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Beautiful settings wasted on mediocre games

""Past years taking potshots", what in the flying fuck? This is the very first time to my recollection I have even as much as addressed the matter at all with you, including back then. You laid the burden of the proof on me a few posts backs and I complied, now allow me to return the kindness and ask for these "continued potshots over the years"."

I mean, the post you gave as "proof," only proved you to be incorrect but:

Definitely not the "first" time

It's silly for someone to be upset over a thread title mocking the the very real and very significant problems Guild Wars 2 was experiencing with events. On the front page I see a Street Fighter 5 thread title directly taking the game to task for the state it launched in, no one's catching feelings because no one is that emotionally invested, especially when it's *true*.

What the fuck? Calling you out in the most diplomatic way conceivable on your self-admitted troll attempt right there and then (2012) is not "taking potshots over the years". I'm a bit creeped out, honestly. Perhaps get that persecution complex checked before calling people maladjusted when they disagree with you?

It's funny because I see you over and over obsessively rushing at say-Candyman-three-times speed to any thread where GW2 is mentioned to shit on it (or, like this, even when it's not). Let it go, man.
 
Some games I really like are getting listed here;

Remember Me
Alice in Wonderland
Alan Wake

hmm....actually I can entirely see why a lot of people put them in the mediocre category but I loved all of them.

Remember Me's art style and cyberpunk setting is staggering.

Alice in Wonderlands visual style is so striking and that story is dark, real fucking dark.

Alan Wake was just plain great and really sold the whole campy supernatural Twin Peaks vibe it had going for it.

In all, all games I highly enjoyed and would buy sequels to without question.
 
Some games I really like are getting listed here;

Remember Me
Alice in Wonderland
Alan Wake

hmm....actually I can entirely see why a lot of people put them in the mediocre category but I loved all of them.

Remember Me's art style and cyberpunk setting is staggering.

Alice in Wonderlands visual style is so striking and that story is dark, real fucking dark.

Alan Wake was just plain great and really sold the whole campy supernatural Twin Peaks vibe it had going for it.

In all, all games I highly enjoyed and would buy sequels to without question.

Agree with all three of those. Alan Wake need more exploration and better combat mechanics.
 
This is going by my limited experience with the game and the reviews it got (Metacritic 67), but Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. I think there are a lot of beautiful aspects of the game, including the setting, but from the little I played and what I read, there are a fair number of sources of frustration.

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The beautiful trailer that made me obsessed with this game. The graphics are fairly limited by the Wii; I wonder what this game looks like in Dolphin.

All the time playing this game I was thinking how awesome it would have been if the game wasn't so mediocre when it came to controls and mission structure :(
 
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