Stupidest reason to shoot down a game
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bad graphics, um... look at any old game. Even Oblivion starting to look below average, and that's one of the best games on the 360
Yeah Im gonna have to agree with graphics. Final Fantasy 6 was one of the best RPGs in the whole series & when it was re-released on the playstation years ago some of my friends wouldnt play it because it wasnt as flashy as the more recent mundane sequels.
I would actually love to play FF7 & all others after it redone with 16 bit graphics.
I would actually love to play FF7 & all others after it redone with 16 bit graphics.
Well we agree on 2 things.The Lost Big Boss said:
First that Gears of War 2's multiplayer was broken (it has subsequently been fixed - mostly) and second that no one really plays these games for the great emotional characters and development etc.
What makes Gears of War a great game? Well first off it is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the same old CoD and Halo. Now I am not going to argue story with you at all for if you read my post you will see I said best MULTIPLAYER game, I don't find the story bad by any means but I'm not some drooling fanboy over it (leave that for COD4).
The multiplayer in Gears first grabbed my attention in late 2006 when I had just purchased an Xbox and a mate brought it round, we didn't have live yet but I had a great time playing with all the strange weapons and running around, sticking to walls, blindfiring and rolling. I purchased the game for myself early 2007 and with it hooked up to Xbox Live, but I didn't go online straight away because the cool thing to play online at the time was Halo 2, when I did go online on gears it allowed something that halo didn't. It allowed me to choose which game I'd like to play, something I thought was reseved for PC.
One of the things you mentioned you disliked about gears is infact one of the things that i love most. Rolling around with a shotgun, this was something that I had never seen before, being fairly new to online gaming and I found it immensely fun. The game had a great physics engine and no amount of in game "bullshit! That **** should have fucking died" could ever convince me otherwise. The shotgun was the weapon that gave the game longevity sure the trademark chainsaw was fun at first, but the fastpaced shotgun in a relatively slow game (compared to halo) kept it interesting and mastering that, along with the sniper and torque bow was something I really wanted to do on the way to 10 000 kills and seriously.
Maybe this next point is more about the Live community, rather than the actual game, but I maintain that it is such that it was unique to gears of war. The fact that I could join a game, 99% of the time having all Australians, nearly always lacking that annoying singing kid, there was teammwork in Gears of War and whereas every Call of Duty playlist could have an FFA chucked on the end of it (Lol Team Deathmatch Free For All - you know it's true) gears actually had people working together, communicating and making friends. I actually bring this down to the games mechanics which required teamwork to actually win 9 times of out 10. Add to that with the fact that one could always choose their host, so you never have to play in lag, it's always easy to get all your friends in a room at the same time on the map that you want.
I met 2 of my best friends in real life today on Gears of War and we all, as well as many many more who I can name, still maintain that Gears of War is the best console multiplayer game of the generation, if not of all time.
I went back to Gears of War on saturday night with some friends (for the first time in a few months) and it was honestly the most fun I've had on Live in ages, i still play Gears2 online alot rather than MW2 or Halo which bore me (and I really can't think of another multiplayer game that rivals either on 360).
Reading back through this I think I've given more sentimental reasons why I love this game, rather than reasons why you should like it, but honestly there are only 2 games ever made that I love more than Gears, this is the game that got me into online multiplayer 4 years ago and even the people I know who hate gears2 still love the first one, everytime we go back we say "damn this is fun, why did we leave" and it brings the same sentimental feelings to me that I get when going back to old N64 games from my childhood.
I think that is enough of an off topic post, just to keep something OT; I heard this one at tafe half an hour ago "I don't like guitar hero, because it's too hard."
I prefer to game on PC, not for any reason in particular, but what makes a game for me is story, how much effort you can tell was put in the game by the designers, the physics, and the control layout (especially hate it when its a bad layout and can't be customized) the best game of this current game generation was definitely metal gear solid 4, the level of detail, the story, the controls, physics and superb game play (although one could be forgiven for thinking of it more as an interactive movie 
) 2 years later I'm still looking for a game as good (detail and story wise) but the worst thing a game designer can do is use a generic graphics engine instead of building their own (the unreal engine is WAY too overused)
) 2 years later I'm still looking for a game as good (detail and story wise) but the worst thing a game designer can do is use a generic graphics engine instead of building their own (the unreal engine is WAY too overused)
FFIX was the best in the series as far as I'm concerned. I always felt the art style was the best of the FFs on the PS1 (not counting the re-releases in the chronicles packs). Not to mention that the game itself was a great mix of the old and the new.Zetswe said:
OT: I hate when I hear (usually by teenagers thinking they need to approve their manliness) that a game rated "E" can't be good. I also hate when I people complain about sprite based games (truthfully I hear that less and less as time goes on) and a game can't be fun if it isn't in 3D-they usually are the first people to complain about the camera oddly enough.
People who hate games that are popular, just because they're popular. It's clearly a weak attempt for them to be different and to try to be cool.
Here's a thought, play the game and see if you like it, if you genuinely don't like it, NOW have reasons not to like it. (Like me with Killzone 2, played through it and hated it)
Here's a thought, play the game and see if you like it, if you genuinely don't like it, NOW have reasons not to like it. (Like me with Killzone 2, played through it and hated it)
That's pure gold, I wanna find whoever said that and buy him beers while I rip his eyes out.Gamegirl22 said:
I actually can see why that would turn a player off of the game and still not be racist. If we want the games to be immersive and a way to live vicariously through the protagonist, it can take a person out of said immersion if your avatar doesn't match the player. I've always thought that games like GTA should have all races available to use and male and female skins. It's just a small thing but can lead to much more immersion. I understand that it makes it a bit tougher for spoken dialogue, but in the long run I think the efforts would be worth it.zombiejoe said:
With that said, the way vviki posted it, I'm assuming it was said in a racist tone, which in this day and age is a completely assinine attitude to have. Still, there are reasons it can be said that doesn't promote racisim.
That's weird...hotpotat0wned said:
When I posted about people complaining about sprites a few minutes ago, the game I had in my hand that made me think of that was Metal Slug Anthology. One of the best series of all time that doesn't get half the credit it deserves.
Ugh, people who "protest" a game's DRM scheme, a la Starcraft 2 or any Steam-based game. It's like the fact that the developers are trying to protect themselves from pirates somehow makes the game inferior. The strange thing is that most of the games that they "protest" against are some of the greatest games that one can play... their loss.
Yeah, it might be a useless gesture, but just because the neighborhood vandals could just break a window to get into your house doesn't mean that you're going to leave them unlocked.
Yeah, it might be a useless gesture, but just because the neighborhood vandals could just break a window to get into your house doesn't mean that you're going to leave them unlocked.
