games with wasted potential
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I think you're missing the point of prototype, the whole game was designed for faffing about and limiting the player by only alowing one path of advancement might not be the best idea as while was fun, it wouldn't have lasted the course if not for all the toys we had to play around with. multiplayer, on the other hand, sounds like a very good additioncaptaincabbage said:
Dammit, you took the one I was gonna say! D:<splatterguy734 said:
Otherwise, I'd have to say that the big disappointment for me would be Bioshock. All on it's own, it's a pretty good game, yes. But it could have been so much more. Think...Fallout 3-ish, but with the Bioshock sort of setting instead of linear pathing. Ya know? That sort of thing, in my book, would've made the game just shine.
It's been said before, but I wish to put forth Far Cry 2.
While the realism and brutality of Africa are beautifully fleshed out and the gun play is solid. Even, dare I say, the malaria aspect was intriguing. However, the constantly respawning enemies, the irritating voice acting (albeit it being either the voice actors or the editing), and the odd occurrences of the faction you're working for attacking your on sight. Every. Time.
Besides that, Halo 3: ODST could have had a longer campaign (but what was there was my favorite of the series), Dark Void could have been a genuinely enjoyable experience had it been worked on longer, and Lord of the Rings Online could be a fun MMO if it had more people. All in all, sometimes developer's ambitions can get the better of their abilities.
Which really screws it up for a whole lotta gamers.
While the realism and brutality of Africa are beautifully fleshed out and the gun play is solid. Even, dare I say, the malaria aspect was intriguing. However, the constantly respawning enemies, the irritating voice acting (albeit it being either the voice actors or the editing), and the odd occurrences of the faction you're working for attacking your on sight. Every. Time.
Besides that, Halo 3: ODST could have had a longer campaign (but what was there was my favorite of the series), Dark Void could have been a genuinely enjoyable experience had it been worked on longer, and Lord of the Rings Online could be a fun MMO if it had more people. All in all, sometimes developer's ambitions can get the better of their abilities.
Which really screws it up for a whole lotta gamers.
I have to agree... the main reason MMOs succeed is due to massive social aspects. I've played on the APB beta and i was disappointed when i found out that you would play alongside no more than 100 people at a time, as they have hundreds of mini servers instead of few, large ones. The social aspect of WoW is why i play it, if it wasnt for that they i probably would have stopped a while ago. If APB can nail the social part of it, then i think it could be quite awesome. A new idea for an MMO but with the framework of older MMOs which we are all familiar with will make for a game that could topple WoW.weker said:
Yeah, I know, but I just expected a little more from the developers who brought us The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, which is arguably one of my favorite games. I was just expecting that with the advancement of time and technology that they'd give us something a little deeper than their last game, not to mention all the continuing dissapointments they constantly revealed throughout Prototype's development. First they promised dozens of weapons and powers, we got five weapons. then they promised us co-op, which they promptly cut out and it was never heard from again and finally they promised us a deep, deep combat system, which was eventaully revealed to be as shallow as a duck pond. Sure you're getting wet, but it's still not a swimming pool.rium125 said:
And don't tell me they weren't given enough time, they'd been working on it since 2005. R* San Diego has been working on Red Dead Redemption since 2005 and look what they've come up with. four years is a ton of development time for any game.
How on earth would that fit in with the story?captaincabbage said:
I'm surprised no ones mentioned Spore yet, it could have been so good but then EA came and fucked it up...
Prototype could have been so much more, if the missions had had more variety and been generally more fun to play then it could have been so much more.
Also Dead Space needed to pace itself better to feel like a horror game, needs to be said.
Finally Halo 3, it just needed a longer campaign and a greater emphasis on characterisation. It was still quite fun, but overall Halo 2 was a much stronger contender for Campaign story, at least as far as the trilogy is concerned.
Also Dead Space needed to pace itself better to feel like a horror game, needs to be said.
Finally Halo 3, it just needed a longer campaign and a greater emphasis on characterisation. It was still quite fun, but overall Halo 2 was a much stronger contender for Campaign story, at least as far as the trilogy is concerned.
Well, we could try and amke a logical explaination, but I think a more appropriate answer is "eh, fuck it" XDDarth_Dude said:
I reckon some games just don't need to explain stuff, like Dead Rising 2, where both co-op characters are Chuck Greene. The devs just said "Eh, Fuck it." and chucked it it ;P