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List your Worst games of the year!
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Mine are:
- SSBB, Wii: I just plain didn't get it. Poké-what-now? Pica...chew??!
- Mario & Sonic Olympics, DS: What was I thinking... got a good trade-in price though
- Spore, PC: Dull, dull, dull.
Special 'Flawed, but I love it' award:
- Tomb Raider: Underworld, 360: Enjoyed every second of it as I was playing through... but it's sorely missing the replay value of Legend (time trials, unlockables). Plus, Legend handled relics/treasures much better. In Underworld they were just shiny-things-in-jugs, whilst Legend would tease with a golden glowy object sat somewhere apparently unreachable leading to beard-scratching hours of 'how the fsck do I get up there!!?' followed by a feeling of sheer awesomeness once I'd figured it out.
My Best of 2008:
- Mario Kart Wii: completed it 100% and still addicted to online races
- Pure, 360: Dumb, but fun ATV racer
- Rock Band, 360 (I think that was '08 for us in the UK): Making my bass-playing dreams come true
- GoW 2, 360: Just completed it tonight. Good switch-off-brain shooter. Not as sophisticated as it pretends to be, but I enjoyed it. Plus, GoW2 online is much less of a headshot w*nkfest than its predecessor's online matches degenerated into. I still prefer Halo 3 online for sheer comedy.
- Fallout 3, 360: Just started it, but loving it.
A pretty good year, really.
(oh, was Halo 3 2008? I'll add that to my favourites then)
- SSBB, Wii: I just plain didn't get it. Poké-what-now? Pica...chew??!
- Mario & Sonic Olympics, DS: What was I thinking... got a good trade-in price though
- Spore, PC: Dull, dull, dull.
Special 'Flawed, but I love it' award:
- Tomb Raider: Underworld, 360: Enjoyed every second of it as I was playing through... but it's sorely missing the replay value of Legend (time trials, unlockables). Plus, Legend handled relics/treasures much better. In Underworld they were just shiny-things-in-jugs, whilst Legend would tease with a golden glowy object sat somewhere apparently unreachable leading to beard-scratching hours of 'how the fsck do I get up there!!?' followed by a feeling of sheer awesomeness once I'd figured it out.
My Best of 2008:
- Mario Kart Wii: completed it 100% and still addicted to online races
- Pure, 360: Dumb, but fun ATV racer
- Rock Band, 360 (I think that was '08 for us in the UK): Making my bass-playing dreams come true
- GoW 2, 360: Just completed it tonight. Good switch-off-brain shooter. Not as sophisticated as it pretends to be, but I enjoyed it. Plus, GoW2 online is much less of a headshot w*nkfest than its predecessor's online matches degenerated into. I still prefer Halo 3 online for sheer comedy.
- Fallout 3, 360: Just started it, but loving it.
A pretty good year, really.
(oh, was Halo 3 2008? I'll add that to my favourites then)
Need For Speed Undercover- easily the worst game i have played for a very long time. Its not even worth renting- unless you're curious as to how bad it really is. I'm hoping EA make a game worth bearing the Need For Speed title...
Thats so sad to hear. When I play tested it at EA is wasn't amazing but certainly fun and had zero technical issues. Then I hear the retail has framerate issues, control issues.... it's a bummer.
Skate 2 on the other hand, is MUCH better retail than it was pre-release.
Yeah the game is fundamentally flawed. You are given this massive tri-city map- which is nice- but this is totally undermined by the fact that to go to a race you just punch down on the d-pad and select a race from a map. You are your car and then plonked down in a race. Pointless!
And yeah like you said- there are issues with the frame rates and well the whole game just feels like it was "rushed" to release. The need for speed series has gone a bit off since Most Wanted and Carbon. Until EA get it sorted- Midnight Club get my money.
Really ?
I've noticed all the need for speed games this generation have exhibited this shuddering effect / weird framerate thing. It really is the only racing game series that has made me physically motion sick whilst playing it.
The fact that it is in all the NFS games this generation led me to believe it wasn't necesserily a framerate hitch, but a design choice to make the game shuddery.
Either way I hate the games because of it.
Call of Duty : World at War....I don't know how people expected this game to be better then COD4
I prefer COD4 a lot more, but I don't think World At War was bad by any means...I'm glad they thought of something "new" with the whole WWII genre as opposed to doing the Normandy stuff for the umpteenth time in video game history.
For me:
- Gears of War 2: Sorry guys, but I thought it felt bloated and nowhere near as good as the original.
RUNNER UP
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Really overhyped. I didn't like it, not one bit. The whole story part got frustrating very quickly.
WINNER
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Alright, so the cutscenes were apparently aimed at the fans of the series that wanted answers to things from the previous games, but in catering to that new players felt somewhat alienated. I thought the cutscenes were ridiculous - skip them and you have a few measly hours of gameplay. It's unfair to market and sell this as a game and for the price of a game - it's more of an interactive movie than anything else, so to charge as much as something like GTA IV which, while not perfect was still really enjoyable, had many, many, many hours of actual gameplay...well, I feel it's kind of a ripoff. Only redeeming thing I can think of is the graphics.
I'm not going to nominate GTA IV, although I'm tempted for a few reasons. There's a few glitches (I was one of the people that suffered from a PS3 that would lock up from playing and sometimes refused to load the game if I was signed into PSN...thankfully they patched that within the week) and the repetitiveness makes it somewhat boring by the end. However, it suffers from no major flaws like the games I mentioned above, and despite it being repetitive, it still ended up being very entertaining. When I'm bored it's always the game I put on - if I feel like driving around like a maniac with no repurcussions I open party mode - if I feel like a challenge I'll open my completed save and work up a wanted level, and try to evade the cops
Worst for me was Resistance 2.
-It was short. Resistance 1 was really awesome for it's length.
-Could only carry 2 weapons at a time. Resistance 1 you could carry all weapons.
-Graphics weren't as good as the first.
-When you're in a battle with ALL Allied troops, the character you're playing was sticking out like a sore thumb. Every bad guy was aiming for you even if there were 100 other "good guys" with you.
-Able to be killed too easily. I would walk into an area and die within a few seconds. Didn't matter which difficulty setting.
-VERY poor story line in my opinion.
-Horrible ending for a really good game franchise.
~Crawn
-It was short. Resistance 1 was really awesome for it's length.
-Could only carry 2 weapons at a time. Resistance 1 you could carry all weapons.
-Graphics weren't as good as the first.
-When you're in a battle with ALL Allied troops, the character you're playing was sticking out like a sore thumb. Every bad guy was aiming for you even if there were 100 other "good guys" with you.
-Able to be killed too easily. I would walk into an area and die within a few seconds. Didn't matter which difficulty setting.
-VERY poor story line in my opinion.
-Horrible ending for a really good game franchise.
~Crawn
X play caters to MS (im sure there is a money exchange somewhere), if you haven't figured that out by now then you need to see someone for professional help
Bingo! No truer words have been spoken on MacRumors
Most disappointing game for me was Gears Of War 2 and CoD WaW.
Both didn't live up to the games that came before them. Gears 1 & CoD 4 were the best games for 360, their sequels were a MASSIVE letdown, the chainsaw on Gears 2 is way too powerful and CoD WaW is not 60 frames a second. This amongst other reasons make these the let-downs of last year.
Both didn't live up to the games that came before them. Gears 1 & CoD 4 were the best games for 360, their sequels were a MASSIVE letdown, the chainsaw on Gears 2 is way too powerful and CoD WaW is not 60 frames a second. This amongst other reasons make these the let-downs of last year.