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Completely mediocre games...that you just can't stop playing.
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NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Bad graphics, bad performance, bad AI, lots of bugs ... but I nearly platinum'd it and haven't had any desire to sell it.
Gsak
Member
My hat's off to you Sir.
Solid SOAP
Member
Mediocre by everyone else's standards, but I played (and platinumed) the game recently and honestly, it was just fucking fun to play. I thought it looked great, played great, and some of the physics based puzzles were awesome and reminded me of HL2. There is also a TON of variety in the single player campaign. I had a blast with this game.
Agreed. Not the best shooter and it's pretty awful looking and clunky at times, but the mere fact that I'm playing Duke Nukem Forever in its finished form is just an awesome feeling. That, combined with the variety of things you'll be doing throughout (Rarely do you ever see a shooter these days that makes you stop to solve puzzles, platform, race, etc) and the unique locales (Casinos, The Hive, Duke Burger, etc) make it a really memorable experience. Dated, but memorable, and I have no regrets about buying the Balls of Steel Edition.
bengraven
Member
Put in about 20 hours in 1.5 days in Hinterland.
Never played it again (replay value and loot in that game is pure shit and boring - give me much larger maps and tons more loot and let me expand my city more and you may have had me).
Beat Bloodrayne despite hating the repetitive battles and boring environments - I finally downloaded a cheat code and literally slack mouthed my way to the end...but even then it still went on forever and forever and was so fucking boring.
Never played it again (replay value and loot in that game is pure shit and boring - give me much larger maps and tons more loot and let me expand my city more and you may have had me).
Beat Bloodrayne despite hating the repetitive battles and boring environments - I finally downloaded a cheat code and literally slack mouthed my way to the end...but even then it still went on forever and forever and was so fucking boring.
Mitsurux
Member
For me its been:
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Game got blasted in reviews, blasted on this board... and yet i find it quite entertaining, with a pretty decent about of content to unlock (abilities/weapons), and some pretty cool Multiplayer modes (Survivors, Heroes)....
I think its partly due to the setting, and that your technically playing as the "Bad guys" from RE2 and 3 that provide the hook...
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Game got blasted in reviews, blasted on this board... and yet i find it quite entertaining, with a pretty decent about of content to unlock (abilities/weapons), and some pretty cool Multiplayer modes (Survivors, Heroes)....
I think its partly due to the setting, and that your technically playing as the "Bad guys" from RE2 and 3 that provide the hook...
Dark Octave
Banned
I wouldn't say that I couldn't put it down, but I got this for like $7 and it wasn't bad at all.
Dark Sector was good too.
But Alpha Protocol isn't mediocre. It's a phenomenal game, excellent dialogue and story writing. Just got shit reviews and Obsidian having Sega as a publisher didn't do much good either.
Lumpy Onion
Member
For some reason when I turn on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection I always gravitate towards Phantasy Star 3. Compared to 2 and 4 it certainly qualifies as mediocre. But I just can't stop playing it for some reason...nostalgia probably.
I personally had a blast playing through Dead to Rights: Retribution, though that may have been because I'm partial to Siberian Huskies heh
I think the first Dead to Rights had that affect on me, but it was more of a study in game design for me.
It was fascinating noting all the ways that a decent enough idea on paper went horribly wrong in execution, with a few brief moments of awesome gun-play thrown in between the misfires.
I repeatedly noting throughout my playthrough "and this is where a normal person would quit" either because the controls were obtuse, or the task too unintuitive or demanding. Beat the game though and had a good laugh after.
They removed a lot of the intricacies of it. They made it much more dumbed down with a much flatter learning curve. Not that it's bad, I rather fancy it to be honest but, it depends on where you held Diablo 2 because some people dove thousands of hours into that game and loved it dearly.
DownWithTheShip
Member
For some reason I can't stop playing Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm. I go back to it every few months and have a blast.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
It feels unfinished to me, the loot, the balance issues, act 4, coupled with a really bad story and awful writing (main story, the npcs are decent), there is just no reason to keep at it. It feels incomplete, which considering its development time, is just insane.
There are two different games here, one shit and one is very fun,make the mistake by playing with the Caddock and you;ll have really a bad and broken game, but play as E'lara and you'll get Gears of Fantasy and it's just as addictive as Gears of War ( since it's the same thing but with bow and arrows instead of huge guns) the game still need better levels design and variety but with E'lara it's tons of fun.
It's not bad... but also not really good.
Basically I only played through it because it was free with PSN+... lol
What? Space Marine is awesome and the combat is especially good.
The Hermit
Member
I am actually surprised of the ammount of post regarding Diablo III. I consider it mediocre, but I barelly played it compared to D2( just 30hrs vs hundreds) I Can't say it I keep comming back since I stopped completly and decided to play DXHR, Witcher 2 and other way better games.
Skyrim on the other hand, I though it was amazing at first and I wouldn't dare call it mediocre, but its insane how repetitive, well, everything gets. I Never expected the whole world to be unique,considering the scope of the game, but I had a constant feeling of deja vu very early.
I will return to it eventually even if I consider it a bit boring... Its far from Mediocre though.
I guess I Got nothing them :/
Skyrim on the other hand, I though it was amazing at first and I wouldn't dare call it mediocre, but its insane how repetitive, well, everything gets. I Never expected the whole world to be unique,considering the scope of the game, but I had a constant feeling of deja vu very early.
I will return to it eventually even if I consider it a bit boring... Its far from Mediocre though.
I guess I Got nothing them :/
Yeah, that is how I see things.
SmellyHands
Member
I will say Diablo 3 for reasons that others have already noted. I'd also add that compared to the first two it's very bland in terms of environments, atmosphere and music. It's certainly not terrible, just really uninspired and bland.
I definitely don't regret playing it. It was a fairly unique out-of-time experience considering where fps titles where went it finally came out. Just the fact that I was finally able to play it, flawed as it was, added to the amusement.
Franklinator
Member
Last Friday I played through the entirety of the 2010 Medal of Honor in one sitting.
Dion Blaster
Member
God of War 3
legacyzero
Banned
YES! I still play it every now and again! Eder Dam is the best open map in ANY GAME. PERIOD.
Gonna build that baby in Far Cry 3 in the map editor inch by inch!
rohlfinator
Member
I put 90+ hours into Just Cause 2. It gets extremely repetitive after a while, but I just had so much fun traversing the world and messing around with the grappling hook that I kept playing long after I finished the story. I still haven't touched any of the mods... I'll probably end up picking up again at some point.
Tiny Tower has me addicted at the moment. It's well-made for what it is, but it's basically Farmville in a prettier skin. At this point I've invested so much time that I feel like I have to keep going.
Thanks for reminding me of this, I just ordered a copy. I put way too much time in the first Crackdown but the second went totally under my radar for some reason.
Tiny Tower has me addicted at the moment. It's well-made for what it is, but it's basically Farmville in a prettier skin. At this point I've invested so much time that I feel like I have to keep going.
Thanks for reminding me of this, I just ordered a copy. I put way too much time in the first Crackdown but the second went totally under my radar for some reason.
Kong Fisso
Banned
Rage is in no way mediocre.
The gunplay is great and the game is just plain fun. If anything it's flawed, not mediocre.
I'll say Mass Effect 2.
The gunplay is great and the game is just plain fun. If anything it's flawed, not mediocre.
I'll say Mass Effect 2.
Lollipop Chainsaw.
Serviceable would be an apt word to describe it, yet I can't stop playing until I squeeze every bit of life out of it. The graphics are decent, the charm of the lead is undeniable, the VO is great, the music is awesome, yet the game mechanics are decidedly average for an action game. Limited combos, poor enemy variation, little variation on the best way to kill them, poor enemy A.I., etc. Also, very frequent load times. Very frequent.
But I still don't intend to stop playing it just yet.
Serviceable would be an apt word to describe it, yet I can't stop playing until I squeeze every bit of life out of it. The graphics are decent, the charm of the lead is undeniable, the VO is great, the music is awesome, yet the game mechanics are decidedly average for an action game. Limited combos, poor enemy variation, little variation on the best way to kill them, poor enemy A.I., etc. Also, very frequent load times. Very frequent.
But I still don't intend to stop playing it just yet.
