what is your least favorite game that evrey one else like's

[MapTa]

Call of Duty is the worst thing to ever come to gaming.

That's all you need to say. Modern Warfare was fun. But Modern Warfare 2 pushed it over the edge, and Black Ops just ruined it.

 

[Gregg Lonsdale]

Dawn of War. I dislike most RTS's for the reason that they're all slow and boring, but this one embodies my hatred. Whenever I'm at a lan party all my friends try to make me play it, and I always have to tell them to piss off while I get drunk and play portal by myself in the corner.

 

[psicat]

Half-Life 2, never liked it, it always seemed just mediocre at best and was rather dull to play through. Add to that the fact that it's the most stupidly over idolized game and my dislike has become outright hate over the years.

My second least favorite is the Call of Duty series, another collection of over hyped mediocre games. Though I must admit I give them a go when I find one cheap and used. I found Modern Warfare somewhat fun and entertaining, the rest not at all.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Judging by the thread title: everyone who said Halo is posting in the wrong thread.
OT: Dragon Age 2. FUCK. THAT. GAME. IN. HELL.

 

[Tdc2182]

Terraria. Cant ANYONE see that it has Minecraft Written All over it!?

I wish it did, I bought it because I had read that it was like a 2D Minecraft. It's more like a really bad platform game where you can build if you have the patience. Last I checked (and it's been a few weeks) the game had no pause and the resolution was only 800x600. Pause has been standard since atleast 1985 (Super Mario Bros. on the NES) and how long ago was it that most PC users ran 800x600?

The problem is building is one of the few things you rarely do.

Look at it this way,

Minecraft= open world adventure game with emphasis on building structures to help you survive

Terraria= Open world Adventure game with emphasis on exploring, adventuring, and looting.

And seriously, you're comparing the graphics of these games? Last time I checked, people don't buy Minecraft to test their specs.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Now I know it's not even out yet, but at the moment, it's Skyrim.

Not due to anything with the actual game itself, I'm sure it'll be good, probably great, but for a lot of people it seems like the second coming of Christ. And it's not even out yet. Fair enough, judge a game properly once it's out, but some people (not here on The Escapist specifically) won't allow a single criticism about Skyrim without flying of the handle.

Note that my opinion on Skyrim is definitely likely to change when it actually gets released.

 

[King Toasty]

Terraria and Uncharted. Terraria because I found it boring, and Uncharted because it was just shit.

Why do I think it was shit? Wave after wave of pirates, then wave after wave of overpowered soldiers, then wave after wave of zombies. And then random quicktime events. Sure, the set pieces are cool, and the movement is alright, but inFamous has better parkour and War for Cybertron has better scenery. I have no fucking clue how it got so many awards.

 

[lord.jeff]

Most FPS games but I'm just not a fan of the genre.

I game I just don't get we it got the following it has is Assassins Creed.

 

[Hot Madness]

Gears of War: It felt like slogging through mud with shitty controls with people and a plot I didn't give 2 shits for.

Final Fantasy VII: Ever since its release, every FF except for IX and XI have been trying to duplicate its success and aesthetic with very limited success, the FF series went into a spiral it hasn't recovered from since (for me anyway).

I'm going to get murdered here but... Any Mario, or Zelda game: This is purely my opinion, and it's a minority one for sure. I never had any fun for very long playing a Mario game, I discovered early on that platformers and me don't get along and the series frustrated and bored me more than entertained. Similarly for any Zelda game, the frustration I built up for Zelda one and two on the NES just carried over, sorry.

 

[Dr.Cereal1]

Call of Duty.
So overhyped.
It eats the game industry, making the idiotic general gaming population buying one or two games and leaving many games from getting the sales they deserve.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

And on the subject of getting these items, the original class-packs can be obtained by completing achievements. Plus you can get all the items by random drops, trading with other players, and just straight out buying them. So it's fairly easy to get any of the items. Hell, you can just leave the game on over night on an idle server to just get a bunch of random drops without even playing.

Your argument basically stems for a perceived notion that the new items are better than the basic loadout, which is simply not true. You'll find a large number of Scouts prefer the original Scattergun over any of the other guns.

You shouldn't have to leave something on overnight or acquire it with real money. If it was truly fair, it would be made available to everybody from the get-go, with only vanity items being grindable / purchasable.

Obviously the new items have some sort of significant impact on the meta-game and are seen as being beneficial and superior to the old loadout, otherwise people wouldn't focus so heavily on grinding them out. I don't think it's just a matter of finding that one playstyle that makes your giblets tickle. I played a couple of games of TF2 a while back and got absolutely creamed in all of them. I noted they all had fancy guns with all those side grade effects. I also noticed that before these items got introduced, i didn't have anywhere near as much trouble being even remotely useful as i do now. This leads me to put two and two together - the new items have created imbalance that has left me and others like me in a disadvantaged situation until we eventually managed to crawl ourselves back up to the level of the community by going through the same ridiculous grind for achievements and weapons that is unironically reminiscent of an MMO.

Let's break this down:

You shouldn't have to leave something on overnight or acquire it with real money

You don't have to, you'll get a lot of items just through the course of playing, and if you get duplicates, you can craft them to make items you don't have. You also can get items by completing achievements.

If it was truly fair, it would be made available to everybody from the get-go, with only vanity items being grindable / purchasable.

And I would agree with you, as do most TF2 players, we'd love to just get the items as well.

Obviously the new items have some sort of significant impact on the meta-game and are seen as being beneficial and superior to the old loadout, otherwise people wouldn't focus so heavily on grinding them out.

I think you're missing a big part of human nature with that statement, namely "Oh! Shiny!" People like new things, they also like to have new things. Gamers are also notorious completionists, and love to own everything in a game. I've tried to get a bunch of items with no intention of using them, you'll find that a lot of the player-base of TF2 does the same thing.

I don't think it's just a matter of finding that one playstyle that makes your giblets tickle.

It really is. For instance, there's the Engineer item, the Gunslinger. It gives a health bonus, but removes normal sentries and replaces them with "Mini-sentries", little turrets that build really quickly, are cheap, do little damage compared to regular sentries and aren't upgradable. So for someone who likes to button up and hide in a corner with their fortress of death, this isn't the item for them. But if you're the sort of engineer that likes to be in the thick of it and provide support directly where it's needed, that's the item for you.

I played a couple of games of TF2 a while back and got absolutely creamed in all of them. I noted they all had fancy guns with all those side grade effects. I also noticed that before these items got introduced, i didn't have anywhere near as much trouble being even remotely useful as i do now.

I would say that's more because the meta had changed while you weren't looking. You can still do just fine with the default weaponry in that situation, you just need to adapt. I haven't changed the loadout of my Soldier for ages, I just use it differently.

This leads me to put two and two together - the new items have created imbalance that has left me and others like me in a disadvantaged situation until we eventually managed to crawl ourselves back up to the level of the community by going through the same ridiculous grind for achievements and weapons that is unironically reminiscent of an MMO.

Disadvantaged not because you were using old items, but because you didn't know how to use them in the current environment. Ultimately, this is a good thing. It keeps the game evolving and staying fresh. You don't have to go through all those hoops to get the new items if you don't want to, anyone can be just as effective with the starting gear as they can with the newer stuff. That "crawling back up to the level of the community" wasn't you getting the items, it was you understanding how the game had changed in your absence.

So yes, it affects the meta game, sure. But they aren't unbalanced.

 

[Epona]

Terraria. Cant ANYONE see that it has Minecraft Written All over it!?

I wish it did, I bought it because I had read that it was like a 2D Minecraft. It's more like a really bad platform game where you can build if you have the patience. Last I checked (and it's been a few weeks) the game had no pause and the resolution was only 800x600. Pause has been standard since atleast 1985 (Super Mario Bros. on the NES) and how long ago was it that most PC users ran 800x600?

The problem is building is one of the few things you rarely do.

Look at it this way,

Minecraft= open world adventure game with emphasis on building structures to help you survive

Terraria= Open world Adventure game with emphasis on exploring, adventuring, and looting.

And seriously, you're comparing the graphics of these games? Last time I checked, people don't buy Minecraft to test their specs.

Perhaps you could point out where I compared graphics. Hell, I made no comparison at all much less about graphics.

I said that the pause function has been standard since atleast 1985, the devs of Terraria obviously decided that standard wasn't worth their time and 800x600 hasn't been the most used resolution for PC users for atleast 10 years. I was running 1024x768 before Win XP came out.

Releasing a game in 2011 without a pause function and running only at 800x600 is retarded when most games released in 2011 have full support for atleast 1920x1080. Resolution is not the same thing as graphics. Look it up if you didn't already know that.

 

[King Toasty]

Now I know it's not even out yet, but at the moment, it's Skyrim.

Not due to anything with the actual game itself, I'm sure it'll be good, probably great, but for a lot of people it seems like the second coming of Christ. And it's not even out yet. Fair enough, judge a game properly once it's out, but some people (not here on The Escapist specifically) won't allow a single criticism about Skyrim without flying of the handle.

Note that my opinion on Skyrim is definitely likely to change when it actually gets released.

Yeah, gamers have the habit of overhyping things. And by overhyping, I mean constructing shrines out of pictures of Bethesda employees, then snorting ground-up copies of Morrowind in hopes of glimpsing into the Elder Scrolls future, just to watch some Skyrim gameplay. This is followed by scraping up enough money to preorder it, then bothering friends, family and everyone in your immediate vicinity about the game and it's many gameplay skills and magical restorative abilities to cripples.


Not that that happened. No.

 

[V8 Ninja]

While I wouldn't say that I don't like it, Bioshock never really caught me as it did with other people. I found that the game had a few really good moments (the beginning hour-or-so, the plot-twist, etc.), a solid single-player campaign, and a really shitty middle-of-the-road ending. However, other people praised it as magnificent and said it was why games should be taken seriously. My first reaction to these thoughts was "HAHAHA-What?". Yes, Bioshock is a really good game, but it didn't really do anything new and it didn't turn gaming on its head.

 

[pwnsore]

Starcraft 2, I bought it, got a little way through the campaign, turns out RTS's just aren't for me.

 

[Im Phelpsing It]

Ive never been able to get into Final Fantasy, and I can't stand any of the GTA games made before IV.

 

[stockvillain]

GTA. Ay of them. Tried to get into them, really I did, but . . . meh. The whole thing just felt "dumb" to me. Also, not too keen on Assassin's Creed.

 

[Nazulu]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Not even if you haven't played Melee before it. The game play is absolute garbage compared to the previous games.

Starcraft 2 is another amazing wonder. The game play is decent yet ancient and the story and script in general are just fucked.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Starcraft 2, I bought it, got a little way through the campaign, turns out RTS's just aren't for me.

It could just be Starcraft that's your problem. It is one of the harder to get into RTS's.

 

[Ronan Gallagher]

This is certainly one of the biggest troll baity threads I've seen in a while.

Terraria. Cant ANYONE see that it has Minecraft Written All over it!?

And even if they are similar, what the hell's the problem with that?

When I say Minecraft is written all over it I mean in the broader sense that, if minecraft was never made, im pretty sure terraria wouldn't have been made either. Im pretty sure the developers of terriaria looks at notch's update's of new patch's almost Daily, A lot of things that notch has promised but not being able to do yet show up in terraria.

But now playing it for the past thirty minutes make me want to take my comment back, saying it is like minecraft shames the name of Minecraft horridly, Building a Small shelter in minecraft somewhat sparks the imagination that "Well if i put a tunnel here and then have it split over there and..." usually comes to this: "and if i make a diamond floor on the fourth floor balcony i can..." in terraria its "Im gonna build a box with a door!" usually comes to this "Im gonna build a bigger box on top of this one and make a bed!" And the difficulty curve, like usually by the third night you will be kitted out in full gold or whatever, the mines are totally natural and go down to a decent depth, keep away from the caves which you can see easily see and you'll be fine! Terraria are one Explody Bush monster away from being sued!