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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2865 Joined: 8 May 2008     | |
Beat Writer Posts: 176 Joined: 10 Feb 2008    |
I liked Bioshock, but I felt it wasn't nearly as good or interesting as it could have been. I felt kinda cheated that I'd more or less seen everything there was to see after the first hour or so. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2865 Joined: 8 May 2008 | The original Star Wars movies- Don't get me wrong 4 is decent and 5 is my favourite Star Wars movie but 6 is brutally "Happy Happy Fairy tale" I mean the rebels are attacking lets NOT shoot. One word. EWOKS! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 877 Joined: 16 May 2008    | Pure Pwnage is way overrated. It started pretty good, when it was mainly a mockumentary about pro gaming, but once it turned into a crazy fantasy story, it really lost its steam. MGS after the first one. Hideo Kojima gave himself a story enema once he took off. MGS 1 was awesome though. Final Fantasy after VI, except my first pull through X (I managed to 100% it, including fixing the sphere grid). Halo, mainly because when it first came out I was a bit of a shutin, and didn't have an xbox, so all of my friends got really good, and I sucked, so it's never really appealed to me - I prefer single player FPS/TPS experiences anyway. Elder Scrolls - This one has hooked me a couple times, but all in all, it's mainly garbage. The only good thing about Oblivion in the long view is Patrick Fucking Stewart, and he dies in the tutorial dungeon, fuck that shit. sports games, although most gamers laugh at them, there is a large segment of the gaming population that still buys these things. Maybe it's because I dislike sports. I'll occasionally pick up a basketball or hockey game and might have a few good laughs, but I could never bring myself to buy them, as they go out of date faster then a home PC, and that is saying something. Movie games is a no brainer. They suck, and the only people who buy them are fanatics with too much money, and moms hoping to give their kids a happy birthday or merry christmas. They've gotten a bit better over the years, but mainly, they're garbage. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 612 Joined: 30 Jun 2008 |
well, you'll always have the old Mutant League series :D |
Muckraker  Posts: 303 Joined: 8 May 2008 | More for the list: -Guitar Hero: Yeah, pretty colors, cool music (some of it is pretty cool at least), and an interesting concept, but really more of an activity than a game. Like an advanced version of that light up "Simon Says" game. (Holla holla if you're old school enough to know what that is.) - Capcom Vs. SNK, Street fighter, all those fighting games with the exception of perhaps Tekken 4 and Tag: From what I can tell its a bunch of hyper pocky-nerds on a sugar rush mashing buttons and covering the screen in gross amounts of colors and onomatopoeias. Oh, and DOA had a terribly fighting system, the only reason to buy the game was "OMG BEWBZ!". |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 84 Joined: 3 Jan 2008  | Even more games: All of them. Seriously? This thread takes the piss... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 482 Joined: 24 Oct 2007  |
The PC version is the best one. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 482 Joined: 24 Oct 2007 |
Good lord finally someone that dislikes FPS's. Dammit but I could never get into that genre, PC or in consoles. The only three FPS's that I have been able to enjoy are Metroid Prime, Perfect Dark (N64) and Bioshock (although that game was WAY too easy). I don't know but I find the 1st person view so constricting and uninteresting; that's why I couldn't care less about this tidal wave of FPS's out on the market right now and the ones coming out as well. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 70 Joined: 23 Jun 2008 | Resident Evil 4. Seriously, calling a game with such a barely functional control scheme "flawless" should be illegal. It wasn't scary, the story was insipid, and I've seen everything it does done much better somewhere else.
It was alright, but it was incredibly shallow, mostly due to the one-dimensional enemy behavior. Sure, you had a lot of powers, but defeating an enemy just by choosing the power that works well against him isn't really depth. Of course, there were only two three kinds of enemies anyway; splicers, machines, and big daddies. |
Paperboy  Posts: 45 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 | MGS. The series as a whole was never appealing to me and with the hype that surrounds the most recent one I can't stand them. Halo 2&3. I loved the first one since it was the first FPS I had played since the old Golden Eye and Perfect Dark. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 | I would have to start with the mightiest of all: World of Warcraft. Not a game at all, but a system for games so I will count it: Steam. My brief encounter with the technology has brought nothing but the bitterest sorrow in my life. I will not dive into details hence I may brake down and cry at the memories, but I know that most people are truly grateful to Valve for their gift to humanity in the form of this omnipresent system. I subscribe to the general Halo disrespect in this forum (since I dare not disrespect it elsewhere for obvious safety reasons) because I found myself playing the second instalment of the game at a friend's home, and half way through the campaign I actually had to stop it and check if I had not, by mistake, placed the FIRST Halo in the machine, and had been wasting my time re-playing it for the past many hours. When I saw clearly the number 2 after the name in the disc, I knew I was in the middle of a game worthy of that Emperor of the invisible garb. I had indeed been wasting my time, but for other reasons. |
Muckraker Posts: 303 Joined: 8 May 2008 |
"Takes the piss"? I have no clue what that means, and I'm an English teacher for crying out loud. I thought it was kinda like "it takes the cake" only "piss" instead of "cake, so rather than being the best at something its the worst? I know a Canadian guy who used to say "I'm pissed" or "I'm pissed out of my tree", both of which meant he was stumbling drunk. However, us Americans usually use piss to indicate anger, as in "I'm pissed-off", but other than that and the rare "This tasted like piss!" I'm completely in the dark about piss slang references. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3625 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   | Taking the piss : Colloqualism : To phrase a request in such a way that it patronises or demeans the person to a high degree. Probable etymology : Male Royalty were often unwilling to use latrine's so that a child with a bucket would be made to follow them and "take the piss in a bucket". This was then used to denote any job which would be seen to demean. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 92 Joined: 23 Jun 2008 | WoW and other MMO's - hate the grind Halo - SP was a copy/paste fest in my opinion, I felt like I was walking down the same halls over and over, killing the same enemies over and over. Wasn't a fan of the multiplayer either. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 133 Joined: 1 Jun 2008 | I'm unaware if it was brought up [oh bloody well it was! In the first post! =O], and I know I'm not completely alone in this, but "Kingdom Hearts 2" is the largest waste of time in the latest gaming age or two. I could almost understand why some diehard fans of the first were spoonfed the second, but just because there is a sequel to a good game, the sequel is not always as good. I think a game like KH2 is proof that you can squeeze any generic cartoon tripe from your dick and convince the idiocy that is todays young gaming community that it's an awesome thing to play with. And before I'm disagreed with, what was the premise of that game? If you're different, emo, or gothic, you deserve to get wiped from the world regardless of how much you want to fit in. Women are tools (I believe there's only one playable female character in the entire game. The rest are just there to get you through a doorway). You can solve anything by hitting it. What was the plot? Everyone has amnesia! Oh, and because you don't remember what happened the last two months, you have to save the world because of what they can't remember by the badguys who don't remember why they did it in the first place. This is completely leaving out the fact that it's a senseless button masher (Two buttons. Kill and Instakill) with so many brightly colored graphics that half the time you can't tell what's going on. But for some reason people are into that sort of thing. Into it to the point of spooning fan fictions and cosplaying as their gay disney/square counterpart. I basically hate that game and I still don't understand how that drivel got onto the market. I don't get why everyone and their mother thinks it's the second coming. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 | resident evil are we doing just insanely popular or are cult classics included in this? because I like staying on topic. sometimes. |
Paperboy Posts: 16 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 |
I liked it because I am easily amused by pretty shiny things. And I greatly appreciate the fact that any problem can be solved by whacking it with an overly sized piece of steel. It's the rule that I live my life by. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 | gears of war just seemed like another shooter with no real inivateins and a weak story to me and final fantasy and JRPG's in genral i guess turn based combat puts me to sleep i also dont realy like WoW just seems repetiteve time consumeing and boaring i also thaught twighlight princes was far infeiriar to wind waker |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 18 Jun 2008 | Oh geez: Call of Duty 4 |
Muckraker  Posts: 295 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 |
Wow, you can't see a glittery thing that the camera ACTUALLY SWITCHES POSITIONS SO YOU CAN SEE IT?!?!?!?! Jeez, You must hate Monkey Island/Discworld. |
Muckraker Posts: 303 Joined: 8 May 2008 | Alright, I hated Oblivion for the stupid leveling; there is no point in getting stronger if the rest of the world got stronger with you. Also, there is a point where you really can't sell much of anything because nobody has the money. However, I still played it a lot, and I intend to one day go and beat it after doing a ton of those side quests. I got a mod that tones down the leveling a lot so rather than every creature always being 5 levels higher than me they're 5 levels lower and they increase 1 level for every 2 or 3 times I level up. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 215 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 | Halo is so overhyped its sickening. I mean it's decent, but how could the gods conspire to make this so popular! Its like the planets were aligned the second it came out FFVII was a good FF game, but not the series strongest, third or fourth best at least. It is full of smug, arrogant @$$-holes who swing around 7-foot long swords and try as hard as they can to never emote and keep their dialogue to a minimum Mass Effect was very good, and I recognize it for that, but it just didn't do it for me, I wish I could have liked it more |
Beat Writer Posts: 215 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 |
Have you been slaughtered by mobs of rabid fans already? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 671 Joined: 16 Apr 2008  | World of Warcrap, or really anything made by Blizzard. Let me start by saying that StarCraft and Warcraft standalone were great games. However, I don't like them because of the simple fact that they aren't really inventive. Blizzard only has two series of games- Diablo and Warcraft. Diablo II and the expansion are obviously continuations of Diablo. And I just found out earlier today that Diablo isn't even a Blizzard invention. Blizzard refuses to tread new ground or come up with anything creative or innovative. You can say they keep pumping out good games all you want, but if you ask me that's like someone stuffing your face with the same Subway sandwich over and over. It's damn good, but it's no different than the last one. The closest thing they came to treading new ground is StarCraft: Ghost. However, not only was this game delayed until "never", it also followed the same world as a previous game. Also, the only games they're planning to release are a third in the StarCraft series and a fourth in the Diablo series. Whoopty-doo! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 170 Joined: 5 May 2008 | At last I am not alone... Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas...it goes on and on and on... Oblivion the first 3 or 4 hours of gameplay I thought this would end up my favourite game... Wait for it....Halo 3 Not a game but...The Nintendo Wii |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 94 Joined: 22 Feb 2008 | Every sports game made in the history of forever. All of my friends own at least one, and I would rather watch my House DVD collection be burned in front of me then play a sports game. If you want to play basketball, then go buy a damn basketball! It's cheaper then NBA 200X I can promise you that. Go find an empty parking lot and have fun. Heck, some schools even have real basketball hoops. It's at least a quantum leap more fun then any videogame ever. Same goes for all the other sports. You wanna play it, go out and play it. Racing games. Whee! I'm driving! With the only exception of Mario Kart: Double Dash, I loathe racing games almost as much as sports games. My friends love them. Oi vei. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 671 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 |
I agree. I'm actually a little disappointed in the Wii for a lot of reasons. The only good games I know of for that console are WarioWare and No More Heroes. I wouldn't even consider Brawl a good game. It's honestly just a watered-down Melee. That reminds me- Brawl. Why didn't I think of that before. How can people like that game? It has better controls, but now the game literally picks and chooses who wins. If you're really fast and skillful at the game, you trip and fall on your ass, or an explosive item will pop right in front of you as you're trying to kill your opponent. It also seems like percentages play a smaller bit. Lots of times you can KO a guy at less than 20%, but there's sometimes that you can't even when he's at 200% using the same attack. It literally just picks who wins matches most of the time. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 136 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | Smash Brothers, any of them. Legend of Zelda after the one for Nintendo... Ah fuck it. Pretty much Nintendo in general after I got my Sega. Then Sonic got old fast. Nintendo won't be seeing my business again in this lifetime. Halo series... Honestly wasn't fun beyond a couple missions. I had way WAY more fun with Timesplitters series. Oblivion I liked but I share the sentiments on the combat and generic feel of it. I only really liked working for the Assassin Guild. Kingdom Hearts can die in a corner sobbing alone. Final Fantasy series can do the same while consuming laxative. Disgaea was fun for me but the Majin class did make everything else obsolete if you wanted perfection. And the monster attributes weren't properly accounted for so you didn't know what attack needed Intelligence instead of Attack. However, the leveling issue wasn't a problem for me as I figured out the leveling issue and went with it before it became a problem. Disgaea 2 was more fun but the Majin class still edges that line of making your others obsolete yet you manage to need other characters. Still, edging that line annoys me. I am sure I am missing something. Oh, I am curious about Portal but I don't expect to give up limbs for it. I feel the same way about Half Life. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 24 Jan 2008 | Your not alone, at least I agree with you on the Halo series. Then again though, I feel like enough has ben said about the love/hatred of Halo and we should stop talking about it before they decide that they need to make more. |
Muckraker  Posts: 312 Joined: 4 Feb 2008 | Final Fantasy series. I love a great story and all, but I've always felt the gameplay was lacking. Half-Life and Halo series. I certainly like and enjoy them to an extent, but I have never considered them the masterpieces many would have you believe. Almost forgot: The Zelda series. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I just can't get any enjoyment out of them. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 61 Joined: 7 Jul 2008 | FPS, well ones that are future based, but with no future weapons.Still relying on pistol,shotgun,rifle,flamethower,grenade launcher,and sniper rifle. GTA4, they give you a cellphone so you can play nice between bouts of carjacking and random killing? FolkLore had an awesome premise,cept i couldn't play with anyone around for fear of smacking them in the head while using the six-axis controls of pulling out souls.Plus the two charecters play the same story line.exciting! |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 671 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 |
lol, that is pretty weird, actually. "We have teleportation technology, but we still use a pistol and shotgun." I hate FPS games with overpowered sniper rifles. They should be long-ranged, not more powerful than other weapons. Either you get one-shot killed or you don't get one-shot killed at all. I'm looking at you, Renegade. |