GTA 4. The first missions are soo easy, then the timed ones I fail by a few seconds. That, or somehow cops start chasing me for no reason.
Ninja Gaiden 2. Ridiculously hard, and some parts just seem like they aren't meant to be beaten.
Halo 3. I just didn't think it lived up to all the hype. Great, but hyped like it was to be the greatest game ever. It wasn't.
Cops don't just start chasing you for no reason. You did something. You are guilty until proven innocent!
At one point, I didn't do anything wrong. Then I heard sirens and cops headed straight for me. So I carjacked somebody, because I was just walking down the street. Apparently, that didn't help. Who knew?
Did you have a weapon out or anything like that?
Nope, I was just running. Which, to be fair, may have looked suspicious to the cops.
Liar!
If you punch someone, shove someone, car jack someone, shoot someone, run someone over (UNLESS the person you run over is already on a foot chase with a cop, then the cop just says they have them under arrest and usually leads to no stars awarded), crash or bump into a cop car, or are on a specific mission, is when cops will chase you. If you are walking down the street with a M4, or running, they will not. If you bump into a cop (w/o pressing shove or punch) they won't bother you, unless you keep running around in circles, bumping them 4+ times, then they will try to arrest you.
Clearly, you’re guilty of some crime. I suggest stop hitting old women
Game I bought that I thought would be good, but wasn't to me... Hmm....
I'd have to go with God of War for the PS2. I bought the first one shortly after the 2nd one came out. I picked it up because everyone was splooging over how good the game was. But I couldn't enjoy anything passed the fourth stage. It got really old really quick for me.
But, for some strange reason, I like the DMC games.
GTA 4. The first missions are soo easy, then the timed ones I fail by a few seconds. That, or somehow cops start chasing me for no reason.
Ninja Gaiden 2. Ridiculously hard, and some parts just seem like they aren't meant to be beaten.
Halo 3. I just didn't think it lived up to all the hype. Great, but hyped like it was to be the greatest game ever. It wasn't.
Cops don't just start chasing you for no reason. You did something. You are guilty until proven innocent!
At one point, I didn't do anything wrong. Then I heard sirens and cops headed straight for me. So I carjacked somebody, because I was just walking down the street. Apparently, that didn't help. Who knew?
Did you have a weapon out or anything like that?
Nope, I was just running. Which, to be fair, may have looked suspicious to the cops.
Liar!
If you punch someone, shove someone, car jack someone, shoot someone, run someone over (UNLESS the person you run over is already on a foot chase with a cop, then the cop just says they have them under arrest and usually leads to no stars awarded), crash or bump into a cop car, or are on a specific mission, is when cops will chase you. If you are walking down the street with a M4, or running, they will not. If you bump into a cop (w/o pressing shove or punch) they won't bother you, unless you keep running around in circles, bumping them 4+ times, then they will try to arrest you.
Clearly, you’re guilty of some crime. I suggest stop hitting old women
I love threads like these. It makes me feel good realizing that I'm a savvy enough consumer that I don't think I've actually bought a game I've hated.
:^:
yes i, too, have never made a purchase ive regretted in my whole life or not liked a game i bought. let me show my superiority on an internet forum so people think im a consumer genius.
Are we allowed to mock people for making a purchase based on, of all things, an IGN review?
Game I bought that I thought would be good, but wasn't to me... Hmm....
I'd have to go with God of War for the PS2. I bought the first one shortly after the 2nd one came out. I picked it up because everyone was splooging over how good the game was. But I couldn't enjoy anything passed the fourth stage. It got really old really quick for me.
But, for some strange reason, I like the DMC games.
Fourth...stage?
How many stages did you get into Metroid?
I fought 3 bosses, so therefore the next change of scenery meant it was a new stage. It's easier to refer to that way for me. Sorry for all you young thundercats out there.
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ArchonexNo hard feelings, right?Registered Userregular
edited August 2009
Two Worlds - A shitty Oblivion clone with even worse voice-acting and gameplay then Oblivion.
This is compounded by the lack of mods that make Oblivion awesome, and have kept me playing it almost constantly since it was released.
The multi-player was mildly entertaining, however. If only because of it's lack of balance. The first zone had my wee necromancer, along with a bunch of other fresh characters, duking it out with a giant dragon from the endgame, that would stalk and hunt us across the zone. It definitely evoked that Monster Hunter feeling when we started cooperating, planned an ambush, and took that sucker down after a fourty-five minute battle, and looted it for all it was worth.
Fable 2: Granted, I was a moron for getting this after I got burned by Fable 1 and Molyneux's insane promises, but come on.
The least you could do when making a sequel for a series that was originally billed, all the way up to it's original release, as being vastly non-linear, is fix the fucking linear nature of the game.
Also, adding in some improvements and features aside from guns, which act like a normal ranged weapon anyways, mindless, repetitive minigames, and the ability to play as a female character, which was really just a texture swap of the male character, would have helped ease my anger at being taken advantage of again.
Hell, half the features could have done with being fleshed out, or balanced a bit more, too. If I recall, female characters ended up looking incredibly disturbing after you leveled up strength, and multi-player was a bad joke.
Thankfully, when I went to try and take it back to the jackasses at my local Gamestop, I met an old high school buddy outside who, even after I warned him how shitty it was, was glad to trade me his copy of Deadspace for it. Now that was a good trade.
You cannot defend the Oblivion leveling system. It is indefensible. It is apallingly thought out in both principle and practice. Anyone defending it is wrong. Simply wrong.
I did change it through OOO, yep. I mean, who hasnt? Doesnt make Oblivion a bad game, in my opinion.
I got it for the 360, mods to unbreak broken things weren't an option.
Clearly the answer is you shouldn't be a filthy console gamer.
Which brings up the real question: Why are you a filthy console gamer and thus a horrible person, you filthy console gamer?
Hahahha, Achievements yo! Plus I have surround sound on my hdtv, not on my computer.
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DunxcoShould get a suitNever skips breakfastRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
I think the only purchase for the 360 I've truly regretted was Ninety-Nine Nights. I had fun on the first run-through with Inphyy and Aspharr, and I bought it under the guidance of a friend who said it was "Dynasty Warriors with RPG elements". Welp, turns out that type of game wasn't for me. Left completely unenthralled, and by the time I'd unlocked Tyurru and Klarrann, I was ready to send it back. There seemed to be some great story that I'd missed somewhere along the way that it'd gotten good reviews for, but I couldn't find it.
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
edited August 2009
I've been trading in games that got high praise on these boards a lot lately, mainly because I get bored with playing most game around the 10 to 20 hour mark.
Zack & Wiki, De Blob, Little King's Story (probably), Okami Wii are the first to spring into my mind. Oddly, all of them are Wii games. Oh well, I'll just blame it on the fanboy hype.
I think the only games I've really ever regretted buying shortly after the time of purchase were Diablo 2 and Zombies Ate My Neighbours! (And keep in mind, I bought Rise of the Robots 2 and Primal Rage PC, and weren't displeased with them... at the time)
Now, yes, most would consider these good, or even great games, but both of them weren't what I wanted at all. I've ranted about Diablo 2 before, but I'll boil it down to the fact that I was a huge fan of the first Diablo, and I didn't at all care for pretty much every change they made in the sequel. After a few hours of play I absolutely hated it. I still can't play it without getting annoyed.
Zombies Ate My Neighbours! is a slightly different beast. Since we didn't have no internets back then, I relied on local gaming mags for all my info. And since I was just getting into RPGs at the time, I picked up Zombies since several publications were referring to it as an RPG. Which, if you've played it, you know is a complete falsity, even if you stretch the definition of RPG as a genre. It's actually a top-down shooter, which is a genre I've never really cared for, or been even remotely good at. Plus, the game has a time limit (even if it isn't very strict) and respawning enemies, which are some of my all-time most hated gaming conventions. So, by the second stage I already felt a complete wave of disappointment that this was, in fact, not a modern zombie RPG. It's not really the game's fault, though it was pretty depressing at the time, if you remember how infrequently you got games due to their outrageous prices.
After some 20+ years of gaming, I've gotten good at buying games I know I'll like, and watching the prices of those I'm unsure of, so I rarely end up being disappointed to the point where I wish I hadn't gotten any given game.
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UnluckyThat's not meant to happenRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Oddly, I haven't really regretted any purchases of software to date. The closest thing would be back when I was younger the PC game Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings. That game was terrible. And I mean, TERRIBLE.
Hrm, Lord of the Rings The Return of the King on PS2 was pretty bad too now that I think about it. The Two Towers was MORE than awesome enough to make up for both games. Same with the Battle for Middle Earth game's that I bought.
Lord of the Rings.
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DietarySupplementStill not approved by the FDADublin, OHRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Only purchase I ever really "regretted" was Front Mission 4. On paper*, looked like everything I'd be looking for. Walking tanks? Shit yeah, sign me up! What's that? RPG-type character development? Near-limitless customization? How can it miss?
But after the 2nd or third mission, I just couldn't do it anymore. Part of me really wanted to get deeper into the game, but damn it just seemed for unforgiving at times. Oh, from time to time I'll see it used at GameStop and think "well, maybe I can try it again." But I always stop myself.
Only purchase I ever really "regretted" was Front Mission 4. On paper*, looked like everything I'd be looking for. Walking tanks? Shit yeah, sign me up! What's that? RPG-type character development? Near-limitless customization? How can it miss?
But after the 2nd or third mission, I just couldn't do it anymore. Part of me really wanted to get deeper into the game, but damn it just seemed for unforgiving at times. Oh, from time to time I'll see it used at GameStop and think "well, maybe I can try it again." But I always stop myself.
*By paper I mean the internet.
Just couldn't live up to Front Mission 3 for the PSOne. The story was killing me, as well as the horrible "Engrish Transration".
Game I bought that I thought would be good, but wasn't to me... Hmm....
I'd have to go with God of War for the PS2. I bought the first one shortly after the 2nd one came out. I picked it up because everyone was splooging over how good the game was. But I couldn't enjoy anything passed the fourth stage. It got really old really quick for me.
But, for some strange reason, I like the DMC games.
Fourth...stage?
How many stages did you get into Metroid?
I fought 3 bosses, so therefore the next change of scenery meant it was a new stage. It's easier to refer to that way for me. Sorry for all you young thundercats out there.
I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything, I'm just curious as to where you actually stopped now, because I can only recall three bosses in GoW:
The Hydra on the ship, the Minotaur (big guy you launch logs at), and Ares at the end.
I bought a 60 gig hard drive for my xbox 360. The transfer cable only comes with the 120 gig.
I can free-download everything I ever got, but now I have to start Fallout 3 and Mass Effect over :x.
Or, you know.... request your free transfer cable from MS? While the online form only lets you request one if you are moving stuff from a Pro to an Elite, if you phone them they will send you one to move from a 20GB to a 60GB
Game I bought that I thought would be good, but wasn't to me... Hmm....
I'd have to go with God of War for the PS2. I bought the first one shortly after the 2nd one came out. I picked it up because everyone was splooging over how good the game was. But I couldn't enjoy anything passed the fourth stage. It got really old really quick for me.
But, for some strange reason, I like the DMC games.
Fourth...stage?
How many stages did you get into Metroid?
I fought 3 bosses, so therefore the next change of scenery meant it was a new stage. It's easier to refer to that way for me. Sorry for all you young thundercats out there.
I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything, I'm just curious as to where you actually stopped now, because I can only recall three bosses in GoW:
The Hydra on the ship, the Minotaur (big guy you launch logs at), and Ares at the end.
Couldn't honestly tell you. I remember in the middle of the screen there was a giant probably destroying a bunch of shit. I was running around a busted old town and just put it down forever.
Sold it to my friend for $10 so I can't complain too much.
I bought a 60 gig hard drive for my xbox 360. The transfer cable only comes with the 120 gig.
I can free-download everything I ever got, but now I have to start Fallout 3 and Mass Effect over :x.
(But Splosion Man and Call of Duty used my connection to remember where I'm at. Thanks developers!)
Might be a bit late, but you can send away for a free transfer cable if you download the right form from Xbox.com and mark on the form that you're planning on buying an Elite system or 120GB hard drive and just haven't gotten it yet. It's how I got mine! You could also beg or borrow one from a friend or forumer.
I can't think of anything, because I know what I like and only buy games that I think I'll like.
That's the thing with me. I know that in virtually every area of my life, my tastes are constantly growing. I might think I don't like something, but it's hard for me to know for sure. Though normally I stay within my comfort zone, every now and then I get an itch to try some new things, and am sometimes rewarded - and sometimes not. I might listen to a new genre of music, and might love it - or might find it dreadful. Perhaps I'll try a new food. Or a new type of television show, or anything.
I've played computer games in particular genres that I've absolutely loved. I have loved First Person Shooters, MMO's, Turn-Based and Real Time Strategy games. I've also loved silly casual games like Peggle.
Bioshock: I loved Half-Life 2. It makes logical sense that I should love a game like Bioshock as well. Alas, however, I just can't get into it. The game just made my skin crawl. It didn't seem charming and exciting, or mysterious. It just felt ... creepy.
Fallout 3: I love MMORPGs. I've dumped so much time into World of Warcraft and, before it, Guild Wars, that it only made logical sense that I might enjoy a single player RPG. They have an even more interesting story, right? And a game world that actually changes based on my actions, unlike the generally static world of MMOs. So I picked up Fallout 3. But instead of being impressed by it's depth, I found myself just... Bored. The world was unexciting, drab, and brown. I guess it's descriptions as a sandbox game were accurate - it literally was a giant box of brown sand. The characters were two-dimensional, and I only made it up to Rivet City before I was just too bored to continue.
Spore: I loved Sim City 2000 and 3000. I love character creation in MMO's. I also enjoy casual games. So it only makes sense that I'd like Spore. On the contrary, unfortunately, I found Spore to be terribly boring as well. Though it was neat to grow my own creature, I didn't get the satisfaction out of my creation like I did when building cities in Sim City. Worlds were just too simple and homogeneous. I didn't feel like I was creating a intelligent civilization on a giant planet - it was more like making play-dough characters on a kitchen table. Once I made it to the Space age, I was too bored to continue. (Though I'm told the game gets better from there.)
Other games I wanted to love but couldn't: Balder's Gate, Civilization 4 (I loved Civ1 and Civ2, however), Age of Empires: Age of Mythology (I loved Age1 and Age2 though), Eve Online, Lord of the Rings Online, the first Guild Wars expansion (Loved the "original" game, couldn't particularly stand the x-pack). Edit: Warcraft 3's multiplayer, including DOTA. Enjoyed the single player a bit, but really couldn't stand DOTA or regular MP play.
Once I made it to the Space age, I was too bored to continue. (Though I'm told the game gets better from there.)
Marginally. Then you start the endless stream of "OMG SPACE PIRATES ON MY PLANET WITH A FKIN DOOMSDAY ORBITING ROBOT DEFENSE PLATFORM ON IT I HAVE TO GO SAVE THE HELPLESS SPORE PEOPLE." Over and over and over again.... Oh yeah, and eco-disasters.... God, that game could've been so much better..
Guild Wars was great until Sorrow's Furnace came out. They homogenized the PvE content to make the PvP content work better. It failed. Great gamestyle though.
Am getting into EvE online a bit more as of late. You really have to have a taste for doing "a lot of nothing" with that game. It sounds wierd, but people's tastes vary drastically. That's why they call these things "hobbies".
RoshinMy backlog can be seen from spaceSwedenRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Braid. I bought it purely on hype. Everyone on every fucking forum praised it to the heavens, so when I saw it on Steam, I bought it. It's not a terrible game, just so very overrated.
Guild Wars was great until Sorrow's Furnace came out. They homogenized the PvE content to make the PvP content work better. It failed. Great gamestyle though.
Yeah, I remember dying a whole bunch in Sorrow's Furnace. That was ages ago.
Right when Guild Wars came out, the Hall of Heroes (AKA Tombs, as in Tomb of the Primeval Kings) was amazing. It was really great fun. Everyone didn't know eachother, no one knew the builds. We all were just doing our best to figure it out as we went along. I remember our group came up with Spirit Spam, which eventually got nerfed.
The idea behind it was to just build walls and walls of "spirits" - which are these stationary, defenseless creatures that give everyone within a few hundred yards a "buff" or "debuff" that cannot be removed, and affects allies as well as enemies. There was a spirit that gave everyone in the area a couple hundred health for every enchantment on them, and another spirit that would give everyone in the area just a shit ton of health and armor. Plus other spirits that increased certain resistances, slowed everything down, etc etc.
Getting to the Halls of Heroes was tough. BUT if we got there, and we did on a couple of occasions, the game type was perfectly suited to holding the Halls for hours and hours. You see, at the end in order to win the other team has to kill your ghostly hero, this particular NPC who has lots of health. So, what we would do is lay down tons and tons and tons of spirits that made doing damage tough for everyone. No one could kill our hero - and even if they did, in order to claim the area, the enemy team's Ghostly Hero would have to cast a 5 second spell. We all were Rangers with lots of interrupts and would just keep the enemy hero locked down.
Man. It was such fun. I remember staying up until 6 or 7 AM in college on a few nights as we Held the Halls against all challenges. I actually logged into the game the other day, and was severely disappointed at the lack of activity going on. I guess it's popularity waned as time went on.
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If you punch someone, shove someone, car jack someone, shoot someone, run someone over (UNLESS the person you run over is already on a foot chase with a cop, then the cop just says they have them under arrest and usually leads to no stars awarded), crash or bump into a cop car, or are on a specific mission, is when cops will chase you. If you are walking down the street with a M4, or running, they will not. If you bump into a cop (w/o pressing shove or punch) they won't bother you, unless you keep running around in circles, bumping them 4+ times, then they will try to arrest you.
Clearly, you’re guilty of some crime. I suggest stop hitting old women
Fourth...stage?
How many stages did you get into Metroid?
But it's so much fuuuuuuuuun!
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I saw a gameplay video and didn't really care for it, but everyone else was jizzing all over it so I bought it
To date, the only DSiWare I regret purchasing :?
Are we allowed to mock people for making a purchase based on, of all things, an IGN review?
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I fought 3 bosses, so therefore the next change of scenery meant it was a new stage. It's easier to refer to that way for me. Sorry for all you young thundercats out there.
This is compounded by the lack of mods that make Oblivion awesome, and have kept me playing it almost constantly since it was released.
The multi-player was mildly entertaining, however. If only because of it's lack of balance. The first zone had my wee necromancer, along with a bunch of other fresh characters, duking it out with a giant dragon from the endgame, that would stalk and hunt us across the zone. It definitely evoked that Monster Hunter feeling when we started cooperating, planned an ambush, and took that sucker down after a fourty-five minute battle, and looted it for all it was worth.
Fable 2: Granted, I was a moron for getting this after I got burned by Fable 1 and Molyneux's insane promises, but come on.
The least you could do when making a sequel for a series that was originally billed, all the way up to it's original release, as being vastly non-linear, is fix the fucking linear nature of the game.
Also, adding in some improvements and features aside from guns, which act like a normal ranged weapon anyways, mindless, repetitive minigames, and the ability to play as a female character, which was really just a texture swap of the male character, would have helped ease my anger at being taken advantage of again.
Hell, half the features could have done with being fleshed out, or balanced a bit more, too. If I recall, female characters ended up looking incredibly disturbing after you leveled up strength, and multi-player was a bad joke.
Thankfully, when I went to try and take it back to the jackasses at my local Gamestop, I met an old high school buddy outside who, even after I warned him how shitty it was, was glad to trade me his copy of Deadspace for it. Now that was a good trade.
Hahahha, Achievements yo! Plus I have surround sound on my hdtv, not on my computer.
Zack & Wiki, De Blob, Little King's Story (probably), Okami Wii are the first to spring into my mind. Oddly, all of them are Wii games. Oh well, I'll just blame it on the fanboy hype.
Now, yes, most would consider these good, or even great games, but both of them weren't what I wanted at all. I've ranted about Diablo 2 before, but I'll boil it down to the fact that I was a huge fan of the first Diablo, and I didn't at all care for pretty much every change they made in the sequel. After a few hours of play I absolutely hated it. I still can't play it without getting annoyed.
Zombies Ate My Neighbours! is a slightly different beast. Since we didn't have no internets back then, I relied on local gaming mags for all my info. And since I was just getting into RPGs at the time, I picked up Zombies since several publications were referring to it as an RPG. Which, if you've played it, you know is a complete falsity, even if you stretch the definition of RPG as a genre. It's actually a top-down shooter, which is a genre I've never really cared for, or been even remotely good at. Plus, the game has a time limit (even if it isn't very strict) and respawning enemies, which are some of my all-time most hated gaming conventions. So, by the second stage I already felt a complete wave of disappointment that this was, in fact, not a modern zombie RPG. It's not really the game's fault, though it was pretty depressing at the time, if you remember how infrequently you got games due to their outrageous prices.
After some 20+ years of gaming, I've gotten good at buying games I know I'll like, and watching the prices of those I'm unsure of, so I rarely end up being disappointed to the point where I wish I hadn't gotten any given game.
Hrm, Lord of the Rings The Return of the King on PS2 was pretty bad too now that I think about it. The Two Towers was MORE than awesome enough to make up for both games. Same with the Battle for Middle Earth game's that I bought.
But after the 2nd or third mission, I just couldn't do it anymore. Part of me really wanted to get deeper into the game, but damn it just seemed for unforgiving at times. Oh, from time to time I'll see it used at GameStop and think "well, maybe I can try it again." But I always stop myself.
*By paper I mean the internet.
Just couldn't live up to Front Mission 3 for the PSOne. The story was killing me, as well as the horrible "Engrish Transration".
The Raid
I can free-download everything I ever got, but now I have to start Fallout 3 and Mass Effect over :x.
(But Splosion Man and Call of Duty used my connection to remember where I'm at. Thanks developers!)
I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything, I'm just curious as to where you actually stopped now, because I can only recall three bosses in GoW:
Or, you know.... request your free transfer cable from MS? While the online form only lets you request one if you are moving stuff from a Pro to an Elite, if you phone them they will send you one to move from a 20GB to a 60GB
Couldn't honestly tell you. I remember in the middle of the screen there was a giant probably destroying a bunch of shit. I was running around a busted old town and just put it down forever.
Sold it to my friend for $10 so I can't complain too much.
Might be a bit late, but you can send away for a free transfer cable if you download the right form from Xbox.com and mark on the form that you're planning on buying an Elite system or 120GB hard drive and just haven't gotten it yet. It's how I got mine! You could also beg or borrow one from a friend or forumer.
That's the thing with me. I know that in virtually every area of my life, my tastes are constantly growing. I might think I don't like something, but it's hard for me to know for sure. Though normally I stay within my comfort zone, every now and then I get an itch to try some new things, and am sometimes rewarded - and sometimes not. I might listen to a new genre of music, and might love it - or might find it dreadful. Perhaps I'll try a new food. Or a new type of television show, or anything.
I've played computer games in particular genres that I've absolutely loved. I have loved First Person Shooters, MMO's, Turn-Based and Real Time Strategy games. I've also loved silly casual games like Peggle.
Bioshock: I loved Half-Life 2. It makes logical sense that I should love a game like Bioshock as well. Alas, however, I just can't get into it. The game just made my skin crawl. It didn't seem charming and exciting, or mysterious. It just felt ... creepy.
Fallout 3: I love MMORPGs. I've dumped so much time into World of Warcraft and, before it, Guild Wars, that it only made logical sense that I might enjoy a single player RPG. They have an even more interesting story, right? And a game world that actually changes based on my actions, unlike the generally static world of MMOs. So I picked up Fallout 3. But instead of being impressed by it's depth, I found myself just... Bored. The world was unexciting, drab, and brown. I guess it's descriptions as a sandbox game were accurate - it literally was a giant box of brown sand. The characters were two-dimensional, and I only made it up to Rivet City before I was just too bored to continue.
Spore: I loved Sim City 2000 and 3000. I love character creation in MMO's. I also enjoy casual games. So it only makes sense that I'd like Spore. On the contrary, unfortunately, I found Spore to be terribly boring as well. Though it was neat to grow my own creature, I didn't get the satisfaction out of my creation like I did when building cities in Sim City. Worlds were just too simple and homogeneous. I didn't feel like I was creating a intelligent civilization on a giant planet - it was more like making play-dough characters on a kitchen table. Once I made it to the Space age, I was too bored to continue. (Though I'm told the game gets better from there.)
Other games I wanted to love but couldn't: Balder's Gate, Civilization 4 (I loved Civ1 and Civ2, however), Age of Empires: Age of Mythology (I loved Age1 and Age2 though), Eve Online, Lord of the Rings Online, the first Guild Wars expansion (Loved the "original" game, couldn't particularly stand the x-pack). Edit: Warcraft 3's multiplayer, including DOTA. Enjoyed the single player a bit, but really couldn't stand DOTA or regular MP play.
Marginally. Then you start the endless stream of "OMG SPACE PIRATES ON MY PLANET WITH A FKIN DOOMSDAY ORBITING ROBOT DEFENSE PLATFORM ON IT I HAVE TO GO SAVE THE HELPLESS SPORE PEOPLE." Over and over and over again.... Oh yeah, and eco-disasters.... God, that game could've been so much better..
Guild Wars was great until Sorrow's Furnace came out. They homogenized the PvE content to make the PvP content work better. It failed. Great gamestyle though.
Am getting into EvE online a bit more as of late. You really have to have a taste for doing "a lot of nothing" with that game. It sounds wierd, but people's tastes vary drastically. That's why they call these things "hobbies".
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"Tardo Wan" sounds like a Jedi that required 436 years to train and then killed himself by looking into his lightsaber while turning it on."
Yeah, I remember dying a whole bunch in Sorrow's Furnace. That was ages ago.
Right when Guild Wars came out, the Hall of Heroes (AKA Tombs, as in Tomb of the Primeval Kings) was amazing. It was really great fun. Everyone didn't know eachother, no one knew the builds. We all were just doing our best to figure it out as we went along. I remember our group came up with Spirit Spam, which eventually got nerfed.
Getting to the Halls of Heroes was tough. BUT if we got there, and we did on a couple of occasions, the game type was perfectly suited to holding the Halls for hours and hours. You see, at the end in order to win the other team has to kill your ghostly hero, this particular NPC who has lots of health. So, what we would do is lay down tons and tons and tons of spirits that made doing damage tough for everyone. No one could kill our hero - and even if they did, in order to claim the area, the enemy team's Ghostly Hero would have to cast a 5 second spell. We all were Rangers with lots of interrupts and would just keep the enemy hero locked down.
Man. It was such fun. I remember staying up until 6 or 7 AM in college on a few nights as we Held the Halls against all challenges. I actually logged into the game the other day, and was severely disappointed at the lack of activity going on. I guess it's popularity waned as time went on.
Hated it.