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CDiablo on 11 May 2014

Another vote for ICO. A Zelda clone, with only one dungeon, no bosses, easier puzzles and no challenging bad guys. I bought it while it was rare for $40 and was psyched to play it. I beat it in 4.5 hours, so disappointed. I thought it had good art direction though, but as a game total rubbish.



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theRepublic on 12 May 2014

I am not sure it quite fits the topic, but I am going to go with Zack and Wiki. After it came out it made a bunch of "Best Of" lists for the Wii, and it even got talked up around here quite a bit.

It is basically like an old school point-and-click adventure game. You walk around each level solving puzzles to try to get to the end. It makes great use of the Wii remote too. It has a cute story that doesn't get in the way, and nicely stylized graphics. The formula holds up very well over 20 out of 24 levels.

Then the last four levels come and I question if anyone that recommended this game ever got that far. It becomes a shitty action game with terrible controls. But wait, there's more! It still thinks it is an adventure/puzzle game. So you still have to figure out what you need to do, usually just making a guess. When you are wrong, you get sent back to the beginning of the level to replay some terrible action sequences with terrible controls to try and get back to where you were before and make another random guess.

Yeah...I guess I am a little bitter about that one.



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bigtakilla on 12 May 2014
naruball said:
bigtakilla said:
Richard_Feynman said:
Scoobes said:
Final Fantasy IX is a good shout. It sold the least out of the PS1 FF games but fans seem to praise as if its the second coming. Actually, a lot of Final Fantasy games (VI, IX, X and XII) could probably fit in this as each new iteration leads to mass criticism from old school fans, but five years later you get a whole host of people loving the game and complaining about the following iteration.


Rest assured, this will NOT happen with FF XIII.


Yeah, it's been 4 years and I think we can all still pretty much agree that series was shit, which is why only about a million people out of the initial 7 million stuck around for the end lol. 

Might be the reason. Might not. Sequels of games like FF or Pokemon (Black and White 2) never sell that well regardless of the quality of the games. Grand Theft Auto 4 was the best reviewed game, sold extremely well and yet the expansions didn't sell as well as Rockstar expected, despite being good. I think it'd be unrealistc to expect a Mario Galaxy 1-2 (instead of Mario Galaxy 2) to sell as well as the first one (though Mario Galaxy 2 also sold considerably less than 1, despite the larger install base and reviewers saying that it was better than the first and what sequels should be). The title alone makes people not want to give it a chance. 

Of course that was probably not the case with FF13-2 and 3, but I'm sure it played a role.

Agreed.



bigtakilla on 12 May 2014
FinalFantasyXIII said:

The Wonderful 101 (Wii U)

Xenoblade (Wii)

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)


The Wii U is overated on this site imho also.


Um, you said in my post you don't own a Wii U. And I doubt you've ever played Xenoblade. LMFAO!!!

Did you play these games at a friends house? Lol.

Wait,wait, wait. Let me guess, you watched a Let's Play.



Captain_Tom on 12 May 2014
KylieDog said:
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

They're ok games, largely ignored wen they released, now praised like they're amazing. They aren't.


Shadow is better than just ok.



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AZWification on 12 May 2014
VanceIX said:
FINAL FREAKIN FANTASY VI.

OK, I get that it's a lot better than VII, but I still don't see how it is the best. There are waaay too many characters, so many that the second half was a confusing mess, and the lack of a solid main character made things a little bland for me.

Phew! At least you didn't say Final Fantast IX like a certain individual did!




                
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VanceIX on 12 May 2014
AZWification said:
VanceIX said:
FINAL FREAKIN FANTASY VI.

OK, I get that it's a lot better than VII, but I still don't see how it is the best. There are waaay too many characters, so many that the second half was a confusing mess, and the lack of a solid main character made things a little bland for me.

Phew! At least you didn't say Final Fantast IX like a certain individual did!


Final Fantasy IX was actually the best for me :D

Final Fantasy VI was pretty good too, but I enjoyed IV, IX, X, and XII more overall.



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CDiablo on 12 May 2014
Kyuu said:
CDiablo said:
Another vote for ICO. A Zelda clone, with only one dungeon, no bosses, easier puzzles and no challenging bad guys. I bought it while it was rare for $40 and was psyched to play it. I beat it in 4.5 hours, so disappointed. I thought it had good art direction though, but as a game total rubbish.


How is it a Zelda clone?

ICO/Shadow of The Colossus are entirely different games from Zelda. If anything, It's Zelda Twilight Princess that was influenced by the visual technology of ICO and possibly the opening of Shadow of The Colossus.

Its a 3d action platformer. Its been at least 4 years but I remember  dungeon like areas, platforming, puzzles, bad guys in the same camera view. Its more appropriate to say Zelda dungeon clone as I dont remember any plot in ICO(not that Zelda games have any deep plots themselves) and there was no where to go like towns in a Zelda game. I cant speak on Z:TP as I have slowly played the series over the course of my life chronologically and I am at Wind Waker. I never said it was like SOTC, I havent played it though it seems like a cool game idea.



Getting an XBOX One for me is like being in a bad relationship but staying together because we have kids. XBone we have 20000+ achievement points, 2+ years of XBL Gold and 20000+ MS points. I think its best we stay together if only for the MS points.

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