ME2--and I can't really pin down why-- just didn't really do it for me. Because I thought the first one was veritably divine, anything that wasn't just as good or even better seemed like a flop to me (although it was hardly bad in any sense of the word). That is, however, entirely opinion; one which I know is not widely held.captainaweshum said:
Lost Odyssey, on the other hand, suffered from a very definite and very deadly flaw: that is to say, it was boring. The environments were repetitive and oppresively linear; the characters were either annoying or nonentities; the combat system was the very worst of turn-based systems personified; and forty or so minutes of every hour was made up entirely of long-winded cutscenes filled with disinteresting people and stilted acting, which served to further a plot that, while interesting at first, eventually gave way to half-baked attempts at suspense and excercises in narrative tedium. While games like Lair and Geneforge are inferior from a gameplay and graphical perspective, both of those were at least able to string along my interest until they ended; and in my opinion, being interesting is a much more important to a game than being functional.
