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Lifer
- Jul 5, 2005
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Assassin's Creed. Story was kinda interesting, but the gameplay was incredibly repetitive and bad.
- Feb 4, 2009
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Supreme Commander 2 should be left off, did anyone ever think it was going to be good? I more curious about something that should have been or you really wanted it to be great.
There is some interesting stuff here thanks all
There is some interesting stuff here thanks all
nitromullet
Diamond Member
- Jan 7, 2004
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Mass Effect: I just cannot get into it. I've started this game a number of times, and just can't do it. I reluctantly tried ME2 after hearing about how Bioware tweaked things thing make it better, and I ended up really enjoying ME2. I even tried ME1 again afterwards, but still couldn't get into. I know it's a good game, it's just not for me I guess.
Assassin's Creed: The first game really seemed like it was going to be fun for the first few hours, then it got boring, and never got better. I tried the second one after hearing how much better it was than the first, but it's the exact same game over (and over, and over, and over) again.
Far Cry 2: Another boring Ubisoft game that turned a good concept into a snoozefest. Started out fun enough and the fire dynamic was cool, but it just keeps repeating the same mission types over and over again.
Assassin's Creed: The first game really seemed like it was going to be fun for the first few hours, then it got boring, and never got better. I tried the second one after hearing how much better it was than the first, but it's the exact same game over (and over, and over, and over) again.
Far Cry 2: Another boring Ubisoft game that turned a good concept into a snoozefest. Started out fun enough and the fire dynamic was cool, but it just keeps repeating the same mission types over and over again.
bentheman939
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- Mar 5, 2008
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Ya ya, ok, SC2 sucked complete ass. I regret buying that one as well. Your comments about Oblivion and FO are fair though... some aspects of those games may have turned people off, especially if they were expecting something more similar to their predecessors. To call them bad or terrible games though is a complete loss of perspective. Oblivion and FO were immersion, enormous worlds full of detail and life. They may not have appealed to everyone for a variety of reasons, but they were damn good games.
New developer, new direction. I liked FO 1 and 2 as well back in the day, but I also liked FO3/NV. Just because it carries the name doesn't mean you should insist on a modernized clone of the originals. Again, no perspective if those are your BAD games.
Something like Black and White 2... now THAT was overrated.
Wyndru
Diamond Member
- Apr 9, 2009
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STALKER, any of them. I tried and tried but just couldn't deal with them. Too much of a pain in the ass for me, for some reason I suck at that shooter, but am fine in any others I have played.
Warcraft 3. I played it for a bit, but got sick of it sooner than I thought I would. I normally enjoy RTS games too. I might revisit at some point.
Warcraft 3. I played it for a bit, but got sick of it sooner than I thought I would. I normally enjoy RTS games too. I might revisit at some point.
cronos
Diamond Member
- Nov 7, 2001
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Mass Effect. I have started this game a few times already and never could get past 5 hours. I may try it again one more time and if it's still not working I'm going to go straight to ME 2.
NWN2. I love pretty much everything about this game, but the control killed it for me
It's not too big of a problem if it only needs getting used to, but I actually hurt my wrist forcing myself to get used to the control. I believe I even searched and found a mod which will modify the control so it works more like WoW, but it didn't work. I really wanted to play it badly so this pissed me off even more. I may revisit this game again sometime, but it's certainly not a priority.
NWN2. I love pretty much everything about this game, but the control killed it for me
It's not too big of a problem if it only needs getting used to, but I actually hurt my wrist forcing myself to get used to the control. I believe I even searched and found a mod which will modify the control so it works more like WoW, but it didn't work. I really wanted to play it badly so this pissed me off even more. I may revisit this game again sometime, but it's certainly not a priority.
zinfamous
No Lifer
- Jul 12, 2006
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ditto for the Witcher.
...though I actually liked Fable more than the Witcher. Well, I finished Fable, and started another game (didn't play for very long though.)
The Witcher was just too tedious for me.
The Boston Dangler
Lifer
- Mar 10, 2005
- 14,647
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Conan - i've never looked forward to a game as much, and it was the worst game i ever played. pre-ordered the special edition, joined a clan before launch and everything.
lesson learned cough star trek online cough
lesson learned cough star trek online cough
Being completely honest with you guys.
Half-Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, the Left 4 Dead series. And especially Counter Strike Source.
I don't understand why people praise these games so highly. The games feel bland and shallow and never fully explore the game world that they are set, instead relying on a single game mechanic to carry the game from start to finish. The story is also very vague. On the MP side everything feels so weak and constrained.
Half-life 2 & Portal were so disappointing to me. Hl2 had for the time awesome visuals and physics but a very weak story. I couldn't understand why everyone was jerking off valve with praise. The gameplay was just downright horrid. The core of any FPS game, the Combat felt so weak. Basically what it came down to was use the Gravity Gun to win.
Portal's cake jokes got old the first 15 minutes in, and the puzzles were piss easy. I beat the game on my first try in 1 and a half hours. On top of that the MP component was non existent.
Left 4 Dead series. It's just a button spamming grind fest.
CS:S. I had high hopes for CS:S but alas it was just a remake with better graphics. CS 1.5 was better.
TF2. I can't lie it's the only game from the orange box that I still play, only because it's casual as hell. It does not live up to the standard set by it's predecessor. The updates are nice but the game if it didn't receive this semi-constant attention from the dev's would be irrelevant in the face of newer and better games.
Half-Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, the Left 4 Dead series. And especially Counter Strike Source.
I don't understand why people praise these games so highly. The games feel bland and shallow and never fully explore the game world that they are set, instead relying on a single game mechanic to carry the game from start to finish. The story is also very vague. On the MP side everything feels so weak and constrained.
Half-life 2 & Portal were so disappointing to me. Hl2 had for the time awesome visuals and physics but a very weak story. I couldn't understand why everyone was jerking off valve with praise. The gameplay was just downright horrid. The core of any FPS game, the Combat felt so weak. Basically what it came down to was use the Gravity Gun to win.
Portal's cake jokes got old the first 15 minutes in, and the puzzles were piss easy. I beat the game on my first try in 1 and a half hours. On top of that the MP component was non existent.
Left 4 Dead series. It's just a button spamming grind fest.
CS:S. I had high hopes for CS:S but alas it was just a remake with better graphics. CS 1.5 was better.
TF2. I can't lie it's the only game from the orange box that I still play, only because it's casual as hell. It does not live up to the standard set by it's predecessor. The updates are nice but the game if it didn't receive this semi-constant attention from the dev's would be irrelevant in the face of newer and better games.
Raduque
Lifer
- Aug 22, 2004
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I think The Witcher is about the only game I really really wanted to like and just couldn't do it.
The combat is irritating, the magic/potions/crafting/whatever system is tedious, the controls are awkward and the whole "bang a bimbo and collect a picture card" just seems kind of immature/out of place.
The game ran well though, and the graphics and voice acting were both decent.
Oh, and just about any multi-player centric shooter like Counter Strike, the Battlefield series, etc. All very boring for me. Big deal, run around shoot somebody, what's the point? I only play games to experience an interactive story. Multiplayer doesn't really do anything for me.
The combat is irritating, the magic/potions/crafting/whatever system is tedious, the controls are awkward and the whole "bang a bimbo and collect a picture card" just seems kind of immature/out of place.
The game ran well though, and the graphics and voice acting were both decent.
Oh, and just about any multi-player centric shooter like Counter Strike, the Battlefield series, etc. All very boring for me. Big deal, run around shoot somebody, what's the point? I only play games to experience an interactive story. Multiplayer doesn't really do anything for me.
SMOGZINN
Lifer
- Jun 17, 2005
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Left 4 Dead - wanted so badly to like this game, but it got old real fast.
Fallout 3 - The game was simply to buggy.
Age of Conan - My entire guild moved to the game opening day, and left it a few weeks later.
Warhammer Online - It was actually a better game the AoC, but I think by then I was just done with MMOs.
Fallout 3 - The game was simply to buggy.
Age of Conan - My entire guild moved to the game opening day, and left it a few weeks later.
Warhammer Online - It was actually a better game the AoC, but I think by then I was just done with MMOs.
I tried really hard to finish the newest wolfenstein game. Unfortunately it's probably the most disappointing sequel ever made.
Borderlands was another one I tried really hard to like. As soon as I realized it was just constant fetch quests with new guns for each one I had had enough. Uninstalled.
I also tried to like ARMA 2. It was just a really unfun and buggy game. "But it's a simulator." If I wanted to simulate boredom I would do it in real life. No thanks.
Metro 2033. I have no idea why anyone likes this game. I also have no idea why it gets praise for it's graphics. The character models are awful, and the voice acting is painful to listen to.
STALKER. Same as arma 2. Just boring.
Borderlands was another one I tried really hard to like. As soon as I realized it was just constant fetch quests with new guns for each one I had had enough. Uninstalled.
I also tried to like ARMA 2. It was just a really unfun and buggy game. "But it's a simulator." If I wanted to simulate boredom I would do it in real life. No thanks.
Metro 2033. I have no idea why anyone likes this game. I also have no idea why it gets praise for it's graphics. The character models are awful, and the voice acting is painful to listen to.
STALKER. Same as arma 2. Just boring.
Starcraft II - Used a buddy key from a friend, and for some reason just could not get into it despite the hours I put into SC1.
Final Fantasy 9 - My 1st disc messed up 1.5 hours in it still sits on my shelf, mocking me.
Final Fantasy 12 - Enjoyed it at first, but once I got enough gambits the game played itself.
Xenosaga II - Felt like Matrix 2 to me - a somewhat necessary evil to tie things together, but not very good.
Left4Dead Series - Just couldn't bring myself to play it past a single quick run with my friend. He's put in nearly 300 hours though
Mass Effect 2 - Enjoyed the first and was expecting more of the same but with a continuing story. Got a 3rd person shooter with light RPG elements instead. I restarted playing it like I would a 3rd person shooter and now I'm enjoying it more.
EQ2 - After bleeding my soul in EQ1 I had such high hopes. My poor, poor soul...
Asheron's Call 2 - See EQ2. At this point my soul has bled dry. At least they put AC2 down humanely.
Eve - I enjoyed it when I first discovered it, but I can only play it for a few months at a time before I start getting bored. I dunno what it is since I love the concept...something about the pacing perhaps.
Final Fantasy 9 - My 1st disc messed up 1.5 hours in
it still sits on my shelf, mocking me.Final Fantasy 12 - Enjoyed it at first, but once I got enough gambits the game played itself.
Xenosaga II - Felt like Matrix 2 to me - a somewhat necessary evil to tie things together, but not very good.
Left4Dead Series - Just couldn't bring myself to play it past a single quick run with my friend. He's put in nearly 300 hours though
Mass Effect 2 - Enjoyed the first and was expecting more of the same but with a continuing story. Got a 3rd person shooter with light RPG elements instead. I restarted playing it like I would a 3rd person shooter and now I'm enjoying it more.
EQ2 - After bleeding my soul in EQ1 I had such high hopes. My poor, poor soul...
Asheron's Call 2 - See EQ2. At this point my soul has bled dry. At least they put AC2 down humanely.
Eve - I enjoyed it when I first discovered it, but I can only play it for a few months at a time before I start getting bored. I dunno what it is since I love the concept...something about the pacing perhaps.
Fenixgoon
Lifer
- Jun 30, 2003
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you can get to diamond with like..50apm.
apm is not everything. there are guys who can spam APM (like 400+) who simply aren't that good in the grand scheme of competitive starcraft. APM is not a direct measure of skill, but skillful players typically do have high APM.
I want to say QFT but, I only played the first SC competitively, I am too afraid of being let down by SC2 I refuse to play it.
KaOTiK
Lifer
- Feb 5, 2001
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Zenoth
Diamond Member
- Jan 29, 2005
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Empire: Total War
º Vanilla bores me. I tried with mods, such as Darth Vader's, still bores me, it's the era I guess, gunpowder, cannons, even the looks of units... but I couldn't know before buying it, I was expecting something good, I wanted to play a new and beautiful Total War game, but I went back with Medieval II and Stainless Steel (a mod for MII) along with Rome (but I stick with Medieval II more, although Rome's OST is the best of them all).
Command & Conquer 4
º I don't really want to go into details about that one, I was just too naive to expect anything "good" from the franchise I guess, but I do like C&C 3, Kane's Wrath is even better... C&C 4 is just... how can I put it... "lost", I guess, it's just not there, doesn't feel C&C anymore, and the story-line was already getting messed up in C&C 3 vanilla, was then fixed up a bit in Kane's Wrath, then C&C 4 comes along and... what? 'the hell is that? I don't know man.
Mass Effect 2
º It's a good action-oriented game on its own, but it pales in comparison to the story-telling quality of the original. I liked it overall, it's certainly not a "bad" game, I'm not bashing it here, just saying that I was disappointed mostly by the "story", and Collectors got to be the most boring "main villains" of recent years in video gaming that I can think of, Saren by himself was a much better one, and we had Sovereign in ME1 too, an actual Reaper, in ME2 it's... just... well they're "there", somewhere, just got the feeling at the end of the game that it (the story) never actually progressed and that my Shepard instead got resurrected to play psychiatrist with the Normandy's crew.
Half-Life 2
º Very impressive during the first few hours, when I first played it, I really liked it. Then the Coasts levels pop-up and the game's pace take a nose dive in irrelevance and boredom form (well, even from Route Kanal). I mean all the Highway 17 stuff is just... ok so Valve of all people made that? Really? Alright. I must admit that it gets more interesting starting at Anticitizen One... then there's some action, it's decent (especially in Follow Freeman), then Our Benefactors brings some memories from the original Half-Life (wagon ride, but instead in the Citadel going up all those floors and seeing the machinery around as you are transported to the "summit"), even though the actual place brings little in game-play (a few pseudo-mazes and try-to-find-your-where-there puzzles of sorts... not much is going on, but the environment is nice). It's just an inconsistent game-play wreck overall. I preferred Episode One to vanilla H-L 2, but E1 is way too short, and Episode Two kicked some major ass, that is all, and the story actually progressed in E2... still waiting to this day for new H-L news...
There are others I could mention but I'd end up typing for the next couple of hours and no one would read any of it due to it being a "wall of text", and I'm tired anyway, this will suffice for now.
º Vanilla bores me. I tried with mods, such as Darth Vader's, still bores me, it's the era I guess, gunpowder, cannons, even the looks of units... but I couldn't know before buying it, I was expecting something good, I wanted to play a new and beautiful Total War game, but I went back with Medieval II and Stainless Steel (a mod for MII) along with Rome (but I stick with Medieval II more, although Rome's OST is the best of them all).
Command & Conquer 4
º I don't really want to go into details about that one, I was just too naive to expect anything "good" from the franchise I guess, but I do like C&C 3, Kane's Wrath is even better... C&C 4 is just... how can I put it... "lost", I guess, it's just not there, doesn't feel C&C anymore, and the story-line was already getting messed up in C&C 3 vanilla, was then fixed up a bit in Kane's Wrath, then C&C 4 comes along and... what? 'the hell is that? I don't know man.
Mass Effect 2
º It's a good action-oriented game on its own, but it pales in comparison to the story-telling quality of the original. I liked it overall, it's certainly not a "bad" game, I'm not bashing it here, just saying that I was disappointed mostly by the "story", and Collectors got to be the most boring "main villains" of recent years in video gaming that I can think of, Saren by himself was a much better one, and we had Sovereign in ME1 too, an actual Reaper, in ME2 it's... just... well they're "there", somewhere, just got the feeling at the end of the game that it (the story) never actually progressed and that my Shepard instead got resurrected to play psychiatrist with the Normandy's crew.
Half-Life 2
º Very impressive during the first few hours, when I first played it, I really liked it. Then the Coasts levels pop-up and the game's pace take a nose dive in irrelevance and boredom form (well, even from Route Kanal). I mean all the Highway 17 stuff is just... ok so Valve of all people made that? Really? Alright. I must admit that it gets more interesting starting at Anticitizen One... then there's some action, it's decent (especially in Follow Freeman), then Our Benefactors brings some memories from the original Half-Life (wagon ride, but instead in the Citadel going up all those floors and seeing the machinery around as you are transported to the "summit"), even though the actual place brings little in game-play (a few pseudo-mazes and try-to-find-your-where-there puzzles of sorts... not much is going on, but the environment is nice). It's just an inconsistent game-play wreck overall. I preferred Episode One to vanilla H-L 2, but E1 is way too short, and Episode Two kicked some major ass, that is all, and the story actually progressed in E2... still waiting to this day for new H-L news...
There are others I could mention but I'd end up typing for the next couple of hours and no one would read any of it due to it being a "wall of text", and I'm tired anyway, this will suffice for now.
OptimumSlinky
Senior member
- Nov 3, 2009
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Counter-Strike: Source
Played the HELL out of Beta 5.2 and 6.1 back in the day, especially on LANs at school. Tried loading CSS up, and just couldn't handle it. I hated how every server I got on the host had added all kinds of custom garbage and sound effects, and frankly, I didn't even feel like they did all that much to the graphics (compare the Lost Coast to CSS and they're like two different games despite both being Source). Maybe part of my problem was my inability to find a server I liked, but I played for about one hour and then stopped.
Fallout 3/New Vegas
Tried both. Got bored after about 8 hours. Just not my style of RPG.
Bulletstorm
Really wanted to enjoy this as a throwback to games like Serious Sam, but it's a one-trick pony. And the one trick gets old after about 30 minutes.
Splinter Cell
Any of them. Sluggish controls, annoying "forced stealth." I thought it'd be like Hitman meets Metal Gear. Never got into it.
WarCraft III
Hated the whole "hero" units. Trying to bring the RPG leveling into an RTS just fell flat IMHO.
Far Cry 2
One word: MALARIA. Stupid, idiotic, malaria.
Played the HELL out of Beta 5.2 and 6.1 back in the day, especially on LANs at school. Tried loading CSS up, and just couldn't handle it. I hated how every server I got on the host had added all kinds of custom garbage and sound effects, and frankly, I didn't even feel like they did all that much to the graphics (compare the Lost Coast to CSS and they're like two different games despite both being Source). Maybe part of my problem was my inability to find a server I liked, but I played for about one hour and then stopped.
Fallout 3/New Vegas
Tried both. Got bored after about 8 hours. Just not my style of RPG.
Bulletstorm
Really wanted to enjoy this as a throwback to games like Serious Sam, but it's a one-trick pony. And the one trick gets old after about 30 minutes.
Splinter Cell
Any of them. Sluggish controls, annoying "forced stealth." I thought it'd be like Hitman meets Metal Gear. Never got into it.
WarCraft III
Hated the whole "hero" units. Trying to bring the RPG leveling into an RTS just fell flat IMHO.
Far Cry 2
One word: MALARIA. Stupid, idiotic, malaria.
I'll go back a little further.
Eye of the Beholder 3.
I loved the two first games. We used to draw maps of the levels, and used the copy machine at school to trade them around to the fellow nerds in class.
Good times. Until they released the third game, which just sucked in comparison.
Ultima Online: Renaissance.
Trammel? Fuck you.
Dune 2000.
Dune II Introduced me to the lovely RTS genre, and I absolutely loved the setting. Dune 2000 just didn't come close to the original.
Daikatana.
Bwahahahaha.
Eye of the Beholder 3.
I loved the two first games. We used to draw maps of the levels, and used the copy machine at school to trade them around to the fellow nerds in class.
Good times. Until they released the third game, which just sucked in comparison.
Ultima Online: Renaissance.
Trammel? Fuck you.
Dune 2000.
Dune II Introduced me to the lovely RTS genre, and I absolutely loved the setting. Dune 2000 just didn't come close to the original.
Daikatana.
Bwahahahaha.
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