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[Nerevar-as]

If kreia sounds like a college freshman, what does a college professor of philosophy sound like? o.O I liked the philosophical aspect of it. Anti-Star Wars is about right, it's sort of a reversal.

Sorry you didn't like it.

It all felt like self-justifying bs to me, "i´m like this because so is the world" and so on. Then she wants to destroy the Force because it didn´t let her become an evil overlady. She could weave words, but what she actually said was rubbish trying to sound meaningful. It´s like Vergere in the books, lots of enigmatic and deep sounding ideas, but when you are using torture, and allowed thousands to suffer and die just to have things your way you are just another monster justifying yourself, and **** trying to sound philosophycal instead of going "SUPREME POWA!!!".

 

On topic, the first Assassin´s Creed. I guess it was well appreciated as it gave way to a saga (and I´m up to 3 liking the others so far), but it got repetitive and a chore to play 2 hours in.

 

Half-Life 1, when I played I guess it hadn´t aged very well, as I found it overly long and not very thrilling.

 

Call of Duty 1, the only I´ve played, save for the russian campaign it just didn´t click with me. Liked far more the expansion, really intense, ironically the russians were the weaker part this time.

[TheChris92]

You all have terrible taste and are bad people for not liking the games I like...

 

Is where this thread might go.

 

But who cares.

 

Errr... dunno.

 

Never had a game I've ever truly disliked with a passion.

 

I suppose Mass Effect One goes into the list.

 

Not that I didn't love it. I LOVE that game.

 

But people like to see depth that I feel isn't truly present within the game.

I think I can elaborate on why I think ME1 was the only game worth my time. First of all, I prefer how Shepard was written in the first game, she came off as a more aristocratic-kind-of soldier as opposed to a dudebro protagonist, who communicate entirely through grunts and grim determination -- The dialogue was generally well crafted, especially with the human companions, it felt like I was interacting with real people to me as opposed to stock characters or edgy over-the-top caricatures. In the second game, she's the opposite, and of course it doesn't help that Jennifer Hale's voice acting sounds like a blender filled with gravel.. she suddenly lost the edge she had in the first game for the sake of trying to sound more "grunty, tough" because a raspy Bale-Batman voice is what we associate with someone who's supposed to be tough, I guess?

 

There was a sense of urgency to hunting Saren down, between the planets of the galaxies, though it did feel dangerous similar to that of KOTOR, but I suppose that's what works with BioWare, right? Noveria was a particularly favorite planet of mine, this planet represents the best parts I liked about Mass Effect. The danger, conspiracies, corruption, the whole scenario oozed with atmosphere and Lorik Quinn.. love him. 

The whole plot with the Collectors felt arbitrarily padded, and ultimately pointless, not to mention the jarring alliance one had to undergo with the Illusive Sheen, whom couldn't have made his villainous intensions more clear if he was a wielding a big neon sign saying "I'm going to inevitably use and discard you". 

It didn't help with the release of the Arrival DLC basically concurring on the whole pointless affair that was "trying to stop the Collectors". Ultimately, the Reapers were still gonna come.. in ME1 you managed to hold them off, in ME2 you managed to shoot a bunch of mercs on arbitrary planets and locations, right before going back to the Normandy to play with your train set. 

 

Finally the gameplay felt irritating and boring.. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are satisfied with linear chest-high-wall-pop-up-shooting-gallery-sections, but I'm not one of them. I cannot derive enjoyment for something as tedious as planet scanning, or shooting mercs in tightly-closed-corridors-going-from-cover-to-cover, as opposed to exploring the vast galaxy and uncharted worlds. Sure, the planet exploration might not have particularly deep at the time, but it did grant the overall feel of "bigness" to the whole game. ME2 did the opposite to me and it wasn't much fun.

 

I'll give ME2 some credit for having quite a few characters I really liked, like Krios, Legion, Jack & Mordin and also partly due to Chris L'Etoile still being on the writing, so that he may write some of the more interesting characters.

That's my 2 cents on Mass Effect. Any admiration I had for the series ended with ME2. I'm not particularly thrilled by it anymore but there it is.

[Seagloom]

That's not weird at all, pretty much everyone I know that played as early as IV seems to have had a lot of enjoyment with Final Fantasy, including VI. I still liked VII plenty but it wasn't materially much better or worse, whereas IX reminded me more of IV and VI.

 

If you came to FF around X then you probably would only see the more anime influenced parts, which is fine but I distinctly recall playing X and feeling like it was missing that kind of... cheer? That early FF had? I think it was more about characters and themes like Cecil's redemption, Kain's betrayal, whereas FFX was more whoa anime hair! A lot of people I think that preferred anime to JRPGs were more favorable to it, since it was easier to understand for them and yet that's precisely why I didn't like it as much.

 

As for FFT and TO: LUCT, that's also decidedly not weird IMO as I also enjoyed those games a lot, for similar reasons. Once again, Delita the kind of Lannister pragmatist, the sort of "Game of Thrones" power struggle between the Marquis, the Belouves (sic?), the Church, and others. Once again, not flashy or splashy but solid all the same. A lot more hardcore as far as difficultly goes for the FF series as well, that Wiegraf fight was insane back in the day.

 

Weird would be this person who thought the FF series started falling apart at III (literally 3), which is the Onion Knight one, and everything that came after was tripe. Sometimes I can get behind the idea that IV is the best though... just purist and elegant RPG mixed with cool characters, whereas the tendency to up the theatrics was starting to seep into VI.

 

FFT had its share of nasty encounters, definitely. The first time I fought Gafgarion was a nightmare. "Master of all swords, cut energy! Night sword!" is burned into my brain with how often I had to redo that fight. Not too mention all the hours I spent leveling by having my crew throw rocks at Ramza. Aw, the good old days. XD

 

The plot was certainly straightforward looking back on it now. In those days, I was floored by it. FFT has the distinction of being one of the few games I finished in one sitting. I played from start to end over a period of 48 hours without sleep, few breaks, and almost no food. It was close to life changing for me. I wish Square did more with it than use the world for a future core FF title.

 

Never got to play FFIII. I played the original, IV, V, VI, and VII. Never got too far into VIII. I was too broke to afford it at the time, and by the time I could buy it my plate was already full. Ditto with FF9. I regret missing out on it. I hear a lot of good things. So properly, I stopped liking the series at VII. VII was by no stretch my favorite, but I still played the hell out of it.

 

I guess the reason I feel weird about it is I feel like I'm not a proper fan, if that makes sense? Like I should like every FF game. Which I know is silly. I don't have the same hangup with any other series.

[Endurium]

MOBA style games, like LoL - doesn't interest me in the slightest

 

Alpha Protocol - first timed dialog picked a response for me before I could read the responses. If I have to possess meta knowledge of the game in order to know dialog responses before they appear, it's trash. Glad I only paid 2$. It's in my hall of shame category on Steam.

 

Borderlands - can be fun with friends, but soloing is a PITA and the respawns are worse than MMO. The art style I can live with, but I want to destroy Claptrap with C4 or something; its voice makes my ears bleed. Based on this experience I've avoided BL2.

 

 

That's my experience over the last 10 years or so. Thankfully I enjoy most other games, though there are a few I won't play because they're beyond my skill level in terms of difficulty. I enjoy watching others play those games.

[Fishy]

Dragon age inquisition. It's won GOTY everywhere. Because let's be honest. This years sucked. If DA1 was released let's say .. In 2011 or 2007. Doubtful it would have won anything.

[Mr.House]

KOTOR.

[Eternal Phoenix]

Dragon age inquisition. It's won GOTY everywhere. Because let's be honest. This years sucked. If DA1 was released let's say .. In 2011 or 2007. Doubtful it would have won anything.

 

Inquisition won GOTY because of fan popularity same with how Skyrim won in 2011 despite going up against two clearly superior games (aka Dark Souls 1 and The Witcher 2). Inquisition is also a far better game than Skyrim.

 

2014 actually saw the release of Dark Souls 2, Divinity: Original Sin, Shadows of Mordor, The Wolf Among Us, Shadowrun Dragonfall, The Walking Dead Season 2 and Wasteland 2 (so not just Dragon Age: Inquisition) just to name some of the big releases that did well unlike other big releases like Titanfail and Destiny (although these two did sell well).

 

Inquisition went up against four big RPG's (Dark Souls 2, Divinity: Original Sin, Shadows of Mordor and Wasteland 2). This was far better than what we got in 2013 which saw the release of Shadow Returns and two expansions to already existing RPG's (Dragon's Dogma and Diablo 3).

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

I could write paragraphs on this subject. But then I'd out myself as an ugly, bitter, pimpled grognard who is perpetually unsatisfied with the RPG genre and modern AAA game design in general.

Spoiler

Then again, that is what I am...

So I'll throw out one old game that, on paper, I'd thoroughly enjoy but didn't for various reasons - Baldur's Gate 1.

I may detail said reasons later but phone/work and all.

[Neoleviathan]

Borderlands. I am pretty alone in my disinterest for it among my friends, they all loved it & played obsessively. I did have a little fun in the first, but couldn't keep into for very long. It got kind of repetitive. The second lost me within twenty minutes, just found it boring. Borderlands reminds me(though I'm not sure why) of that old Fallout game that everyone pretends didn't exist, you know, That one. And my enjoyment of the three games & the amount of time I spent playing them is about the same. Does have nice art direction though, & I like the setting. Maybe I'll like the Telltale one.

[Han Shot First]

 

I suppose Mass Effect One goes into the list.

 

Not that I didn't love it. I LOVE that game.

 

But people like to see depth that I feel isn't truly present within the game.

 

I love Mass Effect, and despite it now being very dated, it remains one of my favorite games of all time. But I agree. I think it often gets overrated by fans. To be fair though I think that is probably true of every first game of a popular series. Nostalgia goggles work wonders.

[Drone223]

Though I haven't played it yet I find TLOU is given way too much credit than it deserves. From what I've the gameplay mechanics look good but not ground breaking since other games already do a much better job with said mechanics. That being said I'd love to play TLOU one day for its story it looks really great by the sound of things.

[SlottsMachine]

I don't really think in terms of whether a game is overrated or not. 

[TheChosenOne]

 

I'm kinda surprised no one had mention this game series.

[TheBlackBaron]

I've tried getting into The Witcher (the first one) a couple times now, and I've never managed to get it to stick. The combat feels very clunky to me, and nothing about Geralt has ever manged to really suck me in and get me invested in his character, nor has the plot or the other characters been anything to write home about.

I did get The Witcher 2 for free during GOG's Autumn sale, which everybody has assured me is a better game. So once I'm done with Inquisition, I'm going to simply dispense with the first game and move onto that.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Fallout 3. Only a half-example, because I still enjoyed it. But I bang my head against the wall every time somebody says it's better than New Vegas because it's "darker" or "grittier" or "has a better story" - what, you mean the story that was essentially a mish mash of FO1 and 2's plot?

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

I'm pretty fond of it, actually. I find the multiplayer to be a very relaxing experience compared to the other PvP games I play.

Listening to 12 year olds yelling at one another about getting quickscoped doesn't strike me as a relaxing experience. To each their own I guess.

[Seboist]

 

I'm kinda surprised no one had mention this game series.

 

Game's hardly overrated, it gets plenty of hate by a vocal minority that thinks they're being "cool" by ripping on it.

 

(I've been playing CoD since the original was released on PC.)

[wolfhowwl]

"Hardcore gameyrss" hate fifa but I love that ****. I hate it with a passion too though.

 

Us True Gamers™ must remain eternally vigilant against the dudebro menace.