Disappointing games

[Bubba]

I agree.

I had become so tired of the GTA formula that I didn't pick up Red Dead Redemption on release. I didn't even finish the first island on GTA IV I was that bored with it.

I bought RDR on an impulse buy for £15. It is simply a beautiful game. It does tread a similar GTA path with the mission layout but the world you are presented with is so rich and satisfying... I've spent hours simply scouring the plains skinning animals... or sat playing Texas Hold 'Em. I was genuinely upset when some scumbag thief killed my horse.

On to games that disappointed me... I wasn't happy with the feeling that Skyward Sword left me with. I enjoyed a lot of the elements but story-telling in games has come such a long way over the past few years that SS felt kind of empty. When you compare it to games like Uncharted 3 then you realise that Nintendo have really been left behind in that respect.

[Roto13]

I thought the first game was super scary and tense the whole way through!

I never really found it scary (and I can't even play proper horror games because I get too anxious xP) but I guess I can see how some parts were kind of creepy. Like that doctor who was stealing people's organs....

I don't think that was ever really the point, though.

[Shattered Dreamer]

I honestly don't get how anyone didn't enjoy GTAIV. The physics in the game are a bit of a pain for starters but the main game (which has 2 endings) & the 2 episodes were great. There are very few games that I have replied so many times.

[Bubba]

I honestly don't get how anyone didn't enjoy GTAIV. The physics in the game are a bit of a pain for starters but the main game (which has 2 endings) & the 2 episodes were great. There are very few games that I have replied so many times.

If I hadn't played GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas (the best one) then I reckon I would have loved GTA IV.

[Shattered Dreamer]

If I hadn't played GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas (the best one) then I reckon I would have loved GTA IV.

That explains it for sure Liberty City Stories & Vice City Stories were pretty good too. Part of me really wants to replay Vice City & San Andreas in the worse way!

[Slothy]

If I hadn't played GTA 3, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas (the best one) then I reckon I would have loved GTA IV.

Honestly, I'm not so sure about that. Everything about GTAIV except the technology behind it rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't like the characters and I think they took themselves too seriously in the writing compared to the previous games. The gameplay also felt like it took several steps backwards with the city feeling smaller than things had been in a while, with less to see and do, and the god awful addition of maintaining relationships and being bothered by someone every five minutes to go bowling or play pool, or some other half assed mini game that wasn't enjoyable at all.

The whole thing really didn't feel like a GTA game to me. It felt like a game trying to be a GTA game but forgetting that they were usually pretty over the top and a lot of fun because of it.

[Roto13]

What happens if you just tell those people to sit on their pool cues?

[Slothy]

If you ignore them then the relationship deteriorates and you lose any bonuses associated with maintaining it. I'm not sure things could get to the point where they ended or not. Frankly I was so bored with the game I didn't care and just traded it rather than find out. I disliked being punished for not participating in the worst aspect of the game though, and I absolutely hated that these characters would call you fairly often, usually while I was on my way to do something that I actually had some minor interest in doing.

It was a terrible idea, and it made an already bland experience cross the line into really annoying territory.

[Peegee]

I have two brothers. they both play GTA 3+

I've played GTA 3 but couldn't sit through VC or SA though I've heard very nice things about SA

Anyway my youngest brother will not play GTA4 - he hates it.
My other brother who finished it grudgingly admitted it was at best a tech demo using GTA themes. I'm going to side with his assessment.

[Shattered Dreamer]

I will admit GTA IV went backwards in some ways from San Andreas, by taking away the sheer amount of character customization & stat building. But I still think GTA IV is one of the best games this generation & I'm really looking forward to GTAV

[krissy]

i have owned 4 gta games in my life, 1, 2, 3, vc

i spent the most time playing 2

and i never finished one of 'em. i just never got off on it.

[Vyk]

Quin and Bubba have convinced me to at least rent RDR and taste test it as soon as I get my 360 back from the house-fire salvage crew in a month or so

[Quindiana Jones]

I doubt your 360 is gonna work after all that...

[Vyk]

The fire didn't come near my stuff. Though its covered by insurance, so either way I'll have a 360 again in the near future. Though I did have 2 360s, I wonder if they'd let me buy a PS3 to replace the other one.. Buuuut this is totally off-topic lol

[krissy]

not really, it does sound like a gta side mission...
'COUSIN! I have always wanted the PS3, you know! Let's get one from my insurance company! Show up at my apartment with a molotov!'


immediately sorry if anyone got hurt in the fire