comment on 3 poorly rated games: dungeon sige 3; dragon age 2; duke nukem forever

[you2]

I just finished playing three 'awful' games (from reviews) so being bored I thought i would comment:

Dungeon Siege - very good effort and decent presentation with interesting maps. The controls and camera were a bit wonky on pc but not outright awful - definitely worth the $20 for the game and expansion (I recommend the expansion). I'd give it a 7.5 because it was kind of short and there is really no excuse for wonky controls. Also most of the maps were a bit linear in nature but at few were more open and they were not repetitive (see next)

Dragon Age 2 - this game really wasn't that bad and the length was fine; but constant reuse of the same map over and over and over and (did i say they constantly reused the same maps?) was a real bore by the end. Also it was easy to miss chunks of the game (like meeting isabella) which was a bit of a downer; definitely worth a second play through but I'd give it a 7.5 (mostly due to the really lousy reuse of maps). If they had spent a bit of extra time on the maps and a few other details it could ahve easily been an 8 or 8.5


Duke Nukem - crise the score is not low enough; just plain awful. I'd give it a 4.

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As a comparison for a game that folks really liked Skyrim; I would only give it an 8.5. THe major flaw with this game is the world never changes; no matter what you do.

Witcher 2 would probably be a 9 though it had that console dumb downess feeling.
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I'm trying to think of a truely great game I played in the last three years (unforutnatelY i have not played a few highly rated games yet; but picked a few up during this year sale):

I'd give all these games a 9+ Batman: Arkham Asylum; mass effect 2 (I know a lot of folks didn't like that one); dragon age 1 (though I found combat more fun in dragon age 2). Oh year I really liked King Arthur (but i can't really give it a 9+ due to crashes).

Most of the other really good games I can think of didn't come out the past 3 years (bg2, half life x, deus, rome total war, ...)

Alas there have been some really good games the last couple of years that I missed due to spending too much time with king bounty series; while I really like that game it is a very specialized market so I won't rate it
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I know I know no one else here will agree with me - i must be broken.

 

[Red Hawk]

I only played the demo for Dungeon Siege 3. It was ok, not bad, but I had not interet in the game afterwards. Dragon Age II is decent, but disappointing coming from BioWare. Duke Nukem Forever -- never played it, and never WANT to play it. Making fun of rape is not funny or clever in any way. It's sick.

 

[Craig234]

Ya know 4 technically puts it close to 'average' among games.

What's up with only like the worst 5% of games getting a 5 or lower in game reviews?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Ya know 4 technically puts it close to 'average' among games.

What's up with only like the worst 5% of games getting a 5 or lower in game reviews?

conditioned expectations of the masses. While 5 should be middle of the pack average, people think on the adjusted grading curve of 10=100% or A+ or 8 = 80% which is a B, etc, and then we get to 5 which = 50% or an F, thus the masses would see a 5 and think failure instead of average.

 

[IonusX]

actually realistically speaking DNF wasnt a bad game.. just underwhelming. all vaporware games that see a store shelf wind up this way. duke nukem does it and he gets bashed as a shipwreck. like cmon! yars revenge did it and well no one gave a ----, it was a poor game anyway but it got a far fairer shake than the king did.
i liked duke nukem tbh with you. it reminded me alot of older ps2 console fps's like killzone 1, darkwatch and urban chaos:RR, which were (prior to me finding pc gaming) some of the best fps fun id had in a while.
i highly recommend renting it to any console owner as its definitely a solid rental title, one you might actually finish while you still have possess it.
long live duke!

 

[Dumac]

Out of those games, I've only played DA2. I'd give it a 5.

 

[Arkadrel]

Dragon Age 2... balance is odd, its either to easy to to hard.

Warrior's get like 2 spamable skills (with a 2hander), on long cooldowns, so its just click and watch your toon hack away at stuff. Boreing as all hell..... Rogue? slightly better but more or less same thing.

Dragon Age 2 works well enough for mages..... thats about it.

The game is okay, but its not nearly as fun to play as say Skyrim is.



You know what I miss?

BG2 type story driven, open worlds with turn based fights that rely on people useing stratagie to win.

exsample would be like FF7-9.....

then comes FF10 and its a closed world without exploreing really (and timers on turns(I think?)),... and it just goes down hill from there. Which is sad because I used to love those games from SquireSoft.