| twesterm said: Simple thread: what was the most recent game you played that turned out to be a complete disappointment?
For me, I would have to say it was Odin Sphere for the PS2. The art style was everything I thought it would be and more. It is seriously one of the best looking games I have ever seen. The sprites and attention to detail are just absolutely amazing. That all being said, the gameplay is pure crap and eventually just comes to a point where you never want to play again. I started playing the game on the medium setting and it was just ridiculous hard. The normal stages could be gotten through with a lot of effort and the bosses were just insane. So I set the game to the easiest setting, the one that the game says is for sitting back and enjoying the story, and it was still incredibly hard. Getting to the bosses and mini bosses were bad enough, but you would spend 30 minutes on a mini boss only to get it to half health, die, and start all over again. This isn't just a problem with me, everyone I've talked to that has played this game has had trouble with the difficulty. Some of the people ended up playing through the first book, a few even went a little further and figured out some tricks to make it playable, but most just quit the game. I really wanted to enjoy this game because of the fantastic art, but the game was just hard for hard's sake and that's horrible design.
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It isn't that hard... remenber that it is an action rpg and not a beat'em up... the trick is to replay a lots of stages and eat a lot food so you can increase your health and the psypher power. Also is a must to use alchemy to create napalm, blizzard and poison. It's not like GoW that you simply advance pressing "square" and you finish the stage. I had to admit that the first boss was pretty tough because you don't have enough healing itmes but it also needs a lot of skill and patience, sometimes you have to retreat to earn phozon fron the minions so you can replenish your "magic bar". It took my 8-9 hours to finish the first book, gwendolyn was lvl 37-30 and i am playing the second book.
I admit that it's not and easy game but it's fun and it isn't impossible, you just need a bit of skill a patience.
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My last dissapoinment was GoW2, i though it would last a little bit more thanthe first GoW. They are great games but too short. I would have mix GoW and GoW2, and the realize GoW a 20+ hour game, with really good graphics and storyline.
