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Lunarhound · Apr 05, 2005, 12:17 AM // 00:17

I don't know what the original poster had in mind, but if this thread was started in the spirit of my "Crappy games that you love" thread, "great" wouldn't mean popular. Great would mean, a game that you could tell was probably a very good game while you were playing it, but that you just didn't enjoy for some reason.

DarkWasp · Apr 05, 2005, 01:03 AM // 01:03

Interesting, everyone seems to hate Morrowind and Half-Life 2.

I love both of them.

However i do hate DOOM 3. Buts its not exactly "great" its just popular.

And Everquest, one look at that and i kept away from RPGS for years.

HotSnack · Apr 05, 2005, 01:42 AM // 01:42

Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Wind Waker

Both were great games, and I really did feel compelled to actually complete Wind Waker, but well... it's been years now, and their still sitting on the shelf...

Scizor · Apr 05, 2005, 01:45 AM // 01:45

I dis-like the final fantasy series....to much hype if you ask me....however number 8....I love for some reason. I just don't know why.

Sennarc · Apr 05, 2005, 02:44 AM // 02:44

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Originally Posted by Scizor

I dis-like the final fantasy series....to much hype if you ask me....however number 8....I love for some reason. I just don't know why.

Heh, it seems like the people who love Final Fantasy absolutely hated 8 and those who hated the Final Fantasy series, really like ff8. Personally, I like them all, just for some reason I have trouble getting into the old FF's cause I have this obsession with complex and confusing storylines. Xenogears and Xenosaga are a good example of that, except I think the gameplay in the Xenosaga games is EXtremely lacking in all the areas that gives RPGs any sort of replay value.

Personally, I despise Diablo 2. All my friends were obsessed with it when it first came out and some of them are still obsessed with it today. I'll laugh if D2 goes under when GW comes out.

I don't have any particular love for the Splinter Cell series, give me Metal Gear any day.

Doom 3 is also a game I think the world could have easily done without. Half-Life 2 has set the standard for graphics and physics which makes D3 obsolete... the problem with Half-Life 2 is that it was a beautiful game, just lacking in adding anything New to the world of FPS.

Lews · Apr 05, 2005, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Morrowind, bah. I have the GOTY edition, but it rather bores me alot.
Splinter Cell, yeah.
Diablo ( demo ) was so damn boring.
The newest NFS's which concentrate on customizing your speaker systems... Yeah.

Manderlock · Apr 05, 2005, 05:53 PM // 17:53

i hate all that is starcraft and warcraft, just never could get into ether of em

p0t4T0 · Apr 06, 2005, 12:26 PM // 12:26

Doom 3 - Oh look a room, i wonder what could be in here ... oh look its empty and theres blood on the walls, *turns around* ah a monster zombie thing, *shoots the monster zombie thing*, oh look a new room....

World of Warcraft - Great game for the frist few weeks, after that its just boring, PvP is a little lame aswell.

static deathbringer · Apr 06, 2005, 01:20 PM // 13:20

warcraft
legend of zelda windwaker
metroid prime series( i love metroid but cant seem to love the new games with a first person view, bring back my sidescroller!!!)
all FF games except for the origonal's ff7-8, i hated 9, X and X-2 and now it looks like 12 will suck as well
baldurs gate 1 & 2
vampire TM: bloodlines
any FPS
i hate starcraft as well but its the only gamer i have left untill GW releases so i find myself on it almost every night
oh and x-men legends, great RPG but i just cant seem to fall in lvoe with it

Elonis · Apr 06, 2005, 01:24 PM // 13:24

im suprized Novalogic games have been over looked especialy for the FPS Delta Force is by far a great FPS i love blackhawk down. I liked X-2 if you dont play X it seems better (notcrazy over it but i can manage to kill time). Tactics fanatic.. One of the best final fantasy titles. Halo 2 for xbox. PONG! hehehe

static deathbringer · Apr 06, 2005, 01:26 PM // 13:26

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Originally Posted by Elonis

im suprized Novalogic games have been over looked especialy for the FPS Delta Force is by far a great FPS i love blackhawk down. I liked X-2 if you dont play X it seems better (notcrazy over it but i can manage to kill time). Tactics fanatic.. One of the best final fantasy titles. Halo 2 for xbox. PONG! hehehe

i hated every ff tactics game, it wasnt how the series was supposed to be

Azrael · Apr 06, 2005, 05:23 PM // 17:23

All final fantasy games (except 7)
Warcraft games
Most shooting games based on some war (except COD)
Ragnarok Online
HALO 2 (I liked the first one, but I hate this crap they call a game)
Sims
Morrowind (I admit it stole countless hours of my life...)
and all airplane/sports games

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 06, 2005, 05:30 PM // 17:30

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Originally Posted by IceD'Bear

Doom 3!

HERE HERE! Down with Doom III! Great game to many, but way too dark (literally) and straightforward (tunnel-vision) for me. Plus the last boss sucks.

Lansing Kai Don

BunnyMaster · Apr 06, 2005, 05:59 PM // 17:59

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Originally Posted by Daemon

Any sports game

- Knight Online: Try this if you're wondering what Turkish Spam is like
- Supreme Destiny: Beta means we don't have a manual, only a client
- MU / Priston Tales: Welcome to the wonderful world of 1000 hacks, 100 bots and 3 perverted players

Shrapnel_Magnet · Apr 06, 2005, 07:09 PM // 19:09

I've never been a big fan of Battlefield 1942...

I enjoyed Morrowind for a while. By the time the expansions came out, however, I had burned myself out on the game.

In terms of production value and quality, I'd say Half Life 2 was awesome. I didn't fall to the hype and walked into the game with no expectations other than a solid game... and I got exactly that. If you expect the BEST you'll usually be dissapointed. There were stretches of the game that were a little drawn out, but on the whole, I can't say anything bad about it. The ending, I felt, was a little cut short and I did feel cheated. Overall, can't complain.

HOWEVER... Medal of Honour: Allied Assault. Wow. Some people love this game... I dunno, I wasn't impressed. Not to mention, after you trudge through the hell that is this game, you are treated to a complete lack of any discernable ending. It simply fades to black and text appears, stating "The End" - Roll Credits. I've never, ever, EVER, in a game felt so disgusted with a game in my entire life as a gamer. I waited until the absolute end of the credits... hoping that it was just teasing me. No. It wasn't. There's no excuse for that.

Call of Duty... hell of a lot better than MoH:AA... but it IS another WWII game. Sure, it's fun for a little bit and the missions are kept interesting, on the whole... but I felt the game was just a little to transparent for my tastes. I don't mind scripted events in games... hell, they're expected and required. However, I didn't appreciate how the game tried to sell me the idea that I wasn't an "army of one", but part of a unit that I was in... no, this simply isn't true. It wasn't as if I was fighting WITH a group of AI allies... it was more that I was fighting NEAR a group, but they'd only move forward if I hit a certain trigger point in the level. To boot, these trigger points were painfull obvious and it's clear that no effort, whatsoever, was given to hide the scriptedness of it.

Doom 3... another example of ridiculously plain as day scripting thrown in my face. After the first couple "levels" I soon found it increasingly easier to predict when a "scary" moment was about to occur. Not only this... the game didn't even let me try and be clever. It might be clear that the pillar to your left, casting a dramatic shadow, houses at least one monster... but if you try to throw a grenade (or similar weapon) into the area, you'll hit nothing. It's not until you hit an obvious trigger point that this being will suddenly lunge from the blackened area and attack... at this time, an equally "scary" monster will spawn behind you. Call me crazy, but after the first level... it simply wasn't having the same effect. About the "darkness" of the game and such... I enjoyed it. It really reminded me of classics like System Shock 2 or more recent games like Clive Barker's Undying. I enjoyed the levels and atmosphere... but the gameplay was really lacking.

Unreal 2. Ok, this isn't a "great" game by anyone's standards but I'd like to say that I was really dissapointed by this game. If it were any MORE generic, they would have to call it Halo. Nah, I'm just kidding, Halo is better than Unreal 2.

My biggest gripe with Halo is not the game itself, but the promotion of it. I dunno about you, but I remember hearing people labeling it as "innovative" and other such nonsense. Then again, gaming publications throw words like that out when talking about Operat--- oh wait, I mean Codename Eag--- no, I mean Trib--- shit, I mean Hal--- damnit, I mean Halo. Oops, I already mentioned Halo. Seriously, original ideas don't exist in mass market games. That's not to say mass market games are BAD. I love games... big or small, wildly popular to the totally obscure... as I'm sure most of you do. I just don't like to see phrases like "redifines the First Person Shooter Genre" slapped on games like Halo... I give the creators and publisher respect though. There are smart people behind projects like that.

That's all the come immediatly to mind...

Manderlock · Apr 06, 2005, 07:48 PM // 19:48

bah i hate CoD missions, i only do multi player

Elonis · Apr 08, 2005, 03:28 AM // 03:28

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Originally Posted by static deathbringer

i hated every ff tactics game, it wasnt how the series was supposed to be

there was only one tactics for PS and from that came advanced for gameboy advanced... and tatics was in deed an outcast of that series but playing the same game style every new story gets lame fast.. its like playing pong for 48 hours straight. One reason i liked it was it was a high strategy game and crafty turn based battles making it quite hard to those who havnt played and beaten it a few times.

Wish they would have made a tactics 2 since the first one made greatest hits in a few months.

spiritofcat · Apr 08, 2005, 03:42 AM // 03:42

Counter Strike (If you could call it great)
Any of the great RTS games, Generals, Warcraft, Starcraft etc.
Doom 3 and Half-Life 2. I don't really have HL2, but it just got boring.
Baldur's Gate, NWN, KOTOR
Most sports games
Bloodlines was good the first time round, but oh so tedious to play again.
I tried to play the early FF games but they couldn't hold my interest.