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Athrun888 Sheegoth
Posts : 3618 Points : 3665 Join date : 2013-01-26 Location : Holiday Bunker
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 15:21 | |
| Probably for the best, the post-credits end cutscene was a complete crock of s*** honestly. Save your sanity I say! |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 15:32 | |
| Now there's an incentive to keep playing! I'm only half-joking, I want to see how bad it is now. |
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Athrun888 Sheegoth
Posts : 3618 Points : 3665 Join date : 2013-01-26 Location : Holiday Bunker
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 15:36 | |
| No! Save yourself the rage and frustration! The ending, while fine at the time as I could just dive back in to the world, has since kept me up to the wee hours of the morning with the frustration and resentment it causes, you must avoid it at all costs lest you suffer a terrible fate! |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 19 May 2016 - 16:06 | |
| I've not put sooner because of the Team StarFox Zero review but I didn't finish the game and I actually traded in the very next day after I bought it.
It's not the worse game I've played on the Wii U as some like Hot Wheels, I knew were going to to be bad going in. As someone that liked Lylat Wars, I had high hopes for a game that has both Nintendo and Platinum working on it but part from maybe the first 3minutes of the first level nothing is good about SFZ.
If I was doing end of year awards now, the most disappointing game would have gone to Street Fighter V but no more the dishonor goes to SFZ. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 31 May 2016 - 19:15 | |
| It's a failed-to-finish double bill! - STAR FOX ZERO:
It's fair to say that I never really got the hang of the controls for SF0. Arguably I didn't give it much of a chance, but after the fourth death on the same boss (Titania), my patience, never a strong suit, ran out. I never felt like I was making progress with them, rather shuffling through despite them (until I couldn't any more); and after four attempts at trying to hurt the boss, outrun his sand waves, and avoid getting shot to pieces by the copious goons he released, I gave up. I managed to finish KIU, a game which married a peculiar control scheme with an equally peculiar difficulty slider, allowing me to progress through the game despite my on-land gripes. Ironically, I found KIU's air controls perfect and intuitive, and wonder if they might not have been better for SF0? Other than that and the slow dull Gyrocopter, I enjoyed SF0. I liked the chunkiness of the textures, the dialogue, the bosses etc. It was an updating of Lylat Wars for the modern age, and I respect that. But I feel that, in words everyone here will have read umpteen times already, the game would have been better going for a straight update, without simultaneously trying to justify the Wii U's existence.
- UNDERTALE:
UT is not a game I got stuck on, but after failing to persuade myself several times to return to the site of Papyrus' downfall, I reckon it's time for me to draw a line. I really want to experience the characters of this game. The music is brilliant, the enemy design inspired. And the way that the game logs tiny things, like whether you've already experienced Sans' whoopie cushion trick, is so so clever. My problem is that it's a bit too clever. I know what I'm meant to do: experience the game on neutral, then play it back through without hurting anyone to get the True Ending. Any attempt to start playing this makes me feel like I'm just carrying out a trial run. I sigh, knowing that I'm going to have to do this all over again later. Maybe some small things will change, maybe they won't. I'm bad at being "bad" in games, so this current run is going to be pretty close to Pacifist anyway, just without the rewards. Add into that the lack of progression from sparing enemies (there's a reason the EXP system is so popular), the retraux art style that makes the areas that much less thrilling to experience, and my incompetence at bullet hell; and you've got a game that I want to experience, but not to play. Not when I'll have to repeat most of it to get the correct ending. So I'm just going to leave it unfinished and watch a Pacifist LP.
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 2 Jun 2016 - 21:53 | |
| I honestly feel the hype spoiled Undertale for so many people who played it. It was absolutely overhyped, and I'm probably guilty of contributing to that. Don't get me wrong - I really enjoyed my time with it and I'd buy a sequel/spiritual successor in a heartbeat. But you need to be a pretty specific and pretty patient player to cover multiple endings. I reckon if the neutral ending was shorter and didn't force a full replay of the game that more people would stick with it and love it like I do. It's the fact you need to replay a huge chunk of the game before getting to substantially different content that likely put you off Balla, I'd imagine. Fair play for giving it a bash. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 2 Jun 2016 - 22:45 | |
| I reckon you're absolutely right Jay. For the purpose of watching LPs, at what point does the content change? (In a spoiler box, natch.) |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 3 Jun 2016 - 0:31 | |
| - Content Change:
My memory of the game is a tad hazy, but if I recall correctly, the major chunk of new content in the pacifist playthrough comes after the encounter with Mettaton EX. Although, if you've not seen a neutral playthrough, I'd recommend watching one. Parts of the pacifist playthrough won't really make sense without knowledge of what happens in the neutral ending.
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Athrun888 Sheegoth
Posts : 3618 Points : 3665 Join date : 2013-01-26 Location : Holiday Bunker
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 3 Jun 2016 - 3:44 | |
| I feel skipping sf0 over the control scheme was the right choice from the looks of things. At the risk of posting sacrilege I think Shiggsy needs to take a step back from games now, because every single gimmick he forced in to sf0 sounded absolutely horrible and counter-intuitive for the sake of being as such from the start. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 3 Jun 2016 - 7:33 | |
| It may be sacrilege, but honestly? I've thought the same thing at times. The man strives for innovation, but sometimes I feel that he's striving too hard - especially now, in his later years. There's also rumours that the Mario RPGs went back to NSMB-monsters and characters only because he wanted them to, which is also terrible. Cheers Jay. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 3 Jul 2016 - 17:45 | |
| I just got rid of Mighty No 9, after having it for a week. I knew after just two hours of play that I wouldn't stick with it. Between it's second-rate production values, absymal programming, boring level design, massive lack of personality, early PS2-era visuals, indistinguishable sounds, Master System-esque ideas and it's unforgivable cheapness, I genuinely think that Mighty No 9 is one of the very worst games to have been released at retail on Wii U. Nothing would have been better.
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 4 Jul 2016 - 6:12 | |
| Harsh words indeed! I thought it was a bit pants, but not that awful.
You were never particularly into Mega Man though, were you Cappa? |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 4 Jul 2016 - 21:13 | |
| Naw, I haven't played a Mega Man game that I particularly care for - Gunstar Heroes, Metal Slug, Rolling Thunder and all of that are just much better. Mega Man 2 is the best one, but I wouldn't describe it as anything more than just okay.
Even so, I think Mighty No 9 is a legitimately bad game. Absolute bobbins. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 5 Jul 2016 - 16:40 | |
| Why did you pick it up Cappa, was it to see what all the fuss was about and to see if it was that bad as by your own admissions you're not a big Mega Man fan. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6744 Points : 6907 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 5 Jul 2016 - 18:20 | |
| I didn't think it would be that bad. I traded in a load of Wii games I bought cheap and made a profit - I thought Mighty No 9 would be worth the six quid in 'real' money that I paid for it. I got most of the RRP back in credit and I didn't waste too much time pissing about on it. No big deal. |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4642 Points : 4668 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 10 Jul 2016 - 9:45 | |
| Splatoon
In that I didn't finish the one player game. I thought about 100%-ing it, but then realised I was just doing it for the sake of it. It's not the same as playing the actual multiplayer game.
Single player score: *shrug*/10 Multiplayer score: Yay!/10 |
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Athrun888 Sheegoth
Posts : 3618 Points : 3665 Join date : 2013-01-26 Location : Holiday Bunker
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 10 Jul 2016 - 11:56 | |
| Never could get in to Splatoons single player stuff, just felt lacking when I gave it a go. |
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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: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 10 Jul 2016 - 12:33 | |
| I sort of liked Splatoon's single player campaign, although the final boss was utterly obnoxious and - yes! - it felt underdeveloped. The multiplayer more than makes up for this, of course, though I'd like things to be a little deeper for the inevitable Spla2n. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 11 Jul 2016 - 10:06 | |
| I 100%-ed the singleplayer, and thoroughly enjoyed it. As me and Muss have discussed, I'd have liked a few more of its gameplay quirks in the multiplayer maps. |
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Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 11 Jul 2016 - 10:13 | |
| I think I kind of enjoyed the singleplayer more than the multiplayer. It was good fun and I liked the fast paced levels. Obviously it wouldn't have justified the game alone, but I really did have a lot of fun with it & the amiibo challenges. |
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OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 11 Jul 2016 - 10:14 | |
| Splatoon's singleplayer is basically worth it for the payoff of the final boss. Up till then the singleplayer is passable but not amazing - it at least keeps things fresh (lol) by constantly throwing new ideas at you, although this does start to drag near the end.
The final boss though is amazing and a complete step-up from the rest of the singleplayer. It's a multi-stage, actually challenging, super fun fight. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 11 Jul 2016 - 12:16 | |
| Aye, I also really enjoyed the splatoon singleplayer & unlike most I was completely fine with the game as a whole at launch as well. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
Posts : 4210 Points : 4212 Join date : 2013-01-17 Age : 34 Location : Manneh
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 11 Jul 2016 - 23:45 | |
| To be honest I enjoyed all the boss battles in Splatoon, they all felt different and made good use of the game mechanics, it's definitely a fair comparison when people say the single player is like Mario Galaxy, only slightly toned down. |
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OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 12 Jul 2016 - 9:57 | |
| Yeah all the bosses are good fun, most are just overly simple |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 10 Aug 2016 - 18:48 | |
| I may continue playing more of No Man's Sky, that this is a more of a 8hr play preview. Now looking others part from Jimmy Sterling (some other sites but not that you would have heard of, I also sort of agree with his review) who gave the game a 5/10, have been doing reviews in process which I feel this might be as well. Now if you don't know I was very excited for NMS when it was shown back in 2013 but now in 2016 and after that amount of time playing, NMS is basically a grind / loot based game which dangles a carrot in front of you. By going mine X element/mineral to make item then move on and do again, after 8hrs of doing that I'm just bored. I know these type of games are popular and people like doing that type of stuff, as take Destiny people are still playing that to get better gear and I've never liked that myself. I just liked shooting the dudes in Destiny with peeps which I may get some better gear along the way whilst doing the "story" but NMS which I think does have some story but 8hrs in and I've barely seen that. |
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