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I tried Lizardmen against Goblins.

I quit after two of my Saurus went down dead or badly hurt FROM GOBBOS! Not even the re-rolls helped.

the mighty ginge wrote:I never got the hype behind the halo games. i started to play halo 3 and sorta enjoyed it but then forgot about it soon after. then halo-reach came out and i thought that might help me become intarested in halo agen. i sat down realy enthusiastic and stood up 3hrs later disapointed at the mediocre experience i had just paid £40 for and said this im goin to play battlefeild. everything halo has done has been done before and better. my frend was on the verge of suicide because his copy arived 3 days late. thay then convinced me to play its multiplayer, but i dont give a rats-arse about multi player unless a game can stand up on its campaine (which is why i no longer play call of duty) and reach most defanetly can not. so in other words bungie can go themselfs if thay think im paying for a halo game agen.

NOTE-mabie i did get a bit worked up but now at least i can say this without geting bombarded by weak excusises and acusations about being bad at games.

Maybe, just maybe you should lay off of the vidja' games for awhile there.

Dead Space: Clunky controls and the main character taking up half the fecking screen really put me off it.

Just did Ogres vs Gobbos in BB, and I must say it cheered me up a little, nuking the entire Gobbo team bar two trolls and their troll star player. By the end of it, I think that was all they had left, although my gnoblars did spend the first few turns of the second half trying and failing to pick up the ball...

World of Warcraft... I mean I've played since launch and I don't enjoy it ... and I've quit it about 6 times lol.

I was a huge EQ1 junky, but all my buddies went to WoW when it came out so I went over the WoW... and truthfully I did enjoy vanilla. TBC wasn't terrible, WOTLK was too easy and then Cataclysm came out... I dunno... It's just lost a lot of its magic feeling of exploration. I remember in vanilla grouping up and exploring the elite ogre caves and stuff and just having some fun running around farming mobs. Then everything became streamlined and led you around by the collar telling you where to go and what quests to pick up to go into diff caves etc... wasnt so much exploring anymore than it was doing fed ex missions and kill quests.

I await a new mmo that I can have fun exploring, but most don't live up to the Hype (RIFT, Aion, etc).

Avatar 720 wrote:Just did Ogres vs Gobbos in BB, and I must say it cheered me up a little, nuking the entire Gobbo team bar two trolls and their troll star player. By the end of it, I think that was all they had left, although my gnoblars did spend the first few turns of the second half trying and failing to pick up the ball...

For me, the main problem is that I can't get past the second high elf mission in the story. Its' infuriating me, there's not really enough time for all they ask for (three successful passes, two foul plays, two touchdowns) when you don't even start with the ball, and the other team ALWAYS huddles aroundthe ball carrier making it take ages to get the ball away from them. And no matter what I do, they take forever to get a touch down, even if I literally try to LET them.

I'd have to put down games in the Virtua Fighter series. They just aren't my cup of tea. I like the character designs and some of the iterations looked gorgeous but I can't seem to really get into the controls.

I kinda liked Halo 3 then people started hacking and it got real pointless

Another game i wanted to like but couldn't was firewarrior, yeah i know its 40k but its about tau and tau can't face the might of adeptus astartes!


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Oh, and also all the CODs, they just were not for me.

Fighting games with the exception of the super smash bros. series.

djphranq wrote:I'd have to put down games in the Virtua Fighter series. They just aren't my cup of tea. I like the character designs and some of the iterations looked gorgeous but I can't seem to really get into the controls.

Virtua Fighter is brutal. It's one of those fighting games that you CAN NOT pick up and play. If you don't know what you're doing, you will be destroyed.

DornFist wrote:I kinda liked Halo 3 then people started hacking and it got real pointless

Another game i wanted to like but couldn't was firewarrior, yeah i know its 40k but its about tau and tau can't face the might of adeptus astartes!


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Oh, and also all the CODs, they just were not for me.

Hacking in Halo 3? There's a first for everything I guess.

iproxtaco wrote:Hacking in Halo 3? There's a first for everything I guess.

Hacking has been in Halo since Halo 2. The top rankings were dominated by the moders back in the day.

I think I'll second EVE. Realtime flights and learning was a bore, hopping accounts to dodge the subscriptions was a chore, and the first cruiser I get got blown up, aftger I sold everything to have the bugger. And the interface is too complex to even comprehend half of the things listed. I'll try it again when it goes free... maybe...

Tried Halo once on the Xbox. Got bored after 10 minutes... and this was in PC World of all places.

Mortal Kombat I think gets a small say too. I really love the characters and the gore and fatalities and combos... it's a *cursing* shame that I can't mash the buttons enough to execute the damn combos. Heck MK Armageddon on the Wii was a right b!tch. You try pulling combos off that requires a remote swing from left to right to left in a circular pattern

Hmmmm I suppose Winter Assault goes up here too. After trying to do the penultimate mission with 4 endings using the right races on NORMAL and dying profusely, with only winning as IG, yeah, not fun.

I wanted to like the Witcher. I tried to like the Witcher. I just don't like the Witcher. I have no idea why, as its got basically all of the elements I wanted in an RPG.

Dragon Age: Any of Them.

Really couldn't do it, try as I might. Same goes for the last few FF games after X.

iproxtaco wrote:

DornFist wrote:I kinda liked Halo 3 then people started hacking and it got real pointless

Another game i wanted to like but couldn't was firewarrior, yeah i know its 40k but its about tau and tau can't face the might of adeptus astartes!


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Oh, and also all the CODs, they just were not for me.

Hacking in Halo 3? There's a first for everything I guess.

Hacking? Yeah big time seemed like every game had at least one. If your shooting at a guy and he is not moving and is not dieing and then suddenly he is behind you, assassinating you, thats the hacking im talking about, not sure how they did it.

Medievil 2: Total War Crusades... I have it on the hardest difficulty and it seems that playing it has become a war of attrition. I decided on using Egypt for the campaign and after successfully wiping out nearly all the other factions, one still seems to be a pain in the butt.... the Prinicpality of Antichot. Who knew the french could fight eh? So now no matter how many waves of my army I throw at Jarusalem they seem to be slaughtered mercilessly before they even reach the walls.

I agree with Dragon Age. Love the story and all, but can't stand the game play itself. I'd rather watch someone else play it.

Mass Effect 1 was the same way. I couldn't stand the way they did equipment in that game, where you constantly find things which are just ever-so-slightly better. But again, great story.

The lost game i tried and tried but in the end.....Goodbye.

DornFist wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:

DornFist wrote:I kinda liked Halo 3 then people started hacking and it got real pointless

Another game i wanted to like but couldn't was firewarrior, yeah i know its 40k but its about tau and tau can't face the might of adeptus astartes!


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Oh, and also all the CODs, they just were not for me.

Hacking in Halo 3? There's a first for everything I guess.

Hacking? Yeah big time seemed like every game had at least one. If your shooting at a guy and he is not moving and is not dieing and then suddenly he is behind you, assassinating you, thats the hacking im talking about, not sure how they did it.

Lag. It's not necessarily a hacker, as I've never, ever seen one in the thousands of games I played of Halo 3.

iproxtaco wrote:Lag. It's not necessarily a hacker, as I've never, ever seen one in the thousands of games I played of Halo 3.

Console hacks aren't really like hacking on PC. In Halo it took the form of modding the hardware to ensure the hacker became host and then modified game files that gave the hacker advantage. Most often they modded weapons to pack a little more power and to move faster. They were actually quite inventive back in the days of Halo 2. I never played Halo 3 though so I have no idea how hacking went there. I doubt it stopped.

EDIT: The example in the quotes does sound like lag though.

As a side note Flying Warhogs were one of the funnier and more, adventurous hacks I saw. I saw my share let me tell you

LordofHats wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:Lag. It's not necessarily a hacker, as I've never, ever seen one in the thousands of games I played of Halo 3.

Console hacks aren't really like hacking on PC. In Halo it took the form of modding the hardware to ensure the hacker became host and then modified game files that gave the hacker advantage. Most often they modded weapons to pack a little more power and to move faster. They were actually quite inventive back in the days of Halo 2. I never played Halo 3 though so I have no idea how hacking went there. I doubt it stopped.

EDIT: The example in the quotes does sound like lag though.

As a side note Flying Warhogs were one of the funnier and more, adventurous hacks I saw. I saw my share let me tell you

I'm sure it existed, all Bungie can do is stop the hackers after they're noticed, but the hackers are always one step-ahead. That said, unlike CoD or some other multiplayer games, hacking wasn't anywhere near as prevalent to cause a downside to playing the game, likely due to better online monitoring. I never once encountered a hacker. It may have been the game-types, it may have been my NAT settings, but I really think the presence of hackers was almost zero in Halo 3. The vast majority of cases are usually down to lag. Some guy just seemingly teleporting around is lag, like the example.

I'm still trying, and failing, to get into the Total War series.

I SHOULD like it, it has everything I need to enjoy a game... and yet, I don't.

Pretty much any MMORPG I've played.

Each time, I think to myself that there has to be something in here that keeps people coming back, and by golly I'm going to find it!
Most of the time that stuff's once you hit max level. By then I've gotten bored of the meticulous grind about halfway there of either quests that say "Go here and give person X item Y," "Kill Q Monsters!" or "Collect Z Drops!"

iproxtaco wrote:

DornFist wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:

DornFist wrote:I kinda liked Halo 3 then people started hacking and it got real pointless

Another game i wanted to like but couldn't was firewarrior, yeah i know its 40k but its about tau and tau can't face the might of adeptus astartes!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh, and also all the CODs, they just were not for me.

Hacking in Halo 3? There's a first for everything I guess.

Hacking? Yeah big time seemed like every game had at least one. If your shooting at a guy and he is not moving and is not dieing and then suddenly he is behind you, assassinating you, thats the hacking im talking about, not sure how they did it.

Lag. It's not necessarily a hacker, as I've never, ever seen one in the thousands of games I played of Halo 3.

Maybe some were but I knew this kid who said that you can make this switch that purposely lags connection so you can sneak on someone and kill them, he said he made one I don't know how.

Sounds like resetting your router. People did that a lot in gears of war.

Lewa2321 wrote:Pretty much any MMORPG I've played.

Each time, I think to myself that there has to be something in here that keeps people coming back, and by golly I'm going to find it!
Most of the time that stuff's once you hit max level. By then I've gotten bored of the meticulous grind about halfway there of either quests that say "Go here and give person X item Y," "Kill Q Monsters!" or "Collect Z Drops!"

Same here.Last MMO I tried was DC Universe. It was awesome for a month, then it got REALLY dull.

Yeah, I'm with you on MMORPGs.

I don't have the time or the inclination to grind for levels.

mega_bassist wrote:I've tried like Bioshock, but it just never stuck with me.

I don't know why, but I never saw why it was considered that great. I wasn't a huge fan of the story, the combat, and the ADAM system. I've tried playing it two or three times, but it just never stuck with me.

This, only redeeming qualities were the environment and Big Daddy's.
Fallout 3 is similar, the only redeeming feature is the ability to nuke stuff. Other than that its dull as dirt.

Any Final Fantasy game after FF9, they all pretty much sucked which was a major disappointment. This was especially true of FFXII which came closest to being a decent enjoyable experience for me out of that grouping of games.

Also Eve Online. I had fun for very brief periods of time but I found the game to be a tedious chore most of the time. I.E. - engaging in the supposedly fun content (Corporate/Alliance PvP, Wormhole experation, Complexing, etc.) was time consuming and involved too much micromanagement. It mostly involved sitting there watching a icons pulse, and when they stopped pulsing you clicked some stuff and did it again.

Space Marine, I have so many things against the game I'm not really sure where to start. It might have been a great game if it were released a few years back, but compared to other options in the same genre these days, its really not that exciting.

Assassins Creed, talk about an exercise in repetition, It took me I think 2 years to actually finish the game because I found it so damned boring. I haven't bothered with the sequels because of it.

As for Blood Bowl, I absolutely loved that game, am I the only one who knows how to actually win a game?

Mattlov wrote:I agree with Dragon Age. Love the story and all, but can't stand the game play itself. I'd rather watch someone else play it.

Mass Effect 1 was the same way. I couldn't stand the way they did equipment in that game, where you constantly find things which are just ever-so-slightly better. But again, great story.

I agree about ME1, but the game made up for it in many ways. Borderlands was worse IMO. I was trading out for new guns every few minutes. I swear I think you spend more time in that game exchanging weapons than firing them.