Incline Say one GOOD thing about a SHIT game

[unfairlight]

Depends on the person, some people were way too into the Mass Effect series. The main issue with it was that it just felt so safe and boring, which wasn't what fans wanted.

 

[MasPingon]

I met Vince and Co. thanks to the Oblivion review.

This review made me think Codex is a great place, full of clever people with insightful thoughts. Boy, I was wrong.

 

[Ninjerk]

spell combos and thinking that they looked like they ripped them almost whole-cloth from WoW

wut

Probably too strong a statement considering how little of the game I played, but wasn't one of the prominent combos a cold-based "shatter" combo?

 

[EveryoneIsAWeebButMe]

All modern Bethesda games are built in an extremely modular way that lets you remove all the bullshit through mods. The successful implementation of this design philosophy is twice as surprising, given that the people who programmed it are the retards who did the rest of the engine too.

Aleshar: World of Ice has really cool art.

 

[harhar!]

Morrowind had a nice soundtrack in the menu.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Baldur's Gate is enjoyed by many who have never played a CRPG released before 1998.

 

[Aeschylus]

Borderlands 2 is actually pretty fun when played Co-op.

 

[Delterius]

spell combos and thinking that they looked like they ripped them almost whole-cloth from WoW

wut

Probably too strong a statement considering how little of the game I played, but wasn't one of the prominent combos a cold-based "shatter" combo?

A spell combo in DA:O is using fire magic with Grease to light the floor, or mixing sigils of paralization and repulsion to create an explosion of paralysis. Shit like that. WoW has one specialization that gives enemies a damage malus against one of its spells. You might as well claim that the spell combo system is the oldest thing ever since Hold Person and Web gives enemies an AC malus.

 

[Geckabor]

If I recall correctly, Baldur's Gate had some NPCs that would give you a a chain of dialogue options, and if you answered all of them properly/correctly you would get some sort of reward, and you only had one try to do so. Of course, you can save-scum these things but I still think this is kind of a neat feature that gets underused.

 

[EveryoneIsAWeebButMe]

If I recall correctly, Baldur's Gate had some NPCs that would give you a a chain of dialogue options, and if you answered all of them properly/correctly you would get some sort of reward, and you only had one try to do so. Of course, you can save-scum these things but I still think this is kind of a neat feature that gets underused.

Mechanics like that were amazing before the internet was in everyone's house. Nowadays anytime a game does stuff like this people will actually recommend reading a FAQ beforehand so you don't miss stuff.

 

[DavidBVal]

If I recall correctly, Baldur's Gate had some NPCs that would give you a a chain of dialogue options, and if you answered all of them properly/correctly you would get some sort of reward, and you only had one try to do so. Of course, you can save-scum these things but I still think this is kind of a neat feature that gets underused.

Mechanics like that were amazing before the internet was in everyone's house. Nowadays anytime a game does stuff like this people will actually recommend reading a FAQ beforehand so you don't miss stuff.

some of us still play games blindly and accept the consequences, you know.

 

[PorkBarrellGuy]

If I recall correctly, Baldur's Gate had some NPCs that would give you a a chain of dialogue options, and if you answered all of them properly/correctly you would get some sort of reward, and you only had one try to do so. Of course, you can save-scum these things but I still think this is kind of a neat feature that gets underused.

Mechanics like that were amazing before the internet was in everyone's house. Nowadays anytime a game does stuff like this people will actually recommend reading a FAQ beforehand so you don't miss stuff.

some of us still play games blindly and accept the consequences, you know.

Missables that rely on either sheer dumb luck or metaknowledge in advance are not particularly good game design. Rewarding attentive players with good intuition and a functioning brain is incline, however.

 

[Sacred82]

If I recall correctly, Baldur's Gate had some NPCs that would give you a a chain of dialogue options, and if you answered all of them properly/correctly you would get some sort of reward, and you only had one try to do so. Of course, you can save-scum these things but I still think this is kind of a neat feature that gets underused.

Mechanics like that were amazing before the internet was in everyone's house. Nowadays anytime a game does stuff like this people will actually recommend reading a FAQ beforehand so you don't miss stuff.

some of us still play games blindly and accept the consequences, you know.

Missables that rely on either sheer dumb luck or metaknowledge in advance are not particularly good game design. Rewarding attentive players with good intuition and a functioning brain is incline, however.

It's ok if you know there's something in here for you, but you just didn't manage.

Not telegraphing anything to the player until he stumbles over some reward on his 5th playthrough really is bad design.

 

[DavidBVal]

Still I think the benefits of playing blind outweight the disadvantages, at least for me, and presenting such hidden options and rewards is a good thing if adequately implemented. Of course if the choices begin feeling pretty random, and this randomness feels like it'll seriously hamper my progress in the game, I'll just go read a walkthrough.

 

[EveryoneIsAWeebButMe]

I almost always go in blind, and only read a FAQ if I can't get anywhere in the limited time I have to play.

Sometimes you have a choice of either doubling the playtime of a game or reading a FAQ. I think in those situations it's probably a good idea to just do it.

But stuff like Dark Souls, ELEX, KC:D do not need 400 "Before You Play" videos published on YouTube that ruin the mechanical discovery.

 

[kris]

Oblivion crashed to the desktop for me.

 

[G.O.D]

Oblivion at least had character classes.

 

[c2007]

Of all the things wrong Bioware did with ME3, the original ending wasn't really bad, certainly not worth all the whining that ensued.

Horseshit.

You can save the Geth, only to kill the Geth and EDI. You can bastardize the entire universe into a bunch of synthetics, homogenizing the entire Galaxy. Or you can be the grand puppet master, which we already know won't work forever.

Each choice is fucking garbage. Perhaps the whining was overdone, but it was legitimate. If you can't see that, one of your stats has been depleted.

 

[Erikolaz]

Gwent has fantastic card art.

 

[fantadomat]

Of all the things wrong Bioware did with ME3, the original ending wasn't really bad, certainly not worth all the whining that ensued.

Horseshit.

You can save the Geth, only to kill the Geth and EDI. You can bastardize the entire universe into a bunch of synthetics, homogenizing the entire Galaxy. Or you can be the grand puppet master, which we already know won't work forever.

Each choice is fucking garbage. Perhaps the whining was overdone, but it was legitimate. If you can't see that, one of your stats has been depleted.

Who would want to same a bunch of toasters? Only ending was the red one! Anyway the whole game was shit and the colours at the end were especially shit.

 

[newtmonkey]

Ultima VIII had a great soundtrack!

 

[Sacred82]

Ultima VIII had a great soundtrack!

citation needed, looking it up on Youtube

the Ultima with the best soundtrack I know really was Lazarus though

 

[Ninjerk]

spell combos and thinking that they looked like they ripped them almost whole-cloth from WoW

wut

Probably too strong a statement considering how little of the game I played, but wasn't one of the prominent combos a cold-based "shatter" combo?

A spell combo in DA:O is using fire magic with Grease to light the floor, or mixing sigils of paralization and repulsion to create an explosion of paralysis. Shit like that. WoW has one specialization that gives enemies a damage malus against one of its spells. You might as well claim that the spell combo system is the oldest thing ever since Hold Person and Web gives enemies an AC malus.

Fair enough, I wasn't terribly invested in the game.

 

[Pequod]

pool of radiance reminds me of pool of radiance

 

[Delterius]

Tides of Numenera is a CYOA, just like its spiritual predecessor.