(04-02-2013, 06:57 PM)Arjahn Wrote: Oh boy, flameshield engaged.
1. Borderlands (1 & 2)
2. Skyrim
3. Fallout New Vegas
4. Far Cry 3
5. Mass Effect 1 & 2 (never touched 3)
Also in response to gaiages, I'm a huge fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, and I f*cking hate Kingdom Hearts 1.
I just found this and felt like adjusting my list now that I've expanded my gaming library substantially and become far less of a stupid internet hipster teenage man guy. Also of note, at the time (I think probably maybe???), nobody would shut up about Far Cry 3 and my PC could barely play it, and what I could play felt really generic. Plus, I just wanted you guys to think I was cool man :(
Anyways, in no particular order.
5. Borderlands, yeah agreeing with SERIOUSLY's points on this one, it's just a genericy shooter where you shoot the same ten enemies. Plus, nobody shuts up, ever. Want to open a gate to go shoot some more guys or maybe get an incrementally better gun? WAIT A SEC PARTNER! WE HAVE TO INTRODUCE THIS QUIRKY VIDEOGAME CHARACTER AND YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO HIS "HILARIOUS" DIALOGUE WHILE CLAPTRAP MAKES ROBOT JOKE #13-6! I know the multiplayer can make it more enjoyable, but that's true about any crummy game. Pryzm the Dark Unicorn is a shit game, but trying to play it while goofing off with friends is fun, that doesn't make the game not-shit.
4.5 Minecraft. First of all, I love Minecraft. I've spent far too many hours goofting off with and making friends on my custom server and it was the first pc game I got really into (Runescape nonwithstanding), but it's so overblown at this point, I kinda-have to put it on here. Great game, crap fanbase and oh god the videos are in my sidebar go away someone send help my adress is 1511 Hor---
4. 2007 Runescape. Most of you probably won't understand the grievance here, but I gotta say it. 2007 Runescape was shit. A lot of people on the internet hate modern Runescape for being shit, which, to be fair, it is, but many of those same people have the hardest nostalgia boners I've ever seen. It's a baby's first MMO that nobody wants to admit was never really that engaging. Speaking as a previous ten year old who ran to play at the library every day when he didn't have a computer, it really just was never a very good game.
3. Bastion. Cool aesthetic, generic gameplay. Nothing kills a game for me like generic gameplay or pages of unskippable dialogue. I sorta liked Bastion, I certainly didn't hate it, but it was just a prettier version of the 2003 Bionicle™ browser game, and that one wasn't great either.
2. Braid. Braid is a pretentious platformer with floaty, generic gameplay elements. I don't know if the circlejerkinist' game is "cool to hate" or whatever if I'm still considered a massive hipster for hating it, but god dammit I just read a bunch of people praise it as a work of true art and it made me come revive an ancient thread. If you're going to spend years of your life designing a game that questions the tropes of platformers, maybe make the platforming feel ok, or like you've played a platformer before? Maybe? No? Ok. Doesn't help that the developer is a pretentious fanny bag of a man. I remember seeing him watching people actually have fun with his game (somehow) and he got all mopey and said "they just don't understand." WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING YOUR GAME AND INTERPRETING IT THROUGH THEIR OWN METHODS JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. Oh and my favorite quote of his that confirms my suspicions of Blow being a 13 year old philosopher. "‘One day I’m looking at my bank account and there’s not much money, and the next day there’s a large number in there and I’m rich. In both cases, it’s a fictional number on the computer screen, and the only reason that I’m rich is because somebody typed a number into my bank account.’”
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1.5 Quick nod to Far Cry Blood Dragon, otherwise known as OVERUSED 80'S JOKES WITH NERF GUNS DUCKTAPED OVER ITS VHS COVER UHHH BAYWATCH AND GI JOE OR SOMETHING for having some of the worst gun feel of any game I have ever played. Reminds me of the defense for The Last of Us's poor gunplay, where diehard fans just say that it's "supposed to feel that way". While that kinda sorta not really makes a bit of sense for the shady, depressing tone of an apocolypse tale, why would they make shooting giant laser beams feel so unimpactful? Seriously, go replay it sometime, it feels like a PS1 game, and not in a good way.
1. Shovel Knight. It's Duck Tales. People praise the devs like it's a masterful revival of retro platforming, when in reality they repackaged a few old ideas and are being heralded as divine figures. All the while other platformers are introducing fresh ideas and receiving far less attention. I had a whole spheal written up, but the forum decided to eat my final paragraph, thus confirming my suspisions of Shovel Knight's coming omnipotence, so let me leave you with this. There's a level, where there's lightning, and the stage goes black, SO YOU HAVE TO SEE WHERE TO GO WHILE IT FLASHES1!!!!!!OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH
Lazy level design elements like this blew chunks in Megaman and they still Blow here.