Most MEDIOCRE Game You've Ever Played
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I rarely enter these kinds of discussions with new games, BUT I'd have to say "Diablo III". It's not a bad game, but it's not a good one either, it's very much the definition of "Mediocre". I mean it does what it set out to do, I run around, click on monsters, they fall down and I pick up treasure, sometimes a harder monster makes me sidestep it's attacks. I can customize my character but only within very specific parameters, and they are the same ones as every other character of that type. None of the skills are paticularly new or exciting, nothing I haven't seen before. The game looks good, but with current technology I expect it to look better than the games that came out a few years ago, so that's pretty much expected, the basic monster models convey menace, but don't have any paticular personality or art direction that makes me feel they are anything special... just passable fantasy monsters like in every fantasy game.
There is nothing wrong with Diablo 3, but nothing exceptional about it either. I'm not knocking it per se, I can't say it sucks, just that it doesn't excite me.
Of course I admit part of it is that there are older games that I think did it better. I keep mentioning this little known gem called "Sacred 2" which I think got overlooked due to people waiting for Diablo 3 and it not having the same brand name. Technologically speaking it's not as good as D3 being both older, and also being buggier due to what I sadly have to say is a less skilled team. But what it had was personality, instead of one hub you visited, you had an open world and multiple towns with quests in them, you could choose to worship differant deities which have you special abillities (like summoning a ginormous demon), you could ride mounts, and while not unique you had skill trees complicated enough where you could build some really cool characters. Where in D3 there is really only one way to play a specific character who has very set builds, you could say take a basically ranged character in Sacred 2 and turn it into a melee monster, such as making a Dryad based around riding a giant monitor lizard and bashing everything to death with dual wielded staves (the Dryad/Wood Elf is by default an archer type character with some nature based druidic magic stuff). One of the Sacred 2 characters was a cyborg (which was justified by the game's lore, even if the story was minimal at best) with an egyptian theme right out of Stargate, that could blast things with all kinds of tech based powers in an otherwise fantasy setting (and honestly had a perfectly good reason for being there and doing this, albiet these guys are very rare and it's a unique set of circumstances having him run around).
See, that's what Diablo 3 lacks... personality. It's dark "halloween town" atmosphere just doesn't cut it, I mean it's good, it does the job, but it's nothing more. It's like a fast food cheeseburger, it's tasty, it gets the job done, but it's not something that your going to say "wow, this is great" about. It fills the need when there aren't other options. Diablo 3 is mediocrity personified, and I really can't say that I remember playing a game that was just so bloody average in every respect, even games that I say are "meh" tend to be weighted one way or another, but Diablo 3 is incapable of motivating me to either love or hate.
There is nothing wrong with Diablo 3, but nothing exceptional about it either. I'm not knocking it per se, I can't say it sucks, just that it doesn't excite me.
Of course I admit part of it is that there are older games that I think did it better. I keep mentioning this little known gem called "Sacred 2" which I think got overlooked due to people waiting for Diablo 3 and it not having the same brand name. Technologically speaking it's not as good as D3 being both older, and also being buggier due to what I sadly have to say is a less skilled team. But what it had was personality, instead of one hub you visited, you had an open world and multiple towns with quests in them, you could choose to worship differant deities which have you special abillities (like summoning a ginormous demon), you could ride mounts, and while not unique you had skill trees complicated enough where you could build some really cool characters. Where in D3 there is really only one way to play a specific character who has very set builds, you could say take a basically ranged character in Sacred 2 and turn it into a melee monster, such as making a Dryad based around riding a giant monitor lizard and bashing everything to death with dual wielded staves (the Dryad/Wood Elf is by default an archer type character with some nature based druidic magic stuff). One of the Sacred 2 characters was a cyborg (which was justified by the game's lore, even if the story was minimal at best) with an egyptian theme right out of Stargate, that could blast things with all kinds of tech based powers in an otherwise fantasy setting (and honestly had a perfectly good reason for being there and doing this, albiet these guys are very rare and it's a unique set of circumstances having him run around).
See, that's what Diablo 3 lacks... personality. It's dark "halloween town" atmosphere just doesn't cut it, I mean it's good, it does the job, but it's nothing more. It's like a fast food cheeseburger, it's tasty, it gets the job done, but it's not something that your going to say "wow, this is great" about. It fills the need when there aren't other options. Diablo 3 is mediocrity personified, and I really can't say that I remember playing a game that was just so bloody average in every respect, even games that I say are "meh" tend to be weighted one way or another, but Diablo 3 is incapable of motivating me to either love or hate.
To be fair, it's not like you really need the gold by that point. I was rolling in dough by the time I hit the double digits in levels. Fuck do you get a lot of gold dungeon crawling o_oNightmare-Child said:
OT: I would have to go with Dungeon Siege III I played through it once with the guns lady (I can't remember names) but there's utterly nothing else to do in subsequent playthroughs so... I don't... which is sad.
*carefully looks at thread* Hey, I actually don't think anyone's said mine yet!
Gotham City Impostors. Maybe I'm an idiot for getting excited at all about it, but I bought it for $10 on Steam and STILL felt like I had wasted money on a total snoozefest. Despite having the Batman license to play with and some genuinely funny little videos and animations on the menu, everything about the actual gameplay was dreadfully boring and copy-pasted from one thousand other, better shooters. A couple grappling hooks and bouncy things were really not enough to differentiate it from an already-saturated market for me, so I put it away after maybe four matches and went back to Arkham City for my Bat-fix.
The funny thing is, I don't even play that many shooters, so I shudder to think how bored a shooter veteran must be.
Gotham City Impostors. Maybe I'm an idiot for getting excited at all about it, but I bought it for $10 on Steam and STILL felt like I had wasted money on a total snoozefest. Despite having the Batman license to play with and some genuinely funny little videos and animations on the menu, everything about the actual gameplay was dreadfully boring and copy-pasted from one thousand other, better shooters. A couple grappling hooks and bouncy things were really not enough to differentiate it from an already-saturated market for me, so I put it away after maybe four matches and went back to Arkham City for my Bat-fix.
The funny thing is, I don't even play that many shooters, so I shudder to think how bored a shooter veteran must be.
F.E.A.R. the first one. I couldn't decide whether to keep playing or not, and finally decided not to... Out of boredom.
Starwinder on the PS1. It's basically like Wipeout but on these tracks floating in the middle of space on a single point A to point B tracks. Mostly the races are just a big tug-of-war and there's no actual varience of tracks aside from visuals design and ALOT OF ROCKS!
The game focuses on having the feel of a TV show in which cinematics changes based on how the races go. Oh, and there's a surprise badass ending in it.
The game focuses on having the feel of a TV show in which cinematics changes based on how the races go. Oh, and there's a surprise badass ending in it.
Dantes Inferno, it doesnt do anything thats strikes me as bad (perhaps the hairy arse) but it doesnt do anything thats great, I think its the most average game I've played.
Mass Effect. Went in looking for a good sci-fi RPG, like KotOR, came out with a `meh`inducing Gears of War meets Dragon Age.
Forget those individual targets and have fun with the game. It's one of the most engaging and rewarding sandbox titles in recent years, in a great setting unique to the genre. Honestly, forget all the achievements and completion and have fun with it.Catfood220 said:
I will vote Kingdom of Amalur. I gave it 5-7 hours but was so bored by then I simply didn't want to play it any more, and haven't since.