Mass effect 1 and 2 both were so boring i couldnt finish them. they were fun for a bit but then zzzzzz...
"Great" games that failed to blow you away
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When you say "fail to blow away," I venture to guess you mean didn't think it was absolutely amazing or lived up to the hype.
If that is the case then I'd say most games, for me at least, fail to live up to the hype. Sure, they're fun and all, but they don't really suck me in or capture my imagination.
I can only think of handful of games that DID completely blow me away (captivate me):
Morrowind
KOTOR
Half-Life 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Shadow of Chernobyl
Mass Effect 2 (due in no small part to the original Mass Effect)
Everything else I've played always felt a little underwhelming or neutral.
If that is the case then I'd say most games, for me at least, fail to live up to the hype. Sure, they're fun and all, but they don't really suck me in or capture my imagination.
I can only think of handful of games that DID completely blow me away (captivate me):
Morrowind
KOTOR
Half-Life 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Shadow of Chernobyl
Mass Effect 2 (due in no small part to the original Mass Effect)
Everything else I've played always felt a little underwhelming or neutral.
I would have to say off the top of my head the NUMBER 1 "great" game that just epically failed, IMHO, was Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. It had such hype, and coming off KOTOR 1, it was just expected to be another great story. With it being pushed to a different company to complete, it took a left turn and it didn't take long to see that it was a blatant money grab, simply put, it was a release of a broken unfinished game. Missing levels, characters, plots just dropped...etc. A mess.
A close second was Mass Effect. Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with story. I loved the story, and played through 3 times. But ultimately it fell short simply because expectations were too high. It did not deliver on what it promoted. All the hype made it seem your choices (who you choose to save on a galactic scale) would effect the outcome of the game. When it came down to it, it was just another "good/bad" moral choice game, were the ending was the same, whether you were completely bad or good.
A close second was Mass Effect. Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with story. I loved the story, and played through 3 times. But ultimately it fell short simply because expectations were too high. It did not deliver on what it promoted. All the hype made it seem your choices (who you choose to save on a galactic scale) would effect the outcome of the game. When it came down to it, it was just another "good/bad" moral choice game, were the ending was the same, whether you were completely bad or good.
If you got the 360 version, then yes, I totally agree.ImSkeletor said:
If you got the PC version and you are saying that, you musn't like the Source engine.
Oblivion, Morrowind, MW2, FF XII, and....I'm sorry, but Dragon Age: Origins.
I liked the story, and game play, though I wish it had been a bit closer to BG style, and all that jazz. Near the end of the game, though, I was wanting to play pretty much any other game.
I liked the story, and game play, though I wish it had been a bit closer to BG style, and all that jazz. Near the end of the game, though, I was wanting to play pretty much any other game.
BioShock. 1, I never played 2 and I don't intend to.
I liked the narrative and the atmosphere but the gameplay felt clunky and unrefined.
Also Portal. I like puzzle sections in games, but entire games that are puzzles get old very fast. I know Portal is only 2-3 hrs long, but after approx 1.5 hrs I just couldn't stomach it anymore. It's not even that I got stuck, I didn't, it just started to feel like all the puzzles had the same 2-3 solutions.
Arkham Asylum. Now, admittedly I only ever played the demo, but from what I saw it seemed like the combat was a little too simplistic. Also, the stealth sections made me feel more incompetent than anything. Why does Batman move so slow? Why does he have to grapple onto everything? Why can't he jump? The controls felt slow and cumbersome rather than fast and fluid which one would expect from Batman. Contrast that to the Splinter Cell Conviction Demo that just came out, and I would put money on Fisher rather than Batman which I feel shouldn't be the case. I had a lot of hope for Arkham Asylum when I first heard about it with the predator style stealth that they talked about, but it really seems like Ubi pulled it off a lot better than rocksteady and Edios.
Can't think of any others off the top of my head.
I liked the narrative and the atmosphere but the gameplay felt clunky and unrefined.
Also Portal. I like puzzle sections in games, but entire games that are puzzles get old very fast. I know Portal is only 2-3 hrs long, but after approx 1.5 hrs I just couldn't stomach it anymore. It's not even that I got stuck, I didn't, it just started to feel like all the puzzles had the same 2-3 solutions.
Arkham Asylum. Now, admittedly I only ever played the demo, but from what I saw it seemed like the combat was a little too simplistic. Also, the stealth sections made me feel more incompetent than anything. Why does Batman move so slow? Why does he have to grapple onto everything? Why can't he jump? The controls felt slow and cumbersome rather than fast and fluid which one would expect from Batman. Contrast that to the Splinter Cell Conviction Demo that just came out, and I would put money on Fisher rather than Batman which I feel shouldn't be the case. I had a lot of hope for Arkham Asylum when I first heard about it with the predator style stealth that they talked about, but it really seems like Ubi pulled it off a lot better than rocksteady and Edios.
Can't think of any others off the top of my head.
I'm really into RPG, and Dragon Age really fails. It's one of the worst RPG:s of the decade, and the only one of the ones I played (and I've played alot!)that I did not bother finishing.
It has a very crappy character creation, worthless skill system that by the way does not reward a player at all for using any abilities except the passive ones, all the others suck ass. No story immersion whatsoever, the so-called "Origins" part was horrible, and did not add anything to the story at all, and the story was lame, with the player knowing exactly what was going to happen later in the story and with no immersion at all. After the "origins" part in the story (which had nothing to do with the story anyways) there were no surprises at all, it was just sooo predictable.
I mean, I played through Oblivion several times, but I did not bother finishing Dragon Age. It's an extremely dumbed down RPG, sharing the same mudpile as Fallout 3 in quality and story immersion.
Bring me a real Baldur's Gate 3 and I'll be happy again, but right now, Bioware is a complete failure to me as an RPG manufacturer. Do it again, but do it right this time.
It has a very crappy character creation, worthless skill system that by the way does not reward a player at all for using any abilities except the passive ones, all the others suck ass. No story immersion whatsoever, the so-called "Origins" part was horrible, and did not add anything to the story at all, and the story was lame, with the player knowing exactly what was going to happen later in the story and with no immersion at all. After the "origins" part in the story (which had nothing to do with the story anyways) there were no surprises at all, it was just sooo predictable.
I mean, I played through Oblivion several times, but I did not bother finishing Dragon Age. It's an extremely dumbed down RPG, sharing the same mudpile as Fallout 3 in quality and story immersion.
Bring me a real Baldur's Gate 3 and I'll be happy again, but right now, Bioware is a complete failure to me as an RPG manufacturer. Do it again, but do it right this time.
My word is dogma.Dexiro said:Is it possible that it's not overhyped and you just didn't like it?justsomerandomguy said:
I am above the internet
Borderlands, repetitive, slow, boring.
Prototype, repetitive to hell.
Mass effect, a whole lot of nothing.
MW2 - its cheaper to watch a movie than play this game, since the experience is the same.
God of WAr - Just.. repetitive. Smash. QTEs were used well however.
Resident evil 4 - QTEs of death, Escort mission, too much shit can insta-kill you. Third-person shooter with poor controls..
Bioshock (if only those respawn tubes could go away!!)
Halo 3.
Assasins creed. Dunno why, i was unimpressed. Just uninteresting stealth i guess (Thief 2 is gold for this imho, even with its flaws)
WoW; got bored to death 20 minutes in. Its just the average online grinding game.. and people pay for that?!
Oblivion "blew me away", initially, and then i saw just how massively broken it was
Final fantasy 12, cool intro and the city is populated with a LOT of npcs (looks alive,for a change) but the game itself.. is meh, too slow, boring, grind. Pseudo-turn based combat and overreliance on stats and "licences".
Prototype, repetitive to hell.
Mass effect, a whole lot of nothing.
MW2 - its cheaper to watch a movie than play this game, since the experience is the same.
God of WAr - Just.. repetitive. Smash. QTEs were used well however.
Resident evil 4 - QTEs of death, Escort mission, too much shit can insta-kill you. Third-person shooter with poor controls..
Bioshock (if only those respawn tubes could go away!!)
Halo 3.
Assasins creed. Dunno why, i was unimpressed. Just uninteresting stealth i guess (Thief 2 is gold for this imho, even with its flaws)
WoW; got bored to death 20 minutes in. Its just the average online grinding game.. and people pay for that?!
Oblivion "blew me away", initially, and then i saw just how massively broken it was
Final fantasy 12, cool intro and the city is populated with a LOT of npcs (looks alive,for a change) but the game itself.. is meh, too slow, boring, grind. Pseudo-turn based combat and overreliance on stats and "licences".
The biggest one has to be Heavy Rain, one of the reasons for why I got PS3, and when I finally got to play it, all I got was lame gameplay and crappy voice acting, they say it picks up after 6 or 7 h ours or so, but I've never given any game 7 hours for it to "pick up' and heavy rain wasn't going to be the exeption.
Other than that:
FF13 recently dissapointed me for being so easy and linear.
LBP: I like the level editor and customization, but that game just fails as a platformer.
Batman:AA, the whole game was made you think you would get to fight all of the iconic villians from the series, but most of the boss fights were lame and most of them were just the same "Bane" encounter over and over again, not to mention that the game gets you pumped for a fight with killer croc, which oh yeah, never actually happens.
Halo 3: I spent hours upon hours playing Halo 2 on the original xbox, Halo 3 had improvements over 2 but it wasn't the massive improvents that happened from Halo 1 to Halo 2. Still have my fingers crossed for reah, but I still think H3 is the weakest n the series.
Stopping now before I go on a rant, lol
Other than that:
FF13 recently dissapointed me for being so easy and linear.
LBP: I like the level editor and customization, but that game just fails as a platformer.
Batman:AA, the whole game was made you think you would get to fight all of the iconic villians from the series, but most of the boss fights were lame and most of them were just the same "Bane" encounter over and over again, not to mention that the game gets you pumped for a fight with killer croc, which oh yeah, never actually happens.
Halo 3: I spent hours upon hours playing Halo 2 on the original xbox, Halo 3 had improvements over 2 but it wasn't the massive improvents that happened from Halo 1 to Halo 2. Still have my fingers crossed for reah, but I still think H3 is the weakest n the series.
Stopping now before I go on a rant, lol
