Get ready for a slightly long list of stuff.
Bulletstorm.It was hyped up to be this really fun shooter, but what i got was a mess of dick jokes, poorly conceived gameplay gimmicks (seriously...looking at something to get points?), boring
BORING characters and a storyline barely worth listening to. It lost my interest pretty fast. Credit where it's due though, it doesn't exactly hold your hand, it's difficult. Unlike certain other first person shooter games that are all about manly men who do many manly things that men do (all of which involve varying amounts of guns, vehicles, explosions and busty uninteresting bad ass women with penis envy).
BrinkHoly shit LOOK AT THIS TRAILER.Now imagine that, but with bad AI that almost never covers you when you need it, will never carry out an objective for you, will ALWAYS go after command posts that don't particularly even help,
and then die in the process and a storyline you want to get into, but can't because it's completely rushed and lacks polish. Bulletstorm was at least a full and finished game when I bought it. And you know what's worse? I got it when new games were
$110 each. If I spent maybe $50 on it I wouldn't be anywhere near as annoyed about owning the effin thing.
Duke Nukem ForeverI never saw more than 3 enemies onscreen
EVER. Not even joking, I think the developers were scared of overloading the game by having more than 3 NPC's onscreen. There's also plastic-looking graphics, bad internet references, awful gameplay,
the most blatant, and at times during one particular level, disturbing sexism I have ever seen in a game
period and this is coming from someone who can put up with a fair bit of offensive humor and the single most unlikable protagonist I've ever had to play as. Duke.
I also wasted a hundred bucks on this. I cannot fathom why I got to the final level of this game.
Dead Rising: Off The Record.This game wasn't bad. But it was disappointing for a few reasons. Like, why did they have everything play out in almost the exact same way but with Frank West instead of Chuck Greene? Why don't we get more of an impression that Frank has more experience in fighting Zombies? He feels like you're just reskinned Chuck. To be honest, you kind of are.
However, this one is only disappointing if you've played Dead Rising 2 and you know how that game goes. But it kinda felt like Capcom was phoning it in on this one.
Legend Of Spyro: A New Beginning Spyro is a purple dragon who can't quite fly, breaths fire, gets powerups, crusades for good because he just gets caught in those situations for some reason and has a sparkly dragonfly friend. That's pretty much all the first 3 games told us and as far as I'm concerned, that's all we needed to know. Trying to deepen or elaborate on his backstory doesn't end well in most cases, because Spyro was never meant to be complicated or even taken all that seriously. And this one didn't prove any different, I lost interest pretty fast. From what I remember, the controls were like steering a lead brick and the combat was finicky and generally annoying to go through. Plus I didn't like Sparx's voice very much.
Although I am honestly much more annoyed with Skylanders. Seriously, why would I buy a new figure every time I wanna get a new character? I'd say they must think we really are that stupid, but obviously some of us are.Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier"Jak, you can't use your dark eco powers!"
"I know. Something's different."
10/10. Masterful dialogue. This was a game that didn't really need to exist. At all. The first 3 Jak and Daxter games rounded off the story well enough that I would not have even been slightly bothered if it was never touched again. But then this came along and generally kinda fell flat. It wasn't awful by any means, the gameplay was fine, and aerial battles were pretty fun, but it kind of just felt like a bad knock off of the original games. Which isn't that surprising seeing as Naughty Dog wasn't involved in the development.
I could mention some others, but my list is already kinda long and anything else would be down to pretty arbitrary reasons such as "I don't like RTS games."
Also it's late and I gotta head outta town for a few days, so sleep is probably a good idea.