DeliciousCake said:
mrhateful said:
To anyone thinking about bying this game, please don't the game was awful and if you fall into the same trap as i which is, "man this game is easily just as great as the first one", then game studios might think that we want this kinda crap. Also anyone who is saying that it was a good game is either lying or an idiot.
Dear Sir and/or Madam,
Having provided points and an overly large textwall detailing things that I thought the second game improved on, I'm sitting here wondering why you didn't do something similar. You could have said: "I disliked this game because: x, y and z. I found the [Blank] to be [insert adjective here]. Therefore, I must say this game is [good/decent/bad]." Your complete lack of points illustrating why the second game is, as you put it, "crap", makes me wonder if you know how to construct a complex opinion. Secondly, I must say your last sentence somewhat bothered me. Having mulled it over, I conclude that you are saying something along the lines of: "Anybody who doesn't share my opinion is wrong and stupid." This, combined with your lack of evidence, makes your seem rather foolish. I wanted to let you know this in the hopes that you may gather up your reasoning and respond to me in the fashion of a gentleman.
Good day,
Sir Delicious Cake Esquire
First of all I would like to point out that just because you explained yourself in a text wall doesn?t make your opinion more valid since it?s about the context not the amount. Secondly in defense of my post as I can see how you can be a bit offended I?d like to add that I really am very disappointed with the game, and are in truth just trying to warn others.
Now I don?t blame you for not knowing this but I have written quite a few posts on why I don?t like this game, some of which are on the ?other? escapist review of the game, which does explain my opinion a lot better I think.
But since you?ve written me such a nice reply I thought I?d retread my opinion:
First of all the game is not a sequel but rather an extension since it doesn?t add anything new, the monsters are the same, the gameplay is the same, like corpses playing dead, mobs coming from holes, shoot limbs, pretty much nothing new or innovative, now obviously a game doesn?t have to be a completely new and different but it does at least have to add some new elements and to me it doesn?t do that(except for the jet pack which I felt was nothing special)
Okay that was gameplay, to me gameplay is important but it can?t really carry a game if a game lacks story and atmosphere then gameplay falls flat and eventually becomes tedious if it is as repetitive as DS2 is.
Story, in my opinion is the most important thing (Baldur?s Gate 2 is my favorite game after all), and this is where DS2 completely fails. Its story and I?m not talking about the acting, I?m talking about the story which you learn about, as you progress through the game, that thing that keeps you attached to your protagonist and makes you want to continue on.
Now I haven?t finished the game (quit about 10 min after the lady betrays you, just like in ds1, only done worse).
Basically the story which I got to learn was Necromorphs has come back, and you need to get to the lady, because you?re sick. And too me that just doesn?t cut it?s simply too thin especially after you finally get to her and some unknown ship kills her without any resolution, such a let down
After that disappointment that other guy(forgot his name), appears out of nowhere and says ?come to me?, and now you have to get to him, that?s NOT a good story, it?s a story specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: to get you through as many rooms as possible in order to force an stereotypically atmosphere down upon you, a nursing home haunted with deformed kids, a medical facility with insanity happening, etc. etc, I mean at this point why not a virtual reality machine that sends you to a haunted house with lightning striking outside the window.
Now you might think well if that?s your opinion on DS2 then you must really hate DS1, actually no because even though I don?t consider it one of best games, I was actually entertained all the way to the end, which to me is very important.
It certainly wasn?t a horror but it was new and refreshing, and had this almost unknown phenomenon called a story this where you in your reflection of the protagonist, experience different events and situations, in a crash attempt to make you become attached to your protagonist.
Now I agree with the popular opinion that your girlfriend had no effect however what did have an effect was the feeling of trying to get off the ship. Also if I can add just one thing DS1 became very silly towards the end which I felt DS2 just continued.
Hopefully this answers it all for you; normally it can be hard to explain why a game is boring simply because nothing is happening.
Sad day to you,
Overmind Hateful invasion