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1-5) Diablo 3: It might have worked as a bad diablo clone if they had chosen a different name. They even deviated from the perfect controls of Diablo 2 to implement the atrocious controls common of a bad diablo clone. To top it all they thought it wise to have horrendous item drop chances and have us scour the auction house instead of really playing the game to acquire any useful equipment.
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 Galdos wrote:

 SneakyMek wrote:

3. Company of heroes 1-2. (Really?..it's such a great ww2 rts that just lacks all the major historical battles,and of course both Germans and Russians speak English..i can go on forever on this one lol.)
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I actually dont care that this made your list. Im confused on your reasons.

The games cover many of the major historical battles including, Carentan, St. Lo, Omaha, Cherbourg, Operation False Pocket, Caen, Op. Goodwood, Op. Market Garden, Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin, That Polish city I forgot the name of, Leningrad.

In fact, I find the only battle it was missing was Kursk (seriously, how the feth was that NOT in the game?)

as for the speaking English, personal preference, I hate it when it is the other way around( they speak their actual language, I dont speak German or Russian so not understanding my men pisses me off)


There are plenty of reasons why those games would make the list so you dont need to defend yourself, I just found those 2 reasons to be strange_)

This, I don't understand why people nitpick Company of Heroes so much.

For instance:

"Why are my units standing near each other but missing?"
"Why are the germans speaking english?"
"Why don't my tiger tanks one shot shermans across the map?"
Conversely: "Why don't I get free air and artillery strikes all the time whenever I see a german tank?"
"Why are they doing World War 2? its so boring!"

I can assure you that other games commit far worse historical sins, but CoH always seems to be in the firing line.
/rant

1. Call of Duty anything.
2-5 in no specific order:
-The Fallout series.
-Assassins Creed.
-Grand Theft Auto series. Yeah, they're cool and fun. But not the best damn game.
-Pokemon.


Just no.

1) Rage - Loved a lot about the game but the story felt rushed and it was about 3 hours long.
2) Homefront - If they had actually finished the story I may have enjoyed the game... not that there was a lot to the story anyway..
3) ...
Okay I'm gonna have to think for the rest of them...

 purplefood wrote:
1) Rage - Loved a lot about the game but the story felt rushed and it was about 3 hours long.

I really liked that game-still have't completed it actually.

Im going to be hated for saying it, but Fallout 3.

Dont get me wrong, i love the story telling and the background but the combat.... I HATE the combat system for it, its a spray and pray game, until you hit RB and just click. Its messy and ruins the flow of combat, as it pulls you out every few seconds. The combat turned me off so much that i couldn't even be bothered to pursue the story any more.

(Shields activate)

Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

Because the INNER DEMON CHILD INSIDE HAS AWAKENED!

 Galdos wrote:
Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

To be fair, the first Pokemons still kick the crap out of a lot of RPGs thanks to it's simple but arse-kicking battle system.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Galdos wrote:
Oh god Pokemon is good.

Everytime I hear my friends talk about it I think "you are about 22-25. What the hell are you playing that for?"

To be fair, the first Pokemons still kick the crap out of a lot of RPGs thanks to it's simple but arse-kicking battle system.

I always found Pokemon boring, even when I was six.

1-5 Elemental call of magic , worst game ever. It was and will always be rubbish , yet somehow the developers and weird fanboys thought it was good when all it was was a buggy unfun mess. I now refuse to buy anything released by stardock.

Most of this is probably me just bitching about games I don't like as opposed to actual objective analysis so prepare for whinging and complaining.

1. FF7. Never been a fan of FF at all and I've always felt like the praise that game has gotten like it's the second coming of Jesus riding a motorcycle made of sex is completely unwarranted. If you hate games that are extremely bloated and difficult to understand, you probably hate JRPGs and this is the top of the pops when it comes to JRPGs. Innovating your static JRPG combat system doesn't impress anyone and its status as 'da first 3d FF gaem on PS1' isn't that big of a deal considering 90's polygon graphics are ucking fugly and having to switch disks all day isn't fun. It probably would have been better as a game like Castlevania SOTN that tried to make a better 2d game with a newer console as opposed to horribad 90's 3D console graphics, plus the game could have been more refined with more disk space.

2. Uncharted/The Last of Us. Yeah. I only played TLOU for maybe 2 hours after I thought to myself "Hey, this game is like Uncharted! No wait, this game feels exactly like Uncharted." My biggest problem with both of those games is there's basically no reason to play them multiple times instead of 'I want to play them again." I could never bring myself to pay $60 for a game I could feasibly blow through in one day and have no real reason to play through multiple times. Also, the overabundance of cutscenes annoys the gak out of me, which is why MGS4 was fething unplayable for me (although, the difference between these games and MGS4 is that MGS4 actually gets gak for having too many cutscenes, how bout that.)

3. Battlefield 3. Every time I hear someone talk about BF3 there's always some stealthy criticism of CoD in there somewhere and how this game is just liiiiiiiightyears ahead of CoD and I just don't see it. Everything from the control scheme to the framerate just feels sluggish compared to CoD (which, you have to admit, it's pretty cool that CoD's developers got a modern graphics engine to maintain 60fps on consoles), the gameplay is really too similar to CoD's to be that much better, and its singleplayer mode feels almost exactly like MW3's down to the stupid cliche military lingo and the 'OH MY GOD SOMETHING FELL OVER BLACK OUT AND SWITCH CHARACTERS NOW' moments.

4. Doom 3. You know, I'm quite fond of pre-2005 games but I reaaaaaaaally hated this one. It's competing against games like Half Life 2 and Halo 2 and I still don't understand why it's even considered a 'classic' of the last console generation. It's a big, ugly, clunky melon-fether of a game that's trying as hard as it possibly can to be scary and failing hard. It's difficult to be scared of monsters jumping out at me when I've got a shotgun that sounds like it could split The Hulk in half and I've got plenty of ammo. Doom was never a horror game and trying to make it into a combination of Dead Space and Quake 3 just doesn't feel fun.

5. Portal 2. Remember when I said I didn't really like games that you really only will play through once without good reason? Yeah. Bought this game, played it through in 2 days, never even installed it again. Yeah Wheatley was funny and GLaDOS and blah blah I'm still trying to stop cringing over the stupid repetition of jokes from the first game (feth you if you think 'the cake is a lie' is still funny, by the way). It was entertaining but there were a lot of points that I got stuck and the puzzles sometimes seemed impossible and the story just can't make up for that. It was quite entertaining, of course, but I just couldn't in good faith claim that that game really was Game of the Year 2011. There's no universe where that game was literally better than EVERYTHING that came out that year.

Honorable Mention: Dark Souls. This game is so well designed it kills me but the game is so completely inaccessible and devoid of any hints as to what to do ever it really straddles the boundary between 'a hard game' and 'this game is fething with you on purpose'. Yeah, I probably hate it because I can't beat it, but whatever.

When Doom 3 came out I recall people calling it a "decent tech demo" but a "bad game" for quite awhile. I didn't realise it became a hit afterwards.

Halo, (any Halo really, they aren't that good.)

Gears of War (same)

Bioshock (I just can't get into it)

Resident Evil 4: A lot of people say this is the only good one, I really didn't like it.

Forza.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Pretty much anything made by Lionhead Studios.

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Yep.

Rage was fun, had awesome music, looked fantastic, had great gameplay, cool characters and a big open world that still let you know where you were meant to be going.

These "top games of the 90s" are the opposite-ugly, frustratingly difficult, confusing, clunky, pretty lacking in the sound department, just awful.

Rage was okay, would have been better if they had finished more than 1/3 of the game...

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
1: Counter-Strike. (Generic CoD clone number 639! But it's "the hardcore" and anyone who doesn't like it is a "nooby console scrub"! Also it has atrocious gameplay, terrible balance, and one of the worst communities this side of League of Legends!)

Counter-Strike came out 3 years before Call of Duty...

It's still yet another generic, boring military FPS. Regardless of which one came first, they're both terrible games that should not exist.

As much as I don't like both of them today, I have to say I have the utmost respect for the people responsible for Counter-Strike. This game with I don't know how many fans all started as a humble mod for Half-Life. Someone just had this awesome idea about a team of Terrorists vs Counter-Terrorists for an online game and got together with some friends and started coding it. After some Betas, Valve itself looked at it and said "Say, that is looking mighty good, want some help?" and lo', Valve teamed up and the CS fever truly began full steam ahead.

Same thing for whoever had the idea for the "custom map" in Warcraft 3, the Defense of the Ancients. Another person who had a vision and BAM, world-wide phenomena.

P.S: And CoD 1 and 2 are absolutely awesome

Actually... Dota on warcraft 3 is not where the idea came form. Starcraft 1 had map called Aeon of Strife which is the actual origin of this type of game.

And squigsquasher... so you think a few of the top games from the 90's are terrible... yet you like Rage?

Yep.

Rage was fun, had awesome music, looked fantastic, had great gameplay, cool characters and a big open world that still let you know where you were meant to be going.

These "top games of the 90s" are the opposite-ugly, frustratingly difficult, confusing, clunky, pretty lacking in the sound department, just awful.

...waaaaaaaaaaaaaat.... Ugly, well, graphics were great back then and IMO a lot of them still hold up fine, guess that´s an age thing so fair, you´ll get that one. Frustratingly difficult? Awardingly difficult, games these days are way to easy, I breeze through everything on hard nowadays. Clunky? NOPE. Lacking in sound department...... I have yet to find a game with a better soundtrack then the first few command and conquers just to name one franchise from back then.

Also, if we view Rage through the same scope of it's age. TERRIBLE textures, forgettable music and sound, crap story, terrible ending, easy as balls and not a single mechanic that actually helped immersion.

In the end though, to each their own. Something about opinions and arses.

1. Ghost Recon games.
2. Halo 2 & ODST
3. COD Modern Warfare
4. Metal Gear Solid
5. GTA 4 - honestly was a step back from GTA: SA

In no particalur order:
Minecraft
Any cod game after MW2
Uncharted 2/3
Dirt 3
Super mario galaxy 1

RAGE was what id had been doing for a while now: A gakky game that worked better as a tech demo to showcase a new engine for other companies.

Oh wait, those fething id witches said PC gaming was never a top priority with RAGE, those fething witches.

 BrookM wrote:
RAGE was what id had been doing for a while now: A gakky game that worked better as a tech demo to showcase a new engine for other companies.

Oh wait, those fething id witches said PC gaming was never a top priority with RAGE, those fething witches.

Calm yourself.

Besides, if they want to focus on a console release as a priority then there's nothing wrong with that. Just play it on a console. One particular gaming crowd can't have everything all the time.

Next thing you know we'll have people shouting at Nintendo for not bringing poor old Mario to the PC/Mac/Xbox One or whatever.

Has anyone mentioned World of Tanks?

I'll admit that it's good fun to begin with, but rapidly spoils when you reach the higher levels. And the amount of effort people make and the amount of money some spend I find genuinely frightening..

World of Warcraft the moment the first expansion was released.

 Pacific wrote:
Has anyone mentioned World of Tanks?

I'll admit that it's good fun to begin with, but rapidly spoils when you reach the higher levels. And the amount of effort people make and the amount of money some spend I find genuinely frightening..

World of Warcraft the moment the first expansion was released.

I beg to differ! The first expansion was fantastic and added my favorite raid of all time, Karazhan, allowing me to raid with only 9 other people and everything was tough as nails back then . After WotlK it all went downhill from there :(

 nomsheep wrote:


Bioshock (I just can't get into it)

that dosen't make it overrated kid.

1. WoW
2. Pokemon games
3. FF 7
4. Halo 3 and any Halo game after that
5. Gears of War series

1. World of Warcraft - Everquest did FPMMORPGing better
2. Halo.
3. Grand theft Auto after 2
4. Settlers after settlers 3. The whole point of settlers was CUTESY GRAPHICS.
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

 Doctadeth wrote:
5. Runescape. Gah. That game is just.....a timewaster now.

/Implying it was ever anything more than a timewaster.

God , I remember all the other kids used to play Runescape. Even back then I thought it looked like gak. I was always in the Club Penguin camp. It made me very popular with the girls, but seeing as I was 10 the humour was lost on me.

Also, can I say I do not see what all the fuss over the original Deus Ex is? Sure it looks like a fun game and I'd like to try it, but...I dunno, it just looks like another Half-Life style, "edgy" shooter.

 sing your life wrote:
that dosen't make it overrated kid.

Except that these are "games you find overrated". Everyone has differing opinions.