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Decline Your favorite post 2010 AAA games? A coming out thread.

chestburster

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Kane & Lynch: Dog Days - seriously! I imagine the outrage of people who bought it for full price, but I paid like 1$ - that's not a bad price to play in a 3,5h gritty action flick. The VHS filters, camera movement, victim pixelation - it worked! It was even disturbing at times (f.e. carpet knives scene)

As a Chink myself I have to say this is probably the only game that gets Chinese street scenes of the 90s "right". It's so authentic it's surreal. They even had the correct type of police cars.
 

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Kane & Lynch: Dog Days - seriously! I imagine the outrage of people who bought it for full price, but I paid like 1$ - that's not a bad price to play in a 3,5h gritty action flick. The VHS filters, camera movement, victim pixelation - it worked! It was even disturbing at times (f.e. carpet knives scene)

As a Chink myself I have to say this is probably the only game that gets Chinese street scenes of the 90s "right". It's so authentic it's surreal. They even had the correct type of police cars.
Amazing, eh? The game is somewhere between potato quality and pure gritty awesomness - but I always focus on the good, unique stuff.

I had some luck and did a co-op playthrough + my friend already finished the game beforehand and played as the more experienced Lynch and I was Kane-straight-from-the-bus.

Also: I have Dishonored, DE:HR and some other praised games, but no will or time to try them.
 

Beggar

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Bought high-end PC few years ago and there was nothing to play. Everything felt like dumbed down, mind numbing compared even to what I played on my PS2 8 years ago. Are you people for real? Tomb Raider?? That is probably the worst game I have ever completed, along with all those B class movie cliches and sad doggy face Lara. Deus Ex: Human Revolution , Batman, AC:4? Those are terrible games no matter what they say. What DE: Human Revolution has to do with sneaking? Nothing. And that nowaday screen design is terrible

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Almost every AAA game is like that. I want to roam the world freely. Those stupid gadgets are everywhere, everyone is super hero technology master and other bullshit. Even graphics now focus on making cartoonish look

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Or it is serves the purpose for kids not to take the game seriously?


At least no one mentioned The Last of Us. God bless you people for that.
 

Astral Rag

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I can't fathom how people enjoyed Alan Wake.
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FNV: bought the game at release and enjoyed it for the most part despite the shitty engine and derpy combat, played through the main game and the story DLC once.
Dishonored: great setting and atmosphere, good sound design, some great levels, it could have been so much more though. I also enjoyed the first expansion pack and will soon try the other, I'm not interested in the time trials DLC.
Alien Isolation: a tasteful and challenging AAA Alien game in 2014, u wot m8?! Great visuals and audio, "unpredictable" Alien AI, low on popamole but poor story, storytelling and mostly disappointing DLC. Also crafting needs to be nuked from orbit.

Can't think of any others ATM.
 
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Cadmus

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eh...I really liked The Witcher 2 but that's about it. I don't understand how can you have any fucking fun with shit like Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Revengeance etc..
I haven't played DXHR yet so that might be nice. I'm currently playing Alpha Protocol and it's utter shit and I'm hating every second of the gameplay and every second cutscene, but I feel like I'm nearing the end so I might as well finish it.
 

toro

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Dark Souls
Fallout 3: New Vegas
The Last of Us (*not sure)

I've played a lot of shit, but these are the only memorable AAA titles I've played in the last years.

Dishonored was acceptable but certainly not something I would call memorable. Tomb Raider, new Deus Ex and Far Cry 3 are very close to it.
 

Nomad_Blizz

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  • Bioshock Infinite
  • XCom
  • Portal 2
  • Witcher 2
  • Skyrim
  • Payday:The Heist
  • Saints Row IV
  • Dark Souls (derp)
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Tomb Raider
  • Valkyria Chronicles
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • Dead Space 2
  • Starcraft 2:WoL
  • Deus Ex: HR
  • Just Cause 2
 
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Hng, more or less. The story did manage to be interesting all the way through (including the ending), but the shooting was kinda stiff (supposed to represent the hero is more of a thug than a master sharpshooter, but it's still a bit annoying), and some weird plot points (Joel's sister-in-law getting an introduction and then never being seen again, Ellie freaking out and falling into depression because that dude tries to rape her, when minutes before she's shown to have become a stone cold killa that can make a village full of raider cannibals scared of having to hunt her down in their territory - if grabbed by an human enemy, she'll bite them hard on the arm, pull out her switchblade and repeatedly stab them on the neck, she'll well past the freaking out stage by that point). The QTEs are pretty forgiving but they're there. It's a bit like Bioshock Infinite in that it's a decent game with some persistent problems that nevetheless got all the 10/10s and Citizen Kanes Of Gaming in the world because people go gaga for action games with elaborate stories.
 
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cfisher2833

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  • Dishonored, even if it was pitifully easy.
  • Deus Ex HR; I never understood the complaints about it being dumbed down--seemed to retain almost all the best elements of the first game.
  • XCOM EU
  • Total War series
  • Fallout NV
  • Far Cry 3, especially Blood Dragon, which had the best videogame sex scene ever
  • Dark Souls 1 and 2, although I'll admit 2's level design and enemy encounters weren't as good (wasn't bad)
  • Battlefield 3
  • Valve games
  • Witcher 2? I don't know if this is even considered "AAA" though, because if it is, then a bunch of other indie games like Shadow Warrior/Hard Reset should also count as "AAA"
  • Skyrim (yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not a great RPG, but it's still a decent game, especially modded)
  • That's all I can think of atm, but there's others like Tomb Raider that I didn't think were horrendous or anything, but they just weren't that particularly interesting (which describes most "AAA" games nowadays).
 

chotread

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hahahaha lololololo
let me win this thread.

L.A. Noire, You busters!
> operator bitch, gimme dispatch!
easily the finest game post 2010. so fine rockstar had to disband team bondi afterwards.
gta IV, gta V, gta heists online cant get gayer than that.

DX:HR really!? when you are 5 minutes into the game, when that bitch escorts you to the elevator, thats when i unistalled.
 

Tigranes

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I'd say a good criterion for 'liked' is having put dozens of hours into it or having finished it at least once. So that would include:
  • FNV
  • Skyrim
  • The Witcher 2
  • Deus Ex HR
  • Shogun 2
Out of that I'd plump for FNV as a very good game with the mediocre combat system the only major flaw. The others are all decent games, though not ones you'd revisit. Oh, and I love Alpha Protocol, but I wonder if it qualifies for AAA? I suppose its budget might get into AAA territory? I forget.

I tried Dishonoured for 20 minutes on Hard, I shot a dude from 3m above him with a fire thing, he started burning while 6 other dudes congregated to watch him burn and not really care, nobody looks up. Meh. Shovelware. Tried Bioshock Infinite for 20 minutes, couldn't get out of cutscene land.

That's about it I think. I usually am good at avoiding games I know I won't like that much.
 

pippin

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DX:HR really!? when you are 5 minutes into the game, when that bitch escorts you to the elevator, thats when i unistalled.

But the actual game begins after that. Do you also complain about reviewers writing crap about games after playing them for less than an hour?
 

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Deus Ex:HR gave me a lot of hope for a follow up that could improve on what was delivered, instead they released that awful mobile DX game.

Not a fan of Alan Wake though, starts off promising in terms of a fun little homage to horror/suspense/twilight zone movies, but degenerates after the sanitarium bit, combat is also tedious as hell, apparently devs wanted to initially make it an adventure style game, pity that didn't happen, might have turned out better.

Enjoy New Vegas and Path of Exile, as well as Deus Ex HR.
 
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Jick Magger

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Fallout: New Vegas
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
The Witcher 2
Batman: Arkham City
 

Modron

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Nothing really new to add to the discussion beyond reiterating nuXcom, Binary Domain, F:NV, and perhaps Skyrim/Deus Ex: HR/Tomb Raider (which while decent experiences for a playthrough I can say without a doubt I would never install any of those 3 again).
 

Jozoz

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Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City - I like being Batman. I especially like being Batman in a great setting, atmosphere and with excellent combat and characters. Rocksteady rocks.

Portal 2 - The co-op made this game go from pretty good to great.

Fallout: New Vegas - An actual good Fallout game.

LA Noire - Loved the setting and different gameplay mechanics. Too bad they had to put shooting in it to sell more, because that was easily the weakest part of the game. The "include shooting in every game" decline.

The Wolf Among Us - I AM BIGBY WOLF. I usually don't like these sort of games too much since your choices don't matter, but this one just completely won me over. LOVED the universe.
 

Modron

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Yeah ditto to the Wolf Among US, initial opinion here kind of swayed me from getting the game for a while but the game won me over when I eventually picked it up, nice game worlds leave a good impression (but then again I've pretty much been an atmosphere fag since playing Monkey Island as a kid).
 

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Fallout: New Vegas: In terms of scope, C&C, quests, exploration and support for different builds and playstyles the game is actually pretty outstanding and matched by very few cRPGs. There are some notable issues, like the engine, combat and some parts of the game world which just feel kind of off (including some major things like the city of Vegas itself, Securitrons and some aspects of Caesar's Legion), but as a whole I think it's the best game of the last few years. I thought all of the DLCs were notably weaker, though, including Dead Money which had awesome characters and locations and an interesting story but which at best felt like the retarded distant cousin of System Shock 2 when it came to actual gameplay. I still enjoyed it, but for me the main game is where it's at because the game's biggest strengths are linked to the scope which the DLCs naturally lack.

The Witcher 2: As a whole it isn't as good as the first one, but it improves the writing a lot and has a much more consistent game world, among some other improvements. The characters are awesome, there's some very nice story-based C&C and there's a certain sense of style to it that companies like BioWare couldn't hope to achieve in a million years. There are a number of big flaws, like the poorly-balanced combat, handicapped alchemy system and poor pacing with the game putting the player on rails and dumping a ton of information on him at once rather than letting him unravel the plot slowly on his own, which prevent it from becoming as good as the first Witcher, but when you see Roche feeding a guy his own balls, you'll shed a single, manly tear of joy.

Human Revolution: I don't think it's a Deus Ex game despite the title, but on its own it's still a very enjoyable shooter/RPG hybrid with better than average level design (by modern standards pretty great, to be fair). I played the game without the cover system or item highlighting three times and never felt like I was somehow handicapping myself, so it did something right. The broken XP system, terrible bullet sponge boss fights, takedowns, lack of leaning, somewhat lackluster stealth system and occasionally too formulaic level layouts are notable downsides, but the good definitely outweigh the bad in this case.

Dark Souls was of course also very good. Still haven't played Dishonored, but it's definitely a game I'll need to check out at some point.
 

Dr Skeleton

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
New Vegas - I love it and I hate it, but leaning more towards love when it's modded properly. It's a good game despite the horrible engine and combat (VATS).

XCOM: EW - Surprisingly good remake. Could've been better, sure, but it plays very well.

Witcher 2 - 9.5/10, it's ok. But seriously, it's a pretty good game outside of combat, and combat isn't THAT bad. Not a savior of gaming in any way, but a solid, above average ARPG.

Rayman Origins / Legends (if those count) - They look great, play great and can even get sort of difficult at times. They blow all the recent "muh retro pixels" platformers out of the water.
 

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