It seems that you're using an outdated browser. Some things may not work as they should (or don't work at all).
We suggest you upgrade newer and better browser like: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera

×
Community
General discussion (archive)I missed the boat!(56 posts)(56 posts)
(56 posts)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
This is my favourite topic
Posted February 12, 2013
avatar
orcishgamer: How about Dishonored as a recent example? I thought it was horrid, boring shit.
avatar
tinyE: I can't really play anything that new. I can't even find any reviews on it; is it popular? That's the problem, when you find it boring and everyone thinks you're a loon because they all love it.
Yes, it got a lot of gushing and even many GOTY nominations.
Posted February 13, 2013
Borderlands, BioShock 1 & 2. I didn't just miss the boat... I jumped off the boat!

I quit BL a short way in, and never looked back. It had a really cool look I thought, but I thoroughly despise the whole "Game Show" touchy-feely hands-on lead-me-by-the-nose-where-you-want-me-to-go gameplay. "Ding! Ding! Ding! You finished the mission! Yay, you're such a good boy... who's a good boy!" More FPS games are taking this approach. For example, Far Cry 3 just puts floating symbols on all the bad guy's heads ("don't think for yourself, just shoot this guy" and flashing money/loot ("don't look around for yourself, here's the loot right here stupid". These games are just about one step away from "mash spacebar to continue and we'll do all the work for you..."

And BS 1&2... I finished them both, but played with gritted teeth the entire time. Again, a technological graphical marvel, but I swear... if I ever play another game with (purposely) stupid enemies that just LUNGE at you from 200 ft. away and are all up-in-your-bidness from 360-degrees all around you, I'll eat my own head! ARGGHH! I keep trying to find out if Bioshock Infinite will take this same (literally) brain-dead AI approach so I can save some dough if they do.

It's not new, but I've never liked it. I just think it's so friggin' lazy for game developers to just put springboards on all their monsters that just LUNGE at your face, with zero regard for their own personal safety. Yeah I get it, they're drugged zombies or something. Whatever. Lazy.

Far Cry 1 had great enemy AI I thought. I liked the Mass Effects. They're not all braindead.
Posted February 13, 2013
avatar
tritone: It's not new, but I've never liked it. I just think it's so friggin' lazy for game developers to just put springboards on all their monsters that just LUNGE at your face, with zero regard for their own personal safety. Yeah I get it, they're drugged zombies or something. Whatever. Lazy.
Doom 3 anyone!? XD
Stupid enemy AI will not keep me form playing an FPS but YEAH, it's lazy. Everyone likes to compare D3 to Quake 4 and all I remember when I played Q4 was thinking, "Wait, they are moving! The are ducking! What the hell!?" IMO that's one of many reasons why the NOLF series is so great, the bad guys really try NOT to get killed.
Posted February 13, 2013
Beyond Good and Evil is probably the biggest one for me. So many people have a raging hard-on for that game, and I just can't see what all the fuss is about. It was ok at best, but that's about it.

Grand Theft Auto 4 was also a massive let down. Shiny graphics and heavily neutered gameplay relative to San Andreas, and of course a story that takes itself too seriously and really doesn't fit with that sort of game. I'd find the whole "struggling immigrant who's forced into a life of crime just to survive" angle a little more believable if Niko weren't perfectly free to spend as long as he wants doing nothing but shooting people at random and provoking the police into city-wide manhunts for absolutely no consequences. Also, the "friendship" mechanic really needs to go fuck itself.

To a much lesser extend, Dreamfall. I know it's hardly universally loved, but it still gets far more praise than it deserves, considering what a broken mess it is.
Posted February 13, 2013
games Like Morrowind just annoy the Crap out of me no set tasks EVERYONE outside cities and towns are against you goto a cavern there is an animal there it attacks you while those stupid Moronic idiots that give you quests just stand there and DO NOT help you kill it or that stupid lake quest Where that lady wants to goto an Island with "Marshmerrow" on it she Dies EVERYTIME! thus failing the quest again and Again and again geez.. and those stupid hunt for a book quests god they are irritating.

Strategy games ALL strategy games They are nothing but ultra-click fests
Post edited February 13, 2013 by fr33kSh0w2012
Posted February 13, 2013
avatar
jpolastre: Resident Evil: in theory I like the series... I just happen to always find something else to play. Even if it's just a lame or silly flash game.
Oh yeah : Silent Hill, for me. I'm sure they're great, have great ideas, storytellings, monsters, atmosphere, etc. But... the controls. No. Rubbing my nose against the wall, or rotating like a ww1 tank in the mud... just no.

And yeah, as someone said : MMORPGs. Well, I've played and enjoyed some browser-based ones (urban dead, cthulhu nation, shartak...). But the World of Warcraft craze, Star Wars Galaxy, etc ? Without me.
Post edited February 13, 2013 by Telika
Posted February 13, 2013
avatar
Telika: And yeah, as someone said : MMORPGs. Well, I've played and enjoyed some browser-based ones (urban dead, cthulhu nation, shartak...). But the World of Warcraft craze, Star Wars Galaxy, etc ? Without me.
World of Warcraft!! How could I forget it?
I played Warcraft from WC1 to 3 (plus the 3rd's expansion) and Starcraft 1 and I liked them a lot. Blizzard sure knows how to make RTSs. But even after a friend called me to join him on WoW I couldn't do it. I would feel bad whenever I think how much time I'd have sank into it. I like having a life after I turn the computer off, and that doesn't match with playing MMO games.
Post edited February 13, 2013 by jpolastre
Posted February 13, 2013
avatar
jpolastre: Resident Evil: in theory I like the series... I just happen to always find something else to play. Even if it's just a lame or silly flash game.
avatar
Telika: Oh yeah : Silent Hill, for me. I'm sure they're great, have great ideas, storytellings, monsters, atmosphere, etc. But... the controls. No. Rubbing my nose against the wall, or rotating like a ww1 tank in the mud... just no.
I didn't miss the boat on horror games, I enjoy them, I just don't think they are scary. Of course I watch horror films 24/7 so maybe I'm too jaded to be jarred by anything like that. Plus I lived in Missouri for 30 years so lets face it, monster zombies and creepy crawleys have nothing to offer me that I haven't seen before. I DO LIKE the Pyramid head dude from SIlent Hill! He's not scary, but very cool looking.
Posted February 13, 2013
avatar
Telika: Oh yeah : Silent Hill, for me. I'm sure they're great, have great ideas, storytellings, monsters, atmosphere, etc. But... the controls. No. Rubbing my nose against the wall, or rotating like a ww1 tank in the mud... just no.
avatar
tinyE: I didn't miss the boat on horror games, I enjoy them, I just don't think they are scary. Of course I watch horror films 24/7 so maybe I'm too jaded to be jarred by anything like that. Plus I lived in Missouri for 30 years so lets face it, monster zombies and creepy crawleys have nothing to offer me that I haven't seen before. I DO LIKE the Pyramid head dude from SIlent Hill! He's not scary, but very cool looking.
Definitely ^THIS!^

I'm still Pissed about Skyrim doing away with Master Mortar @ pestle and the other Master things I like stripping the mages guilds and selling it off for a profit LOL!

Also there are 120 nirnroots in Oblivion
Post edited February 13, 2013 by fr33kSh0w2012
Posted February 13, 2013
World of Warcraft, never played it at all and from what I've heard I hadn't missed lot.
Posted February 13, 2013
There have been many of these over the years for me. The earliest would probably be Sonic the Hedgehog. I just never really got into it. More recently, I'd have to say any MMO and the Call of Duty Series. I played CoD 2 and liked it, but just never moved forward with the series.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
This is my favourite topic
Community
General discussion (archive)I missed the boat!(56 posts)(56 posts)
(56 posts)