This.Sensenmann said:
Plus the whole bright and colourful enviroment. you're in the middle of a civil war, at least pretend to look unhappy about it. Like the koreans, now they know how to do good quality miserable squalor.
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Plus the whole bright and colourful enviroment. you're in the middle of a civil war, at least pretend to look unhappy about it. Like the koreans, now they know how to do good quality miserable squalor.
I agree. A game only has an open-world if you progress through it depends solely on your own unfettered choices. Why then did Rockstar burden the game with a stupid plot and restrict the number of buildings you can enter. Even if you accept that the best part is driving around the impressively weathered city you still don't get to look to check traffic at a junctions all that easily.sirdanrhodes said:
Despite its many, many, flaws, I have found Far Cry 2 to be much better.
Thanks for the tip. I've heard that there is a lot of wild character customization in it.sirdanrhodes said:
I don't like the Halo series so much. It's a FPS made for hardcore FPS fans by hardcore FPS fans. Yes, it does have amazing visuals and great mechanics, but unless youre absolutely awesome at it, there is no reason for you play it on Xbox live because you will get absolutely pwn'd every time.
I love the 3D-era Grand Theft Auto series. I wasted so much study time in my freshman year of highschool playing III. Vice City was even better. But San Andreas didn't click with me. I said that before, and fanboys were instantly on the soapbox cramming "you're closeminded" lectures down my throat, despite that my dislike for the game has nothing to do with the fact that the player character is black. I just don't enjoy the overly complex gameplay of having to feed your character and workout and deal with all kinds of RPG elements like driving skill, biking skill, shooting skill with all the weapons etc. If I wanted to play an RPG then I would play an RPG. I want a game which my shooting and driving skill rely just on my controller imput, not different algorithms on how sensitive and effectve my controller imput is based on how far i have progressed in the game or what cheat codes iv'e put in.
Finally, I'm sick of all the hardcore Xbox 360 players (fans and fanboys alike) calling me "fag" and "douche" because I have legitimate criticisms of Gears of War. I like it, but it's not the best game EVAR and is not perfect.
I love the 3D-era Grand Theft Auto series. I wasted so much study time in my freshman year of highschool playing III. Vice City was even better. But San Andreas didn't click with me. I said that before, and fanboys were instantly on the soapbox cramming "you're closeminded" lectures down my throat, despite that my dislike for the game has nothing to do with the fact that the player character is black. I just don't enjoy the overly complex gameplay of having to feed your character and workout and deal with all kinds of RPG elements like driving skill, biking skill, shooting skill with all the weapons etc. If I wanted to play an RPG then I would play an RPG. I want a game which my shooting and driving skill rely just on my controller imput, not different algorithms on how sensitive and effectve my controller imput is based on how far i have progressed in the game or what cheat codes iv'e put in.
Finally, I'm sick of all the hardcore Xbox 360 players (fans and fanboys alike) calling me "fag" and "douche" because I have legitimate criticisms of Gears of War. I like it, but it's not the best game EVAR and is not perfect.
Bioshock. Almost everything except the atmospherics SUCKS in Bioshock, to my dismayed surprise; so once the charm of 'wow, it really feels like I'm in Rapture!' wears off, you're left with a repetitive, boring, and surprisingly generic FPS. Also, what the hell is wrong with the fact that towards the end I can kill a Big Daddy in 3 shots without breaking a sweat but the damn splicers are nigh invincible and much more of a threat. Oh wait, you *need* to take photos of everything with the camera because they get tougher throughout the game? You could've told me that when I picked the bloody thing up.
RTSs. Despite being a massive TTG nerd and general strategy lover, I just can't play 'em. Even Dawn of War, which is, well, 40K with moving parts. Watching the Avatar impale marines and let them slide down its swordblade never gets old, but the rest of the game does, and it does fast. It's the same with any RTS I've tried. One of three things happens: I decide I hate the control system after playing it for 10 minutes and the rest of the game hasn't grabbed me enough for me to get used to it; the game gets repetitive; or I get fed up with not being able to control everything at once and/or the lack of precision I get in making my troops do what I want. These three events have the same outcome: I give the game up, no matter how damn cool the units are. Even Starcraft - either it was the terrain or a crap pathfinding mechanic, but moving my marines around was such a chore that I got sick of it rapidly, and the resource management was a nightmare.
It's worth noting that I do have high hopes for the smaller-scale, more tactical Dawn of War II, although the game will have to wait until I get a new laptop because this one probably won't play it.
I also recently got hold of some RPGs and initial trial runs show them to be frustratingly obtruse. I tried out The Witcher and thought the combat was useless and unresponsive (this may have been related to my computer's low performance vis-a-vis the game, but same); I'll give KotOR II a go soon but from what I played of the intro mission it seems incredibly overcomplicated. Hellgate:London's alright, if you don't play it for too long, because it gets repetitive very quickly (short bursts of Hellgate are the way to go, really). I still haven't tried Deus Ex again after failing at the stealth tutorial 20 odd times and uninstalling (that was after I was already thinking 'wtf?' due to the 15 different ways to open a door bit). Complication is not something I normally have a problem with, except it seems when it comes to games, especially when they could be done far more simply...
RTSs. Despite being a massive TTG nerd and general strategy lover, I just can't play 'em. Even Dawn of War, which is, well, 40K with moving parts. Watching the Avatar impale marines and let them slide down its swordblade never gets old, but the rest of the game does, and it does fast. It's the same with any RTS I've tried. One of three things happens: I decide I hate the control system after playing it for 10 minutes and the rest of the game hasn't grabbed me enough for me to get used to it; the game gets repetitive; or I get fed up with not being able to control everything at once and/or the lack of precision I get in making my troops do what I want. These three events have the same outcome: I give the game up, no matter how damn cool the units are. Even Starcraft - either it was the terrain or a crap pathfinding mechanic, but moving my marines around was such a chore that I got sick of it rapidly, and the resource management was a nightmare.
It's worth noting that I do have high hopes for the smaller-scale, more tactical Dawn of War II, although the game will have to wait until I get a new laptop because this one probably won't play it.
I also recently got hold of some RPGs and initial trial runs show them to be frustratingly obtruse. I tried out The Witcher and thought the combat was useless and unresponsive (this may have been related to my computer's low performance vis-a-vis the game, but same); I'll give KotOR II a go soon but from what I played of the intro mission it seems incredibly overcomplicated. Hellgate:London's alright, if you don't play it for too long, because it gets repetitive very quickly (short bursts of Hellgate are the way to go, really). I still haven't tried Deus Ex again after failing at the stealth tutorial 20 odd times and uninstalling (that was after I was already thinking 'wtf?' due to the 15 different ways to open a door bit). Complication is not something I normally have a problem with, except it seems when it comes to games, especially when they could be done far more simply...
As mentioned by Son of Makuta, Bioshock. I bought this game after hearing all the hype about it from my friends who had been fucking it sideways with an Xbox controller. Got it, installed it, did the usual thing of checking how it thinks it should be displayed on my pc and was pleased to see all settings maxed. So I start playing it, then 2 hours later i stopped because i was bored out of my mind. I'm no stranger to FPS but oh god I cant see where the hype is coming from, sure it looks pretty but nigh on every game does now so thats not really a selling point for me.
Oh, and I will NEVER understand the rave behind the sodding Halo series.
Oh, and I will NEVER understand the rave behind the sodding Halo series.
I'm with you on that Makuta. Repetive is the key word. I've heard so many great things about the game, but the way it feels to me is they show you everything at the beginning, and then its just repetitive battles with one Big Daddy after another. And they take so much effort at first, in the early stages, that I just gave up.Son of Makuta said:
I mean, its a beautiful game, but it lost me. And I'm a huge fan of Resident Evil, so I thought I'd like the story pieces left on tape recorders but those don't do it for me either.
Maybe I'm turning into a Little Sister.
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Fable 2, Morrowind(played oblivion first)
Not all JRPG's have turned based combat, have you heard of the Tales of series?Rag Doll said:
You've obviously haven't played Persona 4. The fighting is fun but I can understand if turn based isn't your thing. But as for the story, phenomenal. The voice acting is rock solid most times and if anything is overacted it's done on purpose in a way that fits the story. Great characters that will stick with you. I figured I'd just bring it up.Baby Tea said:
Edit: I didn't see the other post mentioning Persona. Although I agree with the side stories being interesting I disagree that the story is that same old JRPG story as always, at least for Persona 4 anyway.
agreed. i played it at a friends house and was like "wow. another GTA game. I never though beating on some innocent person would get boring. can we play something worth while now?"sirdanrhodes said:
I'm really tired of this game series. I mean. as much as they upped the story in GTA4. i'm just not impressed. it's the same carp over and over in a different city with a different guy. it's like the Dynasty Warriors games. just with out the ridiculous amount of ass kicking
Pretty much exactly what I was going to put in my post, so I won't bother now!Baby Tea said:
Other than that there's Fallout3, for me personally it wasn't that much of a game, more of a "i wonder how many crazed waste-land thugs, oversized mutant creatures or massive bugs are going to assault me around this corner"
I really got too annoyed by the seemingly non-stop battles that I just stopped playing it, not played it in about 6 weeks now, I can't see why most people are raving about it.
... I like Final Fantasy Tactics.richasr said:
For me it's the MGS series in general. I love MGS3: Subsistence, but I don't get the appeal of the others. The writing isn't all that good from a quality perspective, there's too much dialogue, some of the characters are annoying and the gameplay/camera system seems archaic and obtuse at best. I realize a lot of other people like the series, but I'd rather watch Ghost in the Shell to get my daily dose of close-to-home paranoia. When I play a game I want to have fun, and the only MGS games I had fun with were MGS3 and the GBC MGS game.
And yeah, I realize the MGS series became sort of a popular whipping boy after Yahtzee's review, but I disliked the series far before he reviewed MGS4.
Another one for me is the Jak series. I liked the original, but Jak 3 sucked, and I specifically avoided Jak 2 (because I heard it was like 3, only worse.)
Oh, and I can't stand the Street Fighter series. I've recently become a KoF convert, however.