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Gaming Dissapointments
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GTA IV: The move to a more realistic and gritty storyline didn't work. The writing was awful, mission repetitive and all the wacky humour and silly missions were gone. It's not bad just a big step back. It pisses all over saints row 2 in every regard except the most important one, saints row 2 is oodles more fun.
MGS 4: the game is an absolute mess. I don't know how they went from gettin it so right with MGS 3 to this mess. Gameplay is okay for the first 2 chapters but there isn't much focus on stealth. Chapter 3 was a decent diversion. Then the last 2 chapters all the enemies are replaced by mechs and frogs and it couldn't be any less fun. Bosses which usually require the use of your gadgets to beat and have multiple ways of beating them now are reduced to really poor encounters where the only tactic is to pump as much ammo into them as possible. There's about an hout and a half of gameplay in there, the rest taken up by the longest most boring cutscenes ever. The silliness factor is through the roof (meryl/akiba scene anyone?). Can't believe how all the MGS fanboys can call it the greatest game ever and cream themselves over it.
Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures was one of the best games on the megadrive but they completely changed the gameplay for sparkster and it was a much poorer game.
Final Fantasy XII: After the rubbish FFX-2 and squareenix turning into corporate whores and pumping out focus group driven drivel I should have known better than to get excited. However with the Vagrant Story and FF tactics team on board I held out a bit of hope. Instead of giving us a new FF game we got an MMO without the multiplayer aspect. What square didn't realise is that without the multiplayer aspect MMO's are the most boring games ever. Was it any surprise to them that FFXII was boring?
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Mitch Connor wrote: »I really liked R6V2 - not as good as the first as i prefered the actual Vegas setting of the first game. However, I absolutely loved terrorist hunting with mates in both, and especially in the second.
Agreed, the multiplayer on R6V2 is where the gameplay truely comes in. I played the first level in single player and didn't bother playing it ever again, switched to multiplayer and got hooked
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I dont really know much games iv been disapointed in. One would be Might & Magic 9, the depth of the game was gone and truthfully speaking the entire 3D graphics engine completely ruined the game also.0 -
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Sorry, but that isnt true. Unless you meant to saynorrie rugger wrote: »Call of Duty 4 is a terrible game, if you don't like online gaming.Call of Duty 4 is a terrible game, if you don't like gaming.
The single player campaigns are among the best of it's genre this year or in fact for many previous. The story line is involving, it's realistic in a game type where that is a big positive, the set pieces were fantastic and the game was suitably challenging to all experience/skill levels if you chose the right difficulty setting.
It was a quality game made even better value for money if you get into the online play.
But on-topic, my biggest disappointments were definitely Spore, Fable 2, Fallout 3 and Age of Conan.
Spore was not the game that I was led to believe. Tim Wright tried to tell me that before I played it, in some magazine interviews where he said even he felt the game had been hyped to unimaginable levels. but I just didnt listen.
Fable 2 was just Fable 1, with a little more polish and the same bland "reimagined" features. I spent €50 and played it for 12 minutes. Most expensive game ever, in my book
Fallout 3 was a good game, for what it was. Which is to say, it was Oblivion with guns and a novel Turn-based engine built in, but still not the game I wanted
Age of Conan should have been a smash hit this year and came so close to being so, only for a development team that listened to its player base too little, too late.
Darkfall may be my first disappointment of 2009, will know more in a month
I am looking forward to being pleasantly surprised.0 -
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Sorry, but that isnt true. Unless you meant to say
The single player campaigns are among the best of it's genre this year or in fact for many previous. The story line is involving, it's realistic in a game type where that is a big positive, the set pieces were fantastic and the game was suitably challenging to all experience/skill levels if you chose the right difficulty setting.
It was a quality game made even better value for money if you get into the online play.
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This is on topic though
There were a few instances that freaked me out in this
It is too short, you just get a taste for certain types of missions only to realise that there are no more of them. You can not "peak" around corners or "blind" shoot around corners.
You have to move your entire body there (unless I am missing something huge!!!)
I love the game but single campaign should have been longer. They made a great engine and barely made use of it.0
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