Games that should have included an apology in the credits

[Gindil]

Kane and lynch 2:dog days, it was even worse then the first game and about 4 hours shorter, with some of the worst multi player going. All round terrible wished i hadn't wasted my money.

Play Freedom Fighters on PS2. Then play Kane and Lynch 1.

Watch as you demand an apology after the better PS2 game!

 

[Gindil]

I'm going to say this:

CALL OF DUTY IS FUCKING LINEAR BUT WHY DOES EVERYONE ASSOCIATE LINEARITY WITH 13?!

Nerd Rage sequence complete.


OT: Duke Nukem Forever, The last 3 CoD's, the next 3 Halo games, Halo Wars, any game with Always-On DRM, and......

Arx Fatalis with it's fickle magic system.

Why the next 3 Halo Games? THEY'RE BEING HANDLED BY THE SAME BASTARDS THAT GAVE US HALO WARS!

The "Same bastards who gave us Halo Wars" were the guys who made Age Of Empires, and were shut down after completing Halo Wars. Check your facts.

Also worth mentioning that halo wars is a passable rts, especially on a console, and the only one that wasn't a horrible port from pc as far as I can tell

Dear Fans,

Thank you for making a superior game but we are making Halo Wars to take your money away from you. Because F___ You, that's why.

Best wishes (and no lube),
Microsoft.

 

[thereverend7]

Fable 3. Not an overall bad game by any means, i quite enjoyed it. but the final couple hours or so were just.. bad. there's no other way to put it. it just felt lazy and rushed.

 

[Scarecrow398]

La noir: sorry to familiy of the overworked developers

 

[ramflax]

fable2 and 3,far cry 2, all games released along side a movie, F.E.A.R all of them, hand help re-releases of old platform games, infamous 2, all pokemon games after silver. and alot more that i forget.

 

[StormShaun]

Dungeon Siege 3 - Sorry the whole game sucked exept the co-op.

La Noir - Sorry to Team Bondi

Fable2/3 - Sorry about the worse sequels to the original game.

Call Of Duty: Sorry for the multiplayer after Call Of Duty 4, and sorry for the really crap
community full of 12 year olds and douches.

All of these games could of been so much more.

 

[Zeema]

This one, a million times this one.

how about Any Sonic game past 2005

and i rekon Mario games as of late

 

[Collins254]

A mojority of games these days should have an apology sticker after the first mission, appologising for how crappy the game is and offering a full refund if they couldnt please you, for example

COD:WAW(i liked the MW series)
Final fantasy from PS2 onwards, 9 was the last final fantasy i enjoyed, and i agree 8 was the best.
Wet:was just poor, yes slow mo killing is fun, but not every 5 seconds
stranglehold: same reasons
mass effect 2: just seemed such a let down on the first one i almost cried
Infinite undiscovery: for yelling the attack name every 2.7 seconds drove me insane, also was waaaaay too short for a square game
Lost odessy: hey look we made this massive 4 disc game come play it, by the way its only 4 dics long coz we jampacked it with useless bullshit.
Soul caliber 4, for pretending they actually had a story mode, and importing star wars into thier crappy franchise
DBZ burst limit, great game but to truly accomplish anything you have to complete the game on medium, then on hard, then very hard

many many more games but my psychotic ramblings have to be contained to a point.

also @ the borderlands hater: why? it is truly one of the master pieces of our time, combining a well structed FPS with RPG gameplay, a good gamelength, a funny interesting story and very well structed multiplayer? i had 1000/1000gs on borderlands, my only problem with it was the stupid ammounts of dlc.

 

[mjc0961]

Command and Conquer 4, Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass and then of course a bigger one in Spirit Tracks, and Bust-a-Move Universe.

And Saints Row 2, but instead of a "sorry for sucking/shitting on the franchise", it's "Sorry for running out of cutscenes where your character and/or Johnny Gat do completely fucking awesome stuff. There's still plenty of awesome stuff for you do to in the game though, so you should be good until Saints Row The Third comes out."

 

[Bobbity]

Blizzard in WoW

"Sorry lads. Soul = ours"

But there are no credits; it keeps you going forever...

OT: KotOR 2 and Dragon Age 2. Not because they're the worst games I've ever played - from from it - but because they both failed so dramatically in trying to live up to their predecessors.

/edit
Hang on, might as well throw Fable 3 in there, because after old Pete got me excited about it, it turned out to be kind of shit.
Fable 2 as well, although to a far lesser extent, because rather than living up to, and, indeed, exceeding Fable 1, it kind of meandered for a bit, achieved fuck all, reduced the quality of gameplay, took out all the good looking girls, made all the scenery grey and depressing, and ended on a fucking cliffhanger.

 

[funguy2121]

So, I just finished FF13 last night, mainly because I just wanted to say I beat it. And I thought the credits would have been a good spot for Square Enix to apologize for having the game be so damn linear.

So my question is: Is there a game out there that you thought needed an apology from the developers?

How about this? Why don't all the gamers who spend far too much time gaming and bitching about games on the internet write an open letter to developers, and movie directors, and TV producers and songwriters and bands, apologized to them for whining over minor gripes with the product that they busted their ass to produce, the product that they still see as a work of art, the culmination of moving, say, out to LA and living in a tiny apartment with 5 other guys for 6 years until they finally got their break, while said spoonfed gamers gamed their way through high school before getting a job at the local WalMart or CD Warehouse or Gamestop so they could eek out an unenviable living and ***** about the people actually producing stuff.

It's not that you have a grievance with a Final Fantasy game. Hell, I've never been able to get into any of those games and I hated the film. It's that you feel so entitled that you believe the hard working people at the company that produces the products that you (your parents) buy should compose an apology to you. I'm sure the people at Square Enix don't read Escapist threads, but if they did, I'm pretty sure they'd tell you to fuck off, and they'd be totally justified.

No offense

I'll admit I didn't read through the rest of the thread, so sorry if I'm the 20,000th person yelling at you about this.

Gamers have a right to complain. It helps people make better games. If no one ever complained or offered criticism, we wouldn't be at the level that we're at now.

Also, not only that, but there are small developers out there with much better ideas that we never get to see. Why should big companies make money for crappy ideas if we can't help them improve? Saying that someone has no right to complain is basically saying that companies shouldn't listen to what their fans want.

Also, your comment about gamers growing up and working at WalMart is an absurd generalization. Most people working in the industry today were gamers at some point, that's only logical.

I think a plaque I saw on a wall somewhere said it best: Engage Brain before putting Mouth in gear.


On topic: Jak X Combat Racing (even though it was a good game): Sorry for !@%&ing up your Memory Card. Please don't sue.

Forgive me if that came across as a sweeping generalization. I think that we do have the right to complain; it's the assertion that the developers apologize that was offensive and, to me, felt entitled. No matter how much a "product" is commodified, it is still art. Even Everybody Loves Raymond is art, even if it is bad art. As such, whenever the creator/producer/director/company bigwigs try to make what they think you want them to make, artistic integrity is usually compromised. What we can probably agree is hurting the industry right now - the streamlining of genres, the dialing down of the difficulty, the use of heretofore unseen levels of graphic glory used to mask go here-press X gameplay rather than to create a new experience - are being done in the name of selling more copies. It's as if no one has told some of these developers that the Sands of Time trilogy made a lot of money, just as it seems Hollywood suits continually forget that Stanley Kubrick made a lot of money. (I'm talking about originality and innovation here, just in case I'm not being clear, which I'm told I'm sometimes guilty of). The solution is not to insist that they compose a letter to the fans apologizing. As I said above, and as you seem to have not noticed, I don't care for anything I've ever seen out of Squaresoft. I also found Metroid: Other M to be just good enough in some ways to make me really resentful that it was such a huge failure in others. But I don't insist that Nintendo apologize for it, certainly not after playing 30-40 hours of it, which I believe is still the standard length of a Final Fantasy game. For one thing, I'm fairly certain that the Wii U will see a Metroid title, and that it will be another in the excellent Prime series or something that otherwise doesn't wrack the nerves.