I really, really like the RE style control scheme. I hope they never do away with it. It makes me think as the character rather than a dude in a chair playing a game.
City of Heroes- I hate the fact that this game sounded cool and really is pretty lame. I hate the fact that you can only pick three colors- skin color, main color and secondary color. I hate the fact that you can only choose from 5 different archtypes. Sure, the origin of the powers and the types of powers differs slightly but what difference does it make, the powers are all basically the same. So you hit them with 9 points of fire damage, what difference is that and 9 points of gravitational damage, or 9 points of ice damage. I hate the fact that they try to be a group game, but the mobs die so quick that it is just as easy to kill them solo.
I hate the fact that the only cool thing that this game has to offer is eye candy. I hate the fact that is costs 14.95 a month, and eye candy isn’t that damn tasty. I hate the fact that I paid 50 dollars for this game and don’t like it, other than running around looking at other peoples costumes, names, and watching them dance and flex.
Oh, not true at all. Look at the unlink colors button, down at the bottom. See, what you do is set things up with the primary and secondary colors for the general look of the costume, then unlink, and customize. Otherwise, how would a person in a red and black costume be a blonde?
Well, to start with, certain villians resist certain types of powers. Clockwork don’t get hurt much by lethal. To continue with, certain powers have side effects. Fire tends to burn, creating more damage over time. Ice has a slowing effect, and Energy tends to knock people back. That’s pretty much the difference. And there certainly are differences between the archetypes. Scrappers have no ranged powers, while blasters have no defenses. That’s pretty huge right there.
And as far as the mobs dying quick… yes. It’s heroic. You go up against groups. Fight something that challenges you. Run around. Have fun. Look, we got a whole CoH thing in Cafe Society. Look one of us up ingame, and we’ll try to help you out.
The Brisbane City Council Libraries have 'em. You can search here.
What’s the cheat code to play as Guyrbrush Threepwood? :eek: That would be so cool.
It is also of note, that Emperor’s Tomb has just been released as an EA classic and can be found at Target and the like for about 25 bucks.
Press F10 and enter “makemeapirate”. It’s pretty fun to swashbuckle your way through the game for a while :).
Emperor’s Tomb is checked out or on hold at all the libraries around Brisbane :(. Guess who’s going to Target?
Crap. That was me. :smack:
I think you’re sort of missing the point of OF with these two criticisms. In real life, after all, you tend to die when shot, even after only one hit, and military grunts tend to get bossed around – it’s in the job description. OF isn’t trying to be Quake, after all.
Totally with you on the limited save thing, though. That’s what really turned me off to the game. I hate having to replay the same shit over and over and over again.
Interesting, since I liked a lot MOO2 and would probably have bought as a consequence MOO3 if it weren’t for my computer, which is really outdated and on which any recent game wouldn’t run, most probably. Anyway, I’ll certainly upgrade someday, and I would like to know why is it which is wrong with MMO3?
OK, I can grant you the voice acting complaint. I thought the graphics were perfectly serviceable, but hey. To each their own.
I really want to reinforce the point that Dewey made: You die in one shot (or get crippled and have to crawl around; What a feature!) because that is how it really happens.
I pop wood for realistic combat sims. There, I said it. IL2:Sturmovik all realism options turned on? SPROING! All games, for now, have to sacrafice realism to some degree; That I understand. Nature of the medium, and all that. But I hate when they cut realism to appeal to, uh, how to put this politely, ‘players not so entranced by the realism factor’. WW2Online could have been The One True Game, but they started farting around for ‘play balance’ and to appeal to the Counterstrike crowd. Now? Pfft.
Operation Flashpoint, for all of its faults (the flight and vehicle aspects, IMO), does a damned fine job, especially when you consider how old it is, yet still gets played. May Thor damn Codemasters for pushing back OFP2 so they can work on some damned XBox release.
Too many characters? Then play not the Suikoden series. Which is too bad for you as Suikoden 3 was great! (Yes, Chrono Cross is great too.)
My only complaint is that, with a 7 month old baby in the house, I have no freakin’ time to play anything that contains an ongoing story. I’ve taken to plugging in the SNES and playing Super Mario All-Stars.
Splinter Cell I’m a highly trained modern day ninja who can scale walls and leap from rooftop to rooftop, but uh-oh there are a couple of traffic cones here, I can’t go that way, they found my secret weakness.
I have a few complaints about my favorite non-Civ3 game, Baldur’s Gate II. I hate the extra-long cut-scenes! I’d like to be able to skip over them, but I have to sit and wait for them to load, finish, reload, when I could be stomping more bad guys and taking their stuff.
I also wish there weren’t so many Mind Flayers – although that’s more of a problem with strategy than actual game play. A few seconds next to these guys, and your brains are eaten. And NO PSIONICS!!! Huh?
If the protagonist (me) dies, then the game is over. Why can’t my clerics raise me?
Many, many games, most recently SW: KOTOR:
“Hey, I’m gonna RUN everywhere! Including right past that fully operational speeder bike! Why take quick transportation when I can run?”
Seriously, don’t taunt me with the fucking vehicles.
Take everything you loved about Moo2, toss it out the window. Load excel, or some other spreadsheet program. Load something that has really neat races talking back and forth to each other. Alt-tab back to the spreadsheet, repeat.
Moo2 with the new communications between the races, and the senate would have been cool. Moo3 is best used as coasters.
Yep, the other thing about the level is that there are alarm buttons that the npcs can hit and get you character instantly sent to the lockup.
The game designer actually expect me to belive that such buttons only exist on one area of one ship in the fleet.
I have expressed my disdain for jump puzzles elsewhere on this board.Brilliant. I’ll try that when I get back. Just put it on hold yourself 
That’s how I got it. It’s very hard to get a good game by not holding it. It only costs 55c.
The following rant is directed more at the people that make and distribute video games rather than the games themselves. That said, I hope each and everyone on this list has a coworker go postal on them
To the various employees of Big Ape Productions and Gotham Games that were involved in the making of the steaming turd that is Celebrity Deathmatch, I have one question: How many and of what kind of hallucinegen is needed to give yourself your game is playable?
To the people in charge of selecting how many of each game goes on the shelves of my local Blockbuster: Why? Why is it you have two copies of Fugative Hunter and only one of Need for Speed: Underground? Why is it that Ratchet and Clank 2 (sidebar: WTF is Ratchet and Clank?) is more readily available than Front Mission 4, which is newer, more appealing, and someone will actually play it. Why, Why, WHY?
To the creaters of Black and White and it’s sequels: You undeserved hype producing bastards.
To Maxis, creators of SimCity, The Sims, and prestty much and game with Sim in it: Why does my copy of the origional SimCity not work on any computer made after 1994?
To the people at Midway who were involved in making Roadkill: Make a fucking sequel!
To the people at Rockstar Games: Hire more people, you aren’t working fast enough.
To anyone involved in a Simpsons game besides Hit and Run: Blasphemer!
To anyone making a game that is “family friendly”: Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die
To the people who think violent video games are bad: see family friendly game makers
To people who think text based games are a good idea: You will be institutionalized.
You know who should die? Atomic Planet.
I picked up Megaman Anniversary Collection for $12 from Gamestop used. I should have figured that, since the game just came out a few weeks ago, it being on sale for $12 was not a good sign. Well, I got it for the Gamecube and I started up Megaman 2, the single best Megaman game ever.
What the fuck?
Why is A shoot and B jump? THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE! It’s near impossible to jump and shoot at the same time without some other thumb growing out of my right hand. More importantly, why isn’t this configurable? Damn, Atomic Planet. You totally screwed this up. You broke my rose-colored glasses.
– Imran
To Valve/Sierra: Un-cancel Half-Life for the Mac. It’s been 99% complete for the past five years. We don’t care if it only runs on the old OS.
To Feral: Go back in time and cancel Black and White. For all platforms.
I could get it to work on my 2003 made comp. 