Games your surprised are popular

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Call of Duty: Black Ops. I don't know, it's just bewilderingly popular. Whether or not it'll dissipate over the next month or so as the hype wears off? Who knows. But at the very moment, that is the game that strikes me as too popular for what it is.

TI understand the FPS games, like Halo and CoD. They're brainless fun. I don't see why every single game needs to be *puts on deep philosophical voice* deep. *Clears throat* Some games are just fun for the sake of fun. I don't understand the hate for Black Ops at all. The haters remind me of those indie kids that think you're a CONFORMIST HIPOCRIT LOSER MAINSTREEM DOOSHBAWG if you haven't seen every shitty foreign movie that they have.

Duke Nukem is brainless fun. Serious Sam is brainless fun. Painkiller is brainless fun. BlOps is hiding all its brainless fun under pretentious movie-storytelling bullshit. The core gameplay itself has remained unchanged since Call of Duty 2 - so how well the "other" stuff does will be what the game itself is judged on. And with the lack of genuine quality on ahnd, BlOps is destined to critical failure.

Not every game needs to be "deep". But there are some games that need to stop trying.

 

[Squidden]

I don't see the problem with Black Ops

I think though that as soon as a game gets extremely popular it becomes hated because people who don't like it think that it doesn't deserve the credit, and it just becomes a war of fanboys after that.

Black Ops to me was very fun. The story telling was different than usual, made up of flashbacks, the multiplayer was new considering the amount of weapons and the ways to obtain them, the multiplayer gameplay is basically the same except for wager, and zombie mode is good and will get better as soon as they get more maps.

I really enjoyed the story of it, and it had a bit of a twist at the end.

Anyways, I'm surprised the Wii is popular at all, considering the shittastic controls and generally bad games.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Fallout, Total War series, Starcraft, Modern Warfare 2.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Team Fortress 2. I've explained this in the past and all the Valve fanboys throw screaming tantrums and hissy fits, so I'll just leave it at that.

A title that I like, but still don't understand how it's popular: Minecraft. Not that I don't understand it, but making millions of dollars? Whenever I played it at University, some douche or another would walk by and say, "What kind of game is that!?" No one ever comments on games otherwise, but because the graphics look terrible to someone who has never played it, I must be a complete moron for playing it.

I understand the FPS games, like Halo and CoD. They're brainless fun. I don't see why every single game needs to be *puts on deep philosophical voice* deep. *Clears throat* Some games are just fun for the sake of fun. I don't understand the hate for Black Ops at all. The haters remind me of those indie kids that think you're a CONFORMIST HIPOCRIT LOSER MAINSTREEM DOOSHBAWG if you haven't seen every shitty foreign movie that they have.

basically this. we definitly are on the same wavelengths for logic.

ot: the one im most suprised by? probably just how many fps's there are in general, and how when an fps person goes and picks up an rpg (like a few people i know did with new vegas) they completely judge the game and say how bad the game mechanics are and how bad the action is, and then act like their opinion reigns supreme.

/slightly end rant

get a group of the right people together and general anything can be popular, just depends on your location and how well shit is advertised in your area probably.

 

[Nieroshai]

I was just fine with only having 4 Call of Duties and 7 Final Fantasies. These developers need to develop some imagination and creativity and stop making the same damn games year after year after year.

Ever play a Final Fantasy, or are you just making this up as you go? All Final Fantasies are different. All of them. I've never played an identical one. Unique doesn't always mean good, but they're by no means carbon copies. As for Call of Duty, it's ALWAYS been a cover-based shooter set in a realistic war setting. Since the first one. The biggest innovation was when in the second one they let you use a trigger for grenades instead of having to select them out of your inventory first. After that, there's been little new aside from weapons and setting, but you may argue level design gets monotonous. Bash a game by all means, but do it in a way that anyone who HAS played the games can see where you're coming from. Like if you were to argue that FF's storyline is very drawn-out, or that you hate grinding and gatherer quests and androgynous heroes with unrealistic weapons, or you hate how in COD the Nazis ALWAYS know where you are even if you hid and snuck around a building behind them. I can tear a game apart, or make it sound like the best thing ever, because I use actual experience from the game when I played it.

 

[Hairetos]

World of Warcraft.

True that. How people can pay 15 dollars a month for a game in an extended recession/depression is beyond me.

 

[spartan1077]

Games you're surprised are popular

I'm surprised any game that isn't A generic brown FPS is popular nowadays. Especially games like Amnesia.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I was just fine with only having 4 Call of Duties and 7 Final Fantasies. These developers need to develop some imagination and creativity and stop making the same damn games year after year after year.

You need to watch a few of the Extra Credits videos. Lack of imagination and creativity is not the problem. The problem is lack of publishers willing to invest in imagination and creativity.

 

[viranimus]

Personally, fps shooters based on multiplayer as a whole.

Not that they are bad in any measure, but their very nature is extremely repetitive. After playing matches for a couple of hours I fail to see the motivation to play king of the hill, or win death match or any other sort of variant again. Same map, same experience with slightly altered variables. After a while it becomes formulaic and predictable, and Im talking a while measured in hours or days, not weeks, months or years.

 

[spartan1077]

Heavy Rain. Don't get me wrong, it does have some good drama in it, but it's broken up by sims-style walking around the house sections that are just boring. I mean, one scene has you just sitting there while a camera pans to dramatic angles of a kid doing his homework. I wouldn't play a game about DOING homework, even less watching someone do theirs.

I thought it was an amazing game. I thought it really showed how far people would go for what they want(his kid) and I liked it that you could die and you would have to continue the game because the world/game doesn't end when you die. It keeps going on. Also the kid doing homework was showing how the kid didn't like his father much...

 

[IBlackKiteI]

Metro 2033

Its not really that difficult or deviates from standard FPS'ing much, but its a game you can hardly imagine those accustomed to CoD, Halo, Mass Effect etc would play it, but you hear about it all the time.

 

[Broderick]

World of Warcraft.

True that. How people can pay 15 dollars a month for a game in an extended recession/depression is beyond me.

Because its *gasp* Fun?! Seriously...some things are popular because its doing something right. I have no qualm with either of you, although, people do need to think these things through. If every WoW player really thought the game was bad enough to stop playing, they would stop; and 12 million people (give or take, there are people who have more than one acount for some odd reason) cant all be wrong...unless its nazi germany...and those people are nazi's...

 

[Dioxide45]

Uh. Metro 2033 did have a bit more popularity than I expected, but it's been said, and it is by no means a bad game. CoD MW2 and BO, but they've been said.

I guess, The Sims series. You're playing a game about living a life. It's not even really escapism, because all you do really is direct people to the toilet, to the kitchen, to the TV or whatever, and yes, I have played it up to Sims 2, but I don't want to waste my money on Sims 3. You're not living some fantasy, unless your fantasy involves aging really fast, 3-day pregnancies and jobs not really requiring qualifications or work experience.

 

[LockeDown]

I'm shocked that Half-Life is so popular. Honestly, I was left with a rather "meh" feeling after playing through Episode 2.

 

[Jewrean]

Minecraft

Look I'm not hating on Minecraft here. In-fact I have it and have enjoyed it a little bit I guess. I understand why some people are addicted to it like how it's that sensation of playing Lego all over again and therefore is nostalgic. I understand why its a great achievement seeming as it was only created by what like one guy? The reason I don't understand why it's so popular is:

1) At this point in time there simply isn't enough to do. I was addicted for 6 hours and then stopped playing. In that time I build a Castle, a watch tower, a mine shaft that reached the bottom, discovered many arching underground Caverns, found Diamonds and Obsidian, experimented with electrical stuff, etc. But I was running out of stuff to do TBH. I've been told that you need to be creative to enjoy the game... I know that's bullshit because I create things all the time.

2) When it comes to video games people are obsessed with violence, some going so far as to say if it doesn't have violence then it isn't fun. Yes I agree this is a retarded mentality. I can name many games that aren't violent. The reason I am pleasantly surprised is because Minecraft surpassed this with its core focus not on violence but creation and exploration. This isn't a bad thing, in-fact I really love how so many people love a mostly non-violent game (akin to the violence levels in Mario). It's just... an odd feeling seeing people flock to it in this way.

 

[Broderick]

Back on topic! hm...im gonna say bioshock. Its not a bad game, dont misunderstand me, and its very beautiful, but there is just something about the gameplay that seems....off...Like it spread its gameplay elements too thin, too much bread, too little butter so to speak.

 

[Hairetos]

World of Warcraft.

True that. How people can pay 15 dollars a month for a game in an extended recession/depression is beyond me.

Because its *gasp* Fun?! Seriously...some things are popular because its doing something right. I have no qualm with either of you, although, people do need to think these things through. If every WoW player really thought the game was bad enough to stop playing, they would stop; and 12 million people (give or take, there are people who have more than one acount for some odd reason) cant all be wrong...unless its nazi germany...and those people are nazi's...

Sure, but to have such a dedicated following to a game that sucks so much money out of people's pockets with expansions, pay-to-play, and real world trading, all for a game that is cool but not mind-fucking-amazing is ridiculous to me.

 

[Crazyjay]

Portal, seriously its an hour game with no replayibility. yes it is innovative, but it doesn't use it to the fullness.

 

[jamradar]

Minecraft. I dont think anyone expected it to explode in popularity the way that it did. Especially for an Indy game.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'm surprised Mass Effect is as popular as it is. It's my second favorite game series after Zelda, but I'm surprised that so many people love a game with that much dialogue. It's a comforting thought and proof that our medium is maturing.