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Topic Started: May 8 2009, 01:17 AM (21,274 Views)
doomer
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Dolphin Gun, Destroyer of Worlds
People hated the first Dragon Age?
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nate
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At least on GFAQs. I don't ever visit other game sites.
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doomer
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I deleted Alan Wake and Forza Motorsports 3 from my Harddrive today. I got to really stupid section in Alan Wake where I died like 20 times and couldn't figure what to do. Forza 3 is just plain boring.

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thinkfreemind
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I started playing Star Wars: Force Unleashed this weekend. I don't understand all of the hype and love that this game has received. It's Star Wars, so that's got to be most of it, but I'm a bigger fan than most people I know and think that this game is rather dull and repetitive. This game is doing the bare minimum to keep me interested enough to finish, which is a shame given the high hopes I'd had going into this game based on other's positive reviews.

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nate
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What reviews? I thought everyone pretty universally thought it was mediocre besides the story?
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nate
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My God. Am I downloading an entire second game worth of downloads with Gran Turismo 5? This is craziness how long this is taking.
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thinkfreemind
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It does take a while. Did you just rent the game, or do you own it?
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nate
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Rent. Good thing, too. I freaking HATE this game. I spend 90% of the goddamned time in menus or loading. Then, in the actual races, it is one of the least "real" things I've ever played. Freaking Wipeout has more tactile feedback than this. It feels like cardboard boxes with force fields are racing each other at 5 MPH. I'm pretty sure if I slammed into a car from behind on the highway going 61 MPH, things would end a bit differently.

I'm sure there's some sort of investment to "get" the experience, but frankly, I don't like it enough to give it that opportunity. 3+ hours of downloading shit, probably another hour in menus or loading for about a half hour of gameplay.

Oh, and it looks like foot. The previews were a COLOSSAL lie.
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thinkfreemind
May 23 2011, 01:54 AM
I started playing Star Wars: Force Unleashed this weekend. I don't understand all of the hype and love that this game has received. It's Star Wars, so that's got to be most of it, but I'm a bigger fan than most people I know and think that this game is rather dull and repetitive. This game is doing the bare minimum to keep me interested enough to finish, which is a shame given the high hopes I'd had going into this game based on other's positive reviews.

It receives lots of praise for two reasons: It's use of force powers and how over the top they were and it's story. These are the things that make the game stand out. Aside from these, iti s a fairly average game.

I started playing through Half Life 2 again. I just haven't beaten this masterpiece enough times :P I got through the worst part of the game last night. The mines. I hate the mines. They have way too many headcrabs in them. It isn't fun. It is just annoying. At least they let you lure headcrab zombies into a trap and chop them in half after it. That is, always a lot of fun. IT is part of the reason why Ravenholm is so great
Edited by Fs_Metal, May 24 2011, 05:14 PM.
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thinkfreemind
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@ Nate:

GT5 is great if you have a nice wheel and some good people to race against online. The single player isn't that good and the missions exist only to earn money and experience. I don't see anything wrong with the graphics either, other than the particle rendering, which was going to be fixed sometime after I stopped playing the game. I haven't touched the game in a couple of months, but I had recently been thinking of breaking out the wheel for a weekend to see what changes, if any, have been made.

@ FS:

The story was ok. I am a fan of Star Wars, so I did enjoy that. As for the force powers though, once you've played around with them all for about an hour or so, they start to get old. Sure it was fun the first time I threw a Storm Trooper through a window and into space, but after hour eight it became a been there done that situation.
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Fs_Metal
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I played through the demo at least 10 times and never got tired of it
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nate
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Yeah, I can imagine it's a lot more fun with a wheel. As for the graphics, they're not really bad, but they're very, very obviously video game graphics and I was expecting the photo realism of the trailers. A chunk of my problem is that this is the sort of game I want to like, but just really don't. I'd love to be that guy who was all into foreign car racing, but frankly, I can't stand driving. I just rented it for the shiny graphics that let me down. :lol:
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I appreciate the amount of work that went into this, but it's just not fun, at all. I got to level 8 and was one challenge from completing my Intl C license, but I'm taking this one back. I can't stand it. I like the glamor of the cars and that's about it. The loading/menu navigation takes forever and it's structured for you to spend 10,000 hours on it to really get anywhere. Want to complete the A circuit? Yeah, you'll need a TON of money because half the challenges require you to own a specific car. Want to complete the license? Yeah, you'll need a TON of practice because they're tossing you in a super high end car that handles absolutely nothing like anything you've handled yet and disqualify you the minute you skid off track. Now win a 2 lap race.
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I played a lot of GT3 and got sick of the whole thing by GT4... sucks that you have to grind in a racing game. :(
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kknd
May 25 2011, 02:08 PM
I played a lot of GT3 and got sick of the whole thing by GT4... sucks that you have to grind in a racing game. :(
I played GT1, 2 and 3 and was burned out on that type of game by the time that GT4 came along. I recognize that they are incredibly well crafted and very deep games, and I know that they are the best that simulation racing games have to offer, but I have no interest in the series anymore.
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