Nameless Voice on 3/6/2009 at 12:33
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
"Urban Chaos". It got great reviews, but I found it rather lacklustre.
Urban Chaos by Muckyfoot, or Urban Chaos: Riot Response?
steo on 3/6/2009 at 12:50
Half-Life 2 would be the biggest one here. I couldn't stand the damn thing. Played it through to Nova Prospect the first time around but just found the scripted sequences to be a bore, the enemies annoying and the weapons were mostly pretty gutless and dull. The gravity gun was kinda fun for a bit, but I got my fill of using that from the demo. I also really didn't enjoy the gameplay mechanics like the very small carrying capacity for ammo, the boxes of infinite rockets/grenades/whatever, the helicopters that could only be defeated with the aforementioned boxes or whatever other mounted gun turret or object that the developers decided would be the only way to get past this point in the game. And the puzzles which all involve stacking cinderblocks on see-saws. I really enjoyed Half Life, but it seems like all of valves attempts to improve on the first game made it worse for me.
Zeno Clash Perhaps not a widely known or liked game, I just expected a lot more from it. It all seemed a bit too simple to really click for me, and though the fighting wasn't badly done, it wasn't done well enough to make up it's other shortcomings.
Koki on 3/6/2009 at 12:55
My kind of thread!
Quote Posted by Thirith
(It's not so much about saying, "People loved this game, but they're idiots, because I know that it actually sucks krogan balls...")
damn
nicked on 3/6/2009 at 12:56
I like Far Cry 2 and Quake 2. So there! Quake 2 hasn't aged well, but I think the setting and the world it presented were extremely well made. The weapons and combat all felt very satisfying, and there were some very interesting enemies - it was really the first FPS I played where all the enemies were consistent - the Strogg all looked like they belonged to the same race of cyborg monstrosities, whereas (for example) Doom or Quake 1 monsters were a mish-mash of different random creatures with no real connection other than the fact that they all wanted to kill you.
WingedKagouti on 3/6/2009 at 13:00
Half-Life Poor story, poor bosses and poor final levels.
Fallout 2 I enjoy Fallout 1, Tactics and 3, but for some reason I just can't play through that game.
Baldur's Gate series I completed the first, but only because I was sure it would become good at some point, the second got dropped somewhere around the asylum. At that point, I had given up trying to find a decent game in the series.
Stalker Felt like a poor mans Oblivion with Guns to me. An inferior Fallout 3 if you will.
The Witcher The main character grated on my nerves as early as the introduction sequence and he didn't get any better after the tutorial. If someone has a hack where you swap him with Lara Croft or Rayne (from BloodRayne), it might be playable, if only for the hillarity of the body/voice combo.
Painkiller Far too disjointed levels for my taste, really felt like it had a different creator for each level.
Sacred It felt like it couldn't make up its mind as to what kind of game it wanted to be and failed in merging RPG sub-genres.
Age of Wonders and HoMM series Both lack the element I found vital for Master of Magic, randomized worlds and user placable cities.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth It completely failed to create any kind of atmosphere beyond annoyance for me.
Dead Space Turning on god mode, giving myself (almost) infinite ammo and treating it like a shooting gallery made it nearly enjoyable. Nearly. The game without cheats floated somewhere between boring and dreadfully crappy.
Andarthiel on 3/6/2009 at 13:02
Kingdom Hearts(It's an experiment gone wrong. Disney and JRPG, big mistake)
Final Fantasy(all of the main series except XII, the combat system was awful and all of them had pretty much the same cliche story.)
Any Civilization game(I guess I just don't like any Strategy game that doesn't have real time battles because I also don't like Europa Universalis)
World of Warcraft(The absolute worst MMO ever yet people love it for some unknown reason)
Gears of War(Another generic shooter with aliens)
Halo(Ditto,except it's First Person. It just doesn't really stand out to me since there are plenty of better battlefield type FPSes out there like Battlefront, UT3 etc. It's just X-box fanboy-ism)
All non-tennis sports games- Boring as hell(Wii Sports doesn't count)
Trading Sims-I just don't understand why people like these borefests.
Crysis-All I can say is lol. It probably works better as a tech demo than a proper game because I got bored after about half an hour playing it.
Thirith on 3/6/2009 at 13:16
Quote Posted by Andarthiel
Any Civilization game(I guess I just don't like any RTS that doesn't have real time battles because I also don't like Europa Universalis)
You do know, though, that RTS stands for *real-time* strategy, right? And that turn-based games by definition aren't RTS?
EvaUnit02 on 3/6/2009 at 13:19
Quote Posted by Andarthiel
I guess I just don't like any RTS that doesn't have real time battles
The illogic behind this quote speaks for itself.
Ostriig on 3/6/2009 at 14:02
The Sims - Like, seriously, wtf?
Sports games - No thanks. I remember playing an old, simple football simulator on the Sega Mega Drive, and that's it. Simply not for me.
WWII FPS games - A setting that doesn't appeal to me. Not only is it very common, but it usually seems to be approached with the exact same streamlined, black & white, and still hyper-glorified approach typical to Hollywood fairy-tales. Overall dull and cheesy, and I stand a good chance of turning on the Discovery channel to find a more captivating program on the matter.
GTA - I saw Vice City being played many times at friends', and it was recommended to me countless times, but I never got it. It looked fine, but it didn't strike me as the sort of game I'd play in my own time.
Flight sims - I really wanted to like this stuff back when I last tried some (IL-2 Sturmovik demo, I think) but we just didn't click.
Andarthiel on 3/6/2009 at 14:17
Quote Posted by Thirith
You do know, though, that RTS stands for *real-time* strategy, right? And that turn-based games by definition aren't RTS?
Yes, I know. I meant that I don't like
Strategy games that don't have realtime combat like the Civ series.
