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We have encountered the odd lame game, well actually alot of poor games such as Ridge Racer 5 and Fantasvision,but what games do u reckon let you down.
I say balck and white.It promised so much but lets us down with its repetative gameplay,and LIONHEAD,where is the fun factor.(please note=this is my personal opinion)
so what games were lame
I say balck and white.It promised so much but lets us down with its repetative gameplay,and LIONHEAD,where is the fun factor.(please note=this is my personal opinion)
so what games were lame
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The thing about Black and White is how much you are prepared to put into it.
It's a god game, but with a creature.
Yes, the creature is stupid at 1st, that's because he's 0 years old.
You have to teach him, where to crap, what to eat, if he should help the villagers, anything you want to.
I've redone the 1st level for almost a month now, because I realised I havent taught him anything really.
He now knows to eat only fish, crap in the sea and bring it home, create forests, not to attack people, to impress other villages that are neutral...it all depends on how much work you put into it.
I'm not saying its good or bad,I'm saying I liked it
It's a god game, but with a creature.
Yes, the creature is stupid at 1st, that's because he's 0 years old.
You have to teach him, where to crap, what to eat, if he should help the villagers, anything you want to.
I've redone the 1st level for almost a month now, because I realised I havent taught him anything really.
He now knows to eat only fish, crap in the sea and bring it home, create forests, not to attack people, to impress other villages that are neutral...it all depends on how much work you put into it.
I'm not saying its good or bad,I'm saying I liked it
I thought Theme Park World was tame. The Bust a Move series was obviously for people with no brain power.
Maybe RR5 and Tekken were rushed for the launch, but i bet the gaming community would have been just as annoyed if they wernt in the launch lineup. they are a staple in the pages of sonys machine. The games were flawed, but they were playable, and thats what matters.
I think people got caught up in the hype a bit expecting a whole new experience. You cannot expect this from release day. Every machine needs a bit of time to get its footing. The DC and N64 launch games arent a scratch on what is available now, and I'm sure the Gamecube and X-Box will follow.
And to be honest, I can't see anyone not liking SSX. Even the non-sony fans.
I think people got caught up in the hype a bit expecting a whole new experience. You cannot expect this from release day. Every machine needs a bit of time to get its footing. The DC and N64 launch games arent a scratch on what is available now, and I'm sure the Gamecube and X-Box will follow.
And to be honest, I can't see anyone not liking SSX. Even the non-sony fans.
I think that a very dissapointing game was Theme Park World. This game was incredibly dull and repetative. It was given a load of hype saying that it waas theme park in 3D and you could ride the rides, but after playing it for a bout 1 week (still on the first park) I was thourouly bored and uninstalled it.
But the most dissapointing game of all time is most definately Black and White. I saw a screen shot and description of the game, 2 years before it was released, on a games program on TV and I thought that it was going to be the best game ever made. How wrong was I. My computer is higher than its min spec. and yet the game runs like a snail playing sleeping logs. The game takes about 5 mins to load up. compare that to Rainbow Six and other games that I've got and its a lifetime.
That's my first gripe I think the graphics arent as good as they were hyped to be, they just looked like Populous but in different colours.
This absolutely amazing creature, Supposedly, is thick, well mine is anyway. He eats all my villagers even though I disipline him. Training him is so boring and repetative especially since the game runs at snail pace, that Id rather that he died.
The annoying advisors keep popping up and saying "Your creature will eat more of that" even though I've been watching him and he hasnt eaten! Clever!
The gameplay is dull. Theres nothing in it. all you do is pick up trees and put then in a store house and then pick up food and put that in the store house, whats fun with that? THe people are also thick, they just stand around doing nothing.
The game crashes constantly, like The Sims, which means that you have to wait for you PC to boot up and then another 5 mins for the game to load up before you can play again.
The game is filled with cut scenes which take about 15 mins per cut scene on my computer and when I changed from level 1 to level 2 it took 3 hours (from 10pm-1am) where I couldnt save the game and turn off my computer and I was at school the next day!
The first time you run the game it is completely confusing because there is no main menu like normal games and if you have read the manual and then install the game then you have to sit and be told everything you have just read.
The multiplayer is the worst I have ever seen in a game and where are all these patches that were meant to came out!?
I dont see how anybody could find this game fun unless you have got an immense amount of patiance with a game, quite frankly I dont see why anyone should bother because it is complete rubbish that takes up most of your hard disk.
I'm not surprised that Peter Monyloux (or however you spell it) kept saying in his interviews that most of it was done by lionhead because I wouldnt like to have my name against that rubbish.
I hope I havent offended anyone who likes this game but this is just my opinion.
Seeya Ben
But the most dissapointing game of all time is most definately Black and White. I saw a screen shot and description of the game, 2 years before it was released, on a games program on TV and I thought that it was going to be the best game ever made. How wrong was I. My computer is higher than its min spec. and yet the game runs like a snail playing sleeping logs. The game takes about 5 mins to load up. compare that to Rainbow Six and other games that I've got and its a lifetime.
That's my first gripe I think the graphics arent as good as they were hyped to be, they just looked like Populous but in different colours.
This absolutely amazing creature, Supposedly, is thick, well mine is anyway. He eats all my villagers even though I disipline him. Training him is so boring and repetative especially since the game runs at snail pace, that Id rather that he died.
The annoying advisors keep popping up and saying "Your creature will eat more of that" even though I've been watching him and he hasnt eaten! Clever!
The gameplay is dull. Theres nothing in it. all you do is pick up trees and put then in a store house and then pick up food and put that in the store house, whats fun with that? THe people are also thick, they just stand around doing nothing.
The game crashes constantly, like The Sims, which means that you have to wait for you PC to boot up and then another 5 mins for the game to load up before you can play again.
The game is filled with cut scenes which take about 15 mins per cut scene on my computer and when I changed from level 1 to level 2 it took 3 hours (from 10pm-1am) where I couldnt save the game and turn off my computer and I was at school the next day!
The first time you run the game it is completely confusing because there is no main menu like normal games and if you have read the manual and then install the game then you have to sit and be told everything you have just read.
The multiplayer is the worst I have ever seen in a game and where are all these patches that were meant to came out!?
I dont see how anybody could find this game fun unless you have got an immense amount of patiance with a game, quite frankly I dont see why anyone should bother because it is complete rubbish that takes up most of your hard disk.
I'm not surprised that Peter Monyloux (or however you spell it) kept saying in his interviews that most of it was done by lionhead because I wouldnt like to have my name against that rubbish.
I hope I havent offended anyone who likes this game but this is just my opinion.
Seeya Ben
So this must be one of kurt angles fav games right?!
Wilmaaaaa wrote:
> Blimey Adrian,I know the ps2 launch was rubbish but that is no excuse to say ridge racer 5 was good.That is the worst racing game ever.
But IMO I thought it was a good game. Its not the best racing game but it was the best one out. It had a very poor conversion from the Japanese to the UK PS2, while Tekken had a great conversion as they used Anti-Aliasing but we still didnt have the 60Hz option. People like different games you may dislike most racing games and only love the Gran Turismo series for example. GT3 will make RR5 seem very rubbish but at the time RR5 was the only good racer. At launch I only got 3 games TTT, Timesplitters and RR5, then my next game was March 23rd when Z.O.E came out. If I had thought about it the only game that was new and that I wanted was Timesplitter. TTT is just all the Tekkens with better graphics and a Tag mode, so no really advances in gameplay. RR%5 had a very poor conversion and wasnt the best Ridge Racer game. But on launch these were the only 3 games that appealed. I know everyone loves SSX but I played the demo and didnt really enjoy it that much so I didnt want to go out and buy the game.
The games I had were fun for me to play. I enjoyed RR5 and playd on it alot and completed all the championships got all the secrets and got 1st on all the time trials for every circuit forward and reverse. I also enjoyed TTT but really that is only a slight improvement on Tekken 3.
At the end of the day its what type of game that person likes.
> Blimey Adrian,I know the ps2 launch was rubbish but that is no excuse to say ridge racer 5 was good.That is the worst racing game ever.
But IMO I thought it was a good game. Its not the best racing game but it was the best one out. It had a very poor conversion from the Japanese to the UK PS2, while Tekken had a great conversion as they used Anti-Aliasing but we still didnt have the 60Hz option. People like different games you may dislike most racing games and only love the Gran Turismo series for example. GT3 will make RR5 seem very rubbish but at the time RR5 was the only good racer. At launch I only got 3 games TTT, Timesplitters and RR5, then my next game was March 23rd when Z.O.E came out. If I had thought about it the only game that was new and that I wanted was Timesplitter. TTT is just all the Tekkens with better graphics and a Tag mode, so no really advances in gameplay. RR%5 had a very poor conversion and wasnt the best Ridge Racer game. But on launch these were the only 3 games that appealed. I know everyone loves SSX but I played the demo and didnt really enjoy it that much so I didnt want to go out and buy the game.
The games I had were fun for me to play. I enjoyed RR5 and playd on it alot and completed all the championships got all the secrets and got 1st on all the time trials for every circuit forward and reverse. I also enjoyed TTT but really that is only a slight improvement on Tekken 3.
At the end of the day its what type of game that person likes.
Zelda OOT, over hyped, lame, bland, drivel, I'm telling you!!
Im thinking hard about this one...
First of all, I must protest. The PS2 launch was not rubbish. It certainly could have been better, but it wasn't rubbish. I mean SSX was a really good game, Timesplitters was also a good games, and Ridge Racer 5, while not the best racer in the world, was not rubbish.
The main reason that the PS2 launch was not that good, is because most of the games were rushed so that they would be available for launch. Timesplitters is a good example of this. Even the developers themselves admitted that they wanted to get it out for launch. Tekken Tag, although good, was really just the same old arcade version with spruced up graphics and an extra bowling feature. Developers were under pressure to get games out for launch, which meant that some of the games came out not as good as they could have been.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand. There have been loads of games that have not only disappointed me, put have also harmed a consoles reputation. There are several games available for the PS2, but a lot of them are complete and utter pants. It is these games that show up the PS2.
Look at it this way: before the launch, there was tonnes of hype over the PS2; the games looked stunning, really powerful and so on. When the console is released, some of the games are so bad that it makes the PS2 look like nothing more than a rip off of a PSOne. Want an example? Okay then. Army Men. You'd think that they could improve the bad series with the immense power of the PS2, but no, the experience is still the same: pointless. How about another example. World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks. This is a terrible game. It's Vigilante 8 in tanks. This games doesn't show the true power of the PS2, and instead makes it look like the PS2 cannot produce those must-have, stunning games we were all lead to expect.
This is the same for a lot of consoles, and will most likely be the same for the next two 128-bit consoles: Xbox and Gamecube. It's such a pity.
So, there you have it. Games that have disappointed me. And there are plenty more, although each list will be different for each person, but there are just some games that will appear on all of those lists, and these are the ones that mostly disappoint me.
The main reason that the PS2 launch was not that good, is because most of the games were rushed so that they would be available for launch. Timesplitters is a good example of this. Even the developers themselves admitted that they wanted to get it out for launch. Tekken Tag, although good, was really just the same old arcade version with spruced up graphics and an extra bowling feature. Developers were under pressure to get games out for launch, which meant that some of the games came out not as good as they could have been.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand. There have been loads of games that have not only disappointed me, put have also harmed a consoles reputation. There are several games available for the PS2, but a lot of them are complete and utter pants. It is these games that show up the PS2.
Look at it this way: before the launch, there was tonnes of hype over the PS2; the games looked stunning, really powerful and so on. When the console is released, some of the games are so bad that it makes the PS2 look like nothing more than a rip off of a PSOne. Want an example? Okay then. Army Men. You'd think that they could improve the bad series with the immense power of the PS2, but no, the experience is still the same: pointless. How about another example. World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks. This is a terrible game. It's Vigilante 8 in tanks. This games doesn't show the true power of the PS2, and instead makes it look like the PS2 cannot produce those must-have, stunning games we were all lead to expect.
This is the same for a lot of consoles, and will most likely be the same for the next two 128-bit consoles: Xbox and Gamecube. It's such a pity.
So, there you have it. Games that have disappointed me. And there are plenty more, although each list will be different for each person, but there are just some games that will appear on all of those lists, and these are the ones that mostly disappoint me.
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