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in halo reach
-the community can be a bit too willing to complain when they try something new in a game, that i personally thought was a good thing (bloom and armor lock mainly) i get that they can be annoying but the amount of threads i saw about it was unnecessary
-the spawning system has more the a few times lead to almost instant deaths.
for battlefield 3
- that single player campaign *shudders*
-the community can be a bit too willing to complain when they try something new in a game, that i personally thought was a good thing (bloom and armor lock mainly) i get that they can be annoying but the amount of threads i saw about it was unnecessary
-the spawning system has more the a few times lead to almost instant deaths.
for battlefield 3
- that single player campaign *shudders*
My favourite game at the moment is Fallout 3... one bad thing... hmm, well I can't stop playing it for one thing, damn you modders, I have a backlog to clear ya'know...
Final Fantasy VII - The English localisation can be shockingly bad.
Dragon Age: Origins - I love you, but what on earth happened to everyone's hands? I mean... Just look at them! Look at them! And once you've noticed how huge and unweildy they are compared to the rest of the body, you can't stop noticing it. Augh.
Dragon Age 2 - What? Only one heal spell and it's on a 30 second timer? Grrr...
Mass Effect - The Mako sections can go to hell. In a handbasket.
Mass Effect 2 - What? Only a couple of sniper rifle rounds until I pick up more ammo? Augh once again.
Dragon Age: Origins - I love you, but what on earth happened to everyone's hands? I mean... Just look at them! Look at them! And once you've noticed how huge and unweildy they are compared to the rest of the body, you can't stop noticing it. Augh.
Dragon Age 2 - What? Only one heal spell and it's on a 30 second timer? Grrr...
Mass Effect - The Mako sections can go to hell. In a handbasket.
Mass Effect 2 - What? Only a couple of sniper rifle rounds until I pick up more ammo? Augh once again.
Red Dead Redemption was a little slow to start with.
InFamous 2 had some ridiculously difficult enemies.
Spyro was too short. More Spyro
InFamous 2 had some ridiculously difficult enemies.
Spyro was too short. More Spyro
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Mass Effect 2's thermal clips...
1) A reloading mechanic makes Mass Effect's technology less functionally unique from other sci fi settings.
2) From a narrative standpoint thermal clips' ubiquitousness makes no sense. Are we expected to believe that every shoestring mercenary operation on the galaxy's fringe updates their entire weapon stock every two years? Why do the geth and the collectors use thermal clips when their technology is supposed to be both more advanced and developed differently from that of other races? How did thermal clips get on board a ship that went missing 8 years before they were widely adopted?
3) For that matter, why were they adopted? Guns with thermal clips are functionally worse than guns without them as their capacity for extended fire is reduced and an artificial short term "ammo limit" is now imposed.
4) How does thermal clip technology work? The clip absorbs heat as the gun is fired, but when firing stops why is heat still retained? What kind of material are thermal clips made from that has absolutely no heat dissipation, and why was such an inferior material chosen?
5) Stepping on ammo to pick it up is immersion breaking and dumb.
6) Why does Commander Shepard only carry enough thermal clips to fire his or her shotgun 15 times? Are the soldiers of the future expected to procure sufficient thermal clips to be combat effect during every firefight? What are they supposed to do when combatting enemies that don't use conventional weaponry? What economic or bureaucratic situation caused this limitation on thermal clip capacity?
Anywayyy....
1) A reloading mechanic makes Mass Effect's technology less functionally unique from other sci fi settings.
2) From a narrative standpoint thermal clips' ubiquitousness makes no sense. Are we expected to believe that every shoestring mercenary operation on the galaxy's fringe updates their entire weapon stock every two years? Why do the geth and the collectors use thermal clips when their technology is supposed to be both more advanced and developed differently from that of other races? How did thermal clips get on board a ship that went missing 8 years before they were widely adopted?
3) For that matter, why were they adopted? Guns with thermal clips are functionally worse than guns without them as their capacity for extended fire is reduced and an artificial short term "ammo limit" is now imposed.
4) How does thermal clip technology work? The clip absorbs heat as the gun is fired, but when firing stops why is heat still retained? What kind of material are thermal clips made from that has absolutely no heat dissipation, and why was such an inferior material chosen?
5) Stepping on ammo to pick it up is immersion breaking and dumb.
6) Why does Commander Shepard only carry enough thermal clips to fire his or her shotgun 15 times? Are the soldiers of the future expected to procure sufficient thermal clips to be combat effect during every firefight? What are they supposed to do when combatting enemies that don't use conventional weaponry? What economic or bureaucratic situation caused this limitation on thermal clip capacity?
Anywayyy....
Soul Reaver / Legacy of Kain series......
The story is one of the greatest things ever written down... ever.
1. It hasn't been made into a movie yet.
2. They aren't making anymore games.
3. It's not a fucking movie yet.
Final Fantasy Series.
Again fantastic story driven adventures. Truly engaging world. Years and years of game-play.
1. Annoying main characters..... no really. You would be hard pushed to deliberately make a worse main character for each game.
2. Un-skip-able cut scenes. That as a fan, over the decades, you could quote word for word anyway.
Resident Evil
The definitive survival horror game. Spanning all consoles and generations.
1. You had it right when you made RE4. How could you get RE5 so wrong.
2. Get a move on, with re-making the original trilogy. In the same way in which you re-don it on the gamecube.
Mario Kart
Best party game ever, imho.
1. Fix the rubber band AI on the Wii version.
2. Give us a way to dodge / protect from blue shells.~
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.... Wah! Wah! Wah! Wah!
Beyond Good & Evil.... Gief sequel now.
Portal 2..... Too short. No one wanted co-op go away, come back when you have the rest of my single player.
Fantastic Dizzy..... There are no flaws.
The story is one of the greatest things ever written down... ever.
1. It hasn't been made into a movie yet.
2. They aren't making anymore games.
3. It's not a fucking movie yet.
Final Fantasy Series.
Again fantastic story driven adventures. Truly engaging world. Years and years of game-play.
1. Annoying main characters..... no really. You would be hard pushed to deliberately make a worse main character for each game.
2. Un-skip-able cut scenes. That as a fan, over the decades, you could quote word for word anyway.
Resident Evil
The definitive survival horror game. Spanning all consoles and generations.
1. You had it right when you made RE4. How could you get RE5 so wrong.
2. Get a move on, with re-making the original trilogy. In the same way in which you re-don it on the gamecube.
Mario Kart
Best party game ever, imho.
1. Fix the rubber band AI on the Wii version.
2. Give us a way to dodge / protect from blue shells.~
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.... Wah! Wah! Wah! Wah!
Beyond Good & Evil.... Gief sequel now.
Portal 2..... Too short. No one wanted co-op go away, come back when you have the rest of my single player.
Fantastic Dizzy..... There are no flaws.
Assassins Creed... I love those games but I think I belong to the minority of actually liking the first game.
What annoyed me in AC2 and ACB was the lack of control during missions. In the first game, fair enough the tasks in all the cities were repetitive, but at least I had more control on how I will execute the actual missions.
In AC2 there were less control. For example in one mission Mario said something like "take some mercenaries and raise some hell!" To this Ezio agreed while I screamed at the screen NO, that's a terrible idea, I want to go sneaky stabby!! This was even more frustrating on ACB where they introduced 100% sync. Of course I want 100%, but I was given too many conditions; not to be seen, kill with hidden blade, in under 3 minutes, while sucking the hem of your robes and so on. I don't see them stopping that, but one can always hope...
I actually never understood how did the "animus" know, how exactly Ezio killed his targets? If it knew that, what did they need Desmond for?
What annoyed me in AC2 and ACB was the lack of control during missions. In the first game, fair enough the tasks in all the cities were repetitive, but at least I had more control on how I will execute the actual missions.
In AC2 there were less control. For example in one mission Mario said something like "take some mercenaries and raise some hell!" To this Ezio agreed while I screamed at the screen NO, that's a terrible idea, I want to go sneaky stabby!! This was even more frustrating on ACB where they introduced 100% sync. Of course I want 100%, but I was given too many conditions; not to be seen, kill with hidden blade, in under 3 minutes, while sucking the hem of your robes and so on. I don't see them stopping that, but one can always hope...
I actually never understood how did the "animus" know, how exactly Ezio killed his targets? If it knew that, what did they need Desmond for?
Sorry OP but Persona 4 is the only game i could ever call perfect, therefore i cannot criticise it...
My 2nd favourite game would be Phoenix Wright T&T, the investigation sections are still as meh as ever and Mia's Objection! Is too mousey. But for it's faults, they gave good character development to the Judge of all people and for that, i salute you Capcom...
My 2nd favourite game would be Phoenix Wright T&T, the investigation sections are still as meh as ever and Mia's Objection! Is too mousey. But for it's faults, they gave good character development to the Judge of all people and for that, i salute you Capcom...
KotOR- felt the romances were badly done tbh
The Witcher 2- Its graphics are so good my computer struggles at times
Dragon Age Origins- The fade and Deeproads bits are sooooooooo long and boring
Mass Effect 1- shitty inventory
The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind- until my character hits lvl 7 or 8 where my sword actually hits stuff you are no fun (after that however you are amazing)
Edit: The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion- Level scaling, my fucking god i hate it! also the Shivering Isles has a glitcher after the main quest where you crimes never get resolved (fucking game breaker!)
The Witcher 2- Its graphics are so good my computer struggles at times
Dragon Age Origins- The fade and Deeproads bits are sooooooooo long and boring
Mass Effect 1- shitty inventory
The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind- until my character hits lvl 7 or 8 where my sword actually hits stuff you are no fun (after that however you are amazing)
Edit: The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion- Level scaling, my fucking god i hate it! also the Shivering Isles has a glitcher after the main quest where you crimes never get resolved (fucking game breaker!)
Starcraft 2: The story had a few plotholes, overmind being a puppet now and all. But the gameplay is flawless.
Mass Effect 2: Scanning for minerals, cheesy Shepard lines.
Mass Effect 2: Scanning for minerals, cheesy Shepard lines.
Majora's Mask suffered because of Miyomoto. He wanted the game out before the Gamecube, so he cut the original 7 day long cycle to three, and only made 4 temples. Since what we have of it is so badass, one only wonders what it might've been if it was complete.
Does "being too short" count as a criticism? I guess the fighting is too easy, but that's true of almost every Zelda game.
Does "being too short" count as a criticism? I guess the fighting is too easy, but that's true of almost every Zelda game.
Knights of the Old Republic
The 20-level cap is ridiculous, and it severely inhibits my gameplay. If I want to maximize my Force abilities, I need to rush through Taris while doing as few sidequests as possible, which leaves me out credits and fun.
I'm sorry, KotOR... I didn't mean to hurt you...
KotOR II (with the Restored Content Mod)
Peragus. Just... Just Peragus.
The 20-level cap is ridiculous, and it severely inhibits my gameplay. If I want to maximize my Force abilities, I need to rush through Taris while doing as few sidequests as possible, which leaves me out credits and fun.
I'm sorry, KotOR... I didn't mean to hurt you...
KotOR II (with the Restored Content Mod)
Peragus. Just... Just Peragus.
Oh really let me try seeing as I am playing it (and loving it at the moment) first of all graphics not great even for ps2 second horribly linear thirdly it is very very slow you cannot speed run this game very easy, it is all about the story. Next is the crappy save system spend 3 hours levelling up get into a fight enemy advantage critical hit , critical hit you are dead move back 3 frikkin hours. Combat is really simple there are no combos it is just find weakness hit enemy with weakness keep going win. Stupid initial difficulty until you can replenish SP, random dungeons arent exactly exciting. Persona crossing is a pain in the arse it is just a test of patience until you get the skills you want which could literally take hours.The Wykydtron said:
Note: I am not bashing this awesome game (well I am but u know) but it does have faults.
Ok OP (SCIV awesome game BTW
) My favourite is FFVII now for its faults:-1. on field characters look kak on release and now.
2. Big glitches er Mag Def on armour doesnt work seriously wtf?
3. combat tactics (but not strategy which went up) went down from FF6
4. some pretty dodgy translation
5. chocobo sage god I hate that guy "oh I forget" until I fight 20 more friggin battles or so the goit.
6. Great glacier, seriously they put this crap in most FF titles just a crap area that is designed to piss you off.
I am sure other (mean spirited people) will find more faults with it which I will accept as long as they accept they are wrong.
Er ok what did you not understand? I am sure the grammar is desipherable if not exactly great and the same for the spelling. Layout is pretty poor but I cant see how that would affect youre understanding.creationis apostate said:I could not understand that in the slightest...dimensional said:Oh really let me try seeing as I am playing it (and loving it at the moment) first of all graphics not great even for ps2 second horribly linear thirdly it is very very slow you cannot speed run this game very easy, it is all about the story. Next is the crappy save system spend 3 hours levelling up get into a fight enemy advantage critical hit , critical hit you are dead move back 3 frikkin hours. Combat is really simple there are no combos it is just find weakness hit enemy with weakness keep going win. Stupid initial difficulty until you can replenish SP, random dungeons arent exactly exciting. Persona crossing is a pain in the arse it is just a test of patience until you get the skills you want which could literally take hours.The Wykydtron said:
Note: I am not bashing this awesome game (well I am but u know) but it does have faults.
Ok OP (SCIV awesome game BTW
1. on field characters look kak on release and now.
2. Big glitches er Mag Def on armour doesnt work seriously wtf?
3. combat tactics (but not strategy which went up) went down from FF6
4. some pretty dodgy translation
5. chocobo sage god I hate that guy "oh I forget" until I fight 20 more friggin battles or so the goit.
6. Great glacier, seriously they put this crap in most FF titles just a crap area that is designed to piss you off.
I am sure other (mean spirited people) will find more faults with it which I will accept as long as they accept they are wrong.
If you did not agree I would understand but I cant see the problem otherwise please enlighten me so I can improve.
Bulletstorm: Campaign was a bit short and there weren't enough skill shots. Multiplayer was pretty crappy too.
Left 4 Dead 2: Not enough maps because Valve is useless.
Left 4 Dead 2: Not enough maps because Valve is useless.