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Runa216 on 15 August 2012
wfz said:
Runa216 said:
wfz said:
Most Disappointing:

Uncharted 3. I don't know why, but after an hour of playing it I was so bored I turned it off and to this day I haven't picked it back up. It's weird to me because I loved Uncharted 2, and I can't explicitly tell you what U3 does that I dislike so much. I guess I just felt it was even more linear and pushing me through corridor stories.

Worst:

Call of Duty: Black Ops on the Wii. My brother and I played through the story mode together and even though we took turns every so often, I still developed a major migraine and felt literally sick after just 2-3 hours of playing with my brother. It was so repetitive and mind-numbing that my brain literally couldn't handle it. This is especially notable because I generally do play games for hours on end and this is the only time this has ever happened to me.

I'm very curious to understand why, in a world of so many disappointing sequels, that Uncharted 3 won your vote.  I mean, I agree, it wasn't as good as Uncharted 2 (mostly due to the fact it was evident that they made the action scenes first and wrote the story around it, but you didn't get to those parts.  Plus it had graphical glitches), but I'm not sure why you didn't like it so much.  I definitely thought it had the best story of the series.  curious, very curious.  

If you wanna chat about it, we could maybe get to the bottom of it! 

The reason it's my most disappointing is because I was really looking forward to it. I went to the special pre-release even with my friends at this movie theater in L.A. and got to see the game in action as well as play the multiplayer part of the game. I got the game 2 weeks before release because of that event. I then started playing it at home the next day and only after an hour or so I got so tired of it I just didn't want to play again. Like I said, I'm not entirely sure what the main cause was.


Uncharted 2 was by all means very linear as well, but for some reason it felt like Uncharted 3 was even more scripted and linear. It felt like I was just walking around and pressing X constantly until Drake found what he wanted, or running straight forward and pressing X to activate jumps and cool moves. I suppose it just felt like I wasn't really personally doing anything, and therefore it wasn't stimulating my mind.  Even though Uncharted 2 was so linear, it always felt like you were stumbling across the right path by accident. Uncharted 3 made me feel like it was literally shoving me along that path.

I'm aware that by only playing a bit over an hour of the game doesn't necessarily give me insight into how it plays later on, but it was enough to severely turn me off from the game.

 

Oh, it could also have been due to Battlefield 3, which I was addictively playing on my PC and still do to this day. I guess it felt hard to justify putting down Battlefield multiplayer for Uncharted 3.

Any chance I can at least convince you to try again?  I know there have been moments when I hated the first hour or so of the game then came to adore it.  when I first played inFamous, I felt it was blocky, looked bad, felt stiff, and was overall shit...then things changed and I tried it again a year later and loved it, making it one of the de-facto PS games this gen.  I do agree, Uncharted 3 was horribly linear, but I didn't feel it was much worse than its predecessor.  

but if not, that's cool too.  



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wfz on 15 August 2012
Runa216 said:

Any chance I can at least convince you to try again?  I know there have been moments when I hated the first hour or so of the game then came to adore it.  when I first played inFamous, I felt it was blocky, looked bad, felt stiff, and was overall shit...then things changed and I tried it again a year later and loved it, making it one of the de-facto PS games this gen.  I do agree, Uncharted 3 was horribly linear, but I didn't feel it was much worse than its predecessor.  

but if not, that's cool too.  


Believe me, I really want to like the game. I spent 75 dollars on it (or something). In fact, just having this discussion has sort of made me want to play it.

I think in all my rambling that I really found the solid point. Uncharted 2 made me constantly feel like I was exploring and accidentally stumbling across the right path (even though it was extremely linear) while Uncharted 3 just made me feel like I was being pushed forward constantly along the path.

Does that change after the first few hours?



Runa216 on 15 August 2012
wfz said:
Runa216 said:
 

Any chance I can at least convince you to try again?  I know there have been moments when I hated the first hour or so of the game then came to adore it.  when I first played inFamous, I felt it was blocky, looked bad, felt stiff, and was overall shit...then things changed and I tried it again a year later and loved it, making it one of the de-facto PS games this gen.  I do agree, Uncharted 3 was horribly linear, but I didn't feel it was much worse than its predecessor.  

but if not, that's cool too.  


Believe me, I really want to like the game. I spent 75 dollars on it (or something). In fact, just having this discussion has sort of made me want to play it.

I think in all my rambling that I really found the solid point. Uncharted 2 made me constantly feel like I was exploring and accidentally stumbling across the right path (even though it was extremely linear) while Uncharted 3 just made me feel like I was being pushed forward constantly along the path.

Does that change after the first few hours?

I'd say so, but it's been a while since I played it and I only went through it once so I don't really know.  I do remember some distinct scenes where you really had to look around for the exit, or had multiple paths to choose (the pirate levels, in particular).  It's really not that long of a game, perhaps 6-10 hours depending on what dfficulty you play it on and how often you die.  



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MattyPeq on 15 August 2012

Uncharted Golden Abyss. The hype was overwhelming. Then I played the game...
I know it's a spinoff. But still.....
First time in my life that I wanted to get payed (by someone) for finishing a game.



Runa216 on 15 August 2012
MattyPeq said:
Uncharted Golden Abyss. The hype was overwhelming. Then I played the game...
I know it's a spinoff. But still.....
First time in my life that I wanted to get payed (by someone) for finishing a game.

I was actually the other way around on this one.  Heard all the negative hype about how it was crap, and how it wasn't as good and stuff, so I was expecting a rather mediocre game and ended up liking it just as much as the others.  Plus I loved the motion control aiming, not to mention the animations and voice acting were just as good as the console version. 

I do think 50 bucks is a bit too much when you factor in the lack of multiplayer.  40 would be a perfect fit for that game, value wise. 



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PS5, Switch, XSX

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3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, PSP, Android

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twesterm on 15 August 2012

I'm going to limit to this gen because...well, I'm lazy.

Most disappointing is easily FFXIV but I'm not sure if it's the worst. Lost: Via Domus was just plain awful and I hated nearly every minute of it, but it was also a budget title. It's really a hard choice...

I think I would have to go with FFXIV because it was just such a giant mess. It wasn't finished and what was finished was some of the worst gameplay I've seen in years. Even the UI was something that felt like it would be at home in 1997. The only positive thing I can really say about the game is the music wasn't bad.



 

Boutros on 15 August 2012

White Knight Chronicles wasn't good and was a huge disappointment.

It could have been great but the combats were slow and frustrating and the towns far too big.



HappySqurriel on 15 August 2012

Superman 64 ...



wfz on 15 August 2012
twesterm said:
I'm going to limit to this gen because...well, I'm lazy.

Most disappointing is easily FFXIV but I'm not sure if it's the worst. Lost: Via Domus was just plain awful and I hated nearly every minute of it, but it was also a budget title. It's really a hard choice...

I think I would have to go with FFXIV because it was just such a giant mess. It wasn't finished and what was finished was some of the worst gameplay I've seen in years. Even the UI was something that felt like it would be at home in 1997. The only positive thing I can really say about the game is the music wasn't bad.


Are you going to try the new remake, "A Realm Reborn"? They've apparently built it up from the ground by scratch. Dunno why they're doing the biggest marketing fail by keeping the FFXIV name, but oh well. I'm definitely going to try it out!



arcane_chaos on 15 August 2012

Quantum Theory, it was just bad.....