The worst game of this generation.
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Very good assessment, i agree it was too eagerly awaited - Therefore a disappointment.Havzad said:
The friggin town was in Black and white, no sunshine and pretty girls.
Yet i do not agree on it being the worst game of this generation, technicalities and storyline was on its own a very good effort.
As for my worst game of this generation....
MW2, no soul.
(I also ignored KnL 2, its not a game...its a leaked demo)
I don't know about you guys, but I don't play bad games.
Being one of the testers for Too Human, I actually have to object to that. All the other testers found it soul-crushingly bad, but I ended up playing as it was needed to be played to have fun. Even my friend who had a roommate who also was part of the test team was obsessed with how bad the game was turning out pre-release. He was watching videos of the Silicon Knights boss playing the game and saying how unfun it looked. I then showed him what I could do on the downloadable demo, and he admitted that I was able to make it look fun. He eventually played it about a year after it came out and didn't hate it. Fact is, they did a lot of things right in the game, but it's really easy to just focus on the mess of the other gameplay mechanics.
Now that I've probably broken some NDA rule even though I'm actually praising a game everyone hates, I'll submit Kane and Lynch 2. I didn't play it, but I saw it go for $5 on Steam, and not even that was enough to convince me to buy it. I've also never heard Yahtzee rip into a game quite the same as K&L2. Most of the time he will nit-pick on some petty detail and turn a molehill into a mountain. This time it was obvious that he had a mountain to start with, and didn't know what else to say than "oh lookie, a mountain".
Being one of the testers for Too Human, I actually have to object to that. All the other testers found it soul-crushingly bad, but I ended up playing as it was needed to be played to have fun. Even my friend who had a roommate who also was part of the test team was obsessed with how bad the game was turning out pre-release. He was watching videos of the Silicon Knights boss playing the game and saying how unfun it looked. I then showed him what I could do on the downloadable demo, and he admitted that I was able to make it look fun. He eventually played it about a year after it came out and didn't hate it. Fact is, they did a lot of things right in the game, but it's really easy to just focus on the mess of the other gameplay mechanics.
Now that I've probably broken some NDA rule even though I'm actually praising a game everyone hates, I'll submit Kane and Lynch 2. I didn't play it, but I saw it go for $5 on Steam, and not even that was enough to convince me to buy it. I've also never heard Yahtzee rip into a game quite the same as K&L2. Most of the time he will nit-pick on some petty detail and turn a molehill into a mountain. This time it was obvious that he had a mountain to start with, and didn't know what else to say than "oh lookie, a mountain".
I know I'll probably get flamed but... Hitman: Blood Money. I can see why people liked it, but I personally hated it. I hated the fact that if I killed one guy, then EVERYONE on the map would be alerted, and I'd have to start the mission all over.
Hidden Invasion was beyond horrible. Maybe that's why no-one has ever heard of it. It might be the very first game I've ever considered returning to the store, wanting my money back. I think I paid 40 NOK ($6-$7 or so) for it, and I think the money itself was offended that it was spent on that garbage. Still, I don't think I'll return it. I don't want to to get the honour of being the first game I've ever returned.
Also, Infernal: Hell's Vengeance for the 360 was pretty awful. Sure; it was amazing compared to Hidden Invasion, but on its own it failed miserably, mainly because it actually felt like it should have been released several years ago. Operation WinBack was released for the PS2 eight years before it, and that actually felt more like a next-gen shooter than Infernal ever did.
Wait, Hell's Vengeance was ported from the PC... Well, that explains it!
Hell, I never played the PC version. Maybe it's better?
Also, Infernal: Hell's Vengeance for the 360 was pretty awful. Sure; it was amazing compared to Hidden Invasion, but on its own it failed miserably, mainly because it actually felt like it should have been released several years ago. Operation WinBack was released for the PS2 eight years before it, and that actually felt more like a next-gen shooter than Infernal ever did.
Wait, Hell's Vengeance was ported from the PC... Well, that explains it!
Hell, I never played the PC version. Maybe it's better?
That and it had a flaming gay male. I'm ok with gay, but this game took it way too far. SO fucking annoying. All the inuendo about putting stuff in the mout etc..A random person said:
Id say fallout 3/oblivion. both were annoying and boring to me.
Worst game that I've played (not necessarily worst game out there, I'm sure I've been lucky not to play some pretty awful games): CoD:BlOps
A campaign that effectively hypnotised me into a state of semi-consciousness and never bothered to wake me up. Like Bender Rodriguez's MW2, only with an anti-soul...
A campaign that effectively hypnotised me into a state of semi-consciousness and never bothered to wake me up. Like Bender Rodriguez's MW2, only with an anti-soul...
Too Human deserves to be the worst game of this generation, but that game was bad before I even bought it, because I was expecting nothing from it. But I think the worst game to me has to be the Force Unleashed. It isn't as bad as Too Human but I was expecting something good from this and what I got was one of the worst games I have ever played! It was horrible!
I've gotta say that it was Perfect Dark Zero, Resident Evil 5 or Fallout 3.
Okay, Fallout 3 isn't THAT bad, but it's dull. Really, really, really dull. I explored every freaking where because I thought I'd be discovering cool new areas. Aside from a small mountain section, everything looks the same. It's all brown, and what isn't brown is gray. A post-nuke zone doesn't HAVE to be brown. It doesn't. Brown enemies set against brownish-gray buildings in a tannish-brown world. Good luck finding enemies without hammering the right bumper constantly.
On top of that, most of the missions are fetch quests. Oblivion had plenty of those, sure, and Fallout 3 is similar to Oblivion. But you know what Oblivion had? Freaking variety. Pick a guild, or some quests to do, and just spend all day doing quests. Every town had like a billion quests, most of which were pretty unique. Many of them didn't involve combat at all. Oblivion does everything better than Fallout 3. Also, Fallout 3 is AT LEAST as buggy as Oblivion, if not much more so. I personally encountered friggin' loads of game-stopping bugs in Fallout 3, as opposed to a mere handful of possible glitches in Oblivion.
RE5 is just baaaad. Bad story, bad controls that the game won't let you customize (yeah, way worse than RE4), bad AI, bad partner nonsense, bad horror, bad enemy designs... Bad everything. It's kinda fun in a cheap, sleazy, popcorn action blockbuster way, but it's still bad.
Perfect Dark Zero is so aggressively mediocre it insults every one of the five senses. Nothing works very well, and many things just plain don't work at all. Say what you will about modern gaming, but cheap, crappy stealth levels are something that never belonged in FPS games and I, for one, am happy to see modern shooters moving away from them.
Oh, and the PC version of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men deserves special mention for being nearly impossible to freaking run, loaded full of bugs and never patched. I finally broke down and bought the 360 version so I can rob a bank already.
Okay, Fallout 3 isn't THAT bad, but it's dull. Really, really, really dull. I explored every freaking where because I thought I'd be discovering cool new areas. Aside from a small mountain section, everything looks the same. It's all brown, and what isn't brown is gray. A post-nuke zone doesn't HAVE to be brown. It doesn't. Brown enemies set against brownish-gray buildings in a tannish-brown world. Good luck finding enemies without hammering the right bumper constantly.
On top of that, most of the missions are fetch quests. Oblivion had plenty of those, sure, and Fallout 3 is similar to Oblivion. But you know what Oblivion had? Freaking variety. Pick a guild, or some quests to do, and just spend all day doing quests. Every town had like a billion quests, most of which were pretty unique. Many of them didn't involve combat at all. Oblivion does everything better than Fallout 3. Also, Fallout 3 is AT LEAST as buggy as Oblivion, if not much more so. I personally encountered friggin' loads of game-stopping bugs in Fallout 3, as opposed to a mere handful of possible glitches in Oblivion.
RE5 is just baaaad. Bad story, bad controls that the game won't let you customize (yeah, way worse than RE4), bad AI, bad partner nonsense, bad horror, bad enemy designs... Bad everything. It's kinda fun in a cheap, sleazy, popcorn action blockbuster way, but it's still bad.
Perfect Dark Zero is so aggressively mediocre it insults every one of the five senses. Nothing works very well, and many things just plain don't work at all. Say what you will about modern gaming, but cheap, crappy stealth levels are something that never belonged in FPS games and I, for one, am happy to see modern shooters moving away from them.
Oh, and the PC version of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men deserves special mention for being nearly impossible to freaking run, loaded full of bugs and never patched. I finally broke down and bought the 360 version so I can rob a bank already.
You ever notice guys speaking into radios? I hate to use the Internet phrase, but "you're doing it wrong." Security guards communicate through radios, and they can hear noises. Here are the ways you can get a red alert:aLivingPheonix said:
-A guard sees you do something very not appropriate (carrying the wrong kind of gun for a disguise, killing someone, doing something you aren't supposed to in a restricted area, etc).
-A civilian witnessed you break a law and ran to tell security. Now that particular civvy and a few of the guards (not all) know what you look like. Change disguises and you're good.
-Guards have been alerted that a man dressed like you did something bad. Usually one of the guards has to call it in via radio. Kill him before he makes his call-no problem. Unless you are loud.
-Guards hear loud noises, especially gun shots. They're in high alert status. If they can't find you in the area they heard shots, they probably won't identify you later.
-Guards found a body and are alerted. Any little thing you do will set them off, 'cause they're trying to figure out which one of you is The Thing. Oh, I mean, a murderer.
-Your disguise is compromised. Better to trespass wearing the wrong clothes than wear clothes you've been "made" in. Don't take clothes from obviously-visible corpses and this probably won't happen to you. Hide the bodies in a hamper!
-A guard of the same type as the disguise you're wearing is beginning to wonder why his new partner is taller and balder. He walks over and takes a close look at you. The rising wanted level is your clue to GET OUT OF THERE NOW. Wait long enough while looking lovingly into his eyes and he will make you. Walk and/or turn away and he will eventually give up.
Also, sometimes when you kill too many people your wanted level automatically goes up (but not to red, or not to a red guards will act on). You will NEVER be insta-flagged unless you do something. I've had a FULL red bar and enemies didn't do anything. The game just wants you to start playing a little more carefully, so it doesn't give you any room to screw up.
Finally, if you are alerted, change your outfit. You don't have to restart unless you're going for Silent Assassin, in which case you shouldn't be going for that, since you obviously aren't skilled enough at the game (and that's no big deal, I mean-who really cares?)
Too bad, while the game is occasionally awful there is both fantastic mechanics and surprising emotional depth further into the game. Along with a tiny part which probably had voice acting easily in the top 5 I've ever heard in a game. Ever.JoshGod said:
Worst...uff there have been a lot of good(?) suggestions...I dont like to think about bad games, but Too human and Far cry 2 has to be some of the most disappointing ones at least.
Assassin's Creed.
But in all fairness I never buy a game that has too many bad reviews, especially at The Escapist.
But in all fairness I never buy a game that has too many bad reviews, especially at The Escapist.
For God's sake, don't choose a game you haven't fucking played. Y'know how everybody can be ranting about how great a game is, but you just don't like it? It works both ways. Just because Yahtzee says a game is shit doesn't mean you should immediately declare it your Worst Game of This Generation.
My personal choice would be Dragon Age. For a compulsive tabletop RPG addict such as myself, the options were far too restricted for me to feel like I was actually making a character.
My personal choice would be Dragon Age. For a compulsive tabletop RPG addict such as myself, the options were far too restricted for me to feel like I was actually making a character.
I have to say Modern warfare 2.
I loved the first modern warfare mostly for it's emotional realism, especially in the USMC sections, it had an almost jarhead feel about the whole thing, which made the characters much more real than almost any other shooter out there.
And along comes the sequel that takes all the realism and emotional impact of the first game and surgically removes it in favour of more nukes and a terrible, stilted, over the top 'the world is at stake' Tom Clancy novel.
I sorta liked it when the world wasn't in immidiate peril.
I loved the first modern warfare mostly for it's emotional realism, especially in the USMC sections, it had an almost jarhead feel about the whole thing, which made the characters much more real than almost any other shooter out there.
And along comes the sequel that takes all the realism and emotional impact of the first game and surgically removes it in favour of more nukes and a terrible, stilted, over the top 'the world is at stake' Tom Clancy novel.
I sorta liked it when the world wasn't in immidiate peril.