I've criticised Steam, by daring to mention in a thread around here once that it didn't allow you to play games offline (which, at one time, was true) but about a hundred people jumped on me at once to point out Offline Mode and tell me that I was stupid not to know about it.
It was really hypocritical, because it is the DEFINITION of stupidity to expect others to have all the same knowledge as what you do of a system. Polite corrections, meanwhile, would have been welcome - had there been any.
I also seriously dislike the Assassin's Creed series, despite owning the first game. The glitches that made my PS3 crash constantly, the pointless flag system that failed to lengthen the already very short game, the far too easy fighting system which was solved just by pressing two buttons over and over again... and the horrible repetitiveness of every mission, and that's to say nothing of sub-missions.
And before anyone says anything, yes, I hear that the sequel has fixed almost all of those things, but that doesn't make me want to buy it. The fact that Ubisoft robbed me of my good funds with that absolutely average, overrated piece of crap that was the first game, has totally turned me off to giving them any money for any game in the future, no matter how critically acclaimed.
omegaminus said:
I've criticised Half-Life 2 in the past, mainly for the blatantly-contrived puzzles, far-too-long vehicle sections and my dislike of Alyx.
I think that plenty of people enjoy Alyx as a character simply because, unlike most first person shooter heroines, she's not overly-sexualised. The fact that this is a breakthrough in gaming terms just tells us how cynical developers tend to be, and how badly the community needs such characters.
Now if Alyx had some unexpected or interesting personal conflicts, then she'd be REALLY interesting, maybe even on an artistic level. But Half Life 2 is a shooter, and very few of them go that far with character design.
