can remember right now.
Oblivion. The level scaling made the combat feel toothless, the instant fast-travel killed the open-world map, and the interface was just... ARGH!!!! Skyrim is rocking my socks however.