seriously... Alan Wake -.-

[TH3_D15HWA5H3R]

forced to play that game, after months of refusing... and my god it was horrible... its up there with too human and naughtey bear for the worst games ive played... and his voice... seriously why do people like it?

on a serious note, what does the escapist think the worst games of yesteryear were?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I liked the story and I loved the lighting and atmosphere.

I hated the combat though.... endless boring enemies spawning behind me and around me pissed me off, introducing their existence with a triple combo to the back of the head.

Oh, and don't start me on those damn birds....

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Better than Dead Space.

 

[MostlyHarmless]

Care to explain why it was so horrible? I thought about buying it.

OT: FFXIV. Terrible game.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

forced to play that game, after months of refusing... and my god it was horrible... its up there with too human and naughtey bear for the worst games ive played... and his voice... seriously why do people like it?

on a serious note, what does the escapist think the worst games of yesteryear were?

Really? I enjoyed Alan Wake immensely and thought it was a great game. A little repetitive combat wise sure, but the visuals, plot, writing and characters were wonderful.

If I had to make a pick for one of the worst games I've ever played, it would probably go to either Alpha Protocol or Army of Two. Both games were extremely short and offered nothing that I had not seen before. Protocol was buggy, riddled with curve breaking special abilities that allowed you to kill everything in sight, and full of unlikable and ugly characters.

Army of Two was a rushed poorly done Co-op game. Outside of Co-Op, its a bloody mess. Inside of Co-op, the gameplay can be decent, but you're quickly drawn to the fact that it is extremely short, has a bad story and you grow to hate all of the characters immensely.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Time Magazine would beg to differ.

Alan Wake was ranked first in its list of the top ten videogames of 2010.

And it has a Metacritic rating of 83.

I also loved it. So yeah.

On topic: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was pretty painful.

 

[PixieDiamond]

I love Alan Wake, but I've always been a bit of a whore for a good story even if it's delivery isn't perfect.

Worst game? Anything featuring Dame Lara bloody Croft. One of the few games that's made me actually contemplate throwing the disc out of my 9-storey high window, while attached to a stick of dynamite...

 

[emeraldrafael]

The game seemed to me like it was what gaming can be, and may soon be, on the front of great story telling and mood setting in games.

Just need a gameplay refinement.

 

[Ljs1121]

I've never played Alan Wake, but every person I talked to said it was an awesome game. I'll have to rent it when I get enough money.

The worst game I've ever played was probably Sonic Labyrinth. I despised that game, and I'm a Sonic fan.

 

[Ridgemo]

Can i ask how and why you were forced to play this game? Just wondering, because i find it quite funny when people say they were forced to partake in a lesuire activity.

As for the topic, i know it wasn't last year, but the Bionic Commando game has to be the game i hate the most. The gameplay was wretched, it didn't look that great, the characters i hated from the get-go, and the story had one of the most retarded pay-offs at the end.

Ohhhh, and a cliffhanger. I hate games nowadays simply for their endings. Could be a grand game, with fun gameplay, but if it has one of these crappy cliffhangers that devs love to put into the story it pretty much ruins the experience for me.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

dead space i dont know why everyone likes its not scary its painfull to play because how frustrating the gameplay is and the jump scares kill the atmosphere

I can see why some people don't like it, loved it personally. It's not actually as scary as it is panic-inducing, maybe the encounters just aren't your thing. Do you like survival horror in general though? I love the R.E. series, but I found the controls more frustrating, in fact I found Dead Space ability to move and shoot quite a relief.

OT: Actually I think I was the last person to post a thread about this game being disappointing, I haven't given it another chance yet but I will eventually, because I actually loved the story and it created a lot of anticipation for me. But the gameplay just wasn't something I looked forward to when firing it up. I guess it gets better, it has to, unless you use the revolver the whole game. The shotgun was already a breath of fresh air. How far did you get up to OP?

Btw Alpha Protocol would have to be worst title for me.

 

[Inco]

Its got atmosphere. Very, very good atmosphere. The concept is pretty good too, with the story being quite well done, i would say.

The humour that can come up takes you by surprise too ("FISHING IS BOTH A HOBBY AND A SPORT!")

My favourite thing about the game was how it sets you up to feel like light was a safe haven, as it was shown in the games story.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

forced to play that game, after months of refusing... and my god it was horrible... its up there with too human and naughtey bear for the worst games ive played... and his voice... seriously why do people like it?

on a serious note, what does the escapist think the worst games of yesteryear were?

It really is pretty terrible.

I think the worst part is the narration. "Here comes a chainsaw guy! You should be scared!"

 

[Netrigan]

For me, it was just they were brushing up against something really good there... they missed it by a fair margin, but ditch about 75% of the narration, replace some of the later action with the two DLCs (both of which are nicely surreal), stop telegraphing all the potential scares, and make the action less combat-based (I think it should be more evasion, since being able to kill everything isn't terribly scary). Whole lot of potential there and they realized just enough of it for me to be impressed. The atmosphere is really good despite their efforts to kill it with over-narration.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

stop telegraphing all the potential scares

You mean like how you'll find a page to the story BEFORE it happens in the game, thus ruining the fact that a man with a chainsaw is about to come charging at you? Yeah, that got a little annoying.
I still loved this game. I never had a problem with the controls. What makes me smile is that this is EXACTLY how Resident Evil 5 would have played if you could move and shoot. "If I could just move while I'm shooting, then the controls would be perfect." "The controls in Alan Wake suck." ...right. My main grief was the fact that the characters were a little too stupid at points--honestly, they can't tell over the phone or even when they get to Rose's house that there's something very wrong with her?--and the facial graphics were terrible.
Can't wait for the sequel.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well Alan Wake had 6 hours of great content, then got padded out with forest fights to make it 20... and that was really painfull.

Worst... I don't know, I actually managed to stay away from all most of the sh*t.

 

[Bobbity]

I think Yahtzee's review pretty much sums it up
It was pretty atmospheric, but that's about it.

I generally stay well away from most of the shitty games, so I haven't really encountered any in a while.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

dead space was the first survail horror game i ever played and its a resident evil clone so yeah

I'd put Dead Space more in the Action Horror genre. There's no actual "Survival" in it. You don't have to manage resources, or solve complex puzzles, or anything.
Same for Alan Wake. But honestly, there really haven't been any true Survival Horror games this whole generation. If you want real Survival Horror games, look for them on the PS2.

 

[Zaydin]

I liked Alan Wake. Combat was fairly straightforward and did get repetitive, but it was done reasonably well enough that it never bothered me that much. The set pieces were very impressive, as well, and the atmosphere, voice acting, and story were also enough getting me to keep playing to see what happened next. To each their own, I suppose. I don't get the people who rush out and buy the new EA Sports games when they still have last years.

On the people talking about Survival Horror, Dead Space was good. It startled me more than it scared me, though. The one survival horror game that actually scared me was Fatal Frame 2.

 

[Adam Galli]

I thought Alan Wake was pretty good. I played it for a couple hours at a friends house and it's a definate buy for me.