While we are at it: Anomaly Warzone Earth.

Everyone seems to praise it, but so far I don't quite get it what's so great about it. I have it both for Windows and Android (and I tried to play it on both), I'll probably play it on Android sometime when I'm stuck with it on the other side of the world, because I don't probably have that much better games on Android either. :)

I must be the third one. But maybe today I wouldn't find it that special anymore (physics in FPS games has been done better later I think, as has the feeling of imprecise shooting), but back then it somehow just clicked me the right way, even with its apparent flaws.

Hm, I've gotta say that I'm kinda skeptical. It looks like someone is blindly reverse engineering the original game without giving much thought to the original creative decisions (which does and will result in "improvements" which aren't). Well, we'll see.
Lol, then I'm number four. We should all totally get together for a beer and reminisce about how we survived the plane crash, dinosaurs and clunky controls. Personally I can't understand why this game was panned by critics and gamers so heavily. The physics were absolutely amazing and the gameplay was really interesting. The game really made you feel abandoned, it made you feel like you're really fighting for survival... the controls were weird, but it was possible to get used to them. IMHO a great game.

The physics were a bit flawed thought, as far as I remember. Like, you'd notice some object sliding on a slightly tilted surface, where you were pretty sure it wouldn't do that in a real world. Those little glitches in the detailed physics engine reminded you that it is just a game.

However, one of the dawning moments for me in the game was when I just kept shooting the collapsed small dinosaur with my gun, because I wasn't quite sure yet it was dead for sure, and wasn't still trying to get me.

That to me felt quite realistic, something I hadn't seen in FPS games before. In other FPS games the enemies would be in full capacity until you landed the final killing bullet into them, at which point they'd suddenly explode or something. In Trespasser, as I recall, the bullets you put into the creatures would hurt them, make them move slower etc., ie. gradually incapacitate them. (Hopefully I am not remembering wrong, that's how I felt the game worked...)

That was only one example, not the only thing...

Yeah, we'll see. But unfortunately experience tells me that most of such projects are doomed from the beginning. I've seen a lot of "impressive" footage from fan-made remakes of classic games and very very few made it into the final stage. Let's hope this one's gonna be another exception.

World of Warcraft. There must be something wrong with your brain to play this... "game", imho.

Halo series, and most of RTS games.

Borderlands. Disclaimer: I haven't played it online because none of my friends own it. That being said, while I found the game to have potential, it started to feel like a dreary slog really quickly. Also, I didn't get people talking about how great the writing is, because there hardly was any. 99% of the dialog consisted of ClapTrap saying "I'm dancin', I'm dancin'" whenever you walked by him, or WoW-style messagebox pop-ups to send you on to the next quest.

Have you tried any dlc? If not, zombie island is awesome. Even in single player. I actually had more fun playing it than the base game.

Too many these days. Having so many games has made it a hassle to get through games. I'ts actually tiring me out. I'm seriously contemplating "retiring" from gaming.

Although I don't think I'll ever retire from gaming myself, I've been having similar sentiments. I hardly ever play through a game anymore, I usually just start them and then lose interest at some point. Not to mention all the games that I've bought which are just sitting there. It's always "one day, I'll fire up that game, it looks interesting." Yeah right, "one day."

I've tried to play through game by game, but alot of them i'm either not interested in what's happening, or it's too much of a hassle to do all the tasks. It's like i have to work really hard just to make it to the next part, only to have to do something harder the next time.

I'm left thinking, it's not worth it :(

Sorry for necroing an ancient thread but I find this stuff pretty interesting :D

Here's my dirty secret: I really hate Civilization series.

It's not because of hating the genre or anything like that, I really like strategy games in general and especially enjoy different Paradox titles, all kinds of turn based strategy games and 4X space games. I'm also not disliking it for some rebel anti-mainstream-reasons.

I originally bought my first civ game, Civilization IV because of the huge critical acclaim and coverage it was receiving. A local game magazine had 4 page review plus 5 extra mini-reviews from different critics, all with scores well over 90 points. I thoroughly read the actual reviews but to my surprise didn't see anything special or interesting in the game they were talking about. I thought that maybe it was just something that you would get only when actually playing the game and so I bought the game. I played it and hated it.

There wasn't some single aspect or few issues that made me dislike the game, there was simply nothing good about it! Everything in civilizations is bland, simplified and politically correct. I started my first game as Germany's best know leader: Otto von Bismark, I started a war that lasted for thousand years with my neighbor Persia fighting their fierce spearmen with my Panzers, I invented Christianity in 1000BC and turned Berlin into the cultural capital of 1970's with help of Moses. All this time I was involved in a fierce religions conflict of Gandhi who asking me if I wanted to convert into Judaism every couple turns.

Civ 4 in my books lacks detail and edge in it's every aspect: The gameplay is extremely simple (sure, it might have depth like chess has but it's still just couple pieces moving on a simple board) Why use real world cultures, characters and religions if you are making nothing out of them? Why are historical leaders immortal avatars that hang around for thousands of years? Why are couple hundred years old cultures there at the dawn of man? Why are religions nothing but minor modifiers? Why are there pikemen fighting my marines? What are people seeing in this game?

I have tried to come back to it many times, I have tried to play it with mods that fix most of the blandness like Fall from Heaven 2 but even then the terrible UI of the game ruins all the enjoyment I could get out of it. Nothing is conveniently at hand and even the most mundane tasks like checking amount of units in a stack or looking at unit stats are hidden under a mountain of bad GUI design. I just can't like this game even a little. I never bothered to try Civ 5 but it seemed to correct some of the stupidity of it's predecessor but was considered the worst civ by many... go figure.

I have several acclaimed games/series that I don't like but Civilization is just the most special case because it is so universally loved by most and I personally hate it so thoroughly and can see no redeeming factors in it. For comparison, I don't like any Bioshock game but I can see why people like them and I personally love the world and setting in those games, the boring and redundant FPS-gameplay just completely ruins them for me.

WOW was the worst game that I had ever tried. I don't feel like ranting about it, but seriously I thought it was terrible for every single reason a game could be. EVERY reason. There was not a single quality of that game that was even halfway mediocre.

Well, do you like MMOs? If you don't, then i really don't see how you could enjoy WOW. I'm not a huge MMO fan myself (i do play some every once in a while, but i never get too far before i get bored), but i have to admit that WOW is by far one the best MMOs out there. At least from the ones i have tried so far, WOW was the only one that kept me hooked for quite a long time and the quests didn't feel as boring as in other MMOs.

For me the game i hate that everyone else seems to love is Bioshock. I really hated that game. It's not a bad game by any means, but i really feel that it was just too overrated. The game felt like a chore at the second half, i had to keep doing the same boring things over and over again (got to a new room, pick up some loot, hack stuff, shoot splicers, go to a new room, repeat). I feel that it was a wasted potential. The art design was great, the level design was good, but it lacked compelling gameplay, at least in my opinion. Oh, and i really liked the "Metroidvania feel" when you get a new plasmid that allows you to open up new places to explore (like when you get the fire plasmid which allows you to melt frozen barricades). Too bad they didn't do that as much.