You missed out, big time. The game goes from total shit to average to pretty amazing by the end. "Combat mechanics" is the catch-phrase used by those who can't appreciate a good story and characters. Stick to Crysis.SomeLameStuff said:
Games with intros that make you quit
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Kotor 1 Taris. Just... ugh.
Also, while not an intro, Dragon Age Origins. The Deep Roads. 15 bear-fucking hours of going through caves, killing Darkspawn.
Also, while not an intro, Dragon Age Origins. The Deep Roads. 15 bear-fucking hours of going through caves, killing Darkspawn.
Yeah. With Oblivion I always keep a save that's right at the end of the sewers, so I don't need to play through it again. And again. And again. And... well you get the idea.Underpowered said:
I agree with you on pretty much all of those that I've played except for Symphonia. Maybe because it was my first Tales game, but I actually felt overwhelmed when I was thrust into combat relatively quickly. I would mention the original Shadow Hearts, but that game is just slow in general.Ghoti said:
It's mostly the slow carriage ride for me. That save file the game gives you right before character creation, SO glad that exists. Beyond that, great game.ExiusXavarus said:
I mostly just don't like long intros. Mass Effect is a bad offender of long, annoying and boring intros, despite being a great series.
Ah hell, I was hoping we could get through the thread without an MGS cutscene comment. Alas.MeChaNiZ3D said:
Er, anyway. I have never had an intro kill the game for me, because I'm fine with sitting through in-game movies, but I'll have to agree with whoever said Pokemon, because seriously, anyone over the age of 10 has learned how to play a Pokemon game by this point. Besides, the tutorial doesn't even teach you the actually confusing bits, like breeding and personality traits and weird crap they introduced in the later games. Anything that makes me follow someone around like a robot instead of *doing* the mechanics to learn them, is dull. You should also be able to skip the tutorial in *any* game.
Is anyone else noticing a trend here? These are some of the best videogames ever made. The complaints you have are mostly from playing the same story based game over and over. Developers cannot erase your memory. If riding a tram in halflife or playing the beginning of ff7 annoys you maybe you don't appreciate games as much as you should. Gamers show so little graditude for the truly great games that are released. If you are bored of the intros of these kind of games maybe you should try going outside.
Fallout: New Vegas and TES: Skyrim. The more different characters I made, the more it felt like I was scratching with a cheese grater.
Skyrim's intro was less tedious than F:NV. Start with a relaxing carriage ride through the country side, ending in a nice village. Then You get to introduce yourself to one of the leaders of the village guards, and then it is off to get quote, "A viking crewcut". But before you get your new do, in pops a dragon, causing you to flee through the towns buildings making sure everyone got out, and then down through the keeps basement to safety, making a new friend along the way.
Where as in F:NV, at least the way I played through, you wake up after getting your brain massaged by a bullet from a golden gun-which is bullshit because everyone knows when you plate your gun in gold it is immediately a one shot kill-. Then you get over your amnesia, go into town to meet one of the doc's friends, evidently people in the future give guns to those suffering major brain damage. You and the doc's friend go to clear out a few pest, afterwards you go back to town to say hi to someone and meet a real prick along the way. Turns out that prick and his prick friends want to kill someone in town, and you can either help that someone or kill him. If you help him, you have to go rallying support from the villagers to fight off the group of pricks. If not, you can kill him and be done with it. And obviously by this you can tell that I always took the goodie goodie option.
So yeah, overly long intros that equal cheese grater level irritation.
Skyrim's intro was less tedious than F:NV. Start with a relaxing carriage ride through the country side, ending in a nice village. Then You get to introduce yourself to one of the leaders of the village guards, and then it is off to get quote, "A viking crewcut". But before you get your new do, in pops a dragon, causing you to flee through the towns buildings making sure everyone got out, and then down through the keeps basement to safety, making a new friend along the way.
Where as in F:NV, at least the way I played through, you wake up after getting your brain massaged by a bullet from a golden gun-which is bullshit because everyone knows when you plate your gun in gold it is immediately a one shot kill-. Then you get over your amnesia, go into town to meet one of the doc's friends, evidently people in the future give guns to those suffering major brain damage. You and the doc's friend go to clear out a few pest, afterwards you go back to town to say hi to someone and meet a real prick along the way. Turns out that prick and his prick friends want to kill someone in town, and you can either help that someone or kill him. If you help him, you have to go rallying support from the villagers to fight off the group of pricks. If not, you can kill him and be done with it. And obviously by this you can tell that I always took the goodie goodie option.
So yeah, overly long intros that equal cheese grater level irritation.
Oh MY GOD! This a million times this. Everyone shits on the Fade section but at least its short (I pride myself on the fact that I was able to get through the entire Circle section in one hour)Irridium said:
One time I made the mistake of doing Orzammar first after Lothering and oh god was it the wrong choice. Its long, insanely difficult and there are like 5 bosses. I entered Orzammar a fresh faced young dwarf eager to return home and exited a poultice-less, tired man with so many broken bones I wonder how he was able to even walk.
Another good example of a bad intro is Mass Effect. I have played this game probably 20+ times and every time I want shoot myself during Eden prime, that's how much I hate this level.
Also obligatory Skyrim, Oblivion remarks here.
The start of Mass Effect 3. It takes for-fucking-ever to get to the point when you can sally forth on your adventure, having to play through Earth and the Mars Missions back to back. Granted, ME2 had something similar, but that one didn't piss me off as much as this one did for some reason.
oh yeah i just remembered i hated the intro to ffx that whole listen to my story crap was waaaaaaayyy to drawn out and boring
I was so bored to death with FFVII by the time I got out of Midgar that the next few inconveniences broke the camel's back. Tried again later, and then got too bored to go on again right after the Gold Saucer.
Taris from KOTOR also. And the Twilight Princess opening sequence.
It took me a couple weeks to become a spectre in Mass Effect; up to that point I was only playing it every now and then because it was a gift and I felt I should. After that, it became the best game ever, at the time.
Taris from KOTOR also. And the Twilight Princess opening sequence.
It took me a couple weeks to become a spectre in Mass Effect; up to that point I was only playing it every now and then because it was a gift and I felt I should. After that, it became the best game ever, at the time.
I played the Halo 2 demo once, I never want to touch halo again. Master Chief would be up there with Gorden Freeman if he could only resist the urge to make cheesy one-liners(or better yet, just not talk at all).
The fade for the mage origin fade was actually kind of fun. But when I saw the skip the fade mod I downloaded it immediatly. Really there are computers that have trouble playing daVault101 said:
wow and I thought my laptop was shitty... OT: While not putting me off I hate Knights of the Old Republics 1 and 2's intros. In Taris you don't even get force powers. The worst part about KotOR 2 is having to wait soo long to get a lightsaber. KotOR only gets good once you have a lightsaber.
But it is slower than molasis. Plus if you don't have a good strength score you are in for a lot of blasting away at shields. It wasn't all that atmospheric either.(this coming from a guy who is in love with the kotor series)woodaba said:
Death Metal started with a band called Death R.I.P Chuck. I agree the fade was boring after the first time thank god for mods.
oh lord the deep roads.... Oh lord. Man I hate that place. I save it for last every time. Mostly because my human rogue is stuck there after doing it 3rd. DAMN YOU BROOD MOTHER!! and that dwarf's monologue. that was creepy.Joseph Harrison said: