"Great" games that failed to blow you away
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It's been eating me up but, Mass Effect 2.
It's an amazing game, but for some reason it just didn't do the same thing that Mass Effect 1 did for me, I don't really know why, and I can't really explain it.
It did give me my avatar though, so there is that.
It's an amazing game, but for some reason it just didn't do the same thing that Mass Effect 1 did for me, I don't really know why, and I can't really explain it.
It did give me my avatar though, so there is that.
I got bored half way though Metroid Prime. The graphics were good and everything but I might have been too spoiled by PC games and much preferred Nintendo games like Wind Waker and Pikmin.
And SoulCalibur, yeah, mashing buttons, I just don't care.
And SoulCalibur, yeah, mashing buttons, I just don't care.
I remember I played this after playing Halo 2, and found it to be underwhelming. However, it did grow on me (since I haven't played it so long I don't know if I can say the same now).Furburt said:
It came quite late after it was supposed to have been delivered, and since then I've theorised all my games that are delivered later than predicted will invariably not blow me away.
Oddly enough, this theory has proven to be astoundingly solid, only being disproven on a rarity of occasions.
And though I know it isn't considered a "great game", my hatred of Dark Sector is so severe that I simply must include it here for its sheerly unbelievable degree of un-blowing-awayness.
Who knew decapitating people could get so old... Who knew...
LittleBigPlanet was pretty disappointing, especially considering how excited for it I was.
I also felt like Assassin's Creed II got sort of repetitive towards the end, and was kind of happy to see it come to a close (if they would've ended it a couple of hours earlier, I would have liked it much more).
I also felt like Assassin's Creed II got sort of repetitive towards the end, and was kind of happy to see it come to a close (if they would've ended it a couple of hours earlier, I would have liked it much more).
this is sort of a confusing topic. if it was a great game that means i liked. Now do you mean a game that was popular that you didn't like?
If so then name a Final Fantasy game other than 7 and there you go. For the most part final fantasy games, while having a decent concept, fuck around too much. The stories aren't bad but how they tell them is slow ackward and annoying. The japaness love character archtypes and follow them blindly so your always going to get the same handful of characters, just with more rediculous hair and clothes. and it seems that after square came up with what was (for me) the perfect battle system, they spent every new game trying to make it better and absolutley failing.
Now with Final Fantasy 13 they've basically turned it into little more than a dragons lair style game. until the paradime system is fully unlocked (like 6 hours in) your basically watching a movie and occasioally pressing x to not die. Even when pardime is unlocked it's more like your watching a battle and based on how the tide is going you tell the characters to change tatics, kinda like a football coach. this isn't how i like my rpg's i like to actually play the fuckers my self. this is why i hated the gambit system in FF 12.
so anyway back to the point. The continued popularity of Final Fantasy games continue to make me wonder if i'm playing the same game as everyone else.
If so then name a Final Fantasy game other than 7 and there you go. For the most part final fantasy games, while having a decent concept, fuck around too much. The stories aren't bad but how they tell them is slow ackward and annoying. The japaness love character archtypes and follow them blindly so your always going to get the same handful of characters, just with more rediculous hair and clothes. and it seems that after square came up with what was (for me) the perfect battle system, they spent every new game trying to make it better and absolutley failing.
Now with Final Fantasy 13 they've basically turned it into little more than a dragons lair style game. until the paradime system is fully unlocked (like 6 hours in) your basically watching a movie and occasioally pressing x to not die. Even when pardime is unlocked it's more like your watching a battle and based on how the tide is going you tell the characters to change tatics, kinda like a football coach. this isn't how i like my rpg's i like to actually play the fuckers my self. this is why i hated the gambit system in FF 12.
so anyway back to the point. The continued popularity of Final Fantasy games continue to make me wonder if i'm playing the same game as everyone else.
Playing through Fallout 3 at the moment for the first time. It's okay, don't get me wrong. But I detest first person shooters, aiming never feels natural to me when I'm playing them. So I'm going the stealth/melee route with my character - and man, does this game punish you if you get caught trying to backstab.
That's another thing, at least Oblivion handled the stealth aspect well - Fallout 3 relies far too heavily on it's gunplay. Plus there's also the mini-map, the lack of good dialogue choices in conversations and the general brown 'n' gray colour scheme.
Also... and this might get me some flames... Half Life. I did not care for Half Life. It's in fact part of the reason why FPS's turn me off so much. God knows I tried to like it but it just seemed like nothing special to me.
Both probably really good games if you like that sort of thing. To each their own, I guess.
One further note... I loved Bioshock, just in case you think I wrangle all FPS games into the same camp.
That's another thing, at least Oblivion handled the stealth aspect well - Fallout 3 relies far too heavily on it's gunplay. Plus there's also the mini-map, the lack of good dialogue choices in conversations and the general brown 'n' gray colour scheme.
Also... and this might get me some flames... Half Life. I did not care for Half Life. It's in fact part of the reason why FPS's turn me off so much. God knows I tried to like it but it just seemed like nothing special to me.
Both probably really good games if you like that sort of thing. To each their own, I guess.
One further note... I loved Bioshock, just in case you think I wrangle all FPS games into the same camp.