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Scytale:
Half Life 2,
*begin rant*
This game is the single most overhyped peice of crap I've seen or played, I may be biased because I'm not a FPS fan but seriously why the hell is this game praised so much.
The storyline makes no sense, wtf I'm trying to escape a city, there are aliens or something, some crazy scientist gives you a gravity gun??? then wtf Zombies and a crazy preacher. Never got any further then that because it was pissing me off too much. If your going to try and integrate a storyline into a shoot em up make sure it makes sense. Seriously a gravity gun friggin ridducoulus purely an excuse to show off the "physics engine"
Thats my third complaint. Your running for you life shooting up people then BAM you get to one of these stupid physics puzles they've inserted just to show off their game engine. You're in the middle of a jetski chase then you've got to get up and start stacking together barrallels to make a ramp, lame. If you want to put puzzles into your game don't have them detract from the action please, look at Quake perfect example, there were lots of puzzles in there, had to hit switches in a set order shoot targets to open doors etc and they didn't detratct form the action at all in fact there I've said it Quake is about 300* better then halflfe 2, none of this nonsense with a storyline just had you in a castle blasting away monster with a fucking nailgail, no messing around with gravity guns no crappy physics puzzles, just non stop action. If you want multiplayer play Unreal Tournement that has interesting weapons and doesn't use that stupid source thing.
On that subject, thats final nail in the coffin the damnable DRM of the Source software, in order to play HL2 you need to enable it online and have this thing running in the background all the time. The thing always forces you to download new patches all the time. Won't let you play with the version 1 software on the actual half life 2 cd's.
If your someone like me who doesn't normal have Windows on their pc, but set it up specifically because every one was raving about this game, played the game for about 3 hours got pissed off and un-installed it and Windows. Then two years later decide maybe you were a bit harsh and should try again only to have to sit through hours worth of valves patches, (why oh why does it patch so slowly???) Just to play the damn thing it's not worth it.
*end rant*
Seriously
If you want to play a good FPS play the original Quake or if you want multiplayer play Unreal Tournement both games are a lot better.
McTaggart:
They should have left halflife 2 at just that Route Canal chapter (the first one, and the one that's in the demo). I think they were trying to be mysterious with the story, but did that but leaving information out rather than giving you hints. Steam is what's stopping me from giving it another try. The software hates me and gets more and more like just a platform to sell you shit with time and I really don't have the bandwidth for this.
nihilist:
The whole reason Valve were hyping episodic content was "delivering content more frequently, but in smaller pieces." Really? The amount of time between episodes one and two puts that myth to bed. (Though I did like HL2, myself.)
Doom 3. How can you not hate that piece of shit? Quake 4 as well. Way to fail, iD, way to fail.
Stryc9Fuego:
I gotta agree with you on the Doom3 and Quake4 front. It's like they said on Penny Arcade: iD knows how to make a really great, solid game engine, but the games themselves are like a fourteen year old's high school notebook. "...and when you turn the corner, there's a GIANT SKELETON! with ROCKET LAUNCHERS on his shoulders! and INVISIBLE SKIN! WOO SCARY!"
It's like the best idea they have is variations of ADAM from Buffy. Yeah. that didn't work too well there, either. A nightmare mix of demon/human/cyborg isn't that scary! Cut it out!
I also, sadly, have to echo my dissatisfaction with Half-Life 2. Yeah, it's got a kinda decent story, but cliffhangers are never cool. Also, it may just be my crappy 5-year-old PC, but the load times are horrible! I have literally been able to do various home repair projects waiting for the next areas to load. I went back to play it last weekend, and got 5 shelves hung up during the dead times. And that was just until Ravenholm!
As far as good, fun games where you shouldn't even give a crap about what's going on otherwise, I like UT2k4, but this isn't about games we like, it's games we hate. That claim goes towards two games that get the "thank god it was a rental!" award. Daikatana for the N64 (I can't blame Daikatana on this. I knew it was going to be awful, but I had to see what the hype was about), and Superman 64 (this turd needed to die young).
Johnny Evilguy:
Perfect Weapon for the PS1
Saga Frontier 1
Whats wrong with Obvilion? Can you summarize your big rant McTag?
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