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Posted October 16, 2018
Has to be Civ 6. I got it on sale, super excited because I always loved the Civ series (4 & 5 have combined about 4000 hours). Started playing it and got about 60 hours in before I stopped. It was just terrible. RIP in peace £12.
Posted October 17, 2018
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MaximumWombat: Has to be Civ 6. I got it on sale, super excited because I always loved the Civ series (4 & 5 have combined about 4000 hours). Started playing it and got about 60 hours in before I stopped. It was just terrible. RIP in peace £12.
What's so down about it?
In retrospect, Scribblenauts Unlimited. It was so restrictive and boring compared to previous entries, with so many puzzles reduced to one note solutions.
Post edited October 17, 2018 by Darvond
Posted October 17, 2018
The Order: 1886.

Went to a buddy's house, brand new game, I was handled the controller while the host was snuggling with his girlfriend and the rest of us played in turns.

I was the first. I was the last. After a while nobody wanted to play it and I took it as a personal challenge to finish it. Turned out to be... 5h or 6h long, I played it and ended it in one sitting...

It was boring. Also it was mindnumbingly easy and ended on an unbelievable cliffhanger with more questions than answers.

Yeah, moving around the weapons when you got them and check the level of detail might entertain some, but after... 6 seconds? 7? You've looked at everything there's to look in those.

Only the thermite launcher brought some degree of joy to the game, for a very brief part.

A complete letdown: Had I known, I'd have left him play and would have snuggled with his girlfriend...
Posted October 17, 2018
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GlorFindel: Fallout 3!!!

I hate this game and what it and Bethesda did to my favourite game series with this game and others after which I never ever played and never will!
All Bethesda games suck. It's like they don't even hire writers. Like the janitor or something does the writing. And then they hire weird people to make endless series of pointless quests... You have to be brain dead to enjoy a Bethesda game.

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ofthenexus: Oblivion - it's a good game, but it was such an expectation reset from Morrowind, it took years for me to actually give it another chance.
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Lucumo: Really? I remember it being really bad. Enemies scaling with you was the worst. The main quest was bland and uninspiring. This was the first game I played of the series, so I went in unbiased but it was so dull that it became the first (and only?) AAA game that I never finished. I did the assassin guild stuff, looked a bit here and there and then tried out some mods and after that, I was done with the game.That's another game I'm glad I never paid money for.
Yeah... all you do in Bethesda games is run around collecting crap. Why? Where's the damn story?

Why do stupid unimaginative people control game companies? I could get better results out of having some random crack addict off the street head up these companies. At least he'd have some life experience to draw from.

It disgusts me that such horrid people can wield so much capital... and use it to ruin all they touch. *barf*
Post edited October 17, 2018 by flatiron
Posted October 17, 2018
Final Fantasy IX and X. Both games, despite being adored by others, were really disappointing and helped put me off the franchise due to that disappointment. I keep saying I'll go back and give IX another try, but I've been in no rush to do so.

Resident Evil 4. Another that's adored that I just couldn't get past my disappointment with. The weird thing with it was less the game itself being disappointing (it's nowhere near what I would consider a bad game) but more the swell of hype around it that eventually morphed into the impermeable wall of people hailing it as the title that buttered the series' bread and was never bested before or after it was released. It's one of the earliest times I can think back on where I started to realize that fandoms can be downright insufferable.
Posted October 17, 2018
Dragon Age II.
Posted October 17, 2018
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fronzelneekburm: Probably Bioshock. Sure, there have been far greater stinkers than Bioshock, but with Bioshock I found the discrepancy between the absurd amounts of praise the game received and the actual game to be the most jarring.
I was going to say Gothic because it felt clunky. For half an hour I thought there was some kind of glitch because the character was so unresponsive until I realized that was just the game.

But, I think I'll agree with you. I didn't enjoy Bioshock. The game is broken. I hit a glitch where it wasn't giving me the necessary upgrades even though I took out every enemy in the level and found everything. When I tried to progress, it told me I didn't have enough upgrades and suggested I go back. I wasn't really enjoying the game up to that point and I wasn't going to go back and replay it all to risk having that happen again.
Posted October 17, 2018
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MaximumWombat: Has to be Civ 6. I got it on sale, super excited because I always loved the Civ series (4 & 5 have combined about 4000 hours). Started playing it and got about 60 hours in before I stopped. It was just terrible. RIP in peace £12.
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Darvond: What's so down about it?
I didn't like the Eureka system after a few games. It was fun at the start but after that I felt like I was being forced down the same path each time. The AI was super stupid, even worse than in previous games. Attacking me with 1 unit and then I kill them. So odd.

Mixed feelings about the city districs and wonders needing a tile. I like the idea of the system but outside of the science/production districs, the others are really lackluster. Most of the wonders give crappy benefits so there's no real reason to build them.

The leaders generally have have crappy bonuses. None of them stand out for a fun strat right from the start, they're all the same flavour.

Probably petty issues coming from me but they all add up.
Posted October 19, 2018
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TheGreatDustpan: Dragon Age II.
I maybe kind of get your your opinion - it never was a BG homage, as much as Mass Effect 2 streamline, but I am galaxies away from yours.

I personally think DA:2 is the boldest, most compelling RPG story-wise since Planescape: Torment.

DA2 Hawke is my Nameless One. I love, love, LOVE Hawke, and uniquely prefer to play his male verstion, thanks to the voice acting.
Posted October 19, 2018
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TheGreatDustpan: Dragon Age II.
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TStael: I maybe kind of get your your opinion - it never was a BG homage, as much as Mass Effect 2 streamline, but I am galaxies away from yours.

I personally think DA:2 is the boldest, most compelling RPG story-wise since Planescape: Torment.

DA2 Hawke is my Nameless One. I love, love, LOVE Hawke, and uniquely prefer to play his male verstion, thanks to the voice acting.
I actually really enjoyed the storyline for dragon age 2. The gameplay was really pretty terrible though, all those enemies randomly jumping in, and the change to being more action oriented didn't do it any favors. But I did really like the storyline, it was good enough for me to endure the rest of the game.
Posted October 19, 2018
For me I think it was either Unlimited Saga or Kessen. I cannot remember which one but which ever one it was I felt so let down that it was the only time in 40+ years of gaming that I have ever, game or otherwise, destroyed something that I paid good money for in one quick one handed snap. Fairly sure I gashed the palm of my hand up pretty good in the process.

EDIT: I was also reminded of Deathtrap Dungeon on PS1. It was among the very first games I bought on my own. Since I have even bought it when it came to GOG just in case I ever want to remember just how bad it was.

Another massive let down was another PS1 gem. N2O Nitrous Oxide. Around that time I was REALLY into psychedelics for some certain reason and this seemed like the perfect amalgam of the types of music I was listening to at the time, (Which the band was also a massive letdown) and bright shiny trippy colors. It was just such a major letdown cause for all it got right, there was no actual game.
Post edited October 19, 2018 by viranimus
Posted October 19, 2018
Modern Warfare 2. I thought it would be right up my alley, but I got bored with it and traded it in with EB Games.
Posted October 19, 2018
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Lucumo: Was it? People generally like 12. I haven't played it yet because X-2 stopped me from continuing the series. It was so terrible that I had to stop 45 minutes in. Screw that fanservice. If I wanted to play a game purely for girls, I would play Style Savvy, not the Final Fantasy series.
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devoras: Final fantasy 12 had one of the most boring stories I've ever had the misfortune of playing. Which is impressive, considering the backdrop is a big war, it's hard to make that boring. The characters are all dull, the voice acting makes everyone sound as bored as I was playing it. The character options were pointless because there was only ability that was powerful enough for you to take on the bounty monsters in each area, nothing else was worthwhile taking. It was the first time combat wasn't turn based. BUT as dull as it was, at least the story in 12 makes some sense, though I never did finish it. I played final fantasy 13 for about 25-30 hours before I gave up, and I still had no idea what was going on, what I was doing or why. I found out later that essential information was apparently hidden in codex entries, without reading those nothing at all is explained. It was so bad.

X-2 certainly wasn't a good game and its tone was way off, but there was one thing that stuck with me as memorable, there was one excellent cutscene where Yuna puts on a dress sphere that has her channel a singer/ tragedy from the past and the game does help explain some of the world's past from final fantasy x. If you're not going to play the game, you can search for x-2 yuna concert scene or '1000 words' in youtube to see it. The only reason the game was worth playing at all is because it's connected to the final fantasy X world.
I hate to admit it, but I haven't played a Final Fantasy game since FF IX. I was once a megafan of the series (I even have a FF tattoo), but I lost complete confidence in Square-Enix's ability to create a decent FF game over the last 20 years. I can't stand the played-out 'photo realism' style featured in every new FF game since FF X. I wish they went back to a more traditional graphics style ... similar to that of Octopath Traveller or even Dragon's Quest. I actually find it interesting that a similar series, Dragon's Quest, has never lost it's charm, but the heart and soul of the Final Fantasy series has been lost for decades.
Posted October 19, 2018
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TStael: I maybe kind of get your your opinion - it never was a BG homage, as much as Mass Effect 2 streamline, but I am galaxies away from yours.

I personally think DA:2 is the boldest, most compelling RPG story-wise since Planescape: Torment.

DA2 Hawke is my Nameless One. I love, love, LOVE Hawke, and uniquely prefer to play his male verstion, thanks to the voice acting.
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devoras: I actually really enjoyed the storyline for dragon age 2. The gameplay was really pretty terrible though, all those enemies randomly jumping in, and the change to being more action oriented didn't do it any favors. But I did really like the storyline, it was good enough for me to endure the rest of the game.
Meanwhile, I personally thought that for a series bound for console first, DA2 was, with The Witcher, a rare title that made it work for PC and console both. (By my imagination)

This opinion is heavily biased by my love of playing a melee rogue. Damn, it has never, ever since been better since, as it was with that Hawke that was just mine: helpful, angelic with a wicked twist, and so very lethal on dual weild.

Personalizing Hawke was a great gaming innovation.
Posted October 22, 2018
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joelandsonja: I hate to admit it, but I haven't played a Final Fantasy game since FF IX. I was once a megafan of the series (I even have a FF tattoo), but I lost complete confidence in Square-Enix's ability to create a decent FF game over the last 20 years. I can't stand the played-out 'photo realism' style featured in every new FF game since FF X. I wish they went back to a more traditional graphics style ... similar to that of Octopath Traveller or even Dragon's Quest. I actually find it interesting that a similar series, Dragon's Quest, has never lost it's charm, but the heart and soul of the Final Fantasy series has been lost for decades.
This is, perhaps, true for me, except for a couple of things:
* I felt that Final Fantasy 5 was the peak of the series and that the series went downhill from there.
* In the Dragon Quest series, I happened to find that DQ8 was a low point in the series, and from what I have heard about DQ11, it repeats some of the flaws that were present in DQ8. (Dragon Quest 9 is decent because there is a class change system and you can create your party, including the option of making the main character female, which is apparently absent again in DQ11. Note that I also consider DQ5 a low point in the series.)

(Side note: I wouldn't mind a game in the style of classic Dragon Quest games, but with queer characters. Someone should make such a game.)
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