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Games People Shouldn't Play
MBCook writes: "I've been a video game player for years, and I must say that the average game seems to be getting worse. Exihbit 1: Games People Shouldn't Play, an article on MSNBC. This article shows what the author thinks are the worst games on the current crop of systems. You've got to agree with calling a game bad if "...the only way to get in [the minigames] is by buying hats... How do you buy the hats? Why, by picking up garbage." If that doesn't make you want to play a game, what would? I agree with the author when he says: '... who knows what kind of disease your children might get from overexposure to these games.'"
Too much of that 'extreme sports' crap out there. If we wanted to go out and break things looking like damn idiots, we would. Kids these days... Well, at least we can keep ourselves from worrying if there might be something quality on the consoles we might miss because we all use comps...
You SAY they are bad games, but what are their start to crate scores?
has been standard on the console for way too many years even as far back as the Atari 2600. Games were rushed out to take advantage of movie tie-ins on a pretty regular basis. Think of the E.T cartridge for 2600. I've heard about a small landfill being created with the leftover copies of this game. That's why we read game reviews.
your = it belongs to you. you're = a contraction of you and are. Got it now?
Is it April Fools Day or something? /. is sending us to MSNBC??!! The horror!! ;^)
Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
who knows what kind of disease your children might get from overexposure to these games
You're not kidding, I'm still in therapy over Daikatana.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
From the article: Blood Wake, Microsoft's attempt to spread the popular car kombat genre to boats, has some of the best-looking skies ever to appear in a game.
Just like the pretty sky background in XP was the best reason to upgrade from 2K, we all need an Xbox now... actually physically going outside is so 90's!
What were the skies like when you were young?
We just had a HUGE year
We've got 3 systems out right now
No really good games....
Smells like 1983-1984
Its plain Xbox advertising disguised as article. Xbox is too new and hav too few titles to even be cited in an article like this, but it manages to get not only cited, but shown as good! "The best sky/water/island ever...".
If you can read this, thank an english teacher.
Do you remember the NES game Cowboy Neal and the search for the Missing Karma? I got to level 45 before I realized I wasn't affecting the game through the controller.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
ya and 100 out of 100 squaresoft employees agree that "Secret of Mana" is game of the year.
I've found that just about any game based on a long running cartoon is absolute crap. from krusty's super funhouse, to bugs bunny's CRRrraAAzzY maze. Each title is unimpressive, not thought out, and generally consists of a very basic idea repeated 9 billion times. The opposite is true as well... any good games often are made into really crap cartoons... Pacmac Adventures, super bomber man returns. eeehshfj
I've played one or two of those games, and I can attest to their awfulness. Still, nothing holds a candle to Skydive! for the PC. I (Capital I)couldn't make a game worse than Skydive! if I tried! Some games are just born to be bad.
...(rejected by CmdrTaco) ...(accepted by timothy) or whatever it looks like because I haven't had a submission accepted yet. Oh well, I'll keep trying!
P.S. This is the second time that this has happened, but I submitted this too! This gives me an idea for Slashdot. When our submissions are accepted or rejected, we don't know which editor accepted or rejected them. Maybe we could be told that on our homepages (or somewhere else). It would be like this:
And now, for a sig that's a complete copout.
And a couple of gems that have literally stolen months of my life...
S.t.e.v.e.
I'm just going to be a little smug and say I don't own any of those games... anymore. God bless you, CD Warehouse! :)
You can tell when a game is good or bad, and 95% of the time, it's about how much the developers love what they do.
Take a look at Morrowind, the upcoming game from Bethseda. I've spent a week with it, and while it's still beta and crashes, you can see that they give a damn if people like what they're doing. It's not about how much money you spend - the game Starships Unlimited and Serious Sam were made on a low budget - but they were both fun, entertaining games that succeeding in spite of their backgrounds. (Let's face it - who would have thought a no-name Crotian programming house would have made one of the best games of 2001, and 2002 with Serious Sam 2?)
Then look at Final Fantasy X. Basically, it's a movie that sometimes you walk from point A to point B to watch the next movie. And it tells - the designers just didn't have that same love, that same pride in what they did (except in making great movie scenes and giving a reason to make sure Lulu won so you could check her out when she bent over.)
It's true with fucking everything. If somebody doesn't care about what they make and what they do, then neither will anybody else. It doesn't always work (Battlecruiser 3000 - lots of love there, but not universally loved), but it's true with your work, your spouse, your children - and the games you play.
Of course, that's my opinion. I could be wrong.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
I like how, near the end of the bit on the X-BOX game, it throws in [in it's own paragraph!]
:o
(MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
for no apparent reason.
[And for you guys who, I suppose, didn't bother to read the entire article, the guy rips on the X-Box games just as bad as the rest of them.]
If we wanted complex story development or AI, we would use a computer.
If we wanted real tactical or strategic challenges, we would use a computer.
But we don't. We own consoles because:
We own consoles because the games are easy and fun to play. Any development shop that misses these points is bound for the garbage heap of business history. The article hits this right on the head. Anyone who claims this is about any one console missed the point.
Ethnic Cleansing, made by Resistance Records (owned by the National Alliance neo-nazi group) using the Genesis3D open-source rendering software. In the game, you control a white KKK member who runs around beating up on other races. And you thought people were upset about violence in video games after Columbine...
On the other hand, on this topic someone asked "why is beating up on other races bad, but beating up cops and prostitutes (in Grand Theft Auto 3) OK?"
all the MSNBC article looks at is games for the current systems. Go back to the last generation of systems, specifically the playstation, you will find a multitude of games that are far worse than any stated there. Most of this would be due to development time, and also price, users would be less likely to buy something bad for a system that cost them an arm and 3 legs (ie. xbox) than they would for their trusty psx. When you read this don't just nod your head, have a look at your own collection of psx games, if you don't have a ratio of 1 good game to every 3-5 bad ones you've never been to indonesia and had 50c games at your fingertips.
It's a damn fun game. The key, as in real life, IS NOT TO DRIVE YOUR BOAT UP ONTO THE ISLANDS! I mean, c'mon...
Seriously, one of the most fun moments I've had with that game is trying to outrun torpedoes and turbo-boosting over a reef, sending my boat into the air while the torps hit the reef and blew up behind me. Smooth sailing from there. It may be Microsoft, but MS's games department tends to hit fairly often...
Do you mean the Gameboy version? That game rules! I played it for about 6 months non-stop when I was 8. That game was one of the most addicting games I've ever played!
Wow. Picking up garbage. That is lame. Next let's make a game called "Day at the Beach" where in the time between flashing people and selling crack to preschoolers you pick up hypodermic needles and dead fish.
What would have been better is to make a game where you find say a gun and just start capping everyone in line in front of you. Call it 'Universal Studios Rampage.' As a person who used to wait in lines, it would be quite therapeutic. Such missions could include going 'Back to the Future' to destroy Kevin Costner before he makes Waterworld. (Or the Postman, or that crappy movie about Bottles, or pretty much anything after Field of Dreams.)
The MSNBC article is about crappy games, and how they exist. There are crappy games. There have always been, and there will always be crappy games. Now that you can't develop them without a significant investment and a large team, there are fewer 'Bible Adventures' and 'Wally Bear and the No! Gang's, and no 'Tooth Protectors' at all, but there are crappy games of an entirely different sort.
Anyone who feels that games have gotten 'worse', without qualifying that statement in some way, is full of it, or is simply blocking out the part of their brain which held (or maybe has never heard of) the Wall Street Kid, Amagon, King of Kings, M*A*S*H, Vigiliante 8 parts 2 and 3, Mega Man 4, 5, and 6, Pac Man on the Atari -- the list goes on and on.
No one's saying that Monster Party and Burgertime and Utopia shouldn't get props. But there were over 600 carts released for the NES -- how many of them are you really pining after here?
I'm so sick of this discussion. Have you played Super Mario Brothers lately? It's one of the best platformers ever, no doubt, but it's over in 30 minutes. Games are different now than they were ten or fifteen years ago, and you can dislike what has changed about them, but 'better' or 'worse'? Those are awfully broad brushes. For every Blood Wake, there's a Halo, for every Mortal Kombat Advance, there's an Advance Wars, and for every Mall Tycoon, there's an Unreal Tournament. It's the way of the world. Some things are crap. And this is not a new condition, even in the gaming industry.
Now quit your whining and let me get back to my Sim Golf.
god is just pretend.
I have many fond memories of the golden age of video games from the late 70's into the early 80's. The graphics were lacking, the sound was no where near what it is now, and the premiss of most games was simple. For all that those old games lacked, they had one thing that almost all of the games today don't have....a soul. Back then gameplay was the main focus for game developers. Too many of the new games go all out for the "eye-candy" factor and gameplay seems to be a distant concern. This goes for the arcade coin-op games as well as the home games. That's not to say that there weren't some serious turds floating in the video game swimming pool back then. Anything with a movie tie-in was almost certainly a waste of time, and I'm sure that some of us old-timers, now in our 30's, remember how much of a big dissapointment the 2600 version of Pac-Man was.
Take a look at the reviews. careful to attack the games. A bad xbox game gets mentioned once, and it seems almost like they are complimenting the xbox while saying the game is a bit hard to control. Ever wonder what it's like trying to right objectionably about a product your company sells and wind up candycoating while ripping into the competitor, ask Steven Kent. Makes me glad I don't have his job.
"The world is full of bias the secret is to know which way it runs"
Although nothing probably beats Custer's Revenge, there's a list of best/worst awards sites here. (don't mind the MSN stuff, the ODP is pulling a 4/1 joke).
and ...er...
Grant Turismo 3?
OK. You got me. I've been waiting for an original game for A LONG DAMN TIME. What have we got?
Rez.
Ico.
Both new and interesting games in their own rights, but not the bold sweeping inovation that has been missing from video games in recent years. Games to day are either A) Shooters, B) RTS varients, C) Sims varients, or D) combination of the above.
Yawn.
This is for you, and every other completely clueless dipshit who comments on this. They do this for the purposes of journalistic disclosure. It's so people such as yourself don't come back in six months after finding out that MSNBC is a Microsoft venture and claim MS bought exposure.
Exihbit 1: Words people should not Misspell
...It's just like Old Man Murry but without the gratiuitous overuse of the word "fuck". Man, I miss OMM - and before you say it's still there, they've done, what, about 3 updates since September? Might as well take down the site with that sort of update rate.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
All games just try to be violent, or flashy 3D, or have some kind of commercial tie-in which almost never works.
The demise of the side-scroller...at least Abe's Odyssey still used it
I anticipated an overly unbalanced article, being that
(MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
and held my breath while I read the article. Fortunately, it does do a good job of picking on all the top players in the industry, though the article truly has no point.
I found myself hunting around for a "Next>" link at the bottom of the article, confused at the abrupt end. None. Then I re-read the "conclusion":
Playing a fighting game without good controls is like going to a Milli Vanilli concert in which the dubbed music does not work. I mean, what's the point?
That doesn't explain this article at all. It explains partially what to look for in a fighting game.
What is the point of this article? It's clearly not an extensive review of the worst games. I consider myself an adequate judge of a good game, after purchasing (interpret how you may) over 100 games for the original Playstation, and another 20 for the PS2. I've seen far worse games than what they have here, many not worth the price of rental. Granted, there's nothing worse than a fractional frame-rate or the controller-breaking frustration of a ridiculously difficult game, but why warn consumers about the pothole in front of them, only to have them fall into the next?
I counted about 8 games to avoid. I'd be willing to bet there are more than just a few games that serve no other purpose on the shelves than to be load-bearing devices. Few are even worth the price of a blank CD (but you didn't hear that from me).
IMHO, if you want to write an article like this, give the do's and don'ts to selecting a game. Give suggestions on how to weed out the worst from the best. Don't just list a bunch of bad games, say why they're bad, plug a few consoles (any publicity is good publicity) and leave it at that.
(conclusion reduced to prevent conflict of interest)
Numerous philosophers have addressed the idea of perfection and quality. The bottom line is everything changes, everything is good and bad, everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Like a great game just happens without precursors. Like game designers magically hit the bullseye on the first shot every single time. The only thing that article does is hype how great the graphics are in the new game consoles.
OK, there is a flaw in their logic. That is, in DOOM barrels blew up, negative health. They didn't give you anything.
Ignoring the slow downs, I haven't really even played it enough to see them, there is just this amazingly cheap quality about it all. I mean the premise is insultingly stupid. I'm reminded of the mid 1990's when there was this glut of first person shooters release, I mean just dozens of them on the PC and they were largely Doom with different levels and graphics, or about that sophisticated and a lot of them you could tell were just rush jobs, someone somewhere hired a few artists and an engineer and tried to crank out a game in a week and make some bucks off the trend. they had this feeling like there was no soul put in to it, the authors didn't even care if they were good or not, that's how Arctic Thunder feels. Honestly, I doubt the authors really cared if it was any good, if not, then they have to be slave programmers in some radically different culture where they've never seen snow or something. There is just something amazingly shallow about it and I've only put about 10 minutes on it.
I have a hard time using shooter games on a console. It's so much harder to control. Nothing beats PC's for shooters.
Consoles however are great for racing, party and fighting games.
'hmm, I can buy this DC and some games from my buddy down the street.... or get this kickass new xbox game! I hear the sky is incredible, if the sky's great the game must be *awesome*!'
::playing Yar's Revenge::
--- Do you believe in the day?
Game quality needs to be judged based on length of derived enjoyment, rather than the quality of the story, the quality of the graphics, or the speed or performance of the system on which it is played. The quality of a game shgould be judged on the time you/your kid plays and/or enjoys it. This is not nearly as subjective as the other measures and gives a good indication of the value you recieve from the game.
It's a modified economic utility model, in a way. How much utility have you gained from the expenditure on this game? Did it occupy 100% of the time you alocated for game play? Did it enguage you to a degree that allowed you to successfully ignore the world around you for that period? How many days/weeks/months of game play time did it occupy? What was the hourly cost of your game play? These are all valid and objective measures of the quality of a game.
It's also important to recognize the Signs You've Played Too Many Video Games , but this is a much more subjective thing.
--Rick
Maybe it was Skydiver. That was easily one of the best games for the 2600. You push the button to jump, you push down to pop your parachute, then you steer hoping that the wind isn't too bad. Then you had the damn moving landing pads.
Anyone who played it can't tell me they didn't have hours of fun just pounding their jumper into the ground time after time after time. Take away my points - see if I care!
It's close. You go around buying and selling drugs. I remember playing this for DOS about 10 years ago. Then the PC version became popular. Now it's the Palm version. My girlfriend admits that she'll go to class and just play Drug Wars the whole time.
Is the fact that Drug Wars is an addicting game ironic?
Holy cow! Thanks !! I never thought I'de be able to find out... MAN, being a kid in the 80's was cool! GI-Joe, Hot Wheels and Lego ruled the world...
Here we go again!
True, True. A couple of years back, I played almost every game (PC) with the gravis gamepad (classic). Then I saw one of my friends playing some FPS with a mouse, of all things, and keyboard. I thought that they'd gone mad. It took a while, but today I can't play any other way: the precision and control of mouse/keyboard, simply can't be beat. However, like the parent post, gamepads (and consoles) are best for fast paced racing/fighting games.
Here we go again!
This is moronic. It falls apart as soon as we recognize that 'enjoyment' is not a binary state, on or off, but rather occuring in degrees. The total enjoyment = enjoyment level * duration, and your point only makes sense if the only possible values for 'enjoyment' are 1 and 0, or some constant k and 0 where k is the same for all games. Is a 5000-hour game that you barely enjoy at all honestly better than a 20-hour game that is completely engrossing all the way through?
Hopefully, this was a troll. If not, I presume you believe that the latest harry potter should be judged better than, say, hamlet, for its superior duration?
god is just pretend.
... or any other 'hard' swear words for that matter. Check out Chet's philosophy on swearing here. In fact, this article was many orders of magnitude less funny than OMM's typical fare - there has yet to be a site that can imitate the OMM word salad such as this gem:
In my ongoing quest to read everything ever written about my new favorite game Giants - a product that, while it does have a few bugs, hasn't caused any part of my computer to actually literally physically explode - I ran across this review at Gamepen, a site for which I have no snide comment because I don't know anything about it other than the fact that its name sounds a little like "gaypen", a fact that could potentially be used against it if you absolutely couldn't think of anything else, and, hey, what an epic journey this sentence has been - welcome to the end of it.
Or my personal favorite:
If I was Human Head's coach, I'd be grabbing them by the neck right now and screaming "Less whining, more less caves!"
Of course, the last link includes fuck twice, but I don't think it's gratuitous (beyond the fact that all word choice in satire is gratuitous to one extent or another).
-BbT
Duck Hunt looks like so much fun because it WAS fun. Three shots, "Qwack wack wack", a laughing dog... plus it came with a gun (the second best controller for the NES, behind R.O.B.)
The worst game was the original NES football, if only because I always lost to my brothers, then got into trouble for beating them with the controller.
I saw FFIII and was thinking Famicom because I'm used to the Japanese number system.
As for Cid, you don't revive him but you can prevent him from dying in the first place (which is documented in most of the FAQs).
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
GTA3 is an very original game. I don't know how you missed this one. You really don't know how fun it is until you start to get involved. There are so many different missions and side games that it's hard not to love. If you mean a game that EVERYBODY can play well, then I guess we are in a drought.
As a die-hard pc fps player I thought the same thing until I played halo. Are the controls as accurate as they would be on a PC? No. But they are completely transparent after 10 minutes to get used to them and don't detract from the game at all.
If you had to play against someone using a keyboard and mouse you would get slaughtered, but you don't so why miss out on one of the best fps's of all time because of imagined problems with the control scheme. It is incredibly fun and, after all, that's what is important.
Now the lack of an online mod community for multiplayer, that is another problem entirely.
David
I buy consoles because I don't like having my games crash often. *cough*windows*cough* Which means I probably won't get an X-Box unless I can hack it into a cheap PC. Then I'd run nix on it just out of shear spite (and that'll probably be the only set of OS's to have drivers for it). ;P
Any sufficiently advanced influence is indistinguishable from control.
This comments is probly to late for anyone to read but....I find it supprising that a news company that is own by microsoft (or am I wrong?) is saying bad things about xbox games.
Hacker Media
Hey, did anyone notice that combat was spelled with a k? I know this seems to be the trend in video games, but has it traveled so far as to be accepted as a perfect substitution for the letter c?
You can also earn points by shaking hands with such Universal Studios movie characters as the Wolfman, Frankenstein, E.T., and the Creature from the Black Lagoon
It's Frankenstein's Monster, not Frankenstein. .
Difficult is the flying noses in Kid Icarus.
Difficult is being naked in Ghosts and Fucking Goblins.
Difficult is DODGING THREE MISSLES FROM A SUBMARINE IN "TOP GUN" LEVEL 4 THEN HAVING TO REFUEL *AND THEN LAND*
Ugh. They were fun for about 1 afternoon before you got so frustrated that you burned them in effigy and went back to playing Kung Fu.
Of course it's an analog and not a digital measurement. Truth is, the best games are really the one's that demand obsession, and I don't just mean from a small group of guys that like to run around and kill people. I mean games like:
- Phantasy Star Online
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Final Fantasy VII
- Pokémon
- ICO
- Oregon Trail
- SSX Tricky
These are the kinda games that make you wanna play until it's finished, and then make you wish it wasn't finished.Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
Everyone is talking about how great these systems are, but let's be honest...
I just don't have $300 and then get Halo..
(And then another $300 when your Xbox breaks in 91 days... LOL)
Another $300 and then get GTA3...
And then for over another $200 for a Gamecube to let it sit warmed up and plugged in fot the next Zelda and Mario game.
Everyone is screaming about the one great game, and not screaming about the price to buy the dang systems.
I like RPGs on consoles too. There are some good ones. I tend to avoid the ones that involve proceeding from cut-scene to cut-scene. That's what I loved about the Kings Field games on PS1. I just got Kings Field IV the other day. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm excited about it. :-)
I wish game designers for RPGs would realize cut-scenes can augment a game, but by themselves don't "count" as a game. If I'm not racing a clock, calculating expending resources, etc... I'm not very entertained, because I'm not being mentally challanged.
Consequently, I tend to be very conservative about using the inventory items I pick up on my way through levels. Often times I'll will defeat a boss or clear a section using "conventional" or "standard" weapons instead of the special ones I've picked up along the way. When I got back to review a walkthrough to see what I missed, often times I'll notice I did things the "hard way." That doesn't bother me - the higher difficulty translates into "more fun" for me.
With respect to the article on MSNBC, I thought it was pretty whiny, and not thought through very well.
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Is it just me, or is this about as biased as reviews can get? First off, the image at the top of the page shows an image from a Gamecube game, including the Gamecube logo. Of course, why would MSNBC put an XBox game up there? The first few games reviewed were all either Playstation, Gamecube, or Dreamcast, with the last one being an XBox game. The reviews for the first few games only told how terribly bad they were. When I got to the review about the XBox game, the first paragraph was about how great it was because of its superior graphics to other games and game systems.
On another note, when clicking "1 - not at all" on the "would you recommend this story to a friend" link, it said "sorry, you've already voted" (which was certainly not true).
I gotta have more cowbell.
by hard experience, Games Not to Play.
Any school child has been thoroughly indoctrinated about these.
For instance, any one with a deck of cards asking if you'd like to play "52 Card Pickup". I only had to play that game once, at age 6.
Another great card game that any 8 year old can teach to a 5 year old is "Janitor".
The worse part of the whole thing is that, despite growing much older and more knowledgable and ostensibly working at a professional job, the workplace is still full of such games and people with mentalities to propagate them.
I especially like equivalents to "Bring Me a Rock".
"Provided by the management for your protection."
...is right in the middle where they had stuck an advertisement to buy Grand Theft Auto 3 for "only $44.99 on MSN.com."
the game lets you kill everyone equally. Not that I'm supportive of going out and killing everyone, but...
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
I read the article and what caught my eye was the story at the bottom.
"Porn is out", the writers got this right. Games and porn. Ageeks delight
I have a hard time using shooter games on a console. It's so much harder to control.
I completely disagree with this. The control isn't *harder*, it's just a little slower (since you can't whip your view around like with a mouse).
As long as the game is designed with this in mind, it's easy to tune the action and level design to compensate. I've played through several console FPSes and had a lot of fun with them.
Of course, if your idea of a fun FPS is a simple twitch action game, then a console FPS is not for you. (Neither is anything like Deus Ex).
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
And if you believe that then the rest of existence must be sad at homebase. C'mon you really can't believe that because Tony Hawk2 for the GC is really better than the original Mario Brothers?!? In THPX2 you have to beat the game with all of the regular characters, all of the secret characters, your own custom character, and get every single-pittly little dollar bill blowing in the wind before you beat the game. And after a while all of that would be boring, even if it were challenging, but you get cheats that allow you to basically FLY AROUND LIKE YOU WERE ON THE MOON!!! Skateboarding at 1/6th Earth's gravity doing the same thing for the 18th time is not good, and not quality, and certainly not challenging. Kick some tricks with your friends for a while...then leave your house and enjoy a real deck. Real-life examples lead down the path of enlightenment again!
Once in a while, you just have to stop...and piss in someone's garden.
This generation has been particularily bad. What does PS2/XBOX offer besides upgraded graphics? So far we have GTA 6, FF 25, Tony Hawk 8, and zero new ideas. XBOX has Oddworld 5 and clones of Gran Turismo and a FPS shooter. The Nintendo-Super Nintendo jump was big solely because of the sheer beauty of the 16bit graphics. SNES->PSX was equally big due to the Polygon rendering. But the PS2 and XBOX are not that impressive, especially given the blatant rehashing of games. And the entire business is just too blatantly corporate and hollywood at this point. People line up to buy platforms just to own one, software be damned. Everything is a sponsored hype machine. I'll wait for the emulators.
Hey, I'm just your average shit and piss factory.
I have both consoles, and Xbox stuff looks A LOT better than PS2 stuff. This isn't a slanted review, it's simple truth. The PS2 is a much less capable 3-d machine.
That said, the PS2 games are better, at least for now.
They're not saying the Xbox graphics are better because of some vast underground conspiracy, they're saying that the graphics are better because they are. That's not biased reporting, that's just the simple truth.
I agree.
quarters is another one it generally only takes one try to learn. It involves #2 lead pencils, quarters, and a no sympathetic observers to alert the victim.
timothy
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Perfect Dark on the N64.
:) You just have to adapt to the loss of resolution...
(and Goldeneye's not bad either)
I originally felt like you did, but PD is just so well balanced
deus does not exist but if he does
When I used to write for PSXNation, I wanted to review a game, any game. I thought to myself, what is a game that nobody in PSXNation claimed to review first. A thought went into my head and decided that I want to review 3dO's Portal Runner. To my suprise, Brian Gray sent Portal Runner through the mail and I went to my room and started to play it. I had the PS2 for several months and I hadn't played too many PS2 platformers, so I had an open mind. To my dismay, Portal Runner had the few rare qualities of useless iteam collection, cumbersome controlls, terible graphics, and a clichéd plot to boot. If you want to read my review in bad english, go to here.
Portal Runner is a part of the golden dung pile of 3dO's Army Men series. I don't know how it got popular, maybe due to some nice marketing and trying to cash in on a Pixar related success. Outside of the Heroes of Might and Magic and High Heat Baseball, 3d0 normally releases bad games (Godai: Elemental Force, and Dragon Rage are recent examples).
They made a whole bunch of kick-ass board games, to wit: Advanced Civilization, Titan, Diplomacy, Cosmic Encounter, Acquire, and more. Recently-ish they got bought by Hasbro and are reprinting select games in fancy boxes with flashy boards and pieces.
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When I go in the store and see stuff like "American McGee's Alice", "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", "Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force", "Red Faction" etc etc, it seems to me that the glut of FPSs is very much alive and well.
Someone must be buying them.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Games sell to the wrong crowd. The gamers buy most of them, and the Pop culture market is targeted, so for every good game out there, there must be at least 3 junk titles. God I wish that gaming was longer than a 6 hour experience. We need to pull the funding to Capcom, Midway, 989 Studios, Eidos, and 3do. Maybe if people stopped buying their crap, they'd stop making more. I think it is a sad day when a console has been on the market for only a year, and there are less than a dozen GOOD games for the system.
C'mon, this game was the best garbage collector sim I've ever played. There are tons games where you play as a secret agent or a soldier, but this is one of the few truly ground-breaking games that lets you pick up virtual garbage.
It would have been even better if you could have played as a park employee. Think of the action: people who are sick of waiting in line yelling at you, passing out from heat exhaustion in your costume, having small children puke on you... Now that would've been a game.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.