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Biggest dissapointment of the year?

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    #92
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Played through about 3 chapters of Alan Wake. I don't see the attraction at all. Running away from the shadow clowns isn't scary, it's just annoying. And that's 80% of the game so far. There's a lot wrong with this game, yet it gets a lot of praise. Why?


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    #93
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Played through about 3 chapters of Alan Wake. I don't see the attraction at all. Running away from the shadow clowns isn't scary, it's just annoying. And that's 80% of the game so far. There's a lot wrong with this game, yet it gets a lot of praise. Why?

    Couldn't agree more.

    Brutal game, totally over-hyped & overrated.


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    #94
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    GOW3

    Terrible, farce of a game. ARRRRGH ****ITY ****STICKS IM ANGRY AND RAGE ETC. And bonus points go to whoever designed that ****ting box on a chain level. Well done, ****head.

    Heavy Rain

    Easily the worst game i played last year. Absolute joke. Youre supposed to care about the characters and story and overlook the incredibly simplistic simon says gameplay, but they might want to have made the characters not **** and the story not completely laughable for that to work

    Bayonetta

    Just...**** that game. Abysmal ****ing fly me to the moon look at my god damn arse for the 50 millionth time hammer the Y button die inside every time it tries to emulate outrun or space harrier ****ing, woeful, woeful game.


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    #95
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Dead Space on PC. I'd hear such good things about it being an atmospheric game and the scariest thing since AVP2. I was really looking forward to an immersive horror that would scare the bollocks out of me. When I picked it up on Steam for next to nothing I was delighted.

    Only to be let down by the horrible PC controls. Sluggish mouse control, limited range of movement, slow slow camera panning.... ugh. I gave up after the first hour. The terrible controls ruined any chance of immersion I had as I was continually fighting them. And if I'm honest, while the buildup wasn't bad at all, the actual necros themselves looked bloody stupid.


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    #96
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Dead Space on PC. I'd hear such good things about it being an atmospheric game and the scariest thing since AVP2. I was really looking forward to an immersive horror that would scare the bollocks out of me. When I picked it up on Steam for next to nothing I was delighted.

    Only to be let down by the horrible PC controls. Sluggish mouse control, limited range of movement, slow slow camera panning.... ugh. I gave up after the first hour. The terrible controls ruined any chance of immersion I had as I was continually fighting them. And if I'm honest, while the buildup wasn't bad at all, the actual necros themselves looked bloody stupid.

    Disabling v-sync is supposed to improve the mouse control 100%


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    #97
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,337 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Might give that a go, thanks!


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    #98
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    Of the games i played, Aliens vs Predator is just......ugh.

    I mean, several YEARS after Far Cry made gorgeous, believeable open ended jungles ya get a horrible 15 foot wide corridor and then a 50 foot diameter circle with 3 trees as your "hunting ground" as a Predator. And humans spot you stealthed, in a shadowy recess, from the opposite side of the area instantly.

    But what do you expect when the game uses the AvP FILMS as canon for the story.......


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    #99
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    i like OF2.

    I played RDR for about 5 hours, and it hasnt been back on since. It just wasnt up to scratch.


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    #100
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    folan wrote: »
    i like OF2.

    I played RDR for about 5 hours, and it hasnt been back on since. It just wasnt up to scratch.

    What an odd thing to say. What were you expecting? And how did it not live up to that?


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    #101
    Magill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭Magill


    Chairman Meow wrote: »
    GOW3

    Terrible, farce of a game. ARRRRGH ****ITY ****STICKS IM ANGRY AND RAGE ETC. And bonus points go to whoever designed that ****ting box on a chain level. Well done, ****head.

    Heavy Rain

    Easily the worst game i played last year. Absolute joke. Youre supposed to care about the characters and story and overlook the incredibly simplistic simon says gameplay, but they might want to have made the characters not **** and the story not completely laughable for that to work

    Bayonetta

    Just...**** that game. Abysmal ****ing fly me to the moon look at my god damn arse for the 50 millionth time hammer the Y button die inside every time it tries to emulate outrun or space harrier ****ing, woeful, woeful game.

    ... im gonna go ahead and bet you've not even played GOW3, anyone that thinks GOW3 is anything but an excellent game is obviously retarded :D


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    #102
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,462 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    folan wrote: »
    I played RDR for about 5 hours, and it hasnt been back on since. It just wasnt up to scratch.

    Its a Rockstar game. It takes 5 hours to get through the bloody tutorial levels.


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    #103
    mrm
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭mrm


    Chairman Meow wrote: »

    Bayonetta

    Just...**** that game. Abysmal ****ing fly me to the moon look at my god damn arse for the 50 millionth time hammer the Y button die inside every time it tries to emulate outrun or space harrier ****ing, woeful, woeful game.

    Thank you. Best review yet! For anyone who wants the game recipe:

    1. Take a turd.
    2. Cover it in bling.

    And now you have yourself a bling covered turd!

    Played Assassins Creed 2 this year. Cut scene heavy exercise in tedium! "Yo, errand boy, go do this 30 second task and return here for a 3 minute cutscene during which I will, eh, find for you another 30 second menial task. (You may switch off your controller now if you wish to save your batteries)". How come that game did not come with an alarm to wake you up for the short sections that required use of the controller? Baffling!

    AvP - ok Rebellion, em don't give up the.....oh, that is your day job. Ok, give up the day job.

    Dantes Inferno - please contact Darksiders for a demonstration on how to copy good games for the purpose of making good games.


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    #104
    eugeneious
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    I thought Alan Wake was ridiculously overrated tbh but for me the biggest disappointed was by far Crackdown 2. I thought the campaign was just dreadful and the online was abysmal.....


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    #105
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    What an odd thing to say. What were you expecting? And how did it not live up to that?

    i dont know why its odd. It was slow paced. The missions couldnt hold my interest and the story wasnt good. the action was laboured. it wasnt what i expected at all, just not good enough calibre of a game.

    Sorry.

    also:
    Mr E wrote: »
    Its a Rockstar game. It takes 5 hours to get through the bloody tutorial levels.


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    #106
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    I thought it was one of the finest games ever made, and the acting can't be touched. Each to their own I suppose.


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    #107
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    I thought it was one of the finest games ever made, and the acting can't be touched. Each to their own I suppose.

    Couldn't agree more! It was amazing!


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    #108
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    Magill wrote: »
    ... im gonna go ahead and bet you've not even played GOW3, anyone that thinks GOW3 is anything but an excellent game is obviously retarded :D

    Played it, finished it, loathed it. Juvenile load of bilgewater.


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    #109
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    Does it matter what year? If it does not then it has to be Frontier: First Encounters. I think I am showing my age.


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    #110
    omerin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭omerin


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Dead Space on PC. I'd hear such good things about it being an atmospheric game and the scariest thing since AVP2. I was really looking forward to an immersive horror that would scare the bollocks out of me. When I picked it up on Steam for next to nothing I was delighted.

    Only to be let down by the horrible PC controls. Sluggish mouse control, limited range of movement, slow slow camera panning.... ugh. I gave up after the first hour. The terrible controls ruined any chance of immersion I had as I was continually fighting them. And if I'm honest, while the buildup wasn't bad at all, the actual necros themselves looked bloody stupid.

    :eek:

    If you have a decent spec'd PC there are few better games.


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