more specific reviews than just numbers for starters.
I find that the numbers tend to be fairly accurate.
Exactly. It was definitely an action game masquerading as a horror. Play it like the action game it is and it is actually fairly enjoyable, if somewhat stale.
No, they’re a yes or no answer to a 1000 word essay prompt.
“You like numbers? How about 4? As in fourk you!”
-that limey fuck
I don’t play many games, and I read a lot of reviews before I do, but one that slipped though the process (mostly because of this forum) was Dear Esther
it was just a lame short story/poem with graphics
disappointing maybe but not that bad. I mean, If you were going to pass some time with a little C&C skirmish right now, which would it be? I’d put RA3 with the expansion (I like those Ice Schwarzeneggers) right behind Generals…
maybe I just don’t get RTS games, but what makes Starcraft 2 any better than RA3? other than cheesy acting vs. gritty CGI in the campaign? SC2 has all of what, 12 units? no interactive neutral buildings, no super weapons, no promoting…
SC2 is praised, but SC2 is fucking boring unless you’re a hard core korean online battle.net gamer
IMO
Hey, I happened to actually like RA3. You may have even heard of my map, Lone Guardian… 
When I bought Dear Esther, this was my research:
Two of my IRL friends already owned it, it had a good metascore, an intriguing video, and it reminded me of Myst (one of my favorite games when I was younger).
“A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.” -steam description
Too bad it turned out to be dog shit.
RA3 isn’t that bad IMO. At least not the worst game, especially when you compare it to others in the C&C family after it like C&C4. I just hope when Generals 2 comes out that they do it right, after like six screwed up C&C games.
Heh. C&C 4 was fun for about 4 seconds, and then it got incredibly stupid.
At least they kind of tried to make good cutscenes. But the story was just so bad and the acting was worse… Holy crap what a waste of an otherwise larger cinematics budget.
I wouldn’t put to much hope into any future C&C games. None of the staff from the original westwood works on them. And I don’t even know how much of the staff from RA2 works on them anymore either. At this point its just EA rolling out cheaply produced shit because they know the name alone will sell some units.
Generals 2 is formed from a new dedicated studio now. No more EALA manufactured-in-6-months bullcrap.
From what I remember, Gens 2 has been in production for at least 2 years now. So that’s a good start. They’re actually putting some sort of effort into it now.
Rugrats: Totally Angelica (Game Boy Color)
Out of the two Rugrats Game Boy Color Titles That I’ve played, Totally Angelica was probably the worse of the two. Between the lackluster Mini-Games (Simon Says: Chemistry Set Edition with Chucky Finster, Cookie Counter with Tommy, Bug Hunt with Phil and Lil, Snowbell’s Yarn-Ball Maze, Slide Puzzle), and the absolutely pointless end goal (Rescue Cynthia) I’m not sure why I ever bothered completing this game. I must’ve been really bored that day to swipe that cartridge from my sister’s room.
Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Magical Mystery Mall (Playstation)
I only played this godawful game because my sisters got to pick out what game we rented that week (this was back when Blockbuster wasn’t a bankrupting subsidiary of Dish Network). Everyone, do yourself a favor: NEVER PLAY THIS AWFUL GAME. EVER. It is worse than the title lets on.
Stupid Story, Stupid Gameplay, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid game.
Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor (GBA)
This game had little to do with the Jurassic Park Franchise. If this game had been developed by Capcom, I would have thought it was a lost Dino Crisis title, but it was developed by Konami. Because It was a Rental, I never completed it and what I did play was a frustrating mess of a game where just touching a dinosaur would kill the player. And because it was a GBA game, there were No tooltips to tell me what to do with the machete I just accidentally picked up. I did get past the first two levels after collecting a whole bunch of DNA and playing what equated to Zuma’s Revenge… That part wasn’t very fun either…
Ok I get that your sisters got to pick the game but still, why did you even bother. Even as a small child, you should have the sense to know that anything girly is gonna suck.
And I heard that that studio was taken over by BioWare. It just gets weirder and weirder.
Yeah that’s also true. But I’m sure that’s nothing but a political move to try and entice people to see “quality” in the game via the Bioware label.
Bioware themselves aren’t even developing the game. It’s just a brand label.
Call of Duty 3
I know, Call of Duty series is obviously terrible. But I thought “Hey, it’s the older WW2 series, why not just try it?”, so I bought the Wii and Xbox 360 versions. Wii version was abysmal as hell, broken controls, no multiplayer (not even split-screen!), and graphics looked even WORSE than Call of Duty 1. Xbox 360 version was just glitchy, I somehow kept falling out of the map. Multiplayer lobbies were broken too.
Sonic Unleashed (Wii version)
Night time levels suck. Big time. The fact that the finisher moves are removed in the Wii version, and there are more night levels than day levels really pissed me off. What made me break the game disc though was the fact that the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions had more day levels than the Wii version had. Even the PS2 version had more day levels than the Wii version. Didn’t even finish the game, I just played some other happy game like Super Mario Galaxy.
Halo 2 (Xbox and PC)
A lot are going to hate me for this one, but I just hated the singleplayer. Enemies are WAY overpowered than they should be, if I can see a enemy Flood make my Ghost vehicle fly in a million circles in air going backwards, something is wrong. The fact they can just BACKSTAB you in very important moments is just annoying, and the checkpoints in Arbiter’s levels are just unforgiving. Multiplayer was fun though.
Flatout 3.
Flatout: Ultimate carnage was extremely fun (the races, not the stunts bullshit), the graphics were great, cars being smashed and losing parts and everything.
Then I see a sequel out… without thinking, I buy it. Biggest mistake ever. The game had lost all its physics, the graphics were horrible… I think I played for 30 seconds, really. I hit the gas, took a curve, noticed my car was at like 400 km/h, said to myself: “What the fuck?”, uninstalled, then cried for the 20 bucks I wasted.
The good thing about starting off with the original Call of Duty is that no one can say a damn thing regarding that to you…it’s that simple. I’ve known COD since 2003 although I don’t have all of them or everything…not really a fan. I went from COD 1 to Half-Life 2 as my big game. Metroid Prime is still awesome.
My WORST game probably was Combat arms… i dont know how about you but i dont like it really much…
I am going to Say Resident Evil 5 cause if your a fan of the series it was like a big “Fuck You” from capcom cause it had nothing to do with the original main story besides Wesker and all the Resident Evil characters. When I was playing it I felt like I was playing a typical Gears of War Clone it was horrible I cried many nights because of the game FUUUUU capcom!!!
And for everyone who said ET I actually kinda like that game I own it on my atari 2600 it isn’t by any means a good game but neither is it bad!