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**Locclo**

chaos0xomega wrote:
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?

If you even vaguely enjoyed the story of Assassin's Creed, I'd recommend you give the sequels a try. The first one is horribly repetitive, but for the most part, it's fixed in II/Brotherhood. There's more of an actual storyline (detailing Ezio Auditore assassinating his way through a deep, unfolding conspiracy) and there's some actual variety in missions. The combat gets way better in Brotherhood as well.

And by the way, no, you're not alone in knowing how to win games.

I play Chaos Beastmen in the game's campaign, and I don't think I've lost more than a small handful of games (when the AI cheating just gets too out of hand).

**Lord Scythican**

Locclo wrote:
chaos0xomega wrote:
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?

If you even vaguely enjoyed the story of Assassin's Creed, I'd recommend you give the sequels a try. The first one is horribly repetitive, but for the most part, it's fixed in II/Brotherhood. There's more of an actual storyline (detailing Ezio Auditore assassinating his way through a deep, unfolding conspiracy) and there's some actual variety in missions. The combat gets way better in Brotherhood as well.

And by the way, no, you're not alone in knowing how to win games. I play Chaos Beastmen in the game's campaign, and I don't think I've lost more than a small handful of games (when the AI cheating just gets too out of hand).

I have to agree here. Assassin's Creed wasn't put together really well. There was a lot I hated about the game. The next two were very good. The game developers fixed everything I hated about the first one. You also get a recap of sorts of the first game.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

chaos0xomega wrote:
As for Blood Bowl, I absolutely loved that game, am I the only one who knows how to actually win a game?

I think if you have been reading, those of us talking about disliking Blood Bowl have said we can win. The problem we have with the game is poor design mechanics, and damned horrible (as in not fun) AI to play against. Against another human player I am confident the game would be worth while, quite probably fun. Sadly as a xbox version owner, all I can do online is play single games that do not carry over spp, and no league format to speak of, which is kinda the point of playing Blood Bowl.

**RaegMachine**

Touhou 10 -.-

**GalacticDefender**

Red Dead Redemption. Never has a game had such terrible lack of quest organization. Even fething morrowind had a journal.

**halonachos**

The one thing I didn't like about Red Dead Redemption besides finding the random quests(there was also a journal in RDR Galactic, it was in the pause menu) were the cougars. I was chasing down a bounty one time and a cougar came out of nowhere and killed my horse while the fething bounty made his jolly way to Mexico. No, seriously, by the time I had caught up to the guy, after killing the cougar, he had ran all the way from Ratheskaller Fork to the damn Rio Grande.

**mega_bassist**

halonachos wrote:The one thing I didn't like about Red Dead Redemption besides finding the random quests(there was also a journal in RDR Galactic, it was in the pause menu) were the cougars.

What do you mean? I never see any coug-

**halonachos**

mega_bassist wrote:
halonachos wrote:The one thing I didn't like about Red Dead Redemption besides finding the random quests(there was also a journal in RDR Galactic, it was in the pause menu) were the cougars.

What do you mean? I never see any coug-

You couldn't see them until it was too late, and even then you couldn't hear them before they were already lunging at you or your horse. Telling you, Rockstar really wanted cougars to kill people in that game.

**mega_bassist**

halonachos wrote:
mega_bassist wrote:
halonachos wrote:The one thing I didn't like about Red Dead Redemption besides finding the random quests(there was also a journal in RDR Galactic, it was in the pause menu) were the cougars.

What do you mean? I never see any coug-

You couldn't see them until it was too late, and even then you couldn't hear them before they were already lunging at you or your horse. Telling you, Rockstar really wanted cougars to kill people in that game.

I have an on-going joke with some friends: you never get to finish the sentence "Oh Gak, a cougar!!!" before it kills you haha. Damned sneaky ninjas

**Soladrin**

Bioshock. The game is just rubbish.

Mass Effect (though I did finish it). It just felt so... lame, look it's starwars, your a jedi, and all our aliens look stupid... wait, no it's not starwars...and you don't get a light sabre. (I also think starwars is stupid btw

)

Starcraft, for some reason, I just can't play it for more then 15 minutes before becoming bored. Never even finished it.