NinjaBoiX
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You lucky man.
Admittedly, the game runs better than the demo would suggest, but oh my its a bad game. In pretty much every sense, it's just horrendously bad.
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Admittedly, the game runs better than the demo would suggest, but oh my its a bad game. In pretty much every sense, it's just horrendously bad.
flipswitch
Member
No contest for me. COD
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eclassifiedtoastyToast
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Oh, I guess I did. I thought you meant it as an intentional aspect that I was supposed to run with because it was intentional. Sort of like, if in GT high performance cars handled terribly to communicate that you weren't good at driving them. It's just a bad idea
I wouldn't have minded Alan if he was self aware but his blandness seems all encompassing
There's an interesting plot in there but man, him and Barry...
You know, actually one should play a game before judging it; but damn, almost every journalist and most of GAF agree that this game is shit. Maybe I'll get it when it gets dirt cheap on PC and I got really nothing better to play (which is hard to imagine when I look at the releases in 2013), but I will never pay much money or attention for this turd.
Synth_floyd
Banned
Diablo 3 is a good game, it's just really short. It takes 5-10 hours to beat it the first time and then if you want afterwards you can beat it again and again and again. I wouldn't recommend that since after the 2nd or 3rd time it gets boring but the first time it's really fun.
ShinobiFist
Banned
Forgot to mentioned Max Payne 3. What a frustrating experience. Waste of a cover system. Some people told me "I'm playing it wrong" fuck that, its in the game, don't give me that lame ass excuse. The worst encounter I had was a boat stage. NPC's where on top and was taking cover inside the boat, but because the hair counts as part of the hitbox, I was getting tagged badly. The aiming they had was fucking amazing. I rather play Gears by my damn self is insane.
-Stranger-
Junior Member
This upsets me, i just bought it the other day and it should arrive any day now...
walking fiend
Member
I didn't particularly play bad games this year; but MGS4 was the most disappointing
NinjaBoiX
Member
Max Payne 3 was way too hard, even on easy. I died a few times an hour. I'm no gaming savant, but I'd like to think I can hold my own. But most reviews complained about the crushing difficulty also. I don't think I'd ever play it on even normal.
It's actually my GOTY for 2012, by a large margin. But this isn't the thread for that debate. There's an extremely solid game in there if you take the time to learn how to play and give it a shot. It's also much more fun playing it with a friend. Even if it just shipped with Mercenaries, I would have loved it.
If there's any game I wouldn't judge on just the demo, it's RE6.
So, I've played some bad games this year. If I had to pick, I think Risen 2 might be the worst, but it certainly wasn't the one I had the least amount of fun with. For what it's worth, I enjoyed Risen 2, even if it did eventually become a bit boring for me.
No, what I'll talk about is the game that I fucking hated. A sequel to a franchise I've enjoyed over the years, that totally ruined the entire series to me with its shitty ending, its watered down gameplay, its nonsense story and its insipid, poorly thought out design. No, not Mass Effect 3. Assassin's Creed 3 is the worst game I've played this year. I'm not the best at explaining myself, but I'll give it a shot.
I thought Assassin's Creed was a pretty fun, ambitious game that didn't quite achieve what it set out to do. Assassin's Creed 2 refined mechanics from the sequels and improved on the storytelling, the combat and the side missions. Brotherhood was a bit more subtle, but is absolutely the pinnacle of the series. I didn't play Relevations - I might go back and try it out eventually. So, there's some quick background.
Assassin's Creed 3 has a strong start - you're introduced to a cool character, you get to do some assassinating, and the early boat missions are pretty sweet. The chapter on the boat, and a single level later on, are perhaps the only enjoyable things in the entire game. So, you get off the boat, and then the framerate dies. And so does everything else.
I'll just go through the mechanical changes first.
The combat, at first look, is the same as it's ever been. It's a game of counter then attack and not much more. They've added in a second type of counter, and the firearms are a bit more overstated now. However, the combat suffered from streamlining. No longer is the hand to hand combat option viable, which was a favourite of mine in past games. In 2 and Brotherhood, you could counter each enemy in the game provided they were low on health (something that is no longer transparent in 3) and take their weapon for their own. In 3, however, this is limited to the regular soldiers. As often as I tried, I could not take weapons out of the heavier enemies, nor a few other special types. This was a disappointing change, but hey, I'll live with it. There was one major problem with the combat system that I couldn't avoid, though, which was the countering system.
That is to say, countering was broken. Every, single, fucking, fight, enemies would attack me without the counter icon. Every time this happened, I was unable to counter that enemy, and was hit. This could happen while I was countering or attacking another enemy, and it severely disrupted the combat flow. I'm not sure if this was a bug, but it really did happen every fight. Hitting the counter button before these enemies attacked did nothing, and would often break me out of my current animation. After talking with someone else who played AC3, it appears they didn't run into this issue, so maybe it was a bug relating to my platform (PC) or perhaps even my specific computer setup or game installation. I don't know, but it was frustrating as hell.
But, for the most part, combat was acceptable. It wasn't as fun as before, but it'll do.
So, the free running. It was kind of the reason Assassin's Creed 1 did so well. It's often my favourite part of games, especially when it feels rewarding. Now, don't get me wrong, Assassin's Creed 1 and 2's free running didn't really have much player agency. 2 and Brotherhood fixed this a little, by adding an additional longer but more risky jump that just gave you something else to do while climbing. To compliment, structures would often have small climbing puzzles to make sure you're engaged with the mechanic even if it was simple. Where Assassin's Creed 3 fails is in a few areas. One, the button presses were reduced. You no longer have the further jump - it's now automatic, and conveys no risk. You now hold one less button, which creates an issue I'll cover shortly. The rooftop environments are far less interesting, but are also made worse by the overpopulation of guards on rooftops. For nearly the entirety of Assassin's Creed 3, I was on the ground, because it was faster and less frustrating.
So, the problem with Assassin's Creed freerunning is simply that the player character is far too sensitive to jumping on top of things. He'll snap to practically any crate, lamp post, fence or side of a wall you're even remotely close to. If you're running at the slightest of angles through a doorway, Connor will instead of passing through the door, run directly up the side of the wall next to it. The problem, I think, is partly because of the reduction in buttons. In previous games, you had to hold down RT + A + Up in order to freerun, and holding RT+Up instead just had you run. Now with the reduction of pressing A, you are freerunning all time, causing you to stick to far too many objects. In short, the freerunning is a mess mechanically. It's not fun, it's janky at the best of times and game breaking at others. It makes some chase sequences unbearable, while making the game itself intolerable.
Then, I guess, we have the mission design. Assassin's Creed 1 certainly didn't have much of that, but Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood were great. Objectives were lenient but fulfilling, and checkpointing was good so you never had to replay much should you screw up. Yet... Assassin's Creed 3 is full of absolutely atrocious, unfun, anger inducing objectives. For most of the game the missions were just tutorialising mechanics that were introduced years ago. Some had incredibly harsh stealth sections, following people to locations, the canon / ordering minigames, just... I can't actually pinpoint too many criticisms, because the entire game was just monotonous. There's a sequence on a horse where you have to, along the way, neutralise some message bearers on the way to a location. One of these messengers was lying on the side of the dirt row, crouched down overlooking his dead horse. So, he wasn't going anywhere. I left him be, and continued on. There were four more along the corridor you're forced to run down, each of which I disposed of. Yet, because I didn't kill that first guy beside the road, who wasn't moving at all, I failed this very time sensitive objective because somehow I didn't prevent this message from arriving to the place that I was at already. Great.
Oh, and I can't forget the optional objectives. Okay, so this is a minor, nitpicky complaint. For every single mission in the game, there are 1-5 optional objectives on your screen. These have you vary your play style to make the missions harder... for no other reason than the missions are incredibly easy. You have a mission where you have to kill 10 guards? Why not make it so you can only use your assassin's blade. You have a mission to sneak into a town, and there's a hay cart in front of you - the optional objective is to not use the cart, and instead to climb up on the trees. Okay, so my complaint here isn't that the optional objectives exist. My complaint is how obnoxious they are. At the start of every mission, you get a screen-filling list of objectives that seldom disappear. You get reminded with an annoying noise and a bigass cross every time you fail one. At the end of every single mission, you're forced to watch a 10 second unskippable menu that checks or crosses the optional objectives you failed or succeeded. And if you do all the optional objectives? You get nothing. If you fail every single one of them? Nothing.
They're annoying, they had no reason to be so prominent, they were detrimental to letting players do what they fucking want to, and by the end of the game I was intentionally failing every one I could just to spite the stupid fucking mechanic. You don't want me killing 15 guards? Fuck you game, I'll kill 30 of them. You don't want me touching the water? Fuck you game, I'll swim in them. Don't tell me what I can't do.
Oh, and all of the side objectives sucked. They all sucked. They might as well have not been there. They were boring, had no substance at all, didn't reward you in the slightest, and existed purely to waste time in the fucking flat game we were given. Climbing towers was nothing more than holding up on the controller until you got there. The betting games were all garbage. The homestead missions were shit. They were all bad. Everything was so bad.
So, I really have to ask, why the fuck was this an open world game. The world did nothing. Why not just make it a linear game? I guess to justify an art budget. Like, I didn't really try the ship side missions. I suppose they might have been cool. They weren't fun enough for me to want to do more than the three ones you're forced to do, so I didn't bother.
The story was complete bullshit. The story's always been bullshit. But holy crap was the ending bullshit. I won't spoil it, but what the fuck did they do to this series.
I mentioned that there was one cool level after the boat level. I won't spoil it. I'm tired of writing about Assassin's Creed 3. I fucking hated that game. I think I hate AC3 more than I hate any other game in existence. Assassin's Creed 3 is the worst game I've played this year. I'm done with that franchise. I'm done with it.
And the funny thing is, I knew this game would be garbage. And I played it anyway. People were telling me to stop, because it was emotionally ruining me. But I had to see for myself. I had to see how fucking bad that game is. And it's terrible. It's goddamn terrible. And I didn't even properly discuss the story, and I lack the writing ability to describe my disappointment during every single mission in that game. God damn.
holy fuck nobody is going to read this how did I take 50 minutes to write this what the fuuuuuck
No, what I'll talk about is the game that I fucking hated. A sequel to a franchise I've enjoyed over the years, that totally ruined the entire series to me with its shitty ending, its watered down gameplay, its nonsense story and its insipid, poorly thought out design. No, not Mass Effect 3. Assassin's Creed 3 is the worst game I've played this year. I'm not the best at explaining myself, but I'll give it a shot.
I thought Assassin's Creed was a pretty fun, ambitious game that didn't quite achieve what it set out to do. Assassin's Creed 2 refined mechanics from the sequels and improved on the storytelling, the combat and the side missions. Brotherhood was a bit more subtle, but is absolutely the pinnacle of the series. I didn't play Relevations - I might go back and try it out eventually. So, there's some quick background.
Assassin's Creed 3 has a strong start - you're introduced to a cool character, you get to do some assassinating, and the early boat missions are pretty sweet. The chapter on the boat, and a single level later on, are perhaps the only enjoyable things in the entire game. So, you get off the boat, and then the framerate dies. And so does everything else.
I'll just go through the mechanical changes first.
The combat, at first look, is the same as it's ever been. It's a game of counter then attack and not much more. They've added in a second type of counter, and the firearms are a bit more overstated now. However, the combat suffered from streamlining. No longer is the hand to hand combat option viable, which was a favourite of mine in past games. In 2 and Brotherhood, you could counter each enemy in the game provided they were low on health (something that is no longer transparent in 3) and take their weapon for their own. In 3, however, this is limited to the regular soldiers. As often as I tried, I could not take weapons out of the heavier enemies, nor a few other special types. This was a disappointing change, but hey, I'll live with it. There was one major problem with the combat system that I couldn't avoid, though, which was the countering system.
That is to say, countering was broken. Every, single, fucking, fight, enemies would attack me without the counter icon. Every time this happened, I was unable to counter that enemy, and was hit. This could happen while I was countering or attacking another enemy, and it severely disrupted the combat flow. I'm not sure if this was a bug, but it really did happen every fight. Hitting the counter button before these enemies attacked did nothing, and would often break me out of my current animation. After talking with someone else who played AC3, it appears they didn't run into this issue, so maybe it was a bug relating to my platform (PC) or perhaps even my specific computer setup or game installation. I don't know, but it was frustrating as hell.
But, for the most part, combat was acceptable. It wasn't as fun as before, but it'll do.
So, the free running. It was kind of the reason Assassin's Creed 1 did so well. It's often my favourite part of games, especially when it feels rewarding. Now, don't get me wrong, Assassin's Creed 1 and 2's free running didn't really have much player agency. 2 and Brotherhood fixed this a little, by adding an additional longer but more risky jump that just gave you something else to do while climbing. To compliment, structures would often have small climbing puzzles to make sure you're engaged with the mechanic even if it was simple. Where Assassin's Creed 3 fails is in a few areas. One, the button presses were reduced. You no longer have the further jump - it's now automatic, and conveys no risk. You now hold one less button, which creates an issue I'll cover shortly. The rooftop environments are far less interesting, but are also made worse by the overpopulation of guards on rooftops. For nearly the entirety of Assassin's Creed 3, I was on the ground, because it was faster and less frustrating.
So, the problem with Assassin's Creed freerunning is simply that the player character is far too sensitive to jumping on top of things. He'll snap to practically any crate, lamp post, fence or side of a wall you're even remotely close to. If you're running at the slightest of angles through a doorway, Connor will instead of passing through the door, run directly up the side of the wall next to it. The problem, I think, is partly because of the reduction in buttons. In previous games, you had to hold down RT + A + Up in order to freerun, and holding RT+Up instead just had you run. Now with the reduction of pressing A, you are freerunning all time, causing you to stick to far too many objects. In short, the freerunning is a mess mechanically. It's not fun, it's janky at the best of times and game breaking at others. It makes some chase sequences unbearable, while making the game itself intolerable.
Then, I guess, we have the mission design. Assassin's Creed 1 certainly didn't have much of that, but Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood were great. Objectives were lenient but fulfilling, and checkpointing was good so you never had to replay much should you screw up. Yet... Assassin's Creed 3 is full of absolutely atrocious, unfun, anger inducing objectives. For most of the game the missions were just tutorialising mechanics that were introduced years ago. Some had incredibly harsh stealth sections, following people to locations, the canon / ordering minigames, just... I can't actually pinpoint too many criticisms, because the entire game was just monotonous. There's a sequence on a horse where you have to, along the way, neutralise some message bearers on the way to a location. One of these messengers was lying on the side of the dirt row, crouched down overlooking his dead horse. So, he wasn't going anywhere. I left him be, and continued on. There were four more along the corridor you're forced to run down, each of which I disposed of. Yet, because I didn't kill that first guy beside the road, who wasn't moving at all, I failed this very time sensitive objective because somehow I didn't prevent this message from arriving to the place that I was at already. Great.
Oh, and I can't forget the optional objectives. Okay, so this is a minor, nitpicky complaint. For every single mission in the game, there are 1-5 optional objectives on your screen. These have you vary your play style to make the missions harder... for no other reason than the missions are incredibly easy. You have a mission where you have to kill 10 guards? Why not make it so you can only use your assassin's blade. You have a mission to sneak into a town, and there's a hay cart in front of you - the optional objective is to not use the cart, and instead to climb up on the trees. Okay, so my complaint here isn't that the optional objectives exist. My complaint is how obnoxious they are. At the start of every mission, you get a screen-filling list of objectives that seldom disappear. You get reminded with an annoying noise and a bigass cross every time you fail one. At the end of every single mission, you're forced to watch a 10 second unskippable menu that checks or crosses the optional objectives you failed or succeeded. And if you do all the optional objectives? You get nothing. If you fail every single one of them? Nothing.
They're annoying, they had no reason to be so prominent, they were detrimental to letting players do what they fucking want to, and by the end of the game I was intentionally failing every one I could just to spite the stupid fucking mechanic. You don't want me killing 15 guards? Fuck you game, I'll kill 30 of them. You don't want me touching the water? Fuck you game, I'll swim in them. Don't tell me what I can't do.
Oh, and all of the side objectives sucked. They all sucked. They might as well have not been there. They were boring, had no substance at all, didn't reward you in the slightest, and existed purely to waste time in the fucking flat game we were given. Climbing towers was nothing more than holding up on the controller until you got there. The betting games were all garbage. The homestead missions were shit. They were all bad. Everything was so bad.
So, I really have to ask, why the fuck was this an open world game. The world did nothing. Why not just make it a linear game? I guess to justify an art budget. Like, I didn't really try the ship side missions. I suppose they might have been cool. They weren't fun enough for me to want to do more than the three ones you're forced to do, so I didn't bother.
The story was complete bullshit. The story's always been bullshit. But holy crap was the ending bullshit. I won't spoil it, but what the fuck did they do to this series.
I mentioned that there was one cool level after the boat level. I won't spoil it. I'm tired of writing about Assassin's Creed 3. I fucking hated that game. I think I hate AC3 more than I hate any other game in existence. Assassin's Creed 3 is the worst game I've played this year. I'm done with that franchise. I'm done with it.
And the funny thing is, I knew this game would be garbage. And I played it anyway. People were telling me to stop, because it was emotionally ruining me. But I had to see for myself. I had to see how fucking bad that game is. And it's terrible. It's goddamn terrible. And I didn't even properly discuss the story, and I lack the writing ability to describe my disappointment during every single mission in that game. God damn.
holy fuck nobody is going to read this how did I take 50 minutes to write this what the fuuuuuck
EraldoCoil
Member
Hmmmm .....I didn't play too many new games this year. I played Okami HD, Silent Hill HD, RE6, Far Cry 3, Max Payne 3, SFxT, TTT2
I mainly stick to just SSF4 and Marvel...
So if I had to pick it would be RE6.
As bad as the ports were for Silent Hill they are still amazing games. RE6 was just plain boring....Boring boss battles, stupid story, bad gameplay and they made Leon a bitch. Ada is also a horrible character....
the only saving grace for that game was Piers and Chris...they were at least bad assess.
I mainly stick to just SSF4 and Marvel...
So if I had to pick it would be RE6.
As bad as the ports were for Silent Hill they are still amazing games. RE6 was just plain boring....Boring boss battles, stupid story, bad gameplay and they made Leon a bitch. Ada is also a horrible character....
the only saving grace for that game was Piers and Chris...they were at least bad assess.
dragonlife
Member
See, I'm reading this and am thinking to myself, "Man, this guy sounds like I did when I first played it." I thought the story was extremely generic and predictable, and I felt no connection whatsoever to Alice. I even took a few months off from the game because it wasn't really grabbing my attention.
The only redeeming qualities about the game for me at the time were the setting, music, and atmosphere (I'm a sucker for forests at night and small towns with quirky characters). The writing felt a bit like amateur work at times, like it was trying too hard (there were some really good manuscripts, though) and I was a bit underwhelmed, too.
ANYWAY, I played American Nightmare right after and really enjoyed that. No annoying machetes and axes being thrown at you, etc. And Mr. Scratch... oh, man <3 Mr. Scratch is amazing. Totally worth it just for him. I'm not even exaggerating.
Oh, right, my point. After enjoying the hell out of American Nightmare, I went back to do Alan Wake on Nightmare and get Achievements... and I actually enjoyed my second playthrough so much more. I really got engrossed by it. So much so that it became one of my personal favorite games. I appreciated it my second time around, and I don't know why; but I'm glad I went back to it.
- I always liked Barry. Guy's my kind of funny asshole.
- Alan was a bit plain, but he showed promise for the future
- What do you mean "no aiming"? The flashlight shows you where you're going to shoot
- They improved combat in American Nightmare, in my opinion. If you haven't played it, it probably won't "wow" you because it's essentially the same shine-the-light-till-the-darkness-disappears gameplay, but it's just so much more fun.
You don't play The Last Remnant for the story. It's one of the more enjoyable RPGs I've ever played, and it's simply because of the battle system. I could battle all day. Can you explain what makes the battle system convoluted for you?
tiggerkiddo
Member
Pokemon White 2
It was more like an expansion pack than a sequel. The plot took a power nap multiple times and you would spend a great deal of time walking for no good reason. One of the new modes, Pokemon World Tournament was a shined up Battle Frontier. You spent a lot of times walking through cities that haven't changed much from its predecessor.
If you aren't a fan of Unova or Generation 5 in general, don't expect this game to change it.
It was more like an expansion pack than a sequel. The plot took a power nap multiple times and you would spend a great deal of time walking for no good reason. One of the new modes, Pokemon World Tournament was a shined up Battle Frontier. You spent a lot of times walking through cities that haven't changed much from its predecessor.
If you aren't a fan of Unova or Generation 5 in general, don't expect this game to change it.
Worst game for me was probably MoH Warfighter or BLOPS 2. Both just more of the same. Warfighter actually played worse than the first one sp-wise i thought... I know neither of these games are really meant to be played for the SP but the SP portions of both sucked a whole big bag of dicks.
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Deleted member 1235
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hotline miami.
because I have windows 8 and when I'm really enjoying myself it crashes on level 6. EVERY TIME BLARGH.
but the game would be stelar if it ran on win 8
I can't think of anything else.
because I have windows 8 and when I'm really enjoying myself it crashes on level 6. EVERY TIME BLARGH.
but the game would be stelar if it ran on win 8
I can't think of anything else.
I read the entirety of it, and I would probably agree with you... if I bothered to even finish the game. I've dropped it before
Connor becomes an assassin
Canis lupus
Member
From the ones I played: Mass Effect 3, not just the ending, I didn't like the way they threw enemies at me, always a big one plus normal sized bad guys.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
Resident Evil 6.
I did end up returning it not long after that post. And to think Leon's campaign is the best in the game
I did end up returning it not long after that post. And to think Leon's campaign is the best in the game
Resident Evil 6.
I did end up returning it not long after that post. And to think Leon's campaign is the best in the game
I think Leon's is actually the worst of the main three. The weird thing with RE6 is how scattered certain aspects are, in particular QTEs are most heavy with Leon, puzzles with Ada, camera angles that focus on something with Chris, Jake seems the most experimental with what you do in general. In the OT it was funny seeing how some people LOATHED certain campaigns while really enjoying other ones.
The shooting is incredibly different from re4 but is not like any other TPS out there, it's a lot of fun when you get the hang of it. Game certainly has a lot of flaws but I don't feel like the general gameplay loop is one of them.
The combat system is never explained properly, TLR throws you into the battle and it seems like everything happens at random. Hell, I played the game for 30+ hours and I still thought that many things happened at pure random (healing spells?). TLR needed a fucking instruction manual.
Synth_floyd
Banned
Persona 4 Golden.
But seriously, there's been a lot of bad games this year. AC3 was awful. NG3 was awful. RE6 was awful. Chronovolt was the most disappointing game PS Plus has ever given away.
Bad year, man. Pick one.
EDIT: I forgot Max Payne 3 and Hell Yeah. Also awful. Oooh, and was Driver Renegade this year? That was dire.
I kid! Don't beat me!
But seriously, there's been a lot of bad games this year. AC3 was awful. NG3 was awful. RE6 was awful. Chronovolt was the most disappointing game PS Plus has ever given away.
Bad year, man. Pick one.
EDIT: I forgot Max Payne 3 and Hell Yeah. Also awful. Oooh, and was Driver Renegade this year? That was dire.
MarkMclovin
Member
Probably The binding of Issac. Bought it on the Summer Steam Sale.
Fuck knows why.
Bored me to tears.
Fuck knows why.
Bored me to tears.
thomasmahler
Member
Guild Wars 2: Bought it day1 and... wth is this, stopped after 2-3 hours.
Epic Mickey 2: I didn't like the first one, but I thought Spector now has some more experience with 3d platformers. Yeah, well... no.
Mass Effect 3: Never been a Mass Effect fan, tried the demo and was disgusted... tons of cheese, bad writing mixed with no-fun gameplay. No Mass Effect for me.
Epic Mickey 2: I didn't like the first one, but I thought Spector now has some more experience with 3d platformers. Yeah, well... no.
Mass Effect 3: Never been a Mass Effect fan, tried the demo and was disgusted... tons of cheese, bad writing mixed with no-fun gameplay. No Mass Effect for me.
Read it all
. I'm actually playing through the game right now (so no spoilers please), and while I definitely agree with certain criticisms (optional objectives, climbing too easy/boring, combat still too easy), I am actually enjoying myself reasonably well. I've run into fewer bugs, my framerate is excellent, and I'm enjoying certain elements quite a lot. Mainly, as with Far Cry 3 (which was an incredibly disappointing game in the end), it's the side stuff that I'm enjoying far more than anything else. I think the homestead mechanics are a huge step up from those in Brotherhood and Revelations, where it didn't feel like you were doing anything but were just getting free money for doing dick all (and in Revelations, notoriety for no good reason). I even like them better than in AC2, developing your homestead is just a lot of fun, even if the crafting isn't interesting (mainly because of the awful interface for doing so). It's a nice change of pace from the campaign in that you actually stick with a specific set of characters for a sizeable chunk of the game, in the campaign you meet character after character (because they wanted to cram every major event of the rebellion into the game without asking themselves if that would make the game any better).
What I like even better are the mechanics revolving around your ship, both in terms of developing it and in terms of the missions you go on. Naval combat is pretty simple yet a lot of fun to do, and that's a very rare thing, because I can't think of very many games that do naval combat well without them being simulations or abstract strategy games.
What I didn't really like is the setting, the American Revolution is a time period that has been covered extensively in other media, which for me takes away one of the main selling points of the franchise. I always liked that Assassin's Creed took you to relatively underutilized settings, which also freed the developers from trying to stick too close to history (which they clearly tried to do here, given how you experience every major event of the rebellion as I noted earlier) and gave them the freedom to build the game however they liked. More in general, outside of the frontier, the visual appearance of the game just isn't very interesting, which is another failing of the setting. Snow helps a lot (it should always be snowy, I love snow
), but otherwise the appearance of the game world is quite dull, especially when you compare it to cities in earlier games like Jerusalem in AC1 or Venice in AC2. Finally, I thought the timeline was a bit ridiculous, especially if you're like me and do all the side stuff before proceeding with the campaign. Before the rebellion had ever started, I had taken five forts for the as yet non-existent United States, raised a flag that wouldn't exist for years and saw troops that didn't exist yet march in. Hell, I wasn't even
an assassin yet at that point, nor had I ever met one, I was just a non-aligned native.
Overall, it's about as good as I was expecting after Revelations. Clearly more content and the like, but still flawed. The series still hasn't come close to matching AC2.
dark_inferno
Member
I cant decide between Max Payne 3 and Mass Effect 3.
MP3: Cutscenes that are boring where you see/hear boring characters talking about boring stuff. The action was good the rest not.
ME3 : Cant really tell what it made so awful but for me it felt like a game from bunch of 12 years old boys.
Fuck i forgot Slender the game : Bad graphics, bland places and there was nothing really scary about the game at all.
MP3: Cutscenes that are boring where you see/hear boring characters talking about boring stuff. The action was good the rest not.
ME3 : Cant really tell what it made so awful but for me it felt like a game from bunch of 12 years old boys.
Fuck i forgot Slender the game : Bad graphics, bland places and there was nothing really scary about the game at all.
LyleLanley
Banned
I probably played something worse, but Diablo 3 was the most disappointing for me.
SF x Tekken. Oh God this was so bad that I sold it within the week and never looked back. Fucking disgusting in every way possible. This game gave me mono.
Poor visual style. Extremely shoddy online (sound didn't work on launch), time outs, imbalanced, and DLC gems. So bad in every way.
Poor visual style. Extremely shoddy online (sound didn't work on launch), time outs, imbalanced, and DLC gems. So bad in every way.
What I didn't really like is the setting, the American Revolution is a time period that has been covered extensively in other media, which for me takes away one of the main selling points of the franchise. I always liked that Assassin's Creed took you to relatively underutilized settings, which also freed the developers from trying to stick too close to history (which they clearly tried to do here, given how you experience every major event of the rebellion as I noted earlier) and gave them the freedom to build the game however they liked. More in general, outside of the frontier, the visual appearance of the game just isn't very interesting, which is another failing of the setting. Snow helps a lot (it should always be snowy, I love snow
Oddly, the one thing I didn't mind about AC3 was the setting. Not in the sense of world design, but because the American Revolution is completely unknown to me. It's as alien as the settings in past games. There's probably a disconnect between North Americans and the rest of the world with that, though.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Why do you say that? Haven't played the game yet, the OT was about 60-40 positive, but the character was honestly the thing that caught my interest the most, especially since I don't really care for the AC series in general.
I wanted so much to believe Arenanet's promises, GAF's hype, my hype. Gave up pretending I was enjoying myself after about 2 weeks. There's so much good work put into the game too, but somehow they managed to take a look at WAR's PQs and the issues with WoW's leveling and come up with a PQ concept that on paper sounded incredible but in practice felt like WoW leveling but somehow even less open and more linear.
I think it will be hard for me to argue with this. Ultimately this year, I disliked Retro City Rampage, I disliked NeverDead, I disliked Diablo 3, but I enjoyed all three far more than this. The only difference is, I wasn't expecting much out of this, so this game didn't disappoint me nearly as much as the others.
This is going to be a hard year to give a Top 10 list. So much I didn't get around to, so much I did get around to that I didn't care for.
I don't think Alan Wake can really be anyone's WOTY, though. SURELY you've played something worse. AW's one of my all-time favorite games after also playing it earlier this year. I think they achieved their goals, but you should at least give American Nightmare a shot because the combat is vastly improved and there's tougher enemies.
EDIT: Ooh, looks like I'm the third person to jump on you about this. Sorry.
Really? Nintendo Land is one of the games of the year for anyone who's a Nintendo fan. Some of the best local multiplayer in years.
As for me personally?
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
To put this in perspective, I played Garshasp this year.
Tiny and Big is one of the worst games I've ever played. It was saved by the fact that it's short as hell (2.7 hours, according to my Steam gameplay, but that includes messing around with the menus to get it to work) a bit, but not enough for me to ignore the facts.
The Story and The Characters
Ugh. A travesty. The writing was atrocious, full of spelling/grammar mistakes, and the entire plot is so stupid and childish that I rolled my eyes every time I was taken out of gameplay for an annoying cutscene.
The entire plot revolves around you and another, equally ugly and annoying character trying to get your Grandpa's old underwear.
Yes. You read that right.
The Gameplay
The game features a single device with a few nifty features:
A grappling hook (for pulling)
A rocket... thing (for pushing)
A laser (for slicing)
This sounds kind of cool, right? Wrong. The slicing is annoying to get correct, bland, and the physics don't always play ball. The rocket is essentially straight out of Garry's Mod and with physics nearly as broken. The grappling hook may be the worst offender for bad physics (note all the physics complaints because this is a physics-based game), and at one point I stood on top of a huge chunk of pillar and pulled it under myself with no traction or momentum.
These are all underutilized and end up with you doing the same three things four hundred times to keep climbing in repetitive and ugly locations.
You slice a rock, you push a different piece of rock, and you pull the rock down to jump on top of. Rinse and repeat.
The Graphics
These actually would have been OK if not for the ugly art design. The cel-shaded and washed out look was nice, but the texture and character art was so annoyingly putrid that it dragged the style overall down to being mediocre.
Overall, I think the game was a total waste of time (2.7 hours) and money ($2.50) and if that doesn't say it all, nothing will.
RyougaSaotome
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Tokitowa
It's like they took everything important to a fun game, lit it on fire, and then took a crap on the charred remains. Never forget the ten variations on big bird. There's big yellow bird, big blue bird, big red bird, small (but still big) orange bird. Oh, and the beautiful dungeons like dark purple forest, darker purple forest, and dark purple forest with small tombstones. A dreadful cast of characters and a main male character that makes you feel dirty doesn't help either.
The animation is also terrible, making you wish they just went the Tales route instead, because it's 100 times more effective than the bullshit "HD 2D animation" Image Epoch was trying to hype.
It's like they took everything important to a fun game, lit it on fire, and then took a crap on the charred remains. Never forget the ten variations on big bird. There's big yellow bird, big blue bird, big red bird, small (but still big) orange bird. Oh, and the beautiful dungeons like dark purple forest, darker purple forest, and dark purple forest with small tombstones. A dreadful cast of characters and a main male character that makes you feel dirty doesn't help either.
The animation is also terrible, making you wish they just went the Tales route instead, because it's 100 times more effective than the bullshit "HD 2D animation" Image Epoch was trying to hype.
Bayonetta.
Grabbed a used copy while my video card was out for repairs since I did not own a single PS3 game and needed some form of video game to play.
It was just Dreadful. Feels like you spend more time watching terrible cutscenes than you do playing the nonsensical game. Played about 3 hours of it and took it back to Gamestop.
Grabbed a used copy while my video card was out for repairs since I did not own a single PS3 game and needed some form of video game to play.
It was just Dreadful. Feels like you spend more time watching terrible cutscenes than you do playing the nonsensical game. Played about 3 hours of it and took it back to Gamestop.
astronautcowboy
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Army Corps of Hell could have been so good, but it was so mediocre, and therefore so disappointing. Sumioni is a close second.
I've yet to play Bayonetta, but oh man. I do not envy you in this thread.
I hear them arriving.
dragonlife
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Anecdotal evidence incoming: I didn't have much of a problem understanding it. It tells you about Interceptions, Deadlocks, Raidlocks, etc., and the requirements for them. It also tells you different weapons have different properties/skills.
You have to connect the dots for yourself in battle. You have a map that shows friendly and enemy unit placements on the field. When you have one of your units selected and are picking an enemy to attack, a line connects both of you, showing the path you'll take if you do attack. Obviously if you don't know what you're doing and select an enemy in the back, you'll get Intercepted by the enemies in front, and so on. The one thing that seems to get a lot of people is that you can simply press the X button (not sure of the keyboard key) to see the actual attacks your units will perform, instead of stuff like "Attack them from afar!" But that's also there for you on the screen to see, too. And as you switch through enemies, you also see that attacks change based on the enemy selected and their distance.
As for healing, you have to meet certain requirements. If you get injured badly, you will most likely get healed if you pick the right command (again, press X). Sometimes they'll reassess and heal if you take no action. If you rely solely on healing items, it's possible for you to run out, leaving you unable to heal.
Oh, and for me it was Hydrophobia: Prophecy, to quote the ineloquent impressions I PM'd stump after finishing it:
Actually, I'm European, but it being alien or not isn't the (main) point. The fact is that they designed this for an audience, a significant part of which does know this stuff quite well, meant they almost certainly felt they couldn't take the liberties that they could with the previous games. This is what you see in the game, with it trying to cover every event of the Revolution. Absolutely unnecessarily so, a lot of missions that cover these events add nothing. Like
So yeah, awful.
Actually, I'm European, but it being alien or not isn't the (main) point. The fact is that they designed this for an audience, a significant part of which does know this stuff quite well, meant they almost certainly felt they couldn't take the liberties that they could with the previous games. This is what you see in the game, with it trying to cover every event of the Revolution. Absolutely unnecessarily so, a lot of missions that cover these events add nothing. Like
the Battles of Concord and Lexington, where you command those troops in that dull minigame, why did that have to be in there? Or Paul Revere's Midnight Ride? Completely uninteresting mission design that was.
Don't post shit like this.
Writer_Head
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- RE6 demo