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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.05.24 10:06:00 -
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Talking with friends lately and we all agreed that overhyped games are the pits. But what id like to know is your worst offenders for either overhyped games and or games undeserving of there critical acclaim.
Please give a wee reason why!
Im interested in finding out if there is a common consensus regarding this gaming phenomenon.
For my part: Half Life 2
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Calistoph
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Posted - 2006.05.24 10:27:00 -
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Off the top of my head, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.
I own it for the 360, and i've never such such a **** poor team AI before.
There's plenty of other culprits too, CnC: Tiberian Sun, Black And White, Oblivion, etc...
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Jin Jemai
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Posted - 2006.05.24 12:03:00 -
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Edited by: Jin Jemai on 24/05/2006 12:03:36
WoW.
Is it a bad game? No, is it a bad game compared to it's hype? Yes.
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jbob2000
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Lluthiunne Atalaron
Talking with friends lately and we all agreed that overhyped games are the pits. But what id like to know is your worst offenders for either overhyped games and or games undeserving of there critical acclaim.
Please give a wee reason why!
Im interested in finding out if there is a common consensus regarding this gaming phenomenon.
For my part: Half Life 2
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GouldFish
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:26:00 -
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Halo.
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Berak FalCheran
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:30:00 -
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Edited by: Berak FalCheran on 24/05/2006 13:30:19
Oblivion totally.
It's not bad, kinda fun even. But it is nowhere near the hype about it being the 'best game ever', etc.
(It's really just like every other RPG ever, TBH)
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Xeaon
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:42:00 -
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Edited by: Xeaon on 24/05/2006 13:42:19
Yeah, i'd say oblivion too. I was really really excited when it first came out - it took me like 3 days to get bored of it. It doesn't matter if it's got endless things to do etc if they're all just the same hack/kill/destroy 
Also halo sucks 
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Psycarne
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:46:00 -
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Black and White 2. It completely teabagged, it was the first game with better graphics.
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Ralus
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Posted - 2006.05.24 18:27:00 -
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doom 3 for my part, it's graphics "revolution" wasn't as impressive as people believed it was going to be and it only provided a medocre storyline with a few interesting moments. Good game, yes. Revolutionary, desfinatly no!
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Capsicum
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Posted - 2006.05.24 18:36:00 -
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Originally by: Ralus
doom 3 for my part, it's graphics "revolution" wasn't as impressive as people believed it was going to be and it only provided a medocre storyline with a few interesting moments. Good game, yes. Revolutionary, desfinatly no!
I sadly have to agree, It was like .. oh a dark bit, where oh' where are the monsters going to jump out from this time ?
Hmm, most overated game ... I'd have to say it was "The moment of silence" that was the sponsor for series one of the new battlestar Galactica on Sky in the Uk. The TV trailer made it look rigorous, involving and somewhat fun.
What I actually got was a sad point and click adventure game with somewhat less then the groundbreaking graphics advertised that wouldn't display at fullscreen on my 1600x1200 native resolution TFT.
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Kryss Darkdust
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Posted - 2006.05.24 18:37:00 -
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By far and wide Orion which was supposed to be Ultima Online II, but became vaper wear literly like 2 months before it was scheduled to release. They actually already had Alpha testers playing the first version of the game. It was luckily overshadowed by Everquest, but it was by far the most overhyped product in existance and it doesn't even exist.
The next one on the list for sure was Master of Orion III. By far one of the greatest game designs in history with the worse execution I've ever seen. Alan Emrich is by far a designing genius along with Sid Meier and Steve Jackson, yet his game was completly F'ed up by one of the worst development teams in history. I'm yet to see anyone F up a game worse then MOOIII
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Siren Shiva
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Posted - 2006.05.24 19:33:00 -
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Pffft, Oblivion was not overhyped. Me and Verone still play it. I'd definitely rank it in my top 5 of best games ever.
The most overhyped game ever has to be Horizons. Without the slightest doubt. Of all the unique and amazing features they announced years in advance, only playable dragons made it in.
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Sarmaul
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Posted - 2006.05.24 19:47:00 -
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Halo 2
I don't care if it had the best multiplayer experience on the xbox, the single player mode was rushed, unfinished and rubbish.
World of Warcraft
To be honest EVE tained me. The biggest thing I hated about WOW was how your actions had zero effect. Go take down a bandit camp and it will respawn within minutes for someone else to do the same thing. If they added persistance and released a single player version I would pick it up in an instant.
I think they are the only 2 "over hyped" games I've been disapointed in for a very long time.
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the game is very well balanced
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Nicholas Barker
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Posted - 2006.05.24 20:47:00 -
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eve online, i dunno what people find in that hype mountain.
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FooB2
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Posted - 2006.05.24 21:27:00 -
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Animal Crossing : Wild World on the DS. i got it about 3/4 days ago. and its the biggest pile of toss ever.
everyone goes "OMG! its amazing! its AC but with WIFI!"
i got it for free, and i still feel cheated.
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Glassback
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Posted - 2006.05.24 22:13:00 -
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Homeworld II, loved the first one, second one sucked because you couldnt wait before the next level.
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Ithuriel
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Posted - 2006.05.24 22:46:00 -
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CoV. Never played CoH. Had to listen to former SWG buddies hastling me for 2 months after we all quit to start playing. Got it cheap off amazon. Character creation was fun, all downhill after that. Say what you will about WoW or SWG, but at least you can, like, quest for equipment, get items, do stuff.
Also, I think Final Fantasy X was overhyped. I saw some prelim concept art by Madureira, it looked amazing. Then the game comes out, and I drown in a world of shiny, happy, completely worthless, androgynous hermaphrodites who form a rock band. When staying up til 3 in the morning playing FF7, I never thought to myself, "You know what would make this game the greatest ever? Let's get rid of Cloud and replace him with a guy who plays soccer underwater."
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Gamer4liff
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Posted - 2006.05.24 23:53:00 -
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Edited by: Gamer4liff on 24/05/2006 23:54:28
Black and white 2 was a supreme dissapointment.
Star wars Empire at war left me pretty underwhelmed too..
Halo,
Halo 2,
Halo 3?
PS: Masters of orion 3.
Edit: beaten.
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Mighty Dread
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Posted - 2006.05.25 01:24:00 -
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Umm...when Half Life 2 came out it rocked hard for years to come. Doom 3 was kinda silly in its amusement park "House of Horrors" way (Oh look! A health pack right over there. I think I will go and pick it up-AAaahhh!) but it was still fun and I thought the graphics were amazing.
Really overhyped by it's makers was Pariah perhaps the worst FPS ever created. Halo 2 was not the game promised and hyped, so yeah dissapointment there. Forza sucked, who wants to spend hours tweaking a car to get an extra .5 seconds on a lap. Yep , so real it was boring.
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Aeina Caeraen
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Posted - 2006.05.25 06:04:00 -
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Edited by: Aeina Caeraen on 25/05/2006 06:06:04
Half Life 2 and Halo 2 are, probably, the worst offenders, as far as their endings. Gameplay for both was pretty good, but their respective endings just plain sucked.
As far as sequels that ruined their franchises, I'd have to go with Homeworld 2, and Master of Orion III. Terrible.
I felt a lot more could have been done with Black and White II. It's a pity that -everything- EA touches these days has a "well, this was obviously rushed" feeling they just can't patch away.
I personally liked FFX, mainly because I consider Auron and Yuna the main characters, not Tidus :P, although Yuna did pick up a lot of Tidus's annoyingness in X-2 :/
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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.05.25 09:03:00 -
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I thought FFX was good Auron was one of the best characters they've made in quite some time. See FF8 for one of the worst FF's. Okay main character was a fruit but still a great game.
Halo i have to agree with. I turned off Halo2 after an hours play. I think they use a strange camera FOV it feels so claustrophobic at the begining. I think its overhyped.
Black n White 2 i have no idea about only played the first one. And after several hours of play got incredibly frustrated with it. It got sent sailing through the air in a graceful arc towards the bin.
Battlefield 2 met a likewise fate. The interface in that game was the devil. The devil incarnate, want to change your key settings hahaha go ahead and try mocks the devil ill inflict so much pain.
Game didnt play so good either. It didnt feel like i was in a war zone, everything i fired didnt seem to have much 'impact' ?!?
Half-Life 2, urrrgh - big deep breathe - rant ahead!
The game to give it, its dues was quite addictive i rarely finish games now a days. But i had finished HL2 very quickly. However the sheer amount of akward backwards game design features in the game shocked me.
Probably every PC games mag gave it game of the year and generally worshipped it constantly. But i mean exploding barrels??? as ive said before they should have ACME printed on the side.
Half the game was me aiming at a motionless convienyantly placed drum of high explosives. :(
Gaming media needs a kick up the arse if this is original FPS gaming at its greatest.
A FPS 'needs' to draw the player into its environment. The player should have to think about the surroundings and how to use them. Its simple pychology bring the player into your world and make them belive there apart of it. The result will be an incredibly pleased gamer. Frequently during HL2 i felt that i was not welcomed in but dragged in then given a quick beating and thrown back out.
Sections in HL2 like the contructing the wooden platform and shooting of barrels etc made me feel manipulated. Like heres the most obvious solution to the problem now spend the next 20minutes doing it while we point and laugh.
The car and boat sections were likewise poor they were just a hold the button down and steer towards the ramp. ooh joy!
Finally in any FPS and there are many guilty ones of this particular evil, there should be a sense of impact of giving and recieving of 'impact'
When i hit an enemy with a few burst rounds i dont want to see them continue to run at me unhindered. Likewise when i get hit i dont want to hear a meaningless thump and see a number reduce.
Make me feel like i did something wrong that i made a stupid mistake and that i shouldnt do it again.
Ive said this before but firing 19 rounds at 1 soldier only for the 20th to drop him like bag of bricks is just stupid! A well placed shot should be rewarded. Likewise with vehicles hitting it straight on with a rocket should do minimal amount hitting it in a weaker spot should do much more - ie hit its tracks to stop it moving. I mean anything other than 3 rockets = deaths.
huff puff, rant almost over, huff puff get your fists out of your arses developers, huff puff
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Meridius
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Posted - 2006.05.25 09:22:00 -
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Halo 2, it would have been nice if they ******* finished the game instead of leaving it on a huge cliff. With tv series it's cool because we only have to wait a season to see what happens...with games you have to wait years.
Cliffhangers + games = worst idea ever
It had more problems as well but that was the main one for me.
Half-life 2 was a great game with very unsatisfactory ending, not as bad as Halo 2's but it's certainly up there.
I think these companies might be too scared of having a bad ending
Pansys.
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FooB2
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Posted - 2006.05.25 09:27:00 -
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Edited by: FooB2 on 25/05/2006 09:29:19
FFX was alright. FFX-2 is complete toss though.
at least FFX had the traditional battles in it that people have played and payed for the previous 13 games or whatever. god knows WHY squae turned around on a sequel and said "yeah, lets make a completely arse active battle system and call it revolutionary, because we know that changing things in the past 13 games made them best sellers". when i started playing it, i figured "ok, its a bit stupid, but ill probably get used to it". i got up to Baralai/vegnagun and i dont want to pick it up again.
people play FF for the amazingly linear storyline, with optinal sidequests and buckets of secrets/minigames, not this "choose youre own story" crap. if i wanted to choose my own story, id write a friggin book. if FF fans wanted change, they wouldve got bored LONG before the 13/14th game or whatever it is. bring back chrono trigger and FF2 :\
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Levin Cavil
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:02:00 -
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Halflife 2 - so many setbacks, so much hype and its half decent at best.
I bought CS:S and got HL2 for free :|
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keepiru
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:08:00 -
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Anyone remeber the 1st matrix game and how much hype that got? 
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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:10:00 -
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Originally by: Levin Cavil
I bought CS:S and got HL2 for free :|
quoted cos its so so very true!
Also i forgot to mention all the videos that were shown before HL2 was released. The ones showing the dynamic AI, the really cool set pieces, and the striders doing cool stuff.
None of it was in the game, yet every major publication never brought it up.
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Talos Munjab
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:13:00 -
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Civ 4 got to be over hyped and possible as average as it can get, i still say civ 2 was the best as you could change the stats and pics of the icons if you were clever.
Wow definatly over hyped, and seems very boring, only bit of it that looks fun are gnomes, but even they have the same class¦s as all the other races, its limited and has no risk. ppl say omg i have to repair all my ultra uber stuff if i die.. so what at least you can get it all back. were the risk in the game weres the fun, bring on hardcore chars like in diablo and i might be tempted.
Also no one can accuse eve-online of ever being over hyped, after all i have never seen a advert in anything other than pc magazinzes, unlike the others which have both advatised on tv radio and just about any other media they ppossible can.
so coem one ccp get those trailers on the tv , unless you think the server couldnt cope witht the new influx of players
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Wilvarin Sense
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:25:00 -
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Daikatana anyone? |
Psymon R
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:26:00 -
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I can't think of any games that I have played and thought totally over-hyped. Then again I don't really pay much attention to the hype, and just take a game on it's merits when it does come out... and if I want to get a game I prefer to get a demo first if possible!
HL2 I enjoyed, but then again I didn't feel I had bought it as it were, seeing as I got a free copy with my graphics card! Not sure if I'd have bought it though...
One potential future overhyped game... Duke Nukem Forever... well if it ever comes out that is! IMO they are probs going to have to do a very good job with it if people are to not be feeling let down by it... But then again by then the devil may have a small icicle problem!
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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.05.25 14:29:00 -
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Originally by: Wilvarin Sense
Daikatana anyone?
hehe i remember playing the demo of that and holding a gun that took up half the screen. great i thought lets blast something. Wait whats this screen flashing red im being attacked but but what from - frantic looking left and right, nothing. Then my eyes lock on an angry mosquito and frog hitting me ?!?!
Im not lying people...Whats more it took a couple of rounds from this giganta gun to kill em - why when my boot and hand could have squashed em flat!
Horrible game devoid of all common sense.
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Lanfear's Bane
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Posted - 2006.05.25 15:00:00 -
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Star Wars: Force Commander
I win, game over.
Lanfear's Bane.
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Sarmaul
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Posted - 2006.05.25 18:37:00 -
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Originally by: Meridius
I think these companies might be too scared of having a bad ending
Pansys.
no, they know full well most people will buy the next one in the hope of finding out what happens :). See: Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain games. The only game that had a proper ending was the first one. All the rest have the fantastic "to be continued" at the point the dev team realised they had 2 weeks to ship.
Originally by: General Apocalypse
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Benefactor
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Posted - 2006.05.25 22:35:00 -
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I remember when Ion Storm's marketing strategy was to tell you that John Romero was "going to make you his *****." Hubris got itself a face and a name after that.
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Posted - 2006.05.26 11:46:00 -
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Half Life 2 and Doom 3 were Ok.
F.E.A.R was a little better.
But overall worst game was Diablo 2 and i played it for months.
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Uggster
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Posted - 2006.05.26 12:10:00 -
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Master of Orion 3.
After a 4 year wait for a game that would require me to be hooked up to a life support system cos I would be playing it to much to eat or sleep I installed it and played it for about 24 furstrating hours.
I then scratched the CD with a compass while curseing each of the designers in turn and ritually burnt it. 
I kid you not.
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LWMaverick
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Posted - 2006.05.26 12:25:00 -
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Bah.. stop it
HL2 was great, and it has alot of great mods and so on, but i was kind of disapointed when the game ended, and this guy in "blue" drops by and talks about time, and *pling* credits???!
Doom 3, well, not the greatest game ever, but kept me entertaint for a few hours/days.
Diablo 2, was a GREAT game, you have to agree with me on that! 
Overhyped games: The Godfather, Battlefield 2, all of the sims games, Dark and light, black and white 2, and alot of other games i cant remember
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.05.26 12:29:00 -
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Whats wrong with cliffhangers, I'm a huge fan of both Halo and Half-Life (1 and 2 for each) and I liked the endings it left me wanting more
and yea what mav said
Originally by: Tamora
its not the skills that make the eve
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Astrum Ludus
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Posted - 2006.05.26 13:32:00 -
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Daikatana, Halo 2, Black&White 2, MXO
and can I say in advance Duke Nukem Forever?
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Clavain Gobuchul
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Posted - 2006.05.26 13:52:00 -
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I don't get what the issue is with the HL2 ending? Isn't the point that it didn't end? I mean Episode 1 comes out next week...
As for overhyped, BF2. Loved BF1942, it was fun in an arcade kind of way, BF2 took itself too seriously and didn't deliver.
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kessah
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Posted - 2006.05.26 15:38:00 -
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Originally by: Siren Shiva
Pffft, Oblivion was not overhyped. Me and Verone still play it. I'd definitely rank it in my top 5 of best games ever.
The most overhyped game ever has to be Horizons. Without the slightest doubt. Of all the unique and amazing features they announced years in advance, only playable dragons made it in.
Siren seriously, ask verone out, come to england and go on a proper date.
Its so painfully clear you have a thing for him lol seriously mate you can tell if not on corp chat it was definetly there on Teamspeak.
Awwww so cute  *hums* wet wet wet - love is in the air**
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Posted - 2006.05.26 20:29:00 -
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I think oblivion is on that list. I'm not too much into rpgs but it feels just like morrowind except for the graphics and the AI NPCs.
I hope spore is NOT on that list.
And why do you say civ 4 is not moddable? Yah the game doesn't have the play oone more turn syndrom like the others, but it is far far more modable than any of the previous incarnations by xml, python, c++, 3d and 2d graphics.
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Posted - 2006.05.26 22:47:00 -
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Half Life 2! Funny how you can make a game pretty, but you can't make it challenging. Though, the gravity gun at the end was very fun... it didn't make up for the lack of everything the rest of the game needed.
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Posted - 2006.05.26 22:56:00 -
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unreal 2. I was, like 13 when i first heard about that, and i read the PCGamer preview about 10 times and got all hyped up about it.
Then i bought it a couple of years ago and realised it wasnt as uber as i thought it was 
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Aeaus
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Posted - 2006.05.27 01:08:00 -
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My vote goes to HL2, although I absolutely love the engine and play mods all the time, the game itself was just a vanilla FPS with nice graphics and a mediocre physics engine.
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Sarafi
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Posted - 2006.05.27 05:58:00 -
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Mine has to be Driv3r 3. I lost much faith in the games industry when i first played that game, so i no longer buy games...doesnt mean i dont play em tho  |
Meridius
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Posted - 2006.05.27 07:03:00 -
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Originally by: Spartan239
Whats wrong with cliffhangers, I'm a huge fan of both Halo and Half-Life (1 and 2 for each) and I liked the endings it left me wanting more
and yea what mav said
It's the lazy way out. Completing a story is much harder then pulling a cliffhanger.
Btw, Halo 1 and Halflife 1 did not have cliffhanger endings. HL1 had quite a nice big end boss with quite a long ending sequence. Halo 1 had that awesome jeep run followed by a meh ending...still was an ending tho.
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Verone
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Posted - 2006.05.27 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: Siren Shiva
Pffft, Oblivion was not overhyped. Me and Verone still play it. I'd definitely rank it in my top 5 of best games ever.
The most overhyped game ever has to be Horizons. Without the slightest doubt. Of all the unique and amazing features they announced years in advance, only playable dragons made it in.
What she said ^^
In no way was obivion overhyped. It looks stunning, plays fantastic and is brimming with content.
Doom3 was a disspointment compared to it's hype, and was predictable, but still a well put together game.
Half-Life 2 was awesome, still is and has the best FPS physics engine ever created IMO.
I've seen a friend play WoW, and would rather remove my coconuts with a rusty bread knife than even bother playing it.
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.05.27 20:07:00 -
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Originally by: Meridius
Originally by: Spartan239
Whats wrong with cliffhangers, I'm a huge fan of both Halo and Half-Life (1 and 2 for each) and I liked the endings it left me wanting more
and yea what mav said
It's the lazy way out. Completing a story is much harder then pulling a cliffhanger.
Btw, Halo 1 and Halflife 1 did not have cliffhanger endings. HL1 had quite a nice big end boss with quite a long ending sequence. Halo 1 had that awesome jeep run followed by a meh ending...still was an ending tho.
probably shoudl have made it a bit clearer I meant that i like all 4 games and the endings for all 4 yes a cliffhangar is easier to do but its still nothing wrong with it, the end of bsg has a cliffhangar yet its uber i dont see the difference between the 2 cliffhangars
Originally by: Tamora
its not the skills that make the eve
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Lluthiunne Atalaron
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Posted - 2006.05.27 20:22:00 -
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To make my earlier points clear i have nothing against HL2 ending, or lack of.
Cliffhanger endings do not in general bother me.
Its the rest of the game content that bothers me.
HL2 = most overhyped game in existance.
on another game design point. If i have to trudge through another sewer in an FPS i think i may go postal!
or airducts - i think they all watched way way too much die hard!
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.05.27 20:32:00 -
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Originally by: Lluthiunne Atalaron
To make my earlier points clear i have nothing against HL2 ending, or lack of.
Cliffhanger endings do not in general bother me.
Its the rest of the game content that bothers me.
HL2 = most overhyped game in existance.
on another game design point. If i have to trudge through another sewer in an FPS i think i may go postal!
or airducts - i think they all watched way way too much die hard!
so claustraphobia is why you dont like hl2?
Originally by: Tamora
its not the skills that make the eve
player... its the smack that back him up
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Meridius
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Posted - 2006.05.27 20:59:00 -
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Originally by: Spartan239
probably shoudl have made it a bit clearer I meant that i like all 4 games and the endings for all 4 yes a cliffhangar is easier to do but its still nothing wrong with it, the end of bsg has a cliffhangar yet its uber i dont see the difference between the 2 cliffhangars
Uhh BSG is a tv show where you have to wait 1 season to find out what happens. With a video game you have to wait what, 3-4years? It's not a complete experience which are what movies/games should be.
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.05.27 21:04:00 -
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Originally by: Meridius
Originally by: Spartan239
probably shoudl have made it a bit clearer I meant that i like all 4 games and the endings for all 4 yes a cliffhangar is easier to do but its still nothing wrong with it, the end of bsg has a cliffhangar yet its uber i dont see the difference between the 2 cliffhangars
Uhh BSG is a tv show where you have to wait 1 season to find out what happens. With a video game you have to wait what, 3-4years? It's not a complete experience which are what movies/games should be.
If you dont dl the seris you have to wait 1 year ish sometimes more sometimes less and hl2 ep 1 or whatever its called has taken 2 years but yea good point
Originally by: Tamora
its not the skills that make the eve
player... its the smack that back him up
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Posted - 2006.05.27 21:38:00 -
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Originally by: Spartan239
so claustraphobia is why you dont like hl2?
No!!!
See reasons above why i dont like HL2, or rather more accurately, that i do not believe it deserves the hype showered upon it.
The clambering through sewers and air vents is just another example of what ive been saying. That these games have not evolved. That weve been doing the same **** for what seems like eons and no one seems to be saying Wait a f,n minute this is ****e i want something more.
Half Life Episode 1 will do it again and so will Crysis.
This sort of stuff relies on impressive game engines, good reviews and the surety that no one will take a stance and say.
'WTF is this i did this exact same thing 50 times already!!. Still its a good game just doesnt innovate. Ill give it 80% or 7/10.'
I'll be very interested in reading the reviews on HL sode 1!
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F'nog
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Posted - 2006.05.28 03:52:00 -
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Here's my top 3 (Note - I haven't actually played any of them)
1 - Godfather
2 - Sims Online
3 - WoW
WoW was definitely overhyped - I saw an add at a movie theater, but it's also the most successful MMOG in history, so it's only partially overhyped. It probably shouldn't even be on the list since millions of people like it, but I have no real desire to play it.
TSO - OMG, the commercials. The constant press. Is it still around? Numbers have been dropping on it faster than rats from a sinking ship.
Godfather - Why, oh why????? Has anyone even played it? It was supposed to be THE game from EA last year. That's just sad. Even sadder is the fact that EA lost something like $750 MILLION in stock value because it was delayed. This just proves that accountants should have nothing to do with games, PERIOD.
Originally by: Avon
Iceland, where even their singers are in to PvP.
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Anatolius
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Posted - 2006.05.28 06:23:00 -
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Edited by: Anatolius on 28/05/2006 06:23:51
Halo (But still good)
Halo 2 (But utter crap)
Medal of Honor: Any (Quake with ****s! <3 Call of Duty)
Final Fantasy (any and all)
Phantasy Star Online (Remedial Diablo)
Edit: And thank you for reminding me.
Master of Orion III: Most hype to utter crap ratio EVER.
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Posted - 2006.05.28 14:39:00 -
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Doom 3 - nice graphics predictable gameplay.
Halo - Pc owners waited ages for it and when it came it was a mess.
Tiberium sun - need i explain this.
Dungeon sieg 2 - a pale shadow of the origonal.
Battlecruiser 3000ad - bugged to hell.
Halph life 2 - Great Graphics Great levels and gameplay But a very disapointing end.
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Drizit
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Posted - 2006.05.28 15:03:00 -
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Originally by: Wilvarin Sense
Daikatana anyone?
Got to agree with that. On top of the overhype that it got, there were game stopping bugs that took months to get patched. I took the game back to the shop for a refund after a month of waiting never bought one of their games again. Deus Ex was supposed to be good but I refused to buy it because it came from the same company.
Full Spectrum Warrior was my big let down. For something that was based on an army training simulator, it was so easy that I completed it in one night on the hardest setting. If that's the best training they can come up with, it's no wonder the army has to use huge numbers to make up for their poor training.
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Anfelina Adante
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Posted - 2006.05.28 15:30:00 -
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MOO3. Waited years for release and then the release was so filled with bugs they could have made a horror movie out of it.
Upon surfing to the website to search for fixes on the bugs I discovered that their help boiled down to- if it works great. if it doesn't try these dozen generic helps that all gaming companies tell their customers to try. if that fails to work...then tough sh** as we have your money.
For thoses people that complain, and I am not one of them, of the customer service of CCP I think you will find that none of them are people who have bought MOO3.
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Wat0721
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Posted - 2006.05.29 04:00:00 -
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OOH! OOH! I want to make a first post!
Enter the Matrix! (someone above mentioned it)
That game was terrible!
"But hey, it's The Matrix, so let's give it a 9/10."
...I...don't have anything else to say.
Sorry guys.
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boost lasers
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Posted - 2006.05.29 06:15:00 -
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Originally by: Spartan239
If you dont dl the seris you have to wait 1 year ish sometimes more sometimes less and hl2 ep 1 or whatever its called has taken 2 years but yea good point
Don't forget that episode 1 isn't a complete game either, it's just an episode that will most likely end in a cliffhanger So yeah, an 'episode' that took 2 years to make.
The games i most fondly remember were full game experiences with decent amounts of gameplay time. I doubt i'll remember some episode I 4-5 hour game tbh but we'll see.
pretty sure it isn't a full game, correct me if im wrong :o
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GouldFish
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Posted - 2006.05.29 12:13:00 -
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Oh god I thought I could finally forget unreal 2.
I was one of the few people who could play it to the end with out crashes, but ti was so so so bad!
and I managed to find a level hole! In a unreal engine game, that is meant to be impossable.
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Denrace
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Posted - 2006.05.29 19:12:00 -
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Originally by: Wilvarin Sense
Daikatana anyone?
Haha...I could have coded that game myself, in NotePad.
In 15 minutes.
Truly DREADFUL game. With possibly the biggest hype engine behind it EVER.
Den
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Ter'rick
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Posted - 2006.05.30 04:09:00 -
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Edited by: Ter''rick on 30/05/2006 04:14:34
Originally by: GouldFish
Halo.
Totally true.
'Halo revolutionized first person shooters. Yeah if you had your head up your butt for the last 10 years and stopped playing pc games after the first Doom'.
(paraphrased from Game Informer Magazine, Halo was listed as one of the all-time most hyped games)
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Kirex
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Posted - 2006.05.30 05:45:00 -
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Halo
I just dontt know what people find in that game...
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.05.30 06:36:00 -
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I'm in the MOO3 pack as far as most disappointing dreck. The ONLY thing that saved MOO3 was: Galactic Civilizations 2. (now there was an underhyped beautiful game. --galciv3 even better.
Daikatana has my award at #2. (only because I never purchased it. The first review after release was so bad (with screenshot examples) that I steered clear. John "b-tch" Romero was never the same after that, and that game's release was complete and total vindication for IDSoftware canning him earlier.
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Posted - 2006.05.30 07:04:00 -
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Half life 2. Amazing physics, boring campaign imo.
Oblivion, to some extent. It has clearly fantastic graphics, and the fighting is a huge step on from morrowind. But it become apparent that all the tasks to do for the guilds are relatively samey imo.
Black and white two. Very good graphics/gameplay, lasted me the duration of the campaign. But wait, they removed multiplayer/skirmish. What a rushed job and step downwards from the original 
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Dahin
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Posted - 2006.05.30 11:14:00 -
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Oblivion, hands down.
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Riyal
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Posted - 2006.05.30 13:15:00 -
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Originally by: Drizit
Originally by: Wilvarin Sense
Daikatana anyone?
Got to agree with that. On top of the overhype that it got, there were game stopping bugs that took months to get patched. I took the game back to the shop for a refund after a month of waiting never bought one of their games again. Deus Ex was supposed to be good but I refused to buy it because it came from the same company.
If I recall correctly there were 2 iron storms, or 2 seperate offices for it. The one responsible for Daikatana was sucked into a hole in the ground killing all aboard (or at least I hope thats what happened).
The Iron Storm that made Deus Ex had to keep telling everyone they were the other Iron Storm for a long while. Deus Ex was a great game with some flaws. Deus Ex 2 just plain sucked, it was as if they'd forgotten all the things that made the first game good. Blurry textures and tiny levels have no place on the PC, darn cross platform development.
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Kunming
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Posted - 2006.05.30 13:37:00 -
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Originally by: Kryss Darkdust
By far and wide Orion which was supposed to be Ultima Online II, but became vaper wear literly like 2 months before it was scheduled to release. They actually already had Alpha testers playing the first version of the game. It was luckily overshadowed by Everquest, but it was by far the most overhyped product in existance and it doesn't even exist.
The next one on the list for sure was Master of Orion III. By far one of the greatest game designs in history with the worse execution I've ever seen. Alan Emrich is by far a designing genius along with Sid Meier and Steve Jackson, yet his game was completly F'ed up by one of the worst development teams in history. I'm yet to see anyone F up a game worse then MOOIII
Word, MoO3 was one of the biggest dissapointments, I'll put it right next to HL2.
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mamolian
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Posted - 2006.05.30 15:34:00 -
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Oblivion.. as a product out of the box.. its seriously unbalanced and im very dissappointed with that game.. A player made mod for the game improved it no end, but with eve just dont have the time or patience to be bothered with it.
Halflife 2.. little too short, was quite fun.. nice engine tho.
Spellforce 2.. rubbish Diablo 2, warcraft 3 hack.
Rise of Legends.. wont run on win 2k Microsoft studio game.. trying to cut off ties with older operating systems.. the scum.
Fear.. not sure why.. but got bored of that game quite quickly,
Must just look in the chest of games when i get home.. so many titles.. so many crap or disappointing games..
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Suze'Rain
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Posted - 2006.05.31 03:24:00 -
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Oblivion.
Abysmal "balancing". shoddy design work, "next gen" graphics that were third rate at best, and downright amateurish in places, riddled with abysmal "improvements" over morrowind, all made to hide the deficiencies in game design.
I would be ashamed to have Oblivion on my CV.
Frontier.
let's face it, trying to live up to the expectations of Elite, Frontier was doomed to fail from the outset.
Doom3.
the only thing they could've done to make it worse would've been to then go and make a film out of i- oh, sh*t...
Far Cry
superb. until the trigens appeared, and it all went downhill from a design point there.
Master of Orion 3
by god, that was truly dire.
and there were plenty of others in the 90's and 80's I can think of that were just as bad, too. I just buy a lot less nowadays, thanks to reading Edge magazine rather than most others... generally, their reviews manage to identify the dross a lot better, and I just don't buy now.
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Calleb
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Posted - 2006.05.31 07:17:00 -
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As a general rule all games with a movie or tv tie in are pretty rubbish, and movie games especially get alot of publicity. I dont even know if there is one but I bet the latest X men game is a stinker, and the Kong game was probably a bit rubbish.
The only real exceptions i can think of here are some of the starwars games (especially from a few years ago) are actually pretty good. But by the same token some (I am thinking Battlefront here) are dreadfull.
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Groes Thir
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Posted - 2006.05.31 11:04:00 -
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Keen 6 and Keen: Nightmares were pretty horrid compared to the earlier games.
Heavy Gear 2, it looked uber. Playing it for 2 hours made me cry. Blood.
C&C's..... Red Alert is the one and only good C&C.
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TheDeceit
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Posted - 2006.05.31 12:50:00 -
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Originally by: mamolian
Rise of Legends.. wont run on win 2k Microsoft studio game.. trying to cut off ties with older operating systems.. the scum.
You aren't missing out on much.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2006.05.31 13:08:00 -
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Civilization: Call to Power really, really sucked.
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