Worst game(s) you've ever completed
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High horses ho!Skoldpadda said:
Look pal, I think there's a concept that's passing your oh-so-glorious genius brain up here: have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, the people who have completed these sub-par games might be...GASP!...Not in control of their buying decisions at the time? I say this because I got that Bionicle game for Christmas, and I didn't get a ton of games then I was 12. I took what I got. Did my uncle and aunt read game reviews? Hell to the fuck no! They just heard my brother and I liked Bionicles. When it's all you get for a long time, you tend to play the crap out of it, regardless of quality. And that's another reason a truly bad game is my worst-completed.
Maybe they didn't have the idea for Pokestar studios until later? And they probably added the musical simply so that they could add something new. I remember reading an interview where the developers claimed that they were trying to make Unova feel seperated from the other gens so they probably removed the pokemon contests to show that they weren't popular in Unova.CrimsonBlaze said:
I also wouldn't say it's a reboot in the metaphorical sense either. By that definition every game in the series is a reboot
From Wikipedia:
(Simple) sequel
The most common approach is for the events of the second work to directly follow the events of the first, either picking up dangling plot threads or introducing a new conflict to drive the events of a second story.
And I never actually said that they weren't third installments you did. it's undeniable that they are the standard third game but it breaks the mold by having a different story instead of copying the first installments story and adding a few tweeks near the end.
This game is a direct sequel taking place in the same region that (as you said) plays from a different perspective. For it to be a reboot in any sense it would have to completely ignore what happened in the last game (which it doesn't. Especially if you used the Unova link feature).
You can argue all you want that this game isn't a continuation of the last games story but it is in fact a sequel.
And before I forget: G/S/C are defined as stand alone sequels since it makes little mention of the last game other than the rockets attacking some years ago.
Darksiders II. I loved the original, (and I use the word 'original' sparingly, in the case of Darksiders,) but while the first game borrowed/stole ideas from other games it always remained tight and focused; you always felt like there was a purpose to what you were doing.
I honestly still don't know what the fuck I was supposed to have achieved by the end of Darksiders II. Every single time I completed the task at hand it was revealed to be a red herring and there were several times during the game where I was halfway through a dungeon and I suddenly realised I had no idea what I was even doing there.
It felt like the whole game spunked it's load early on with a massive colossus fight and then could never really top that so it instead settled on padding the shit out of the campaign by constantly making you fetch three of something. And it was always three, to the point where I actually started to wonder if Darksiders II was meant to be a sattire instead of just hollow and shite.
I honestly still don't know what the fuck I was supposed to have achieved by the end of Darksiders II. Every single time I completed the task at hand it was revealed to be a red herring and there were several times during the game where I was halfway through a dungeon and I suddenly realised I had no idea what I was even doing there.
It felt like the whole game spunked it's load early on with a massive colossus fight and then could never really top that so it instead settled on padding the shit out of the campaign by constantly making you fetch three of something. And it was always three, to the point where I actually started to wonder if Darksiders II was meant to be a sattire instead of just hollow and shite.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Lazy game design and an all around produced a shining example of mediocrity. Also the endings were shit.
Mass Effect series. The only reason I did it was for a few of the characters. Awful gameplay pretty much all the way through.
I want to say Binding of Isaac...but Binding of Isaac itself is a great game. It just becomes completely awful if you try to "beat it" beat it. The real, true, final, last ending only occurs after you the game around 30 times...and every time you beat it, you have to start from scratch. Consequently, if you just want to get to the point where all the content is unlocked, it's pretty awful. Would've preferred everything to be open at the very beginning. Would've made it a lot better on my end.
I want to say Binding of Isaac...but Binding of Isaac itself is a great game. It just becomes completely awful if you try to "beat it" beat it. The real, true, final, last ending only occurs after you the game around 30 times...and every time you beat it, you have to start from scratch. Consequently, if you just want to get to the point where all the content is unlocked, it's pretty awful. Would've preferred everything to be open at the very beginning. Would've made it a lot better on my end.
Oh lord, I actually had very fond memories of this game up until recently...I've grown to absolutely detest most JRPGs, and this game takes pretty much every single thing I dislike about them to such extremes...I played it recently again, and actually finished it. Absolutely horrid. It's funny how childhood paints things in such a different light...Hemlet said:
I will disagree with the one road thing. While there is literally only one road, there are a few side paths you can go down...like the one into that haunted forest that you will have an extremely hard time finding because it's hidden down a ledge that has a log you can walk down, (but can't see), and serves absolutely no point for going into...
Inversion. That game had really interesting mechanic ideas... but implementation and story was to me pretty horrible and forced.
The whole human mutated to become mega bulky and lose the ability to speak rationally didnt really make sense to me either.
The whole human mutated to become mega bulky and lose the ability to speak rationally didnt really make sense to me either.
Yeah, that is literally all you do, so if you were losing interest after the first few dungeons I assure you that you didn't miss anything. Also the game develops this weird habit, later on, of making you do these amazing, climactic boss fights and then giving you absolutely nothing for it, except a trophy/achievement and a new quest marker on your map.SpunkeyMonkey said:
The only thing that kept me invested was that I really like the overall story to the series and I thought Death was a really cool character, albeit a bit redundant when you get to the Land of the Dead and meet the King of the Dead. Who isn't Death. For some reason.
For me
White Knight Chronicles
I give the game points for trying to separate itself from other JRPG's but everything about was so freaking generic
-generic plot
-generic characters
-generic plot twist
The combat was kind of stupid because of your other members AI and also it was B.S. that you team couldn't attack enemies from far away unless they were in the target range but enemies can attack you from ANY DISTANCE, You could be running away from an angry wasp and be 10 ft away from it and IT STILL MANAGES TO HIT YOUR TEAM....
-add the fact that the game allows you to make a custom character that is just a mute tag-along kid and reports that the servers are officially down for this game making powering up your team a lot harder since the game had a very nagging feeling that you had to play online to fully enjoy it and I'm happy I trade it in
Resident Evil 6
-Bad Plot
-Difficulty becomes "Cheap" on higher difficulties
-Co-op is a double edged sword.
J'avo does add a tactical challenge to the game but gets thrown out latter when wherever you hit them, they still mutate
Also, I wanted to try to Platinum(Get all achievements for the PS3 version) but after playing through all 4 story-lines I was kind of like, "Why bother to do it again?"
Capcha: face the music
Me: Yeah, I needed to vent on those games.
White Knight Chronicles
I give the game points for trying to separate itself from other JRPG's but everything about was so freaking generic
-generic plot
-generic characters
-generic plot twist
The combat was kind of stupid because of your other members AI and also it was B.S. that you team couldn't attack enemies from far away unless they were in the target range but enemies can attack you from ANY DISTANCE, You could be running away from an angry wasp and be 10 ft away from it and IT STILL MANAGES TO HIT YOUR TEAM....
-add the fact that the game allows you to make a custom character that is just a mute tag-along kid and reports that the servers are officially down for this game making powering up your team a lot harder since the game had a very nagging feeling that you had to play online to fully enjoy it and I'm happy I trade it in
Resident Evil 6
-Bad Plot
-Difficulty becomes "Cheap" on higher difficulties
-Co-op is a double edged sword.
J'avo does add a tactical challenge to the game but gets thrown out latter when wherever you hit them, they still mutate
Also, I wanted to try to Platinum(Get all achievements for the PS3 version) but after playing through all 4 story-lines I was kind of like, "Why bother to do it again?"
Capcha: face the music
Me: Yeah, I needed to vent on those games.
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Yeah, there is a reason that was the last main MK game before Midway went under. Seriously, how can you mess up Mortal Kombat? Let me count the ways.
1. Have a story even lamer than normal (See, because of all the fighting, the realms are going to be destroyed unless they lose their powers. No, seriously, that is the plot.)
2. Half-ass reintroducing the characters (sure, everyone was in the game (except for Khameleon on the non-Wii versions), but everyone lost a fighting style (previous games had each character with two fighting styles and a weapon style), and weapon styles were often repeated.
3. NO FATALITIES (they instead had "Kreate A Fatality", which basically meant everyone had the same bland fatalities)
4. Crappy minigames (for all of its other flaws, Deception at least had some fun minigames in "Puzzle Kombat" and "Chess Kombat". This game had...Mario Kart.)
Add to that fixing absolutely none of the problems with Deception, and having the two new kombatants be bland as fuck, and you have the biggest letdown I've ever experienced. As the one guy on page 4 said, Mass Effect 3 had nothing on this.
1. Have a story even lamer than normal (See, because of all the fighting, the realms are going to be destroyed unless they lose their powers. No, seriously, that is the plot.)
2. Half-ass reintroducing the characters (sure, everyone was in the game (except for Khameleon on the non-Wii versions), but everyone lost a fighting style (previous games had each character with two fighting styles and a weapon style), and weapon styles were often repeated.
3. NO FATALITIES (they instead had "Kreate A Fatality", which basically meant everyone had the same bland fatalities)
4. Crappy minigames (for all of its other flaws, Deception at least had some fun minigames in "Puzzle Kombat" and "Chess Kombat". This game had...Mario Kart.)
Add to that fixing absolutely none of the problems with Deception, and having the two new kombatants be bland as fuck, and you have the biggest letdown I've ever experienced. As the one guy on page 4 said, Mass Effect 3 had nothing on this.
I'm not the other guy bit im gonna bash FFXII anyway... to be blunt, its boring. The gambit system is less interactive then the FFXIII system everyone appears to hate, the games pace moves slightly slower than continental drift, the characters have the potential to be interesting, but the plot events occur so slowly i honestly forgot what i was doing or why. I liked everyone except the thrown in vaan( i even liked Pennello,) and the leveling/licencing system was both convoluted and almost completely pointless. By the end game every character essentially has the same base stats, so running penello or basch as a mage is almost equally effective depending on speccing. In doing so it eliminates their character during combat. I understand why they did it, but I prefer the FFX or XIII approach over 12's because each character's personality is demonstrated through their proficiency in their skills.Emaruse said:
Again though, the worst part is the combat, where almost every fight wins itself after a while outside of the occasional esper summon or OP hunt. The managment in XIII or X-2 does the same thing but allows us to actually be engaged in the combat
^ Thishazabaza1 said:
But if I had to share one, I would have to say Medal of Honor Airborne. It was so bland. Every once in a while you might feel like what you're doing is worth the time you're spending, but really. I beat it the day I got it. I was severely disappointed.
Alpha Protocol. It kept doing things I loved and then doing things no video game should ever do. It was supposed to be a cyber spy game and the final bosses had infinite grenades and a fucking minigun. Also, doors that lead you to another level without telling you you can't go back ever. It was just the right combination of things that looked like they should be good and things that were awful ideas. It was like Deus Ex: Human Revolution in as much as it was a mixed bag with mistakes that were inconsistent with the games selling point except the bad thoroughly outweighed the good and pissed me off a great deal more than any other game within recent memory besides one.
That one is Bioshock: Infinite, I played it on hard the first time through, anything but the most common enemies are like diamond plated nano-tube re-enforced tungsten.
The "heavy" soldiers can take two magazines IN THE HEAD of fully upgraded carbine. I'm not talking about Handy-men or patriots, just the heavier infantry guys. There were points in that game where I was purposefully dying just to get ammo. Not just that I was purposefully dying so that I could put ALL of my ammo into ONE SINGLE ENEMY, then when I was out of ammo and hopefully killed that enemy I would need to be killed again so I would have ammo and salts for the NEXT ENEMY.
That was my only real problem with Infinite: "On 'hard' difficulty the enemies had an unreasonable amount of health."It made the last three hours or so of the game a constant cycle of respawning and killing an enemy or two, respawning and killing a patriot, respawning and killing a handy-man. It just ruined the end of the game. It wasn't difficult just tedious and frustrating.
That one is Bioshock: Infinite, I played it on hard the first time through, anything but the most common enemies are like diamond plated nano-tube re-enforced tungsten.
The "heavy" soldiers can take two magazines IN THE HEAD of fully upgraded carbine. I'm not talking about Handy-men or patriots, just the heavier infantry guys. There were points in that game where I was purposefully dying just to get ammo. Not just that I was purposefully dying so that I could put ALL of my ammo into ONE SINGLE ENEMY, then when I was out of ammo and hopefully killed that enemy I would need to be killed again so I would have ammo and salts for the NEXT ENEMY.
That was my only real problem with Infinite: "On 'hard' difficulty the enemies had an unreasonable amount of health."It made the last three hours or so of the game a constant cycle of respawning and killing an enemy or two, respawning and killing a patriot, respawning and killing a handy-man. It just ruined the end of the game. It wasn't difficult just tedious and frustrating.
Any of the CoD: Modern Warfare games...just the same thing over and over and over and over and over...I was never engaged, never worried, never challenged by it. "Try the multiplayer!" someone would say. "I didn't realize I bought an MMOFPS..." I would reply.
What.an annoyed writer said:
That's got nothing to do with what you said above and what I reacted to.
As for the genius part, take a joke, kid. Now go play with your sister.
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Oh god, fucking Dragon Age. There was a decent turn based combat system buried under that game, that they then slapped their trademark "Balder's Gate" real-time with pausing system over, and the whole thing degenerated into one never ending, tactically oversensitive clusterfuck.Skoldpadda said:
There was that turn based flash game they released as a teaser that gave me a lot of hope for the game... and then... ugh.
I don't get to actually claim DAO, though, because I never bothered to finish it.
Then they dusted off the plot and reused it for ME3... lovely. :|
I had no intention of even looking at DA2 until I played the demo on a lark, and discovered Hawke had the option of smarting off without provocation, which was enough to get me to take a look... and what do you know? It's actually more entertaining, and less bullshity. The story is almost as dumb as DAO's, but the ability to mouth off constantly, made it vastly more entertaining.