Jump to content

Your pile of shame


XanAlderon

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 78
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

I don't own that many games and I've beaten most of them, here are some that I haven't:

 

#1 Need for Speed: Underground 2. I never was really good at this game. I got to around 35% completion. Still, it's a really good and entertaining game, I'll get into it again sometime.

 

#2 Mass Effect. I bought it a while ago, since it was only 9.90€, but I didn't like it that much.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...
Hm, wow, so many games, I am usually really decisive on games and figure out if I like them or not really fast, and if I don't I delete the save files and don't touch them again. Basically all of the latest FF games past X, and I give up on them completely after XIII, I'm not buying the next one, and probably wont buy anything else made by Square Enix, its all junk lately.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I ditch games because they are either too repetitive or the graphics are crappy.

 

Two of these games that fit the latter catagory are CoD:WAW and MW2. Both of these games were only insanely popular because they were riding the leftover hype of CoD4. Said game is, IMO, the best shooter of the last decade. They got the majority of the maps right, While short, the single player was enjoyable and playable on the hardest difficulty without it being downright impossible. The DLC wasn't clever but all in all it was a brill game. CoD:WaW. Everything about it was terrible. The storyline, the gameplay, the DLC, the multiplayer and the multiplayer modes. I didn't even finish the campaign and I didn't bother trying to prestige; I never got to rank 65. The veteran mode was impossible because everytime you took cover, the enemy a) Spammed your position with an infinite supply of grenades or b) decided they knew exactly where the position of your head was behind that solid sheet of wood and blasted said head. It's only redeeming quality is Zombies, which is one of the best bonus modes I've played in a long time. I finished the single player on MW2 on veteran because it was insanely easy and the multiplayer lost it's novelty after the first 70 levels. After that, it was just a big boring grind. The main culprit was definatly the repetitive maps.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Some more from me.

 

Split Second: exactly proof why i dont want disney making games-they're rubbish at it!. Split Second is a disgustingly overt steal of Burnout IP, sure, Burnout is a steal of pretty much the whole frickin arcade racer genre, but when you're basing cars, tracks, and even names off Burnout, it just gets offensive. The gameplay borrows so many things from so many games, that one kernal of originality is so buried under my disgust I couldnt find it. Even more offensive is the abysmal gameplay. The controls have only one modern rival for shear fail: Blur, and like Blur this "arcade racer with special feature" is a one trick pony well on it's way the the glue factory.

 

Once you blow up the oil tanker, it's game over, this has nothing left after that that other games dont do vastly better. The AI is the weakest link though, I've not seen AI this retarded since Gran Turismo 2002. They're "dumb-blind" AI, of a type I havent seen since the late 90s and wished I never would see again. The name comes from their two really problematic features. They're "blind"-they cant percieve objects on the track that arent scripted track props, and they're "dumb" they cant collision detect, or "see" unscripted objects, lay something heavy, ie your car, across the track that isnt a scripted obstacle, and the AI will plough right into it and explode. Embarrising.

 

It's only redeeming feature are it's graphics, and DiRT 2, and it's upcoming sequal, beat it on that ground, but what's more, DiRT, the most easygoing of sim racers, actualy has worthwhile gameplay...

 

andn TorchLight: Ahh yes sweet little Torchlight, the little Diablo clone that really, really, couldnt. This game is innocous enough. It looks cute, it's got good badging, the box is clean and the game looks just fine. Until you open the box, realise it's got no manual, that the installer is broken and glitchy. The gameplay feels a lot like WOW. In fact, WOW is a great comparison. because like wow it;s got horrible graphics, no story whatsoever, abysmal combat, and is basicaly 18 hours of grinding. Utterly terrible.

 

I played the hunter class and like WoW, it's the only working one, dressed like a prostitute in a bodice, short skirt, and what appears to be an apron worn the wrong way round, this character embodies Torchlight. Looks ok but a bit dodgy on the outside, but is totaly un substantial. The voice actor responsible for the Hunter I'm honestly still trying to work out who it was. She's the worst actress I've ever encountered since Mass Effect. In ME, if you had a female protagonist, you'd be subjected to the entire game's worth of dull, droning dialogue. The acting was uninspired and uttterly emotionless in ME, here, it doesnt even sound alive!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've finished every singleplayer game I own... but I haven't finished all of them without cheating. I make an honest try at it, but if I run into a mission or situation that I just can't clear without reaching controller-chucker levels of frustration, I cheat my way past the obstacle. That doesn't often happen; on the first run through a game I'm willing to spend quite a while trying over and over again, but I'm sorry to say I do not have the patience to just keep trying until I find a way that works. Here's the list:

 

Doom 3: The flashlight mechanics just wound up being too much of an irritation- I had a mod installed by the time I hit the fifth level. I'm not a graphics angel, but what's the point of having battles in richly detailed environments when you can't see? Total darkness isn't scary, it's an impediment to having fun.

 

GTA 3: I love the hell out of the game, but there are a few missions that force you to chase either insanely durable vehicles or be shot at by insane amounts of firepower that I just cannot enjoy because I'm switching vehicles every five seconds then spending the next five minutes trying to catch up to the quest target. That's what the tank code is there for, I guess... I always dump it over the seawall after the mission is over, but I can honestly say I'd have never beaten the game legit. That and leisurely exploration is pretty much impossible without either a tank or the Bulletproof Patriot since several of the gangs can kill cars faster than you can bail out of them. GTA:SA gets an honorable mention because, while I did beat it the first time legit, I never have since... I always spawn a jetpack for that damn train mission now.

 

Super Mario Bros. 2: Beat the first and the third legit, but some parts of the second just got under my skin so bad I had to whip out the Game Genie.

 

Starcraft (Zerg campaign): I'm terribad at rushing tactics; my MO in RTS games is turtling, and I vastly prefer small squads of more powerful units on the offense... the Swarm just didn't work out well for me. I wound up using an invulnerability code to breeze through the Zerg so I could get from the Terran to the Protoss without any headaches. I've always meant to go back and tough through, but just never got around to it.

 

Morrowind: Shock! Horror! Yeah... ultimately, I just couldn't get used to the entirely too realistic running speed and used console commands to max it out. I didn't have the patience to spend more time traveling than doing stuff.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I finish basically every game I get. I'm an achievement hunter and I try to get every achievement in the game for a perfect 1000 pts on the Xbox. Took me forever to get 1000 in Just Cause 2.

 

Games I haven't finished:

 

Mass Effect (just didn't care for it after a while.)

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest (borrowed it.)

Scribblenauts (the game IS the title screen. Seriously. I'm only a few puzzles away from being done.)

Super Street Fighter IV (I guess you can't really "finish" this game, but it lost my interest after a while.)

Halo Wars (RTS is basically the only game genre that bores me to death. Don't hate meh plz. :))

Grand Theft Auto 4 (Just didn't care for it.)

 

Otherwise, I am a freaking perfectionist. It kind of sucks, actually. I'm controlled by it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...