There is a skip button, If you didn't want to use it yet still complain about it that makes you either.Drift-Bus said:
I want everything now kind of guy.
Or a twat.(With flys to twat!?)
/bad_joke
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I want everything now kind of guy.
Or a twat.(With flys to twat!?)
/bad_joke
Bulletinmybrain said:
The point is i shouldn't have to have thirty minutes devoted to creating a story the game I'm about to play, when other games manage in 1/10 of the time. If I skip to the game play then I'm left wondering why I'm playing...
Which is a moot point because ten minutes in i was still wondering why i was playing the awful thing, along side wondering why it was made and then lauded as excellent.
GTA - All of them, I have no idea why I keep buying them I always get bored with them. 4 was the worst though play for a couple of hours and then just couldn't be bothered anymore. Too many controls and just not fun.
GOW - Stupid off to one side view, colour scheme, it wants to be so macho it hurt, guns felt pathetic. Cover gimic was a bit rubbish.
Assassins Creed - (not sure anyone has mentioned this before) just couldn't get into it. Seemed a bit random in the fighting key mashing the jumping and climbing was fun for 10 minutes but the whole thing just got repetative.
GOW - Stupid off to one side view, colour scheme, it wants to be so macho it hurt, guns felt pathetic. Cover gimic was a bit rubbish.
Assassins Creed - (not sure anyone has mentioned this before) just couldn't get into it. Seemed a bit random in the fighting key mashing the jumping and climbing was fun for 10 minutes but the whole thing just got repetative.
Painkiller: So much variety in the enemies and so little variety in the weapons....
Plus, I felt that its lack of story kinda hurt it.
Plus, I felt that its lack of story kinda hurt it.
Oblivion wasn't so much a hate more that I loved Morrowind too much and I never really had the immersion level of the latter. I just felt detached for most of the experience. Deus Ex wasn't all that spectacular either though it might just be one of those games that you like the more you play things.
Speaking of RPGs, I think the Elder Scrolls series in general is pretty horrid. I've tried Daggerfall, I've tried Morrowind, I've tried Oblivion and all of them need a huge bunch of modifications before they even approach playable. The whole series is a case study of having a huge continent and then copy-pasting the same 2 NPCs everywhere.
They have a decent main quest, usually, but the rest of the content is killing and fed-ex. They don't even make an effort to disguise it. The Gothic series does, but that's a whole new level of buggy. And it's not terribly loved either, so I can't list it here.
They have a decent main quest, usually, but the rest of the content is killing and fed-ex. They don't even make an effort to disguise it. The Gothic series does, but that's a whole new level of buggy. And it's not terribly loved either, so I can't list it here.
Little variety in the weapons, really?jamanticus said:
I mean it has the usual shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, grenade launcher etc but most games stop there, Painkiller also freeze rays, shurikens, lightning, electified shurikens, big ass stakes and rotating blade arrangements. Oh, and demonic force blasts. I guess I could name a few games with even more variety, but is that really 'so little variety'?
I still stand by my statement. There were so many vast hordes of monsters that you had to destroy, each weapon got very repetitive. The fact that you get almost all of your weapons by the middle of the game doesn't help.CmdrGoob said:
I suppose that the fault isn't really in the lack of variety in weapons; it just seems that way since the thousands of monsters you have to destroy with them is so absolutely huge.
Half-Life 2, definitely. Bought it so I could play Garry's Mod. Unstable as hell and semi-corrupted my save around Ravenholm (as in: load...play a little...CTD.)
Portal, don't hate it, but it certainly is not mankind's god given gift to the video game industry. Yes, it was enjoyable for the short few hours, although the non-testing chamber levels were rather annoying. I also missed the oh so funny humor it supposedly has. There were a few moments (3, maybe 4) where I chuckled, but no more.
EDIT: Oh yeah, FF7. I tried to enjoy it, but I failed. I played FF9 before it, still occasionally play it today, and I like it, but FF7 just..Not that I'm a graphics whore, (played it many many years after release, too) but when chracters just look like playmobils with underarm tumors like that (plus little-to-no CG cutscenes, I love those) it kind of detracts from gameplay.
Portal, don't hate it, but it certainly is not mankind's god given gift to the video game industry. Yes, it was enjoyable for the short few hours, although the non-testing chamber levels were rather annoying. I also missed the oh so funny humor it supposedly has. There were a few moments (3, maybe 4) where I chuckled, but no more.
EDIT: Oh yeah, FF7. I tried to enjoy it, but I failed. I played FF9 before it, still occasionally play it today, and I like it, but FF7 just..Not that I'm a graphics whore, (played it many many years after release, too) but when chracters just look like playmobils with underarm tumors like that (plus little-to-no CG cutscenes, I love those) it kind of detracts from gameplay.
Ah, I get you. I'm not suprised someone hates Painkiller; shooting up endless hordes of monsters isn't everyones cup of tea. I was just suprised you criticised the variety of the weapons, which didn't make much sense to me, but it sounds more like using them endlessly to kill hordes of monsters wasn't your thing. I get where you're coming from on that.jamanticus said:
Breakout and Space Invaders. I just don't see the point.
Oh, and I HATE Asteroids' control system.
Other than that, there really isn't anything I can think of... and BTW, when four people have all named "World of Warcraft", I think we can safely say it's NOT a game that everyone loves except you.
EDIT: Now if it were a film thread...
Oh, and I HATE Asteroids' control system.
Other than that, there really isn't anything I can think of... and BTW, when four people have all named "World of Warcraft", I think we can safely say it's NOT a game that everyone loves except you.
EDIT: Now if it were a film thread...
JPRG's in general. I enjoyed them until I discovered books, which are far cheaper and require less resources to use and don't need save points. I don't hate every single last one of them, just the majority on principle that story is so typically shitty that I want to gouge my eyes out, eat them, choke on them and die. Though I'm apparently a strange breed of person that enjoys the olde style turn based battle system. I mean, I don't mind non-turn based systems, action RPG or Tales style, and don't mind it real time turn based, provided it's Knights of the Old Republic.
Half Life 2. I'm sure it's heresy to say so, but I really don't enjoy it that much. I can't get into it and I frequently find it aggravating. For a game that's so supposed to have a physics engine and that associated realism, how the pants-shitting christ does Gordon Freeman control a water craft without his goddamned hands?
Guitar Hero. It's entertaining for a bit, but after a while it gets boring a repetitive and I'm not going to devote time to getting better than 'medium' because if I'm going to devote effort to a guitar, it's going to be a real one, not a plastic quick-time-event machine.
Doom. If I'm going to play some retro ye olde video game style, I'm going to play something with a story and dual wielding and a lazyboy. I.e., Marathon.
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. I agree with yahtzee on a whole slew of points about this game. It's okay to play, it's ust that characters piss me off and the puzzles aren't really puzzles, just breaks from climbing and shooting all the non-white enemies. The main villain is the like the dude from Indiana Jones, a lot of the movie is like indiana Jones, except with the Nazi killing and beating replaced by racism.
I don't hate Halo 3 or COD4, but I do hate playing online. Infact, COD4 has poisoned me against playing competitive modes. I've found I'm much more partial to co-operative modes. Preferably in R6V2 where I can kick the irritating twelve year old tards.
Half Life 2. I'm sure it's heresy to say so, but I really don't enjoy it that much. I can't get into it and I frequently find it aggravating. For a game that's so supposed to have a physics engine and that associated realism, how the pants-shitting christ does Gordon Freeman control a water craft without his goddamned hands?
Guitar Hero. It's entertaining for a bit, but after a while it gets boring a repetitive and I'm not going to devote time to getting better than 'medium' because if I'm going to devote effort to a guitar, it's going to be a real one, not a plastic quick-time-event machine.
Doom. If I'm going to play some retro ye olde video game style, I'm going to play something with a story and dual wielding and a lazyboy. I.e., Marathon.
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. I agree with yahtzee on a whole slew of points about this game. It's okay to play, it's ust that characters piss me off and the puzzles aren't really puzzles, just breaks from climbing and shooting all the non-white enemies. The main villain is the like the dude from Indiana Jones, a lot of the movie is like indiana Jones, except with the Nazi killing and beating replaced by racism.
I don't hate Halo 3 or COD4, but I do hate playing online. Infact, COD4 has poisoned me against playing competitive modes. I've found I'm much more partial to co-operative modes. Preferably in R6V2 where I can kick the irritating twelve year old tards.
Final Fantasy 10: on the whole, I like Final Fantasy (Tactics, 6 and 7 especially), but I dislike this one with a passion. Perhaps because it's the first one where the characters actually spoke.
the Half Life series: always reminded me of "The Great Gatsby". It has a near religious following, but I never really cared for it. Some of the mods were fun though.
the Half Life series: always reminded me of "The Great Gatsby". It has a near religious following, but I never really cared for it. Some of the mods were fun though.
Heh, Thanks for the info. I had no idea that I could do that. Still, many more things bothered me about it so I still got to say:Amnestic said:Main Menu->Options->Turn off Vita-chambers->Unpause->Grats, you're now back in a game where dying causes you to reload from the start of the level.
For me...Counterstrike. Hate the thing. Never got into it, just bored the crap out of me.
"Bad game, bad bad game, bad game gets the drawer, no memory sectors for you!"
[anecdote]
I was in a game shop with some of my friends the other day and we were discussing latest releases, and what else was there on show.
A quick divide started to emerge. I pointed out the bioshock looks and sounds like it is pretty awesome, I don't even own an Xbox 360 or PS3. Another friend of mine quickly agreed, confirming that it didn't just look it, it was awesome. Then a third friend was like wtf? never heard of it. He has owned a 360 for a long, long time. I was confused how this could have passed him by.
Then we move over and notice COD4, again I don't own it but I know that it is awesome. A 4th friend, who I knew was a COD4 addict, proceeded to launch into a long speech littered with tales of awesome sniping, jumping out, getting jumped and shitting himself, etc. Again the friend who hadn't heard of bioshock, butts in with his story of how he played the campaign for COD4 twice, couldn't see the point in keeping it and so traded it in. I asked what he got in return, he presented to me Pure. A quad-bike racing game. I knew it would be the sort of game I had no interest in so as I feigned interest in it, I tried to figure out why on earth you would want to make that exchange. I resigned myself to thinking that it did look quite good for what it was.
Finally we notice the display xbox 360 is free, and there the split becomes clear again. Half of them, noticing FIFA 08 was what was on rush over to it and start a mini-tournament and begin discussion over whether pro evo or fifa was superior, the other half amble over dreading the impending boredom.
The final nail in the coffin was when I decided to conduct a test. I bring over the orange box. Half of the people look at it already familiar with it through experience or general gaming knowledge, saying nothing. The other half exclaim, "WTF IS THIS SHIT?".
I had to acknowledge that although my friends were gamers. Not all of them were real gamers.
[/anecdote]
Like someone said above, there is a third catergory between casual and hardcore. The people who play games a lot of the time, but only own a small amount, and think that FIFA 08, Rock Band and Halo 3 are the best games around at the moment.
Interestingly I forced the same friend who'd never heard of bioshock and had got bored of COD4 to play a long session of Timesplitters Co-op with me and he loved it.
I was in a game shop with some of my friends the other day and we were discussing latest releases, and what else was there on show.
A quick divide started to emerge. I pointed out the bioshock looks and sounds like it is pretty awesome, I don't even own an Xbox 360 or PS3. Another friend of mine quickly agreed, confirming that it didn't just look it, it was awesome. Then a third friend was like wtf? never heard of it. He has owned a 360 for a long, long time. I was confused how this could have passed him by.
Then we move over and notice COD4, again I don't own it but I know that it is awesome. A 4th friend, who I knew was a COD4 addict, proceeded to launch into a long speech littered with tales of awesome sniping, jumping out, getting jumped and shitting himself, etc. Again the friend who hadn't heard of bioshock, butts in with his story of how he played the campaign for COD4 twice, couldn't see the point in keeping it and so traded it in. I asked what he got in return, he presented to me Pure. A quad-bike racing game. I knew it would be the sort of game I had no interest in so as I feigned interest in it, I tried to figure out why on earth you would want to make that exchange. I resigned myself to thinking that it did look quite good for what it was.
Finally we notice the display xbox 360 is free, and there the split becomes clear again. Half of them, noticing FIFA 08 was what was on rush over to it and start a mini-tournament and begin discussion over whether pro evo or fifa was superior, the other half amble over dreading the impending boredom.
The final nail in the coffin was when I decided to conduct a test. I bring over the orange box. Half of the people look at it already familiar with it through experience or general gaming knowledge, saying nothing. The other half exclaim, "WTF IS THIS SHIT?".
I had to acknowledge that although my friends were gamers. Not all of them were real gamers.
[/anecdote]
Like someone said above, there is a third catergory between casual and hardcore. The people who play games a lot of the time, but only own a small amount, and think that FIFA 08, Rock Band and Halo 3 are the best games around at the moment.
Interestingly I forced the same friend who'd never heard of bioshock and had got bored of COD4 to play a long session of Timesplitters Co-op with me and he loved it.
GTA 4 - I see nothing in the game. It does so many things but it doesn't do any of them well.
Halo - The first game had pathetic level design and there is no excuse for that. The second was alright, and the third was just the second with nicer graphics and a worse story and level design.
Bioshock - It's not a bad game. In fact, I thought it was quite good. But it could have been so much more.
EA as a company.
Halo - The first game had pathetic level design and there is no excuse for that. The second was alright, and the third was just the second with nicer graphics and a worse story and level design.
Bioshock - It's not a bad game. In fact, I thought it was quite good. But it could have been so much more.
EA as a company.