What was the game that proved you had the last functioning brain amoung all humans?

[AsurasEyes]

Honestly, I'm kind of perplexed about the reaction to Skyrim. I remember a year or so ago when everyone was showering it with praise and calling it the best game of all time. It was a long time while mods were discussed, people lost a lot of sunlight, and I was a bit excited. I was too poor at the time to get the game, and when I finally did, the result was an overwhelming, "HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOEM!" for about a week. After my third character, a drow warrior-mage, I stared to wonder what was so wondrous and mind blowing about this game.

- Combat was a cup full of moldy ejaculate straight from the "clunky fairy"
- It had about six characters in the whole damn world, none of which were particularly interesting
- While it spent about three fourths of it's budget on a big, unique world, it had absolutely nothing to do besides kill maybe one or two of the dragons that would occasionally land and savage you.
- Boss fights were insanely hard and unforgiving, and meant fucking nothing to me when I finally beat them; aside from one more frustration the game had thrown at me that I had barely overcome by cheating with my health potions.
- I don't care what excuses anyone made for the glitches that made the game freaking unplayable for the first few days. Bethesda needs to get their shit together and beta test the hell out of their games BEFORE they put it on the market.
- The side quests were fucking disgraceful. Honestly, you got into a guild and maybe had six quests if you were lucky.

So, Escapists, tell me what game you thought was freaking terrible despite everyone saying otherwise. Tell me what made you realize, "Dear god, I'm the only one among my species who's got a properly functioning frontal lobe and opinion cortex"

 

[WoW Killer]

If the game was that awful, you'd have thought it would become apparent sooner than after your third character. What was your total playtime before you came to this realisation, and what, in your opinion, is an acceptable playtime for a single purchase game to deliver before becoming dull? Further, by what means does ones boredom threshold in relation to this acceptable playtime figure indicate ones cognitive abilities? I'm not seeing the connection.

There are many popular games I dislike. For instance I've never been fond of the 3D Platform genre, and I regard Mario 64 in particular as highly overrated. However, something we must all attempt to understand is that when people say they like something, it is not typically because they are being untruthful and it is not typically because they are mistaken. When someone says they like something, in all probability they really do like it. They are not wrong to like what they do, and they are not stupid for liking what they do.

 

[Tallim]

Skyrim was ok. Oblivion however I dumped after about 4 hours, awful awful game.

 

[renegade7]

I tried CoD Black Ops once. My friends: "OMG SHOOTERS FUN GUNSBULLETSBOOOM!!" This was my experience, in a nutshell:

Log in.

Killed by a sniper within 12 seconds.
Respawn.
Killed by same sniper.
Bunch of middle school kids call everyone gay.
Respawn.
Walk 10 feet from spawn point.
Shotgunner kills my "Gay noob ass" (quote).
Nearly manage to kill someone. I'm not entirely sure if that twitching back and forth maneuver that some shooter players do is a tactic to dodge bullets or just lag. Get killed again by a grown ass man talking about whooping my gay teenage punk ass.
Quit, return game for a refund and get sass from some kid behind me bitching about how I could just return 'the best game ever'.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

I'll agree with the OP's Skyrim nod and add Fallout 3 as well. Giant piles of boring, both of them. I honestly have no idea what enjoyment can be gained from either of these games. 90% of both games was travel. Not interesting travel, mind you, walking around empty deserted worlds/wastelands to get to the next objective... followed by a few minutes of boring, bland, unimaginative, clunky combat. Then it's back to the traveling.

NO THANKS, BETHESDA.

 

[Soopy]

I'll agree with the OP's Skyrim nod and add Fallout 3 as well. Giant piles of boring, both of them. I honestly have no idea what enjoyment can be gained from either of these games. 90% of both games was travel. Not interesting travel, mind you, walking around empty deserted worlds/wastelands to get to the next objective... followed by a few minutes of boring, bland, unimaginative, clunky combat. Then it's back to the traveling.

NO THANKS, BETHESDA.

I also agree for the most part. There the kind of games that you really have to make up your own fun. Which kinda fails for something that is supposed to be entertainment in its own right. When I pay $120aud for a game, I expect content. Otherwise I just spent $120aud on a fancy picture.

I dislike Skyrim, but not to the same degree that I do Mass Effect two. That game, blows. I honestly cannot figure out why people like it so much, especially if they played the first one prior.
The phoned in the story line, I mean the Protheans were an awesome concept in the original and then they just turned them into some random bad guys with fuck all explanation in the second.
The combat was shit, it seems technology regressed severely in the couple of years between games.
And the inventory/loot system was gimped to all hell.

Yet its seemingly the most popular game of the lot. Go figure.

 

[Muspelheim]

So, the general point of this seems to be that I'm stupid because I like a game you don't? Well, that's what I usually hear.

Honestly, people, get off your bloody horses. Not liking a game doesn't make you smarter. It makes you... Well, not liking that game. You've got your taste, other people have theirs. It doesn't make you special, like you've seen the light surrounded by people who haven't.

Why in Sheogorath's name can't we just play and let's play?

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Most modern games if i'm honest. I hear people gushing about how amazing so-and-so is and how it's the best thing ever and yet i remember games from 5-10 years ago that had all the 'amazing' features and more just with worse graphics. It saddens me greatly but thus is life

 

[Smooth Operator]

I dislike Skyrim, but not to the same degree that I do Mass Effect two. That game, blows. I honestly cannot figure out why people like it so much, especially if they played the first one prior.

Different people different taste, I for one like the wonder of exploration and that is what TES games do so well, if any other devs actually bothered with that concept Bethesda would go bust by now because everything else in their games is awful.

Meanwhile Bioware went progressively more for character drama (with Mass Effect and Dragon Age), which a lot of people actually wanted over a grand adventure, but that I am not a fan of.

 

[krazykidd]

Well i'm not as self-centered to think i am the only person with a functioning brain . Hell objectively speaking , if we were to assemble people with a functionin brain , i wouldn't be part of them . Anyways just to humour you , i will choose DEUS EX : HR . I made a thread about why i disliked this game quite a while ago . http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.337898-Can-someone-explain-why-Deus-Ex-HR-is-so-great . I will copy paste my post here explaining why i disliked it .

"So i just finished Deus Ex: HR , and i am not impressed to say the least. This game has been praised to heaven and back but almost everyone, so i am assuming it is I who is missing something , and that is what i would like explained. Just why does everyone love this game?

To start i have never played a Deus Ex game, this is my first. This was my first ( on possibly only ) playthrough i went through of Deus Ex:HR. I started on hard mode ( Give me deus ex ) as i usually do with games with serveral difficulty , and honestly , it was challenging at all ( outside the boss fights).

The enemy A.I is TERRIBLE to say the least. I didn't put any points in anything stealth ,so i was not undetectable. Enemies could walk right past me, and as long as i was crouching they would never see me. If i put a silencer on the pistol ( most OP weapon ever ) i could take out dozens of enemies in one room, without getting detected if i managed to headshot everyone that i saw ( which isn't hard to do once you have the laser sight).

The Story was meh . Nothing really happened. Adam was basically the Go get guy .You would think he would wize up after the dozenth time someone asked him to do something just because.

The character models and animations were terrible. The world was lifeless and small . The overall look of the game made me think of Perfect Dark on the N64. The cities, buildings and cars look like they were taken out of Perfect Dark, i was seriously not impressed, especially since Square enix was a publisher.

The characters all seemed pretty bland , and the dialogue was just a drag. Alpha protocol had better dialogue and characters than Deus Ex HR , yet people bashed Alpha protocol to death .

This is all my opinion ,i know everyone cannot be wrong, so i aknowledge that i must be missing something. Can someone people tell me what i am missing and why this game is so great?"

This is word for word what i said in my OP .

 

[Twilight_guy]

I don't base my opinion of people's intelligence on weather they agree with my opinions or not, so never. Game quality is subjective, yo.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

1. Oblivion - I don't know what it is about Oblivion. It has everything that makes me want to like it, but I just can't. It feels too generic.

2. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - It felt very average. It did some elements well (like stealth) while half-assing other elements (like shooting). The only things that made it feel unique were the conversation battles. Those were awesome.

3. Fallout: New Vegas - It was missing the charm from F3. The atmosphere took a pretty deep hit by transitioning to the desert.

 

[David VanDusen]

I think the concept of this is funny because I experience it often. Hell, I'd be hard-pressed to believe countless others do too.

This happens with every entertainment outlet ranging from novels, music, movies, and games. I think everyone has had a personal experience somewhere with at least one of those topics. By the time I saw Office Space it had already been out for several years, and I was severally upset that I had encountered so many people glorifying it. (It wasn't shit... it was just not the holy grail in my opinion.)

Frankly, when it comes to video games, I sit on the side of the fence of disliking most franchises. However, the one that rings out the most for me would be Resident Evil 4. I couldn't even count how many "HOLY COW SHIT BATMAN THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER!" expression in both reviews and casual interactions with people at the arcade, gamestop, and or Eb-games at the time. When I finally had the chance to play it I actually thought I had somehow missed the line for free stupid pills.

I admit I'd never liked or enjoyed a R.E. game previously. I've always hated the controls and rather watch someone (talented) play the game than suffering through the experience myself. That all being said, I couldn't grasp how RE4 was an "improvement" to either the franchise or video gaming in general.

Again... all my opinion here folks.
I agree too each their own. This is just along the lines of what the OP was aiming for I think.

 

[Ljs1121]

...None of them?

Everyone has a functioning brain. I'm not going to declare that anyone who plays games I don't like is a drooling vegetable.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

There are games that have issues but give you a fun new experiences. Some dont like deus ex, but it had fun upgrades. Same with Fallout games and TES games - they have their own good and bad parts to them. I had someone say Fallout 3 was shit cos he got killed quickly....turned out he was playing like MW. lol. Which leads me to another thing, im sure many people slagging down these games love FPS in which all you do is walk forward and hold down RT till enemies die. Rinse repeat until completion.

 

[aguspal]

I tried CoD Black Ops once. My friends: "OMG SHOOTERS FUN GUNSBULLETSBOOOM!!" This was my experience, in a nutshell:

Log in.

Killed by a sniper within 12 seconds.
Respawn.
Killed by same sniper.
Bunch of middle school kids call everyone gay.
Respawn.
Walk 10 feet from spawn point.
Shotgunner kills my "Gay noob ass" (quote).
Nearly manage to kill someone. I'm not entirely sure if that twitching back and forth maneuver that some shooter players do is a tactic to dodge bullets or just lag. Get killed again by a grown ass man talking about whooping my gay teenage punk ass.
Quit, return game for a refund and get sass from some kid behind me bitching about how I could just return 'the best game ever'.

I wonder if this is the exact same experience the cod haters get...


I honestly dont see anything wrong. yes the community can be retarded at times (apparently. I havent met any of those "13 years old" people are talking about, or immature people. or barely anyone that used a mic), but you kind of give up a bit too early... I personally find Cod games to be legimatly good, and HILARIOUS too. So funny. Plus, its addictive. But oh well, to each they own. After all, people somehow managed to like Dragon age, and I belive its the most boring game ever, so yeah.

 

[AsurasEyes]

"So, the general point of this seems to be that I'm stupid because I like a game you don't? Well, that's what I usually hear.

Honestly, people, get off your bloody horses. Not liking a game doesn't make you smarter. It makes you... Well, not liking that game. You've got your taste, other people have theirs. It doesn't make you special, like you've seen the light surrounded by people who haven't.

Why in Sheogorath's name can't we just play and let's play?"


It doesn't put me on a higher level of intellect. I merely didn't enjoy it, and cannot understand why so many people called it the BEST GAEM EVAR when it was mediocre at best. The title is hyperbole, but I can understand how hard that it is to grasp that concept of sarcasm through text. One of the reasons I prefer face to face. You lose a lot of subtle things on a screen.

 

[One Shot wonder]

3. Fallout: New Vegas - It was missing the charm from F3. The atmosphere took a pretty deep hit by transitioning to the desert.

Fallout 3 had a great atmosphere, but it wasn't fallout's atmosphere. Fallout 3's atmosphere was just 'the end of the world', Fallout's always been the series asking the question "So the world ends, then what?"and the atmosphere reflects that, life is hard and dirty and dangerous but there is life and there is hope. Man doesn't teeter on the edge of extinction so much as society does. There's rarely any real doubt that humanity in some guise will live on, even the Enclave's plan to spread an airborne virus to kill all mutants would have left the enclave themselves to continue humanity.

Washington DC was boring once you'd met all 12 interesting people and realised you have to side with them because they won't die. In Vegas there are people to meet, choices to be made, sides to pick and fights to start, end, avoid or profit from. War, War never changes. People are still fighting over things, for profit, for ideas, out of a sense of loyalty, justice, 'morality', anger, vengeance, hatred, fear, bigotry or any of the myriad of other reasons man has always fought fellow man. People are what makes Fallout interesting, blasted masonry and decaying ruins or scorching desert and old world glories are merely setting and location for the action.

 

[Charli]

Online shooters, never will you find a more wretched hive of scu-Misogyny and immature/insecurity. Not worth the brain power I'd have to spend on them. I play solo campaigns and then I'm done with them. Not touching the online community with a 40ft pole.