The biggest Video game let down, of your life.
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It really is a combination of two things, and you're spot on about one of them. The track sounded terrible in both content and delivery, and I was in utter disbelief that the reviews were so favorable considering the more diverse and melodic offerings of the previous game.Tom Phoenix said:
Again, as music goes, it's largely relative to the listener. I happen to think the track from 6 was brilliant, perhaps one of the most brilliant tracks of the series, whereas 7 just came across as rushed and flat. The only redeeming part being the orchestral version of One Winged Angel, which I feel somehow at least legitimized the terror and awe I imagine I was meant to feel during the games climax. The version in the game didn't move me in the least. I agree with your observation about me though, I'm not really a midi fan, not unless they really do some serious magic with it, like Stones circa Ultima 7.
PROTOTYPE-Stuck around for the story. Wasn't anything special, still don't understand why my friend thinks its the shit.
Fable 2-Complete and utter Zebra testicles. I mastered all the jobs, bought all the houses, had 10 wives and did every other thing in the game and it still wasnt' as good as Fable 1.
SPORE-I had a whole diffrent view of what spore was going to be like. ACUALLY GOOD. My predictions were shot down by Maxis the day I bought. Thats also how long it took me to beat it, a fucking day!
Fable 2-Complete and utter Zebra testicles. I mastered all the jobs, bought all the houses, had 10 wives and did every other thing in the game and it still wasnt' as good as Fable 1.
SPORE-I had a whole diffrent view of what spore was going to be like. ACUALLY GOOD. My predictions were shot down by Maxis the day I bought. Thats also how long it took me to beat it, a fucking day!
I totally forgot about that one. Great story, beautiful graphics (if you just looked at screens) and so much promise.. and then it came out and it was a buggy mess with a framerate worse than a slideshow. My hopes were so high for this one too, even had it pre-ordered and picked it up day one. *cries*mixmastermind said:
And yet my friend thinks Ezio can beat up Batman, who has a +5 against everything.Versagen said:
A big disappointment for me was Sonic Riders. I likes Sonic Heroes(yes, I liked it, shut up) and I thought, 'Hey, new sonic game.'
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Xenosaga Episode II. I loved the first one and then this piece of crap followed. Every single battle lasted no less than 5 minutes with retarded "zone" attacks. Turned me off of the rest of the series.
I would have to say the Perfect Dark they released for the xbox360. I was like "Hey, even if its like the one for the N64 that's excellent for $10"...that was a bad thought. They took out EVERYTHING that was good in the N64 version as well as 90% of the weapons and threw in some crappy story and bad multiplayer.
It's a tie between Scribblenauts and Sonic Battle, for similar reasons.
Sonic Battle because I've always had a soft spot for Sonic since the original was literally my first video game ever, and I thought it was cool that finally here was a Sonic fighting game in a format I could play it in (I grew up in the sticks and there was no arcade nearby, so I never got a chance to have a go at Sonic the Fighters). Only when I tried to play it like a fighting game I got my ass handed to me, and when I used the Special button exclusively it was a breeze. Yawn.
Scribblenauts because it had massive potential, but 5th Cell was so busy patting themselves on the back for such a genius concept that they forgot to give it any depth. And every time I tried to be creative with my solutions, the game punished me, but when I tried stuff I'd used before, it usually worked. Thanks for nothing, guys.
Sonic Battle because I've always had a soft spot for Sonic since the original was literally my first video game ever, and I thought it was cool that finally here was a Sonic fighting game in a format I could play it in (I grew up in the sticks and there was no arcade nearby, so I never got a chance to have a go at Sonic the Fighters). Only when I tried to play it like a fighting game I got my ass handed to me, and when I used the Special button exclusively it was a breeze. Yawn.
Scribblenauts because it had massive potential, but 5th Cell was so busy patting themselves on the back for such a genius concept that they forgot to give it any depth. And every time I tried to be creative with my solutions, the game punished me, but when I tried stuff I'd used before, it usually worked. Thanks for nothing, guys.
halo 2 and 3, both main games were really short and they murdered the balance of the weapons...
socom 3...two wasn't as good as one but 3 just ruined the series.
socom 3...two wasn't as good as one but 3 just ruined the series.
Team Fortress 2.
I loved the original Team Fortress, which sets up the disappointment. If TF is a 9/10 game, I was expecting maybe 8 and up for TF2, and it ended up as a very mediocre, consolized 6 - most of the points brought in by well-designed graphics, amusing characters and technical prowess, not the interaction. Its very low cost as part of The Orange Box makes the lack of quality forgivable, but does not diminish it.
In TF2 the TF speed is dead - every class except scout runs slow as a snail. Switching weapons takes obscenely long. All this serves to bring down the skill ceiling and press good and bad players closer to each other. The payoff from out-thinking an enemy is diminished when you can't put the plan into action that fast. Not being able to evade at a high speed means many more unavoidable deaths (and many more free points to the nubs, which keeps them playing regardless of whether they ever get any better, which was obviously one of the core goals of the design).
The complexity of TF and hilarious gear like hallucination grenades and EMP grenades are gone. You can tell they went for the "HURR DURR" crowd that cannot handle >2 buttons. You can no longer pressure or bait people to use their limited-quantity weapons, or maximize the effect of an ambush on an oblivious enemy.
Flag-running might as well not be in TF2, it's totally butchered. Non-combat or relay runs won't happen anymore because the slowness of everything and the map design do not allow it. The good TF2 players have their matches in capture point maps, which is the new bread and butter.
Class balance is not there. This is not to say it was in the original - but I do expect and require it in a game made 11 years later. They completely destroyed the spy when they removed friendly fire, so there is no point in playing one against a skilled team, only against nubs. Same goes for engineer but for different reasons.
They put in relatively powerful melee weapons without setting up special mechanics for them. Huge blunder.
Then they made a retarded achievement-dependent gear system, only to replace it with an equally retarded time-based lotto. Inclusion of grinding is, as usual, the final admission of the developer that they could not, or would not bother to, make a game worth actually playing for long.
I loved the original Team Fortress, which sets up the disappointment. If TF is a 9/10 game, I was expecting maybe 8 and up for TF2, and it ended up as a very mediocre, consolized 6 - most of the points brought in by well-designed graphics, amusing characters and technical prowess, not the interaction. Its very low cost as part of The Orange Box makes the lack of quality forgivable, but does not diminish it.
In TF2 the TF speed is dead - every class except scout runs slow as a snail. Switching weapons takes obscenely long. All this serves to bring down the skill ceiling and press good and bad players closer to each other. The payoff from out-thinking an enemy is diminished when you can't put the plan into action that fast. Not being able to evade at a high speed means many more unavoidable deaths (and many more free points to the nubs, which keeps them playing regardless of whether they ever get any better, which was obviously one of the core goals of the design).
The complexity of TF and hilarious gear like hallucination grenades and EMP grenades are gone. You can tell they went for the "HURR DURR" crowd that cannot handle >2 buttons. You can no longer pressure or bait people to use their limited-quantity weapons, or maximize the effect of an ambush on an oblivious enemy.
Flag-running might as well not be in TF2, it's totally butchered. Non-combat or relay runs won't happen anymore because the slowness of everything and the map design do not allow it. The good TF2 players have their matches in capture point maps, which is the new bread and butter.
Class balance is not there. This is not to say it was in the original - but I do expect and require it in a game made 11 years later. They completely destroyed the spy when they removed friendly fire, so there is no point in playing one against a skilled team, only against nubs. Same goes for engineer but for different reasons.
They put in relatively powerful melee weapons without setting up special mechanics for them. Huge blunder.
Then they made a retarded achievement-dependent gear system, only to replace it with an equally retarded time-based lotto. Inclusion of grinding is, as usual, the final admission of the developer that they could not, or would not bother to, make a game worth actually playing for long.
I bought a Fire Emblem game for the GBA way back. I can't remember which it was, but I truly hated it.Horrendous graphics,bland combat,absolutely nothing in the way of strategy from a game marketing itself as exactly that.
Oh. I actually liked FC2. Single and multiplayer. you can run around slashing people while faking a bad aussue accent. Driving? No problem. Weapon jams though? Grr.miracleofsound said:
I thought Operation Flashpoint : Dragon Rising was dissapointing. It's running up hills, bleeding and getting run over by a non-scripted tank that knows where you are at all times. I much preferred the older ones.
Mine was GOW2. I just couldn't stand the multiplayer. I loved the first game, and eagerly awaited the second, only to be bitterly dissapointed. Oh well, that's how it goes.
"5 years ago I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fucking watched."
That is all.
That is all.