Mediocre/bad games you just can't stop playing.

[DioWallachia]

Do you think Portal 2 is mediocre?

Only in the sense that, by its very nature, it technically has 0 replay value. Once you've beaten the game once, you officially know how to solve all the puzzles. As such the game itself becomes pointless.

However, as I said, I still love the game and easily consider it one of my favorites, as can be seen by the fact that - despite being able to breeze through every single puzzle - I still enjoy loading it up for a playthrough every now and then.

Since when replay value is so important? Cant it just be like a meal of Ravioli that you can eat once in a while for special occasions? or do you fell that you need to justify the cost of the game by playing as munch as you can when you buy it? Why cant it be like reading a detective novel that you already know who the killer is?? Or enjoying Citizen Kane even if the thousands of parodies have already spoiled the ending?

 

[go-10]

Metroid Other M and Murasama
I don't play Wii too much but whenever I do one of these is what I'm usually playing I just love their style and overall regardless of story the gameplay is really good

 

[Doomcat]

Dungeon keeper...its old, the graphics are pretty silly, theres only the one campaign and no "skirmish" maps, but every once and a while i take it out and mess around with it, i just love slapping imps around, what can i say?

 

[negimafan587]

Half life 2... by today's standards is boring and repetitive.)____________
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[Skoldpadda]

Dungeon keeper...its old, the graphics are pretty silly, theres only the one campaign and no "skirmish" maps, but every once and a while i take it out and mess around with it, i just love slapping imps around, what can i say?

There is NOTHING bad or even mediocre about Dungeon Keeper! :/


My guilty pleasure is Too Human. The only thing that really pisses me off about it is the camera. It's a very flawed game, but the sheer potential keeps pulling me back in. There are no other bad games that have managed that thus far.

 

[Carl The Manicorn]

L.A. Noire. I don't even know. It's like crack. It's amazing in its own little way, and I love it, but it is...well, mediocre, from a more objective standpoint.

I just personally like being a detective [del]that runs pedestrians over for the thrill[/del] what? Who said that?

I gotta say I did thoroughly enjoy LA Noire, really the only problem I had with the story was that, as many people pointed out, even if you finger the wrong guy for the crime it doesn't really matter. But that's not the point! It doesn't matter to the game, but it should matter to you. You should feel a sense of personal achievement knowing that you found all the clues and followed all the leads in the right way that led to the apprehension of the right guy.

That and I thought the whole "cheating on your wife with the singer" thing was very, VERY forced. Phelps up to that point was a straight-as-an-arrow, incorruptible pillar of everything that we want to see in a cop. Then one night he just up and decides "You know what? I wanna go bang this singer chick." Didn't really make sense to me.

Other than that I really enjoyed the story of LA Noire. Heh heh, as for running over pedestrians, I REALLY loved the way your partner would start bitching at you when you drive like a maniac, and how you essentially just keep telling him to fuck off.

THANK YOU. Gosh, finally someone understands my frustrations about LA Noire. I love that game to death, but it's flaws are fucking huge!

The singer chick was a good point. He was such a straight arrow, that it seems against his character to go and cheat on his wife. Maybe he was stealing the herion that the Vice guys were bringing in. That shit can change a man.

OT: I'm going to have to say Madden 12. I hate the commentary, I hate the shitty physics engine, but it is so much fun to play. The season and the Superstar mode suck me in so hardcore, that I start playing at 11 am, then stop at 7 pm.

The commentators btw are hilarious. One of the dumb fucks that announce, said that Calvin Johnson was the best quarterback in the game. I lold so hard I had to pause the game.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Fable II and III.

Every time I start up a new character and play through those maddeningly mediocre games I can't seem to figure out why I don't hate them.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I don't like leaving a game unfinished, so at the moment I am playing Blacksite... Remember that? Of course not! Its a terrible game, pretty much because the weapons just feel so bad (someimes things die really quick, and sometimes you can shoot for ages and nothing happens), and the dialoge and story is shocking! The driving feels completly off, and the alien desin is pretty mundane! Hell, I just had to look up a list of X-Box FPS's to remember what the game was called!!

But for some reason, I want to get to the end! I keep kidding myself thinking that at some point there will be a bit of the game that just feels new and good! Like a level in a well designed, alien controlled bunker, or there will be a character that I like and wont forget... Or I will be able to do what I want without the squad moaning, and then giving up on the fight!

(That system is terrible! If you play well, and shoot lots of people, your squads 'morale' goes up, and they get better too, making the game easy... If you go for a while with no enemies around the morale drops, and they prefer to run away, or not bother to shoot, meaning when you get to the next fight the game is really hard! At the end of a fight scene you can pretty much just forget cover and walk slowly towards the threat as your cover is so good the enemy dont stand a chance!!)

Haha! When I looked this up I found this quote on the site trying to sell the game... Talk about false hope!!

Spoiler: Crazy summery!

BlackSite, developed by Midway Studios Austin, is a next-generation game that will redefine the first person shooter (FPS) genre. While other FPS titles claim to feature action-packed, highly realistic gameplay, BlackSite takes next-gen gaming to an all-new level integrating cutting edge technology, game design and story writing to create the ultimate entertainment experience. The player?s modern-day emotions and fears are driven into a world charged with grave responsibility affecting lives hanging in the balance and eventually fi nding himself torn between his professional orders and his own ethical standards. In the end, only the actions of the player and his squad can shape the outcome of BlackSite during this potentially pivotal moment in history.

 

[Wolfram23]

Well like the OP, I've been very tempted to play DA2. Although in my case it's more a matter of trying to actually finish it. I know I'm close, but it's getting stupid lol.

I'm also not quite finished FO:NV, at around 65 hours. I suppose I could just quickly tie up the main quest but I tend to get side tracked with exploring shit and never quite manage to finish... same with Skyrim lol, but that one is clocking 105 hours.

 

[RJ 17]

Do you think Portal 2 is mediocre?

Only in the sense that, by its very nature, it technically has 0 replay value. Once you've beaten the game once, you officially know how to solve all the puzzles. As such the game itself becomes pointless.

However, as I said, I still love the game and easily consider it one of my favorites, as can be seen by the fact that - despite being able to breeze through every single puzzle - I still enjoy loading it up for a playthrough every now and then.

Since when replay value is so important? Cant it just be like a meal of Ravioli that you can eat once in a while for special occasions? or do you fell that you need to justify the cost of the game by playing as munch as you can when you buy it? Why cant it be like reading a detective novel that you already know who the killer is?? Or enjoying Citizen Kane even if the thousands of parodies have already spoiled the ending?

You're missing my point. Personally, to me, the game obviously has plenty of replay value...since I still enjoy playing the entire thing over and over again. I'm saying that from a strictly objective analysis of the game, it doesn't have replay value since the entire point of the game is "solve these puzzles". That's why the first playthrough takes much longer than every playthrough after, you have to think and figure out each chamber and that is the entire purpose behind the game. If you already know how to do the puzzles, then that removes the entire purpose behind the game.

So it IS for the same reason that people watch Citizen Kane even though they already know the ending. It IS for the same reason that people read detective novels over and over. You apparently weren't paying attention to my previous post which you quoted:

However, as I said, I still love the game and easily consider it one of my favorites, as can be seen by the fact that - despite being able to breeze through every single puzzle - I still enjoy loading it up for a playthrough every now and then.

From a technical, objective standpoint, there is no reason to watch Citizen Kane twice or read a detective novel twice. The point of both stories was to wrap you in a mystery. Every time after the first viewing/reading has no more mystery. So why do we keep going back? Just like for Portal 2 and Citizen Kane and a good detective novel: for the story and the journey.

I'm just trying to say that PERSONALLY, the game has plenty of replay value to me and many others. But TECHNICALLY, it has none.

 

[Captain Booyah]

L.A. Noire. I don't even know. It's like crack. It's amazing in its own little way, and I love it, but it is...well, mediocre, from a more objective standpoint.

I just personally like being a detective [del]that runs pedestrians over for the thrill[/del] what? Who said that?

I gotta say I did thoroughly enjoy LA Noire, really the only problem I had with the story was that, as many people pointed out, even if you finger the wrong guy for the crime it doesn't really matter. But that's not the point! It doesn't matter to the game, but it should matter to you. You should feel a sense of personal achievement knowing that you found all the clues and followed all the leads in the right way that led to the apprehension of the right guy.

That and I thought the whole "cheating on your wife with the singer" thing was very, VERY forced. Phelps up to that point was a straight-as-an-arrow, incorruptible pillar of everything that we want to see in a cop. Then one night he just up and decides "You know what? I wanna go bang this singer chick." Didn't really make sense to me.

Other than that I really enjoyed the story of LA Noire. Heh heh, as for running over pedestrians, I REALLY loved the way your partner would start bitching at you when you drive like a maniac, and how you essentially just keep telling him to fuck off.

Yeah, knowing that you'd caught the right guy in the end and got five stars on a case the first time round was its own little reward. The flip side of that, though, was that you felt like a complete failure of a cop if you got it wrong. I remember one case where you had to charge one of two suspects who both had equally compelling evidence for and against locking them up, but it turned out you charge one guy just because he was the paedophile. I think a lot of people fudgied that one up.

And the whole affair thing was messed up pretty terribly. I think it was Team Bondi's way of trying to shove a few film noir themes in there and portray Cole as a more morally ambiguous character than we thought, but for the most part, it was completely out of left field. Sometimes I wonder whether we barely see or hear anything of Phelps' wife because he doesn't really think much about her himself, but that affair could still have done with a lot more build-up and backstory.

Oh, and those pedestrians can move. Buggers make it a challenge to hit them, but that's what makes it all the more satisfying when an anonymous woman goes flying over your bonnet at fifty miles per hour. I dread to think how much hotdog stand insurance has skyrocketed since Phelps got a license.

 

[RJ 17]

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I think I remember the case you're talking about, is it the one with the die-hard communist and the guy that's got a past history of violence towards women? I think that's the one where you literally might as well flip a coin because they both lie to you through the entire interogation, both have lousy alibies, and both have a mountain of evidence against them. I do confess to fingering the wrong guy first before reloading my game and picking the other one (Hey, I wanted my five star achievement damnit!)

But speaking of achievements, going for the one of collecting all the cars was a pain in the ass. Took me a few days of straight dickin' around to get'em all. Got down to two cars. Searched EVERYWHERE for them. Decided to look online and see if there were parts of town where you were more likely to find'em...turns out one of them can only be found at the very beginning of the case about the british boxer, when you first leave the arena it's in the parking lot. So I load up that case and pick it up before loading up one of the arson cases (just because I like that partner the best) to continue my search for the last car. As soon as I spawn in and get outside, I hop in a cop car and, as I'm pulling into traffic, the last car I needed rolls right on by. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Fable 2 and 3 they are like chocolate éclairs. They full of empty calories and I really shouldn't be consuming them but now and again I just stuff my face.



Whyyyyyy.

I know. Fable 2 is so painfully average. It does nothing really well. And yet I've played through it seven times.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh I love me some Arch Enemy play. xD it was funny as hell, when the expansion came out, it came with an achievement for simply creating a multiplayer game as the arch enemy. So I go ahead and set up a game, pick Ancient Depths for my deck. Turn one: Scheme card "I Believe Introductions Are In Order" (search your library for a creature and put it in your hand or put a creature from your hand on the battlefield). So I got to turn one Ulamog...and everyone quit. xD

Well, they knew when they were beat. Seriously, that's an "oh crap" starter if I ever saw one. XD

 

[1-up]

I don't so much "come back again and again" to it, but I couldn't put Alpha Protocol down when I got it. After devouring it in a weekend (a monumental feat nowadays), I was started poking around online to learn about how much replay value it had and was astonished to find the reviews trended average to awful.

 

[Ariyura]

Infinite Undiscovery, drove me crazy in some places but I had to finish it.

 

[Rad Party God]

Orcs & Elves on the DS. The game is RPG to it's bare bones and it's graphics are best described as "Doom like" (mainly because it's made by id Software using their "Doom RPG" engine), but it's still somewhat fun and I already finished it 3 times.

 

[MissGinaKid]

Alot of my old ps2 and gba games that i liked as a kid. though some of them surpise me with thier awesomeness once in awhile.

 

[Active Schizophrenic]

star wars the force unleashed. yes I i know I need to be checked into the looney bin.