Sadly, I don't know what the title for this topic means either. I stood staring at my computer screen for about five minutes. I basically gave up and thought this is the best and shortest name possible.
(And now to reveal what the topic actually is about! That is unless you already looked at the poll.)
Are there any games games that everyone else seemed to like, but you simply couldn't? Or perhaps a game which was hyped so ridiculously yet you found it only decent? Well give yourself an applause because you finally found the topic for it! So please, share your experiences.
(Anything past this text can be ignored.)
Two games which instantly come to my mind are Resistance one and two. I suppose a few factors are what soon follows -
The main character really had no personality. He was generic and incredibly bland. (And Seriously, does EVERY character for the next generation systems have to be bald?) So, I really didn't care for the character - I frankly didn't give a damn.
The second thing is perhaps the fact that the story is the old fashioned 'underdog' story but with an insanely stupid twist. Lets see, game number one -
Europe is destroyed. And not just destroyed, but basically 'Pwned' by the main enemy in the games series, the feared 'Chimera.' whom are now attacking Britain. America aids (And of course, there is no Canada in sight even though during the time which the game takes place Canada had around the third largest armed forces.) And then the second game starts, where America is 'THE ONLY NATION LEFT IN THE WORLD!'
Which I personally find incredibly stupid and implausible.
(Spoiler!)
The very first level you are faced with this intimidating and giant looking gargantuan like machine. It is taken out with only three rockets shot in the rear. So, basically the 'super high tech race.' Is weaker then the WW2 German tanks. (Which, were advanced indeed, but seriously, these creatures have f*cking lasers meanwhile the Germans took three to five rockets to destroy.)
(Spoiler done)
Of course, that can be forgiven, it's the first boss after all. But, I can't help but feel a tad bit pissed at the realization that the odds aren't just hopeless, they're pathetic. I love being the underdog, but seriously. If the odds become too implausible I won't buy it that the 'heroes' will end up on top. By the second game it's basically only America left. (Already I feel the game could have been improved if it already started with a white text saying 'game over' by this point.)
So, there! Expect to see a lot of one sided BS, where the humans are invincible, the humans don't die (Oh, trust me, in this game there are a lot of cop out's, when a character 'dies' they'll only have a broken leg or two.) So, basically, you aren't exactly the underdogs in this game. You're a few gods against a bunch of soldiers which prove as threatening as an ant farm - which was exterminated.
Of course I'm probably just knit picking! Oh, Fox! You idiot! It's a FPS, it should focus on game play, not on story telling! So what if the odds are absolutely implausible? So what if the main character is bland and you don't give a damn what happens to him? The game play is all that matters!
Well, oddly I didn't like the game play too much either. Don't get me wrong, I love insomniac, I found a lot of the numerous weapons creative, inventive, and perhaps even original. However, I simply couldn't care. As I played the game I somehow felt it was a hollow experience. (And, I also can't play multiplayer, so I suppose that's the reason why.)
And then there was the last thing I found annoying, what seemed to be the morale of the story -
America kicks ass, the rest of the nations are clearly unimportant and magically we'll win where every other nation in the world has failed because our country is superior, and we are the perfect race.
and personally I wouldn't like that story. I'd prefer one that's more within the lines of -
In the darkest of times the world witnesses the power, and the horrors that a man can be capable of. Countries are attacked, people are murdered, and in this time of Darkness, the countries Allie to fight against it. In this time, every nation depends on the other.
Oh, sorry, I was thinking of Call Of Duty.
(And now to reveal what the topic actually is about! That is unless you already looked at the poll.)
Are there any games games that everyone else seemed to like, but you simply couldn't? Or perhaps a game which was hyped so ridiculously yet you found it only decent? Well give yourself an applause because you finally found the topic for it! So please, share your experiences.
(Anything past this text can be ignored.)
Two games which instantly come to my mind are Resistance one and two. I suppose a few factors are what soon follows -
The main character really had no personality. He was generic and incredibly bland. (And Seriously, does EVERY character for the next generation systems have to be bald?) So, I really didn't care for the character - I frankly didn't give a damn.
The second thing is perhaps the fact that the story is the old fashioned 'underdog' story but with an insanely stupid twist. Lets see, game number one -
Europe is destroyed. And not just destroyed, but basically 'Pwned' by the main enemy in the games series, the feared 'Chimera.' whom are now attacking Britain. America aids (And of course, there is no Canada in sight even though during the time which the game takes place Canada had around the third largest armed forces.) And then the second game starts, where America is 'THE ONLY NATION LEFT IN THE WORLD!'
Which I personally find incredibly stupid and implausible.
(Spoiler!)
The very first level you are faced with this intimidating and giant looking gargantuan like machine. It is taken out with only three rockets shot in the rear. So, basically the 'super high tech race.' Is weaker then the WW2 German tanks. (Which, were advanced indeed, but seriously, these creatures have f*cking lasers meanwhile the Germans took three to five rockets to destroy.)
(Spoiler done)
Of course, that can be forgiven, it's the first boss after all. But, I can't help but feel a tad bit pissed at the realization that the odds aren't just hopeless, they're pathetic. I love being the underdog, but seriously. If the odds become too implausible I won't buy it that the 'heroes' will end up on top. By the second game it's basically only America left. (Already I feel the game could have been improved if it already started with a white text saying 'game over' by this point.)
So, there! Expect to see a lot of one sided BS, where the humans are invincible, the humans don't die (Oh, trust me, in this game there are a lot of cop out's, when a character 'dies' they'll only have a broken leg or two.) So, basically, you aren't exactly the underdogs in this game. You're a few gods against a bunch of soldiers which prove as threatening as an ant farm - which was exterminated.
Of course I'm probably just knit picking! Oh, Fox! You idiot! It's a FPS, it should focus on game play, not on story telling! So what if the odds are absolutely implausible? So what if the main character is bland and you don't give a damn what happens to him? The game play is all that matters!
Well, oddly I didn't like the game play too much either. Don't get me wrong, I love insomniac, I found a lot of the numerous weapons creative, inventive, and perhaps even original. However, I simply couldn't care. As I played the game I somehow felt it was a hollow experience. (And, I also can't play multiplayer, so I suppose that's the reason why.)
And then there was the last thing I found annoying, what seemed to be the morale of the story -
America kicks ass, the rest of the nations are clearly unimportant and magically we'll win where every other nation in the world has failed because our country is superior, and we are the perfect race.
and personally I wouldn't like that story. I'd prefer one that's more within the lines of -
In the darkest of times the world witnesses the power, and the horrors that a man can be capable of. Countries are attacked, people are murdered, and in this time of Darkness, the countries Allie to fight against it. In this time, every nation depends on the other.
Oh, sorry, I was thinking of Call Of Duty.
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