Same here. That was the first game I had ever payed full price for, especially 50 bucks for that..lacktheknack said:
I paid full price for this shit?!
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Im on my PS3 so word count -_- yeh they did hype it bit luckly after almost hunting Bioware down due to what they didnt do with ME 2 and how they hollowed out my baby to a TPS. I dont expect much at all from games hype anymore. Another game for me is Lego Batman, Indie and Wars were really good *sad face*
Fallout 3.
Better known to me as Crash to Desktop: The Game. This was some epically shitty port-work; the game coding was horribly buggy even on a commonly supported (and relatively new at the time) discreet GPU, and the interface looked like it was made exclusively for the 360.
Gameplay-wise, it was still a mediocre shooter with a one-trick pony of a gimmick, and I had to force myself to stop using V.A.T.S. just to make the game remotely challenging (without relying on the difficulty bar, which just reduces the damage the enemies take; it doesn't make them any smarter or let them use new equipment/attacks.)
Every character and story I started to take an interest in just kind of stops after you do their one quest/mission. I did work for Mr. Burke, and I was hoping to see more of his line of work. Nope. That's the end of Mr. Burke's quests. The most impressive event in the entire game can be accomplished within the first hour or so.
The main quest pissed me off to no end. I could elaborate why, but lets just say that this is the first time in gaming history that the developer offered to charge people money to fix the game's ending.
The one great thing Fallout 3 did (in my opinion), was bring that 1950s "World of the Future" style to life.
I was able to appreciate that much, but the cons here far outweighed the pros.
Better known to me as Crash to Desktop: The Game. This was some epically shitty port-work; the game coding was horribly buggy even on a commonly supported (and relatively new at the time) discreet GPU, and the interface looked like it was made exclusively for the 360.
Gameplay-wise, it was still a mediocre shooter with a one-trick pony of a gimmick, and I had to force myself to stop using V.A.T.S. just to make the game remotely challenging (without relying on the difficulty bar, which just reduces the damage the enemies take; it doesn't make them any smarter or let them use new equipment/attacks.)
Every character and story I started to take an interest in just kind of stops after you do their one quest/mission. I did work for Mr. Burke, and I was hoping to see more of his line of work. Nope. That's the end of Mr. Burke's quests. The most impressive event in the entire game can be accomplished within the first hour or so.
The main quest pissed me off to no end. I could elaborate why, but lets just say that this is the first time in gaming history that the developer offered to charge people money to fix the game's ending.
The one great thing Fallout 3 did (in my opinion), was bring that 1950s "World of the Future" style to life.
I was able to appreciate that much, but the cons here far outweighed the pros.
Easy, pretend it isn't a Metroid game (which is pretty much what youre saying anyway) and stop comparing it to Metroid in any way...then you'll see that compared to alot of other Wii games, the gameplay is top-notchLordNue said:But it isn't which is the point. It completely removes the things that make a metroid game, a metroid game. Exploration, atmosphere, even the music are all gone in favor of an anime action game with bland, terrible combat.tjs09 said:Wait, who said I was a Metroid fan? I enjoyed the Prime series, but I wouldn't call myself a hardcore Metroid lover. My point is that (IMO) Other M, if you excuse the terrible story and destruction of Samus's character, is still a pretty good game...thanks to gameplayLordNue said:I honestly have no clue how you could be a fan of metroid and like a game that focuses on the combat, removes the exploration, music and atmosphere, while keeping the combat extremely shallow and pointless because the dodging requires no timing or percision and you can recover your health and missiles at almost any time, health requiring you to be at low health to do. This is so easy that even the game's "hard mode" isn't hard at all, hard mode for the record just removes all upgrades. Oh and they also made missiles useless pretty much because switching to first person is just so bloody unintuitive. Also auto aiming and poor hit detection. Unless you were never a fan of metroid which explains things and why you'd like a game that turns a once unique and interesting series into a shitty generic action game, unless you're one of those fanboys who praises any game and ignores any flaws which also explains things but in a different fashion.tjs09 said:Were we playing different games? I liked the gameplay... Or maybe the story was so bad it tricked me into liking the gameplay...LordNue said:
But please, what's good about the gameplay then? Maybe the fact that I actually like the metroid games has blinded me and I should just accept that all games should be homogenized blobs of sameness and that no game should have unique or defining traits anymore. So again, please tell me how the gameplay in Other M was good. I'm honestly curious.
it's good for a few go arounds, but the controls just had me and my friends mashing everything till the guy with the best special won. and specials seemed to happen on random at that.tjs09 said:
Half Life 2 And it's Episodes. And Portal.
Team Fortress 2 was the ONLY Game from the orange box I enjoy.
Portal was an embarrassment to the Puzzle Genre.
And don't get me started on Half Life. Man that was boring.
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Mass Effect 1 and 2.
Team Fortress 2 was the ONLY Game from the orange box I enjoy.
Portal was an embarrassment to the Puzzle Genre.
And don't get me started on Half Life. Man that was boring.
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Mass Effect 1 and 2.
And there's the thing: people get so anal about the one big flaw of the game--Samus's badly-written script--and write off the rest of one helluva gem of a game for only $50 USD. I rolled my eyes once, called it a fanfic, and had myself some fun.tjs09 said:Easy, pretend it isn't a Metroid game (which is pretty much what youre saying anyway) and stop comparing it to Metroid in any way...then you'll see that compared to alot of other Wii games, the gameplay is top-notchLordNue said:But it isn't which is the point. It completely removes the things that make a metroid game, a metroid game. Exploration, atmosphere, even the music are all gone in favor of an anime action game with bland, terrible combat.tjs09 said:Wait, who said I was a Metroid fan? I enjoyed the Prime series, but I wouldn't call myself a hardcore Metroid lover. My point is that (IMO) Other M, if you excuse the terrible story and destruction of Samus's character, is still a pretty good game...thanks to gameplayLordNue said:I honestly have no clue how you could be a fan of metroid and like a game that focuses on the combat, removes the exploration, music and atmosphere, while keeping the combat extremely shallow and pointless because the dodging requires no timing or percision and you can recover your health and missiles at almost any time, health requiring you to be at low health to do. This is so easy that even the game's "hard mode" isn't hard at all, hard mode for the record just removes all upgrades. Oh and they also made missiles useless pretty much because switching to first person is just so bloody unintuitive. Also auto aiming and poor hit detection. Unless you were never a fan of metroid which explains things and why you'd like a game that turns a once unique and interesting series into a shitty generic action game, unless you're one of those fanboys who praises any game and ignores any flaws which also explains things but in a different fashion.tjs09 said:Were we playing different games? I liked the gameplay... Or maybe the story was so bad it tricked me into liking the gameplay...LordNue said:
But please, what's good about the gameplay then? Maybe the fact that I actually like the metroid games has blinded me and I should just accept that all games should be homogenized blobs of sameness and that no game should have unique or defining traits anymore. So again, please tell me how the gameplay in Other M was good. I'm honestly curious.