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archvile93

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Bioshock, unique gameplay ideas in an interesting world, but the gameplay was broken worse than MW2's multiplayer and the main unique feature (plasmids) were mere gimmicks and useless in every sense of the word.
 

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Tankichi said:
ckel8330 said:
I'm not sure if this has been done before what what the heck. There are many games out which suffered from this, Fallout new vegas for example; Brimming with good ideas just implimented badly, or more accuratly just incomplete. So i was wondering what games/ideas you guys think were a misfire and how, if you could, go about fixing them.
DUDE! your Avatar.....where'd you get it. On my daily walks there is an exact replica of it spray painted on a sidewalk.

OT: MGS Twin snakes. Could've been so much better but changed it to much into an action game.
That would be the Cake from Portal.

Fracture could have been the bee's knees, but it was crap.
 

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Deadly Creatures for the Wii. There aren't enough games where you play as a tarantula or a scorpion. The game had an awesome atmosphere, premise, and setting and all, but it was just so... Buggy. Also, the controls could've been made so much simpler and more streamlined.
 

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Ass Creed 2.
Cool game and all, though the combat could've been a bit more in-depth and difficult.
Story... reasonably good, until
the revelation OOH LOOK THEY IS ASSASSINZ ZOMG
. It went downhill from there. Though brotherhood came out now, maybe it will get better with this. :)
 

Baron von Blitztank

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Prototype, even though I like the game.
The concept is great, but I don't think the game used it to it's full potential. The character and story could of been a bit better and I would of liked some more variety besides kill everyone, eat this guy and eat this guy and disguise as him so you can raid a base and then kill everyone.
 

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Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. Great concept that could have turned the WWII shooter on it's head and given it a kick in the testicles. But no...
 

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Communism.

lol actually a game: most console franchises that had a game on the DS.
 

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Shadowrun for the Xbox and Pc. It had a greatr concept with all the magical abilities and tech you could use but the lack of single player, maps and game modes made it a bore quick. They could of made an interesting story out of Shadowrun and all, it could of been great shame no one plays it anymore.

And the newer Alone In The Dark, I really started to like it at a few points but it always pulled me out when I had to do the car chase a million times.
 

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Dark void.....
Lost planet 2.....that one still makes me cry..
Dynasty warriors.
Maybe darksiders, i really like the gameplay, but i'm not a fan of the art direction.
Fracture....
Spider man shattered Dimension...lol i never even played this one but i'm adding it to the list.
 
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Bioshock and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

Turning Point had such a great story (The Germans never declared war on the US and the Japanese never hit Pearl Harbor so America stays out of WWII completely as well as Churchill being killed by a car, resulting in the Nazis taking over the world and invading a low-tech US with extremely high tech weapons.) and an amazing opening cutscene (As a construction worker, you are at the top of a building as the German invasion comes in from the sea and you have to escape), but wound up being one of the worst games I have ever played. Between the bugs coming out of it's ass, the story becoming almost non existent and a difficulty curve that seemed to have been drawn by Micheal J Fox, it was just horrible.

Bioshock had one of the best stories and atmosphere of any game ever made, but was let down completely by everything being more repetitive than a game of Snake, the combat being broken and an ending(s) that was just crap.
 

SilverHammerMan

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I'm going to have to agree with Baron von Blitztank, Prototype was a really cool idea but the execution was terrible. Boring missions, 1 dimensional characters, repetitive combat, recycled combat animations, and finally the game itself was just ugly. I mean, really, really, ugly, like not even on the level of current gen technology. It was just terrible to look at.

Also, I'd like to draw attention to the boss fights in Batman: Arkham Asylum. The game itself was a great idea with excellent execution, but the boss fights all wound up as you in an arena versus a bunch of goons and a couple of giant freaks. The only boss related activities that I enjoyed were the sequences where you had to sneak along unnoticed to save a hostage.
 

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Time Shift.

You can slow, stop, and even rewind time? Cool!
And you're chasing a mad scientist who's stomping around in a mechanical spider as big as a city block? Awesome!

Too bad the time mechanics don't do a whole lot, except making the game feel like a poor man's F.E.A.R.
Even worse, the mad scientist, yourself, your girlfriend, your past; none of these elements are sufficiently explained before ending the game on a wallbanger of a cliffhanger.

Great ideas, piss poor execution.
 

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Too Human: Do I even need to explain?

APB: See above.

Tenchu Z: But it's somehow still fun.