Biggest Gaming Flops of 2011

Technology and Gaming
#181

No it’s not. There are plenty of respectable people on this website.
Before you get into it, please keep that generalizing meme/troll internet lingo out of my sight. I work on the internet and it’s not some 4 year old place to waste time to me.
It’s not cool to be known as an ass or a douche bag. It simply makes someone look like they are an ass or douche bag.

I actually perceive you as respectable. You haven’t really proven to be malicious like ODB, but I think you may be a little unaware of just how rude and arrogant ODB really is. Certainly not the guy to befriend. He really is a good for nothing type of person.

#182

It randomly loaded me a few pages back. What was wrong with the Halo port? Halo 2 sure, it was a complete mess, the game was average too, but I’m playing Halo atm and the port seems fine to me.

#183

Because you’re playing it on a modern computer. At the time it was released, you needed a computer somewhere around 1.5-2.0 ghz with a halfway decent GPU to run it well, which is about twice the capabilities of the Xbox, and was a fairly highend computer at the time it came out.

#184

What keeps me entertaining is that every time I legitimately called him out on his bullshit (PC vs Mac, PCfags vs Consolefags), he melted down and hysterically called me an ITG.

Oh and to the usual suspect, namely orderofdagon - I vaguely remember about your deep hatred towards me, was it because of me saying out loud that I think that consoles are overall better machines for gaming?

I propose a deal. You suck your dad’s cock, make a video of you doing it, post it here and I will publicly announce that my 60GB PS3 sucks.

EDIT:

Nice.
You really are a pathetic little shit aren’cha?
EDIT2:

Kay. Not only you are pathetic little shit, above quoted clearly shows that you either one of these:

  1. Retarded.
  2. Deluded
  3. Halucinating

Or every one of these at the same time.

I’ll just call you out on your bullshit so you don’t suffer from your delusions and hallucinations any more, kay.
Few facts:

  1. I’m not an oldfag, yet I’ve clearly been here long before you.
  2. My very first post here was a black mesa sleeve design. IMOF can vouch for that.
  3. Hardly anyone knows you here. In fact, I’ve been wondering, who the fuck are you? I just wonder how a little shit like you actually has a nerve to tell another person that you remember me having only 4 posts when you have joined these forums a full year later than me.
  4. BROs and general old population, sans a few usual suspects, mostly tend to like me.
  5. Lastly, talking shit behind people’s back is bad and is in fact a much lower form of social behavior than trolling. You really deserve to be punched in the face. Very hard. To bad I can’t do it from here. I would.

Sweetie, people generally don’t like bullshit. Know your role and shut your mouth, newbie.

#185

This is what happens when extreme opposites clash with each other.

Too bad that trying to stay in middle ground is also offensive to one of the sides…

#186

You’ve been pretty far from the middle ground…for once.

#187

Oh man you don’t even know

Wanna hear some hardcore inflammatory shit?

I bought Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat pretty much at the same time, and I’m wet for Mortal Kombat but I think Portal 2 fell short of my expectations.

It wasn’t a flop by any means but it’s a disappointment; not enough is fundamentally different to me aside from the actual words being spoken by the characters, and some neat little side-dishes that make the whole meal a bit better. I won’t even get into the issue of DLC i know that’s a retarded discussion I just expected a bit more.

Mortal Kombat on the other hand disappointed my expectations as well, it turned out to be an incredibly tight and stable fighting game, and ALLOT of fun. I’m playing it right now, and when PSN comes the fuck back I’m going to be playing it allot more.

Fair and balanced, I will play what in my mind is the better game. I can tell you right now, I’m gonna be playing MK in 5 months, co-op isn’t an instant ‘get your money’s worth’ ticket when the puzzles stay the same. Fuck this whole PC vs Console’s business anyway, I got all the consoles and a game-ready computer; no part of me needs to argue about which one I think is best dammit. I can tell you the Wii already is the worst by far, so that ends the debate for me.

I’m taking this thread as personal disappointments, and though I can’t say I’ve had the displeasure of playing Dragon Age II I’m going to call it out for facilitating allot of current-gens most prominent bad habits, if you don’t mind me being a total sheep here.

So that’s a bunch of games so far.

Little Big Planet 2; haven’t played it, don’t care to.

Dead Space 2; If you’re going to be gory, keep it a bit cheesy or else you’re just gonna wind up having a pretension to being mature and that just tears down everything.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 3; allot of folk in the fighting community are going nuts for this game, personally I think it’s boring as shit to watch and not nearly as methodical or tactile, or really entertaining as SSFIV or the new MK; plus, I hate looping combos and the useless strobe effects and bright flashing lights everywhere. I’m going to be wait for Super Street Fighter IV Arcade edition.

Killzone 3: Played it at CES, was good, not that good.

Crysis 2: Another game played at CES, got to talk to one of the crytek developers- swore I’d buy it, money didn’t come together; would give it a try.

Bulletstorm - Resounding ‘eh’

and I already gave my thoughts on Portal 2 and MK. This looks to be a good year so far- next up for me: LA Noire.

EDIT: Also, fuck anyone who gets off-track with their super serious business. I’m here to talk about games, and I’m gonna do just that.

#188

@theif No the puzzles aren’t really the same in co-op. They’re more complex and harder. Also, the need to communicate and work together completely changes the experience.

#189

Yes but it’s all very well the first few times. That’s the trouble with single-player only linear games; they can be played exactly once to their full effect. Everything else after that is a retread. I wouldn’t mind paying 10 dollars for a neat one-time experience but I’m a bit bitter I put down 50 for it. Taking that in mind; I’d say it’s a really good game.

The co-op is pretty neat, the humor is good and got me to bust out laughing more than a few times; but I can’t shake the feeling I’m going to just let it drop from my attention span in but a couple weeks. Once I figure out all the puzzles, there goes that, you really have to be in love with the portal gameplay to enjoy it the 5th or 6th time when you can answer all the questions. Individual skill aside, the reason I like fighting games so much is because the experience changes opponent to opponent, there really is no re-playability sticker on those games.

If you like portal 2 by all means, I had my fun with it- but I, me, personally- my opinion- I don’t think I got my money’s worth.

#190

It has ridiculously high system requirements for the system it’s normally on (despite the fact that it looks WORSE than the xbox version), it’s FOV is fucking small to the point of being unplayable… But that’s a Gearbox trademark… The animations are all 30fps even though the game can run much higher… It’s got a bunch of effects that don’t work on some graphics cards.

In short, it’s a total clusterfuck. The patches didn’t fix any of the major problems, and it’s a clusterfuck.

That’s what custom content is all about, man. Besides, I’d replay portal for the same reason I’d rewatch a movie. I mean sure the experience is fixed and doesn’t change, but it doesn’t need to. It’s portal 2’s story and characters that drew me in, and it’s them that kept me in. The puzzles were just the commercials in between.

Also, if they include proper HL2 style mod tools this time, I’d like to see what can be done with this latest build of the source engine in a total conversion mod.

#191

I didn’t like that shooting game.

#192

Portal 2

#193

Yeah right. It looks better.

Agreed, but i got used to it. There is a way to change it, but cba.

Vsync the framerate to 30, perfect.

Haha, what. The game goes up to pixel shader 2, please say your gpu supports that. Please.

#194

If the dialogue and, indeed, good writing gets you goin’ for it that’s fine. But I feel a bit cheap to say I’d need to depend on custom content to round out a product, I mean even Bethesda makes mostly complete games- with a quarter of the QA testing. I just felt I would have had a much better time with just a -bit- more to it.

But I won’t press, as I said It’s my opinion, still don’t feel good about having put down that kind of money for it.

#195

I was disappointed that a lot of the demo levels/dialog that they showed the press weren’t included. But other than that, I liked it.

#196

Please stop, you’re scaring me. Oh wait, it’s the internet. You can’t touch me, ever.

Sucks to be you. :slight_smile:

#197

Oh hi, you actually responded. Quite surprising coming from a little forum rat.
But seriously, why do you keep talking shit about me and pretend to know something when you have joined a year later than me (two if you count my time here before the 2009 forums crash) and clearly don’t know shit about me?

Schizophrenic much? Suffering from delusions?
Or do you actually think that people will believe you? What a retard. Poor thing.

#198

He is just gonna pull the “I made a new account” card.

#199

Isn’t OoD like 36 or some gross age where you have better things to do than cruise the WWW

#200

I’m not familiar with this concept.

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