Games That Developers Owe Everyone An Apology For.........

Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:30 am

People will mindlessly buy anything a twinkie bribed fatty said was good, just look at Dead Space 2 and Fable 3 sales. And by doing so they allow game companies to continue to make the same crap.


What was wrong with Dead Space 2? :stare:

Don't buy Gearbox games!


What was wrong with Opposing Force? :stare: ...have they made games since then? :P
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GabiiE Liiziiouz
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:01 am

Haze


Oh man, that's really weird... normally I remember bad games, even mediocre ones, but until I read your post I had completely forgotten Haze was ever even a thing. I've forgotten about many a bad movie before, but Haze is the first game I've erased from my memory...

...Wow :blink:
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Lil Miss
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:28 am

Oh man, that's really weird... normally I remember bad games, even mediocre ones, but until I read your post I had completely forgotten Haze was ever even a thing. I've forgotten about many a bad movie before, but Haze is the first game I've erased from my memory...

...Wow :blink:

Is it really that bad ? Sounded good, then again I only knew a bit pre release, then stopped hearing about it.

Also whatever developer made bubsy 3d. I had that game as a kid, I wish I could forget it, so terrible, so very terrible.
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Philip Lyon
 
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:10 pm

Rogue Warrior

Haze

Does the fact that, shortly after release, both their respective companies (Core and Free Radical) went belly-up count? :P
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jaideep singh
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:05 am

The rushed and butchered final levels of KOTOR 2 (though I think I read that was corporate meddling instead of the devs).

I reinstalled Two Worlds this week, and it's actually not the worst game in the world. It's like a lower-budget Oblivion or Gothic clone, with something of the armor collection of Diablo II. Like it says on the site www.tvtropes.org, it falls under the category of "So bad it's good" or "Narm Charm". (For an explanation of "narm", see the site.) The combat isn't that bad.
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Benji
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:13 am

I liked Fable 3. Its no longer an RPG series but its a fun little action game that doesn't take itself seriously or try to be realistic, thank god.
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maria Dwyer
 
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:13 pm

Remembered one, Xenogears. The first disc has ridiculously in depth storytelling, but the second... characters sitting on chair telling what happened? :eek:

What we have here is a critical failure in resource allocation during the deveploment process.

And it's spritual successor Xenosaga was also cut short, one three-game trilogy instead of three two-game episodes :shakehead:
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:42 am

You owe your employer an apology for being stupid enough to waste the salary he gave you on a crappy game. Read reviews next time.
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Kelly Upshall
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:00 am

You owe your employer an apology for being stupid enough to waste the salary he gave you on a crappy game. Read reviews next time.

Right lets listen to reviewers who increase marks becuase of hype and probablly they get paid off. GTA IV in no way deserved a 10.
CoD dosent deserve high reviews either, £40 for a damn reskin.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:05 am

Right lets listen to reviewers who increase marks becuase of hype and probablly they get paid off. GTA IV in no way deserved a 10.
CoD dosent deserve high reviews either, £40 for a damn reskin.


Reviews. Not review. Also, reviews don't necessarily come from official sites, there are plenty of bloggers out there who review games so if you find one that suits your style and taste, just listen to what they say about it. If you do enough research before parting with your cash, you wouldn't be disappointed. ;)
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:57 pm

Reviews. Not review. Also, reviews don't necessarily come from official sites, there are plenty of bloggers out there who review games so if you find one that suits your style and taste, just listen to what they say about it. If you do enough research before parting with your cash, you wouldn't be disappointed. ;)

Lots of reviews can be bought, I learned that with ME2 and Borderlands.

Alos its hard t get a proper answer somethimes, look at DA2
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii
If I wasnt already against it before release (day one dlc) and was interested one group bombed results and others on forums are trating it the opposite.
Point is you cant trust reviews.

You do your own research, but reviews are bad, just others oppinions, and we all have different views so they are pointless.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:13 am

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/06/12/limbo-of-the-lost-an-astonishing-tale/. Full stop. ...On the other hand I did get some serious lulz out of it when it happened, so maybe not.

Meanwhile, Ubisoft at least owes me an apology for Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. That game is a buggy pile of bad design decisions, horrible writing, and outright misogyny. It is not fun. It is vicious and juvenile in its best moments. I came away from that game thinking far less of everyone involved in its making, and nearly hating the PoP franchise as a whole (and I really enjoyed Sands of Time, even moreso in retrospect, having played WW...).

I've since started Two Thrones, which is doing a lot to make up for Warrior Within (it's even making me like Kaileena, which was a staggeringly impossible task by the end of WW), but I still feel like Ubisoft owes me a personal apology. Or at least a bottle of wine and a punching bag.

On an ironic note, though, it's kind of funny that the game that's best known for making the previously likable Prince "smolder with generic rage" made me smolder with not-so-generic rage.
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:13 pm

While they maybe shouldn't apologize to everyone, I feel that both Bioware and Bethesda owe an apology to their long time fan bases. Oblivion was far from what I envisioned for elder scrolls after playing Morrowind. And the sequels for both Dragon Age and Mass Effect weren't what I wanted to see in terms of continuations of the series either. Invisible War deserves a mention as well.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:36 am

Vote with your wallet and/or demand and demand until the devs do what you demand.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:39 am

Deadliest Catch.

It looked as if it would be great fun picking and managing my crew, setting my crab pots, racing the other captains to be the king of the Bering Sea. Unfortunately, the screen was covered with a hundred bars, buttons, gauges, messages and instructions all written in the teeniest font known to man. I have a 46 inch LCD tv and couldn't read any of it sitting three feet away. All I could do was randomly bang buttons and hope for the best. I crashed my boat and tossed the game.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:23 am

  • Big Rigs
  • Decent to undermountain
  • Pool of Radiance 2 (the installer bug that wipes your C: Drive on uninstall)
  • FOBOS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3hbb-qp3DA&feature=related
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:25 am

Deadliest Catch.

It looked as if it would be great fun picking and managing my crew, setting my crab pots, racing the other captains to be the king of the Bering Sea. Unfortunately, the screen was covered with a hundred bars, buttons, gauges, messages and instructions all written in the teeniest font known to man. I have a 46 inch LCD tv and couldn't read any of it sitting three feet away. All I could do was randomly bang buttons and hope for the best. I crashed my boat and tossed the game.

You bought not only a licensed game, but a game licensed from a TV show, and you think the developers owe you an apology? :blink:
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:05 am

prototype- It was good at first, but all they did was make the missions harder. It all felt the same to me. It got really boring really fast.

almost every first person shooter that companies have made ever since the first few call of duties. Ok I get it... call of duty was and is awesome, but does almost every game have to look just like it?
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:01 pm

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/06/12/limbo-of-the-lost-an-astonishing-tale/. Full stop. ...On the other hand I did get some serious lulz out of it when it happened, so maybe not.


This.

Very much this. Oh and 3D Realms would owe an apology to everyone too.
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Luna Lovegood
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:12 am

...none...


It's either this, or everyone.
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Roberto Gaeta
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:56 am

Oh that HAVE to be Gothic 3 and Gothic 4: Arcania.


The developpers have literaily ruined the whole series.
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:13 pm

:lol:

:flamethrower:

Seriously though. Fable 2 and 3.

Both those games where great action RPGs sure it wasn't on the level Fable:TLC was on but they were still very good games.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:21 am

Spore, without a doubt!
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LuBiE LoU
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:59 am

No one's said E.T. yet?


The damn thing's literally rotting in a landfill like radioactive sludge!
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:45 pm

You bought not only a licensed game, but a game licensed from a TV show, and you think the developers owe you an apology? :blink:


I didn't want to jump on the Fable 3 bandwagon like everyone else here so I picked an even [censored]tier game :shrug:
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