Late to the Game

[latenightapplepie]

I started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the first time recently and when I thought about how much I had already heard about it from both the online gaming community, the gaming media and the other sources, I couldn't help but wonder how much it may have affected my actual experience of the game when I finally got around to playing it.

So I decided to make a thread to see what you people thought about it.

Thus:

When have you (presumably it has happened) played a game long after its release date? What game was it? Most importantly, how did the delay (and the information you may or may not have received about the game in the meantime) affect your eventual experience?

Apologies if I've asked too many questions, the thread has been done recently, or

[small] if I just made you lose the game. [/small]

 

[Robert632]

i've only just started playing shadow of the collosus, but it did not affect my expierience, cus i just play games, i don't analyse them.

 

[Blackadder51]

[small] if I just made you lose the game. [/small]

FFFUUUUUUUUUUU- *car horn*

OT: I did the same as you for COD:MW, and i found it to be overhyped

 

[grimsprice]

damn you. i lost the game. however i do have an answer to your questions...someone whom i will not mention (AARON) told me that OMG assassins creed was the greatest thing ever!!!! and so i got a used copy for real cheap last weekend and played it. and it was so dolled on by my friends that i hated it. it was boring and repetitive and fidgety and lame. and i couldn't get very far without turning it off in disgust. i think the fawning totally ruined what little fun the game might have had.

 

[grimsprice]

i've only just started playing shadow of the collosus, but it did not affect my expierience, cus i just play games, i don't analyse them.

how are you liking it? good, bad, mediocre, just bosses????

 

[TaborMallory]

I was several years late for Half Life 2. It wasn't the second coming of Christ (as far too many people make it out to be), but it was definitely a unique and fun experience.

I also haven't played Portal, Team Fortress 2, or the campaign for Modern Warfare, but I hope to try them out later this year when I actually get a job.

 

[j0frenzy]

It took me forever to get into Star Wars KOTOR and I am not all that impressed by it. I don't think that has much to do with friend's hype though as much as it has to do with me not liking Star Wars and morality bars, especially morality bars based on morality system different (in only slight but noticeable ways) from the one I am raised with. (An example being getting evil points for saying that I will pass the Jedi exam, presumably because I am being confident and confidence is bad for some arbitrary and annoying reason).

 

[Osloq]

I played WaW for the first time about 2 months after release. I was actually in a Modern Warfare clan at the time and I'd been bombarded with emails, xfire conversations and real life conversations about how crap it was. Fast forward 2 months and I get my hands on it and I actually really enjoyed playing it. Sure there were annoying things a-plenty but I couldn't get over having the WWII guns from Call of Duty 2 that I loved run through the same sort of engine as Modern Warfare.

Plus gibbing is just awesome. I wouldn't care if the game was Spyro or something if it had gibbing it would get a plus on the review column.

 

[lee1287]

the game's the game homie.

--omar little

 

[Tattaglia]

BioShock. Largely thanks to the Internet completely ruining the twist and saying it was GOTY material, I bought it for the PS3 this year and I hated it. It presented itself with annoying characters and enemies and a half-baked attempt at horror.

Can anyone give me a logical answer as to why someone decided to put sea slugs into little girls? Anyone? What was the fucking point in that?

/rage

 

[ShadowKatt]

I play almost all games late. There are very rare occasions when I'm willing to go out and spend $50-60 on a single game. I did it for Transformers, because I'm a fan, Soul Calibur for the same reason, and Kingdom Hearts II because the first one was actually a lot of fun. But those were exceptions, most of the time I can't see spending all that money on one game, when I can pick it and a couple others up a few months later for the same price.

 

[black lincon]

Gears 1, I got that game after they announced gears two for the purpose of the story, the confusing confusing story, but then my friends got me to play some online and I sucked, bad. I noticed the same thing happening to people who came late to gears 2, I suppose it's just one of those things where you have to get on board fast.

 

[Deleric]

I didn't get Assassins Creed until the sequel was announced, actually.

[sup]And I lost...[/sup]

 

[swytchblayd]

I never did play Halo until long after it was released, mostly because I heard almost everything about it from my friends (and didn't own an X-Box at the time) at the lunch table and grew to hate it just based upon that. And when I did pick it up, couldn't even play the first few minutes before I got bored, jumped MC off a cliff, and ditched the game for good.

Actually made it through #2, but only after a months-long period in-between, upon which I found that I was practically pissing-distance from the end when I went on that sabbatical. Oh, and the ending sucked; why was everyone giving 10s and A+s to a game that was overall mediocre? Seriously, were they just that damned desperate? I played Half-Life 2 before either of the Halo games, and still consider it 11110% superior, in all areas.

Whew... sorry. I think that was my greatest disappointment of all time, but at least I saw it coming x-x

I've bought almost all of my games at least a few months after they were released, if not a year or more. The longest between release and capture would have to be Panzer Dragoon Saga... I kept hearing for the longest time about how it was the greatest RPG in creation, how it had a great story, and yada yada blah blah, and because I could at the time (can't now, due to my need to buy a car >.<), I bought a copy on Amazon.com (having acquired a Saturn some time before).

And by God, they were right o.o Too bad the Saturn went down when it did, because PDS could have uprooted FF7, if given the chance. It's certainly worth more (both monetarily and game-wise, by far) than that miserable pile of emo donkey poo >.> I'm gonna stop here soon, before the fanboys get a chance to nip me in the bud. *lays down in a Dome of Silence and smiles mischievously*

Seriously though, Final Fantasy fanboiz can go shove their fingers *and certain other choice body parts* in an active light socket for all I care... Only one I ever came to like was #9, and that was just because Zidane kicked ass XP

 

[Fenring]

Both BioShock and CoD4. I only didn't like them for an element of gameplay, BioShock wasn't effected by the hype for me, and I find the CoD series after 2 more over hyped than sliced bread.

I hated BioSohock for the VitaChambers, I didn't know you could turn them off when I rented it, so that was my fault.

Modern Warfare on the other hand, you can't fix by changing settings. I thought the story was overhyped and unoriginal, prior to playing this, I'd played Frontlines: Fuel of War, which has a similar story, which I liked more. The only parts of the single player campaign that interested me were the interactive cutscenes. It all felt "on rails" to me. And I hate monster closets. And in CoD you don't have a cover system like the other shooters I've been playing (Tom Clancy games). I love the online though.

I'm sure if I went back in time and turned the vita chambers off and told my self to skip the story I would love both of these games.

 

[latenightapplepie]

BioShock. Largely thanks to the Internet completely ruining the twist and saying it was GOTY material, I bought it for the PS3 this year and I hated it.

I was hoping that someone might mention Bioshock, because it is the another of my recent games that I bought a little late, you could say. I, too, had the twist ruined for me, but thankfully I still managed to enjoy the game. My complaints would be more gameplay-related - I thought the difficulty curve wasn't optimal. Overall, after I had experienced the game to its fullest, it was perhaps a little disappointing. But I got it cheap, so I'm not too bothered.

 

[Robert632]

i've only just started playing shadow of the collosus, but it did not affect my expierience, cus i just play games, i don't analyse them.

how are you liking it? good, bad, mediocre, just bosses????

it's pretty good, i'd just like there to be more then bosses and helpless animals for me to fight.

 

[grimsprice]

i've only just started playing shadow of the collosus, but it did not affect my expierience, cus i just play games, i don't analyse them.

how are you liking it? good, bad, mediocre, just bosses????

it's pretty good, i'd just like there to be more then bosses and helpless animals for me to fight.

true true. you've got to remember tho... this is a work of art, not so much a game. if there was any game that IS a movie by its very nature its shadow of the colossus. i for one think its more artful than most paintings and definitely most movies that come out these days.

 

[Robert632]

i've only just started playing shadow of the collosus, but it did not affect my expierience, cus i just play games, i don't analyse them.

how are you liking it? good, bad, mediocre, just bosses????

it's pretty good, i'd just like there to be more then bosses and helpless animals for me to fight.

true true. you've got to remember tho... this is a work of art, not so much a game. if there was any game that IS a movie by its very nature its shadow of the colossus. i for one think its more artful than most paintings and definitely most movies that come out these days.

yeah i know it's just...the giant world seems...empty, though i do agree that the no enemy thing was still nessicary.

 

[grimsprice]

yeah i know it's just...the giant world seems...empty, though i do agree that the no enemy thing was still nessicary.

the whole game is about impressing a sense of scope into the back of your brain, just trying to emphasize the grandeur of what he's doing for his love. which i think they pulled off nicely. besides its beautiful even on the ps2.