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Buying on a whim - The curse of hype
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I'm glad other people have said it before so I can go ahead and agree. The wii has been a giant disappointment for me, for many of the reasons people have listed here. I dunno, I continously feel like I got tricked into buying another GCN with a pointer remote, which honestly isn't that great. Yes, the wii has the occasional fantastic game, but even then I can't help but feel disappointed. It's not to say I can't enjoy the wii - I loved Sonic and the Secret Rings, Mario Galaxy, and Brawl - it's just that those moments are far between. The wii is an occasional diversion from my 360 and PS3.
And I won't even get into Wifi connect. That's a complete joke.
For the most part, I love action games with big budget stories. Games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, GTAIV, etc. Hence the reason I kept giving GTA a chance - I felt that, if it were changed enough, I'd eventually fall in love, which is exactly what GTAIV did.
Nah that's just the Stockholm syndrome settling in.
The Phoenix Wright games, Etrian Odyssey(if you like dungeon crawling and pain, at least), Shiren(same), Trauma Center(pain), Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents, etc.
There's enough gems to make it worth having, but my PSP's gotten way more play out of me lately.
PSN: super_emu
Xbox360 Gamertag: Emuchop
I did really enjoy Portal, and started playing HL2, but got bored.
Haven't touched it in months. Mostly a mistake.
Other games like Halo 3, GTA4, and Assassin's Creed were bought not based on hype, but because they looked great to me and I knew I'd enjoy them (which I did).
What the hell?..
This is the anti-hype thread - negative hype - how on earth did it inspire the need to buy something you clearly don't have a use for?
Run. Find something to take your mind off it. Play something that will eat up your time - there's a Diablo 2 thread - try that.
I'm the exact opposite. I love the game BECAUSE it's a return to the FFVII universe, and it feels like the original FFVII more so than the other releases in the compilation.
I've been savoring it. It's almost pure fan service, however.
The way I used to buy games, I would just go to the Game Crazy a few blocks away, and look at all of the used games. If it looked interesting, I bought it.
Before I got GTA 4 and Brawl, I played my DS almost more than my PC. Which is saying alot for me, since I built my own gaming rig and impulse-buy stuff from steam often. It has some seriously great games.
Call of Duty 3 was horrible, but it probably didn't help that I had to use their horrible Wii controls.
Oh my god please go play Twilight Princess right now. That is an awesome game.
I am the same with my Wii. I love it, but I just don't understand why it's selling so much.
It's mainly party games (and there's only so many of those you can play), or else games that are often just as suited, if not more suitable on a standard joypad.
When the Wii was announced everyone was having visions of being able to slice people up with in-game swords matching their movements and easily shoot people up in awesome FPS's, and the reality just hasn't quite matched up just yet. About the closest I'd say it's gotten is possible the use of the Wiimote in RE4. Then again, maybe that's just me.
Because it wasn't.
It's VERY rare when I find people on here who have consistently proven that they have similar tastes to mine, and I happen to disagree. I guess because I mostly lurk around, getting an idea of what each person likes and dislikes, and I knew that it probably wasn't my type of game going in. The idea was solid, the gameplay was actually great, the mechanics and plot were too lacking for me.
Portrait of Ruin, another fairly hyped up game, was almost the same way. I played through the first couple of bosses and just went meh. But I picked it up a couple of months later and played through the rest, loving it.
God Hand. Man, that game so wasn't for me, it's not even funny.
Also, Shadow of the Colossus, Shiren, Phoenix Wright, FFXII, Team Fortress 2 -- I sure do dislike a lot of games that this forum really, really likes.
On the flip side though, I bought CoD4, Audiosurf, Portal, and Company of Heroes solely on the hype of this forum and I love those games to death. The next two titles on the 'hype buy' list are Mass Effect and GTAIV. We will see, G&T.
Take the 7-page novel IGN wrote (or any other website). They rave on and on about the "fantastic improved AI." Really? Did they actually play the game or just make shit up? Because GTA IV has the most one-dimensional bag-o-rocks-for-brains retarded AI I've ever seen. The AI has two modes: neutral and pissed-off. People run around screaming for no reason a lot of times and the cops only have one response to everything from jaywalking and littering to going on a murder spree: open fire into every crowd of people they see and ram you with their police cars at full speed. "Fantastic AI" is apparently equivalent to me group selecting all of my units in an RTS and attack-moving the enemy and calling it a day. I'm not saying I expect the best AI ever written, but when you gush on and on and on about it in every review like it's the best god damn thing to ever happen? What the fuck game were they playing?
When I look at the hype machine for something like GTA IV, you really have to wonder just how many reviews they bought. I'm not saying it's not a fantastic game because it is. It's an amazing game, but I have so many frustratingly negative points about the game that weren't mentioned in hardly any review. These aren't obscure little details. These are things you would notice from just playing the game right away.
Does that sound like a 150%, A++++, 12/10, cum-fest that every site ever has reviewed it as? It's still a damn fine game, but sites like GameSpot condense all those negatives into this:
A lot of what I described above is controller-throwing frustrating when it causes you to fail a mission you've been on for the last 20 minutes. That being said it's still probably one of the best games you'll play all year and the positives will definitly outweigh the negatives, even if only for a rent.
/rant off
Bullshit hype. I'm sorry, Chrono Trigger is NOT the 2nd greatest game ever.
Get out of my brain, darleysam.
You're right. It is THE greatest game ever.
*is shot*
Platinum FC: 2880 3245 5111
Saw it coming from a million miles away.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Do I win some sort of prize?
Not like you didn't leave yourself painfully open to it.
Also, I have a sort of weird anti-hype when it comes to Mega Man. It's just the 'I'll be getting it anyway, what do I care what other people say?' mentality.
Platinum FC: 2880 3245 5111
I actually set it up. My original sentence was "I'm sorry, Chrono Trigger is NOT the greatest game ever"
:^: I agree, completely.
One thing I think the Wii is GREAT at is a party box. I love busting the beast out every friday night and playing whatever the hell we want. Having a 4 player brawl, or a 4 player battle in mario kart.
My 360 is great when I feel like a loner. So many good singleplayer games.
God Hand: Bought without a rental due to board hype alone. It lives up to it.
Shadow of the Colossus: Bought due to a single screenshot I saw once back when it was known as 'Wanda and the Colossus'. I'll tout this game 'till the end of time. Yes CJ, you are clearly lacking a soul, but that can be remedied by playing
Okami: I'm one of these wierd people who got it when it was first released and loved it. I'll sing its praises.
Persona 3: Bought without a rental because of solid reviews and board hype. I never, ever, ever play RPGs but I loved this one.
God of War 1 & 2: Bought without rentals. It seems unfashionable to agree with the critics about God of War, but I do. It took me until the sequel to really appreciate these games - now I'm dying to get my hands on 3.
Portal: Bought the Orange Box long after the hype around it died down. Yahtzee Croshaw said it best: 'Portal's great, and if you don't think so you must be stupid.'
Assassin's Creed: Long, long after the hype for this died and mixed reviews crushed many hopes, it was still the first game I bought for my PS3 along with Ratchet & Clank. Why? Because in my eyes it's just Free Roaming Prince of Persia Ver. 2.0 - and by playing it through those rose colored lenses it's fantastic.
Call of Duty 4: It's very unfashionable to say this, but I didn't care much for Call of Duty 4. It had gorgeous graphics, the gameplay was solid, the online was fine. I don't know why, but I'm glad I only rented it - it has no place in my collection.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: I had no interest in this game after playing the demo, but so many people on these boards sing its praises I decided to give it a rental yesterday. I'll be buying this one - it's wonderful.
GTA IV: I woulda' preordered this one if Rockstar had only ever released a single trailer and let no other information slip. I'm one of these freaks who thought San Andreas was an absolute masterpiece, and IV is no exception. Again, in the words of Yahtzee, 'Absolutely sublime from start to finish.' Yes I've lent an ear to the complaints about this game (and zanetheinsane makes some fine points above, though I don't really agree with any arguments against the targeting or cover system or police response - or at least I never had issues with them), but it's still the best game to come out in the last few years. I know they'll have loads and loads of money as a result of this little project, but someone should seriously buy everyone who worked on this project a little gold medal, 'cuz they're No. 1.
...though to be fair Yahtzee was talking about Portal. Hm - I've never actually thought about it, but going through the list shows me: I've never been hyped into buying a game I didn't like.
Edit: to expand on GTA.
That is how they claim they are hardcore. Every "greatest games of all time" list needs some games that almost nobody has played.
And it's earned its place as a classic, if you ask me. Find another RPG similar to it.
There aren't many.
Yeah I wasn't going to get GTA until like 3 days before it came out and the hype sucked me in like a black hole bitch. Hype is my kryptonite, I don't know why but I'll buy shit if someone else gives me the thumbs up, usually it's not so bad but I've picked up some bad apples this way. Like fucking soldier of fortune payback, I played double helix which was an awesome game and my friend was like wow this game is even better then that...well let me tell you something, it is not, it is the worst shit in the world. Thank god I only rented that one
I guess maybe it's because I'm in college and not out in the real world yet, but when I hang out with friends, it's usually drinking till we vomit, and then more, not really playing video games. Hanging out with friends, for me, means going down to the bars and getting shitfaced.
Hah, I used to do that. Then it got too expensive. So we go out on Tuesday nights to drink and whatever, then on Friday nights we come back and play the shit out of some 4 player games.