Video Games Thread

[Pig]

I was a sucker for that Kirby game as well.

[Martinez]

Mar 8, 2012 19:26:53 GMT -5 ashes said:

I mean seriously, the fact that you are trying to cherry pick metacritic user reviews is laughable. How about you hop over to the FIFA 12 user reviews. Damn FIFA sucks. Or maybe the Skyrim PS3 reviews. Game is terrible since it's not on PC. COD MW3 is also a fucking awful game.

Cherry pick? ok let me pick the first three I see

UpsetGamer
0
I can't believe "news" sites are saying ME3 is hated because of homophobic gamers.This is just the EA/Bioware propaganda talking, hiding behind a homophobia accusation when in fact this game is absolutely horrible.Everything is recycled content, graphics are worse, boring story, boring gameplay and yes boring sexual relationship.The great majority of gamers hate how sexuality is presented in this game because it's stereotypical, boring and forced down our throat, there have been plenty of gay characters in games before and nobody cared, It isn't about that, it's about turning a game into a political platform and making us pay for it by falsely hypeing it up.We knew there was going to be gay romance and nobody cared, what we didn't know was that the game was going to **** this much.

FrostWolf11
Mar 6, 2012
1
I stood by and okay-ed Mass Effect 2 for a while, despite how pointless the story was to the big picture. I also stood by as Bioware repeatedly showed their incompetence in the gaming industry as they ruined Dragon Age and SW:TOR. After all, Mass Effect had not truly been ruined. Well the day has come where Mass Effect has officially died. There are many reasons Mass Effect 3 has insulted those who love video games and anyone with a shred of dignity. One of them is the Day-1 DLC of the Prothean. Who in their right mind would think adding this was a good idea? I'll overlook the fact the Protheans are supposed to be a mythical race that had been extinct for 50,000 years and the rest died out.. What is completely terrible is that they say it is for the hardcore fans and yet they force them to pay more for it. It is terrible business. Protheans are an extremely important bit of Mass Effect lore and Bioware has the nerve to charge $10 for it. It is not about the money, it is about the fact that this content was completed BEFORE release and yet the fans are expected to pay extra. Another reason Mass Effect 3 was ruined was to try to appeal to casual audiences. Anyone who implies that the best time to jump into a series is the THIRD installment is a complete and utter moron. This game is a slap in the face to those who have been there since day 1. The multiplayer aspect was also unnecessary for such a game that most definitely wasted precious development time for something far more useful. Overall writing took a huge blow and overall weighed down the game. I've never seen anything so shoehorned as the romances in this game. In a pitiful attempt to be "politcally correct" or "progressive," Bioware decided to include homosexual romances. Homosexuality is all fine and dandy, but not when 2 games are suddenly thrown out the window just so a niche of fans can feel like special snowflakes. This is another example of wasted development time. Mass Effect is first and foremost a Third Person shooter/RPG, not a dating simulator. Overall, Mass Effect 3 is the unfortunate death of a universe that was full of potential. Mass Effect 2 was the beginning and though Bioware had the chance to save themselves, they decided not to. Personally, I will never purchase another Bioware game because I would like to keep what dignity I have left from ever having trusted them after Mass Effect 2

Thaeru
Mar 6, 2012
3
Rather than trying to expand on the formula which set Mass Effect as one of those rpg-shooter hybrids which grow more frequent as the years pass by, Bioware decided to dismiss it completely in favour of Michael Bay-grade explosions and the like. Mass Effect 3 starts off almost a year after ME2 where Shepard has done nothing of note except somehow end up on Earth and is being trailed by the Alliance for the **** you've done". That's nice, guess he stopped working with Cerberus and the Council's spectre status meant nothing. Anyway, auto-dialogue sets in with little to no player input for minutes on end, probably one of their new innovations when impatient people found dialogue boring and then explosions occur and the Reapers are there. The entire galaxy acts shocked. Now, maybe I expected too much from the writers but the pacing is horrible. This isn't just for the intro--though the intro does a wonderful job of showing it--with the entire game having Shepard talking without the player's input and the game hoping to imagine you know **** when you don't before explosions happen everywhere. It almost seems like they were trying to build a blockbuster movie rather than write the end of the trilogy, Mac Walters and Casey Hudson being supervised by Michael Bay who's constantly yelling "MORE EXPLOSIONS" throughout the entire creation process. In addition to this, importing serves little to no purpose. Killed a character before? It's somehow back alive! Spare a character? Well, they died off-screen! The consequences which were advertised for years now, since the very inception of the series, becoming meaningless and serving nothing but wasting a writer's five seconds to create a new line for the sake of importing. I feel like I've been robbed, not simply because of my purchase of ME3 being a complete waste but the entire trilogy built up absolutely nothing. Unable to play ME1 or ME2 anymore, ME3 spoils the entire experience. If I wanted automatic dialogue, crappy plots and one-liners I would find myself playing Gears of War, least they have a slightly rewarding ending (Yes, ME3 ends on a downer note that tries to be optimistic and leaves you with hundreds of questions, none which they try to answer). Bioware has fallen hard as of yet, I don't trust they'll be able to stand anymore. Useless information: Gameplay is choppy on PC, one button covering a thousand functions reeks of bad porting. Graphics are worse on PC, shadows everywhere try to obscure poor textures. High Res Patch may be coming but it won't matter since everything is hidden under layers of shadow. Multiplayer gets tiresome quickly, essentially being singleplayer without the dialogue (oh wait, that is the singleplayer. lol.) which you fight waves of enemies with Hackett telling you to do things here or there. Level up system is poorly thought out, certain characters have huge imbalances and you need to sacrifice your MP character to get assets for the Single Player (REPLAY VALUE!!111 *cough* not). Multiplayer is also necessary to get the better endings, which is absolutely **** absurd. Day 1 DLC up the ass costing upwards to 900$ for everything. Mass Effect 3 is absolute garbage, as much as I hate to say it

[Pig]

1080 Snowboarding, Ricky Winterborn, Crystal Lake book it.

[Martinez]

Also Fifa 12 Reviews are 6.6, i.e. average.

Also Skyrim is on PC..... and Skyrim on PC is THE best version for Skyrim. The bad reviews for Skyrim on PS3 were due to the numerous game crashing glitches.

and yes MW3 is a fucking awful game there is no denying that, it's mindless repetitive fun.

[kobe]

Mar 8, 2012 20:43:47 GMT -5 Pig said:

1080 Snowboarding, Ricky Winterborn, Crystal Lake book it.

[Martinez]

you also make absolutely no sense, you like Mass Effect 3, we get it... it's hardly a revolutionary game and no one will be talking about in 5 years.

[Martinez]

Mar 8, 2012 19:23:19 GMT -5 ashes said:

Lol at your second quote. You actually are an idiot.

Even though that second quote was actually a failed attempt to support what you are saying, I can still say that nothing about the "RPG elements" has changed since the first game, the graphics are great, and this game is nothing like COD.

To you, those are opinions you fucking idiot.

[Pig]

Turok needs some love as well.

[brophdog88]

wtf do I care what Marty thinks of ME3, all that matters is what I think of it, and its fucking great

[Martinez]

i dont think anything of it you fuckng idiot

[brophdog88]

Mar 5, 2012 19:19:01 GMT -5 Martinez said:

lol mass effect is the most overrated piece of shit

yeah, no thoughts marty

[aar]

WWE Wrestlefest for the iPad

[ashes]

Marty being Marty. Remembered why I stopped responding to his stupid drivel. Carry on

[Play]

SSX for 39.99

www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/ssx/89169

[DB]

who has call of duty for xbox? who plays live?