What's the most average game you've played?
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Sniper elite. It wasn't bad, but it never really met my expectations. So it ranks as the most average game I own.
Fable 2. I don't remember anything from it, it's like I played through it in a trance. It was incredibly average. The same goes for Red Faction: Guerilla, Mass Effect 2 and Halo 3. I'd probably say Spore too, but I've never played it. My brother has, and he can't explain why he played it and kinda enjoyed it, and I can't think of any reason to play it, although I kind of what to, but I can only ever play most games for like 10 minutes before getting bored now (Spore won't be any different I imagine), and I can't be fucking bothered installing it.
most new games are pretty average. I'm somewhat disappointed that only old games (ones i played when i was 4) are the only games that i can lose myself to. Dragon Age, although fun, was somewhat a hassle and annoying to get every little fucking thing. God of war series, although i'm a huge fan, are pretty mediocre. After you do all that stuff, where is the replay value? Oh sure there is hard mode then fuck you mode (and when hermes can 2 shot me that's when i put down the controller) It's saddens me to say this but i think "Next gen" graphics are ruining games. The only thing i'm SUPER excited for is Scott Pilgrim, cause it's an old school beat em up... from the trailer at least. or the depressing wow:cataclysm... i just wanna play the kul tiras again, their plot was probably my favorite in warcraft 2. Plus their legalized pirates!
Dragon Age. A good game but so generic and bland (I haven't played it all the way through but that's because I can only play so much of it before getting bored and going on to something else) It has some really good bits, and some shocking bits. So overall just a plain old rpg that I don't think adds anything to the genre
Mario Kart and Sneak King. Neither are bad. Neither will set the world on fire. But they are enjoyable if not highly memorable.
I don't think "average" means "game I found okay". I think it means "incredibly common place". Insipid, if you will.
That being the case, The Orange Box and Canabalt are most certainly not "average" games in my opinion. In fact, those two games beat the crap out of convention pretty bad. I think it's rather intuitive and that there has been nothing quite like it before.
In my opinion, the most commonplace game would probably be any game made by Bioware post-Kotor. The same damn action gameplay coupled with an encyclopedia's worth of text in dialogue boxes. Couple that with the karma meter and you have an experience as intuitive as taking 5 personality quizzes on facebook, then playing a stupid flash game.
I don't think dialogue boxes are particularly bad, but I've seen games who have done them better like Deus Ex. Games that understand the subjectivity of morality and create long-term consequences more complex than "It makes me feel safer knowing you're around."
Speaking of which, Fallout 3 gets spared from this title because at least they took the time to come up with a genuinely charming aesthetic that drove me to explore more of the world than I otherwise would.
So yeah, that's the gist of it. There' still a multitude of first-person shooters, fighting games, and other genre archetypes to tackle, but the Bioware game model is just so much more boring and tedious.
That being the case, The Orange Box and Canabalt are most certainly not "average" games in my opinion. In fact, those two games beat the crap out of convention pretty bad. I think it's rather intuitive and that there has been nothing quite like it before.
In my opinion, the most commonplace game would probably be any game made by Bioware post-Kotor. The same damn action gameplay coupled with an encyclopedia's worth of text in dialogue boxes. Couple that with the karma meter and you have an experience as intuitive as taking 5 personality quizzes on facebook, then playing a stupid flash game.
I don't think dialogue boxes are particularly bad, but I've seen games who have done them better like Deus Ex. Games that understand the subjectivity of morality and create long-term consequences more complex than "It makes me feel safer knowing you're around."
Speaking of which, Fallout 3 gets spared from this title because at least they took the time to come up with a genuinely charming aesthetic that drove me to explore more of the world than I otherwise would.
So yeah, that's the gist of it. There' still a multitude of first-person shooters, fighting games, and other genre archetypes to tackle, but the Bioware game model is just so much more boring and tedious.
Ratchet: Deadlocked. I love the franchise, I really do, but that game... Too short, too easy. I wouldn't call it a Ratchet & Clank game. I would call it a Ratchet & Clank 3 clone.
There is very little I can add to that, apart from explaining why I feel the exact same way.UnableToThinkOfName said:
Lack of testing or beta, meaning lots of glitches and unfairness. Single player is not worked on AT ALL (lack of explanations, leaves the whole thing open at the end). You cannot change the language of the game, although there are areas where the NPCs talk in English when they aren't supposed to (Ghost: Blanco eliminado {spanish} Cpt Price: Targets at one o'clock!)
This game lacks pretty much everything.
"The Experiment".
It wasn't really mediocre, it was brilliant and absolutely awful at the same time, resulting in a game I played most of before I got bored and annoyed. Sorry, ENN, you got beaten to second person gameplay. And that part actually worked beautifully.
It wasn't really mediocre, it was brilliant and absolutely awful at the same time, resulting in a game I played most of before I got bored and annoyed. Sorry, ENN, you got beaten to second person gameplay. And that part actually worked beautifully.