I'mn't one who's a fan of first person games. I played Oblivion out of love of Morrowind, and enjoyed it. I just made a dire dire error, howeever. You see, I enjoy playing games with low ratings. Games that nobody else liked. But I fucked up. I played Gods: Lands of Infinity. I got five minutes into it before the method of moving around had given me a (literal) headache. Hell, I think that PR lady of theirs who just won the Slovakian Beauty Pagant was prettier than the main character. Oh, and if you look at those pictures of her wearing armor? All the armor looks like it's just computer graphics. Yea, that's all of my 3am anti-G:LoI rant. Anyone else suffered through that game?
No. I am currently aving a very hard time of recalling a very bad game that I have played. But then again, I would probaly supress the memory of it.
In my early youth I bought a game named "Alexander" or somesuch, and tried to play it. Completely impossible. There was no manual, and an enormous amount of different unnamed buttons to push. I deemed my skills in english as not good enough, and tried to play the game again a few years later. Still fucking impossible. Most probably the suckiest game I've ever played.
Just out of interest why do you play games that no one else likes? The ratings are usually given by professional reviewers and members of the gaming public, so they tend to know what they're talking about Worst game I ever played... Fusion Frenzy, after my little brother bought it for his birthday. Safe to say he won't be seeing his next one.
It sounds like some kind of generic RTS game? I've never heard of it before, but if it got a low rating I guess that's why. BTW: Steer clear of Metal Hearts. Baaad Fallout ripoff, and poorly done at that.
You're absolutely right, except for the fact that game reviewers are a bunch of professional fucking whores standing so deep in their own faggotry not even baby Jesus would cry for them. How else could a game like Oblivion, a pure waste on precious DVD's that should have been released directly to torrent, receive a higher rating than Arcanum? Game reviewers = hype tampons with no saturation in sight.
A lot of them are paid off to boot. Or intimidated into giving high marks by either the publisher or the magazine/website editor. Didn't someone get fired not too long ago from one of the big name review sites/magazines for giving a game (the one where you play those two gangsters/cops) a bad score?
I agree with you there to a degree. I thought games like Oblivion and Assassin's Creed were about as pointless as an Ann Summers in the Middle East, but I do think that the reviewers themselves (and 90% of gamers) like being fed the same crap over and over (What IS the difference between Halo 2 and 3?) A game like Arcanum could be passed of as having messy graphics, shoddy combat and has 'far 2 mucH reeding' instead of the gem it actually due to the reviewers (and gamers who ultimately buy the game) not giving it the time and love it deserves.
I admit I can't think of which you're talking of, but this has happened in the past, and happens every few years. They list his firing as being for "unrelated reasons," that just "coincidentally" happens to be the magazine's biggest advertiser, and the makers of the game that the fellow just gave an absolutely scathing review of. edit: I apologize if my sentence structure is screwy. I re-arranged the sentences, and didn't bother to look closely at it. Too lazy.
That should be enough information already. If a reviewer cannot publicize his own opinion from fear of being fired (and let's be frank here, very few people are prepared to lose their job because of something as trivial as a game rating), then how could we possibly trust what the game reviews say? Because obviously you cannot call them the hallmark of objectivity... Again, why should anyone give a fuck about what their ratings look like if this is the case? Yes, because the entire market is catering for the mindless drones that compose the bulk of the console crowd. :roll:
Was Assassin's Creed really that bad? I was planning on giving it a try, but if it's just another traintrack mission-hopper I think I'll pass. The whole lure of the game initially (to me at least) was that you could roam freely around these populated cities and just do missions at will while trying to keep a low profile. Kind of like a sandbox Tenchu or Morrowind stealth-action game.
It's a beautiful game graphic wise. In small dosages (an hour or so) it is a great game. However the stupidly repetitive side missions and the info gathering quests (What you have to do before you go for the head honcho) is just mind numbingly boring after doing it for the hundredth time. And if your thinking this is a 'stealth' genre of game (As I was) you'll be very disappointed. You can quite literally slaughter the entire city's guard (at once) and still walk away unscathed, and slightly smug. While the combat is very fun it tends to turn into a bit of a dance. Attack, parry, counter attack and thats pretty much it. If I were you I'd give it a rent, you wouldn't be able to finish the game but you'd be able to do all the fun stuff before the repetition sets in I imagine.
