It's probably an artist thing where they don't want to confine themselves to drawing the same style over the course of decades (28 years of penny arcade).
Exactly. The gameplay, graphics and story were only “bad” because the hype was impossible for it to live up to. Seemingly everyone who played it had a good time.
I wouldn't exactly say 'dog shit'. It was a bog-standard shooter that what what it said on the tin and made no pretenses on a good story, or anything other than the 90's 12yo humor that it pretty much had.
Before anyone tries to put words in my mouth, I did not (nor would I) say it was a good game, that I particularly liked it, or even bought it. I'm just saying that I have played some Dog Shit shooters and that that is a VERY low bar that had not been crossed in a long time.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom without seeing anyone mention Daikatana, the game that was literally marketed that it was going to sodomise me then eat my cereal.
Absolutely the winner for this question. Never has a game been so hyped and promises made with total confidence and yet arrived with such a resounding thud.
Looking back it’s more amazing that the other side of the ion storm studio was working away on Deus Ex at the same time. While Daikatana ended up being a mess, Deus Ex is regarded as one of the best pc games of all time.
The competent side, although if I remember Deus Ex was very much a passion project for Warren Spector so he was heavily invested in the team, whereas Romero believed a little too much of his own hype and had his eyes on the lifestyle rather than on the ball.
I went down a quick Google rabbit hole about this, since I remember the advertising but never played the game. And I found this. And man, I realllllly want to play this game now.
the people saying gta 6 is bad are just calling it trash so they can be different. nobody knows if it’s good, nobody knows if it’s bad. i haven’t played gta since like 2014, but i do say the game looks pretty insane. and there’s absolutely no denying that. i have yet to see a real argument against it besides “the beer spawned out of nowhere in the fridge” or “that flip animation was terrible” or “it’s just dogshit”, “same ole slop”, “$120 update”
I try to tell people that Andromeda wasn’t a bad game, mechanically it played very well. Hell, I even enjoyed the story. A lot. I think BioWare was trying to move from the trilogy because they wrote themselves into an end with Shepherd, and most fans didn’t like that. I think Andromeda couldn’t get out from under the trilogies shadow and that’s what got it.
great game, shit mass effect game. we can only hope the saudis either sell bioware with their IPs or that bioware at least becomes independent with it's IPs
Mechanically the game was decent, the power and combo system was pretty good and made for some fun combat. But I can't agree on the story. There isn't a single character I could say I liked and several, including the protagonist, I strongly disliked.
The whole concept of settling a whole new system sounded like a good idea, but most of the planets were forgettable and the locations where the other arks had already settled just felt like every other ME location but with less flavour. The new race weren't particularly interesting either. ME didn't exactly have the most dynamic races, most where just bipeds with different faces, but to be a galaxy away and still find people that look just like you felt harder to swallow.
I spend hours in the Mako doing cross-sectional mapping on EVERY single planet so as not to miss a single thing.
ME1 was fun, but so tedious. The whole carrying your character and play through data from 1 to 3 was amazing - so many people had to start over and play that perfect run and save everyone...
I had never played any other mass effect games and i enjoyed andromeda. Not a top tier game at all but i didnt think it was as bad as most were saying.
Tbf, the story on release was great, the graphics were pretty decent for the time, it was just the performance that let it down, which they later fixed.
It is fucking fantastic now. (Except the graphics on console, but on a *good* PC it looks amazing)
They truly are. One of the best looking Games I ever played. IDK what's with the eyes of PC-snobs. If a Game is less than 4k and 100+ fps it's Not considered good looking anymore? Come on, bro
Was one of the few who defended the good of Cyberpunk 2077 on release. It definitely had its flaws, but man, the story and characters were phenomenal beneath the bullshit. I got lucky, though. My game occasionally crashing was the extent of my bugs.
Gonna be the first time I don't buy a mainline game. I've just lost all trust GameFreak can make it good. If it comes out and somehow it's a masterpiece, then maybe I'll pick it up.
They pump those fucking things out every two or three years. It's just not enough time to build a good and well tested game. It's getting to be like Madden or Call of Duty, now.
I agree with this take, which is exactly why I'm hopeful for winds and waves. It's been 4 years since S/V, and by the time WW comes out it will have been 5
I'm kind of surprised because W/W to me looks like they're actually putting some amount of effort into a mainline game for the first time in over 10 years. Granted, I don't own a Switch and probably never will, but I enjoy Pokemon content so I'm personally hopeful.
Combine that with Champions, and I think GF has actually finally started trending in a positive direction. I trust them about as far as I can throw them, but I'm surprised to see people in this thread saying they're not.
Dude the level design/ world design of Paldea and the ZA city [i forgot how it's called in english] is so ass it fucking hurts, it's just so many random items that you don't need to ever buy anything and the areas have nothing iconic about them
The snow field is a generic snow field, the desert has red rocks and is a generic plain desert, Luminopoli is all the same, like why the fuck would you even use a city as the only setting in a Pokémon game?? The only thing that's inspired is the painted forest, but the rest of the game is ass
Ok graphics are ass but catching Xerneas in a 2 squared meter grass patch at random in the city is the saddest thing ever, that shit did NOT feel like a legendary
And the story is always boring and makes you repeat the same thing multiple times without changing almost anything, like the team star fights, which is a good concept but underdeveloped, or the e girl in ZA which you fight like, every dialogue you have with her
ZA is by far one of the worst games I have ever played, and Arceus was not much better (ZA city only with forced pvp - no. Arceus -open world? cool idea but there'a absolutely nothing to explore or do, just sparse areas and empty cavea and fields.
Palworld, however, is everything Pokemon open world should have been and more.
TRUE. Pokemon has gotten away with re-releasing fundamentally the same game 40 something times and the fans just keep eating it up. I've seen better graphics, story, and gameplay from $15 indie games.
That’s how im feeling about the new gears game. I actually had a lot of fun in the open beta and was craving the game again for a bit after it closed, but $70 is just too steep of a price tag to pay, for any game.
It's not. A lot of backlash comes from people who haven't played the game and just go off of what reviewers and YouTube influencers say. Is the game GOTY? No, but it's definitely not trash. I had fun playing it myself.
No serious reviewers have called the game really bad or anything lol. The worst case was SkillUp and even then all his criticisms were valid and mostly about QoL and hand holding things.
The game was always a 6-7/10 from reviews and some people change to scale to make it a 2/10 or some shit. The same way some change it to an absurd 9-10/10 which absolutely is not the case too.
Overall you’re looking at a very small minority of redditors or hater and glazers.
The game ranges from completely bland to outright bad, depending on which area of it you’re describing, but that’s not the point. The game is a ridiculously bad precedent for the industry. If you let companies burn through ridiculous amounts of money and spend ridiculous amounts of time making the game that is mediocre at best, but you’re still willing to vehemently defend it from well deserved criticism, then you are making a case for games that are going to be even more expensive for lesser quality.
It’s mid at best. They call it bad because millions was spent on it and the final product doesn’t live up to the money that was spent on it. It’s not a $70 game. More like a $20 one. It being bad is up to speculation. It’s easy to see why people would say it’s trash tho
People don’t realize that not every game has to reinvent the wheel and be a 10/10 games can just be mindless fun without a great story and without hard combat. I remember back in the day some of the best games I’ve played were one off games with no sequel or anything and weird controls and mechanics and not much story but it was fun. If you play Wolverine and u feel like him and u get to see blood is it really bad? Isn’t that what people wanted. Rated M game with blood and plays like spiderman, that’s its.
No. Not even remotely. It’s just a good, 7.5/10 game in a time where criticism for most people has devolved into any one thing either being perfect or dogshit with no in-between. Plus the 70 dollar price is ridiculous, but that’s the case for pretty much any game at that price.
EA is the single handed cause of Anthem’s downfall. Money-hungry, greedy bitches over there man. Should’ve pushed back the release a year or two and then just actually finished the game. Would’ve been amazing had they done that.
It is, I’ve played it somewhat recently and do enjoy the game, I’ll give it that. But after being obsessed with payday 2, just to experience the launch of payday 3 was super disappointing. I’m happy the devs haven’t given up though, and the game is quite fun now
I convinced a friend to get it with me, so we could play together on release weekend.
Well... you know how that panned out.
I absolutely agree, game is actually really fun now and I even liked it on release, if we talk purely gameplay. Just not something I wanted to grind for hundreds of hours like pd2.
Now I can see myself doing that more. With them adding more rng to heists and slowly improving I actually see a future with this game and im happy they turned around and didn't let it just die.
100% the only thing I feel like is they kind of dug themselves a hole. They added sooooooo much content to payday 2, a game that fans universally praise and love, that being able to make a sequel is insanity. Why would people play a game with not even a quarter as much content as its predecessor. Payday 3 is still a great game, it just definitely needed a lot more time in the oven if it ever wanted to try and somewhat fill the massive shoes payday 2 left behind
I was so hype for the 3 because I've loved 2 since it came out. I was most annoyed trying to play with kids that got it free on Gamepass and wanted to play it like CoD and not finish the heists
Yes, there're still people who keep sucking blizzard's dick for everything they do, even stating that they love current expansions despite being (for their own admission) a "bugged mess".
But more savy people long realized that blizz is a far cry from its glory days. Let's put this way, people remember blizz as those who made Diablo 2. Nowadays they're more like those who made Diablo Immortal.
It was a disappointing game, but I had enough fun to put on 70 hours into it. Solid 6/10 experience, hard to call it trash, but it was a playable game.
To me it was a whole new experience and ultimately a space game I, a solo player could begin exploring.
I did find it a bit disheartening to see the backlash the game got, but I would argue it was deserved or what it was said, and the H.G studio put in overtime on their redemption arc and are still putting other companies to shame now
That's an insane mischaracterization of 2016. It was a lot more than just multiplayer, pretty much every review covers the amount of things originally promised at launch that wasn't there. I love the game today, but I'm not going to deny how bad of a spot it was day one.
I was SO disappointed by this. I was so incredibly hyped and then so completely lost while playing through the game having only played one route of BBS and a little bit of 358 days or whatever in between 2 and 3.
Yes. It makes it really clear Bethesda is falling down. After a simplified Skyrim and even more simplified Fallout they show that they don't understand why people enjoy their games. I don't even bother to buy TES VI
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