I have massive respect for fallout 3 but havent enjoyed it as i found it hard to get into(loved oblivion though)also really boring and terrible ending but the game is an achievement
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valve games in general, CoD1, i can respect the attempt to get out of WWII but I don't actually respect CoD4 and I hate it, and the resident evil series, not to mention that F.E.A.R./2 is the only horror game that actually scared me
Most 3d fighting games from Tekken onwards, I can't help but feel they left behind the simplicity of SF2 in favour of having to remember pages of movesets and 10 button combos. Should a combo not be a series of moves that nicely links together, not one move that takes 10 button presses?
Halo and most FPS games also, although I enjoy Team Fortress because it feels bright and positive and the community doesn't seem to have the camping, 'lol I pwnd ya noob' feel about it, and you seem to be able to do reasonably well without sinking months into it, because they joyful feeling of chaos in a 32 player game.
Halo to me felt like ...just another, admittedly well done, and nicely made for console, FPS game, and Gears of War felt similar except that you had more emphasis on hiding behind things.
Metal Gear Solid, I understand the thrill of stealth, but it just doesn't excite me personally. It just feels like I'm waiting, not being stealthy. So I crouch and wait for him to walk past, then I can start playing again? I'll pass thanks.
Halo and most FPS games also, although I enjoy Team Fortress because it feels bright and positive and the community doesn't seem to have the camping, 'lol I pwnd ya noob' feel about it, and you seem to be able to do reasonably well without sinking months into it, because they joyful feeling of chaos in a 32 player game.
Halo to me felt like ...just another, admittedly well done, and nicely made for console, FPS game, and Gears of War felt similar except that you had more emphasis on hiding behind things.
Metal Gear Solid, I understand the thrill of stealth, but it just doesn't excite me personally. It just feels like I'm waiting, not being stealthy. So I crouch and wait for him to walk past, then I can start playing again? I'll pass thanks.
I'm with this guy however, and we need more of this. We need to remember most of what's posted on the forums are opinions, not facts, and just hating Halo doesn't make it a bad game, or people stupid for liking it. Yes, I know I'm as guilty as most on that offence, too.Jumplion said:
Fun fact, Nintendo didn't make that title. They allowed another company to actually design and develop it for them. I can't remember who or why, but I remember reading it in history of Nintendo book at Books a Million a few years ago.Varulv said:
My pick is Oblivion.
The month before Oblivion came out, I started playing Morrowind again and focused on the story (finally! I had always done the side quests/modded/played other mods/dicked around), and once I beat it, I was truly psyched for Oblivion.
And then it came out, and I moved on.
Morrowind captured the essence of sandbox games: sure, you could go anywhere, but there were places that you would get destroyed if you took one step in. I remember there was a cave near the top of the map that had a Golden Saint and some other baddies, and I walked in there at level 5. I remember laughing about it, especially because I managed to bugger off with some nice loot, too, but when I started playing Oblivion there's nothing like that. The story in Oblivion is only ho-hum, too: great big demon gates have never been so boring to close. Everything looks the same, the characters aren't very interesting, and for God sake the only big-named voice actor dies in the first 10 minutes (I won't consider an opening plot point a spoiler)
All horse armor jokes aside, though, I have to respect Bethesda for everything they do. It's a truly impressive game in all aspects: the scope, the landscape, the volumes of optional history to discover. The problem seems to be that it all doesn't matter when the main story is drab and the characters are uninteresting, especially in the sequel to a game that found its protagonist fighting gods.
Plus, Morrowind lets you continue the game after killing everyone and anyone, even if it's a person vital to the story. Death to Lord Vivec!
The month before Oblivion came out, I started playing Morrowind again and focused on the story (finally! I had always done the side quests/modded/played other mods/dicked around), and once I beat it, I was truly psyched for Oblivion.
And then it came out, and I moved on.
Morrowind captured the essence of sandbox games: sure, you could go anywhere, but there were places that you would get destroyed if you took one step in. I remember there was a cave near the top of the map that had a Golden Saint and some other baddies, and I walked in there at level 5. I remember laughing about it, especially because I managed to bugger off with some nice loot, too, but when I started playing Oblivion there's nothing like that. The story in Oblivion is only ho-hum, too: great big demon gates have never been so boring to close. Everything looks the same, the characters aren't very interesting, and for God sake the only big-named voice actor dies in the first 10 minutes (I won't consider an opening plot point a spoiler)
All horse armor jokes aside, though, I have to respect Bethesda for everything they do. It's a truly impressive game in all aspects: the scope, the landscape, the volumes of optional history to discover. The problem seems to be that it all doesn't matter when the main story is drab and the characters are uninteresting, especially in the sequel to a game that found its protagonist fighting gods.
Plus, Morrowind lets you continue the game after killing everyone and anyone, even if it's a person vital to the story. Death to Lord Vivec!
Mirrors Edge, I respect what it was doing and all the innovation but it just was not fun, they spent to much time crouched up inside and you had to fight off too many enemies, which Faith was just not good at
I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for both of these, but here goes.
Psychonauts. It was a brilliantly made game, had a great sense of humor, but I didn't really care for the gameplay. To me, it was just an average platform with an above average sense of humor. Yeah, the milkman level and giant monster levels were great, but they were few and far between.
Mass Effect, for the same reason. I actually really enjoyed this on my first playthrough, but the second time around I just couldn't get into it. Story, voice acting, and graphics (both technical and artistic) were great, but the gameplay just didn't do it for me. The combat was so-so, the difficulty curve flew all over the place, and "exploring" other planets was nothing more than driving around an empty map and finding a useless trinket that gave you a little bit of money.
Psychonauts. It was a brilliantly made game, had a great sense of humor, but I didn't really care for the gameplay. To me, it was just an average platform with an above average sense of humor. Yeah, the milkman level and giant monster levels were great, but they were few and far between.
Mass Effect, for the same reason. I actually really enjoyed this on my first playthrough, but the second time around I just couldn't get into it. Story, voice acting, and graphics (both technical and artistic) were great, but the gameplay just didn't do it for me. The combat was so-so, the difficulty curve flew all over the place, and "exploring" other planets was nothing more than driving around an empty map and finding a useless trinket that gave you a little bit of money.
I was just talking to a buddy about this very thing. He plays mainly PC and i play mainly Xbox (though i do play both). He respects Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 but doesn't enjoy playing them all too much and I respect Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2 Deathamtch (his top two games) and I don't like them all that much. I wouldn't say it's a console barrier as I have played my fair share of mouse an keyboard.
I'd say World of Warcraft. For a fantasy player it would be great, I guess. It has amazing detail, easy interface, plenty of missions, and fantasy up the wazoo. But I couldn't stand it. I spent like, what, 4 hours on just a bunch of missions that had me gathering animal meat? Meh, give me pretty colors and lot's of shooting anyday.
Also any Madden game. My brother is always drooling over the graphics and detail to moves and stuff, but I hate it. You have to look at like a hundred things at once, and even if you get it down you'll still do something you didn't want to do and end up yelling at the screen, like my brothers always do.
Also any Madden game. My brother is always drooling over the graphics and detail to moves and stuff, but I hate it. You have to look at like a hundred things at once, and even if you get it down you'll still do something you didn't want to do and end up yelling at the screen, like my brothers always do.
i was going to say the same thing. gorgeous graphics, and it did have some fun aspects to it, but i just didn't enjoy it as a whole. same thing with gears of war 2.xitel said:
All the time. I almost never play genuinely bad games, so most games I play fall into either the "enjoy" or "don't enjoy" categories. Never hate. Hell, there's entire genres that fit this for me.
Here's a short list:
The majority of modern FPS games; Call of Duty and Halo being foremost
Neverwinter Nights
World of Warcraft
GTA (the whole series)
Any and all racing games with the dual exceptions of Mario Kart and F-Zero
The Sonic series. Never got into them.
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Survival Horror games
And finally, something I'm almost certain to get flamed for: Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit
Here's a short list:
The majority of modern FPS games; Call of Duty and Halo being foremost
Neverwinter Nights
World of Warcraft
GTA (the whole series)
Any and all racing games with the dual exceptions of Mario Kart and F-Zero
The Sonic series. Never got into them.
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Survival Horror games
And finally, something I'm almost certain to get flamed for: Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit
The development team for Zelda II were entirely different from LoZ, but they were still Nintendo employees, not a third-party developer.PxDn Ninja said:
You may be thinking of the CD-i Zelda games [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series].
Mario kart 64, I could never get into it. I always though didy kong racing was the superior kart game for the N64