Most MEDIOCRE Game You've Ever Played

[rob_simple]

I know it's been mentioned several times but Skyrim. I actually took the time to platinum it, and in doing so realised that the whole experience had been designed around you being able to do everything in one playthrough, pretty much destroying any feel of true immersion.

I had completed half of the Thieves Guild missions when I joined the Dark Brotherhood, yet when I visited the guild for the DB missions nobody had any idea who I was, leading to one very odd conversation wherein a thief treated me as a stranger in one dialogue tree and then two seconds later congratulated me on finishing the TG mission I'd taken from him a few hours previously.

In short: by trying to let you do everything at once you never really built up an allegiance to any one particular faction, which resulted in an experience that wasn't bad but just bland across the board.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Assassin's Creed Revelations. It was somewhat enjoyable, I suppose, but only because it kept the combat of Brotherhood.

The story was completely forgettable and I felt nothing for any of the paper-thing characters, nor did I care for the hookblade or the bomb-crafting.

It wasn't a bad game by any means, just bland.

 

[IPunchWithMyFists]

But CoD is the very definition of Mediocrity. If we're judging the games on their own merits, they are functional shooter with competent execution but are also overwhelmingly bland. A "military plot for dummies" approach for a story, cookie cutter characters, uninspiring combat and anything that deviates from it's standard shooting gallery gameplay, feels forced or disjointed from the actual game.

Nothing aggravates me in CoD, it's just nothing makes it a notable experience. It's decidedly meh.

To drive that point home, looking back on all the CoDs I've played, nothing distinguishes them from each other... apart from thematic differences (WW2 vs Modern Warfare)... and I literally can't tell you what happens in which game... it all seems like one big blob of the same thing.

Agreed.

 

[IPunchWithMyFists]

I'd discount Bodycount for myself simply for being BAD. I thought it'd be mediocre, but it pissed me off a little.

I came here to say Bodycount. And I'll say Bodycount. Even financially it ended up neutral, as I traded it back in a different store for the exact same ammount that I payed for it in the first place (20 bucks).

Yeah, but the 'innovative' controls and poor level design actually got me a little frustrated. I didn't have that "'bluugh.... should I keep playing or not" feeling i got with Sonic 4: Episode 1.

 

[IPunchWithMyFists]

I'm aware this is going a little against the OP, but Call Of Duty 4. It's one of those games I keep forgetting I actually played - it was just dull. There was occasionally potential, but it was never good, never so bad I wanted to stop playing, just... dull. Glad I didn't pay for it.

No worries man, I was just using CoD as a hot button. People love to complain about that shit. I think it's super mediocre too.

 

[Patrick Buck]

Yeah, I'm afraid I'm going to have to say CoD. It's all right, but not great.

 

[Legendairy314]

Modern Warfare 3. It was just so BORING. Only the final 10 minutes were even vaguely interesting. I was literally walking into a wall at one point because I had almost fallen asleep. I didn't even know that could happen. Also the multiplayer surprised me as well with how bad it was. Half the kill-streaks were in care packages, 90% of the weapons were useless, and most "gun on gun" fights were only visible in the killcam because on your side of the screen they hadn't even shot you and you've died but look on the killcam and it turns out you've actually been running around not firing a shot thanks to the terrible net code. When the multiplayer outright LIES you know somethings wrong.

Also, Metro 2033 was far too vague in it's goals and gave me constant headaches the entire time I played it. Though it was original enough to where I still give it some praise. But if the game causes me physical pain then I'm typically going to ignore it. Also, it'd be nice if there was some type of explanation into what you're doing with the main mutants.

 

[josemlopes]

Perfect Dark Zero

Such a shame really, because Perfect Dark on the N64 was awesome.

What did you expect? Rare is already in it's last legs as a great developer after jumping from Nintendo to Microsoft.

And then they followed it with two disappointing titles namely Kameo: Elements of Power which is Mediocre (not good, not bad) and Conker: Live and Reloaded which let's not talk about it.

Wait, was Conker: Live and Reloaded bad? I never had a N64 (I was still too young) so I never played the original but I liked the remake a lot. I also didnt had Xbox Live at the time so the multiplayer was only with bots, but the best of it was still the singleplayer.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Mediocre huh? I don't know,

So it's like boring bad, where it's not even recommendable when someone asks for a bad game.

I guess the first Gears of War is the most mediocre game I've ever played. After that Gears 2 went disturbing and Gears 3 went vomit inducing. But the first one was competently executed enough to be mediocre.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

Perfect Dark Zero

Such a shame really, because Perfect Dark on the N64 was awesome.

What did you expect? Rare is already in it's last legs as a great developer after jumping from Nintendo to Microsoft.

And then they followed it with two disappointing titles namely Kameo: Elements of Power which is Mediocre (not good, not bad) and Conker: Live and Reloaded which let's not talk about it.

Wait, was Conker: Live and Reloaded bad? I never had a N64 (I was still too young) so I never played the original but I liked the remake a lot. I also didnt had Xbox Live at the time so the multiplayer was only with bots, but the best of it was still the singleplayer.

I didn't say Conker: Live and Reloaded is bad. I'm just saying I didn't liked it. Personal Preferences

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Haze. I don't think I've ever played a game before or since that has instilled me with such indifference.

 

[Sethzard]

Probably COD and brink. COD is mediocre to its core, it's by no means a bad game, but it's a retread of the same game every fucking year. Brink is more difficult, it's not a bad game, but the ideas it had were brilliant and it squanders the potential to be spectacular game.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Don't shoot me, but for me it's Half Life 2. It's not that I think it's a bad game, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Something about it just didn't click with me.

 

[Killspre]

For me it was Dragon Age, story ripped off from so many fantasy stories (mostly Lord of the Rings), combat worse than an mmos, and boring skills that give you nothing good to look at.

 

[Raggedstar]

Ty The Tasmanian Tiger is mediocre. Don't have the heart to call it bad, but pretty much everything it did Jak and Daxter (as well as so many other 3D platformers at the time, though more closely resembled J&D from the menu interface, collecting style, and the sandbox sequel) did so much better. It's just so...average it's painful. 100% safe.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Duke Nukem Forever, I managed to get through it just because it was THE DUKE, but god that game sucked.

 

[Bostur]

Any modern high-budget shooter. They are pretty, well-designed, repetitive and seen a hundred times before. The COD series is pretty much the archetype of mediocre games.

New high-budget MMO releases. Rift, Aion, Tera, SWTOR. They all crowd together to copy WoW as much as they can. They all turned out extraordinarily unextraordinary. Click stuff, turn in quest, click more stuff, in a very pretty way.

Total War series. They look pretty, has AI that almost works, use game rules that almost works, but the games never quite seem to get what it takes to be good strategy games.

Civilization V. There isn't much wrong with the game, but there isn't much reason to play it either compared to Civilization 2, 3 or 4.

 

[mysecondlife]

Gears of War, Halo Reach, Jade Empire, Skyrim, Ninja Gaiden and Bioshock after the certain point.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Borderlands, Jesus Christ. That game was so ... dull. Pew pew, jump in a car, hit something, ???, Profit. The monochromatic brown perpetual desert sure as hell didn't help, either.

Obviously spoken by someone who didn't play the game in coop.

Honestly, I completely understand the opinion, and in single-player the game really is boring as hell. It's a hell of a lot of fun playing it coop though. It's so fun in fact that my roommates and I completed the entire game 3 times each and got all the characters to max level, and we STILL play it every once in a while to blow off steam.

 

[Ddgafd]

RAGE comes to mind. RAGE is so fucking boring on all accounts, the environments look nice, but aren't interesting to look at. The racing aspect is pointless and feels tacked on. The gunplay I actually liked, along with item creation. But all in all, it's just so generic and dull.