Jake Tower
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Mass Effect 3 isn't a terrific game spoiled by a bad ending. It is a mediocre at best game that could only be saved by a satisfying endgame.
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Given that I think I had more fun with it than Uncharted 2, this is easy to believe.
Spieler Eins
Member
Masahiro Sakurais best game by far has been
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Kirbys Adventure
jokingbird
Member
I thought it was a beautiful game, but it was less of a platformer and felt more like a racing or sonic game in time trial mode. You basically steer left or right and if you mess up you just keep on driving. With the only challenge being the amount of time you give yourself to beat the game. I am always curious what draws people to the gameplay?
vikingvessel
Member
Journey being referred to as a life-affirming experience reeks of pomposity.
(didn't do it for me, though I can easily understand why others may have enjoyed it)
(didn't do it for me, though I can easily understand why others may have enjoyed it)
Combichristoffersen
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Oh, really?
I played BOTH Sonic and Mario as a kid and never gave two shits about the rivalry. What does that tell you?
INB4NOSTALGIA
That you live a some what ascetic life and like to torture yourself with 2d sonics?
Wait, what?
I swear people read the thread title and think they should just make up the fucking most dumb posts to ever grace the internet.
SafeinSound
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So glad I didn't buy this after everything i've heard about the ending.
Ventilaator
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Completely agreed. People who want to experience the Mass Effect series should definitely play 3, just because it will make 2 look infinitely better
Acrylic7
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ME1> ME2> ME3, right?
Nope. Just illustrating that Sonic games were and has always been crap and has only gotten as far as it has purely on the fact that those games were Mario's only "real" rival.
Ventilaator
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Pretty much. ME2 has several disappointing unfortunate decisions in it when compared to ME1 and ME3 has several disappointing unfortunate decisions in it when compared ot ME2.
So what you're saying is it's impossible to enjoy a Sonic game for it's own merits?
This doesn't even make sense. You know that lots of companies tried making a rival to Mario right? If people didn't like Sonic games they would have failed like all the rest.
In fact Sega made Sonic because they had already failed before with Alex Kidd.
Ventilaator
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I agree with him though. I can go back now to any Mario game I haven't played and enjoy it (And I'm not any kind of a Nintendo fanboy, I've never owned a N64, a Gamecube or a Wii) but any Sonic game I can only tolerate for maybe two levels.
I can totally see someone arguing the point that those game were never good, people just convinced themselves that they were good because that was the exclusive thing they had.
So? I don't find the Megaman games fun at all, but it doesn't mean they're shit.
I have nothing wrong with people not liking Sonic (or Mario). But I certainly don't like how he seriously believes people ONLY liked Sonic just because of the rivalry. He also acted his opinion of the games are fact.
^If you wanna take it as fact or not, that's fine by me.
Not impossible but I honestly don't understand as to why it has the fan base it has.
Because we enjoy them?
*shrug*
I'm not usually the kind of person to say something like that either, as I can find at least one thing that might make people like a given game, even if I find that title horrendous, but It astonishes me to my very core that Sonic games existed as long as they have.
I literally cannot understand it.
It really didn't help your case when you said the rivalry is the only reason why people like Sonic. Just saying.
If SF 3rd Strike is soooooo much better than modern fighters how come nobody plays it even for $15?
Goldeneye is terrible when compared to most other shooters from that time and doesn't deserve to be remembered as a "great shooter". CS, UT99, Q2, Q3A, RB6, and RB6:RS all hold up way better.
Everything about Skyrim is boring.
Goldeneye is terrible when compared to most other shooters from that time and doesn't deserve to be remembered as a "great shooter". CS, UT99, Q2, Q3A, RB6, and RB6:RS all hold up way better.
Everything about Skyrim is boring.
How many of those were on N64?
Three of them were, I think
Did they have 4 player? Goldeneye is the only FPS I played on N64 so I don't know.
I always hear it called one of the best shooters of all time without specifying platform.
That's really the only thing it succeeded at lol.
Phonomezer
Banned
Do they do anything besides chip tunes though?
I find it really overrated, but I wouldn't call it 'terrible'.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
Don't listen. ME2 is one of the worst "AAA" games of this generation and by far the worst in the trilogy. I mean unless you like running pointless errands for your dysfunctional crew with daddy issues.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I don't think it's terrible, but it was admittedly kinda eh. And good lord is the character design disgusting.
I must say, that I find it far more boring then I did 2. Granted I liked the partner dynamic and the characters where as 3 isn't doing nearly as much for me.
ColonialRaptor
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Nintendo is the most reprehensibly evil company in the games industry hiding it's evilness in smiles and flowers and fun.
Jaded Alyx
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Chinpoko_Master
Member
I feel like I might get jumped on by many people for this post since there seems to be a pretty large MGS fanbase here, but oh well. Here it goes!
Metal Gear Solid is the most overrated video game franchise of all time and is a prime example of bad videogame storytelling. The fact that it primarily uses cutscenes to tell its story means it has already failed. Very seldom do you actually feel like you're involved or interacting with the story, 99% of the time all of the cool and interesting shit that happens occurs during a cutscene. Basically, the story does nothing that plays to the biggest strength of video games: interactivity. This applies to any other video game that does the same, but MGS prides itself on its story so this is why I'm singling it out.
The story itself is not spectacular either. It's typical Japanese anime bullshit and is basically convoluted for the sake of being convoluted. The characters are flat and boring and much of the dialogue is long-winded and generally uninteresting. There is no subtlety. Talk of things like nanomachines and PMCs are also extremely ham-fisted and eye-roll inducing. The actual gameplay is fun, but it's not enough to make me forget the shortcomings of the series.
I think the fact that there are many people who consider the Metal Gear Solid series to be among the best says a lot about our industry and the garbage that we still accept as good or even great. I imagine 10-20 years from now, we will look back on games like Metal Gear Solid for measure of how far we've come.
All of that being said however, I am still a fan of the series. They are fun games and I enjoy the story for different reasons than most, in that I mean that I find it completely ridiculous and I enjoy laughing at it.
Metal Gear Solid is the most overrated video game franchise of all time and is a prime example of bad videogame storytelling. The fact that it primarily uses cutscenes to tell its story means it has already failed. Very seldom do you actually feel like you're involved or interacting with the story, 99% of the time all of the cool and interesting shit that happens occurs during a cutscene. Basically, the story does nothing that plays to the biggest strength of video games: interactivity. This applies to any other video game that does the same, but MGS prides itself on its story so this is why I'm singling it out.
The story itself is not spectacular either. It's typical Japanese anime bullshit and is basically convoluted for the sake of being convoluted. The characters are flat and boring and much of the dialogue is long-winded and generally uninteresting. There is no subtlety. Talk of things like nanomachines and PMCs are also extremely ham-fisted and eye-roll inducing. The actual gameplay is fun, but it's not enough to make me forget the shortcomings of the series.
I think the fact that there are many people who consider the Metal Gear Solid series to be among the best says a lot about our industry and the garbage that we still accept as good or even great. I imagine 10-20 years from now, we will look back on games like Metal Gear Solid for measure of how far we've come.
All of that being said however, I am still a fan of the series. They are fun games and I enjoy the story for different reasons than most, in that I mean that I find it completely ridiculous and I enjoy laughing at it.
Xenosaga are good, bro. Too bad the series got cut short, though.
Would've loved to see what Xenosaga V ended up being.
Acrylic7
Member
Xenosaga are good, bro. Too bad the series got cut short, though.
Would've loved to see what Xenosaga V ended up being.
Xenosaga 4 for ps3 would be awesome.
ColonialRaptor
Member
I'm glad that at least one person agree's with me. The worst part about it is, that I WANT Sony and Microsoft to assert their market dominance over the game industry and take Nintendo down, but I know it won't happen because of the way Nintendo is so evil they'll always weasel their way out of it.