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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Sun 7 Feb 2016 - 20:40 | |
| I hope you clicked on that link in my post... - GabCan47 wrote:
- I can't believe this game got so many good reviews. I gave it a good 15 hours and I was very disappointed in the "EPIC, AMAZING, AWESOME [GENRE]". It's total trash. The battle system is excruciatingly boring and dumb. It's the same thing over and over and over. If I wanted a mindless button masher, I would have played God of War. The AI is useless. The quests are boring and dumb. The game...is boring and dumb. Maybe I just hate [genre]'s but I just don't see it. It's mind blowing. I gave it a 3 for the soundtrack. 3/10
"It's mind blowing." Three out of ten. - ShadowofZexa wrote:
- [Game] has to be the most underrated piece of video game ever made I paid $[price] for this piece of garbage firstly lets talk about the story because its just boring and also just 100% predictable the gameplay is no better the combat system is bull**** its just real time combat where you press left or right on the d-pad to switch attacks also the game is extremely forgiving once you die you just start at a check point and the graphics are rubbish even for a [console] game now the locations are gorgeous shame the developers vomit all over the locations the music is perfect fits the atmosphere and is just entertaining and just plain awesome also the characters are just boring Final Fantasy 13-2 Tifa sluts I'd skip this game because of the extremely high price 4/10
"most underrated piece of video game" Four out of ten. (Shout-out for the incorrectly matched FF too.) - Ernste wrote:
- this overrated tittle... The story isn't any special to me , good music , good graphic but worst fighting system in this kind of game ... it isn't worst game i ever played , but it just disappointed me because the game play really somehow boring and isn't fun to me 0/10
"it isn't the worst game i ever played" Zero out of ten. (At least he got over/underrated right.) |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Sun 7 Feb 2016 - 20:45 | |
| I think I know it, but I don't want to do the ol' two in a row. Also, I chose to ignore the link in your post. |
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 7:39 | |
| I'd say Xeno, but the Tifa sluts comment doesn't match up, maybe Xenoblade Chronicles X? |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 7:54 | |
| It is not XCX! (I have no idea what a "FF13-2 Tifa slut" is.) |
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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 44 Location : North Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 9:17 | |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 10:00 | |
| I was thinking Xenoblade as I read it, so I'm gonna go with the Wii original. |
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 10:51 | |
| Assuming it's 10-2 they're actually trying for, whilst getting Tifa & Yuna mixed up, I'm assuming they mean a bit like this. Maybe Sharla was enough to make that connection If it's not Xeno I've got no idea |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 20:05 | |
| Of course it's that standout of the JRPG-cum-WRPG genre, Xenoblade Chronicles! Incidentally, I initially saved you all from this beauty: - Glasses wrote:
Bear with me, as this review will be completely opposite to popular opinion. So I bought this game from the gamestop 40 dollar pre-owned black friday deal, and I was stoked as I could finally get this game cheap..this rare game that was praised so much. So I buy it and I play it. The introduction seemed pretty cool: these two robots face off against each other and the humans (or homs or whatever) try to fight off the little robots with this badass sword. That's all fine and dandy. Instantly once the gameplay begins, I start to doubt the game. First off, WHY IS THERE A JUMP FEATURE? The jump only goes horizontally and has absolutely no vertical height whatsoever..so what's the point? Second, the combat seemed awful. All you're doing is pushing the d-pad left and right and pressing A..that's it. Your character automatically attacks the opponent while you just walk around and toggle the sword icons. I figured, fine, maybe there are more mechanics later on. And no surprise there were. However, these mechanics just came off as dull and uninteresting. The triple attack (where the gauge is three bars full) has got to be the dullest thing I've seen. It's literally just the characters attacking with a regular sword swing against the enemy while the enemy can't move..just one enemy..this can't be done with more than one. There's no epic combo with the three or anything, just three separate sword swings...really worth those three bars.... Not only that, but when you fight the enemy, the characters DONT SHUT THE UP! They keep giving these cheering speeches nonstop throughout the fight. And you can't turn this off, either. So whenever you engage in battle you constantly hear those annoying speeches. Really prevents you from wanting to battle an enemy, really. The ally AI is also complete bullocks as they die so easily while barely doing any damage to the enemy. And when they do die, you have to revive them only if your team gague is one bar full..and only about 1/6th of their health is revived, as well..making it pointless as the enemy could just do another attack and the teammates a goner. And why does the person need to be "motivated" to fight again after they've lost? Really, game? Does any other JRPG do that? The game also heavily focuses on grinding. It's a JRPG, I get it, but without grinding the out of your characters, you won't be winning some of those battles. Luckily the game is forgiving in the sense that when you die, you respawn before the battle, so the need to do everything over again is not there. Also is it just me, or is it irritating that you can't go inside buildings unless the door is fully open in a JRPG? I mean in every other JRPG, you can go in any house and talk to the folks inside. What's the deal with Xenoblade? The characters themselves seem so one-dimensional...maybe it's because I haven't gotten past 2 and a half hours of the game, but they're just...boring. Shulk is just the "I want to beat them and get revenge" Reyn is the "I'm a smug and I'm kind of a clutz" while FIona is the "OMG I care for you guys so much, don't hurt yourselves." And it's obvious from the get-go that Fiona and Shulk are love interests...they really force that. The townsfolk have nothing interesting to say either...and while I haven't done the sidequests yet, I've heard they're chores rather than actual quests. The number of tutorials also irks me. I think you can turn it off, but for first-timers, these tutorials are necessary. It's just, there's way too many, and the way the tutorials work is also annoying. Games need to take notes from the 90's and allow the player to teach him/herself the game through the gameplay rather than use 3 paragraph texts for each new mechanic. The graphics also make me cringe. For a game that's extremely long and has such a huge world to explore, why are the graphics equivalent to a PS1 title? I know it's the Wii, but the console can do much more.
You know a game isn't going to be enjoyable when all these flaws are apparent in just the first two and half hours of the game. First impressions are everything, and if you can't woo the player in within the first two and a half hours, then you're really doing something wrong. I just don't see how I could enjoy this game if my opinion on it are this bad already. There are some good things though: I love the music to this game..my god is the music fantastic. In fact I'm listening to the OST as I'm typing this review. It's just beautiful. I also love the voice acting; great job on the actors' part. I also think that the story has some promise as some of the cutscenes intrigued me (although the amount of cutscenes (too many) is another problem I have with this game.) But as far as positives go, that's all I can say, really. Not a positive review, but hey it's an opinion. I did go back and trade this for the Metroid Prime Trilogy, which I gotta say is amazing.
Drunka's turn! |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Mon 8 Feb 2016 - 21:41 | |
| I bet Drunka will be a smug now that it's his turn. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 0:01 | |
| IT'S DRUNKA TIME! First up, MessiahLee responds to Abdul, whoever Abdul is: - MessiahLee wrote:
- A generic, mediocre genre of the most depthless proportions. My opinion of this game is hardly marred by its difficulty, Abdul, but its been-there-done-that gameplay.
I think it's funny that you claim game's storyline was awful, and then you gave game, an entire experience that can be summarized in one or two paragraphs at Wikipedia, and finished in less than 6 hours on difficulty, a perfect 10. You're an idiot 0/10 ShawnO has some issues with this game, and not his own parenting, that would be absurd. - ShawnO wrote:
- Crap game, my son played it and started to pretent to use a weapon and blood coming out.....I don't know why you would have the weapon (I saw it) in this game with all of the blood squishing out.....There are some weird games out there (ex-gory weapons) and I think the creator of that had some problems
0/10 MarcStaal had a similar problem. Maybe his kids are friends with ShawnO's? - MarcStaal wrote:
- it is unbelievable how some sicko's out there put a random weapon on a weapon, just for the purpose of seeing blood squirt everywhere.......my son, who is 6 years of age, went to his friends house where he watched this boy's brother play the game......my son came home with the friend, and starting to pretend to weapon each other..they were yelling and screaming, and also swore lots......my son said "Sup B**ches" to his friend...this is absolutely insane..........who the heck puts that dumb weapon in the game....this person must have just got out of jail....UNBELIEVABLE......but overall great game with great graphics
0/10 And finally, this golden truth bomb: - MasterChief wrote:
- This game is nothing compared to the adrenaline fueled graphics bomb we all know as Game. Game is the only thing on the Console, if you want games like this, buy a Wii. Cause Wii is great for these casual games.
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 0:47 | |
| I wanted to say something like Madworld at first, but it's obviously not a Wii game based on the last review.
Purely based on it being 'generic' according to MessiahLee, and you playing through it, I'm going to go with Gears of War. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 10:05 | |
| The Mussiah has returneth to Earth, and Spoken Holy Truthes! |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 16:24 | |
| Feast your eyes upon these beauties. Ben T THOUGHT THIS GAME WAS HARD. - Ben T. wrote:
- This game is SO HARD!!!!! Especially the Time Attack. I MEAN IT!!!!!! Try it and you can see. 1/10
Wishanem doubts he got far enough to leave a fair review, before reviewing it. - wishanem wrote:
- The parts of this game I was able to play were pretty. Sadly it was much too difficult for my abilities, and I didn't manage to get far enough into the game to have a good impression of it. 1/10
On the other hand, Gamerfolife, took issue with the game's speed, but has high hopes that an N-Gage version will work out! - Gamerfolife wrote:
- This game is way too slow. the futuristic graphics make no sense whatsoever. this game should wisen up and start using licensed vehicles and believable locations, like miami or something. you look like you are driving little toys instead of actual speed machines. mario kart is even more realistic than this. the graphics are terrible because they aren't real enough. the tracks are completely implausible because you go in loops and upside down and stuff, makes no sense. [Series] has always been this bad though, since it first appeared on the sega genesis in 1994. i hear that the n-gage is going to release [a game in the franchise], hopefully they release something worthwhile on their new amazing handheld pocket god. 4/10
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 16:30 | |
| Micro Machines the remake from 2002? |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 18:04 | |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4642 Points : 4668 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 20:41 | |
| Hmmmm... so it's a racer, with Megadrive roots, in the mid 90s...
Is it Rad Mobile? |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 21:01 | |
| It is a racer, but it's not Rad Mobile. I should probably point out that the last review is a half red herring, in that they've got the console of origin completely wrong for this game, but it is futuristic with loops. I just wanted to leave that part of the review in there because it's so bloody wrong, as is the N-Gage chat. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 21:24 | |
| F-Zero GX? I'll admit that the bloody mention of the NGage had me stumped. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 21:37 | |
| Wonder if that was wrong as well then as there's not many Racers on the N-Gage or planned. |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 21:50 | |
| Yeah it's the Jay's lap! Two chumps complaining about the difficulty, and one impressively poorly informed/totes a troll review there. |
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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 44 Location : North Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 22:19 | |
| Actively researched Genesis games from '94 and found no. Thing. No wonder. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 22:38 | |
| And here... we... go. - Some dipshit wrote:
- A deeply flawed game where you spend more time LOOKING for the [enemies] then actually killing them. With no storyline, no plot and a character who runs like he's missing a leg makes this game a total bust. On top of all that there is almost NO dialogue, it would be worth it to rent it but definetly not for buying.
- A pleb wrote:
- the emperors new clothes of the gaming world. you don't appreciate the 'experience' of finding and climbing ah.. then my good sir YOU are an idiot.
If I want an artistic game I'll go back to [previous game by devs] which was a GAME not this drivel.
either that or for once in your life actually visit a real art gallery - An idiot wrote:
- The most hyped games i've ever seen! The graphics are bit linear. You have the feeling that nothing happens on that massive land! The gameplay is poor, with bad controls, bad camera, little and scarse weapons! Story, what story? There is none. There's no quest! Just killing monsters! And they are easy to beat, with one or more challenge! And that's it! Nothing more! [previous game by devs] was the game, the quest, the girl, the romance! [name of game] it's just that, [enemies] being killed! Make a real [follow up to previous game by devs]
The graphics are a bit linear, but will your answers be correct? |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 23:04 | |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 23:35 | |
| - ZeroJones wrote:
- Actively researched Genesis games from '94 and found no. Thing. No wonder.
Yeah sorry about that; should have mentioned the console bits were duff leads from the start. I think Drunka's guess is a really good one, matches the reviews perfectly. |
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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 44 Location : North Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: Wha'daya So Mad About? Wed 10 Feb 2016 - 5:40 | |
| Worry not, boss; the search took 15 seconds, tops, and giving warnings like that would risk spoiling the game. Just another way to expose the strangeness of a certain section of Metacritic users. |
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