Games others loved but you thought 'meh'.

Doodee

Final Fantasy series.

Blurg

noodler

Doodee wrote: »

Final Fantasy series.

Blurg

You make me sick.

briany

Needs to be Halo for me. I got an Xbox along with Halo in Christmas of 2002 and I popped it in and was pretty underwhelmed by it. Don't get me wrong, it was a well put together game and I was well fairly awed by the title screen with the cool gregorian chanting but the enemies in that game were some of the most unscary and childish looking things I've ever seen and the game was far too easy so I just didn't see why a big deal was made over it. I'd played and finished Call of Duty:Frontline a month beforehand and that had me on the edge of my seat as I recall, mainly because it was the first FPS I'd played properly, a while before I became jaded with the genre.

Gunmonkey

Recently...Uncharted 2, was a nice game but not the be all and end all every games website is proclaiming it as, it has a frightful amount of problems that people gloss over "because its funny/well written/you go pew pew at guys/it looks pretty".

As for the MGS series, i personnaly love them but I can see how people would hate them. As games (or the parts you play) they are very basic and infuriating, have a few novel touches but still quite bad. Plus its about 1 part playing to 3 parts watching cutscenes so that could grate easily.

oceanclub

Gunmonkey wrote: »

As for the MGS series, i personnaly love them but I can see how people would hate them. As games (or the parts you play) they are very basic and infuriating, have a few novel touches but still quite bad. Plus its about 1 part playing to 3 parts watching cutscenes so that could grate easily.

I played a bit of the series back in my PS1 days, but no more. Is it true the latest one has a 1 hour cutscene? :eek:

P.

super_furry

pvt.joker wrote: »

any of the Zelda games. Bored me to tears.

Actually, I thought Link to the Past was rubbish. Mind you, that was after I'd played Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask and nothing could live up to them. Still, I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

smooch71

Has nobody mentioned Far Cry 2 yet?

That pretty much sucked.

Along with Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Snoozing

Halo 1, 2, 3, ODST

Fallout 3 bored me to tears but I'm not a big RPG fan so I can't be too harsh on it.

GTA 4: Meet your buddy for a pint and a game of darts, take your girlfriend out in an hour. Too much like real life for me.

And the big daddy. Modern Warfare 2. Having loved COD4 so much, it annoys me when I think of what they did with MW2.

here.from.day.1

smooch71 wrote: »

Having loved COD4 so much, it annoys me when I think of what they did with MW2.

Have you tried it?

cherryghost

here.from.day.1 wrote: »

Have you tried it?

Yes he has. And I have too. Its good, but disappointing compared to COD4

smooch71

here.from.day.1 wrote: »

Have you tried it?

Of course I have.

I wouldn't give an opinion on a game I hadn't played.

Dacelonid

I would say FarCry 2, but I don't think anyone thought it was great.

GTA (except 1 and 2) have bought 3 and SA and couldn't finish them. They lack the sheer fun of the first 2, and yeah well meh

STALKER - had great potential, and have played it a few times. But it just doesn't feel right

ArmA2 - God what a terrible game to play. The controls are crap, and it is buggy as hell

Neverwinter Nights 2 - Loved the first one, but again there is something just not quite right with this one

Atlas_IRL

Any GTA game after 3. Also deadspace on the pc, worst controls ever gave up after half an hour.

Venom

Dacelonid wrote: »

I would say FarCry 2, but I don't think anyone thought it was great.

GTA (except 1 and 2) have bought 3 and SA and couldn't finish them. They lack the sheer fun of the first 2, and yeah well meh

STALKER - had great potential, and have played it a few times. But it just doesn't feel right

ArmA2 - God what a terrible game to play. The controls are crap, and it is buggy as hell

Neverwinter Nights 2 - Loved the first one, but again there is something just not quite right with this one

God Id forgotten about Arma2 being so damm bad my brain hid the memory's to protect my sanity Awful game with so many bugs the single player game is impossible to complete.

Arma 2 I consider to be the worst game ever released on any format.

cherryghost

Venom wrote: »

God Id forgotten about Arma2 being so damm bad my brain hid the memory's to protect my sanity Awful game with so many bugs the single player game is impossible to complete.

Arma 2 I consider to be the worst game ever released on any format.

Thats a bit harsh!

L31mr0d

oceanclub wrote: »

Is it true the latest one has a 1 hour cutscene? :eek:

It has multiple laboured and verbose cutscenes... Kojima even decided it would be a good idea to start

the credits rolling, then cut right into another cutscene, it was the encore that

nobody asked for nor wanted.

Funnily enough the game really picks up in quality after an extremely boring and drawn out cutscene in the middle of the game where the entire MGS series is reviewed for the player. I know quite a few friends who have never actually made it past this point and experienced the gameplay after it.

Retr0gamer

I thought the game went from average to arse after the halfway point. Those cutscenes were atrocious though.

Also anyone calling ArmA 2 or any other game the worse game ever released needs to experience Dark Castle on the megadrive.

noodler

Plenty of good in it of course.

Loads there for the fanboys of the series.

Amazing graphics, the stealth play has been a little broken in the series as a whole since the introduction of the dart gun to be completely honest. 4 is best played in hard, it makes firefights pretty much suicide.

Some amazing locales, gadgets and enemies.

Plot had a few interesting reveals for me that I didn't see coming but I was disappointed with the final boss fight and thought they bottled the ending.

MGO is pretty amazing too.

quarryman

Venom wrote: »

Arma 2 I consider to be the worst game ever released on any format.

Nice try.

tman

noodler wrote: »

Plenty of good in it of course.

Doesn't compensate for the boring crapness of the majority of it.

I loved MGS like a family pet, but never thought much of the sequels. 4 was sadly the one which I wasted most of my time on... I'll definitely give 3 another go one of these days.

+1 for the FF hating... FFX was a gigantic pile of ****!

L31mr0d

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I thought the game went from average to arse after the halfway point. Those cutscenes were atrocious though.

The end of Act 3 and all of Act 4 where my favourite parts in the game, admittedly it nose dived in Act 5.

Retr0gamer

All I can remember from the end of Act 3 was an awful on the rails section followed by a poor excuse for a boss fight. Act 4 for me was terrible.

Removing the human enemies for far less interesting robots spoiled the whole game for me. You can have fun with the human gaurds, with the robots all options were limited and it just got frustrating.

BlitzKrieg

i'm sorry the last lact where

its a room full of cargo containers and a hall then a boss then a quicktime event and another boss and nothing else but cutscene after cutscene, most anticlimatic final act ever

Retr0gamer

I wouldn't even call the last fight a boss. It was awful especially considering the finale fights we got in the last game. Also the other boss in the final act wsa terrible considering it was a homage to one of the best boss fights ever. Still it did have the prettiest version of track and field ever.

PogMoThoin

Venom wrote: »

God Id forgotten about Arma2 being so damm bad my brain hid the memory's to protect my sanity Awful game with so many bugs the single player game is impossible to complete.

Arma 2 I consider to be the worst game ever released on any format.

Many of us here completely disagree with You there. Arma 2 is very playable now and has a very active modding community with new custom missions and maps appearing everyday. We've even got our own Boards.ie server. Nobody plays the single player game, online coop is where its at. Its the most engrossing game I've ever played but i can completely understand its not for some people, it takes weeks if not months to learn the stuff in it. If You were looking for a first person shooter, its definitely not one, is nothing like one, its a milsim, its slow and tactical and needs a gang working together with voice. It also tries to be realistic, as in a single headshot kills, body shots slow You down and affect Your aim.

Don't give up on it without at least trying the mp custom missions with us

Seifer

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Many of us here completely disagree with You there. Arma 2 is very playable now and has a very active modding community with new custom missions and maps appearing everyday. We've even got our own Boards.ie server. Nobody plays the single player game, online coop is where its at. Its the most engrossing game I've ever played but i can completely understand its not for some people, it takes weeks if not months to learn the stuff in it. If You were looking for a first person shooter, its definitely not one, is nothing like one, its a milsim, its slow and tactical and needs a gang working together with voice. It also tries to be realistic, as in a single headshot kills, body shots slow You down and affect Your aim.

Don't give up on it without at least trying the mp custom missions with us

Lol, was waiting for it.
I think the fact there are people that disagree with him is the point of the thread.

PogMoThoin

Seifer wrote: »

Lol, was waiting for it.
I think the fact there are people that disagree with him is the point of the thread.

I'm just saying don't give up on it till he's at least tried the mp The game is completely playable now not like he said

Venom

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Many of us here completely disagree with You there. Arma 2 is very playable now and has a very active modding community with new custom missions and maps appearing everyday. We've even got our own Boards.ie server. Nobody plays the single player game, online coop is where its at. Its the most engrossing game I've ever played but i can completely understand its not for some people, it takes weeks if not months to learn the stuff in it. If You were looking for a first person shooter, its definitely not one, is nothing like one, its a milsim, its slow and tactical and needs a gang working together with voice. It also tries to be realistic, as in a single headshot kills, body shots slow You down and affect Your aim.

Don't give up on it without at least trying the mp custom missions with us

Tried it MP but wasnt my cup of tea so to speak. As a single player game it really is a buggy peice of crap tho.

Lone Kimono

Assassin's Creed
Far Cry 2

quarryman

Lone Kimono wrote: »

Assassin's Creed
Far Cry 2

Assassin's Creed yep.

Everyone though Far Cry 2 was crap anyway so doesn't really count.

AnCapaillMor

Halo i could never see the attraction, sure it looked nice but it was just a generic FPS, added nothing really new. I'd been playing FPS's on the PC since wolfenstein 3-D, maybe that biased me.

Batman Arkham asylum, liked it did'nt love it, finished it and traded it in straight away. I can't understand some calls for game of the year, i think the fact that it was batman brings all the hype. It was some unknown new character i don't think it would've recieved all the credit it got.

Mr Freeze

quarryman wrote: »

Everyone though Far Cry 2 was crap anyway so doesn't really count.

Maybe I should start a new thread "Games you loved but others thought 'meh'", because I loved Far Cry 2, probably the only person here that did.

On Topic, Fallout 3, what a huge let down...I loved Oblivion, But Fallout didn't do it for me at all.

Stalker...was dying for this to come out on the PC back in the day, and when it did, it looked crap and played worse in my opinion.

I aint going to play Borderlands, because any post apocalyptic game I play, I seem to hate it.

Adyx

Definitely MW2, Halo and GTA 4. I really really wanted Bioshock to be SS2 but the setting, weapons and stupid Plasmids really annoyed me. I'm currently playing through Link to the Past and it's ok but I prefer Link's Awakening tbh.
Also I kinda enjoyed Far Cry 2 except for the whole collect the diamonds thing. Certainly better than Far Cry with the stupid monsters (2nd half of Crysis too).

briany

Well Far Cry 2 was very obviously poor, I think most of us would be in agreement on that one. Repetitive missions, AI respawning to beat the band- ridiculously so in fact, it hurts my head to imagine how that one got past Ubisoft's quality control. Before I got the game I imagined, based on information gleaned from previews that I would be sneaking up on enemy camps in the dead of night, coming in using darkness as my cover and wreaking havoc before sneaking away, leaving the place in chaos. Two things wrong with that at least: 1. The night time isn't very dark in the game as the moon is almost always out like a bloody great spotlight. 2. The enemies in the game have a sixth sense about when you are near and your location, making any sneaking up on them next to IMPOSSIBLE.:mad: All in all it does not deserve to mentioned in the same breath as the first game which had a fantastic stealth mechanic, monsters or no monsters.

Still many big game info outlets including IGN and Gamespot gave the game very favourable reviews. What the hell were those people seeing that no one else was?!

AnCapaillMor

briany wrote: »

Still many big game info outlets including IGN and Gamespot gave the game very favourable reviews. What the hell were those people seeing that no one else was?!

AnCapaillMor

briany wrote: »

Still many big game info outlets including IGN and Gamespot gave the game very favourable reviews. What the hell were those people seeing that no one else was?!

Gamesites are jke at the moment, most are more interested in not pissing of sony\MS\EA etc.

oceanclub

Hmm, personally I really enjoyed Far Cry 2 and got many hours out of it, but yes, it did get a bit too repetitive. Still, the combat was fantastic, and the editor a joy to use (I must finish off a multiplayer map I started).

P.

Mr Freeze

briany wrote: »

Well Far Cry 2 was very obviously poor, I think most of us would be in agreement on that one. Repetitive missions, AI respawning to beat the band- ridiculously so in fact, it hurts my head to imagine how that one got past Ubisoft's quality control. Before I got the game I imagined, based on information gleaned from previews that I would be sneaking up on enemy camps in the dead of night, coming in using darkness as my cover and wreaking havoc before sneaking away, leaving the place in chaos. Two things wrong with that at least: 1. The night time isn't very dark in the game as the moon is almost always out like a bloody great spotlight. 2. The enemies in the game have a sixth sense about when you are near and your location, making any sneaking up on them next to IMPOSSIBLE.:mad:

Can't argue with you there....all are true, with the exception of the repetitive missions...all shooters are repetitive.

But I still loved the game.

briany

Gamesites are jke at the moment, most are more interested in not pissing of sony\MS\EA etc.

Oh so cynical ....:rolleyes: Wasn't Jeff Gerstmann fired from gamespot because he didn't give Kane & Lynch a good review despite considerable pressure from the game studio to do so? Still, game websites giving Far Cry 2 a good review, scratch that, a great review has got to strain their credibility to breaking point and it's certainly plausible that money was involved in the write ups. Different strokes for different folks and all that but I doubt there's many FPS veterens out there who gave this one a big thumbs up.

Can't argue with you there....all are true, with the exception of the repetitive missions...all shooters are repetitive.

But I still loved the game.

True, I just felt that Far Cry 2 really turned the repetitiveness factor up a notch while doing little else to compensate for it. However if you take a game like Crysis, you could say it's repetitive in a "Go here and blow up this thing kind of way" but you know, playing that game there was nothing as satisfying as stalking a group of KPR soldiers and killing a straggler behind a big rock while the rest of their group look around puzzled.To me the stealth mechanic of that game was very addicting. Half life 2 was the same, different cool environments, great enemies, physics puzzles, hovercraft and buggy sections. It really felt like an adventure to me because the game kept on changing itself up. Far Cry 2 had a great initial environment and I really thought it was going to be something but after planting so many roadside bombs and after being chased by so many randomers down the roads and waterways, I got a li'l jaded with the whole thing. Still more power to anyone who did enjoy it, just I can't understand it!

Mr Freeze

briany wrote: »

Different strokes for different folks and all that but I doubt there's many FPS veterens out there who gave this one a big thumbs up.

Different strokes, agreed.

I don't read reviews anymore, cause they are nearly always saying the game is class, when it could be crap...

Operation Flashpoint 2 Dragon Rising got good reviews, and it was muck....

Kiith

CKWPORT wrote: »

Operation Flashpoint got good reviews, and it was muck....

CKWPORT wrote: »

Different strokes, agreed.

In your own words...

Wossack

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Gamesites are jke at the moment, most are more interested in not pissing of sony\MS\EA etc.

you said it... IGN firing Jeff Gerstmann for giving Kane and Lynch a poor review springs to mind...

Mr Freeze

briany wrote: »

Far Cry 2 had a great initial environment and I really thought it was going to be something but after planting so many roadside bombs and after being chased by so many randomers down the roads and waterways, I got a li'l jaded with the whole thing. Still more power to anyone who did enjoy it, just I can't understand it!

Your dead right there, but I still loved it, I didn't like it at first, but once I got my sniper rifle, that was it, I was hooked, the Sniping in the game was 1st class.

As for Operation Flashpoint 2, I was really looking forward to it, and it was nothing like the game they showed off in screen shots and vids before launch. The squad AI was pathetic, I played the whole game through and tried the mutliplayer too, I really tried to enjoy it. Muck may have been the wrong word, but it was a huge let down.

Burning Eclipse

Wossack wrote: »

you said it... IGN firing Jeff Gerstmann for giving Kane and Lynch a poor review springs to mind...

Gamespot, not IGN. And I think in the long term it's worked out very well for him

briany

Yeh Gamespot is worse off without him without a doubt.

oceanclub

Knights of the Old Republic. Am currently playing Jade Empire and find it a lot more involving and fun than that game: the combat system, the world itself, and the characters. One thing noone mentions about KoToR is that it's quite buggy - when I played through it, I couldn't complete _2_ long side-quests at all due to bugs.

I will probably still end up getting KoToR 2 though, once modders finish the Restoration Project (http://www.team-gizka.org/).

P.

InReality

half life 1 and 2

couldn't figure out how to start in 1 and lost interest in 2.

and KOTOR

Reganio 2

Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty spring to mind. That's all of them by the way not just the latest one's.

Grand Theft Auto, The only thing I can see, as how people think its good is that they curse in it, other than that its just walk around doing repetative mission's for no real reason. The game just freaked me out (Vice City and San Andreas are the ones I played) its just so boring beyond belief.

Call Of Duty, not that these are bad games but they aren't my type of games in all honesty, their are very very few shooting games I will play. Call of Duty/All War games fall into this catagory.