22 Oct, 2010
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Community Q:: we all have them – games that consistently come up in the reviews and news, games that everyone else seems to love but you personally abhor. So share with us – what game franchise leaves you feeling cold? What ‘classic’ game is nothing but a yawnfest? Did you buy something expecting greatness … and ended up with a big cold dud?
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For me, Aion. It felt too “plasticy” to me, if that makes sense at all. There was a lot of grinding and it wasn’t hidden very well (all MMOs have a grind aspect). It was way over hyped/reviewed IMO.
Uugh, Aion…
Unfortunately, when I decided to try that game, I rolled a Gladiator. Not only is Aion very imbalanced ranged v. melee (flying combat), the Gladiator was the weakest melee class 9at least while I was playing).
Aion also had terrible rubber-banding issues, and the in-game economy was garbage because of the thousands of money-farming bots that drove up Auction House prices to insane levels.
Silent Hill 2. Let the hate flags fly.
I played Silent Hill 3 and 4 before this one. I loved SH3, and heard SH2 was phenomenal, so I had to give it a try. What Silent Hill 2 does right is its psychology. The series in itself is based around the nightmares of the protagonist, and everything in SH2 is admittedly well done on the basis of nightmares. However, I hate this game for two reasons. First, it wasn’t scary. At all. What makes Silent Hill scary is its environments, ambience, and grotesque looking monsters. SH2′s environments sucked. It just looked run-down, and it only went to the hell world twice in the entire game, and even that felt tame in comparison to the other titles in the series. Sure, I felt like I was alone alot of the time, but that’s not always a bad thing. Remember that when you’re alone, nothing can hurt you, and what’s so scary about that?
More importantly was the characters. I can dig the story overall, but dear God that cast is annoying. Summed up, we have Eddie, who is self-loathing and…just weird. He’s not like most mistreated kids turned psycho, he just continues to be weird and I found no sympathy for him when I got around to killing him. It was quite satisfying shutting him up for good. Then there’s Angela, a chick with severe daddy issues. Goes the whole game contemplating suicide, and you attempt to stop her, but then she just vanishes in the flames towards the end. Yeah, real character growth right there. Again, my heart’s not at loss for a weird chick that hugs a knife tighter than a guady beige turtle neck sweater. Then there’s Laura, an annoying little brat that I wanted nothing more than to kick her teeth in. She torments you throughout the whole game, then she’s suddenly your best friend, then she vanishes and I never get the satisfaction of gutting her. And Maria, a freaky spectre look-alike of your dead wife who’s constantly trying to hit on you. I can dig her, but I can’t dig James. James is ok I guess, but he’s a complete idiot. He watches Maria get killed a total of four times throughout the course of the game, and not one time does he consider that maybe there’s more to what he’s seeing. He just cries every time, as if he doesn’t know she’ll be back in another ten minutes, only to die again.
I hated this cast of characters. They made me hate the story, which made me hate the game. I wouldn’t care if this game was mildly popular, but people would give away their own babies for this game, and I just don’t get how I’m the only one that seems to think that the cast is so completely full of idiots.
WITCHERY! xD
See, I’m a huge fan of the series as a whole but I was massively disappointed in SH3. I think I’m alone there.
You know, SH3 was my first Silent Hill experience, so I really enjoyed it and had some first-timer bias for a while. But I did replay it recently, and it wasn’t as good as I remember, so I can see where you’re coming from.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I still played it through, and must’ve finished it about 20-30 times. I think I literally played it to death.
There isn’t really anything I can think of that isn’t totally dependant on matters of personal taste. The one that springs to mind for me are the PSOne Final Fantasy games. I have just never been able to understand the fanfare that surrounds the series at all.
I played Final Fantasy VII briefly when it first game out, and have watched people play it extensively, and yet I just can’t get my head around why it is such a popular game. But like I said it’s a matter of personal taste, as I for one really loathe turn-based combat on the whole (even in the early Fallout games, which despite that I still enjoyed).
I’m not saying the Final Fantasy games are bad (I actually like FFX, and managed to pull off something rather ingenious from my ignorance!), I just cannot understand why they are considered some of the best games ever made considering they use such a frankly primitive combat system ect.
WITCHERY!