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What Game Surprised You This Year?
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Regarding the Xenoblade discussion. I can kind of see where you're coming from about the characters. Rather than it being character focused(An example would be FFXIII), it tends to focus more on the plot(ie FFXII). However, neither is bad. It comes down to preference which one you enjoy more. The characters are still good, regardless of that. I will admit I hated that some of the character interaction was relegated to unlockables which you had to grind for, mind you.
Anyway. Games that surprised me this year? Witcher 2, Yakuza 4 and Saints Row The Third.
I couldn't get into the original Witcher, due to the earlier chapters being long and uneventful, so I wasn't expecting much from the second. However, I was pleasantly surprised.
With Yakuza, I did actually quite enjoy Yakuza 3 but I never felt really attatched to it, I'm not quite sure why. Yakuza 4 on the other hand connected with me straight away, the new playable characters were great additions which were needed in my opinion, also none of the content was cut this time, making the city even more alive.
Saints Row 3 I actually only bought because I got it for £22. I owned the PC version of Saints Row 2, however the port was an absolute mess and didn't play very well. That combined with the annoying respect grinding between each mission I just gave up. SR3 on the other hand played perfectly on my PC. Was fluid and best of all, it looked great. I had a blast co-oping through the insane missions with a friend. Wasn't expecting it at all.
Anyway. Games that surprised me this year? Witcher 2, Yakuza 4 and Saints Row The Third.
I couldn't get into the original Witcher, due to the earlier chapters being long and uneventful, so I wasn't expecting much from the second. However, I was pleasantly surprised.
With Yakuza, I did actually quite enjoy Yakuza 3 but I never felt really attatched to it, I'm not quite sure why. Yakuza 4 on the other hand connected with me straight away, the new playable characters were great additions which were needed in my opinion, also none of the content was cut this time, making the city even more alive.
Saints Row 3 I actually only bought because I got it for £22. I owned the PC version of Saints Row 2, however the port was an absolute mess and didn't play very well. That combined with the annoying respect grinding between each mission I just gave up. SR3 on the other hand played perfectly on my PC. Was fluid and best of all, it looked great. I had a blast co-oping through the insane missions with a friend. Wasn't expecting it at all.
Innocent Sin surprised me. I expected to like it, I loved it instead. It has aged better than expected.
Two games actually really surprised me: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. I thought MW3 was going to suck in every way possible or at least just be as bad as MW2. However, it has a fantastic multiplayer and a very neat spec ops mode. The campaign is still very mediocre, but not bad. Battlefield 3 on the other hand, I predicted to be amazing in every way. Unfortunately its campaign was lacking in a real story, and as good as the multiplayer is, it still didn't meet my personal expectations.
MANY MANY things.Danny91 said:What was wrong with it? I should probably find out before getting itMallefunction said:
-Altair's missions are short, totally linear, and really don't 'reveal' anything important. They also introduce a very lack luster villain with no prior mention.
-Almost none of the characters return or even get a mention and yet we're supposed to give a shit about these new one-game characters who barely get any screen time as is. One of them even dies off screen and yet we're supposed to feel bad about it.
-The story is short. Less than 6 hours if you run through it (without redoing missions, opening shops, raising your brotherhood, etc)
-Lots of gameplay frustrations such as the fact that your notorious meter goes up every time you BUY a shop. You can kill 5 guards and end up with nothing, but GOD FORBID you buy a bookstore.
-Desmond's mission are neither well designed nor reveal anything about his character that wasn't established in the first game and are generally worthless. It's basically first person platforming if you were 3 feet tall so the camera is too low and you often will make missteps just because of that.
-The city is rather ugly and small which considering that Brotherhood made Rome LOOK FANTASTIC (on the same development cycle of one year), that is incredibly sad.
-There is no big revelation like the title promises. Honestly, the entire story is pointless because you only find out one thing at the end of it.
The main issue I had was that the game simply wasn't fun. AC is all about the flow of the game, but because so many assholes kept complaining about how 'easy' it was, Ubisoft added in all these unneeded gimmicks like the grading system and the raised awareness (for buying shops? WTF?!) to slow people down so they couldn't just buy up every shop and move on. You have to stop what you're doing and go and bribe heralds DOZENS of times. And if you don't? Then you get the fucking DEN missions which are horrid. They aren't fun, are poorly designed and the camera HATES you.
What's worse is there is now a huge plot hole.
BIG SPOILER HERE, DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU PLAN TO GET THE GAME
In Brotherhood, Ezio hid the Apple away in Rome when he was 47. We know the Apple was STILL there because otherwise Desmond and the others wouldn't have been able to take it at the end of Brotherhood. But at the end of Revelations, the Apple is shown to have been locked away in a vault with Altair during the crusades nearly 300 years prior to Ezio's birth. Given that all of the pieces of Eden are supposed to be different, why are there suddenly two Apples? Where did the second one even come from? Etc
I didn't realize Dead Rising: Off the Record was going to be put to disc. Based on the amount of advertising I saw for it I thought it would be another Case West DLC only kind of thing.
crysis 2 was pretty cool
hopefully crytek will fix the ai and add some originality to the multiplayer in cry3
red faction armageddon and saints row 3 were good, but failed to live up to their predecessors
and gears of war 3's campaign disappointed me but the multiplayer was great, that is until all my progress was wiped because epic didnt take the the time to kill all the bugs
fuck you epic i want my multiplayer skins back
also halo ce anniversary kinda sucks because of the lack of the original multiplayer
hopefully crytek will fix the ai and add some originality to the multiplayer in cry3
red faction armageddon and saints row 3 were good, but failed to live up to their predecessors
and gears of war 3's campaign disappointed me but the multiplayer was great, that is until all my progress was wiped because epic didnt take the the time to kill all the bugs
fuck you epic i want my multiplayer skins back
also halo ce anniversary kinda sucks because of the lack of the original multiplayer
Really? For the first time ever I think I'm actually gonna play through an AC game, Hookblade for increased vertical and making awesome jump-grabs, ziplines, bombs for tactical usage, a parachute! (Okay the parachute was in Brotherhood, i'm only guessing because I quit before I got anywhere)Mallefunction said:
Hold on, let's not forget how flawed the first one was (repetitive side missions to unlock main missions, weird AI is every way, bad combat, a very one note protagonist, etc.). Don't get me wrong, I was also underwhelmed by Revelations, but let's keep some perspective, it was still better than how this series started.Mallefunction said:
OT: Red Dead Redemption (I know, not from this year). I had never been that interested in Westerns, and I had generally been indifferent to open world games (save for Assassin's Creed of course),so a Western-style GTA game didn't seem like my thing. However, I figured I'd try it, and ended up loving every second.