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Sonic Doctor

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Dragon Age: Origins. I was only able to get through 15 or so hours of it. It just didn't hold my attention because there were just to many things that needed fixing. It was just way too slow and played too much on overused cliches in story telling.

Dragon Age 2 was worlds better. It fixed all the problems that DA:O had. DA2 held my attention all the way through and I didn't play any other game on my 360 until I had finish it. I got a good 55 hours out of my first run through, I have been going through slowly on two more runs to experience it as a warrior and a rogue.

I hope that BioWare doesn't cave under pressure from the unruly mob, so that they can make the third installment very similar or just like DA2. Combat is now perfect, characters are properly fleshed out, finally a proper dialogue system on the level of what it should be like for this generation, and much better, much more rewarding stat and abilities system.

Fluffles said:
As for me? I don't get Halo. The level design is copy-pasted metal hallways (or at least was, I haven't played the latest ones). I dunno, it just annoys me so much.
I don't get it when people say that; I've played them all and I never noticed anything repetitive about level design.

The only people that could possibly complain or see fault are people that seem to think that each level has to have all different things from the last level. Oh no, those trees look like the ones in the second level, oh no that rock is the same color and texture in level 3. Oh no, this structure looks similar to the last one(ignoring the fact that both structures were made by the same race of people).

Though I have to say, out of all the games Reach is the best campaign. I'm also partial to ODST, it changed things up story wise and somewhat play wise, and it did it in a good way. Reach was the best because the story was incredibly poignant and nothing like I had ever experienced in gaming.
 

Da Orky Man

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Final Fantasy XIII, Borderlands and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. You may now start the lynching.
 

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It's not that I didn't like fallout 3, I thought it was really fun. It's just that the writing, especially in the main plot was just so dumb. Also I hate plot armor.

In my eyes bioshock did not deserve all the praise it recieved. It had a very strong setting, interesting and well written story and a wonderful aesthetic. It was dragged down by shitty gunplay, shallow RPG elements and the fact that all the previosly mentioned good stuff became shit two thirds of the way through the game because of extreme repetition and THAT scene, which if you have played the game you will know what I'm talking about. The scene itself is probably one of the bests scenes in any videogame ever but the story loses it's way after it.
 

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GTA IV
CoD (Post WaW)
Morrowind *Shuts Fire door*
Crysis
Fallout: 3/New Vegas
 

MeatMachine

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GTA 4: WAAAAAAAY too many controls to remember for basic tasks, and all the cars controlled like their tires had been slashed.

Halo: One of the most boring FPSs I've ever played. I have no idea why its held to such high regard...

Cod: MW: Run around the map, get shot in the back; MAYBE get shot in the face, depending on who draws faster.
 

Lerasai

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Assassin's Creed. I love games that involve stealth and intrigue, but I'm awful at platforming and I hate check-point-type saving. The thing that ultimately made it literally un-playable for me was the UI. I feel like a total idiot, but I just could not wrap my head around it. Everything was weird symbols and no words or labels and hotkeys that I couldn't remember for the life of me and how do I even know this button is working and oh god is my nose bleeding
 

Trippy Turtle

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Most of valve games actually. I found TF2 boring and portal was nothing special.
Portal 2 was decent.
 

Sonic Doctor

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Somonah said:
all popular console FPS games.

FPS without mouse and keyboard = inferior
It all comes down to what a person finds more comfortable and what lets them feel like they do better in a game.

I grew up with both a computer and a console in my household and for many years in the early years of my gaming, all FPS games I played, I played on a PC. But when it got big on consoles and I tried it out, I found I did much better in shooters with a controller than a mouse and keyboard(just too many buttons to keep track of and they are positioned so close together, I frequently would make button press mistakes).

Superior and inferior only come from opinion in the comparison of the two ways. There are no facts in the matter.

I can say that a console controller is superior for FPS games, but I know that it is just superior for me and my play style.

Mouse and keyboard is best for you.

The whole war of the control set up for FPS games is just stupid. I also hate how it colors how developers make games.

Example: How one of the main guys at Gearbox said that holding 10 guns at one time wouldn't work for Duke Nukem Forever, because it wouldn't work for a console controller. Pure bull, XBLA release of the classic DN3D works just fine with ten guns. Gearbox just made up stupid excuse after stupid excuse because they didn't want to have to do any of the work involved that would have saved DNF and actually made it a good game, instead of the piece of trash it is.
 

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Dragon Age origins.
Sure i only played the first 2 hours of the game, but i was so bored that i just could not bring myself to play it any more. And the worst thing is i don't know why. I Love RPGs and the combat worked realy well and the story seemed interesting, but i still did not like it. This has almost keept me awake at nights as i try to figure out why i hated it.
 

idarkphoenixi

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I have a lot to get through here so let's just get it over with:

- Borderlands
- Call of Duty (all of them after the first Modern Warfare)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dragon age 1 + 2
- Assassins creed Series (good game overall but it's just piss easy, I get so bored playing it)
- Fable 2 + 3 (First one was a lot of fun)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Fallout 3 + New Vegas
- Splinter Cell (Mostly just the latest one)
- Medal of Honour (all)
- EVERY SINGLE SPORTS GAME EVER MADE
- Saints Row (It was okay but I dont get what all the fuss is about)
- Dead Island (Overhyped and just boring to play)
- Dead Space (Too boring)
- Mafia II
- L.A Noire (Again, I just found it so boring to play, the face animations were interesting)
- All racing games. Period.

Maybe I'm just being picky though...I'm sure I could double that list given enough time.
 

Xmaspast

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Kimarous said:
- Demons's / Dark Souls -
Believe it or not, there are people who DON'T like absurdly crushing difficulty. Fuck those games.
I can see where you're coming from, can't say I agree with you, but I see where you're coming from. I love them, personally. But everyone's always like 'they're so hard and it's so great!' and it's like the difficulty isn't what makes them great games. They'd be good games even if they were significantly less difficult. I got into them I think because I don't have much money to buy games, so I like games that I can play for extended periods of times, and a game with 90h playthroughs on the normal setting definitely meets that criteria. But even such, they are NOT games everyone should play.
 

Xmaspast

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idarkphoenixi said:
I have a lot to get through here so let's just get it over with:

- Borderlands
- Call of Duty (all of them after the first Modern Warfare)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Dragon age 1 + 2
- Assassins creed Series (good game overall but it's just piss easy, I get so bored playing it)
- Fable 2 + 3 (First one was a lot of fun)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Fallout 3 + New Vegas
- Splinter Cell (Mostly just the latest one)
- Medal of Honour (all)
- EVERY SINGLE SPORTS GAME EVER MADE
- Saints Row (It was okay but I dont get what all the fuss is about)
- Dead Island (Overhyped and just boring to play)
- Dead Space (Too boring)
- Mafia II
- L.A Noire (Again, I just found it so boring to play, the face animations were interesting)
- All racing games. Period.

Maybe I'm just being picky though...I'm sure I could double that list given enough time.
And you, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. You really just made my post for me.
 

critanime

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Every Halo after the first one. It's just an irrational hatred that grew as the series progressed.

GTA IV. This is a simple one really. I hated been a sodding taxi for useless missions when I could have been running people over.

HL2 EP2. I got half way through and thought why the hell am I playing this. It just seemed bland.

FF XIII. If I wanted to feel like I was watching a really long movie I would have gone out and bought the extra special, extended directors cut, just for the sodding fans version of Avatar. The amount of times the battles were nothing more than tapping a single button meant I lost interest somewhere towards the end of disc one.
 

Aidinthel

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Beyond Good and Evil. Uninteresting characters, repetitive gameplay punctuated by frustrating insta-kills, and a cliche-ridden plot that was completely predictable right up until it simply stopped making sense.
 

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Sonic Doctor said:
Fluffles said:
As for me? I don't get Halo. The level design is copy-pasted metal hallways (or at least was, I haven't played the latest ones). I dunno, it just annoys me so much.
I don't get it when people say that; I've played them all and I never noticed anything repetitive about level design.

The only people that could possibly complain or see fault are people that seem to think that each level has to have all different things from the last level. Oh no, those trees look like the ones in the second level, oh no that rock is the same color and texture in level 3. Oh no, this structure looks similar to the last one(ignoring the fact that both structures were made by the same race of people).

Though I have to say, out of all the games Reach is the best campaign. I'm also partial to ODST, it changed things up story wise and somewhat play wise, and it did it in a good way. Reach was the best because the story was incredibly poignant and nothing like I had ever experienced in gaming.
Really? I'm a level designer and it sticks out like a sore thumb. When you enter a segment of the game they take a corridor unit and then they re-use that unit over and over to create a long corridor. Then the joins use another unit, and they just use the smallest possible amount of unique mesh that they can. I love the exteriors though, and the driving was great for the most part. But the interiors pissed me off to no end.
 

stefman

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Morrowind. If i'm 2 inches from my enemy swinging my sword at blazing speed how the fuck am i missing?! On a side note skyrim is as amazing as i hoped and more!